Who Are Your Least Favorite Female Rock Performers?

[StopTheMorans]

Bono for starters :puke:

[progmom]

1. Please don't hate me....

But I really don't like Janis Joplin. :hide:

[jpgray]

2. Me neither. I've felt so alone--why does everyone seem to love her?

:cry:

[Shell Beau]

3. I like her b/c her voice is so unique.

She doesn't sound like every other female.
:shrug:

[jpgray]

6. She sounds like every high school talent show caterwauler I've ever heard

And yes, most of them perform "Me & Bobby McGee"

:cry:

[Shell Beau]

8. That is b/c they are copying her.

She sounded so raw and real. Most females at the time weren't so edgy sounding.

[tigereye]

70. there you go!

:thumbsup:

[progmom]

5. Ever hear Erma Franklin's original version of "Piece Of My Heart"?

It kicks serious ass.

[jpgray]

7. Yes, and it does (nt)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

90. Because she died young......

Everyone just expects she would have gone on and made better music, I think.

It's all about Denis Leary's theory about going out on top.....

But yeah, I can't listen to her either.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. I think she was an pasty Bessie Smith clone with a drinking problem.

I'm all about smashing boomer idols today. :evilgrin:

[progmom]

12. but i love love love bessie smith

:hi:

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. That's my point.

:hi:

[progmom]

17. i was just amplifying it

:D

[Zomby Woof]

18. I don't either

The sound of heroin withdrawals is NOT pretty. And the horribly mediocre Melissa Etheridge tries to imitate her with that smoky rasp thing, and gahhhhh! :nuke:

[WCGreen]

44. Agreed......

[tigereye]

71. I cannot stand Melissa

I want to like her, and I think she has great pipes, but all her songs sound the same. :(

[RandomKoolzip]

19. I can take Janis in small doses.

But I think that if there had been more female performers hawking a similarly bodacious strain of rock operating during the era she was extant, she would never have been lionized the way she has been. It's only because she was the most visible of a tiny handful of "chick" singers that she's considered such a legend.

[MissMillie]

30. a very poor Etta James impersonator

:hide:

[Bridget Burke]

38. Hey, it sucked that she OD'd & her career was cut short.

Janis blew out her voice singing above amplified rock--she was a folky back in Texas. She became a martyr, a symbol, etc.

I preferred Grace Slick.

[chaska]

49. HA!!! (LOL), I was just going to say that I hate Grace Slick. I used to...

hate Janis Joplin too. Now I can tolerate her occasionally.

[hypovex]

100. Fred Durst

I'd say Britney & C. Aguillera, but that's too easy.

Sarah Mclachlan
Tori Amos
Alanis Morrissette
and whoever sings that "Redneck Woman" song.

[Rising Phoenix]

4. Celine Dione and Cheryl Crow

gag

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Kathleen Hanna....

I've never understood why people like Liz Phair. She talks dirty, so fucking what? She can't sing and her melodies sound like the doggerel four-year-olds sing to themselves when bored. Total hype, no talent.

Tori Amos is a solemn joke without a punchline.

Kathleen Hanna: Take away the polemics and what do you have? A shrieking moron.

Plus, there's Alanis Morrisette, Avril Levigne, Pink....ah fuck it. Too many to mention.

[LaraMN]

22. I used to love Liz Phair's song

"Fuck and Run," when I was a teenager, but-- yeah-- it was just because of the language. She really isn't good. And now she's trying to do pop music. gag.

[WeRQ4U]

26. I like Liz Phair. But I would admit that her new stuff is piss poor.

I would agree with you, however, on every single other one of the names you mentioned.

[mvd]

31. I thought Liz's new stuff was decent

I'd give it a B, though I like pop/rock a lot. Some of the younger artists have made better stuff of that type.

The little that I heard from Liz's upcoming CD suggests a return to form.

[WCGreen]

46. She has the balls to rock.....

compared to what else out there is passing for rock n roll, Liz wins hands down....

[mvd]

54. When she rocks, she's one of the best

She loves pop/rock like I do, but apparently it's not her strongest suit when doing the style.

