Well this bald headed girl I know sent me a tape of Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ Harvey, Called it "Brilliant Women", I put it in my car. Heard it all the way to the coast. Normally, if left to my own devices I don't hear chick singers much, I guess it's guys I hear the most.
Sometimes these days don't it seem like it's enough for girls to love a girl or use the f word prominently or masturbate in public or learn guitar tide up to a post. I though of all this hearing Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ Harvey in my car, driving to the coast.
Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Shinead O'Connor, Suzanne Vega, Jill Sobule, Melissa Ethridge, Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Michelle Shocked, every one of them has something kinda special that I like. But every now and then, while listening to them, I feel like when we were kids I pulled their hair or stole their bike.
These days it seems like there's a lot of girls who sing, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but it's always cool that moment when they first step to the mike. If I was a girl I could sing real high and also then I'd know what having breasts would be like.
Chick singers (x3)
I started thinking 'bout Kate Bush, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Bessy Smith, Patty Smith, Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, and Bonnie Raitt. Seems like there's an awful lot of women in whose honor I would like to raise my glass to in a toast. Some of them are still alive and some I hear their voices like a ghost.
Maybe next Thursday I'll throw a party and invite every woman that ever sang a song, oh, this would be a party that I think I would like to be the host. Thanks to the bald headed girl I know who whose tape of Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ Harvey I heard driving to the coast.
Chick singers (x3)
--Dan Bern
Ani DiFranco, indigo girls, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams, Liz Phair, Tracy Chapman, Nanci Griffith, Joni Mitchell, Poe, Mazzy Star, K's Choice, Fiona Apple, Annie Lennox, Paula Cole, Tracy Bonham, Tanya Donelly and Belly, Veruca Salt, the Heaths, Juliana Hatfield, Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, the cranberries, Madonna, Beautiful X, Bjork, Spice Girls, Aretha Franklin, PJ Harvey, Janis Joplin, Melaina Spitzer, Morcheeba, Garbage, Missy Elliot, Jen Wood, etc...
Ben Folds Five, REM, Beastie Boys, Dan Bern, Lotion, Dave Mathews Band, the Beatles, Elliot Smith, U2, Peter Gabriel, Grateful Dead, Live, Barenaked Ladies, Fuel, Nirvana, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Beck, Radiohead, Promise Ring, Smashing Pumpkins, Brian Setzer, Cake, etc...