# Mixed male/female groups **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767 "2016-01-31T18:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/21 "2016-02-01T02:57:17Z")
The Breeders! (I was going to cite the Pixies and Throwing Muses, but timing and the lack of memorable hits kept me from doing so.) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/22 "2016-02-01T03:00:42Z")
Steps The Corrs. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/23 "2016-02-01T03:01:38Z")
Pink Martini ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/24 "2016-02-01T03:02:41Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Steps > The Corrs. The Corrs, in hit-making mode, had three women and one man. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/25 "2016-02-01T03:03:38Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > The Breeders! I dunno. Looks like just one girl to me. As a by blow, Belly would count as well with Tonya Donnelly and Gail Greenwood. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/26 "2016-02-01T03:19:17Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65EulhxBSHc) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/27 "2016-02-01T03:30:16Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > The Breeders! (I was going to cite the Pixies and Throwing Muses, but timing and the lack of memorable hits kept me from doing so.) As said above, the Breeders, as far as I remember, only had a single male in the band, the drummer. Pixies only had one female, Kim Deal, so that wouldn’t work either. (The OP wants at least two of each.) Some of the Throwing Muses line-ups qualify. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/28 "2016-02-01T03:34:21Z")
The only one I can think of right now that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Veruca Salt, if you count “Seether” as a hit. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/29 "2016-02-01T04:06:39Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > As said above, the Breeders, as far as I remember, only had a single male in the band, the drummer. Pixies only had one female, Kim Deal, so that wouldn’t work either. (The OP wants at least two of each.) Some of the Throwing Muses line-ups qualify. Under those rules ‘some of the lineups’ a LOT of bands would qualify. The Breeders in a few incarnations would certainly qualify. However, trying to define ‘bands that, at some point or other, had two men and two women’ would be a mug’s game. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/30 "2016-02-01T04:34:53Z")
Human League A Taste of Honey (“Boogie Oogie Oogie”) A lot of 1970s disco groups featured two or more female singers backed by male musicians. Among them were Chic, who (usually) presented themselves as a five-piece group of 3 guys and 2 lady singers. Silver Convention and Boney M on the other hand had multiple female singers in front of basically anonymous male musicians. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/31 "2016-02-01T04:39:58Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The only one I can think of right now that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Veruca Salt, if you count “Seether” as a hit. It got airplay. I’d count 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/32 "2016-02-01T04:45:35Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I dunno. Looks like just one girl to me. > [@pulykamell](#): > > As said above, the Breeders, as far as I remember, only had a single male in the band, the drummer. Pixies only had one female, Kim Deal, so that wouldn’t work either. (The OP wants at least two of each.) Some of the Throwing Muses line-ups qualify. I only have Wiki to go by here: > [@](#): > > Following Pod, the members of the Breeders returned to their original bands. The Pixies released Bossanova in 1990 and Trompe le Monde in 1991, but by the end of 1991 were becoming less active. Deal, with time off from the Pixies, visited Wiggs in Brighton, and they went into a London studio with Spacemen3/Spiritualized drummer Jon Mattock to record a new song called “Safari”. The other three tracks on what became the Safari EP were recorded in New York with Britt Walford and Tanya Donelly, who was by then planning to form Belly.[12] Kim then asked her sister Kelley Deal to take over on guitar, even though, famously, Kelley did not know how to play guitar. The Pixies became inactive in mid-1992, at which time drummer Jim Macpherson was recruited and the Breeders became a full-time band,[6] opening for Nirvana on their 1992 European tour.[13] ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/33 "2016-02-01T04:49:56Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Under those rules ‘some of the lineups’ a LOT of bands would qualify. The Breeders in a few incarnations would certainly qualify. However, trying to define ‘bands that, at some point or other, had two men and two women’ would be a mug’s game. Actually, good point. I was just thinking of the Breeders line-up during their hit “Cannonball.” Later versions of them did have Kim & Kelley plus a couple guys. Shit, I didn’t even know they came out with an album in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/34 "2016-02-01T05:17:03Z")
Letters to Cleo ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/35 "2016-02-01T05:45:01Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I only have Wiki to go by here: I’m really just making a joke about one girl. Kim and Kelley are identical twins. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/36 "2016-02-01T12:18:43Z")
[Bucks Fizz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucks_Fizz) - Really tempted to put on the Alan Partridge voice and say ‘only the group that ABBA could have been’. The Go-Betweens after Amanda Brown joined. Couple of top 10 indie hits in UK. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/37 "2016-02-01T13:40:02Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > It got airplay. I’d count 'em. By this definition, the rock band Skillet applies ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/38 "2016-02-01T13:49:56Z")
**Crash Test Dummies** **Pretenders** (Chrissie is the only gal but she counts as at least two 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/39 "2016-02-01T14:49:39Z")
At their height, the _Incredible String Band_ had two men and two women. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767/40 "2016-02-01T15:04:09Z")
**The Magic Numbers** (2/2) had some UK hits and airplay on US adult alternative stations. **Lake Street Dive** (2/2) is similar, except for the UK hits part. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixed-male-female-groups/744767.md?page=3)