Women musicians/singers who don't make you change the station

[funKYcat75]

Might sound misogynist, but there aren't too many for me (unless I just forgot about them)

- Mariah Carey - girl can sing
- Annie Lenox
- Alison Krauss
- Heart
- Chick from Evanescence

Obviously not much recent stuff.

To be fair. I like to sing along and most ladies would be out of my range, except Anne Murray and Karen Carpenter (guilty pleasure)

 

[Glenn's Take]

Florence and the Machine

 

[Strokin_Bandit]

Miranda Lambert has some good stuff. The song, "The House that Built Me" hits me pretty hard in the feels, as the kids say.

 

[UKserialkiller]

Courtney Love
Patsy Kline
Queen Latifah
Slymenstra Hymen

 

[buckethead1978]

Norah Jones

 

[mashburned]

Amy Winehouse
Gwen Stefani

 

[AustinTXCat]

Laura Branigan - Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records co-founder, said she was the purist female vocalist he ever heard.

Janis Joplin - "beat weeds", according to her high-school classmate, Jimmy Johnson, the former coach of the Miami Hurricanes and Dallas Cowboys. Radical. Irreverent. Folksy. Her live performances are stuff of legend.

 

[Glenn's Take]

Margo Timmins of Cowboy Junkies with the greatest remake ever

 

[55wildcat]

instant stiffie....

 

[argubs2]

Jagged Little Pill is :fire:.

It just is, accept it.

 

[JamesIII]

No Doubt - however, anything new by Gwen Stefani makes me swallow my puke as I'm driving down the road. It's bananas...b-a-n-a-n-a-s.

 

[-Mav-]

except Anne Murray and Karen Carpenter (guilty pleasure)

Be not ashamed of liking Karen Carpenter. She had one of the all time great voices.

 

[Glenn's Take]

Be not ashamed of liking Karen Carpenter. She had one of the all time great voices.

If she would have eaten half of Cass Elliott's ham sandwich would they both be alive today?

 

[-Mav-]

If she would have eaten half of Cass Elliott's ham sandwich would they both be alive today?

Insensitive take, Glenn.

 

[Col. Angus]

Heart and Lizzy Hale (Halestorm) are about it.

 

[Get Buckets]

Whitney. There I said it.

 

[MarvinHagler89]

Chvrch. Lady Gaga. Bout it. Majority of the have zero true talent

 

[Kooky Kats_anon]

The best voice: Linda Ronstadt
Gillian Welch
Iris DeMent
Lucinda Williams
Bonnie Raitt
Emmylou Harris
Björk
Briana Corrigan
Jacqui Abbott

 

[Kooky Kats_anon]

Chvrch. Lady Gaga. Bout it. Majority of the have zero true talent

False.

 

[MarvinHagler89]

False.

My opinion.

 

[AustinTXCat]

The best voice: Linda Ronstadt

She should have earned my third choice. Awesome.

Others: Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin.

 

[funKYcat75]

Gaga has a great voice. Truth.

 

[Kooky Kats_anon]

Beth Orton
Billie Holliday
Nanci Griffith
Joss Stone
Jill Scott
Janis Joplin

 

[Kooky Kats_anon]

My opinion.

Being wrong is not an opinion, it's ignorance.

 

[Tannerdad]

Eva Cassidy
Patsy Cline
Juice Newton
Joss Stone
Melissa Manchester

 

[ZakkW]

Pat Benatar
Patty Loveless
Patsy Cline
Loretta Lynn
Brenda Lee
Ronstadt

and anyone who scoffs at Karen Carpenter can get pumped.

IMO.

 

[Lexie's Dad]

Heart
Joan Nett
Lita Ford

 

[TortElvisII]

Dolores O'Riordan

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Has Florence and The Machine done anything new lately? I know she's gone on to do collaborations that have been great.

The lead singer for Company of Thieves is woefully underrated from the same time..

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Gotta hand it to Hayley Williams of Paramore.. although people will rag on this genre.. she has quite the voice..

 

[Glenn's Take]

Has Florence and The Machine done anything new lately? I know she's gone on to do collaborations that have been great.

Not since 2015. Not sure if anything is in the works.

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

Plenty of good female artists past and present. I like a lot of the ones already named but I will add a few that I wont change the channel on that haven't been mentioned

Susan Tedeschi
Beth Hart
ZZ Ward
Allison Mosshart (The Kills / The Dead Weather)
Grace Potter
Fiona Apple

Old school...

Debby Harry
Patti Smith
Kim Deal (The Pixies / The Breeders)
Janet Jackson
Joan Jett
Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Chvrch. Lady Gaga. Bout it. Majority of the have zero true talent

Chvrches? niceee.

That name made me think of another band with a vowel replacement, PVRIS. Not sure this lead singer has fully shown here capabilities. But she can sing and she's smoke. 1:30 in for the chorus.

 

[GhostVol]

Minnie Riperton. This version of "Inside My Love "was so good, the videographer recorded it twice. Not many vocalists can hit the whistle register but Minnie did it with ease. Breast cancer took her way too early.

 

[Glenn's Take]

Fiona Apple

I can't tell you how many times I listened to this song when I got divorced.

 

[GhostVol]

Patsy Cline. They don't play her much these days because she puts modern country to shame.

 

[UKGrad93]

Heart
Joan Jett
Annie Lennox
Aretha Franklin
Janis Joplin
Tina Turner

Longer list than I expected.

 

[GhostVol]

Contemporary lady now. Deborah Bond

 

[Kooky Kats_anon]

 

[GhostVol]

Syd tha Kyd is fascinating . She is lesbian and looks like Sammy Davis Jr reincarnated as a woman. But The Internet is a damned good band.