Five Favorite Albums By Female Artists

Sermon is very different for Rickie. I like it a lot but I kind of describe it as Rickie meets Tom Waits.

 

Lucinda Williams- ST- this lady tells the truth
Joni Mitchell- Blue- all time favorite
Billie Holiday- Body and Soul-my late night female album
Gillian Welch- Time( the Revelator) or the first one.. hard choice
Goldfrapp- Seventh Tree- unbelievable voice. my album of the year.

Honorable mention:

Ella Fitzgerald-Sings the Cole Porter Song Book..probably should be # 1 though.

 

Nanci Griffith- Last of the True Believers
Belinda Carlisle- Runaway Horses
Stevie Nicks- Bella Donna
Pat Benatar- Crimes of Passion
Barbra Streisand- Guilty

 

I did choose Blue but I could have chosen any of the first four. I am not familiar with Goldfrapp.

 

The Bangles:"All Over the Place","Different Light","Everything" and "Doll Revolution" and The Shangri-las-"Leader Of The Pack". Michael Boyce

 

I have 6 in no order:
Billie Holiday- Lady In Satin
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Donna Summer- Bad Girls
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
Sarah McLachlan- Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Rickie Lee Jones- s/t

 

I agree. Joni is queen in many respects. Court and Spark is closely behind. Much lighter album and more tongue in cheek than Blue. Some people have a hard tme listening to Blue. It doesnt make me uncomfortable though.

Goldfrapp is the last name of the singer. I cant remember her first right off hand. Most of her first albums were more dance meets industrial type stuff. This one is soft. Kind of like those early morning rays that peek through a window sound - if that makes sense. She does some amazing turns with her vocals. And the melodies are just beautiful. Otherworldly stuff.

 

Patty Waters -- Sings
Sylvie Courvoisier -- Abaton
Sandy Denny -- The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
Nico -- The Marble Index
Joni Mitchell -- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

EDIT: I'm going to follow dumangl's lead (even though his post followed mine, which tears a hole in the time-space continuum), and throw in five "girl groups", or, shall we say, bands that consist wholely or entirely of female members, to be a bit less patriarchal:

Mephista -- Entomological Reflection
Slits -- Cut
Death Praxis -- s/t
X-Ray Spex -- Germfree Adolescents
Electrelane -- The Power Out

 

Solo:

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Enya - The Celts
Dolly Parton - Halos And Horns
Mary Hopkin - Earth Song Ocean Song
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Girl groups:

The Honeys - Ecstasy
American Spring - Spring
Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton - Trio
Bangles - Doll Revolution
Uncle Earl - She Waits For Me

 

INPO

Minnie Riperton = Come To My Garden
Patti Austin = Patti Austin
Janet Jackson = Control
Stephanie Mills = What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'
Bette Midler = No Frills

i could name 100's in all honesty!

 

Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Helen Merrill - With Strings
Shirley Horn - Here's To Life
Sam Phillips - Cruel Inventions
Norma Winstone - Somewhere Called Home

 

in chronological order of release:

Chelsea Girl by Nico
Horses by Patti Smith
Broken English by Marianne Faithfull
Aerial by Kate Bush
Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

extras:
Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Rockferry by Duffy

 

Trying to avoid the obvious and the recent, here's five I've played often over the years:

Cybill Shepherd feat. Stan Getz - Mad About The Boy
Randy Crawford - Secret Combination
Janis Siegel - At Home
Louise Goffin - Kid Blue
Rosanne Cash - Rules Of Travel

 

Good call on the Randy Crawford...one of Tommy LiPuma's finest productions.

 

Just five?!? Ok...

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Iris DeMent - My Life
Liz Phair - s/t
Bangles - Different Light
Sinead O'Connor - Faith and Courage

and in another league:

Sarah Vaughan - Misty (2fer)

 

Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red & Gray
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Thea Gilmore - Rules for Jokers
and, in first place:
Fiona Apple - WHEN THE PAWN hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing before he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

 

Joni Mitchell--Blue

Bjork--Homogenic

Rickie Lee Jones--Pirates

Sandy Denny--Sandy

Kate Bush--Aerial

 

Here's Five Favorites that haven't been mentioned yet...

Margie Joseph - Makes a New Impression
Heather Myles - Sweet Talk & Good Lies
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Kelly Carkson - Breakaway

 

bjork - vespertine
aimee mann - lost in space
lauryn hill - the miseducation
jenny lewis - rabbit fur coat
stevie nicks - buckingham-nicks (or any mac album)

 

Well...since I have many favourite albums by female artists here are five that come to mind immediately -

Madonna - Like A Prayer
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Diana Ross - Diana
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M

If you ask me tomorrow it could quite easily be

Barbra Streisand - Stoney End or Guilty
Macy Gray - On How Life Is
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna or Rock A Little
Kylie Minogue - Light Years or Rhythm Of Love
Anita Baker - Rapture
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Bananarama - WOW or Bananarama
Supremes - Love Child or Supremes A Go-Go
or multiple others.

So hard to choose!

Steve

 

Difficult to pick 5 but here goes.

Sarah McLachlan- Fmblin' Towards Ecstacy
Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark
Emmylou Harris- Wrecking Ball
Rickie Lee Jones- S/t
Aretha Franklin- Aretha Now.

Could have included somehting by Loreena McKennitt, Patricia Barber, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams and Etta James in amongst many others.

 

In no particular order...

Patti Smith - Horses
Patti Smith - Easter
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Joan Jett - Album

 

Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin

 

Like that album do ya?