The g2g love song list « Rabdrake’s Weblog

24. Girl from the North Country by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley – Definitive version of a traditional song from Well Kept Secrets & a separate cover by Katy Davidson - Dear Nora & a youtube cover by Kaymmill – now defunct.

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042711&type=track

http://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Moscatiello+and+Rosie+Shipley/_/Girl+From+the+North+Country

http://www.last.fm/music/Dear+Nora/_/Girl+From+The+North+Country

25. Never Be The Same Again by Melanie C “Sporty Spice” and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2FtZ3Eth-4 video duet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9t83xJTXs live duet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqivsm6pYU&feature=related live duet mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6ns0dKEQY&feature=related live duet MTV 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfPUd0-kj8&feature=related live duet -TOP of Pops – song touted as number 1

26. Squeezebox Days by The Murmurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjpcAKDkkQ&feature=related

27. Shameless by Ani DiFranco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjizt4Ixt6E

28. Tell Me by God-Des and She

http://www.imeem.com/bigmama04inc/music/NJ4jTxFh/goddes_and_she_tell_me/

29. Leah by Rachael Sage

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16755865&type=track

30. The Whole Night by Ani DiFranco great you tube cover by kayenne1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBmTcOeQXs

31. All You Got by Tegan and Sara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7J_1wRTyqE

32. Valerie by Amy Winehouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g

33. Alison by Janas Hoyt & the Mary Janes

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16201717&type=track

34. Wenn die beste Freundin (When my best Friend) by Marlene Dietrich and Margot Lion “…which became the theme song of lesbians in late 1920s Berlin.” A sample in English of the Ute Lemper cover (2nd link below) “When The Special Girlfriend” is in the movie Kissing Jessica Stein.

http://www.last.fm/music/Marlene+Dietrich/_/Wenn+die+beste+Freundin

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.20625166&remote=false&page=&pageregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=

35. Girl I told Ya by Valeria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suX47IDIVdo

36. I kissed a girl by Katy Perry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs

37. You Can Sleep While I Drive by Melissa Etheridge. In a duet with Jewel and a duet with Amy Grant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBYYJ73MsM

38. Send Me You by The Butchies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxuMSwEZaE

39. Let’s Get This Party Started by Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGe0GvtQZGQ&feature=related - full length

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Na44-wSYnE&feature=related - sample

40. Gotta Get Over Greta by The Nields (preview link) “Two skinny tomboys on our bikes – Riding forever into the summer night. There is no marriage more sublime. There is no divorce more final.”

http://www.nields.com/greta.html

41. The Weakness In Me by Joan Armatrading a cover by Melissa Etherridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61l43q3dJE&feature=related

42. Tangled up in Blue by The Indigo Girls

http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo+Girls/_/Tangled+Up+in+Blue

& Redacted version – youtube cover by ehburns2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWoFrRvT0A

43. She’s A Lady by Patricia Barber

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=13890120&type=track

44. Beauty*2 by Ladytron - mibblet – youtube cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duy55RwlM6A

brujales – youtube cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBP7-DJzUX8

45. Crazy by Alanis Morissette – Five star cover of a brilliant song by Seal. Alanis is in excellent voice, ingeniously weaving an intriguing storyline containing love triangles, bisexuality, dyke drama – wow!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=769245065

http://video.interia.pl/obejrzyj,film,51006,sortuj,ch,st,5,pozycja,5657,Alanis_Morissette_-_&quot%3BCrazy&quot%3B

http://www.videosbr.info/video/28839/Clipe-Alanis-Morissette-Crazy.html

46. Oh My God by Pink & Peaches youtube cover blakenndoll82

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtj6pH5WaXA

youtube cover jamessouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUGVkBcrwI

youtubecover terminite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWDc99KNgM&feature=related

47. I Like Girls by Axe Girl you tube cover GINGERQUEEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z435nyaLlU

48. Kissing by Bliss N.B. Piper Perabo, as a baby-dyke, presaging her role as Rachel in Imagine Me & You – youtube cover – juneseventeen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLEaN31bro&feature=related

