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my ex-girlfriend didn't know anything about riot grrrl
she sucks
:)

ps a lot of these tracks you can't listen to on last.fm. but you can listen to some of them on blip.fm, though. no spam, no bullshit, just trax

Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One
Heavens to Betsy - White Girl
Bratmobile - Cherry Bomb
Autoclave - I'll Take You Down
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Huggy Bear - Herjazz
Red Aunts - Krush
The Need - Majesty
Excuse 17 - Vanishing Act
Instant Girl - Bomb Pop
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Tribe 8 - Rise Above
Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing
Slant 6 - Time Expired
Spitboy - Motivated By Fear
Team Dresch - Freewheel

listen at http://radiozilla.muxtape.com

Excuse 17: Sevenwhateverteen
The Vaselines: Slushy
Sun City Girls: Anvils Keep Fallin'
Slim Smith: The New Boss
Hu Mei-hong [胡美紅]: Winds of Love [戀愛風]
Samuel Belay: Keresh Endezawa
Third Eye Foundation (vs. Glanta): When I Dance
Labor Exchange Band [交工樂隊]: Two Generations [兩代人]
Lo Sirong [羅思容]: The Vine Entwining the Tree [藤纏樹]
Grace Cathedral Park: Play Delicate, Desire Quiet
Cath Carroll: My Cold Heart
Countrymen [阮對庄腳來]: We Are From the Village [阮對庄腳來]

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently




The 100 related artists for my profile are Abraham, Alanis Morissette, Angelfish, Annie, Ashlee Simpson,Bikini Kill, BoA, Bratmobile, Brittany Snow, Cadallaca, Christina Aguilera, Client, Cobra Starship, Copeland, Cursive, Deadsy, Diplo, Excuse 17, Fefe Dobson, Fischerspooner, Frou Frou, Gatsby's American Dream, Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes, Hairspray, Heavens to Betsy, Hellogoodbye, Hilary Duff, Hirano Aya, Hole, Human Waste Project, Idina Menzel, James Marsden, Jem, Jesse McCartney, Jessica Simpson, JoJo, Jonathan Larson, Kate Havnevik, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Kylie Minogue, LCD Soundsystem, LO-FI-FNK, Ladytron, Lightspeed Champion, Los Campesinos!, M.I.A./Diplo, Mandalay, Michelle Pfeiffer, Misato Aki, Mon Frere, Natasha Bedingfield, New Young Pony Club, Nikki Blonsky, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Rikki Lake, No Doubt, Orgy, Peaches, Pete and The Pirates, Poloroid, Pull Tiger Tail, Q and Not U, Rachel Stevens, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Scarling.,Shiny Toy Guns, Sirens Sister, Skye Sweetnam, Spank Rock, Spring Awakening, Straylight Run, Sugababes, Taking Back Sunday, Tegan and Sara, The Academy Is..., The Appleseed Cast, The Birthday Massacre, The Black Ghosts, The Cardigans, The Click Five, The Faint, The Planet The, The Postal Service, The Schoolyard Heroes, The Starting Line, The Veronicas, The Wombats, Thieves Like Us, Tilly and the Wall, Tsunami Bomb, Utada, Wax Poetic, Xiu Xiu, 倖田來未, 坂本真綾, 妖精帝國, 安室奈美恵, 林原めぐみ, 浜崎あゆみ

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Um, woohoo?

It always makes me laugh, that I didn't get into the Cocteau Twins until around 2002 when a buddy of mine made a mix CD of them for me.
It's hilarious, because I was already listening to several bands who were influenced by them quite a bit.
It's also hilarious, because I'd had the song "mizake the mizan" on a tape since high school. I had recorded it off the local college radio station, but they'd never said who it was. Discovering this mystery years later was something.

This happened with a lot of bands.
I used to record a lot of things I heard on the local college station (in peekskill, we can get the Vassar college station on the radio. I discovered it at around age 14-15 and listened to it religiously), and a lot of times they either had no DJ on air, or the kid would play such a long block that by the time it ended, I'd run out of tape. . .or they just wouldn't say what they played.

