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All female bands with violent lyrics about hurting men

 
 
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02:20 / 20.05.03
Does anyone know of any all female bands where they have lyrics about torturing/killing men? anti-male songs? It's just after years of listening to all those first generation power electronics bands like Whitehouse and Sutcliffe Jugend (who often had lyrics violent towards women) I'd like to hear another perspective.

Or maybe I'm just feeling kinky.
 
 
rizla mission
09:31 / 20.05.03
I think the only time I've encountered the concept of "all female bands where they have lyrics about torturing/killing men" has been in disgracefully untrue bits of journalism written by people who were frightened by Bikini Kill circa 1991.

Can't think of any bands who actually fit that description.
 
 
rizla mission
09:33 / 20.05.03
Except possibly for Lolita Storm..?
 
 
that
11:15 / 20.05.03
Not a band, but - Diamanda Galas?
 
 
Bill Posters
14:10 / 20.05.03
Beat Him Up by Helen Love? (Lyrics here).
 
 
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16:36 / 20.05.03
well, I'm looking more for female noise bands, but I guess I can't be too picky.

Come on! There's gotta be one man-hating, SCUM MANIFESTO reading Valerie Solanas inspired all female band out there!
 
 
gridley
17:15 / 20.05.03
oooh, you've got to hear "Chick Habit" by April March. It's peppy and fun, but all about what she's going to do her cheating boyfriend.
 
 
reFLUX
19:45 / 20.05.03
i think if you look at the Susan Lawley website there should be listed an album of female noise bands. maybe some of them will have men hating lyrics on them.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:59 / 20.05.03
The Voodoo Queens' "I'm not bitter, I just want to kill you", maybe? There may be some possibles (The Dixie Chicks? Wooah) in this collection of music for heartless bitches.


I dunno. Maybe violence against men isn't such a good unit-shifter...
 
 
Querelle
21:32 / 20.05.03
Try Tribe 8. From an interview with Lynn Breedlove:

"One of our big hits is "Power Boy" which is about hating cops and how fucked up they are. Every punk rock band has to have a cop song. "Frat Pig" is about fraternity boys. One of their favorite rituals being gang-rape. Our recommended solution which is "Gang Castrate." That's like a pretty big all time favorite. Usually during that song I'll do some kind of theatrics like chop off the testicles of big rubber dick or chop off a rubber dick and wave it around and toss it to the crowd. The crowd usually eats it up, likes it a lot, and knows all the words."

They're a great band to see live.. they do a cover of a black sabbath (?) song, and makes a guy from the stage come up and give her (strap-on) head for the whole song.
 
 
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02:26 / 21.05.03
You know etherbunny, Tribe 8 is one of my favorite punk bands, I have most of their albums. I'm surprised none of my lesbian friends like them.

Varis 08, you're talking about Susan Lawly's "Extreme Music From Women". There actually aren't many songs with lyrics on that one, and most of the lyrics are undecipherable shriekings, so maybe there's something there. Actually, that's a very good album, some great noise on that thing, deflates the attitude that only men can do quality noise music. I think "Extreme Music From Russia" is coming out soon. I'm still waiting for "Extreme Music from Homosexuals".
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
03:44 / 21.05.03
I'd have said Lolita Storm.
 
 
Bill Posters
13:01 / 21.05.03
and what about Rockbitch? Surely they have some misanderous lyrics somewhere in their output?
 
 
pomegranate
14:56 / 21.05.03
maybe the punk/noise band raooul? (i think i'm spelling it wrong, sorry.)
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:39 / 21.05.03
I don't know about her whole output, but Diamanda Galas does occasionally have the choice man-killin' bit going on. There's a song on This Sporting Life, the album she did with John Paul Jones, that sounds a bit like Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! with big bass. And it mentions fucking him with a tyre-iron, and then killing them.

Actually, most of that album is a bit like that. "Do You Take This Man", the big single off that album (well, proportionately speaking) is pretty much about offing a shithouse lover, as far as I can see. The bond in murder, etc.
 
 
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02:17 / 22.05.03
I've actually been planning on looking into Diamanda Galas' stuff, but her CDs are nigh impossible to find in my area. Actually, you could make that same statement for almost any alternative band. That's what online ordering is for I guess.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
03:46 / 22.05.03
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Nah. She's hard to find anywhere. Well, hard to find at a reasonable price, anyway. Here I must insert a Rothkoid Dance Of Jubilation for snaffling Divine Punishment & The Saint Of The Pit on CD for $20 Australian at my local second-hand place. W00t!
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William Sack
09:27 / 22.05.03
Might not be what you're after, but this one by Bessie Smith is a classic:

Judge your honor, hear my plea, before you open up your court,
I don't want no sympathy--I just cut my good man's throat,
Found him with a travellin' Jane--I warned her before,
I had my knife, and, well, it's plain,The rest you ought to know

cho: Judge, judge, good kind judge,
You can send me to the 'lectric chair,
Judge, judge, hear my plea,
You can fry me 'cause I don't care.
I cut him with my Barlow,
Stabbed him in the side,
Stood there watchin' over him,
While he wobbled 'round and died,
Judge, judge good kind judge,
Please send me to the 'lectric chair.

