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Bessie Smith-Nobody knows you when you're down and out
Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit

Kate Bush - 'This Woman's Wotk'

Or...

Kate Bush - 'This Woman's Work'

Boadicea - Dave Swarbrick

'Video' - India Arie...good lyrics

'You're Gettin' In The Way' - Jill Scott (that's her telt)

'My Give A Damn's Busted' - Jo Dee Messina (that's him telt)

TUESDAY

'Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile' - Sinéad O'Connor

A song about Grace O'Malley, "The Sea Queen of Connaught", who stood up to Elizabeth I (another strong woman) and got away with it.

Another India Arie song - 'Beautiful'. Lovely lyrics...from the film 'The Secret Life Of Bees'...as is

'Doncha Know, Sky Is Blue' - Alicia Keys

The Neville Bothers - Sister Rosa

TUESDAY

'God May Forgive You (But I Won't)' -


Bryan, You won't find it on any of her albums, but it was the B-side of the single 'Our Town'

#1 Great shouts, Frank.

Capt'n Obvious on board again.
Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
Never been a bra burning feminist. I don't believe all men are misogynists. But this one sounds empowering when you've had a really pants day. Even if it's mainly been because of other "sisters". A bit of irony.
YOYO is my motto.

#9 Fantastic request Scotch.

two great songs one by a strong woman with great integrity.........

'i'm not gonna beg'............natalie merchant

the other by a strong man with integrity about a strong woman who lost her life fighting for social justice..........

'rosa luxemburg'.............the laggan....with arthur johnstone on vocals.


so that just about puts the spice girls in their place.

cheers frae the dale

Patti Smith has way more to her than just Because The Night. This is a cracker and just right for the theme:

Patti Smith - People Have The Power

I hope we don't end up with a bunch of songs that just slag off the male of the species.

Party-pooper...

TUESDAY

'Only Women Bleed' - Elkie Brooks

Elaine Bookbinder is one of the finest blues singers this country has ever produced. A great version of a great song.

MCC has loads of superb songs, celebrating the strength of women. How about

Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Take My Chances

Caption:


One armed woman plays guitar

The True Story of Amelia Earhart - Plainsong


Born under a Bad Sign - Cream

Big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave - well she'd need to be quite strong

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

Mary - Patty Griffin
Listen to the radio - Nanci Griffith
Back eyes, blue tears - Shania Twain

Joe
Linlithgow

Oh! behave, let's get Joan Armatrading's Love & Affection in for good measure why don't we.
How insignificant some of the aforementioned really are whilst attempting mark International Women's Day!
The idea of a show featuring inspirational and important women in music is so crude and unrefined as to be lacking in sensibility.

Pity the following didn't have recording contracts Mary Slessor, Joy Adamson, Virginia Apgar, Ruth Benedict, Elizabeth Blackwell etc.

#22 good shout Mac, Joan A has a lot of relevant material, also, how about....

Kind of Woman - Stevie Nicks

...outstanding track from the great Bella Donna album......


Paul from Ayr

#20 Not Queen? A very inspirational woman ☺

Well I hope I'm exempt from your broadside, MM, having put a little effort into my suggestions, which will most certainly not get played, there being insufficient time to feature them and the very popular tonight Annie Lennox and Kate Bush as well.

Born Free could celebrate both Joy Adamson and Elsa right enough though.

Billy, you'll be going onto Scotch Git's hate list ..

I want to nominate a woman who rose above a speech impedement, ridicule, who went against the flow and was a true pioneer:

Toyah Willcox.

No Toyah no pixie like fantasy rock stars.

Toyah - Danced

I'll Rise - Ben Harper

Maya Angelou's poem to music by Ben Harper,

You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise

Ain't got no trouble in my life
No foolish dream to make me cry


I got the music in me / Kiki Dee

Aynur Dogan, Kurdish singer from Istanbul, sings Kece Kurdan, a song telling Kurdish women to unite, to rise above any past limitations on what they may do, and to show young Kurdish women what can be done with courage and ability.

There is no better song to celebrate 2011 International Women's Day with, and if you listen you will realize that even if you do not understand Kurdish that she is celebrating and telling young women - all of them, not just Kurds, as she herself has made clear in interviews - just do it, girl!

Larry Lundgren only-neverinsweden.blogspot.com
will try to put Aynur there later today

#22 - A side to Madmac I've never seen. I think I like it!

We should not forget the women who were murdered in their thousands in the name of religion and those who are still being killed for "crimes" that in this country would hardly register as "sins." Female circumcision is still widespread and women in many parts of the world are no better off than slaves. We should give thanks that we live in this place at this time.


Christy Moore covered this song but I'd like to hear the original. You'll find it on Ebenezer's Make Over - Peter Alsop & Friends


Burning Times - Charlie Murphy

Anybody know any songs about putting the toilet seat down for womens day

Dig out 'Victorian America' by Emily Jane White:

Women at home in Victorian America
I lost my lamp in Victorian America
It was the brightest, light I'd ever see.

#24 All I could come up with was 'Fat Bottom Girls'

#30

Gotta second LL's intriguing shout. Inspirational and important were the credentials being sought ... no argument ... GiO ...

Would like to offer another my own shout for someone I feel passed the 'In & Im' test ... Poly Styrene.

No-one had (or has since) sang like Poly. She was different in so many ways, however I guess that's what worked. Proved if she could, anyone could ...

'Identity' ... of course!

#32 Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

I get put down
Then put up again,
They're never gonna keep me down...

