Ideas Required - Rock Covers of Female Fronted Pop

[leftybassman392]

Another vote for Alanis Morissette. Lots to choose from.

While I'm here, what about Avril Lavigne?

[KevB]

Now I think of it, I don't think any of the songs in my current band's set are originally by female vocalists (80's/90's rock). It's surprising how far into the female range a lot of those classic 80's male vox go. In fact we have to play some of them a tone lower even with a female lead vox.

[AussieBassman]

How about some Grace Potter?

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogm2sutjbtI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Ogm2sutjbtI[/url]

Or Nikki Hill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcDibHxsRU

Edited November 9, 2016 by AussieBassman

[lojo]

We do songs by Blondie , Clout, Heart, Bonnie Tyler, Joslyn Brown, Irene Cara, Tina Turner & Donna Summer.

We are female fronted but also do many songs originally sung by males

[blue]

Females can be fickle. If they don't like certain songs they're not going to sing it.

Blue

[JonesTheCat]

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know, Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake, Republica- Ready To Go.

[KingPrawn]

You have to consider Heart. It's vohair classics

[JonesTheCat]

Ooh, I don't know if they're well known enough but The Kills?

[BassTractor]

With female singer, we did:

Dalbello: Gonna Get Close to You
Dalbello: Animal
Dalbello: Black on Black
Mother's Finest: Baby Love
Mother's Finest: Mickey's Monkey

as well as some songs by the earlier mentioned Heart.

[cameltoe]

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Females can be fickle. If they don't like certain songs they're not going to sing it.

Blue
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Casual sexism thrown in for good measure.

How about;

Crazy in love-Beyoncé
Fancy- Iggy Azelea
Bang Bang- Jessie J
Bleeding Love- Leona Lewis
Where love lives-Alison Limerick
Chandelier-Sia
Something kinda ooh-Girls Aloud
That one Bastille covered... Rhythm of the night-Corona.

Or go for the fun angle.... Boys boys boys-Sabrina.

I always wanted to do a cover of China Black's 'Searching'. Not a female-fronted song, but it's a proper tune. (One for the one-hit wonder thread!)

Edited November 10, 2016 by cameltoe

[blue]

Pretenders?

Blue

[tauzero]

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Females can be fickle. If they don't like certain songs they're not going to sing it.
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So can males. If one former guitarist didn't like a song, he completely ignored requests from the rest of the band that we do it. Don't have any such problems with our female vocalist.

I think just about all of the female fronted tracks we cover have been mentioned by now. Mrs Zero inherited a set which was for a male-fronted band, then when our guitarist left and we replaced him, we revamped the set and brought in some Blondie, Eurhythmics, Pretenders, and Tina Turner. I think we still bring in about 50/50 male-fronted and female-fronted songs to the set.

Edited November 11, 2016 by tauzero

[Chaos Daveo]

Knowing this band well, they are stunning live btw.

My throw in suggestions are

Paramore- Decode
No doubt- Simple Kind Of life
Siouxsie and the banshees - the passenger
Pink-Sober
Skunk Anansie- Weak