Garbage - Shirley Manson. No doubt about it.

Have you heard of Fall Back Plan?
WOW… check these guys and gal out.
They are a up and coming band from Baltimore Maryland, but totally a breath of fresh air from the current music scene. This band is sure to go down into the Female Fronted hall of fame.

No one has mentioned the hush sound.
A guy also sings but all of the tracks with her are great

Then there’s meg & dia
the sounds
yeah yeah yeahs
tegan and Sara
paramore
and definitely no doubt

Kittie
arch enemy
walls of jericho
flyleaf
Paramore (duh)
heart
no doubt
yeah yeah yeahs
wicked wisdom
evanescence

Kittie
arch enemy
walls of jericho
flyleaf
Paramore (duh)
heart
no doubt
yeah yeah yeahs
wicked wisdom
evanescence

Kittie
arch enemy
walls of jericho
flyleaf
Paramore (duh)
heart
no doubt
yeah yeah yeahs
wicked wisdom
evanescence

SKUNK ANANSIE !!!

Well, britney, you’re right about half my picks not even being bands, but after I posted the list, I couldn’t go back and change it. As for the other half being lame, well, you liked the Slits, and if that’s you’re preference, there are only a few raw punk bands from the late 70s on that list. Besides, RS picked 17 of them (all of which were mentioned before I posted my list, I know), so your taste is yours. And yes, I could have cut it down to 5, or I could have blown it up to 200 bands, popular and obscure (Shop Assistants, Discount, Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research. . .). That’s because I didn’t google search that list at all; I researched women in rock four years ago, and I just quickly ran down my memory and then consulted my own list until I hit 101. I wouldn’t know how you’d Google to find a list like that; I pieced my main list together reading one bio after another after another. Of course, you only have my word for it, and since your opinion seems to rate more than your logic, I’m guessing you’ll go totally narcissistic and pretend you’re right.

Nobody but me mentioned the Cranes, The Primitives, or the Darling Buds. You people sicken me!

Debbie Harry & Blondie - Tanya Tucker - Ann & Nancy Wilson w/Heart - Linda Ronstadt - Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane/Starship - Christine McVie & Fleetwood Mac - Joan Jett & Blackhearts - Suzi Quatro - Patti Smith. Enuff said!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Blondie
Garbage
Le Tigre
Hole
The Breeders
Cocteau Twins
Sleater-Kinney
The Go-Go’s
TLC

Joan Jett
The Gossip
The Muffs
Garbage

this may be too late, but
The Go! Team
The Gossip
No Doubt
The Pipettes
The Sounds

and how about M.I.A. and Joni Mitchell?

Heart
No Doubt
Donna’s
Garbage
Blond ie

Fleetwood Mac for sure.

L7

Didn’t see this band on any other lists - They should be recognized.

Didn’t see this band on any other lists - They should be recognized.

Can we nominate Rilo Kiley for WORST female fronted band…Jenny wants to be the new indie queen, but spent the last record doing what sounded like Sheryl Crow covers. Terrible, terrible record.

Long live Sleater-Kinney and the Distillers!

The Cardigans
Garbage
Hole
No Doubt
The Cranberries

rilo kiley
yeah yeah yeahs

CocoRosie
Cat Power

Mr. Crosley Esq.’s List is so not wizard. Half those pics aren’t even bands, and the other half are lame-o. Coulda cut it down to 5 but we are all sooooo impressed that you google searched till you came up with 100 groups with female artists.
My pic is The Slits

The Pretenders
Heart
No Doubt
The Cowboy Junkies
Indigo Girls
10,000 Maniacs

Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Hole
Nico and the Velvet Underground
Patti Smith
Pixies (kinda)
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Sonic Youth
Fleetwood Mac
(the girls wrote everything…good)
Heart
Pre tenders

The Detroit Cobras

the distillers and rilo-kiley & metric. fuck people,

Oh, I didn’t think X would count since Exene and John kind of co-fronted them. So..if they do, throw my vote in for them.

The Patti Smith Group were TOTALLY a band.

Jefferson airplane
Its a beautiful day
Cowboy junkies

Bikini Kill
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sleater-Kinney
Stereolab

Paramore!

(haha)

i have to mention the slits. one of chrissie hynde favorite bands and played the kind of music that the clash tried to pull off on the sandinista album.

The Distillers!

