Girls who rock
My 8 year old girl cousin loves Avril Lavigne, is learning to play the guitar and wants nothing more than to be a “rock star”. Always keen to encourage this sort of ambition, I’m making her a CD of required femme-rock listening.
What do you reckon of the tracklisting? Any vital tunes I’ve missed?
1. The Ting Tings - Great DJ
2. Blondie - Heart of Glass
3. Paramore - Decode
4. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
5. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
6. Courtney Love - Mono
7. Florence And The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
8. Giant Drag - Wicked Game
9. Hole - Celebrity Skin
10. The Gossip - Listen Up!
11. Elastica - Connection
12. The Breeders - Cannonball
13. Santogold - Guns of Brooklyn
14. Sleeper - What Do I Do Now
15. M.I.A - Paper Planes (James Murphy remix)
16. L7 - Pretend We’re Dead
17. Babes In Toyland - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
18. Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle
19. The Distillers - Drain the Blood
20. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Introducing such a young’un to riot grrrl may also prove to be an interesting socialogical experiment ;-)
