Music: What are your favorite Albums By Women?

[Elvis P]

My need to listen to list includes: Adele, '21'

My favorites in no order are: Aretha Franklin, 'I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You', Blondie, 'Parallel Lines', Carole King - Tapestry, Dionne Warwick Sings Bacharach & David Songbook, Dusty Springfield, 'Dusty in Memphis', Fleetwood Mac, 'Rumours', Joni Mitchell, 'Blue', Missy Elliott, 'Under Construction', Patti Smith, 'Horses' 'Gloria' "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine", and The Supremes, 'Anthology'.

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[Mimsy]

There are many individual songs by female artists that I love, but I don't own too many albums. I like songs by Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Nico, Blondie, Anne Murray, but mostly own a selection of singles by these artists.

Some specific albums:

Linda Ronstadt: "Heart Like a Wheel" and "Silk Purse" (or just get "Best of the Capitol Years", which packages all her Capital material together on 2 cds -- the remaster sometimes sounds a bit tinny)

The Ronettes: "Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica"

'til Tuesday: "Coming Up Close: A Retrospective" -- 'til Tuesday may not exactly fit the criteria for the topic, as they were more a band that featured a female vocalist/bassist/lyricist. However, they were driven by Aimee Mann, who is a talented solo artist in her own right.

Marianne Faithfull's Greatest Hits (I don't like listing compilation albums, but I played this one quite a bit)

Lights (debut EP)

Sinead O'Connor: "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" (I don't listen to this album anymore, but loved it back in the day)

Duffy: "Rockferry"

When it was first released, I enjoyed Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill". Now, I'd rather take a bullet to the head.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
L7 - Hungry For Stink

 

[Shareefruck]

I must be musically sexist or something, because I like way fewer than male artists. These are basically all the ones I like.

1. Chopin: Sonata No.3 by Martha Argerich - 5.0 (Masterpiece)

2. Radio Ethiopia by Patti Smith - 4.0 (Flawless)
3. Odyshape by The Raincoats - 4.0 (Flawless)

4. Cut by The Slits - 3.5 (Great)
5. Horses by Patti Smith - 3.5 (Great)
6. Transient Random Noise Bursts by Stereolab - 3.5 (Great) [**** it, I'm counting it]

7. Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos - 3.0 (Very Good)
8. Desertshore by Nico - 3.0 (Very Good)
9. The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees - 3.0 (Very Good)
10. Journey in Satchidanananda by Alice Coltrane - 3.0 (Very Good)
11. Treasure by Cocteau Twins - 3.0 (Very Good)
12. Mars Audiac Quintet by Stereolab - 3.0 (Very Good)
13. Switched on Vol 2. Refried Ectoplasm by Stereolab - 3.0 (Very Good)
14. Rid of Me by PJ Harvey - 3.0 (Very Good)
15. With Clifford Brown by Sarah Vaughan - 3.0 (Very Good)

16. The Well-Tempered Synthesizer by Wendy Carlos - 2.5 (Good)
17. Universal Consciousness by Alice Coltrane - 2.5 (Good)
18. Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees - 2.5 (Good)
19. The Raincoats by The Raincoats - 2.5 (Good)
20. Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins - 2.5 (Good)
21. Dots and Loops by Stereolab - 2.5 (Good)
22. Chelsea Girls by Nico - 2.5 (Good)
23. Post by Bjork - 2.5 (Good)
24. Homogenic by Bjork - 2.5 (Good)
25. Debut by Bjork - 2.5 (Good)
26. Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab - 2.5 (GOod)

27. Roseland NYC by Portishead - 2.0 (Positive)

Never did manage to get into Joni Mitchell or Kate Bush.

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

Dead Sara
Born to Die
The Fame Monster
The Sign

 

[Tim Calhoun]

Annie - Animal
Ariana Grande - My Everything
Beach House - Bloom
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
Grimes - Visions
Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Regina Spektor - Far
Sarah McLachlan - Closer

Includes groups where the main person is a woman.

 

[kihei]

Zelia Barbosa:

Cibelle:

Dionne Warwick:

Marianne Faithful:

Martha Argerich:

Rosa Passos:

 

[Elvis P]

Good call on Dionne. I forgot this album on my list, but added it.

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Just 10 more or less random ones, trying not to count bands with frontwomen unless they were the primary songwriting force.

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Grimes - Art Angels
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Bjork - Homogenic
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Robyn - Body Talk

 

[McPuritania]

Regina Spektor - What We Saw From the Cheap Seats.



Fantastic.

 

[Sigh]

L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
L7 - Hungry For Stink

 

[Big Ed]

A few recent favorites of mine.

Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers
Halsey - Badlands

 

[Gee Wally]

Carole King - Tapestry.

 

[Hivemind]

 

[Elvis P]

Carole King - Tapestry.

Another good one I forgot.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The Best of Sade (1994)

Love listening to album and prefer it over her individual records leading up to that. I prefer the songs put together for the overall songs on those albums

 

[Buckets and Gloves]

Anything by Morrissey

 

[kingsholygrail]

I like Loreena McKennitt.

 

[Eisen]

Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Carole King - Tapestry.

Absolutely

Joni Mitchell:
Blue
Court and Spark
The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Plus

Sarah MacLauchlin - Mirrorball
Bonnie Rait - Luck of the Draw
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Florence And The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

 

[kihei]

Hey, that's cool.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love, The Sensual World
Lynn Miles - Night in a Strange Town, Unravel
Carrie Newcomer - A Gathering of Spirits, Bare to the Bone
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink
Toni Childs - House of Hope
Pat Benatar - Get Nervous, Crimes of Passion
Adrienne Young - The Art of Virtue, Room to Grow
Michelle Lewis - Broken (EP), The Parts of Us That Still Remain
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue, To the Faithful Departed
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul, Songs of Faith

A bunch of jazz and CCM artists, too.

 

[PanthersHockey1]

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook.