"The first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments

[Mike 03]

to top the Billboard album charts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Go%27s

Our Lips are Sealed

"Head Over Heels" (Live - Belinda Carlisle Tour 1986)

1984 studio version of "Head Over Heels"

[underpants]

1. Uh, The Shaggs?

[mr_lebowski]

6. Shockingly, I don't think that one ever topped the charts

OMG that is fucking awful ... like, if you were going to torture people, you'd play that really loud ... and like 15 minutes into it they'd be telling you ANYTHING you wanted to know.

[underpants]

7. You know their story right?

[mr_lebowski]

8. I just read the Wiki page ... I have to LOL at how many people, some of whom I respect

Are actually trying to claim this is somehow good, or even great. Like a bunch of hipsters decided, as a lark, to see if they could collectively convince the world that this is great, for their amusement.

When really it's beyond freaking terrible.

They literally sound like they picked up a musical instrument for the first time like a week before they recorded this ... and don't get me started on the singing.

It's so, so bad.

[underpants]

9. Yes it is

They still perform mostly with adoring fans.

[mr_lebowski]

10. Well then hopefully they've improved their musical acumen in the intervening 50 years

I literally cannot listen to more than 30 seconds of this before I start wanting to break things in my immediate surroundings.

[luvs2sing]

2. Ummm..what about Fanny?

They were extraordinary: they wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them.

— David Bowie

[sweetloukillbot]

3. First to top the Billboard charts - trimmed from the thread title

[JimGinPA]

5. They Kicked Ass!

I saw them in St. Louis when they toured supporting 'Charity Ball'.

[Tikki]

4. My favorite GO GOs song..."Can't Stop the World"...written by Go Go Kathy Valentine...

When she was with the Textones.

Tikki