Help me show my daughter that girls rock just as well as boys

[beesonthewhatnow]

My 4 year old daughter is now starting to really get into music, has her first electric guitar and wants to play the drums as well. So I'm putting together a playlist for her, covering any and all genres/eras, to try and show her that the whole rock and roll thing isn't just for boys.

So, any and all recommendations welcome - female fronted/soloists as a minimum, bonus points for other band members being female as well, special prizes for all female bands.

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[ice-is-forming]

Heart
Stevie Nicks
The Deltones
Vixen
Pat Benatar
Patty Smith
Chrissie Hynde
Siouxie sioux
X ray specx
Kate Bush
Joni Mitchell
Joan Jet
Orianthi

 

[Pickman's model]

slits

 

[Libertad]

 

[MrSki]

 

[Pickman's model]

one problem about rock n' roll is that it doesn't matter if a band's all boys or all girls, in the vast majority of cases they are just money makers for the record industry. i am sure i am not alone in recalling interviews with the bangles from the late 1980s where they said they wanted to show girls could form a band too. a petty ambition, imo, unless more power's held by the bands and less by the corporates. that's the second thing i'd say to your daughter - girls can rock but it is just as important to maintain power or control over your compositions and output although this obviously isn't something which would immediately filter through to a four year old.

 

[mrsfran]

Yes, definitely explain the complex gender-based power dynamics of the record industry to your 4 year old.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

one problem about rock n' roll is that it doesn't matter if a band's all boys or all girls, in the vast majority of cases they are just money makers for the record industry. i am sure i am not alone in recalling interviews with the bangles from the late 1980s where they said they wanted to show girls could form a band too. a petty ambition, imo, unless more power's held by the bands and less by the corporates. that's the second thing i'd say to your daughter - girls can rock but it is just as important to maintain power or control over your compositions and output.

Dude, she's 4. I think right now seeing and hearing some good female fronted stuff is enough

 

[Santino]

Elastica and Hanson

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, definitely explain the complex gender-based power dynamics of the record industry to your 4 year old.

maybe you're right and it should be left a year or two.

 

[Pickman's model]

Dude, she's 4. I think right now seeing and hearing some good female fronted stuff is enough

yeh. but bear it in mind.

 

[ice-is-forming]

 

[ice-is-forming]

Little Girls should be seen and not heard....

 

[Sea Star]

No one has mentioned Debbie Harry. She rocked! Still does!

eta: Moe Tucker, Kim Gordon,

 

[ice-is-forming]

The Baby Animals..

 

[N_igma]

 

[ice-is-forming]

No one has mentioned Debbie Harry. She rocked! Still does!

eta: Moe Tucker, Kim Gordon,

First 12 inch single I bought

 

[moomoo]

Britney Spears

 

[colacubes]

Lush
5-6-7-8s
Hole
L7

 

[Sea Star]

The Primitives

 

[ice-is-forming]

The suga mamas

 

[ice-is-forming]

Hole

 

[sleaterkinney]

Ahem

 

[Sea Star]

She might be too young for Joni Mitchell, but Patti Smith, Cocteau Twins, Tina Weymouth

 

[Sprocket.]

We have heard from The Slits above and now.

 

[Greebo]

In addition to the ones already mentioned:
The Bangles
The Go-Goes
Shakespeare's Sister
Voice of the Beehive

 

[ice-is-forming]

Killing Heidi

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[ice-is-forming]

Natalie Imbruglia