Top 10 Songs by Female Fronted Bands of the 90s (Not Ever. Just the 90s.)

I went through all of page one disbelieving that Elastica hadn't been mentioned, only to see redspoony had beat me to it!

Waking Up's good (if a copy of No More Heroes..). Connection is great and probably their best known. Plus I like Car Song and Stutter.

Glad to see all the love for Road Rage in here as well, what a song.

I've always been a bit of a Texas fan as well. 'I Don't Want A Lover' 'Summer Son' etc. etc.
 
I think this is the only Corrs song that I can tolerate



Also here is a Eurythmics song which qualifies. From 1999:



I also forgot about this

 
No one has mentioned the best one of them all, of the 90s.

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Tori Amos deserves a shout as well, maybe "Caught a Light Sneeze" or "Talula".
 
Bjork isn't really a female fronted band though, is she? If I had included solo artists the top 10 in the OP would have contained at least 7 entries from Sheryl Crow.
 
Scrumpet said:
Bjork isn't really a female fronted band though, is she? If I had included solo artists the top 10 in the OP would have contained at least 7 entries from Sheryl Crow.
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She had a band. Is it really any different than Billy Corgan going around with 3 musicians calling themselves the Smashing Pumpkins?

Sheryl Crow should count too, she had a band. It's not like she's Brittney and she doesn't have anything to do with the instruments or music.
 
gooDevil said:
She had a band. Is it really any different than Billy Corgan going around with 3 musicians calling themselves the Smashing Pumpkins?

Sheryl Crow should count too, she had a band. It's not like she's Brittney and she doesn't have anything to do with the instruments or music.
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Hmm the jury's out on this one. We shall assemble an independent panel to decide on the ruling.
 
Scrumpet said:
Hmm the jury's out on this one. We shall assemble an independent panel to decide on the ruling.
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Well, what's the meaningful difference to you? If Bjork had gone around with set people and called themselves "The Bjorkies" would it have made her the front singer for a band?

Is it about collaboration, or do you just mean singers who are fronting someone else's work? Unless you get on stage with nothing but a mic and turntables, or a CD recording, you'll need people to play something. At that point you're a band, in my mind.
 
gooDevil said:
Well, what's the meaningful difference to you? If Bjork had gone around with set people and called themselves "The Bjorkies" would it have made her the front singer for a band?

Is it about collaboration, or do you just mean singers who are fronting someone else's work? Unless you get on stage with nothing but a mic and turntables, or a CD recording, you'll need people to play something. At that point you're a band, in my mind.
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The Bjorkies would certainly have qualified. There is a difference between having a band and being in a band. Presumably Bjork did everything when it came to making the songs and then she hired some musicians to play with her.

Besides if I let Bjork in, the floodgates will truly be open. Do we then have to let Natalie Imbruglia, Alannis Morissette, Shania Twain etc come to the party?
 
Oh, and every girl I know who loves rock has Liz Phair cds. Never listened to her myself, but she should probably be on there somewhere.
 
Scrumpet said:
The Bjorkies would certainly have qualified. There is a difference between having a band and being in a band. Presumably Bjork did everything when it came to making the songs and then she hired some musicians to play with her.

Besides if I let Bjork in, the floodgates will truly be open. Do we then have to let Natalie Imbruglia, Alannis Morissette, Shania Twain etc come to the party?
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But does billing the show as 'Bjork' tell you anything about the level of collaboration? I don't think that should be a factor because there are plenty of rock bands where one person writes and sings the songs and the others just play the instruments, like Radiohead or almost all of the Smashing Pumpkins. Bjork probably worked with more people than Billy Corgan.

Alanis Morissette should count, but I don't know if Twain and Imbruglia actually wrote their own music and lyrics. For me that makes a difference. But the thread title only says 'fronted bands', which sounds like it would count a singer who hires a band.

The more the merrier, no?
 
gooDevil said:
But does billing the show as 'Bjork' tell you anything about the level of collaboration? I don't think that should be a factor because there are plenty of rock bands where one person writes and sings the songs and the others just play the instruments, like Radiohead or almost all of the Smashing Pumpkins. Bjork probably worked with more people than Billy Corgan.

Alanis Morissette should count, but I don't know if Twain and Imbruglia actually wrote their own music and lyrics. For me that makes a difference. But the thread title only says 'fronted bands', which sounds like it would count a singer who hires a band.

The more the merrier, no?
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Ok, then.
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VivaRonaldo7 said:
Evanescence
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'Bring me to life' must have been early 2000's at least. I am not really a fan of female fronted bands, I have a few PJ Harvey CD's in my collection and that is it. If I had to pick somthing from that era I would go with 'Shit List' and 'Fuel my Fire' both are good punk-esque tunes by L7, they remind me of watching Glastonbury on TV when I was about 10
 







Not all bands but all either good or remind me of the 90's or both. Not all band but WTF?
 
Reminds me of one of my best mates phrases.. "In the words of Natalie Imbruglia, I'm torn" :lol:

Okay maybe it's only funny to me. :nervous:
 
Well, I might as well try to make a list. I'm just gonna pick the ones I like the most, one per artist.

Bjork - Hyperballad
Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze
Portishead - Wandering Star
Cibo Matto - Sci-Fi Wasabi
Breeders - Cannonball
Medicine - Time Baby III
The Cranberries - Zombie
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Do You Sleep?
Babes in Toyland - Sweet '69
Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls









 
gooDevil said:
But does billing the show as 'Bjork' tell you anything about the level of collaboration? I don't think that should be a factor because there are plenty of rock bands where one person writes and sings the songs and the others just play the instruments, like Radiohead or almost all of the Smashing Pumpkins. Bjork probably worked with more people than Billy Corgan.

Alanis Morissette should count, but I don't know if Twain and Imbruglia actually wrote their own music and lyrics. For me that makes a difference. But the thread title only says 'fronted bands', which sounds like it would count a singer who hires a band.

The more the merrier, no?
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I'm sorry, what now? :confused:
 
gooDevil said:
Am I wrong, I thought I remembered being told that Tom Yorke writes all their music and lyrics.

Anyway, there are lots of them.
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You couldn't be more wrong if you tried, you picked the worst possible example you could, Radiohead are only as good as the sum of their parts, each one being a great musician in their own right.
 
RedNome said:
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried, you picked the worst possible example you could, Radiohead are only as good as the sum of their parts, each one being a great musician in their own right.
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I recall now that what I was told was that Kid A was written only by Yorke and that the band didn't want him to release it as a solo effort because it was create rumors of the band splitting up, so it was released as Radiohead. I confused this for being true of all their work.

I actually don't listen to them so I certainly shouldn't have picked them as an example. I'm not up on my encyclopedic knowledge of who actually created which songs in bands. Can you name any bands where one guy did everything?
 
gooDevil said:
I recall now that what I was told was that Kid A was written only by Yorke and that the band didn't want him to release it as a solo effort because it was create rumors of the band splitting up, so it was released as Radiohead. I confused this for being true of all their work.
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You need to stop listening to whoever told you this then because it's complete bollocks. You could certainly argue that Yorke had a massive say in the direction they took as a band post OK Computer, but Kid A was just as much a group effort as any of their other albums.
 
When is the Top 10 Songs by Female Fronted Bands of the 00's (Not Ever. Just the 00's) thread starting up??

I could have a lot more suggestions for that thread...
 
Annihilate Now! said:
When is the Top 10 Songs by Female Fronted Bands of the 00's (Not Ever. Just the 00's) thread starting up??

I could have a lot more suggestions for that thread...
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You can have it AN! When the time is right, you will know that you must start it.
 
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