Fast movin', hard chargin' women
April 2, 2017 3:25 PM Subscribe
My playlist is man-heavy. I need women who move.
So far I have Marcia Ball (and more of her on hold at the library.) She's the best example of what I mean.
Another example: k.d. lang when she sang with The Reclines (A Truly Western Experience.) That music jumps!
I like Diana Krall and Bonnie Raitt when they pick up the pace, so they're on my playlist. Who else can I add?
I'm NOT looking for:
pokey folk
dreamy romance
confessional ballads
Karen Akers (love her low tone, but omg, does she slow everything down!)
Help me bring gender parity to my dog-walking playlist.
Another example: k.d. lang when she sang with The Reclines (A Truly Western Experience.) That music jumps!
I like Diana Krall and Bonnie Raitt when they pick up the pace, so they're on my playlist. Who else can I add?
I'm NOT looking for:
pokey folk
dreamy romance
confessional ballads
Karen Akers (love her low tone, but omg, does she slow everything down!)
Help me bring gender parity to my dog-walking playlist.
Janis Joplin. Try the song Half Moon.
posted by FencingGal at 3:48 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by FencingGal at 3:48 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Ruthie Foster. Carolyn Wonderland.
posted by ch3ch2oh at 3:55 PM on April 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ch3ch2oh at 3:55 PM on April 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
Florence + the Machine
Alison Krauss
Ani DiFranco
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 4:02 PM on April 2, 2017 [4 favorites]
Alison Krauss
Ani DiFranco
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 4:02 PM on April 2, 2017 [4 favorites]
Oh yeah, Annie Lennox.
posted by bunderful at 4:06 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by bunderful at 4:06 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
Maybe the Noisettes?
Their album What's the Time Mr. Wolf sounds like this, and Wild Young Hearts sounds more like this. (Contact is really good, too, but definitely getting into the too slow range, I think.)
posted by ernielundquist at 4:21 PM on April 2, 2017
Their album What's the Time Mr. Wolf sounds like this, and Wild Young Hearts sounds more like this. (Contact is really good, too, but definitely getting into the too slow range, I think.)
posted by ernielundquist at 4:21 PM on April 2, 2017
Oh, wait, also The Breeders.
posted by ernielundquist at 4:24 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by ernielundquist at 4:24 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
The Alabama Shakes. If Brittany Howard doesn't define "hard charging" then we live in different universes!
posted by rtha at 4:25 PM on April 2, 2017 [18 favorites]
posted by rtha at 4:25 PM on April 2, 2017 [18 favorites]
Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands
posted by jacquilynne at 4:37 PM on April 2, 2017
posted by jacquilynne at 4:37 PM on April 2, 2017
Grace Potter.
posted by The Deej at 5:01 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by The Deej at 5:01 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Maybe also Dresden Dolls (and Juliana Hatfield)?
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 5:04 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 5:04 PM on April 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
I've been grooving along to Sharon Jones and the Tedeschi Trucks Band doing "Tell Mama." Damn! Fast movin', hard chargin' women indeed. I don't know TTB as well as I should, but pretty much every upbeat Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings song should be on your playlist. Try "Stranger To My Happiness" and see whether it speaks to you.
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:04 PM on April 2, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:04 PM on April 2, 2017 [4 favorites]
Was going to say Dresden Dolls too, even though 50% male and who knows how you feel about weird kind of punky cabaret-like whatsit. But! Yeah
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 5:07 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 5:07 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
I think you might like Valerie June. Here's her Shakedown
Maybe Sister Rosetta Tharp, godmother of rock and roll
posted by MovableBookLady at 5:08 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Maybe Sister Rosetta Tharp, godmother of rock and roll
posted by MovableBookLady at 5:08 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Toni Price
posted by LaBellaStella at 5:08 PM on April 2, 2017
posted by LaBellaStella at 5:08 PM on April 2, 2017
Rockabilly: Imelda May, "Johnny Got a Boom Boom"
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:57 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:57 PM on April 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Elle King, Le Butcherettes, Suzi Quatro
posted by oh posey at 7:03 PM on April 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by oh posey at 7:03 PM on April 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
A few suggestions, based upon a quick review of my last few year-end favourites playlists:
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Lydia Loveless
Margaret Glaspy
Rhiannon Giddens
Tegan and Sara
posted by HillbillyInBC at 8:16 PM on April 2, 2017
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Lydia Loveless
Margaret Glaspy
Rhiannon Giddens
Tegan and Sara
posted by HillbillyInBC at 8:16 PM on April 2, 2017
Le Tigre, CHVRCHES, Sleater Kinney, Neko Case (and The New Pornographers), Waxahatchee, MS MR, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, St. Vincent, The Joy Formidable, The Knife. You may not like all of that, but it's a pretty broad range so you will probably find something to dig in there.
