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Location: Cicero, NY | Ok, honestly now, a friend of mine is putting together a photo slideshow for a women's forum his company is holding this Friday. Can anyone think of any songs about women (their empowerment, strength, etc) preferably sung by women that might be appropriate?
I need three of four for the time allotted.
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Location: NJ | The only thing I can think of is that nightmare of a song by Helen Reddy . . . |
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Location: NJ | Hey! How about that Stones song "She's My Little T&A"??? . . . . . . .
m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-maybe not . . . sorry. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Earl's gotta die"
Personally I like "Stand by Your Man". |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I threw the Reddy song out there already. The barrage of four letter words in his response was actually awe inspiring. Apparently the opinion of that song being a nightmare is pretty universal. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Put another dime in the jukebox baby. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Apparently "She Bangs" is a little off target as well. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I vote for Earl.
or
...Voulez Vous Coucher avec Moi, Ce Soir? |
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Location: closely held secret | "You don't own me" |
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Location: NJ | Tom Waitts has a good song entitled "Filipino Mattress Hog" . . . . but I'd venture that HR would have a bit of a problem with that one . . . |
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Location: NJ | "9to5"?? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "You Shook Me" |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Nicole Nordeman "Brave". |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Cliff, HR would like you to stop by when you have a couple of minutes, k?
And bring your personal belongings with you if you could. |
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Location: closely held secret | "She works hard for the money"? |
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Location: Dayton, Ohio | not a pretty girl, by ani difranco
i am not a pretty girl
that is not what i do
i ain't no damsel in distress
and i don't need to be rescued
so put me down punk
maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair
isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere
i am not an angry girl
but it seems like i've got everyone fooled
every time i say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear
and imagine you're a girl
just trying to finally come clean
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling
and i am sorry
i am not a maiden fair
and i am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere
and generally my generation
wouldn't be caught dead working for the man
and generally i agree with them
trouble is you gotta have yourself an alternate plan
and i have earned my disillusionment
i have been working all of my life
and i am a patriot
i have been fighting the good fight
and what if there are no damsels in distress
what if i knew that and i called your bluff?
don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up
i am not a pretty girl
i don't want to be a pretty girl
no i want to be more than a pretty girl |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Where ya been P?
Are ya famous yet??? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ooo, that's a good one, Persephone. Thanks - I'll actually pass that one along. And any more would certainly be welcomed. |
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Location: Dayton, Ohio | i'm working on it! playing out a lot these days. just need to get something recorded now.
anyway, i'll find more songs today, stay tuned! (you know the kind of shit you're looking for is all i listen to!) :)
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Location: Midland, MI | and generally my generation
wouldn't be caught dead working for the man I call shenanigans. Anyone that claims this while paying into the Federal tax system is, by default, working for the man.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Your so Vain |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Weaser,
source for Women\'s Empowerment Songs |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Nice catch, JW. I'll pass that along and see if there's anything they'd like to pick out of there as well. He was asking me about Alanis Morristte but I told him that might want to be very careful with her material. Strong? Sure, but I'm not sure I would call it empowering. But that might also be somewhat of a biased view. What are your thoughts on Alanis, P? |
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Location: atlanta | "Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man"
Don Van Vliet
a/k/a Captain Beefheart
See: http://tinyurl.com/9tn9g |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Helen Reddy's song brings back especially bad memories (I almost initially typed "mammaries". I wonder what Freud would think about that.) A guy in the next room in my college dorm used to play it over and over and sing to it. I finally silenced him by turning my speakers to the wall and wailing on my old Univox electric every time he played it. |
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Location: Dayton, Ohio | Freedom lyrics
Artist - Melissa Ferrick
Album - Freedom
Lyrics - Freedom
sadness finds its way onto me
ya on any given day
and i just end up feelin guilty
and i don't know how many times i've told you
i do not know how i ended up this way
it's as if sometimes i have just halted
yeah i stop dead in my tracks
life it just seems to cover me
and it's in these moments that i feel trapped
so i claim freedom
i claim my freedom
so what is it exactly that you want from me
oh yeah you want me to say
even though i am terrified to let myself end up this way
yeah i'm afraid of feeling
of feeling nothing at all
and i'm afraid of settling down
into a love that ain't love at all
so i claim my freedom
i claim freedom
so take this brain out and hang it on the line
take this chair out back and burn it
'cause i can't get any work done from in here
you know this hole i dug myself in
has got me buried up to helpless
and i'd like to call you a liar
yeah but that's what you
what you liked to call me
yeah i'd like to call you a liar
liar
yeah but that's what you
isn't that what you always called me
so i claim my freedom
yeah i claim my freedom
freedom freedom freedom
freedom freedom freedom |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Another good one, Ms P.I'm sure these are going to be appreciated. |
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Location: Dayton, Ohio | oh, and i love alanis. :) maybe 'not the doctor.'
here's a great one by poe...
angry johnny
Johnny, angry johnny, this is jezebel in hell
I wanna kill you, I wanna blow you...away
I can do it to you gently
I can do it with an animal’s grace
I can do it with precision
I can do it with gormet taste
Chorus:
But either way
Either (way), either way
I wanna kill you
I wanna blow you...
