Intimate Portrait: Women in Rock (1999)

About this title: Rhino's Lifetime Music series continues with Intimate Portrait: Women in Rock, a collection of 16 songs performed by females artists and mainly recorded in the '80s or '90s. The collection illustrates the fallacy of grouping all female artists under the heading "women in rock, " since there are too many different styles, from soft rock to hard rock, to make this disc really hold together. Nevertheless, it's a reasonably entertaining collection, if it's taken as a series of moments. Not every artist is represented by their best-known material (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts are here with ... read more

Tracks:

1. A Hazy Shade of Winter [Simon]
2. French Song [Jett/Laguna/Byrd/Wi]
3. Baby I Can't Please You [Phillips]
4. She Bop [Chertoff/Corbett/La]
5. Would I Lie to You? [Lennox/Stewart]
6. It's So Easy [Holly/Petty]
7. When I Grow Up [Shocked]
8. Goodbye to You [Smith]
9. Gloria [Tozzi/Bigazzi/Veitc]
10. Venus [VanLeeuwen]
11. Kiss Me Deadly [Smiley]
12. Middle of the Road [Hynde]
13. Hit Me With Your Best Shot [Schwartz]
14. Maryland [Shepard]
15. Feed the Tree [Donelly]
16. Black Velvet [Tyson/Ward]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.