Rilo Kiley!
Blake Babies
Veruca Salt (with Nina AND Louise)
Letters to Cleo

life without buildings

sleater-kinney
sonic youth
yeah yeah yeahs
pj harvey
the sugarcubes

sleater-kinney
sonic youth

rilo kiley
sonic youth
yeah yeah yeahs
joan as policewoman
BIG BROTHER & the HOLDING CO.
jefferson airplane

STEREOLAB!!!!!!!!!

You also missed
Hole, The Eurythmics, The Breeders, The Go! Team, Sade, The Cardigans, and if album #2 is as great as #1, The Long Blondes.

1. Jefferson Airplane
2. Heart
3. Blondie
4. Pat Bentiar

Metric

Metric
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Noisettes
Blondie
Bro ken Social Scene
Buzzcocks
Garbage
Jan is Joplin’s band
Pretenders
Sioux Sie and the Banshees
Sleater-Kinney
Wrec kers

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rilo Kiley
The Breeders
Hole
Blondie

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Be Your Own Pet
The Shondes
X
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Bikini Kill/Le Tigre
Blondie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
L7
Garbage
The Gossip
Sleater - Kinney
The Dresden Dolls
X
Elastica
CSS
Hole

No Doubt
The Distillers

why do so many forget HEART????

Siouxsie and the Banshees
X
Schoolyard heroes(shameless plug for up and coming band)
The Avengers
X-ray Spex

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Tegan & Sara
Garbage

Shangri-Las

Hey, God’s Ear, truth be told, I didn’t need meth to make that list, and I did help an old person across the street, too. I know, I know. . . .

Garbage, all the way.

Shirley Manson’s voice and performance is absolutely amazing.

They need to be on that list, no doubt.

Oh, and No Doubt. Go Gwen.

,,,,women belong in the kitchen, period. “Bake me a pie, bitch!”

Azure Ray
Tegan & Sara
Mazzy Star
Portishead
Deerhoof
Fe ist
Mum
Neko Case
PJ Harvey
Trespassers William
Halou
Blondie

john, yer an idiot for dissing all women, but you KNOW that…
and CC, Jr…put away the meth, dude, and go help an old person cross the street.
the G.T.O.’s were a fun bunch.

O bother, the post is ’spose to be Female-Fronted Bands…and for some reason that makes me think of bands with a female Front-woman (silly me)and that limits the scope somewhat, I think…
Quickly now, I have snow to shovel,
1. the Plasmatics…(Wendy O.)
2. Jayne County & the Electric Chairs (?!)
3. Concrete Blonde (for sure)
4. The Moaners (dark snack indeed)
5. Holly & the Italians (tell that girl to shut up)
6. Wham.

Alison Krauss and Union Station
The Runaways (not just female led, but all female)

L7 — but beware of tampons
Breeders
Go-Gos
Ban gles
Pretenders

No woman should ever front a rock n roll band, they don’t have the spirit men do.

And Chrissie Hynde’s a genius!

I have to agree there should be a special allowance made for Pat Benetar and her band. She rocks harder than almost anyone else on this list!

Almost Ready you’re an idiot. The B-52’s are fronted by not one but two women. Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson.

Sleater-Kinney

Rilo Kiley

Big Brother and the Holding Co.

Portishead

The Breeders

evanescence

I love how alot of these bands mentioned by people: suck ie Evanescence, or are not fronted by women ie B-52’s

big brother and the holding company
10,000 maniacs
patti smith group

yeah yeah yeahs and heart are dynamite

courtney love is a pathetic loser

The Avengers!!!!!!! So much better than X-Ray Spex.

PJ Harvey (first 2 albums are a band)

Patti Smith Group

Hole
Giant Drag (check them out pls)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rilo Kiley
The Breeders
Babes in Toyland
Sleater-Kinney

Only one mention of The Sounds and ZERO mentions of The Great Kat…shame on most of you….

Hole
Heart

The Cranberries
Blondie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Garbage
Evanescence

It’s shame that Pat Benatar cannot be truly recognized as a frontwoman of a truly great band.

Her band featuring husband and guitar god Neil Giraldo, rock drummer extrodinare Myron Grombacher,keyboardist Charlie Giordano bass player Roger Capps ruled in the studio and live as well.

And for the notbable execption of Janis, Pat’s voice is head and shoulders above anyone else’s on this list!

