Achtung! Garbage is the best female fronted rock band ever.

Tragic Kingdom had some good tracks on it IMO. No Doubt went downhill pretty quickly though once it started to become the Gwen Stefani band.

I'd pick Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders over Garbage (and I like Garbage), but I have to agree that Heart would have to be the biggest/most successful female-fronted band.
 
gtrjunior said:
I think we are the same age, or close enough. (I'm 44)
I hear what you're saying and I'm not trying to knock the kinda singing thing too much. Is pretty much the backbone of rock! Lol
I just wasn't a fan of it at the onset of the 90's.
I think it first happened in the 60's with the hippie movement. I'd bet some musicians that got their start in the 50's weren't fans of the 60's revolution either!!
60's hippies----90's hippies.
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I got you by a couple of years and that may make the difference (46). I was so burned out on 80's rock by the time Seattle hit, it was a breath of fresh air for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved 80's rock but by the time the 90's hit, the good bands were already going away. It was taken over by Warrant, Poison and the Trixter type bands, what I call the all image no substance bands. I think the 80's rock thing was dying a slow and miserable death, Nirvana and the guys gave them a mercy killing :grin:

By late in my junior year of high school (88.), I had already started drifting away from from the metal and was starting to get into REM, The Cure, The Smiths. I started watching Head Bangers Ball less and 120 Minutes more.
 
Chad said:
I got you by a couple of years and that may make the difference (46). I was so burned out on 80's rock by the time Seattle hit, it was a breath of fresh air for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved 80's rock but by the time the 90's hit, the good bands were already going away. It was taken over by Warrant, Poison and the Trixter type bands, what I call the all image no substance bands. I think the 80's rock thing was dying a slow and miserable death, Nirvana and the guys gave them a mercy killing :grin:

By late in my junior year of high school (88.), I had already started drifting away from from the metal and was starting to get into REM, The Cure, The Smiths. I started watching Head Bangers Ball less and 120 Minutes more.
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Yeah, I could have done without all the makeup bands and whatnot (even though I did like some of them). But besides the harder rock stuff we already mentioned, much of the 90's stuff became less guitar player oriented and more singer/songwriter-ish. Only with an overdriven guitar tone. Even though guitar was still a prominent instrument, it became more of a textural thing and less of a lead type instrument. I think that's what bummed me out on it. The 80's produced a lot of prominent players that were proficient on the guitar both knowledge and technique-wise. Not so much from the 90's players....or rather the proficiency was in other areas.
 
wok said:
DON'T LET JBIRD SEE THIS THREAD :eek:
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TOO LATE!!! I SAW IT YESTERDAY!!!

I didn't chime in because for the most part I am unfamiliar with Garbage. A gal I worked with back around 1996 or so let me borrow one of their cds to take home and listen to. I remember I did listen to it, but that it didn't really make much of an impression :shrug:

I also took this thread to be rock bands and not metal bands :embarrassed:

Shirley whatshername is certainly a looker :love:

I have no idea what Lush sounded like, but this pic of Miki Berenyi has to be my favorite 'Gals w/guitars' pic of all time:

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:love: :love:
 
rickenvox said:
I forgot about Eurythmics. Annie Lennox was incredible.

I'm a Sleater Kinney fan, but always have mixed feelings about them. Corin Tucker has a powerful voice, but I'm always reminded of their lack of music education every time I hear them, in a way I don't really notice for bands like Sonic Youth. It became more apparent when they tried to branch out more in the album The Woods. Self taught is great, but has huge limits and creates impassable borders that the artist can not seem to cross. You can't reinvent centuries of western music theory and harmony in your own private life.
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Well, you can, but with varying degrees of success.

I hate picking favorites. I love a lot of the bands listed. I love Garbage as one of those bands. But I am not going to put them above Heart, and a few of the other bands listed.

@gtrjunior "60's hippies----90's hippies." I have long thought that, but would include some 80's alt and punk also, and that hippies and punks and grungers had more in common than is readily apparent.

One other thing, I LOVE how much PNW music is being presented in this thread. Heart, Louie Louie/The Kingsmen, Sleater Kinney (I get mixed about them too. I have to be in the right mood), can't remember who else was in there. But seems like there was more. The PNW represents in the music world.


EDIT: Also, one cannot just say "90's music". Way too diverse. From late SRV to Nirvana and the Pixies and Sleater Kinney and all sorts of stuff in between.
 
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