# Recommend Me Some High Energy (guitar based) Bands With Female Singers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214 "2002-08-16T16:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/61 "2002-08-20T01:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\* > > Actually L7 was exactly who I had in mind when I made the second stipulation. They don’t sound like girls, at all, to me, at least not in any of the singles I’ve heard of theirs. Thanks, though. > Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! \*\* Maybe you’ve only heard a limited selection of their stuff. While some of it is a tad raunchy, their last two albums _the beauty process: triple platinum_ and _Slap Happy_ are somewhat more melodic offerings. Another band in a similar vein, but not as heavy as L7 is a band called **Die Cheerleader**. I only ever found one album, but it is good. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/62 "2002-08-20T05:16:53Z")
Dating myself a tad, but three of my favorites are **Belly, Mary’s Danish, and Transvision Vamp**. All with catchy fantastic guitar and lovely female vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/63 "2002-08-20T06:15:13Z")
[Annetenna](http://www.annetenna.com), formerly known as Ednaswap. They recorded “Torn” before the Australian soap star got a hold of it, and they ROCK. You can download an acoustic version of Torn from their website, but look for the electric version. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/64 "2002-08-20T11:07:56Z")
**Liliput** , woman punk band from Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Skydive101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Skydive101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skydive101)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/65 "2002-08-21T08:17:15Z")
Great googily moogily, and I thought I knew most of what there was to know about female bands, but there are several of these that I’ve never heard of. Off to the obscure CD store I go. Oh, and if you can find it, pick up the only album from **Drill**. From soft and sexy to bigger-balls-then-I-have screaming, Lucia is an amazing vocalist. You may have trouble getting your hands on the album, if you’re desperate you can check out the Empire Records soundtrack, they’ve got a song on there. I hear she’s also slumming around with KMFDM these days… All of you people seem like my kind of people. And that makes me happy to post here. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/66 "2002-08-21T14:55:12Z")
I just saw **The Eyeliners** and **Lo-Ball** at the Warped Tour. Very high NRG, both of them. Both are all-girl bands, too. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/67 "2002-08-21T17:06:48Z")
Here’s a third for Jefferson Airplane. (Jim Carrey does a good parody/imitation of Grace Slick doing “Somebody to Love” in _Cable Guy_, by the way!) ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/68 "2002-08-21T20:31:05Z")
Well, most of my favorites have been mentioned (the Donnas, Liz Phair, Sleater-Kinney and the Muffs in particular), but I’ll throw out **Bratmobile**. Good female punk band. Bikini Kill is great, but if you’re looking for a more female-sounding lead singer, check out Bratmobile. ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/69 "2002-08-21T20:48:43Z")
Hows about **Bif Naked**? I’m not sure how big she is in the states, but she’s pretty huge up in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![limpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b487fb/32.png) [@limpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limpy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/70 "2002-08-21T21:21:38Z")
seventies classic rockers “HEART” had some nice hard stuff. you should also look into “THE DONNAS”. chick punk rock. they did a cover of that titanic song. it was really cool. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/71 "2002-08-21T23:36:32Z")
**The Clouds** from Australia, broke up by now, but you can find albums on ebay. 2 wailin’ chicks with awsome voices, with two guys backing them. Best track: _Bower of Bliss_ \*\* The Swansons\*\*. From the east coast, I think. I only have _Shake_ but every track on this disc rocks. Beautiful female voice on vocals. \*\*Susan Tedeschi, Sue Foley, Patti Rothberg \*\* are all worth a look also. They are more blue/rock and pop, but all have very strong albums. and I’ll add **Cheri Knight** too, but she is more rockabilly/alt country. Even so, her album is one of the best I own. Welcome to the party, **limpy**! * * * May the mediocrity of several greeting-card salesman inhabit your soul like unmatched buttons in a empty mayonaise jar. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/72 "2002-08-22T00:19:40Z")
As has been previously recommended, **Nightwish** is a good band with a beautiful sounding vocalist, although the genre is Scandanavian metal. I personally haven’t heard **Drill** , although a friend of mine got their album from [www.half.com](http://www.half.com) recently. However, I have seen Lucia perform live with KMFDM, and she has a great stage persona. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/73 "2002-08-23T00:29:44Z")
I’ll second the recommendation for **Joydrop**. They’re very cool. Don’t think anyone’s mentioned **Garbage** yet, but they’re pretty mainstream, so everyone’s probably heard of 'em. Lastly, let me add a recommendation for **Clare Quilty** , a totally awesome band who happen to hail from my alma mater. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/74 "2002-08-23T04:39:57Z")
You could give **[Jucifer](http://www.jucifer.com/)** a listen. Not only is it guitar-based, it’s JUST guitar and drums. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/75 "2002-08-23T19:33:35Z")
**Jennifer Trynin** and going back to the 80’s: **Berlin** & You can’t forget about the **Pretenders** first 2 albums. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/76 "2002-08-24T04:05:34Z")
\*(that was a typo, but I liked it so I left it) PJHARVEY is a goddess! Diamanda Galas is a GODDESS! But the goddess of all goddesses is CARLA BOZULICH!!! Carla was the lead singer for the ALL TIME GREATEST HEAVY-HARD FEMALE-FRONTED BAND, The Geraldine Fibbers. Go you now and buy BUTCH and be forever changed. She had preciously (nother appropriate typo) PREVIOUSLY fronted Ethyl Meatplow, and now works mostly solo, although sometimes as Scarnella with Nels Cline, the Fibbers’ visionary punk-jazz guitarist. Ask Carla into your heart and be saved. More big-voiced female goddesses (I swear, this really is my favorite genre: ask Equipoise): Katell Keinig Sonic Youth The Donnas (YAY!) L7 (L7! L7! L7! that’s really hard to navigate the shit [typo! SHIFT] key around) SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER KINNEY! SLEATER FUCKING KINNEY! And someone mentioned Transvision Vamp. Don’t forget the FAB solo album by their lead singer, Wendy James: Now Is Not the Time for Your Tears, with all songs written for her by Declan (Elvis Costello) McManus. And I LOVE Caterwaul. And WEIRDDAVE, if you think you know ANYTHING about cowpunk, then you don’t know SHIT about Carla Bozulich. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/77 "2002-08-24T06:46:04Z")
Glitch: somehow my post (above) didn’t register: it didn’t take the thread back to the top, and two hours later it still showed the previous poster as the last poster. So I’m posting again to legitimately bump it. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/78 "2002-08-26T07:25:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > **(I swear, this really is my favorite genre: ask Equipoise):** I’ll confirm that. He’s been trying to get me into the Geraldine Fibbers for decades. It’s not my style, though I did nearly lose my hearing at one of their concerts once, which should count for at least trying. > [@](#): > > **Katell Keinig** Huh? She doesn’t belong in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/79 "2002-08-26T13:22:47Z")
[http://www.encausticmusic.com](http://www.encausticmusic.com) ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214/80 "2002-08-26T20:17:00Z")
I was also going to mention the Muffs (they kick ass), but I see they’ve already been done. You might also look in to the Lunachicks, but they might be a little on the butch-sounding side for your taste. They rock in concert though. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-high-energy-guitar-based-bands-with-female-singers/124214.md?page=5)