50 songs guaranteed to be on the jukebox at a lesbian bar in chicago

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1. 4 non blondes "what's goin' on"

― f ath, Friday, 20 August 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Munch That Rug" by Kaia featuring The Indigo Girls

just kidding

I have no idea what the fuck non-punkrock lesbians listen to.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

jonathan richman - "i was dancing at a lesbian bar"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. The Murmurs - Genius
2. Lucinda Williams - Right In Time
3. Ella Fitzgerald - Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
4. Fantcha - Sol Ja Camba
5. Joan Armatrading - The Weakness In Me
6. Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
7. Shelley Campbell - Drivin' You
8. The Be Good Tanyas - In Spite of the Damage
9. Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
10. Kinnie Starr - Alright
11. Jason Collett - Blue Sky
12. Marianne Faithful - The Pleasure Song
13. Joseph Arthur - In The Sun
14. Frances Faye - Frances and Her Friends

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

shouldn't we be doing whole albums here? most jukeboxes I see nowadays have the whole CDs in there as opposed to singles.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Phranc

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bad Liquor", American Music Club

― littledutchboy, Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We've already gone too far without: Ani DiFranco

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Mellissa Etheridge up in this bitch!

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty Springfield, maybe?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I find that more straight grrls than lesbians like ani difranco at my school - the lesbians like to rock out to le tigre tho, hardcore.

PS: I love how this board is constantly centering on Chicago for some reason.

― djdee2005, Saturday, 21 August 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Do lesbians like Skynyrd?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sophie B. Hawkins - 'Damn I Wish I was Your Lover'; great song, btw

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 21 August 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

27. "Family Affair" - Mary J. Blige
28. "Heard It All Before" - Sunshine Anderson
29. "That's What I'm Lookin For" - Da Brat

30. "Let Me Go" - Ruby Falls

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing Rhythm Aces,"Third Rate Romance": "Two lovely lesbian ladies, dancing on a parquet floor"
Joan Jett, "The French Song"
Nico, "Femme Fatale," "I'll Keep It With Mine"
kd lang,"Miss Chatelaine"(among, uh, others?)
Anne Murray, "Snowbird"
Avril Lavigne, complete works!
Fiona Apple, ditto!

― Don Allred, Saturday, 21 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

38. "Chicago" - Judy Garland

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

some nina simone comp

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 21 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, first of all, what _kind_ of lesbian bar? Second, not all lesbians are 40 years old (Re: Joan Armatrading, etc.)(And Judy Garland - WTF?). Third, have any women, let alone lesbians answered this thread yet? Conversely, how many respondants have been in a lesbian bar?

Here are some suggestions:
The Butchies
Tribe 8
Bikini Kill
Julie Ruin
Le Tigre
Sleater Kinney
Chicks on Speed
Lesbians on Ecstasy
Tracy + the Plastics
Lois Maffeo
Heavens to Betsy
The Need
The Slits
XRay Spex
Joan Jett
Tami Hart
Tanya Donelly
Mary Timony
The Haggard
Adult.
Mirah
Missy Elliott
...
Or mainstream new or 80s Pop, Hip Hop, Disco, Rock/Punk, Techno, Folk, Zouk, Booty Bass, etc...

Just some thoughts.

Peace
---

"And the boys say, "What do you mean?"
And the boys say, "What do you mean?"
Well there is just no love,
When there's boys and girls.
And the girls want to be with the girls,
And the girls want to be with the girls."
-Talking Heads

― blahblah blingbling blahblah, Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuesday Night Music Club

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 21 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd prefer going to blahblah's lesbian bar for sure!

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 21 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

not all lesbians are 40 years old (Re: Joan Armatrading, etc.)

hahaha, that was just the tracklisting of The L Word soundtrack above with the Armatrading and stuff.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Something to Talk About" - Bonnie Raitt

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

haha aaron, I thought that list was remarkably OTM for a dude!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

no offense.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for sounding a bit snarky in the first post.

Lesbians on Ecstasy do covers of Melissa Etheridge and kd lang but all techno-ravey-like. So it keeps everybody happy. Quote: "We think our music is what lesbians taking ecstasy for the first time would want to hear. It's kd lang like they've never imagined but always dreamed of. "

― blahblah blingbling blah blah, Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

khia's "my neck, my back"

(an obvious omission, perhaps?)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

JC CHASEZ!!!!!!!!

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i can see no one here is really a lesbian.
team dresch.

― alice, Sunday, 22 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"i can see no one here is really a lesbian."

your computer has gaydar?

― blahblah blingbling blahblah, Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i like girls, i'm a lesbian at heart.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the eighties

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't lesbians all like Anastacia now? She wears glasses and everything.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"your computer has gaydar?"

that's what i am talking about.

― aline, Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

G.G. Allin best of.

Admittedly, I know nothing about Chicago though.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm in chicgao. i could have my friend let me in to the lesbian bar down the street, i think they have a jukebox.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

although seeing the clientele at that one, i'm guesing it's just a lot of classic rock.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

lesbian bars: the last frontier

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: "gayday" and "that's what i am talking about."

My point was that it's kind of presumptious to come into a space like this and assume that "no one here is really a lesbian" based primarily on the fact that one ostensibly lesbian band hadn't been named yet. No one group holds the monopoly on queer expression. And my original question "what _kind_ of lesbian bar" was meant to indicate that the musical tastes of lesbians are as diverse and overlapping as any other 'group,' queer or otherwise - IE: not reducible to a few bands or styles.

― blahblah blingbling blahblah, Monday, 23 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, I meant "Re: 'gaydar'"

― blahblah blingbling blahblah, Monday, 23 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

is there lesbian disco?

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Tatu

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

"Short Dick Man." At least in my experience.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

"fuck with gay day" - Dr. Drea

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

umm, no L7???
no Breeders??
no Hole??????

c'mon, where's the rockcist lesbians? i've hung w/ many of em, and that's what they're about.
and, of course, Ani...
fuckin Ani....

― eedd, Friday, 26 August 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I am biologically ineligible to be a lesbian, but one upon a time I was whatever you call the male version of a fag hag, and I spent a fair amount of time in lesbian bars. Back then, THE indispensible track for lesbian booty-shaking (of which there was a lot -- women kind of like to dance) was Donna Summers, "State of Independence". My lesbian friends are not so much bar people anymore, and the last song I could generalize about for them would probably be Madonna, "Ray of Light" and k.d. laing through Ingenue. But Le Tigre wouldn't surprise me at all.

And, yeah, that L-Word OST is pretty dead on for 40-somethings chilling. Plus Ani, plus Indigo Girls, plus Holly Near and Chris Williamson.

Re: Amazing Rhythm Aces -- The lyrics to "Third Rate Romance" are forever graven in my mind (it is one of the greatest songs in the history of the world). But I don't remember any lesbians. Was there a radio edit or something?

― Vornado, Friday, 26 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

'Good Morning, Captain' - Slint

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Do lesbians like Prince?

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

"hate it or love it"

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

MELISSA FERRICK

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

lots o' neil diamond

― gershy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Do lesbians like Prince?"

Lesbians love Prince, especially Pussy Control, based on my experiences at lesbian bar karaoke.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

Prince - "Violet the Organ Grinder"

Maybe not.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't Alison Moyet mean anything over there? guess not

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

Bjork - "It's Oh So Quiet" (well, that's what my lesbian housemates used to listen to in the early '90s).

― mysterbey, Thursday, 28 June 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

"Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman is a lesbian anthem down here

― novamax, Friday, 29 June 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

I am shocked, shocked that nobody has mentioned Michelle Shocked, Anchorage.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

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