If she was billed as “Pat Benatar and the Potato Chips”, rather than “Pat Bentar” she would be near the very top of this list!

Hayley Williams…best band fronted by a female…hands down winner.

She can sing and she’s cute too.

The Cranberries, hands-down.

Obviously, Jefferson airplane..Grace Slick has one of the greatest female voices ever.
and of course
-Heart
-hole

Evanescence! J/K!!!!!!!!!!!!

But seriously, where is Heart?

Evanescence! J/K!!!!!!!!!!!!

But seriously, where is Heart?

not just any group, but the best…

1) Heart (tie)
1) Dixie Chicks (they play their own instruments - they’re a band!)
3) Blondie (tie)
3) 10,000 Maniacs
5) The Go-Go’s
6) Siouxsie and the Banshees
7) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (see number 4)
8) Hole
9) Jefferson Airplane
10) Does Chic count?

Biggest snub from your top 5 list is Heart.

Others: Jefferson Airplane
Garbage
Big Brother & Holding Company
Eurythmics
The Little Willies
The B-52’s
The Bangles
Dixie Chicks
The Fugees
The Pipettes
4 Non Blondes
Salt N Pepa

sleater kinney
the breeders
heart
blondie
yeah yeah yeahs
sonic youth
mates of state
rilo kiley
the patti smith group
the distillers
BE YOUR OWN PET

Evanescence - Amy Lee has a phenomental voice!
Nightwish
Scandal
Culture Club - he’s gay, so that should count…lol (just wanted to make a joke)
Human League - partially counts
Garbage

Fleetwood Mac is #1 but not just fronted by women. Anyway… Stevie Nicks is the greatest woman in rock and roll.

How about:

The Stone Coyotes
Antigone Rising (okay, their all female)
Quarterflash
Scandal

Probably doesn’t count, but Pat Benatar had the same “band” for about 10 years in the 80’s

Heart.

CONCRETE BLONDE.PERIOD!!!

Yeah yeah yeahs
Sugarcubes
Evanescence
P ortishead
Noisettes

I forgot:
-Big brother and the holding company
-Jefferson Airplaine
-Heart

Noissettes
Blondie
Runaways
No Doubt
Gladys Knight & the pips
Patti Smith Group
Rufus

The Cranberries

Here’s a few.

1. Sleater-Kinney
2. Rilo Kiley
3. X Ray Spex
4. Liliput
5. The Raincoats
6. Mellow Candle
7. Black Box Recorder
8. Portishead
9. Saint Etienne
10.The Cocteau Twins

Walter

mazzy star

Zuzu’s Petals

give it up…They are all in second to Janis Joplin and the Holding Company

The Runaways and/or Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

jett

‘

Signe Anderson … Jefferson Airplane … of course!

Signe Anderson … Jefferson Airplane … of course!

Let’s agree that it is The Pretenders, and we can debate about who comes in second.

I like X as a choice, but that also has John Doe.

If we count the Patti Smith Group, and not treat this as a solo project, she gives The Pretenders a run for their money.

A Fine Frenzy
The Start
Morcheeba
Sneaker Pimps (originally)
Shiny Toy Guns (kinda)
Garbage
Angelfish
T he Birthday Massacre
The Cranberries
Juli
Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Letters to Cleo
Lunik
Luscious Jackson
Tegan and Sara

BONUS

Sade*Pride(Even though Ms. Adu was the main focus truly under the spotlight, she helped contribute to/elevate their smooth, mellow sound and flavor. The contribution would later have Pride go solo and reincarnate themselves as Sweetback. So there you have it.)

The Brand New Heavies(with and ONLY N’Dea Davenport)
Ledici
Blondie
No Doubt
The Go! Team(with Ninja’s fine self!)
The Gossip

Primitives

Shame on ALL of you:
Darling Buds
Primitive
Cranes
Also, many of the bands listed are not FRONTED by females!

Cat Power

Heart
Hole

The Duke Spirit…

PATTI SMITH
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
THE PRETENDERS

I thought X and Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t've been accepted but after seein’ them get the thumbs up in previous posts,I’ll give them a plug too!

really is there ever been a more lame but over hyped band than Sleater-Kinney….did any one notice they are really not good

pretenders #1,,,but really just one or two mentions of exene and X….you are all lame

Yeah, numbered, but in no particular order. . . .

101. Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
100. The Shaggs
99. The G.T.O’s
98. The Plasmatics
97. Betty Blowtorch
96. Strawberry Switchblade
95. The Waitresses
94. 7 Year Bitch
93. The Slits
92. Fuzzbox
91. The Three Degrees
90. that dog.
89. K’s Choice
88. Throwing Muses
87. L7
86. Babes In Toyland
85. Katrina & The Waves
84. Shakespear’s Sister
83. The Raincoats
82. Freakwater
81. Destiny’s Child
80. En Vogue
79. Parlet
78. Til Tuesday
77. Letters To Cleo
76. Portishead
75. Belly
74. The Cookies (aka The Raelettes)
73. The Orlons
72. The Dixie Cups
71. The Chiffons
70. The Chantels
69. Sister Sledge
68. The Marvelettes
67. The Luv’d Ones
66. Transglobal Underground
65. SWV
64. Bikini Kill
63. Paramore
62. Ladytron
61. The Crystals
60. The Cardigans
59. Veruca Salt
58. The Divinyls
57. Elastica
56. Lush
55. The Distillers
54. The Donnas
53. 4 Non Blondes
52. Missing Persons
51. Berlin
50. The Ronettes
49. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
48. Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
47. The 5.6.7.8’s
46. X-Ray Spex
45. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
44. The Sundays
43. The Breeders
42. Lone Justice
41. Cowboy Junkies
40. The Cocteau Twins
39. Salt-N-Pepa
38. Concrete Blonde
37. The Pointer Sisters
36. Bow Wow Wow
35. The Story
34. The Motels
33. The Cranberries
32. The Roches
31. Honey Cone
30. Luscious Jackson
29. Sleater-Kinney
28. Spanky & Our Gang
27. Mostly Autumn
26. 10,000 Maniacs
25. Indigo Girls
24. Curved Air
23. Siouxsie & The Banshees
22. Evanescence
21. No Doubt
20. Edie Brickell & The Bohemians
19. The Bangles
18. The Go-Go’s
17. One Dove
16. The Runaways
15. Garbage
14. The Blossoms (sang on recordings as or with the Crystals, Darlene Love, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans as well as background vocals for many hits in the 60s)
13. X
12. Renaissance
11. Heart
10. Hole
9. TLC
8. The Patti Smith Group
7. Blondie
6. The Pretenders
5. Martha & The Vandellas
4. Labelle
3. Gladys Knight & The Pips
2. The Shirelles
1. The Supremes

evanesence
garbage
babes in toyland
girlschool
paramore

1-The Carpenters
2-Garbage
3-No Doubt

tough one.

yeah yeah yeahs
the gossip
cat power? and the dirty delta blues
i’m down with No Doubt
sonic youth, kinda
the like
the sounds
the concretes
the subways, kinda
mates of state, kinda

Heart
Blondie
The Moldy Peaches
The Sugarcubes

Alison Kraus and Union Station
Emmy Lou Harris and the Hot Band
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Martha and the Vandellas
Eurythmics

Cat Power

Bikini Kill deserves all the hype Sleater-Kinney gets.

Lord knows this would be a better world if we had more Sleater-Kinney music in the future. They deserve to be mentioned as one of the very best bands - male, female, robot (or whatever daft punk is) - of the past 20 years. No joke.
From Call the Doctor thru to The Woods, I dare anyone to find a more consistent and incredible exciting band as Sleater-Kinney has been.
(true enough that music is simply food, and a matter of taste, but still)

Apologies for not acknowledgin’ The Divinyls and Concrete Blonde

Veruca Salt

does Sonic Youth fit into this category?

Jefferson Airplane.

Whoops! Forgot The Slits!

You have GOT to be shitting me: only TWO mentions of the Patti Smith Group?!?

Watch some footage of her from the 70’s and try to deny that she’s the greatest female frontwoman of all time.

Heart
Pretenders
Blondie
Runaways
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Hole
Cowboy Junkies
X Ray Spex
Siouxie/Banshees
Plasma tics

rufus

my bloody valentine

slowdive

cocteau twins

swans

babes in toyland

gladys knight and the pips

walls of jericho

portishead

all the above + paramore

BE YOUR OWN PET! Shitty name, incredible band. Jemina Pearl is an incredible frontwoman.

The Selecter
The Slits
Big Brother & the Holding Co.
Arch Enemy

all of them are archetypes for their fields of music.

