Favorite Female Vocalist's

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i *worship* patti smith. my teen years would not have been complete without easter and horses.

got to see her live once. in austin at a park during a sxsw. she was hypnotic. i swear she is a shaman.
EDIT: oh! i found a review... and i agree. it was a religious experience.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-03-17/76332/

EDIT 2: holy ****... he used the same word as me, even "She was the shaman, and we were rapt in her spell. "

i don't know if she is like this in every concert, but it was transcendental.

have you read Just Kids? i am enjoying it lots.

Horses was one of the albums I discovered when I was 13 or so that helped me realize I didn't have to listen to the Flock of Seagulls. Great album.

I love live music and have seen thousands of shows but I haven't got the opportunity to see her. Hopefully she continues to perform and I get the chance.

I have the book on the kindle but haven't started it yet. Having two small children has caused a bit of a backlog on my reading.

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[kimm4]

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[geek23ka]

Horses was one of the albums I discovered when I was 13 or so that helped me realize I didn't have to listen to the Flock of Seagulls. Great album.

I love live music and have seen thousands of shows but I haven't got the opportunity to see her. Hopefully she continues to perform and I get the chance.

I have the book on the kindle but haven't started it yet. Having two small children has caused a bit of a backlog on my reading.

you sound like you are about my age with young kids (i have two small ones, too) spent my 20's busy going to shows, too.

i've been using my time sitting with my youngest while he goes to sleep to read with my kindle. god bless the kindle, for it has gotten me to read again.

[jeffaus]

For beautiful clarity and purity in voice, cant go past Karen Carpenter. Good vocalists sing a little sharp, bad vocalists sing flat. Great vocalists sing in almost perfect pitch. Karen Carpenter was the later.

For great female rock voices, there are so many but current crop, I like Pink's raunch and Anastacia's big voice.

[Wilonso]

[GuyJin]

Like Pink's voice, loud and powerful. She's just doin' her own thing, being herself and not caring what others think. Cool.
Karen Carpenter had a lovely voice. Not overpowering, but right there, right all the time. Like Amy Winehouse, left us all too soon.
Dana Glover is another singer I've always liked, ever since I heard her sing the ending theme song from Shrek. My wife noticed it as well, and she's not into Western singers so much. Glover is not that famous, mainly because I think she's rather religious and doesn't want to compromise her beliefs in this cutthroat business of music making, but she should be better known than she is.

[Juggertha]

Ok, she seemed like an idiot during the awards... but she's robin' Jolene here.

[taf1968]

No Sarah love yet? I am disappoint.

[machined]

So many. Diana Ross to Peaches.

[steffo99]

Ok, some from my country, but singing in English.
Sound is very American I think.

Anna Ternheim


Ebba Forsberg


Jenny Wilson

[kimm4]

[geek23ka]

steffo the jenny wilson didnt work for me, so i found another video and like her.

but anna ternheim is amazing. and made me think of these girls...



and then i thought about elizabeth cook. <3

[steffo99]

steffo the jenny wilson didnt work for me, so i found another video and like her.
but anna ternheim is amazing. .

Glad someone liked it This whole thread made me create a new long playlist.

[geek23ka]

Glad someone liked it This whole thread made me create a new long playlist.

which of her records should i start with?

[TnRob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafnJ6mRbgk

[steffo99]

which of her records should i start with?

No idea tbh - some of the singers I didn't even know about before this thread started.
They are seldom seen on TV even here and I have been stuck in my ways just listening mostly to r&b and soul on the youtubes.

I miss how it used to be with MTV and all this -good songs couldn't really escape us. I thought most good local artists went away with the 90's
but I suppose they where just hidden and it now takes effort on my part to find them

[PrincePoutine]

No love for Etta James? Tough crowd.

[discdoggie]

No love for Etta James? Tough crowd.

She sang with the Grateful Dead on NYE one year...sometime in the 80s I believe. I wasn't there (too young yet) but I heard the recording and she brought down the house. Let me see if I can find...

[discdoggie]

No love for Etta James? Tough crowd.

Here it is! Hard2Handle. Sorry can't embed from phone. Enjoy!


http://youtu.be/1DChW7LtosY

[geek23ka]

Here it is! Hard2Handle. Sorry can't embed from phone. Enjoy!


http://youtu.be/1DChW7LtosY

loving it. i saw the dead in 84 (or 85?) at astroworld in houston. seminal experience for me.

got a couple more. really... music is my friggin life. means so much more to me than philosophy, or any sort of books. art is a close second, but music wins.

betty davis. ex of miles davis and influenced his work in the 70's heavily. it happens to be my favorite miles period, so i am thankful for her in many ways.

[geek23ka]

diamanda galas


danielle dax


uzi (later thalia, the singer became underground famous with her bands live skull and come)

[discdoggie]

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loving it. i saw the dead in 84 (or 85?) at astroworld in houston. seminal experience for me.

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This one? I was there!


*****://listentothedead.com/1985/8/31



Good times.

[geek23ka]

it was the 8/30 one (southern star amphitheater) not 8/31 but holy fukkin ****!!! were you there in houston? i was on the grass dancing my tushie off and i remember a group of people offered to let me come with them to follow the dead and i was 15 and nervous so i said thank you, but no. i was too worried about logisitics. i regret not taking them up on the offer. haha.

it was a great night. i really love most deadheads. i know there are scammers, too, but there are in every group. and to be a deadhead you have to live by your wits.