[WCGreen]

57. I just think she is neat....

I remember I was the accountant for a top 30 radio station bck in the late 80's early 90's and I got a lot of stuff....

All I liked was Liz Phar

[mvd]

62. Same here

She's so cool that I have a crush on Liz.

[WCGreen]

75. How could you not.....

[SarahB]

80. I like her too.

A lot. One of my favorites in fact. That's just my tastes though. She fits my taste. Doesn't have to fit everyone's taste though.

I also find that people who aren't actually in the music business (never wrote a song; let alone ever even sang a song) who criticize something to death because it isn't their tastes and do the whole I-have-no-life-so-I will-be-a-poser-music-snob irritating as Hell.

Lots of stuff I don't like, but I can respect musically. I loathe listening to hip-hop for instance, but I respect it. The only thing I hate is completely commercial (often lip-synced) crap.

[mitchum]

58. So she "rocks" by default?

Odd.
She still doesn't do it very well (and never has)

[mitchum]

56. self-delete (double post)

[mitchum]

61. I'd fuck the hell out of Liz Phair! Now, will all of the lemmings...

declare me a genius because of my sexual frankness?

I couldn't agree with you more about the "talents" of those three.
But you just know what Phair's next move will be. After the inevitable failure of her current dance pop hot white mom schtick, she will "return to her indie roots" and declare that the previous foray was only an "ironic commentary on modern fame and celebrity" After all, she is an "intellectual" But just how smart does one have to be in order to pick up a freakin' art history degree from Oberlin?

Tori Amos is just Kate Bush for beginners. Very slow beginners. With training wheels.

I'm still laughing at your Hanna assessment.

RKZ, now I know why you got out of the critic game. You're just too damn honest. And good. :)

[tigereye]

72. kill ye alt idols Koolzip!

the Kathleen fan club will be gunning for ye. ;)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

91. The problem with Liz........

....was she was supposed to "break out" in 1994. It never happened.

[terrya]

10. Bjork. Hands down my least favorite.

:puke:

[RandomKoolzip]

14. OMG! I forgot Bjork!

I despise Bjork. SHe's a total one trick pony; she's got maybe five or six sounds she can make with her voice, and they're all annoying. Her reputation as an avant-gardist is completely undeserved.

I always make sure to pronounce the "j" in her name just to piss off her rabid fans.

[tigereye]

73. husband loves her

I think there is more to her than meets the eye. I really like her voice. But then I love that Celtic style wailing, doncha know.

[Susang]

78. Too bad you are completely wrong

If she were male, played guitar (which she does btw), totally obscure and nobody on DU knew who she was besides you and jpgray, then you'd be her biggest fan. :P

[jpgray]

95. Hey, even if she had a high-profile collab with Robert Wyatt...

Oh wait. Yeah, I pass the test. :D

(I like stuff a lot of people I respect think sucks, and vice versa.)

[Fenris]

53. Ugh. Bjawful.

:puke:

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Courtney Love- duh!

Bjork, Janis Joplin, Britney Spears, Xtina (:puke;), any other "teen queen", etc etc.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

41. Damn, I wished I'd said Courtney Love!

KoolZip, Mrs. KoolZip and I went to see Cheap Trick and Hole at an outdoor show in Nashville. Cheap Trick opened (as IF!) but we stuck around to gave Ms. Love the benefit of the doubt. Wow, did she ever suck. ZERO TALENT! We stood there talking smack about how bad she was until one of her fans asked us to leave....we happily obliged her.

[Sanity Claws]

52. You took the name right out of my mouth!

She doesn't know how to apply makeup either!

[XemaSab]

16. Alanis

she can't sing and her songs suck.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

25. See, I really love Alanis....

I love her voice and her songs... and her political views.

[XemaSab]

32. She has

THE MOST NASALLY WHINE EVER.

[Zomby Woof]

20. Melissa Etheridge

Cliché after cliché, lyrically and musically. And bonus marks against her for her attempt to sound "soulful" by imitating the raspy junkie-withdrawal yelping of Janis Joplin, and for allowing David Crosby's defective sperm to reproduce through her partner.