posted by axiom at 9:27 PM on April 2, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by axiom at 9:27 PM on April 2, 2017 [9 favorites]
Maria Muldaur, Barbara Morrison, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Catherine Russell, Shemekia Copeland, Ruthie Foster, Marva Wright, Nikki Yanofsky, Ernestine Anderson
posted by kbuxton at 11:40 PM on April 2, 2017
posted by kbuxton at 11:40 PM on April 2, 2017
The Pretenders/Chrissie Hynde.
posted by she's not there at 12:45 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by she's not there at 12:45 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Courtney Barnett. Try Pedestrian at Best.
My Brightest Diamond. Try Pressure.
Lykke Li. Try No Rest for the Wicked.
posted by BusyBusyBusy at 12:54 AM on April 3, 2017 [3 favorites]
My Brightest Diamond. Try Pressure.
Lykke Li. Try No Rest for the Wicked.
posted by BusyBusyBusy at 12:54 AM on April 3, 2017 [3 favorites]
Emmylou Harris, Born to Run (not The Boss')
Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Patsy Cline, Walkin' After Midnight
Joan Jett, Roadrunner, plus a dozen studio albums to choose from
A little less topical:
Tina Turner
Janis Joplin
Grace Slick
Heart+
Ann Wilson solo
The Runaways+
Lita Ford solo
Linda Ronstadt has got some rockers amongst all her other great stuff
Pat Benitar's early stuff
Reaching farther back:
Charline Arthur, Honky Tonker
50s Rockabilly:
Wanda Jackson
Brenda Lee
Sparkle Moore, Rock-A-Bop or Skull And Cross Bones
Kay Starr, Rock and Roll Waltz, its different
Carmen Miranda, for Brazilian Samba
Pearl Bailey, Takes Two to Tango
If you want to reach way back to early Scat singing:
Betty Carter
Anita O'Day
Or vaudeville's Red Hot Mama
Sophie Tucker
posted by ridgerunner at 1:51 AM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Patsy Cline, Walkin' After Midnight
Joan Jett, Roadrunner, plus a dozen studio albums to choose from
A little less topical:
Tina Turner
Janis Joplin
Grace Slick
Heart+
Ann Wilson solo
The Runaways+
Lita Ford solo
Linda Ronstadt has got some rockers amongst all her other great stuff
Pat Benitar's early stuff
Reaching farther back:
Charline Arthur, Honky Tonker
50s Rockabilly:
Wanda Jackson
Brenda Lee
Sparkle Moore, Rock-A-Bop or Skull And Cross Bones
Kay Starr, Rock and Roll Waltz, its different
Carmen Miranda, for Brazilian Samba
Pearl Bailey, Takes Two to Tango
If you want to reach way back to early Scat singing:
Betty Carter
Anita O'Day
Or vaudeville's Red Hot Mama
Sophie Tucker
posted by ridgerunner at 1:51 AM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Garbage - I'm only happy when it rains, Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go), Push It.
posted by wheek wheek wheek at 2:49 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by wheek wheek wheek at 2:49 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
There are plenty of women who rock. But uptempo in the country- Americana vein from most-to-less genre-specific:
Joy by Lucinda Williams, always and forever.
Mama's Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert, guilty pleasure.
Untamed Beast from Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Lots from Hurray for the Riff Raff, some might be too croony for you.
We the Common from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and all he aughts bands that I group with them in my mind: the Julie Ruin, Sleater-Kinney, Sleigh Bells
posted by athirstforsalt at 3:30 AM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Joy by Lucinda Williams, always and forever.
