Girlschool: Whats your thoughts on them.

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Lets talk about the "Sister" Band to Motorhead.

1) Are they the only credible female metal* band that exists?
2) Are they the Runaways that don't suck? The Spice Girls of Metal?
3) Classic/Dud/Search/Destroy, etc.

* = This question assumes that Heart are considered to be something other than Metal.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Are they the only credible female metal* band that exists?

L7 is but one tip of the iceberg that's lining up to kick your ass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahahaha.
Well, is Riot Grrrl metal, alt rock or punk?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

L7 were KRAP. Girlschool weren't great, but they were better than L7.

The first person to cite Vixen should get a pie filled with angry hornets thrown at them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, I JUST DID! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

everytime i read this thread i'm going to wonder why alex brought up KARP.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

L7 were KRAP.

Tsk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(*hands Alex in NY an icepack and a bottle of calamine lotion.*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't really answer 1. i mean: 13, derketa, mythic, etc.

i can't really answer 2.

3. classic. check out "demolition" and "hit and run." they're not a band i'd devote my life to, but for the time they were a nice rock and roll combo in a motorhead-lite mold.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hornet face, i'm surprised you don't like L7.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

First concert: Girlschool, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest - about 1982. I remember Girlschool being entertaining, though not particularly engaging to a male ready to rock like he-man Rob Halford (he says with a grin).

There should be comparison done between actual height versus height with teased hair, combining Vixen, Cinderella, Poison, etc...

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Karp...now they could rock. But, not women, so they have no place in this thread.

C'mon, Ned, L7 were nothing. Dumb songs. Bad tunes. Stupid shit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That six-song EP L7 put out on Sub Pop was okay. Everything after that sucked, though.

Chick metal bands I like: Kittie, Bottom, Boris (lead guitarist is a chick, so they count), 13, the Runaways, some really heavy band I saw one video from on Headbanger's Ball recently but the name escapes me, Doughnuts...

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Girlschool's version of "Tush" is pretty rockin' sez me.

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.greatkat.com/zapateado30f.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

behold The Great Kat, fools!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon, Ned, L7 were nothing. Dumb songs. Bad tunes. Stupid shit.

I heartily disagree. And damn if they weren't great every time I saw them live.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, Ned, we can't agree all the time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This is true. Now then, let us speak of the glory that is the Smashing Pumpkins and Hysteria. *cocks ear at deep seismic rumble in the distance*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

:I actually saw the video for "Armageddonit" today....and was appalled.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than L7, as were vixen (though L7 had moments).

Maybe even better than Fanny (who could be really really good).

And maybe even better than Motorhead, believe it or not.

― ched, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

runaways and spice girls better than L7 too btw. (Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs: "Let's not be L7/C'mon and learn to dance." Sums it up.)

but L7 >> Bratmobile or Babes in Toyland or Bikini Kill though.

― ched, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

what about Kittie???

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to say, I did actually forget to say something about Girlschool themselves! Great band, there's a double disc collection I have that I got last year, great stuff. But Chuck, you can dance to L7, trust me. I have done it and I was not alone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Kittie are ridiculous.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Kittie have their moments. The new record is better than I expected it to be.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Too much cookie monster vocals.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

kittie actually not totally horrible when they do evanescence type mall-goth power ballad stuff (which they did before the evanescence) (though not before the gathering, lacuna coil, etc)

― ched, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Girlschool were -probably- the first girl metal band to get their lead guitarist on the cover of Guitar Player. Happened in the mid or early 80's and for that type of magazine, amounted to something.

Girlschool are about the only in this group I regularly come back to for repeat play. Kittie doesn't compare at all, Girlschool could write songs, those dames can't.

There was an all girl metal band called the Poison Dollys that were flogged in the east around the time of Girlschool. They were terrible.

And Rock Goddess put out a couple of albums as a sub-Girlschool kind of band.

Anyone remember Meanstreak? Thrash metal girls, came and went almost without a trace, managed by the former guitarist for Isis -- a 70's all femme band that did nothing.

― George Smith, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I've never even heard Kittie. I just like their album cover.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you may be interested to know that Share Pederson, former bass player for Vixen, has a blog.

And I liked Vixen better than Girlschool, although I like The Donnas -- to the extent that they're metal and not hard rock -- better than either.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you may be interested to know that Share Pederson, former bass player for Vixen, has a blog.

I'd sooner read a farmer's almanac from 1973.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I like them. I agree Demolition was a good rekkid, and the EP with Motorhead under the name 'Headgirl' is good.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'Screaming Blue Murder' is pretty good. I like some of Girlschool's stuff.

L7 and the tampon incident is classic, btw.

― Davlo (Davlo), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

are you people really that retarded and/or sexist? girlschool are awesome! once, i was driving with my mom with the best of cd and she asked me if this was the new donnas record. im not sure if being mistaken for the donnas is a good thing, but i guess it goes to show that even today, its clear to see who has been influenced by them and how contemporary they sound.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

are you all f..king nuts, girlschool were and still are the best and longest lasting female rock band ever, they are even in the guinness book of records, i went to see them on the motorhead tour last oct/nov and they were bloody amazing, this band have been going for 25 years and they still look good and kick major ass.

― craig renwick, Friday, 3 February 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

but almost everybody on this thread likes girlschool! most like 'em a lot! except alex who just says they weren't great.

"come on let's go" is my current girlschool favorite. i love the headgirl stuff too.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Girlschool rocked. Anyone hear Astarte? Hot Greek chicks playing black metal:

http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/images/astarte.jpg

http://www.metal-observer.com/covers/cov4522.jpg

Sirens came out on Avantgarde music but was subsequently reissued in the US on the Cleopatra metal imprint Magick Records. I thought it was pretty damn good.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 3 February 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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