She sings like she is ready to produce the World's Largest Dump, at all times. :hurts:

[ProfessorGAC]

99. I'll Go With That, Zomby

The female Bruce Springsteen. Boy, i don't like her voice, her songs, or the style. She seems like a good lady, but i really don't like her musically.
The Professor

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

21. I cannot stand Fiona Apple

:puke: :hide:

[Zomby Woof]

23. YES

Pretentious and excruciating to the extreme. You're in pain, ok, ok, WE GET IT.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

24. And what's with the shakey-voice thing?

:shrug: Gimme Eva Cassidy, Alanis Morissette, Madonna, even the Dixie Chick chick... but I don't get the Fiona appeal.

[chaska]

50. Amen, she sounds like a billy goat...

Beautiful girl, but the worst excuse for a vibrato since that girl in the Go Gos.

[PennyK]

104. What about Stevie Nicks?

I have ALWAYS said that she sounds like a goat...especially "Whenever I Call You Friend" with Kenny Loggins.

[StraightMaleNurse]

35. The pained (hungry?) expression on her face

when her beau lost the screenwriting Oscar for "Magnolia" is the first thing I picture when some brings up this forgotten Olsen triplet.

Whew, Fiona Apple/Paul T. Anderson/Magnolia/Mary Kate & Ashley swipes all in one post. I need a nap.

[StraightMaleNurse]

36. Also not a Janis fan

Melissa did a few good songs, but I'd have to agree with the cliche swipe above. She's proof positive than some girls liked "Born to Run" as much as the boys did.

Personally, I don't get the Aimee Mann love. Ai-tonal is more like it. And she scores PTAnderson movies. Nuff said!

Oh, and Ayllanah "Black Velvet" Miles.

[JimmyJazz]

27. Alanis Morrisette - her voice is the equivalent of rubbing sandpaper

on cement. And, I never really understood the purpose of Joan Jett.

[Zuni]

28. Joan Jett kicks ass

she will smite you for talkin' trash

[JimmyJazz]

33. Ick - that song about the jukebox is just ick.

:P

[AngryAmish]

29. Indigo Girls

they suck eggs.

[hypovex]

101. w3rd

boring folk singers

[hypovex]

102. WTF?!?!?!

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT ABOUT THEM!!! THEY'RE LESBIANS! (j/k)

[mvd]

34. Almost didn't want to respond

You disrespected my Bono!

Anyway..

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bjork
Ani DiFranco
Pat Benatar
Kittie
Yoko Ono

[Sanity Claws]

51. Pat Benatar rocks!

I always thought she really was talented.

[mvd]

55. To each his own

I disagree with many choices here, too.

[tigereye]

74. aha thee shall not defame Yoko!

sincerelyyours, Yoko defense league. ;)

Kittie is kind of interesting. For being so young, they seem to have the schtick down.

[Susang]

79. I dig Yoko too

Probably the most misunderstood unfairly maligned artist of the past 50 years.

[tigereye]

88. hey lady!

:hi: How are ya?

[mvd]

81. Kittie just sounds like noise to me

And bad singing. Again, to each his own about both artists.

[tigereye]

89. but they don't sound radically different than male metal folks,

do they? Who some would argue are also auditorally unintelligible. ;)

That is the funny thing, in these discussions, I think women rockers are always held to some different standard than males, or when they try to change the genre somewhat, or are more "emotionally expressive" than male artists, they tend to get crap for it.

[mvd]

94. And I dislike many of the males, too

:hi:

[tigereye]

97. well that makes sense

if metal is not one's speed ( and I can't say it's really mine, I just tend to like all female bands) then it matters little which sex they are!

:hi:

[Ron Mexico]

37. Gwen Stefani, Missy Elliott and Ashlee Simpson.

Wretched, every last one of them.

[AuntieM1957]

39. Confused here - are you calling U2's Bono a girlie man

or are you referring to Cher Bono?

Cause I know you're know you're not talking trash about my man Bono, now. That would really tick me off.

:grr:

[JimmyJazz]

42. He's talking trash about your man. Don't get him started, though.

it isn't pretty :silly:

[StopTheMorans]

43. i was talking about Bono, but I guess that you're right; it's unfair to

call him a "rock singer".

