guy-washing the 90s?
More substantive life post later today, I hope, but for now, a complaint: I have been listening to Sirius XM "Lithium" for an hour and 45 minutes straight while doing some marathon cleaning, and I have yet to hear a single female artist or female fronted band.
Dudes, I lived in Seattle from 1991-1996 at the absolute height of the musical vibe that Lithium purports to be capturing, and I had my radio tuned to KNDD ("The End", Seattle's trend-setting alternative radio station) for hours each day, and I can tell you, there were plenty of female artists on the air! Even if you want to stick to the hard-rocking end of the spectrum, there was Hole, L7, Bikini Kill, X, Concrete Blonde, Hammerbox, The Breeders, and more. If you want to get a little more alt, a little less grunge (which was totally part of The End's playlist too) , there was Siouxsie Sioux, Juliana Hatfield, Alison Moyet, Indigo Girls, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple....
Oh, wait, 2 hours in, we finally got some Fiona Apple! Will it be another 2 hours till the next woman?
I really have a hard time believing that the actual on-air gender ratio was that horribly skewed back in the day. What do you all remember from the first half of the 90s if you were radio listeners back then? Are the female artists just standing out more clearly in my mind because I liked them? Or is Lithium doing it wrong?
(ETA: I'm at the 3 hours mark, and there's been 3 songs by the Smashing Pumpkins, and 2 each by Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana. And only one woman. Also, they played the Squirrel Nut Zippers, so you sure can't claim they're sticking to hard rock. Very sad. I sort of want to collect more data, but the nostalgia has worn off and this stuff is putting me to sleep....YAWN.)
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Dudes, I lived in Seattle from 1991-1996 at the absolute height of the musical vibe that Lithium purports to be capturing, and I had my radio tuned to KNDD ("The End", Seattle's trend-setting alternative radio station) for hours each day, and I can tell you, there were plenty of female artists on the air! Even if you want to stick to the hard-rocking end of the spectrum, there was Hole, L7, Bikini Kill, X, Concrete Blonde, Hammerbox, The Breeders, and more. If you want to get a little more alt, a little less grunge (which was totally part of The End's playlist too) , there was Siouxsie Sioux, Juliana Hatfield, Alison Moyet, Indigo Girls, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple....
Oh, wait, 2 hours in, we finally got some Fiona Apple! Will it be another 2 hours till the next woman?
I really have a hard time believing that the actual on-air gender ratio was that horribly skewed back in the day. What do you all remember from the first half of the 90s if you were radio listeners back then? Are the female artists just standing out more clearly in my mind because I liked them? Or is Lithium doing it wrong?
(ETA: I'm at the 3 hours mark, and there's been 3 songs by the Smashing Pumpkins, and 2 each by Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana. And only one woman. Also, they played the Squirrel Nut Zippers, so you sure can't claim they're sticking to hard rock. Very sad. I sort of want to collect more data, but the nostalgia has worn off and this stuff is putting me to sleep....YAWN.)
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