Before I actually knew who the Pixies were, I had a random live version of "debaser", half of "vamos"(before the record skipped) and "the sad punk" (which, at the time, I REALLY thought was the Melvins or someone like that. . . . ) on a tape. I didn't find out about the last one until I finally checked out the 3rd and 4th albums (I bought Doolittle and Surfer Rosa on cassette. . .I never heard the other two albums til I got a CD player).
I had "taste" and "drive blind" on a tape before ever knowing who Ride were.
Before I knew who Swervedriver were, I had already heard most of the songs on Ejector Seat Reservation. The guy just left the album playing when I finished his show.
the song "corners" by Assuck, I'd had that on a tape for at least 5 years before I ever knew about them.
Other bands I eventually found out about this way:
All Out War, Big Black, Unwound

Another thing that would happen a lot was, I'd have more than one song by a band and not realize it.
For example, when I found out that "debaser" was from Doolittle, I bought that. I loved it, so I bought Surfer Rosa and it turned out to have at least 2 "mystery" songs on it. This happened a lot with Sleater-Kinney, Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy. . . .hear a song, think one band sings it, turns out to be one of the other two.

Those were weird days, but also a lot of fun.

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender artists and bands with LGBT members that I've been compiling for the last few years as part of the Queer Artists and Band Members group.

If you know of more that I've missed, send me a message and I'll add them. Also, if there are ones that you think shouldn't be on this list, let me know so I can add links to more info.

For living people, this list is based on how they identify. If they've had same-sex experiences but say they're heterosexual, they won't be listed here. That also means that if they say they're bisexual but have never had a same-sex experience, they will be listed.

It's alphabetized by first letter, so if you can't find a band that should be here, try looking under "The."

