Still in RockSIR-202606
PLAYLIST: About Girls
Side AFace A
- A1American Girl Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers3:35
- A2Rock N Roll Girl Paul Collins, The Beat2:16
- A3Southern Girls Cheap Trick3:44
- A4Another Girl Another Planet The Only Ones3:00
- A5(I Live For) Cars and Girls The Dictators3:57
- A6Summer Babe - Winter Version Pavement3:17
- A7My My Kind of Girl - 2002 Remaster Ramones3:32
- A8Girl of My Dreams Bram Tchaikovsky4:11
- A9Superboy & Supergirl Tullycraft3:03
- A10The Girl The Rubinoos2:30
- A11Distopian Dream Girl Built To Spill4:24
Side BFace B
- B1What's Inside a Girl? The Cramps3:22
- B2Bikini Babes Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin1:33
- B3Pretty Girl Radioactivity3:06
- B4Foxy Girl Daniel Johnston4:24
- B5Robson Girl Mac DeMarco2:56
- B6I'm a Boy I'm a Girl Johnny Thunders2:23
- B7Girl Dreams Beck2:04
- B8Gutter Girl Hot Flash Heat Wave3:45
- B9Voodoo Lady - Demo Ween4:35
- B10Today I Met The Girl I'm Going To Marry Nation of Ulysses1:47
- B11Going Shopping The Strokes4:22
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In a previous playlist, I celebrated bands fronted by female lead singers, voices that reshaped punk, slacker, garage, and everything in between. Today, we turn the spotlight to another recurring obsession in rock history: songs about girls.
Girls as muses, memories, myths, heartbreakers, troublemakers, ghosts, ideals, and sometimes very real people. From tender odes to noisy crushes, from romantic clichés to sharper, stranger portraits, these songs show how the idea of “the girl” has been sung, shouted, distorted, and reinvented across generations.
This playlist is not about one kind of girl, nor one kind of love song. It is about the many ways rock has written girls into its stories. I hope you like it.
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