CARINA ROUND !!!!

You must include her or I will hunt you down and lick your face.

There is a sample of her music on her site.

http://www.carinaround.co.uk/

'She's Not Your Friend' by Inger Lorre. It's ace. I'll probably think of some more later.

Cat Power and Mazzy Star are both excellent, definitely worth putting on there!

Pixies - Gigantic. Old Kim Deal does a bit of singing.

Kaito - Anything

L7 - Shitlist/Pretend We're Dead

I don't know if this list is any good but they are some of my fave songs - all sung by females!

billie holiday 'Strange Fruit'
elizabeth cotten 'Freight train'
nancy sinatra 'These boots were made for walking'
Patti Smith 'Pissing in a River'
Debbie Harry 'Atomic'
nico 'feme fatale'
the slits 'i heard it through the grapevine'
Dusty Springfield 'tupelo honey'
The Breeders 'Cannon ball'
throwing muses 'counting backwards'
bikini girl 'rebel girl'
Sonic Youth 'hendix necro' (for the line- you think cause i'm a girl you think you can ignore)
pj harvey 'dress'
Cat power 'moonshiner'
sleater kinney 'your no rock and roll fun'
actually i could go on and on... For newer stuff I reccommend the gossip,the kills, the yeah yeah yeahs, peaches, le tigre, ladytron, neko case, gillian welch, nina nastasia, joanna newsom, jolie holland...

any marianne faithful...especially "Why'd You Do it?", great song that contains the line "she had cobwebs up her pussy".
Also "Sliding Through Life on Charm" which sounds more drag revenge glory song than a female impersonator doing I Will Survive down a blackpool gay pub on karaoke night. Excellent.

also don't forget the slits, donna summer, M.I.A., grace jones, sleater kinney, electrelane, kaito or luscious Jackson.

mirah's "jerusalem"! you can (legally) download it here.

you need to include something by verucca salt , their first album american thighs is best imho.
you also need to include hole - i suggest maybe plump or they do a nirvana song old age which aint bad, or maybe jennifers body.
babes in toyland or katastrophe wife also need to be included somewhere!! bruised violet is such an awesome track!!!
oh and some polly harvey, the slits, tori amos, alanis morissette, patti smith, janis joplin.
just a few of my personal favs :)

Kimya dawson (of the moldy peaches) solo stuff.

Some Lamb stuff is ok, as is some Portishead.

You could also go for Northern state (All girl hip de hop).

Dusty springfield, heck even some dolly parton may sneak on there.

The Crystals - He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss) and something by the Shaggs, like I'm So Happy When You're Are Near.

You know, my flatmate doesn't like bands with girls in them, can you believe that???

theres a new girl on the block called JESCA HOOP, who someone introduced me too...

sorta smokey bar music - in a classy black & white arty movie way (naturally)

The Peel Session version of Rid of Me by PJ is her definitive track

Well, seeing as someone has already got dibs on Bjork and Cat Power, I recommend Aimee Mann (Red Vines, Pavlovs Bell) and Rilo Kiley (Execution of all things, It's a Hit)

Siouxsie Sioux - anything off Kaleidoscope or juju. Spellbound, Desert Kisses, etc.
Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds
Pretenders - Precious
Garbage - Vox

Oh, the chick that sings on The Glove's Blue Sunshine (Robt Smith/Steve Severin collaboration) sounds like Allison Moyet, and there are some gems on this one-off.

Carole King - anything from Tapestry
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Maps (just a great, great song/vocal)
X - Exene and John Doe perform mostly duets to one degree or another. Los Angeles and Wild Gift are chalk full of great early punk tunes; only a few of the classic Brit punks a la the Clash, Sex Pistols did it better.

Stevie Nicks - Landslide. In the vein of Fleetwood Mac's usual sappy lightweight classic rock sound, Landslide somehow rises above to one of the all-time greats -status.

Diana Ross and the Supremes. Lots and lots of good ones. The one in particular - name escapes - that was the theme song for that short lived China Beach Viet Nam drama.

There are a couple of catchy Heart tunes I hate to admit I like, probably better in the embarrassment thread.

Lisa Stansfield. I only have the Been Around the World and ay, ay, yah record, but there are some super sultry sexy tunes on it. Good stuff.

Kate Bush - Been Running Up that Hill.

The Breeders - Cannonball.

Shania Twain - for the cover photo only.

Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism, or I like track 1 a lot, too.

Alright, there's enough for four CDs. And I didn't even get to Marilyn Monroe's Happy B-Day Mr President digitally altered to now be Happy B-Day OceanRain, or who was that? Shelley Winters' I Love Money; or Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walkin'; Annie Lennox; and gads more. Whew!

...oh, me loves the girls!! ;-)

Martha Wainwright - Dis Recordings very own. http://www.marthawainwright.com

Emmy-Lou Harris - Recently been blown away by her voice doing backing vocals on one of the new Bright Eyes albums. Waiting for some cds to arrive. http://www.emmylou.net/

Azure Ray - Lush female vocals from a twosome on Saddle Creek http://www.saddle-creek.com

Rilo Kiley - Also on saddle-creek, some ace wunderpop going down.

Le Tigre - You can get some mp3s from http://www.letigreworld.com/sweepstakes/html_site/song/song.html

Shivaree - This lot had a little bit of success a little while back. Really loved their singers voice. http://ourlabel.co.uk/shivaree/

Alice & The Enemies - New band from London town. Like a sultrier PJ or scuzzier YYYs. http://www.theenemies.co.uk/

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

Loads of great suggestions so far but I dont think I've seen

Trickys - Overcome
Any thing by Liz Frazer (Cocteau twins or on Massive Attacks Mezzanine Milk Group 4 or Black Rain, or This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (Perhaps this is the best track to include))
Xmal Deautschland - Incubus Succubus (the original rough/raw version)
Sam Brown - You better stop (yes Jamelia you had better stop, this was a foolish song to try to cover considering the original)
I see Kate Bush is being mentioned a lot recently....obviously Wuthering heights was a big stand out single, but I would like to mention a superb brilliant B side of hers 'Lord of the reedy river' written for her by Donovan and was on the B side of 'sat in your lap'.
If you have to pick Bjork how about her earlier sugarcube days I like 'Deus'
Candi Staton 'Young Hearts'
Linda Lewis - Its in his kiss (brilliant blockbusting ear bleeding disco)
Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
Portishead - Sour Times
Sundays - DreamTime
Sandi Shore - Hand in glove
Donna Summer Aretha Franklin Randy Crawford Billie Holliday Shirley Mansun, Debbie Harry, Nico (I've seen her live, that the sort of rank that us oldsters can pull over you kids)

Aaarrh my other favourite heated subject, not many women rockers are there, which is frankly disgusting.

I once saw a great all femail rock band called 'Lovecraft' if you're out there reading this, i still remember you.