Boy George is the best female singer of all time

Patti

Janis was good but I much prefer Patti Smith (still sounds great today)
Don't forget Grace Slick either plus a British jazz/blues singer called Linda Hoyle who played solo and with a band called Affinity. Mustn't forget Polystyrene too from X-Ray Spex for sheer enthusiasm.

Andy

The Sicilian Wrote:
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> cosmoprim Wrote:
... she shouldn't
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> > the "top 20 female vocalists of all time"
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In no order:
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
Mahalia Jackson
Aretha Franklin
PJ Harvey
Nina Simone
Bjork
Ann Peebles
Marion Williams
Dorothy Love Coates
Patti Smith
Gladys Knight
Celia Cruz
Nico
Patsy Cline
Emmylou Harris
Mavis Staples
Big Mama Thornton
Ella Fitzgerald
Sade
Lyn Collins
Big Maybelle
Irma Thomas
Mary Wells
Martha Reeves
Ronnie Spector
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Maria Callas
Omara Portuondo
Tina Turner
Etta James

How many is that?

Throw in Lucinda as well as many others.

Personally, I find Janis' voice akin to the scraping of finger nails on a blackboard. Cat-wailing passed off as 'bluesy shouting'.

Liked her more when I was younger.
Still her Lil Gal Blue can make me spin & get hi.
And yes, she´s the best ever. When in good shape.

And Tat2you; as far as we know noone of the Stones did...

I think the question was ROCK female singers. Janis hands down on top.

Depending on your definition of rock n roll, I think it's reasonable to put her in the top 20 female rock singers of all time.

However, I don't think I could come up with 20 female rock singers that I liked. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with 10.



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Hands down on top of the poop pile. Just because you wail & spaz out doesn't mean you're good. Look at Joe Cocker...that performance at Woodstock was horrible...no matter how famous it is...then again...it's a bad song.

Ok, new rules, if you're unattractive, can't sing & spaz out...you're really artsy & therefore you must be good. With those rules...I'll put Janis #1...of course if she was good looking, folks wouldn't hold her as high...

It was Rock female singers, and since when does being a drunk and doper disqualify you from greatness?

Sit down put on Cry Baby and close your eyes and listen to it in its entirety and tell me this girl can't sing

Its a classic baby

janis wasn't great 'cos she could wail and spaz out - she was great 'cos she could SING the blooze like few before or since. End of story. If you don't think she could SING, I have some serious doubts about your ability to hear.

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> Hands down on top of the poop pile. Just because
> you wail & spaz out doesn't mean you're good.
> Look at Joe Cocker...that performance at Woodstock
> was horrible...no matter how famous it is...then
> again...it's a bad song.
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> Ok, new rules, if you're unattractive, can't sing
> & spaz out...you're really artsy &
> therefore you must be good. With those
> rules...I'll put Janis #1...of course if she was
> good looking, folks wouldn't hold her as high...


i asked you to finish off another bottle before your next rant - have you?

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> listen to it in its entirety and tell me this girl
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Listen to the original version of Cry Baby (Garnett Mims & The Enchanters) and you'll never want to hear the cover again. Baby.

Stevie Nicks and Tina Turner.

Sd, beauty comes from the inside, and Janis is a perfect example of it.
Not that she always looks so ugly as (far too) many people say:


(last one for Keef)
[images.google.com] Review from 68.

[membres.lycos.fr] More nice pix




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And have a lil peek into Baboon Cage over at Trade, scroll to its bottom...

rattler2004:
Nope, it was in Nashville,TN at the old Fairgrounds Coliseum.

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>I never heard the original but I might have to check it out, but the point being Janis had a unique singing voice and style for that matter.

I hate to use this as an example, but if you ever watched American Idol or other versions you will find that many of these young singers fall into a particular category of voice. (if you have kids you have to watch sometimes) and everyone says you sound like this one or that one. But how often does one come along that sounds like Janis and can sing at the top of her lungs like that. Very very very few if any. She was one of kind. Is she Aretha Franklin, or Maria Callas, no but a lot of those blues singers you mentioned can be bundled into one group. Different genre's
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Nice pix. Proof that a woman can be sexy without being pretty. I'm not ashamed to admit she was one of my first big turn-ons.

Janis Joplin is tired and old and dead 40 years ago!

Courtney Love Rocks!! (even if she is old and tired)

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> tina turner....did any of the stones get it
> done w/ Joplin??
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I don't think so. Ronnie Wood told a story that he was at a party and she was there and she was flirting with him. He was freaking out because he didn't want to get with her, but he didn't want to insult her either. Then, luckily for him, someone else (Hendrix perhaps) showed up, and she switched her attentions to him instead. Ronnie jokes that he was gracefully saved from an embarrassing encounter.

Not sure where that story came from though.

Morrison hanged around w/ her for a while. Just before or after
Nico; I´m not sure.

Now I know what Mick meant when he sang "has anybody seen my baby"

No, that's Anouk

guys, you really should check out beth hart, compared to janis a lot even played in a musical called janis but: way better. never seen a performer like it. i can recommend the dvd beth hart live @ the paradiso. you will be blown away. frank.

Beth Hart is something else, isn't she? Saw her in a tiny club in NYC a couple of years ago and was pretty blown away.

L.P. also has a great set of pipes and is incredible live - she tours constantly, so check her out if you ever see her listed anywhere.

For sure Janis is #1 but Tina is a very close second. It's a shame there are so few female rock singers of quality and the word that is important is ROCK! I am not thrilled with female singers of today and I can't think of any that can be even put in the same category as Janis and Tina. I always loved and still love Joni Mitchell's voice and Karla Bonoff as well but they are more folk singers. Alanis Morissette is ALMOST in the same category as Janis only leagues BEHIND Her! I always loved Grace Slick so I'll put her third on my list. I am not a huge Patti Smith fan, and Chrisie Hynde is just OK!

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> Lisa Fisher blows em all away!

I'd love to hear Lisa do a rock album on her own but her solo work that I'm aware of is pretty poppy. She even has a song called "Some Girls" but sorry to say it's not that "Some Girls".

Janis kills me after all these years!

Janis Joplin was the greatest female rock and roll singer of all time. Tina Turner is *not* rock and roll. Tina is a time bomb that delivers unadulterated sex in one soulful salvo. One can't really compare the two....Janis was kicked in the head with a beer bottle and laughing about woman who lived and died in psychedelic blues rock.

Accept no substitutes!

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1869