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**MIXTAPE ALERT** Girls Names

50s Musicians

There are exactly 200,153 songs about girls names and that's a fact I mean don't research it, don't look it up, you can't find it on wikipedia but it's true...ish. Whatever the actual statistic is I know it's pretty high.

Call me a feminazi but I find that many songs about women written by men tend to fall into two camps. Women are either portrayed as either the temptress seducing a guy or the angel who can do no wrong. This can be a little tiresome for this blogger who just wants to get through listening to one song without being told she's a wanton woman.

It becomes more interesting when women write songs about other women as it allows a more honest depiction of femininity and womanhood.

The Raincoats cover of Lola brings the song into a whole new territory that The Kinks probably never even thought it could go and Patti Smith's classic Gloria becomes a moving declaration of womanhood every time she repeats those famous letters "G-L-O-R-I-A".

Feminist analysis aside these are all bloody good songs so enjoy and everyone sing in unison "GLORIA....".

Tracklisting:
1. Gloria- Patti Smith
2. Lucille- She Keeps Bees
3. Clara Bow- 50 Foot Wave
4. Valerie- Amy Winehouse
5. Angelene- PJ Harvey
6. Oh Marie- Ladyfuzz
7. Samantha- Hole
8. Lola- The Raincoats
9. Prescilla- Bat For Lashes
10. Anne- Santigold
11. Mary Ann- Regina Spektor
12. Oh Serena- The Distilllers
13. Headache For Michelle- Au Pairs
14. Erica Kane- Aaliyah
15. Hedi's Head- Kleenex
16. Polly- Long Blondes
17. Jenny- Sleater-Kinney

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**MIXTAPE ALERT** Revolt! Revolt!

Since we've all been whipped into a political frenzy what with this election that's been going on I thought I would put together a mixtape of some powerful protest songs.

Let's face it, we'll need them pretty soon.

Tracklisting:
1. New Kicks- Le Tigre
2.Viva La Persistence- Kimya Dawson
3. Pull Up The People- M.I.A
4. Trophy Wife- Partyline
5. Combat Rock- Sleater-Kinney
6. Keep On Livin'- Le Tigre
7. People Have The Power- Patti Smith
8. Fuck Or Kill- Peaches
9. I Wanna Know What Love Is- Julie Ruin
10. Standing In The Way Of Control- Gossip
11. Her Jazz- Huggy Bear
12. Systematic Death- Crass
13. The Gap (Between The Rich And The Poor)- You Say Party! We Say Die!
14. Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover)- Sleater-Kinney
14. Declare Independence- Bjork

Let's Write It Down

News that Beth Ditto's rags to punk rock riches story will go down in history in the form of a memoir has got me thinking of the other memoirs that I need or really want to be published.

Courtney Love- Dirty Blonde
Although reviews have stated that Love's 2007 book, featuring letters, notes, lyrics and personal pictures, offers nothing new for fans I still think it will be an amzing read.  Despite the press trying to slander, demean and devalue her work over the years Love has remained; a survivor and a truly inspirational individual.

Patti Smith- Just Kids
Just Kids documents the naive yet loving relationship between Smith and Robert Mapplethorne who, in the early seventies, were both aspiring artist. The story behind the youthful, creative and ambitous crowd in seventies New York is one that everyone can enjoy.

PJ Harvey- You're Not Rid Of Me
Ok this one isn't real but I really want to hear a detailed story of the person behind the artist. I know it'll spoil the myth but I don't care i'm greedy.

Jesus Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine...

Patti Smith Gloria


This song never grows old...