> Is 12 too young for the Queers?  Certainly if she was a boy I'd recommend
> that, starting next year: no adolescent male could resist songs called "I
> Can't Stop Farting" and "Ursula Finally Has Tits."

I was thinking more along the lines of bands like this too.  The whole New
Found Glory/Ataris/Good Charlotte thing just doesn't do it for me like the
Queers, Screeching Weasel or Green Day.  But there is also the consideration
of  the "but Dad, no one knows who they are" syndrome....as a father I used
to get that all the time.  So I'd recommend Green Day, since they are the
better known of the Lookout glory days bands.  You can't go wrong with
"Dookie".  And maybe the Mr T Experience too.  Dr. Frank knows how to write
a clever love song...and it'll be plenty clean lyrically for a 12 year old,
if that's a concern.

>
> I'd throw in Go Sailor's self-titled album from 1996 too: it's a little
> scrappy and very "indie" sounding, but if I had a 12-year-old daughter,
> it's a record I'd want her to hear.  "See, you can be a woman doing this
> sort of thing without being the Donnas and going 'Look!  We're women!
> Doing this sort of thing!  And we're women!  You can tell by how much we
> talk about being women!  And have you noticed our tits yet?  Here they are
> again, just in case!'"  Further strong recommendations for the Aislers Set
> (featuring Amy Linton, who was Go Sailor's drummer) and Henry's Dress
> (which was her other early band).
>
> S
>

If the Tiger Trap full length is still in print, it would also fall into the
same category...same vocalist as Go Sailor and a tad more raw.

Steve