Five Favorite Albums By Female Artists

Have you heard Carina Round?

 

Cowboy Junkies - BLACK-EYED MAN

Doris Duke - I'M A LOSER

Aretha Franklin - I NEVER LOVED A MAN THE WAY I LOVE YOU

Lucinda Williams - LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Amy Winehouse - BACK TO BLACK

 

Linda Ronstadt -- Hand Sown.. Home Grown
Joy Lynn White -- Between Midnight and Hindsight
Becky Hobbs -- All Keyed Up
Carol Hall -- Beads and Feathers
Carlene Carter -- I Fell In Love

 

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Bjork - Post

Hole - Live Through This

Sade - Promise

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

 

Chrissie Hynde - Pretenders: S/T
Rickie Lee Jones: S/T
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
Enya: Watermark
Joan Osborne: Relish

Plus a zillion more, but these are five that really left an impression.

 

Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Tracy Nelson - The best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth
Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
Irma Thomas - The Way I Feel
Janis Joplin - Pearl

 

Just received a nice sounding SACD by Lara Fabian 9

 

Ha. I still need to pick up that album. in the meantime, you've at least inspired me to change my avatar.

 

Can never have too many Yvonne Strahovski avatars around here...

Yes, you need to pick up Omnipop. Actually, I think reverse psychology might work better on you. The album sucks...DON'T buy it.

 

• tori amos - uh... do i have to pick one? under the pink. answer might change tomorrow. but seriously, i was half tempted to answer "tori's first six albums or so."
• imogen heap - i-megaphone. synth, and good songs. and "come here boy" is just damned sexy. i'm sold. frou frou's album (same two people) is also good, but her newest album is pretty blah.
• paz lenchantin - songs for luci. i bet NOBODY here has heard this one. paz was the violinist/bassist in a perfect circle and zwan. the album came to me, burned on a CD-R personally by the artist, and signed by hand. and it's an amazing little album of americana folk violin, from a hot argentinian chick.

female fronted bands okay too?

• portishead - dummy, and
• sneaker pimps - becoming x. two of the greatest trip-hop albums ever.

 

k.d. lang - Absolute Torch and Twang
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

 

Annette Peacock - X-Dreams

Good call...one of my favourite albums. Would be no 6 or 7 in my list but I can only have 5 so...


Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Laura Nyro - Christmas & the Beads of Sweat
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Patti Smith - Horses
Barbra Streisand - Stoney End

I bought the Streisand purely because I remember her covering Stoney End in the early 70s, but the whole album is great. Patti I've loved ever since Horses came out and her recent shows have been excellent. I could have had 5/6 Joni and similar for Laura who I think is the most under-rated great singer/songwriter.

My first post!

 

Great albums!

I'll add:

Janis Joplin: Pearl
Patti Smith: Gung Ho
Bonnie Raitt: Nick Of Time
Suzanne Vega: Days Of Open Hand
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love

 

Only one I can thik of that hasn't already been mentioned;

Shannon Curfman - Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

 

replace J.J.'s Pearl with Natalie Merchant's Tigerlilly

so the list goes something like this
Joni Mitchell - Mile Of Aisled (Live 2LP 1974)
Patti Smith - Horses
Joan Armatradding - To The Limit
Sade - Diamond Life
Natalie Merchant - tigerlilly

in chronologic order

others
for individual songs.

Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love
Michelle Shocked, Anchored In Anchorage /
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner, Luca..