The List:
*NSYNC
4 Non Blondes
A Lifeline Before Drowning
Aaron Copland
Academy 23
Adam Joseph
Alberta Hunter
Alcazar
Alex Parks
Alicia Bridges
Alix Dobkin
Alix Olson
Amanda Lepore
Amanda Palmer
American Music Club
Amy Campbell
Annah Moore
Andre Van Duin
Andy Bell
Andy Northrup
Andy Warhol
Ani DiFranco
Anika Moa
Anne Heaton
Anthony Callea
Anthony Rapp
Antony and the Johnsons
Anwar Robinson
Ari Gold
Aribert Reimann
Army of Lovers
Ashley MacIsaac
Aurist
Baltimora
Barão Vermelho
Barbados
Basil Hennely
Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live
Benjamin Britten
Berit Fridahl
Bessie Smith
Betty
Bif Naked
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Bikini Kill
Bimbo Boy
Bitch and Animal
Bitter HÆrvest
Bloc Party
Bob Mould
Bodies Without Organs
Bonfire Madigan
Boy George
Boyskout
Boyzone
Brady Earnhart
Brian Kent
Bronski Beat
Built to Spill
Burning Airlines
Buzzcocks
Cadallaca
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cargo Cult
Carole Pope
Cássia Eller
Catie Curtis
Caught in the Act
Cazwell
Cazuza
Central Standard
Camille Saint-Saëns
Chavela Vargas
Chicks on Speed
Christopher Dallman
Clara Schumann
Coil
Cole Porter
Come
Creamy Goodness
Cris Williamson
Culture Club
CWA
Dame Ethel Smyth
Dan Hartman
Dana International
Daniel Cartier
Darren Hayes
Dave Davies
Dave Koz
David Del Tredici
David McAlmont
Dead or Alive
Deadlee
Death in June
Deep Dickollective
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
DJ Irene
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Trails
Dylan in the Movies
Dylan Rice
Echobelly
Electrelane
Ellis
Elton John
Ember Swift
Erase Errata
Erasure
Eric Himan
Erin Hamilton
Erin McKeown
Ethel Waters
Eva Dahlgren
Ex-Boyfriends
Excuse 17
Extra Fancy
Fabulous Disaster
Fagatron
Faith No More
Ferron
Fidgital
Fierce Girl
Fight
Final Fantasy
firouz
Fischerspooner
Francis Poulenc
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Franz Schubert
Future Bible Heroes
Gayrilla Biscuits
Genesis P-Orridge
George Michael
Gian Carlo Menotti
Girlyman
Glamour to Kill
Glassjaw
Glen Meadmore
Go!
God Is My Co-Pilot
God-Des & She
Gordon Getty
Government Issue
Gravy Train!!!!
Green Day
Gregory Douglass
Gretchen Phillips
Grizzly Bear
Halcyon
Halford
HARBL
Harisu
Harry Partch
Hawney Troof
Hazel (band)
Head Automatica
Heatmiser
Heavens to Betsy
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Henry Cowell
Hey Willpower
HIM
Hole
Holly Near
Homomilitia
House of Blow
Houston Bernard
Howard Devoto
Huggy Bear
Hüsker Dü
Ignitor
Imperial Teen
Indigo Girls
Jamie Blake
Jamie Stevens
Jane Hohenberger
Jane's Addiction
Janis Ian
Janis Joplin
Jason & deMarco
Jay Brannan
Jay Spears
Jayne County And The Electric Chairs
Jean Genet
Jeffree Star
Jeffrey Altergott
Jen Foster
JenRO
Jethro Tull
Jill Sobule
Jim Verraros
Jimmy Somerville
Joan Armatrading
Joan Baez
Joan Jett
Jobriath
Joe Jackson
John Cage
John Cameron Mitchell
John Corigliano
John Raymond Pollard
Johnnie Ray
Johnny Dangerous
Johnny Mathis
Jonny McGovern
Josephine Baker
Josh Zuckerman
Judas Priest
Junior Senior
Junior Vasquez
Justin Tranter
k.d. lang
Kaia Wilson
Kajagoogoo
Kaki King
katastrophe
Keo Nozari
Keoki
King Kobra
King Missile
Kinnie Starr
Kinsey Sicks
Kitchens of Distinction
Klaus Nomi
Kostars
K's Choice
L.P.
Labelle
Lady
Lance Bass
Laura Love
Laura Nyro
Laya Fisher
Le Tigre
Lea DeLaria
Leæther Strip
Leah Zicari
Legião Urbana
Leonard Bernstein
Les Reines Prochaines
Lesbians on Ecstasy
Lesley Gore
Leslie Nuchow
Limahl
Linda Perry
Limp Wrist
Lipkandy
Live Skull