Mama's Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert, guilty pleasure.
Untamed Beast from Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Lots from Hurray for the Riff Raff, some might be too croony for you.
We the Common from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and all he aughts bands that I group with them in my mind: the Julie Ruin, Sleater-Kinney, Sleigh Bells
posted by athirstforsalt at 3:30 AM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Angélique Kidjo, Buddy Guy, "Voodoo Child"; Aretha Franklin with the Southern California Community Choir, "How I Got Over."
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:00 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:00 AM on April 3, 2017
Response by poster: Whoa! AskFilter comes through!
For the record, I have Dresden Dolls, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, and Chrissie Hynde's stuff already on my playlist, but I was happy to see them recommended because that shows you know exactly what I mean.
I've got a good week's worth of music exploring to do now. That'll be my dessert after the hard slog of doing taxes.
Thanks, everyone!
posted by BostonTerrier at 4:42 AM on April 3, 2017
For the record, I have Dresden Dolls, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, and Chrissie Hynde's stuff already on my playlist, but I was happy to see them recommended because that shows you know exactly what I mean.
I've got a good week's worth of music exploring to do now. That'll be my dessert after the hard slog of doing taxes.
Thanks, everyone!
posted by BostonTerrier at 4:42 AM on April 3, 2017
You gotta try on Tank and the Bangas for size.
posted by rachaelfaith at 5:48 AM on April 3, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by rachaelfaith at 5:48 AM on April 3, 2017 [4 favorites]
PLEASE TRY Jazmine Sullivan! Love me Back
or Reality Show
or her Self Titled
She's got a better voice than Beyonce. (I SAID IT, NOW FIGHT ME)
posted by Dressed to Kill at 8:18 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
or Reality Show
or her Self Titled
She's got a better voice than Beyonce. (I SAID IT, NOW FIGHT ME)
posted by Dressed to Kill at 8:18 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Amy Rigby has already been mentioned, but I'll second. Here's Dancing with Joey Ramone.
A couple that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Beth Hart, Joan Osborne
posted by maurice at 10:02 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
A couple that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Beth Hart, Joan Osborne
posted by maurice at 10:02 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
+1 for Sleater-Kinney, Garbage, The Julie Ruin, Courtney Barnett, St. Vincent and Tegan and Sara :) But also:
Brody Dalle (I miss The Distillers, but you might enjoy her new stuff more since you didn't specifically ask for hardcore punk)
Ex Hex because Mary Timony is amazing.
Wild Flag 2/3 of Sleater-Kinney + Mary Timony + Rebecca Cole. Only lasted for one album but it's an awesome one.
Halsey (not very happy stuff but I just can't not mention her)
Also Hunter Valentine Sick of Sarah Halestorm Paramore
And finally… L7! ARE! BACK!! (Just to play the old stuff for now, but at least we have concert videos from 2015,)
posted by floatboth at 4:10 PM on April 3, 2017
Brody Dalle (I miss The Distillers, but you might enjoy her new stuff more since you didn't specifically ask for hardcore punk)
Ex Hex because Mary Timony is amazing.
Wild Flag 2/3 of Sleater-Kinney + Mary Timony + Rebecca Cole. Only lasted for one album but it's an awesome one.
Halsey (not very happy stuff but I just can't not mention her)
Also Hunter Valentine Sick of Sarah Halestorm Paramore
And finally… L7! ARE! BACK!! (Just to play the old stuff for now, but at least we have concert videos from 2015,)
posted by floatboth at 4:10 PM on April 3, 2017
I put together this 200+ track Spotify playlist last year and am still adding to it: Female Fronted Alternative Rock, Indie, and Shoegaze. It's a combination of classic '90s plus recent releases, but the main criterion is definitely "music that moves."
posted by Sonny Jim at 9:35 AM on April 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Sonny Jim at 9:35 AM on April 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
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Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Indigo Girls
I'd plug some of the artists you mention into Pandora if you haven't already, and see what else comes up.
posted by bunderful at 3:31 PM on April 2, 2017 [4 favorites]