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.

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