Away
I can do it to your mind
I can do it to your face
I can do it with integrity
I can do it with disgrace
Chorus
Johnny, angry johnny, this is jezebel in hell
Johnny, angry johnny, this is jezebel in hell
I can do it in a church
I can do it any time or place
I can do it like an angel
To quiet down your rage
Chorus
I can do it in the water
I can do on dry land
I can do it with instruments
I can do it with my own bare hands
But either way
Either way, you know where it stands
I wanna kill you
I wanna blow you...
Away
Johnny, angry johnny, this is jezebel in hell
Johnny, oh my johnny
Where did your pleasure go
When the pain came through you
Where did your happiness go
This force is running you around now
Getting you down now
Where is your pleasure now johnny
Where has your pleasure gone now
Johnny, angry johnny... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I think I'm feeling violated here... :eek: |
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Location: closely held secret | Nothing like a great 'feel good' song, P. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | If this is for Hillary's Fundraiser I withdraw my contribution, and you should be ashamed! :( |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This song really isn't on topic but it is a kick ass acoustic by Patti Rothberg. She sings and plays her ass off...Persphone, you may find you like her music....
Treat Me Like Dirt
Also, more on topic Lucinda Williams "Changed the Locks " -Kasey Chambers also does a cover of it that is FEE-NOM-A-NAL
EDIT: Corrected the title of the Lucinda Williams song. |
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Location: SoCal | Sounds like a little hostility towards the male of the species....... kinda like at my house where PMS means Paul Must Suffer. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | What I love about Paul...
he doesn't have that little "Edit" switch in his head the rest of us do. |
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Location: NJ | F&^k the switch!!
I'd rather keep the cajones . . . |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | What about "These Boots Are Made For Walking"
by Nancy Sinatra" :rolleyes: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and then there's Cliff.... |
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Location: NJ | ". . I can't help it, . . I just tell the truth . . "
- Lester Atlas, from Herman Wouk's "Don't Stop The Carnival" |
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Location: Omaha | Well, I was gonna suggest "Put Another Log on the Fire" or "Good Hearted Woman" from that redneck album by the 'Outlaws' (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, etc.), but persepone's song's got me scared...
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Location: closely held secret | Mike, be real polite, and keep your legs crossed. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I always liiked the Tom Waits "Warm Beer and Cold Women" |
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Location: Dayton, Ohio | phil: excellent suggestion.
mike: you ought to be frightened.
jeff: i do really like patti rothberg.
cliff and paul: i re-quote goddess ani...
every time i say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear... |
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Location: SoCal | Where it says "I wanna kill you, I wanna blow you away", in my line of work, well, you start walking carefully when you hear that. And Ani is wrong.... if I have fear (I prefer to think of it as prudence), it's because of the rage that cause's lines like the above to be written.
In my neighborhood, it's called common sense. |
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Location: chicago | ONLY WOMEN BLEED BY ALICE COOPER |
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Location: NJ | ". . and never to their own fear..."
Sorry darlin' but I'm devoid of fear . . .
. . . I was MARRIED for 16 years! :D |
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I would also check out "Barricades and Brickwalls", again, by Kasey Chambers. If you are not familar with her she is definitely worth checking out. Massive Talent. |
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Location: NJ | ". . ONLY WOMEN BLEED BY ALICE COOPER . ."
- who's SHE?? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I'm not familiar with her, Jeff, and will check it out. Thanks group (for the most part anyway)! |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, Weez, I hope you're joking. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Yikes, I think it's lesson time (again)...Nope, I'm not joking. The only Ms. Chambers I've ever been familiar with is Marilyn but that's for another time. |
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Location: NJ | ah! . . the IvorySnow Lady! . . she's quite wholesome . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, from the other page. I was afraid you didn't know who Ms. Cooper was. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | OUCH!! I've really underestimated my participation here if you had to ask me about Alice Cooper. One of my first garage bands cut their teeth on Eighteen, Schools Out, Billion Dollar Babies and others. One of the huge disappointments of that band was that we couldn't get a live boa into any of our houses (all of our mom's got together and stopped that in a heartbeat). We were able to get our singer to grab his mothers makeup though (whatta goob).
That one cut deep, Waskel. |
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Location: closely held secret | Let me explain....
Cliff said "". . ONLY WOMEN BLEED BY ALICE COOPER . ."
- who's SHE??"
Jeff said :D
Weazer said "I'm not familiar with her, Jeff, and will check it out."
Please forgive my confusion, Weez. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I understand (and understood it then). I'm just razzin' you (in keeping with the spirit of the board). No offense taken at all. I've been around the family long enough... |
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Location: SoCal | Until Campbell moved to Malibu, Alice Cooper and Glen Campbell used to be golfing buddies in Phoenix. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | The last time Cooper was in Syracuse, there was a contest to get a chance to play a round with him. Obviously I wasn't the winner but I understand he's pretty good on a course. He and Vince Gill... |
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Location: NJ | There's GOLF in Syracuse??
What do y'get if you make it through the windmill & into the clown's mouth? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You'd think all that leather would "ride up" when swinging a club. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | To answer all of that - yes, I'll let you know when I accomplish it and not if you sweat enough. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | No sooner was the image of StephenT in a speedo out of my head --when the image of a -sweaty plaid leather clad Cooper went in.
I'm gonna need at least 250 more milligrams... |
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