| Various Artists / Girlmonster |
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| Album: | Girlmonster | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2007 | |
| Label: | Chicks On Speed Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-07-08 | Pull Date: | 2007-09-09 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 9 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 19 | Aug 12 | Aug 5 | Jul 29 | Jul 22 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 23, 2012: | Killer Yellow Hot Topic | 4. | Sep 13, 2007: | The Girls Are At Your Local Dive! (with Joanna S) Plastic Surgery | |
| 2. | Jul 11, 2009: | lost and found Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix) | 5. | Sep 06, 2007: | At Your Local Dive (with Viv!) Mind Your Own Business, Plastic Surgery | |
| 3. | Nov 26, 2008: | Sonic Bubble Sub Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix) | 6. | Sep 01, 2007: | Cognitive Overload Somos Las Perras |
| Album Review |
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| mufaor Reviewed 2007-07-09 | ||
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Wow. Monster comp of amazing women making music, most from Europe and the U.S. Experimental, pop, punk, dance music, no wave.... Nearly all tracks are pretty up-tempo. Extremely diverse – from mainstream like Bjork to underground bizarre fest Kevin Blechdom. Bay Area artists marked with L below – Erase Errata, Boyskout, Kevin Blechdom. Lots of the artists are political, and many are multimedia artists - visual artists, producers, performance artists, etc. The comp was curated by a woman from Chicks On Speed (track 1/14). Researching the bands on this comp was very educational about allllllll kinds of feminist stuff, fascinating women doing awesome art/music. Reviewed by genre for each CD. My only complaint about the CD is that often I like other songs by these women way better, the less "club hit" type stuff. But loads of gems. CD1 Punk-ish: *14. We want plastic surgery, ironic. L*19. Greaaaaaat guitar solo beginning. Lesbian, a little bad girl, “she was a switch” :) “I don’t need to be someone I’m not.” Slightly dischordant, new wave. L20. Post punk, up-tempo. Great rhythms on the vocals, witty lyrics. Misc: *21. Experimental. Dark sound, glitchy beat, layering, “no bra”, cool lyrics. 7. Pop. Low pretty female vox, slow guitar beat. 15. Funky. Active bassline, bossa nova-like percusssion, laundromat lyrics. Vivien Goldman, founding member of The Flying Lizards, professor of punk and reggae at NYU. Electropop: 3. cheezy synth beats, lots of rapped lyrics, strong german accent. 6. hard beat, high squeaky vox *8. Lots of vocal harmonies, catchy rhythm. *12. Catchy. Anat Ben David sometimes sounds more avant-garde. *13. Disorted, punk-ish, French. Spy parts. 17. Electroclash. Clubbing song, dreamy, “i want it, i want to feel it.” Electronica: 5. dreamy vox 11. i don’t like this. 16. Hard beat, a little industrial/techno, repetitive. In German and French. Founding member of Talking Heads. FCC: *2. “fuck”. my favorite track on the whole comp. it’s dirrrrrrrty. lesbian sex, featuring Peaches, rap-ish. 4. “shit”, “bullshit”. le tigre – lists lots of famous feminist artists, writers and musicians. 9. “fuck” a lot. a little industrial, with a high gritty dirty taunting/snotty vox. L*10. “shut the fuck up and fuck me you fuckin’ fuck up bah bah bah” sped up to ridiculous speeds and in choral harmony. ridiculous, great. 18. various sexual FCC’s – cock, ass... punk/house, lots of panting, crass and a little political. ----------------------------------------------- CD2 Experimental: 1. 7-piece girl drum, bass, vocals. Tribal, fun, funky/surf, lots of percussion. Gang vocals toward end are great. 8. Silly, poking, synths, singing about changes in a high silly voice. Weird, good. *11. Kick-ass punk, experimental. Tobi Vail was in Bikini Kill. Screaming, riot grrrl. Post Punk: **2. Typical Girls live. Mindblowing and awesome. Sooooooo alive. 3. Delta 5, 1979. Funky, great bassline, awesome awesome vocals. “Can I have a taste of your ice cream. Can I lick the crumbs from your table? Can I interfere in your crisis? No, mind your own business.” 15. Swiss post-punk/new wave. Whistling, saxophone, low fem vox. Super catchy. Electronica: 4. Anti consumerism, cheezy sounds, fuzz-effect on the voice. 6. techno-y, dreamy sounds, one woman in this band used to be a porn star, recently made a documentary about political atrocities in burma, and used to be in the post-punk band Malaria!. 7. “digital hardcore”, spy lyrics? *9. Downtempo, childish voice, pretty weird, good, best are the music concrete sounds. 10. Downtempo Bjork, howling, overdubbing pretty echoey voice, storm sounds, experimental-sounding. 12. Slow-mid, political lyrics, vox a little like Bjork. 13. Slow, soothing. the most mainstream-sounding track here. *17. Hard techno, industrial-sounding. Funny lyrics – “Here come the lesbians. They’re creeping down the stairs.” 18. Slow, synths, whale sounds?, low vox, dreamy, gets a harder beat, sexy, normal. 19. slightly trippy and weird, definite beat, distortion. this woman was in throbbing gristle, was a stripper and porn actress for a while. Hiphop: 16. San Francisco trans man. “Emo-hop.” Dance-along. Electropop: 14. Fun, bouncy synths, unique vocals, dancey and a little sad. ------------------------------------------------- CD3 Experimental: *2. Downtempo, dirty somehow, sexy. Early member of Einsturzende Neubauten, founder of Malaria! *11. Funny sample art, silly cowboy sounds, bleepy electronics, banjo, guitar, lots of layers. *13. Wow. Muffled lyrics, odd delivery, deadpan. Pretty. *14. Funny, sarcastic. Rapping, making fun of stuff. Fake accent. Punk-ish: 5. Electro, upbeat, snarly/whiney vox, sarcastic. *6. Punk rockin, super high female gang vox, catchy fun. Post Punk: 17. New wave? Art rock? Dischordant guitar, sax, synth, great vox. 18. Slightly off-key, woosy. down-tempo, gets more upbeat. nice violin drums guit. Misc: 7. Rock. Fairly mainstream. Band of actress Juliette Lewis. *8. Hiphop. Cute geeky sexy. +Rock, silly, electronica. I like the varied vocals. 20. African choir sound, sorta hiphop/reggae, nice beats. Electronica: *12. New wave, downtempo, very pretty, dark-ish vocals. 15. Silly, cookies, high pitches. Referencing a Cookie Monster nightmare? 16. A little dark. Ambient, almost rap. She likes trees. 21. Hard weird beat, sorta rap, bounce-a-long. Electropop: 1. New wave, spy. 3. Gothy/dark/industrial/poppy. 4. Club hit sound. 9. I hate this song. “I’m too sexy for my jeans, I have to take them off, before you put your hands on my ass.” Club hit, annoying like Spice Girls are annoying. 10. “Electropunk” – I like their other songs I’ve heard wayyyyyy better. 19. Club hit sound, some hiphop, reggae, good. | ||
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