Judge, judge, good kind judge--send me to the 'lectric chair,
Judge, judge, hear my plea, let me fly away from here,
Don't want no bonded man to go my bail,
Don't wanna spend no 99 years in jail,
Judge, judge, good kind judge,Send me to the 'lectric chair.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:16 / 22.05.03
Apparently Mute's mail order's pretty good... actually, I seem to recall you know that already, Sypha

I think, if you're more noise-oriented, "The Divine Punishment", or "Plague Mass", or "Schrei X" would probably be to your liking (why I've suddenly adopted this archaic phrasing, fuck only knows). Though it's all ace. And all scary, to varying degrees. More recent stuff's generally been more "bluesy"... but the style is largely irrelevant. The Voice is all. Fuck, she could make the Sesame Street theme send shivers down your spine. (Come to think of it... I'd like to hear that.)
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:39 / 22.05.03
[big bluesy vamp]
Sunny days
[big minor chord]
Sweepin' our cares... away...

That would be fucking awesome.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:34 / 22.05.03
Ooh, ooh! Henry Lee by the Bad Seeds - stabs him with a penknife and throws the body down a well, if memory serves.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:37 / 22.05.03
And, Miss Otis Regrets by Cole Porter which is all about the shootin' and the hangin'.
 
 
reFLUX
19:48 / 22.05.03
any chance of giving me some names on that female noise album, Sypha.
thanks
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
22:05 / 22.05.03
Sorry, all girl bands. D'oh!
 
 
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02:45 / 23.05.03
Varis 08, The artists on "extreme music from women" are Dolores Dewberry, Candi Nook, Betty Cannery, Annabel Lee, Maria Moran, Clara Clamp, Rosemary Malign, Lisa & Naomi Tocatly, Gaya Donadio, Karen Thomas, Wendy Van Dusen, Debra Petrovitch, Mira Calix, FRL. Tost, Cat Hope, and Diane Nelson.

Here's a link to their official site:

http://www.emfw.freeuk.com/

Some of the tracks are great, some are just okay. Many of the artists I've never heard of, except Mira Calix, who did that "One on One" album for Warp, which was quite good. Rosemary Malign's track was great, same for the Tocalty sisters (quite noisy those), Candi Nook, Karen Thomas (who I recognize from Lockweld and Psywarfare), Gaya Donadio, Cat Hope... The 2 Diane Nelson tracks at the end are aces, weird insect stuff, I wonder if she's done any albums. William Bennett from Whitehouse helped produce a few of the tracks (the Malign track in particular sounds like modern day Whitehouse). Pretty good stuff...

Lydia Lunch has had some violent man hating stuff actually, but that's spoken word. I've always liked Lydia Lunch.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
11:27 / 23.05.03
Thread rot I know but I did'nt think that William Bennet would find working with women a very appealing prospect, seeing as his views on the fairer sex are pretty well documented. I sure hope Peter Sotos was'nt hanging about at that session.
 
 
gridley
12:43 / 23.05.03
"Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz"

Of course there's the classic Cell Block Tango number from Chicago, in which five or six women on death row describe why and how they killed their husbands/boyfriends.

"You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic."
 
 
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13:25 / 23.05.03
Well,a lot of William Bennett's more misogynistic comments stemmed from the early 80's. He was a lot younger then, maybe he's more open-minded now. Mira Calix in particular speaks glowingly of him. In fact I think he even DJed at some of the EMFW live shows.

I can't really comment on Sotos as I've never read any of his stuff, though I am curious. I've heard he's misoygnistic, homophobic and racist, but I've also heard he hates humanity in general, but I can't really comment on that until I've read something he's done. Jarobe from the Swans calls him a teddy bear, so I doubt he could be THAT bad.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
15:19 / 23.05.03
Sotos probably deserves a thread of his own actually. He is a very unpleasent fellow from what I've read (check out 'Apocalypse culture' edited by Adam Parfey, Amok press for a full interview). But his writing is ASTOUNDINGLY powerful. Check out 'Tick' or 'Pure' both Creation press titles. I'd be interested to know what you think.
 
 
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15:42 / 23.05.03
I was really amused when I heard "Angry Johnny" by Poe.
 
  
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