OT - Music for stark

[leavethesky]

Panik by Bratmobile for sravenk because it has the greatest Joan Jett line of all time (bold and italics below). Plus, bratmobile's cover of Cherry Bomb, both from the album Pottymouth. Sorry if you already have these songs, but I thought it was appropriate given the drunken joan jett line of ramble that I went on the other night, which lead to yesterday's migraine. The drunken part, not the Joan Jett.

Panik
by Bratmobile

she wants to play guitar
and let me suck her blood
she even likes DURAN DURAN
let's do it in the mud!
Her name is Panik
she made me panic
She's the straightest girl in town
the one who makes me run
she'll tell me all about her boy
then let me chew her gum
she'll whisper in my ear
when there's just no other way
i'll bing her In the eye
and then she's like "no way"
She's the Joanest Jett in town
like to get her in my bed
she doesn't need a crown
so i'll lasso her instead
Her name is Panik
she made me Panic


For those of you who don't know who Bratmobile was, they were the fucking originators (along with Kathleen Hanna and Toby Vail from Bikini Kill) of the riot grrl movement in music. The lead singer of Bratmobile had a zine called "Girl Germs" which really was ground zero for riot grrl and when she and her friends decided to move to Olympia, WA, pick up instruments and make their own goddamned music, a revolution began. Yes, it's totally lo-fi and they're not musicians by any stretch, but it's so fucking raw and fun and just...yeah. I <3 riot grrl.

While I'm busy uploading, here's another one of their hits, Queenie: "Hip kids know just where to go, I'm the one who tells them so"

Sorry if y'all are sick of my music diatribes, I just feel like riot grrl and homocore never get a fair shake in music history. It's like they're disappearing right before my eyes. So I've taken it upon myself to be that really annoying person who talks about them ad nauseum so no one ever forgets. Long live riot grrrl!!!! And homocore!!!

Comments

[lostingeekdom.livejournal.com]

Keep going with those music diatribes. It's informative. Not being very familiar with the indie scene, I thought Riot Grrl was the name of a band, not a movement. I don't know how popular it is outside the US, but I hadn't heard of it until y'all started putting up the music, except for a couple from Joan Jett.

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, riot grrrl never got its props anywhere although the Ladyfests were a direct descendant of riot grrl and are/were a world-wide phenomenon. We've played a couple. The best-known riot grrl band is probably Sleater-Kinney although they've consistently stated that they don't consider themselves riot grrl, mainly because they want to be taken seriously as Musicians. not as grrrls. And riot grrrls are not real musicians, youknow, because they're girl-powered bands with a mainly girl audience. But Sleater-Kinney got their start playing riot grrl shows for nothing like everyone else. I even have video somewhere of one of their really early shows in a record store in L.A. so cute. :)

[sravenk.livejournal.com]

Fuck yeah! Long live this really fucking awesome music! And I agree, it never really gets its place in history, you know, and people go on and on and on about Kurt Cobain and how he was so brilliant and snuffed out too soon and blah blah blah about a music movement that lasted like five seconds, but here the chicks who finally got sick of pretending to be impressed watching the boys be cool with their guitars and went and picked up their own shit and totally changed the face of music and young women's lives in a far broader cultural sense are just like shoved away in some sock drawer full of pink frilly Girl Power! baby-tees and dismissed. Because they're just girls. Or grrrls. Still cute, even cuter when they growl. Bullshit, I love this stuff, it totally made (not only) my life livable when not much else was helping out with that.

*ahem*

So if you ever need a ranting buddy, here I am! ::waves hand in the air::

Thanks for the music; I love Bratmobile!

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

WORD!!!!!
Yeah, riot grrl was a serious fucking punk movement that was really a punk movement in every sense of the word (politics. class, etc.), but because they were young women whose issue was femnism (and more specifically rape), they're relegated to some sideline. I hear riot grrl's influence in soooooo much contemporary music and just want to scream because I doubt that they even know whose shoulders they're standing on. And word to riot grrl making your life livable. I think I would have self-destructed if it weren't for riot grrl telling me that I wasn't a freak and that there were other girls out there like me. And the cute thing REALLY pisses me off. these were angry young women who were sick of being excluded from music and even from the audience. Bikini Kill used to stop the show when guys would take over the the mosh pit.

and you are the joanest jett in town! :D

[sravenk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally! I also get really grumpy about how little acknowledgement is given to this music which has had such an influence on the music that followed, as you point out. Garrrrgh, it burns me up. I remember that time in my life when every boy in my town under the age of 20 was in a band of some kind, and the women were expected to sit in their basements and oohh and ahh or generally be adequately entertained and satisfied to listen to them jam all night, only talking to each other and generally disregarding the female population in the room, and I recall feeling like, hell, if I wanted this, I could run for office or something. I picked up a guitar for about thirty seconds myself, but it never really took, heh. However, in those thirty seconds I made a lot of those guys really fucking mad. It was the same way they hated me for getting my own skateboard instead of sitting around and watching them all do their little tricks, because suddenly a chick does this thing that has been their social and often sexual currency, and then maybe all of these other women get the idea that there might be something more to do than sit around and watch guys get to do all the fun stuff. That's why I loved riot grrl, why I still do. And it still pisses those guys off, and they still like top shrug it all off and make all kinds of excuses for dismissing it. Yeah, I could go on and on and on.

and you are the joanest jett in town! :D
oh, my! *blush* Aw, shucks, you flatter me. I am trying to be better about taking compliments, so...um, thanks!

[mantaraggio.livejournal.com]

No, no, we are totally not sick of your music diatribes ( I'm speaking for everyone because I know they would agree).

I have nothing amazingly intelligent to add about the nature and/or historical significance of riot grrrl besides agreeing with stark about it keeping me sane. Still does.