Lowell Liebermann
Lucie Blue Tremblay
Luscious Jackson
Lust & Death
Luther Vandross
Luxuria
M. C. Brennan
Ma Rainey
Magazine
Magdalen Hsu-Li
Maggie Osterberg
Man 2 Man
Man Parrish
Marc Almond
Marc Blitzstein
Marc Weigle
Margie Adam
Marilyn
Marilyn Manson
Mark Eitzel
Mark Free
Marla Hooch
Marlene Dietrich
Marseilles
Martin 101
Mary Gauthier
Mathilde Santing
Matmos
Matt Zarley
Maurice Ravel
McAlmont & Butler
Meg Christian
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Ferrick
Meryn Cadell
Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Michelle Malone
Mikhail Kuzmin
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mirah
Moby
Modest Mussorgsky
Mukilteo Fairies
My Bloody Valentine
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Nell Carter
Nemesis
Ney Matogrosso
No. 2
Noël Coward
Nona Hendryx
Nomy Lamm
Now It's Overhead
Ocean Colour Scene
Otep
Owen Pallett
Pansy Division
Pants Avengers
Panty Raid
Parachute Club
Patricia Barber
Patrick Wolf
Paul Lekakis
Peaches
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Pelvic Circus
Perry Farrell
Pet Shop Boys
Pete Burns
Pete Shelley
Peter Jöback
Peter Maxwell Davies
Phixx
Phranc
Pidgeon
Pie
Pink Steel
Placebo
Plastic Noise Experience
Porno for Pyros
Psi Com
Psychic TV
Psychotica
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Queen
Queen Pen
R.E.M.
Rachael Sage
Rae Spoon
Rahsaan Patterson
RBD
Renato Russo
Right Said Fred
RJ Helton
Romanovsky and Phillips
Rosenstolz
Rufus Wainwright
RuPaul
Sacha Sacket
Samantha Fox
Samwell
Sandra Bernhard
Sangeeta
Sarah Bettens
Savage Garden
Scissor Sisters
Scott Free
Scream Club
Seamus Stimpson & the Balaenoptera Musculus
Secos e Molhados
Serguei
Shelleydevoto
Shoplifting
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Sigur Rós
Sin With Sebastian
Sinéad O'Connor
Sister Double Happiness
Sister George
Skin
Skinjobs
Skott Freedman
Skunk Anansie
Sleater-Kinney
Snowpony
Soft Cell
Sonia
Sophie B. Hawkins
Speedway
Stephen Gately
Stephen Hero
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Trask
Stephin Merritt
Steps
Stereolab
Stink Mitt
Strula med Siri
Styx
Suede
Sugar
Sugarland
Superchumbo
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Swine King
Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvester
Tami Hart
Tanita Tikaram
Team Dresch
Tegan and Sara
Tevin Campbell
texticulos de mary
Thalia Zedek
The 6ths
The Aluminum Group
The Anix
The Apostles
The Ark
The B-52's
The Bobbleheads
the bootLICKERs
The Breeders
The Bruises
The Butchies
The Cliks
The Communards
The Czars
The Dearly Beloved
The Degenerettes
The Ditty Bops
The Dresden Dolls
The Edgar Winter Group
The Faeries
The Feeling
The Geraldine Fibbers
The Germs
The Gerogerigegege
The Go-Go's
The Gossip
The Gothic Archies
The Haggard
The Hidden Cameras
The Josephine Wiggs Experience
The Judybats
The Kinks
The Left Rights
The Magnetic Fields
The Murmurs
The Need
The Ocean Blue
The Organ
The Others
The Plus Ones
The Pogues
The Promise Ring
The Rotten Fruits
The Runaways
The Shondes
The Soft Pink Truth
The Sounds
The Spinanes
The Syndicate
The Unicorns
Throbbing Gristle
tilligirl
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson Band
Tori Fixx
Tracy + the Plastics
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Rice
Tret Fure
Tribe 8
Tricotic
Triple Creme
Tuxedomoon
Unit
UntterRock
Uzi
V
Vacuum
Village People
Ville Valo
Virgil Thomson
Visage
Vitapup
Vixtrola
Voice Farm
Wayne County
Wayne County and The Electric Chairs
Wendy Carlos
Westlife
Wham!
Will Young
Wool
Xiu Xiu
X-Models

