My top 5

Patti Smith - Horses
Joni Mitchel - HeJira
Sandy Denny - North Star Grassman & The Ravens
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Linda Hoyle - Pieces of Me

honorable mentions for -

Emmylou Harris - Elite Hotel
Laurie Anderson - Big Science

What do others think. Only one choice per artist, all-female groups, duos, trios etc accepted.

andy

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Joan Jett "Album"



"Fake Friends", "The French Song", and "Star, Star" really stand out!

All tracks written by Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna except where noted

"Fake Friends" – 3:23
"Handyman" – 3:23
"Everyday People" (Sylvester Stewart) – 2:40
"A Hundred Feet Away" (Jett, Laguna, Peter Anders) – 2:33
"Secret Love" – 4:03
"Star Star" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) [*on 1st Cassette Tape Version only] – 4:00
"The French Song" (Jett, Laguna, Ricky Byrd, Mike Winter Jr.) – 3:35
"Tossin' & Turnin'" (Ritchie Adams, Malou Rene) – 2:25
"Why Can't We Be Happy" – 3:53
"I Love Playing With Fire" (Jett) – 3:03
"Coney Island Whitefish" – 3:35
"Had Enough" (Jett, Laguna, Ricky Byrd) – 2:26

CD bonus tracks

"Nitetime" – 4:52
"Everyday People (Dance Mix)" (Sylvester Stewart) – 4:19
"Wait For Me" (Jett) – 4:33
"Who Can You Trust" (Jett, Laguna, Stephen Lunt) – 2:51
"Scratch My Back" (Jett, Laguna, Stephen Lunt) – 4:13
"Locked Groove" – 3:47

Billie Holiday-Lady sings the blues. vinyl
Patti Smith Group-Easter.vinyl
Marianne Faithfull-Broken English.vinyl
The Ronettes-The Ronettes Sing their greatest hits.
Siouxsie and the Banshees-Hyaena.vinyl
Janis Joplin-Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits-vinyl



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No love for Janis?

Breeders "Last Splash"

Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions

She played quite a bit from this album opening for The Stones in the UK in 1999.

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No love for Janis?

Thanks for reminding me

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No love for Janis?

I love Janis!

I will add Cheap Thrills to my list.

A couple of the Sass Jordan ones are pretty good. What a voice.

One album is 'Racine' and another is 'Rats.'





That last note she hits at about 3.50 is just killer.



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PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

A sexist and inappropriate premise.

What not best album by a male artist? or a homosexual or a heterosexual or a mineral or vegetable?

let's tear down these walls!

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PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

this is a good pj harvey cd

Amy Winehouse's Back To Black is amazing. You have to go back to Lucinda's Car Wheels for a record that good by a woman

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PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

this is a good pj harvey cd

Yes Rollin' Stoner you are very right!!!

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ChrisO
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

this is a good pj harvey cd

Yes Rollin' Stoner you are very right!!!

saw PJ Harvey on the "Rid of Me" tour at the Hollywood Palladium...Great Show!

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PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

this is a good pj harvey cd

Yes Rollin' Stoner you are very right!!!

saw PJ Harvey on the "Rid of Me" tour at the Hollywood Palladium...Great Show!

She's at the top of my "Gotta see some day list"...Sorry Keith & Mick!

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A sexist and inappropriate premise.

What not best album by a male artist? or a homosexual or a heterosexual or a mineral or vegetable?

let's tear down these walls!

The Chemical Brothers
The Cranberries

Something along these lines / walls?

anything by sheryl crow except country music.

Some other great albums

Carole King - Tapestry



Joni Mitchell - Blue



Marianne Faitfull - Broken English



Nico - Chelsea Girl



Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

Lots of fine albums there in those lists,I'm very fond of Lucinda Williams,Sheryl Crowe,Amy Winehouse and some of their albums are my favourites too.
My personalfavourite however is Wrecking Ball by Emylou Harris, I love this album of hers even though I actually came to it many years after its release ,but its by far the most played female artists album I play now

My top ten, in no order, are:

1. Fashionably Late: Linda Thompson
2. Norma Waterson - the one with Black Muddy River & St Swithins Day
3. Marianne Faithfull: Vagabond Ways
4. Billie Holliday - Lady In Satin
5. Evie Sands - Anyway You Want Me
6. Bobbie Gentry - Delta Suite
7. Nina Simone - And Piano
8. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
9. Dinah Washington - Sings Bessie Smith
10. Ute Lemper: Passionate Kiss

I would also through in an honourable mention for Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn, June Carter Cash's Pressing On, Mavis Staples' Hope at The Hideout, James Brown's Funky Divas' compilation, Dusty In Memphis, Laura Nyro's Gonna Take A Miracle, Lucinda Williams' Sweet Old World & Car Wheels, Irma Thomas' Simply Grand, Diana Krall's Girl In The Other Room, and most of Cassandra Wilson's Blue Note albums. Cassandra Wilson is an amazing vocalist, and I heartily recommend her albums on Blue Note.

Patti Smith - Easter
Blondie: Dreaming
Marianne Faithfull: Strange Weather
Janis Joplin: - Pearl
Anything by Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith: Anthology
Amy Winehouse: Back To Black
Ronnie Spector: Last Of The Rock N Roll Stars
PJ Harvey - Bring You My Love

etc, etc...anything by Karen Dalton

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Carly Simon - No Secrets
Patti Smith - Horses
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Rodgers & Hart Songbook
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Laura Nyro - Christmas & The Beads Of Sweat
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
Nico - Desert Shore
Sandy Denny - Like An Old Fashioned Waltz

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My top ten, in no order, are:

1. Fashionably Late: Linda Thompson
2. Norma Waterson - the one with Black Muddy River & St Swithins Day
3. Marianne Faithfull: Vagabond Ways
4. Billie Holliday - Lady In Satin
5. Evie Sands - Anyway You Want Me
6. Bobbie Gentry - Delta Suite
7. Nina Simone - And Piano
8. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
9. Dinah Washington - Sings Bessie Smith
10. Ute Lemper: Passionate Kiss

I would also through in an honourable mention for Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn, June Carter Cash's Pressing On, Mavis Staples' Hope at The Hideout, James Brown's Funky Divas' compilation, Dusty In Memphis, Laura Nyro's Gonna Take A Miracle, Lucinda Williams' Sweet Old World & Car Wheels, Irma Thomas' Simply Grand, Diana Krall's Girl In The Other Room, and most of Cassandra Wilson's Blue Note albums. Cassandra Wilson is an amazing vocalist, and I heartily recommend her albums on Blue Note.

Great to see Evie Sands and Bobbie Gentry in there Tom. Not many people know that Evie Sands album - a lost classic.

My fav is...

Judy Collins - Wildflowers

...where's Aretha ? .. ya gotta have some Aretha ...



ROCKMAN

Gotta have some Kate Bush and all.