49. Hush Sweet Lover by Kd Lang

http://noolmusic.com/music_video/kd_lang_-_hush_sweet_lover.php

50. The Road by Leslie Leone

http://www.indabamusic.com/songs/show/134671

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=86497

51. Why Couldn’t It Have Been Me? by Ari Fox Lauren

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20510032

52. Sex (I’m a lesbian) by The Butchies

53. For My Lover by Tracy Chapman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn01zVMX6Q0

54. I Don’t Wanna Talk About It by the Indigo Girls. “…I certainly never thought we’d record a song that Rod Stewart had done. E.S.” (Rarities – liner notes)

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=19603262&type=track

55. Not A Love Song by Uh Huh Her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9iPPfOMvM

56. Ballad in Plain D by the Indigo Girls – youtube cover KDANTEATER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzIREBi_lA

57. Venus by Anais Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK3PVgYAcc&feature=related

58. Here’s a Health to All True Lovers by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley from their album Well Kept Secrets

http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042700&type=track

Contrasting the same-sex emphasis supra is this version by Scottish traditional singer, Belle Stewart

http://www.last.fm/music/Belle+Stewart

59. Halo by Bethany Joy Lenz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4fG6UxxxE&feature=channel_page

60. Spanish Harlem by Janet Seidel & a separate cover by Rebecca Pidgeon

http://www.imeem.com/people/eiGcPB/music/HL_3bdtw/janet_seidel_spanish_harlem/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmpVDeh1jf0

61. Black Magic Woman by Patricia Barber

http://www.last.fm/music/Patricia+Barber/_/Black+Magic+Woman

62. Prove It on Me Blues by Ma Rainey released 1928 “Went out last night with a pile of my friends. They must have been women cause I don’t like no men.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Ma+Rainey/_/Prove+It+on+Me+Blues

63. B. D. Woman’s Blues by Lucille Bogan released 1935 (B. D. aka Bull Dyke) “…they can lay their jive just like a natural man.”

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.11091745&remote=false&page=&pageregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=

64. Walk The Dog & Light The Light The Light by Laura Nyro, released 1993.

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1951040&albumid=8105971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_R4eyjQnEg&feature=channel_page youtube cover vj denknee

65. Sweet Woman by Cris Williamson released 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncS4V6ka8A

66. You Had Time by Ani Difranco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclUbgdtMXg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDXjyTBKs8

67. Softcore by Dusty Springfield with Carole Pope at the Rough Trade 1986 Farewell Concert – Montreal. Carole to Dusty “You like to be on top?” Check out Anti Diva by Pope. She and Dusty were lovers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0IYbciK0o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewoodstock%2Ecom%2Fpart%2D7%2Drough%2Dtrade%2Dfarewell%2Dconcert%2D1986%2Dsoftcore%2Fyt%2Dvideo%2FhH0IYbciK0o%2F&feature=player_embedded

68. Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter by Phranc http://www.rhapsody.com/phranc/goofyfoot

69. Come Over Here by Sarah Bettens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0d2__zl_s&feature=related

70. If You Go Away by Dusty Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y&feature=related

71. Viens, Malika – Lakme by Maddy Mesple and Danielle Millet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0RPXcpDes&feature=channel_page - VJ starrynight003

72. Shy by Ani DiFranco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIrSoCkdzk

73. Sally Go Round The Roses by Fanny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pHGXIh9Cg&feature=related

74. Te Amo by Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VODDpR0HAd0&feature=related

75. Just Like A Woman by Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull, Vicki Randle, et al

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJHkWELiuYc&feature=related

76. Take me or leave me by Idina Menzel & Tracie Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNzpl3vz5Y&feature=related

77. Come To My Window And Inevitable by Shakira & Melissa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q67RoF0Q1cE&feature=fvw

78. I Hate your ex-girlfriend by God-des & She

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxzG7KQ8Ws&feature=related

79. Cute For a Girl by Alix Olson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYS2TXviOFQ&feature=related

80. One More Hour by Sleater-Kinney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koskizxFmOM&feature=related

81. Perfect by Doria Roberts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z343A35o18&feature=related

82. These Boots Were Made For Walkin’ by Two Nice Gilrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lEwkMTPF8

To make the list: the singer must be a woman; the love lyrics must be obvious; and the love object must be unmistakably a woman. Not friendship love, but undisguised sensuality, an open expression of same-sex attraction.

Please feel free to circulate the list and offer suggestions.