well, i've hit one thousand tracks. this seems rather UNimpressive compared to those who have over ten thousand, but i don't care. a small victory, but a victory nonetheless, etc.

and in honor of the fact that i have far too much time on my hands and can sit around listening to music all day if i wish, here are my top albums of the 90s. in alphabetical order, no less. because god likes alphabetization, too.

(i don't actually own any bands whose names start with numbers, so shut up. they mostly stink, anyway.)

The Amps : Pacer
Angelfish : Angelfish
Babes in Toyland : Fontanelle
Belly : King
Bikini Kill : Pussy Whipped
Blur : Blur
The Boo Radleys : C'mon Kids
Boredoms : Onanie Bomb Meets Sex Pistols
The Breeders : Last Splash
Bush Tetras : Beauty Lies
The Butthole Surfers : Locust Abortion Technician
Cadallaca : Introducing Cadallaca
The Chemical Brothers : Dig Your Own Hole
Cibo Matto : Viva! La Woman
The Creatures : Boomerang
Daisy Chainsaw : Eleventeen
The Detroit Cobras : Mink, Rat or Rabbit
Die Haut : Sweat
Dinosaur Jr. : Green Mind
Dishwalla : Pet Your Friends
Ethyl Meatplow : Happy Days Sweetheart
Excuse 17 : Such Friends Are Dangerous
The Fall : Middle Class Revolt
Foetus : Deaf!
The Folk Implosion : One Part Lullabye
Free Kitten : Nice Ass
Frumpies : Frumpie One Piece
Garbage : Garbage
Geraldine Fibbers : Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home
Goldfinger : Goldfinger
Heavens to Betsy : Calculated
Hole : Live Through This
Huggy Bear : Weaponry Listens to Love
Kelley Deal 6000 : Go to the Sugar Altar
L7 : Hungry for Stink
Le Tigre : Le Tigre
Linda Perry : In Flight
The Lookers : In Clover
Lung Leg : Maid to Minx
Luscious Jackson : Natural Ingredients
Meat Puppets : Too High to Die
Melvins : Houdini
Morphine : Cure for Pain
Mudhoney : My Brother the Cow
The Need : The Need
Neutral Milk Hotel : In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nine Inch Nails : The Downward Spiral
Nirvana : Incesticide
Oingo Boingo : Only a Lad
The Offspring : Smash
OOIOO : Eight/OOIOO
Orbit : Libido Speedway
Pale Saints : The Comforts of Madness
Pixies : Trompe Le Monde
PJ Harvey : Rid of Me
Pogues : Hell's Ditch
Portishead : Portishead
Presidents of the United States of America : (self-titled)
Pulp : Different Class
Radiohead : The Bends
Rasputina : How We Quit the Forest
Ruins : Vrresto
Scarnella : Scarnella
Sebadoh : Bubble and Scrape
Sentridoh : The Original Losing Losers
Shampoo : We Are Shampoo
Skankin' Pickle : The Green Album
Sleater-Kinney : Call the Doctor
Slint : Spiderland
Sonic Youth : Goo
Soundgarden : Superunknown
The Spells : The Age of Backwards
Stone Temple Pilots : Core
Suicide : Zero Hour
Television Personalities : Closer to God
Tool : Aenima
Veruca Salt : American Thighs
Vibrators : Hunting for You
Weezer : The Blue Album
Yo La Tengo : May I Sing With Me

i'm sure i forgot someone. aw, well. raise a glass to a thousand tracks.
moving on, now...

Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 40 songs that come up.
Then answer the questions.

1. World War Me - From First to Last
2. Blind Justice - Agnostic Front
3. One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand - The Notwist
4. My Application to Heaven - pg 99
5. New York Crew - Judge
6. For Tammy Rae - Bikini Kill
7. Smells Like Ok Soda - Dillinger Four
8. Estrogen - FM Knives
9. Liar - Bikini Kill
10. Lovers and Liars - Matchbook Romance
11. Roses - Kanye West
12. Back to Base - Fugazi
13. Summerholiday Vs. Punkroutine - Refused
14. Sick Satisfaction - Carbonas
15. A Kid Named Jay - Spider and the webs
15. Left to Hang - Autistic Youth
16. Sticks and Stones - Babyshambles
17. Butterflies - Crimpshrine
18. The Professional - Sleater-Kinney
19. V.G.I. - Julie Ruin
20. Oh! - Sleater-Kinney
21. Five Years On - The Criminals
22. Invisible - Ashlee Simpson
23. Friend or Foe - Agnostic Front
24. Jealous Again - Black Flag
25. Uptight - Green Day
26. Torn Jeans - Discount
27. Problems - Against Me!
28. Love American Style - Cleveland Bound Death Sentence
29. I'd Rather Eat Glass - Excuse 17
30. Don't Leave Me - Green Day
31. Dear Fuck - Filth
32. Undercover - Nelly Furtado
33. Big Big Lights - Sleater-Kinney
34. Symptoms of You - Lindsay Lohan
35. Nothing Better - The Postal Service
36. Pagan Baby - Bratmobile
37. We're All To Blame - Sum 41
38. Dry Ice - Green Day
39.Wave of Mutilation - Operation: Cliff Clavin
40. We Gotta Know - The Cro-Mags

