C90: All or Mostly Female (Post)-Punk, Answer Fast

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I need to put together a female-dominated comp for one person and a post-punk one for another: this is a two-birds, one-stone situation if I've ever seen one. Off the top of my head I have:

Slits - Typical Girls
Au Pairs - You
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Girls at Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
Lilliput - Ain't You

Jog my memory while I'm still sitting in front of a T1 line and can download anything I don't own.

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't forget the Raincoats.

― hstencil, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New "right, the Raincoats" answers. (Also should I sully its purity by reaching forward into 82-86?)

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha!

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

souxsie

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

avengers

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bush tetras

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

runaways

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pat benetar

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Young Marble Giants: Final Day Dolly Mixture: Everything and More Marine Girls: A Place In The Sun Penetration: Duty Free Technology Big In Japan: Suicide A-Go-Go

etc., etc., etc.

― mike, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pink

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does Siouxsie really count? If so, "The Staircase?"

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay and that Young Marble Giants is starting to tread really close on just copying off Wanna Buy a Bridge?

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patty Smith

― brg30, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Delmontes "Dont Cry Your Tears"
The Flowers "After Dark"
Altered Images "Dead Pop Stars"
Essential Logic "Wake Up"

Also seek some Ludus, Pink Military, Mo-dettes... and, oh sh*t I can't remember who did 'Violence Grows' was it Fatal Microbes?

― Alexander Blair, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

big up to The flowers. waht else exist of them besdies the comp track? anything?(bit of thread i know but i LOVE that song and it's all i've ever found)

― Andrew, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires: C'est Fab

Penetration: Firing Squad

Family Fodder: Savoir Faire (okay, that's a little self-serving)

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks: Orphans

― Douglas, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Huggybear!

― Shaky Mo Collier, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

esg?

....hehe...go-go's? * m.

― msp, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ut - Evangelist

― dan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hahaha don't worry, Douglas, I make up for it by being pretty evangelical about that record in other contexts. I've already bought two copies of it myself!

― nabisco, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jayne County.

― Oliver, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh...

Sleater Kinney, Chicks on Speed, The Mekons, The Primitives

― JM, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

try this url for all your women in punk :

http://www.mindspring.com/~acheslow/AuntMary/bang/wip.html

― philT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pylon!

― J Blount, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Flatmates: I could be in Heaven etc.

― Jez, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ludus.

Miaow.

― Dr. C, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re The flowers.

There are two tracks on Earcom one and two singles on Pop Aural. All great. Whenever I saw them in Edinburgh they used to play with another girl group called The Ettes who I remember fondly but not very well, They never recorded anything that I know of.

― Alexander Blair, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jale

Cub

The All Girl Summer Fun Band

― jel --, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh-OK: "Person"
...And the Native Hipsters: "There Goes Concorde Again"
Tanya Winley: "Vicious Rap" [sez me, goddamn it]

― M Matos, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

spitboy, the unheralded riot grrl band

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Skodas: Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad

― Tim, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, as ever on this broad subject, Sandy Blair os totally OTM. He might have added the Honeymooners, of course.

― Tim, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Girlschool & Motorhead "Please Don't Touch"

― Siegbran Hetteson, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tim - The Skodas!! I have just (re)obtained this recd on the Seeds 2 Cherry Red comp. I haven't heard the bugger for about 10 yrs, but I recall it was classic - I'll play it tonight and find out for sure.

― Dr. C, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MoDettes

― Winkelmann, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thirded the Skodas! What of ESG? The Go-Gos? Some Brix E. Smith Fall even?

― Sarah, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love that single, Dr. C., and have it as well as the compilation you mention (which is great in parts but necessarily patchy, I think).

The Skodas were from Bristol, as I recall, but I know nothing else about them. Anyone?

― Tim, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah I see someone else already said that, colour me illiterate.

Of course there is my band, with the female take on Prince Busters "The Ten Commandments of Man".

― Sarah, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Would be Goods? Grab Grab the Haddock if only for their name?!

― Sarah, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Rick, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Siegbran's suggestion made me smile :) There, see.

All/mostly female post-punk is my favourite micro-genre evah. Can I have a copy of the tape?

― Jeff W, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, and mark s will be most upset if no-one mentions toyah!

― Jeff W, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

babes in toyland ¿

i can't believe someone mentioned cub¡

― dyson, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Concrete Blonde

― Lord Custos III, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Scrawl. (sheezus.)

― Dave225, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dome - "Cruel When Complete"
Snatch - "Trial By Fire"
Judy Nylon - "Room Without A View"
Polystyrene - "Shades" or "Bicycle For Two"

― Paul, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think some people in this thread just don't get it. I think nabisco is looking for a specific period (late 70s/early 80s), not, like, every all-female or female-dominated band.

― Dean Air, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and not cub

― dyson, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aphex Twin.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rita mcneal

― dyson, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you need heavens to betsy "terrorist", slant 6 "30/30 vision" and something by the need or the cebe barns band.

― di, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

HOW ABOUT THE PRIMATIVES, KIM WILDE (KIDS IN AMERICA IS A NEW WAVE CLASSIC), THE GO GO'S OR EVEN JANE WIEDLIN!

― judas_caramac, Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ACTUALLY I WAS GOING FOR MORE 77-80 KINDA STUFF

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

THOUGH IF I WERE GOING AHEAD I WOULD HAVE USED LATER-ON GIRLS AT OUR BEST

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

LIKE "FAST BOYFRIENDS"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Masterplan" by the Plasmatics

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

did you make the tape then?

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently came across this great track on slsk by I.U.D. called "Precious" that would fit with this thread. It also seemed like I'd heard it somewhere before. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

no mention of the gymslips anywhere on this thread? you all have some explaining to do.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

Ludus is one of the worst fucking bands I've ever heard, Morrissey what were you thinking???

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 April 2013 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

They have a few good tunes but, yeah, they never worked for me either.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 8 April 2013 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

Chi-Pig

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 04:09 (thirteen years ago)

heh cool i was just reading this thread the other day. love female-fronted post punk

― flopson, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 04:13 (thirteen years ago)

bona dish

― flopson, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 04:14 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

What? Ludus is great.

ANYWAY. Reviving because

http://networkawesome.com/special/women-punk/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:53 (thirteen years ago)

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