Dusty Springfield - 'Don't Forget About Me'

From 'Dusty in Memphis'

#19

Gaie, Jack did 'Born Under A Bad Sign' on Saturday night - with the brass section, it sounded awesome.

Did Linda McCartney make or break the veggie suasage?

Well, I don't know - it's too big a question, though I did eat them sometimes - late, after a night on the town when I was going out with Miss Brighton. Still, it's an excuse to once again request the magnificent Somedays by Paul McCartney.It takes courage to decide to play keyboard and sing backing vocals with your superstar husband when you've no real track record. The irony is that their voices harmonised fantastically (listen to 'Ram'). This is a song about Linda, her illness and the fact that we all have to face mortality, no matter how strong we are - the 'one dance you will do alone' as Jackson Browne put it.It's touching, appropriate.

And then, there's that other champion - of conceptual art, risking riducule at the time and decades ahead of Tracy Emmin and Damien Hirst.

Yoko Ono - A Walk On Thin Ice

I don't think we've ever had Yoko on GIO, but this is a great track and gives a clue as to the direction of Lennon's work if he hadn't got plugged - if I'm pushed, I'd have to concede it's the only track of Yoko's I like, but it is a stoater.

regardez youse

henri

massive 2nd for This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

I have strong neuro-associations to this song.Heard in a certain context, it can still reduce me to emotional turmoil. I regard it as the most powerful and honest expression and exposition of emotional pain ever recorded. A work of genius, but unintentionally so, I guess - to convey this intensity of feeling is presumably because it is all too real.

It is for me.

regardez - youse

henri

I'd like to have heard that, henri, Born Under a bad Sign I mean.

Edi Stark did an interview with Mary McCartney some time back when she spoke very warmly about her mother and family life in their household when she was growing up.

But the veggie sausages were, I have to say, not an achievement to be proud of. Tried them once. Ugh!

Last night was rubbish!

Play these tonight to make up for it

SOLO from LIKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALTZ by SANDY DENNY
FOR I AM THE WAY from DRINK ME by QUEENADREENA
HERE I AM from A DIFFERENT SEASON by THE SHEE
CAN’T STOP THE GIRL from ONE CLEAR MOMENT by LINDA THOMPSON
HERE TO PAY MY DUES from FALL AMONG THIEVES by BASKERY
SEE EMILY PLAY from I KNOW YOU’RE MARRIED BUT I’VE GOT FEELINGS TOO by MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

I've even included one you mentioned.

A female voice to be reckoned with:

Maggie Bell in Stone the Crows Sunset Cowboy

Go on, Go on, Go on, Go on, Go on!

Get it on, Get it on, Get it on, Get it on, Get it on........

#25
"You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes", Gaie?

#31
Quite, Senga.
MM showing his feminist side. Maybe it should be Madmetrosexual from now on.

:)

A must tonight:

"You're Offside And I Know It" - Sian Massey

#44

or maybe Lioness the Most Fun a Girl Can H... but perhaps not at tea-time.

You can't have a show about strong, influential women in music without having some Kirsty MacColl! Her track "Us Amazonians" off her final album Tropical Brainstorm seems particularly appropriate for today's show.

Rich in North Carolina

the supremes singing.........'somewhere'..........a fine tribute to the civil rights movement of the 60's.


cheers frae the dale

#45

I like that,Adam.

Madmetrosexual. I also preferred Brad Git, and Aladdin McLean but they didn't stick.

regardez vous

henri

Not too many Grammy winning female record producers: Tina Shoemaker

My Favourite Mistake - Sheryl Crow

#49 I particularly liked alladin maclean - seemed appropriate

Enema poses!

Would Madmetrosexual wear a Madkini?

On International Women's Day before I list my "Heroines of Music"Spiel it would seem glib not to mention the first name that came to my mind.That of Aung San Suu Kyi whose courage is an inspiration to all regardless of gender.The obvious song choice for me then would be "Walk on By"U2 which was inspired by her ordeal.In the context of international diplomacy and sanctions,a song may not have rocked the dictatorship but like some of the best pop music helped raise awareness.Cheers Willie Bartke

Discuss: The 'girl power movement of the 1990's. What were its aims and objectives, who were its leaders and what did the movement achieve?

Some of you are not taking this seriously!

Oh yes we are!

A few contenders for inspirational women in music would have to include Nina Simone whose selfpenned "Mississippi Godamn" and "Young,Gifted and Black"crystalised the feelings of disenfranchised black people in the 60s.Much as I love Aretha, the idea of hearing "Respect"for the gazzilionth time doesnt excite me much especially when in its original form by Otis Redding respect was demanded FROM the woman.!I youtubed Aretha last night and homed in on an amazing live peformance of "I Dreamed A Dream"at Clinton's inaugeration.Absolutely stunning unlike her lacklustre performance at Obama's.Lastly, (you guessed maybe,)Joni Mitchell's finest hour, in my book.A song written about one female pioneer by another."Amelia".Exquisite.Cheers Willie Bartke

PLASTIC HALO from DIRTY PAPER CUP by HAFDIS HULD

#54 Or Unplayed Piano / Damien rice which was also written about her.

#56 He's behind you!

#45


More "men's movement" than mentally challenged!

Comes Love - Billy Holiday

Or even Billie Holiday

ELKIE BROOKS, singing just about anything.Her voice is fantastic. Rock, blues, Jazz. Elkie can do it all, sounding great. Her live shows a amazing, she always delivers.The most charted female singer in the U.K. in the last 30years.Album chart.Come on the 'ELK"