Tonight’s post is vagtastical.

Be Your Own Pet
Bicycle Race
Bicycle, Bicycle (Summer Summer EP version)
The only time Pitchfork and I have been in complete in total agreement is in regards to this band. We both loved their first CD, liked very much their second and were completely and totally fucking bummed when they decided to call it quits this month. I had the lucky opportunity to see the whirling teenyboppers from hell when they played Lollapalooza a few years ago and I am so happy I did. Jemina is a fucking monster on stage, spinning, screaming, dancing and puking – she’s the best female rock star since Deborah Harry. I really hope she starts up something else soon, she has too much energy to keep quiet.

Be Your Own Pet has very few rarities so I really had to stretch it with these bike-centric picks. This version of “Bicycle, Bicycle” is not the one that is on the band’s self-titled debut LP, but is instead the version that was on their first EP Summer Sensation. It’s more lo-fi than the LP version but really bitchin and still hyper-energetic and manic. The cover of Bicycle Race is off a Queen tribute compilation.

Siouxsie & The Banshees
Let Go
The Humming Wires
Siousxie could be called the proto-Jemma (she could definitely be called the proto-Karen O.). How come there aren’t any great alternative bands with female lead singers anymore? The Banshees, The Slits, L7, The Plasmatics, Joan Jett and The Go-Gos, remember them? Now what is there? Fucking Paramore, Flyleaf, Evanescence and Tokio Hotel (oh right, that’s a “guy”)? No wonder so many young girls are falling for shitty band with pretty boy lead singers, they have no one to tell them how to rock! Someone should lock Hanna Montanna/Miley Cyrus/WTF into a room with a bunch of L7 records until she’s ready tolead the tweens of America to a glorious revolution of post-glam hardcore punk rock. Don’t tell me that wouldn’t be totally awesome.

The Bangles
Hazy Shade Of Winter (Purple Haze Mix)
Hazy Shade Of Winter (7” Dub Mix)
This is the only song by The Bangles that is ever going to be on this site, unless there is some 12” remix of “Eternal Flame” I don’t know about. The day I enjoy “Walk Like An Egyptian” is the day I jam a rusty ice pick in my ear.

I don’t like that song.

Anyways, these remixes are from the 12” single.

Bananarama
Venus (Extended Mix)
Okay, now I’m really stretching the whole “girl rock” theme I started out with. I just wanted an excuse to finally put this 12” single remix on the site and off of my queue.

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