[AuntieM1957]

47. well, my old grandmama would say your taste

exists only in your mouth, baby.

as a matter of fact, she just said it. Hear that, only in your mouth,baby.

And keep it off my man, wouldya?

[AuntieM1957]

40. Sheryl Crow could bore me into a coma

damn, she's just too white for my taste.

Also, Olivia Newton John (if that's even considered rock)

[Flaxbee]

48. yeah, while I like Sheryl Crow's politics, I really don't like her

voice.. I don't like high, strained voices. Her voice sounds so thin to me, it reminds me of lots of male singers I don't like, like Phil Collins, the whole REO Speedwagon/Air Supply high voicey thing.

But then again, I really love the voice of the lead singer from "Men At Work" and he's got the same higher voice like Phil Collins, but somehow not the tinniness.

[mitchum]

59. She's just Steve Miller with ovaries

an unimaginative "classic rock" mannerist

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

106. Don't like Sheryl either - her pitch is horrific n/t

edit spelling

[Guy Fawkes]

45. Celine Dione

euch.

[ceile]

60. Mariah Carey! n/t

[blondeatlast]

63. Gwen Stefani. Spare me at all costs, please. How can you rock

and shop at Neiman Marcus?

[mitchum]

64. I don't think she could rock even if she shopped at Iggy Pop's yard sale

[blondeatlast]

67. *snort*

:rofl:

[mac56]

65. Stevie Nicks.

She sounds like an adenoidal Daisy Duck.

[Habibi]

84. Me, too!

That woman's voice irritates the bejeezus outta me. And her songs bite too.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

66. Pat Benetar.

"Hammy wiyya bez SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHT" my ASS.

[KitchenWitch]

68. Alanis Morrissette

:puke:

She would be better off working through her angst for the many times she has been "victimized" in therapy

[edbermac]

69. Michael Jackson

He sure looks like a chick...

[Liberalynn]

86. There you go

:spray: I always thought he sounded like one too.

[Liberalynn]

87. Back to the Eighties

but I could never stand Kim Carnes. Hated her scratchy voice. I thought she sounded like she needed to take some Sucrets or gargle and hated the song Betty Davis Eyes too.

[-..__...]

76. Yoko Ono.

[sakabatou]

77. I dunno if it's considered rock

but Puffy AmiYumi

[Lubernaut]

82. Natalie Merchant...

Icky. Just icky.

[youthere]

83. Any of the following will induce vomiting:

Britney, Whitney, Christina, Gwen, Celine, Mariah, J-Lo, either of the Simpsons and the new "doublemint" twins.

Can't stand Courtney, I want to drive spikes into my face when I hear the Dixie Chicks, Lee Ann Rhimes or the chick who won the last American Idol.

In fact if the person in question has a poster available for purchase in Wal-Mart you can pretty much rest assured that I hate their friggin' guts.

[Robeson]

93. I'll go with your list. Thats a pretty good one....

...hard to top those drecks.

[LynneSin]

85. All those crappy actresses who think they can sing

If Lindsay Lohan or Hillary Duff really know how to sing (without lip synching, back fillers, electronic distortion of their voice or just having someone else do the work) then I'm the Penthouse centerfold next month.

Geez, I hear in Paris Hilton has an album coming out. Problem with all this brain dead idiots is if you put them in a police lineup you couldn't tell them apart - anoectic and bleach blonde

[Momgonepostal]

98. Are you serious about Paris Hilton? Yikes nt

[jpgray]

92. This:

[ReadTomPaine]

96. Mr. B Natural is a MAN, baby!

;)



It Stinks!

[LynneSin]

103. Not kidding!

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1508759/20050831/storch_scott.jhtml?headlines=true

[HuskerDU]

105. To me Gwen Stefani is the worst. She acts like all of the

teenybobbers but is in fact twice their age.

Also, I love Janis Joplin. The reason so many female singers have tried to copy her is because she was the best. And yeah, dying early may have helped her legacy- she didn't go on to sing 'We Built This City' years later.

[jandrok]

107. Lita Ford

Looked good in Spandex, though.