17 Comments

B.D. said,

August 27, 2008 at 3:18 pm

I’m not at all certain that Katy Perry should make the list. Her song and video make it more like she’s playing it up for a guy than her own real feelings. On another note, Two Nice Girls should definitely be on the list.

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Greta Christina said,

August 27, 2008 at 8:47 pm

I’d add “Gotta Get Over Greta” by The Nields. Can’t find an mpeg or a video, but here’s a site with the lyrics:

http://www.nields.com/greta.html

And I don’t agree about Katy Perry. The song only mentions her boyfriend once, in the chorus. The fact that the song is about curiosity doesn’t mean it’s about pleasing men.

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Donimo said,

August 28, 2008 at 12:35 am

Interesting list! You’ve forgotten a very powerful song from my teenage years: High School Confidential by Rough Trade. Carole Pope sings clearly about a girl making her “cream her jeans” etc., etc.. Carole is out, too. Bring on the Canadians!!!

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realsupergirl said,

August 28, 2008 at 4:19 am

Love that you included “Crimson and Clover”. Only real Joan Jett fans know about that cover, and that it first appeared on her VERY FIRST album post-Runaways, long before anyone asked the question about whether she was a big ole dyke.

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B.D. said,

August 28, 2008 at 11:40 am

Fair enough about Kate Perry. I’m a Jill Sobule fan so perhaps I’m bringing some bias there. Good thought on Rough Trade (swoon).

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The Ultimate Lesbionic Mix « Supergirl Saves the World said,

August 28, 2008 at 2:04 pm

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Hannah Mae said,

September 7, 2008 at 3:10 am

Speaking of Pink, her duet with Peaches – “Oh My God” – is pretty dirty and pretty overtly girl-on-girl….

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Hannah Mae said,

September 7, 2008 at 3:16 am

Whoops, forgot the video:

It’s a live version, so there’s no Peaches – but there’s a lot of cheesy-yet-hot stripper action, and Pink in a hat she apparently borrowed from Rob Halford.

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rabdrake said,

September 7, 2008 at 6:42 am

Hi Hannah:

What a superb choice. I posted 4 separate links. Personally, I have three distinct preferences, but others are already in two discernible camps. I’m sure it’s quite obvious.
Despite our stated preferences, we all yearn for that seemingly just beyond. The late, craft sexologist, Cynthia Slater defined a “top,” as such. It was some one who could guide you to a place beyond which you thought you could ever go. But at the same time, enable you with the realization that you were capable of still more.

Thanks again Rabdrake

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Sasilvia said,

November 11, 2008 at 11:56 pm

Good post.

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Smorl said,

January 9, 2009 at 11:57 pm

Another Indigo Girls track, well Emily Saliers cover of Dylan’s Ballad in plain D

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rabdrake said,

January 10, 2009 at 3:31 am

Hi Smorl: Nice find thanks

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ulla said,

January 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm

please please pleeeeeeease come and see http://insisters.blogspot.com

and if you wanna exchange links, pls yell?

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rabdrake said,

January 10, 2009 at 7:31 pm

Music to my ears when a bevy of Lesbos wants to link with a Dykechaser

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ulla said,

January 10, 2009 at 7:36 pm

i’m off to add you now

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Lecy said,

June 19, 2009 at 4:45 pm

What does Let’s Get This Party Started by Pink have to do with lesbian love?
That being said, cool idea. I’ve wished a list like this existed for a while now. Also, thanks for only including songs that specifically relate to same sex affection. Even gay or bi singers tend to mask their songs by making them vague and saying “you” instead of “she.” And I’m sick of it.

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- rabdrake said,
  
  June 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm
  
  Hi Lecy:
  Thanks for the feedback. You said some “mask their songs.” If I can find a video cover or a particular treatment which underscores an open same-sex expression, it’s onto the list. e.g. “Crazy” – Alanis Morissette #45. There is an original version Pink did of “Let’s get this party started” #39 with three women on fabrics ala The Gymnast. It featured tribad sex between Pink and another performer. Also, there were several highlighted shots of “100 footers” in the audience. So I bootstrapped it. Check out the sample I just found. A tad lesbo?
  Found the FULL-LENGTH. Your feedback was inspiring. Props Lecy.
  
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