1. Which song do you prefer, 1 or 40?
If I don't say the Cro-Mags song I'll look like a total pussy.........

2. Have you ever listened to 12 continuously on repeat?
Maybe

3. What album is 26 from?
Half Fiction

4. What do you think about the artist who did 15?
I just found out that this is Tobi Vail's new band. They rule

5. Is 19 one of your favorite songs?
When I'm in the mood for valley-girl rap songs, yes.

6. Who does 38 remind you of?
I don't know?

7. Does 20 have better lyrics or music?
Music

8. Do any of your friends like 3?
Yes

9. Is 33 from a movie soundtrack?
Hellz no

10. Is 18 overplayed on the radio?
It was never on the radio

11. What does 21 remind you of?
Oh man, it reminds me of being a teenager and stuck in shitty suburbia and living vicariously through east bay punk bands

12. Which song do you prefer, 5 or 22?
Secretly? 22. What I'll say in public? 5.

13. What album is 17 from?
The Sound of a New World Being Born

14. When did you first hear 38?
Uh, when I bought the CD?

15. When did you first hear 7?
When I bought the CD

16. What genre is 8?
the punk rock

17. Do any of your friends like 14?
probably

18. What color does 4 remind you of?
black. the color all self-respecting punx drape themselves in

19. Have you ever blasted 11 on your stereo?
probably not

20. What genre is 37?
bad pseudo-punk/pop songs?

21. Can you play 13 on any instrument?
hellz no. i can def dance to it though!

22. What is your favorite lyric from 30?
hahaha. uh....this is one of those songs where the music is better than the lyrics.......

23. What is your favorite lyric from 23?
again, see above. seriously.

24. Would you recommend 24 to your friends?
If any of my friends have never heard this song before, I will punch them in the neck.

25. Is 2 a good song to dance to?
Nah. Moshing is a must though.

26. Do you ever hear 16 on the radio?
Not in the U.S. I'm not sure about how popular they are in the UK

27. Is 32 more of a nighttime or daytime song?
no song worth listening to is a "daytime" song

28. Does 36 have any special meaning to you?
not really. but it's a good song to dance to

29. Do any of your friends like 31?
if they don't, they are dead to me

30. Is 25 a fast or slow song?
uh, it's like medium-paced............

31. Is 35 a happy or sad song?
sad :(

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from 9?
oh man. you can't truely appreciate this song without taking in all the lyrics together

33. Is 34 better to listen to alone or with friends?
haha. alone, if you consider that most of my friends wouldn't be caught dead listening to l.lo. unless it's with my like, 2 friends that like bad pop songs, then it's better with them so we can sing along

34. When did you first hear 27?
when i downloaded it. (fuck supporting fat wreck chords)

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did 29.
we're the seniors and we rule the school
sevenwhateverteen
watchmaker

36. Do you know all the words to 6?
hellz yeah

37.Does 28 have better lyrics or music?
lyrics

38. What album is 10 from?
"stories and alibis", but let's just pretend i don't listen to this song, okay?????

. .seriously, I just dragged my Atari Teenage Riot stuff out of . .wherever I had it hidden.

I can't bloody listen to them anymore. Hanin is so annoying!!!!
I mean yeah, as I've gotten older, my pechant for female vocals has all but completely died, but I still dig Dahlia Seed and Team Dresch and Excuse 17(which is about as close to riot grrl as I will allow myself to go anymore. . .I mean shit. . I feel like one of those white kids who listens to dead prez and thinks "why these people wanna kill me?") every once in a while. . . but shit. The only ATR song I can listen to now is "destroy 2000 years of culture". . .just cuz she's not in it. Don't they hate each other now? Gee, I wonder why.

I knew there was another reason why I like Alec Empire's solo shit.