Women Who Rock: Oh, How We Love It Dirty

These are the songs by the women we would never bring home to Mom. The ones she warned you about are all here… dirty, nasty, filthy; pick your adjective. These are the women that women wish they could be, and the women men wish their women would be. (Behind closed doors, of course). I give you… the nasty girls… the ones who rock as only they can.

1. L7 (Pretend We’re Dead)

   When it came to dirty, no one did it like L7. They were brash and obnoxious. They were everything that society said they shouldn’t be, and proud as hell of it. This is one of the most underrated and amazing songs of their generation.

2. Evanescence (Going Under)

   She blended a nearly operatic style with the alt rock sound of the early and mid 00’s. She manages to be enchanting and mysterious in a way few women this side of Stevie Nicks can.

3. Hole (Gold Dust Woman)

   Was anyone nastier than Courtney Love? She had a way of looking as if she was strung out on everything and hadn’t bathed in weeks… and somehow it was hot.

4. Flyleaf (All Around Me)

   She’s like a frightening schizophrenic little nymph.

5. Kittie (Brackish)

   This is a scary group of women. They are dark, they are loud, and they posess a power most male metal bands could never reach. Their music is proof that beauty can exist in chaos and fury.

6. The Distillers (Sick of it All)

   Has there been a more punk woman since Nancy? She even comes with a built in Sid Viscious Sneer. If you wear a mohawk, you would marry this woman.

7. The Donnas (Take it Off)

   Vulgar, blunt, and oh so to the point. The whole purpose of their existance is to remind us that women, on occasion, just want to get laid, too.

8. The Gits (Seaweed)

   Even if you were a fan of the grunge scene, you probably missed the gits. But this is a band that has probably influenced every female rock act since. As good as any band in the era, but Sex Pistol like in their brevity.

9. 7 Year Bitch (Lorna)

   These were some crude girls who ever so lived up to their name.

10. Bikini Kill (Rebel Girl)

    An odd band, somewhere between genres. Very much an acquired taste, but addicting once you found it.

11. Lacuna Coil (Closer)

    OK, she’s an Evanescence rip off. So? She does is so well…

12. Guano Apes (Open Your Eyes)

    One of the most distinct female singers of recent times. The apes came at the tail end of the 90’s, and are a classic example of a band just alittle bit before their time.