sextonseven said:

Vixen (I think this all-girl metal band lasted at least 2 albums).

TonyVanDam said:

My friend in college had Vixen's first album. I listened to it a few times. I purposely didn't mention them.

Graycap23 said:

I think mine would be less than 5 percent and I'm female.

I like a few female artists but I don't really spend money on them.

sextonseven said:

dammme said:

I like Heart, but do they qualify as metal?

sextonseven said:

I dont think so...rock for sure.
Heart, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and Stevie Nicks are pretty much the only female artists I listen to.

Ohh, and Vanity 6

Men ONLY make up 5% of my music collection.

Women's interpretations of pain & joy are more pronounced IMHO. Thats why they call them,,,emotional? I don't know, maybe. Besides, the ladies are more intersting, versatile and flexible, as opposed to the more calculated, one dimensioned boring ass opposite sex.

Whether its Jazz, soul, gospel, opera, hip-hop, RnB, rock, funk or Arabic.

The ladies dominate my rotation.

sextonseven said:

They fall into the "soft rock" category I think.....But they are still cool

Sexism but things are changing slowly.

dammme said:

Heart isn't heavy metal. They're classic rock.

Harlepolis said:

Now I'm really curious. I'm going to count my collection (which is...erm...quite small)

Now are we counting ownership of an artist as 1 or are we counting each CD?

I have a hunch it may be 50/50

42% women
58% men

in terms of actual CDs


33% women
67% men

in terms of artists
[Edited 10/26/06 21:14pm]

For the people that think women don't make good music:

VH1: 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll (1999)

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Tina Turner
3. Janis Joplin
4. Bonnie Raitt
5. Joni Mitchell
6. Billie Holiday
7. Chrissie Hynde
8. Madonna
9. Annie Lennox
10. Carole King
11. Patsy Cline
12. Debbie Harry
13. Ella Fitzgerald
14. Stevie Nicks
15. Patti Smith
16. The Supremes
17. Chaka Khan
18. Gladys Knight
19. Etta James
20. Grace Slick
21. Linda Ronstadt
22. Emmylou Harris
23. Mamas & The Papas
24. Dusty Springfield
25. Marianne Faithfull
26. Bessie Smith
27. Joan Baez
28. Carly Simon
29. Karen Carpenter
30. Rickie Lee Jones
31. Barbra Streisand
32. Joan Jett
33. k.d. lang
34. Dolly Parton
35. Sinéad O'Connor
36. Björk
37. Donna Summer
38. Diana Ross
39. Pat Benatar
40. Heart
41. Patti LaBelle
42. Dionne Warwick
43. Cher
44. Sheryl Crow
45. Roberta Flack
46. Kate Bush
47. The B-52's
48. Dinah Washington
49. Melissa Etheridge
50. Sarah Vaughan
51. Bette Midler
52. Laura Nyro
53. Alanis Morissette
54. Tracy Chapman
55. PJ Harvey
56. Martha & The Vandellas
57. Mavis Staples
58. Cyndi Lauper
59. Joan Armatrading
60. Ruth Brown
61. Whitney Houston
62. Lena Horne
63. Christine McVie
64. The Shirelles
65. Loretta Lynn
66. Sade
67. The Ronettes
68. Hole
69. Sarah McLachlan
70. Abba
71. Tori Amos
72. Queen Latifah
73. Tammy Wynette
74. Anita Baker
75. Exene Cervenka
76. The Go-Go's
77. Janet Jackson
78. Mahalia Jackson
79. Indigo Girls
80. Big Mama Thornton
81. Gloria Estefan
82. Grace Jones
83. Salt-N-Pepa
84. Yoko Ono
85. Petula Clark
86. Laurie Anderson
87. Nico
88. Sheila E.
89. Eartha Kitt
90. Ani DiFranco
91. Kim Gordon
92. Natalie Cole
93. Peggy Lee
94. Liz Phair
95. Olivia Newton-John
96. Siouxsie Sioux
97. Lucinda Williams
98. Kim Deal
99. Tina Weymouth
100. Erykah Badu

sextonseven said:

Barbra does rock!

Harlepolis said:

wait.... i'm the opposite sex!!

sextonseven said:

I hate 2 admit it but most of those names put me 2 sleep.....

Graycap23 said:

If you don't find at least 25% of that list worthy of hearing then you are doing yourself a great disservice.

sextonseven said:

The ONLY people on the list that would ever see a dime of my $$$$:
Wow, that's more that I thought.

Graycap23 said:

There, see? That isn't so bad.

No Siouxsie!

sextonseven said:

Lol.....but it still puts me 2 sleep.
There is no FUNK in the whole bunch. Except maybe Badu.

Graycap23 said:

Who are you, Funkenstein?

There was a women of funk thread here a few weeks ago. Lots of names came up in there.

I think i've got almost 50/50

i like it as follows

Rock - Men
Soul - Men/Women
RnB - Women
Jazz - Men/Women
Pop - Men/Women
Elect. - Men/Women
Funk - Men/Women

sextonseven said:

Some of the women are too weak to be Rock & Roll.

My music collection is about half and half
I prefer a females voice in some genres though, and I really
wish there were more women doing rock music

thekidsgirl said:

There are a lot of women playing rock currently. It's just that radio and video don't pay any attention to them beyond Evanescence and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

What kind of rock are you looking for? Alternative, punk, metal, folk? I'll give you some names.

sextonseven said:

really, any kind! I love music suggestions and (trying not to seem like a crazy stalker) you've got good taste.
Your avatar is the reason I started hunting for Siouxsie & the Banshees' albums

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[Edited 10/27/06 13:33pm]

I would say that probably 85% of my music from the 1980s is by male groups. At the risk of sounding sexist, I like my music hard, slammin', uptempo, and funky. The people that throwdown those type of jams are usually men. There are women that have some hard jams but they still didn't seem to be as hard as the men's jams.

I remember when I used to make tapes in the 1980s. I would never follow a song by a female with another song by a female. It just seemed to weaken the flow of the jams. All that changed though in the 1990s. The only jams during the 1990s was house music and most of it was made by women. Probably 85% of my music from the 1990s was made by females doing house music. Although, when I think about it, I think most of the house music was produced by men and all the women had to do with the songs was just sing so it was still men behind the jams.

From what I've seen, when a female artist I'm into makes a statement like..."I'm going to have more input on my next album"....it usually turns out to be a much weaker album with less jams and more ballads on it. Even most women I've seen in general are into more "touching", "that song means so much to me", "oh, what a pretty song" "emotional" type stuff. There are exceptions though but, from what I've seen, they have been rare such as Klymaxx which were some bad girls and Bernadette Cooper was a bad ass bitch when she put together Madame X. Hell, give me some funk and keep the "caring and sharing" shit.
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[Edited 10/27/06 15:41pm]

Graycap23 said:

Tsk, tsk, MG. I'm sooo disapointed in you.
Just out of curiosity who is your favorite female singer or musician?