Bleeding Ears’ Alternative 106 Top Female Songs
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Here’s the remedy to that stack of arse:
Bleeding Ears’ Alternative 106 Top Female Songs
(we couldn’t decide)
This list celebrates the most inspiring, innovative and creative music created by or featuring women in the last few decades. We’re not saying its comprehensive, and we’re not saying it perfect…its just pretty damn awesome.
The genres of amazing music differ so greatly that trying to place these songs in any competitive order would be like trying to judge between slippers or a sweater…just plain stupid.
1. 4 Non-Blondes – What’s Up
2. 5.6.7.8’s – Woo Hoo
3. Annie Lennox – Walking on Broken Glass
4. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
5. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry on their Own
6. Aretha Franklin – Respect
7. Bat For Lashes – What’s a Girl To Do?
8. Big Brother and the Holding Company – Piece of my Heart
9. Bikini Kill – False Start
10. Bjork – Innocence
The insatiable Bjork
11. Bjork – Declare Independence
12. Bjork – Play Dead
13. Blondie – Call Me
14. Blondie – Heart of Glass
15. Blondie – Rapture
16. Candi Staton feat. The Source – You Got The Love
17. CSS – Music is my Hot Hot Sex
18. Cardigans – Erase / Rewind
19. The Cranberries – Zombie
20. Christina Aguilera – Candyman
One of the few voices that gives even women hard-ons - Christina
21. Christina Aguilera – Slow Down Baby
22. Courtney Love – Mono
23. Crystal Castles – Courtship Date
24. The Detroit Cobras – Hey Sailor
25. The Distillers – City of Angels
26. The Distillers – Coral Fang
27. Divinyls – I Touch Myself
28. Dolly Parton – 9-5
29. Dolly Parton – Jolene
30. Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism
Dresden Dolls - never ones for conventionalism
31. Dusty Springfield – Anyone Who Had a Heart
32. Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man
33. Elastica – Connection
34. Eva Cassidy – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
35. Faithless – Reverence
36. Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well Part 1
37. Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
38. Florence and the Machine – Dog Days Are Over
39. Florence and the Machine – Kiss With a Fist
40. Garbage – Sex is Not the Enemy
Power to the Scots! Garbage
41. Garbage – My Lover’s Box
42. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooh (shut it, it’s brilliant)
43. Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
44. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
45. The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control
46. Hole – Boys on the Radio
47. Hole – Celebrity Skin
48. Ike and Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
49. Janis Joplin – Maybe
50. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – I Hate Myself For Loving You
The ageless Joan Jett
51. Joni Mitchell – My Old Man
52. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
53. Kate Bush – Under Ice
54. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
55. Kidney Thieves – Before I’m Dead
56. L7 – Shit List
57. Ladyhawke – Magic
58. Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning
59. Ladytron – Seventeen
60. Ladytron – Sugar
Sexy synth sounds with Ladytron
61. Le Tigre – Let’s Run
62. Lykke Li – My
63. Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long
64. Madeleine Peyroux – J’ai Deux Amours
65. Madonna – Like A Prayer
66. Madonna – Ray of Light
67. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – Heatwave
68. Melissa auf der Maur – Taste You
69. Metric – Monster Hospital
70. Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
The better of the Sinatras....Nancy
71. Nina Simone – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
72. Nina Simone – To Be Young, Gifted and Black
73. No Doubt – Sunday morning
74. Noisettes – Don’t Give Up
75. Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
76. Peaches – Talk To Me
77. The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
78. Pixies – Cactus
79. Pixies – Velouria
80. PJ Harvey – Big Exit
Ms Harvey...no introduction needed
81. The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
82. Portishead – Glory Box
83. Portishead – Roads
84. Portishead – Seven Months
85. The Raincoats – No One’s Little Girl
86. Regina Spektor – Eet
87. Regina Spektor – On the Radio
88. Roxy Saint – Firecracker
89. Santigold – L.E.S. Artistes
90. School of Seven Bells – Wired for Light
School Of Seven Bells
91. Shonen Knife – Butterfly Boy
92. Sister Bliss – Sister Sister
93. Skunk Anansie – Intellectualise My Blackness
94. Skunk Anansie – Weak
95. Sleater-Kinney – God Is A Number
96. Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
97. Sonic Youth – Sugar Kane
98. The Sounds – Tony the Beat
99. The Subways – I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say
100. The Subways – Rock N Roll Queen
Explosive garage rock from the Subways
101. Tegan and Sara – Back In Your Head
102. Tidy Girls: Anne Savage – I Need A Man
103. The Velvet Underground and Nico – All Tomorrow’s Parties
104. The Whip – Trash
105. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Black Tongue
106. The Zutons – Confusion
Agree? Disagree?
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“Bleeding Ears’ Alternative 106 Top Female Songs”