I like No Doubt, but not Gwen … sadly, i will not put them on my list

Blondie
Siuxsie and the banshees
The pretenders
joan jett and the black hearts
Scandal

Garbage
Heart
The Divinyls
Fleetwood Mac (do they count since they shared leadership among the men and women?)
Blondie
The Pretenders
The Eurythmics
Everything But The Girl

No Doubt
’til tuesday
Jefferson Airplane
Evanescence
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
The Go-Gos
The Bangles
10,000 Maniacs
Lone Justice

The Patti Smith Group

no doubt (my #1 pick)

jefferson airplane

nena

blondie

the waitresses

joan jett and the black hearts

no doubt (my #1 pick)

jefferson airplane

nena

blondie

the waitresses

joan jett and the black hearts

garbage, The Go-Gos, 10,000 Maniacs, Elastica, Blake Babies, The Geraldine Fibbers, Letters to Cleo, The Breeders, Blondie, L7, Babes in Toyland, The Gits, Bangs, The Gossip, Bis, Seven Year Bitch, Ronettes

Sleater-Kinney
Throwing Muses
Jefferson Airplane
Cowboy Junkies
Big Brother and the Holding Company
X
Hole
Lone Justice
Cat Power (really-Chan says the guys in her backup band are now actually members of Cat Power)

Dresden Dolls

garbage, of course

garbeg, of course

bikini kill!!!
+
sleater kinney

Garbage
Heart
The Donnas

Jefferson Airplane

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Long Blondes

Brazilian Girls
Bonnie Rait
Metric

and i think pj harvey was originally the name of polly’s band.

they’ve already been said, but i’ll second:
sleater-kinney
garba ge
the yeah yeah yeahs
hole
the distillers

The Dresden Dolls
Snake River Conspiracy
Catatonia
Garbage
No Doubt

Boo to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hooray to Sleater-Kinney

The Go-Gos
The Bangles
Lone Justice
Blondie
The Pretenders
The Motels
The Numbers
The Runaways
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Wendy & The Rocketts
QED
Hole
The Breeders
Do Re Mi
The Plasmatics

garbage without a doubt. shirley ann manson is the frontwoman of the last decade whether anyone was paying attention or not. she doesn’t have a clothing line, or a cosmetics line or an acting career. she’s a rock singer - period.

Heart hasn’t been mentioned? Are you serious?

Jefferson Airplane

Heart

Big Brother & the Holding Company

The Pretenders

Evanescence

No Doubt

Fleetwood Mac (kinda)

CSS
My Bloody Valentine (they’re half female)
Ladytron
Broadcast
Yeahyeahyeah’s
Blondie
Souxi e / Banshees

Rilo kiley
No doubt pre-dance hall
Sugarcubes
Be your own pet

Portishead
Stone The Crows
Jefferson Airplane
Curved Air
Sugarcubes
Siouxsie & The Banshees

I seem to have a particularly long memory today

`Til Tuesday-(Aimee Mann)

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Garbage
L7

The Bellrays (Look into ‘em)
The Distillers
Sleater-Kinney
Be Your Own Pet
Garbage (pretty surprised no one’s mentioned them yet)
No Doubt (before Rock Steady)
Sonic Youth (while Kim Gordon’s rockin it)
The Breeders

…and really, No Patti Smith? Really???

Too many to choose from, but here goes some of my faves:

Bat For Lashes
The Raveonettes
The Coathangers
Deerhoof
The Go! Team
Le Tigre / Bikini Kill
The Long Blondes
Sleater-Kinney
The Sounds
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Joan as A Police Woman
The Sugarcubes
Dengue Fever

Rilo Kiley!

culture club (common, that counts!)

the fastbacks
blondie
rilo kiley
the pretenders
x-ray spex

the fastbacks
blondie
rilo kiley
the pretenders
x-ray spex

Readers Rock List–best band fronted by a female…

Hands down winner Paramore-with Hayley Williams as the cute female fronting this band.

Art B.

Hole
No Doubt
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Otep

In the 70’s is was Blondie, roxking music and a knock out of a blond babe

K’s Choice

Yeah Yeah Yeahs!!

Be Your Own Pet
CSS
The Moldy Peaches
Rilo Kiley
Sleater-Kinney
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Velvet Underground and Nico (They kind of count)

HOLE. Just awesome.

Elastica