Well mine anyway Aretha Franklin,Dusty Springfield,Dionne Warwick,Karen Carpenter,Emmy-Lou Harris,Tracey Thorn,Harriet Wheeler,Liz Frazer,Karen O,Amy Winehouse.
Just the ones off the top of my head theres many more.
Which female purely on vocals gives you the chills ?
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shirley bassey
judy garland.
Nico.
.
Feist, Emily Haines, PJ Harvey, Karen O & Claudio from Coheed & Cambria.
Nico for me to!
Sia
With and without Zero 7 accompaniment. More recently, Laura Marling...girl gives me big tingles.
.
Annabel from Lady and the Lost Boys. www.myspace.com/ladyandthelostboys
Well worth a listen.
nina persson
every time
Katie Melula
gives me the shivvers ,but for all the wrong reasons
Eh?
No one's said Joanna Newsom yet? Joanna Newsom. Regina Spektor. Jacqui McShee.
definitely joanna newsom
specifically in clam crab cockle cowrie.
blonde redhead
singer.
New
Dayna Kurtz, Jesse Sykes, Eleni Mandell, Trost, Sandy Dillon, Neko Case, Margot Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies
Old
LaVern Baker, Dinah Washington, Wanda Jackson, Irma Thomas, Bettye Lavette, Tammi Lynn, Barbara Lynn, Mabel John, Ernestine Anderson
God, you boys and girls have got so much to discover and enjoy...
And next year's Amy, without the silliness , Duffy, big voice and fuckin' beautiful with it
no offence
but did you sign up to this site purely to tell us youngsters 'what we're missing'? I've been reading your posts and an alarming amount of them make reference to your age, and how this somehow gives greater significance to your opinion.
Yes, no doubt we all do have much to discover. Who doesn't? But assuming only old folk have listened to the likes of Dinah washington is ludicrous. I think most people on DiS have a fairly inquisitive and broad appreciation for music.
Or are you being all ironical again?
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes
5) Tracy Chapman
4) Laura Groves
3) Ohbijou
2) Lisa Hannigan
1) Lanterns On The Lake
OK
I was being mildly obscure on my last list, because I really want people to try those women out, but the two best women pop singers of the last fifty years are Aretha Franklin and Etta James. No one's mentioned Etta so far. Fuckin' genius.
you were offended by be including Tracy Chapman?
oh, btw: Nina Simone>Everything, ever.
Tracy Chapman is good
but nowhere near some of the women I've included. Nina Simone is feckin wonderful...
definitely
i'd say nina simone is possibly the most important musician ever.
That might
be overstating the case a teeny weeny bit. But she was brilliant, though completely hatstand by all accounts...
I would have said...
the backing vocalist of Tokyo Police Club a few weeks ago.
Then I found out it was a bloke. Shite.
Kirsty Maccoll always.
Kirsty Macoll
...her version of New England and Fairy Tale...
Brilliant British folk-rockers include Sandy Denny and the absolutely splendid June Tabor
Soho Square and Titanic Days.
...awesome
In These
Shoes. She's a darling, sorely missed.
England 2...
Columbia 0. Very sorely missed, Kirsty and England results like this.
Sandy Denny
PJ Harvey
Poly Styrene
Poly Styrene had the most obscurely wonderful voice ever
the one out of the spice girls with the afro
I almost
started laughing... It's 'harebrained', by the way...
you would think that wouldnt you
but mine involves hair and brains, hence hairbrain.
and was that an insult?
Very few do it to me nowadays
but my all-time faves:
The Shangri-la's
Astrud Gilberto
*swoon*
Shangri-Las
bloody brilliant call! Lead singer, Mary Weiss has got a new album out with The Reigning Sound. Not at all bad, but not as good as the great days.
yep
i've heard bits and bobs. Her voice isn't as soft and youthful, but it's not bad. That sort of half-talk-half-sing thing they had going on (especially in I Can Never Go Home Anymore) kills me every single time.
Also
one Shangs compilation had the best title ever... The Myrmidons of Melodrama... It's the white girl blues certainly
Possibly my favorite singer
Corin Tucker of Sletaer-Kinney
PJ MOTHERFUCKING HARVEY!
Dorset Reprazent, innit?
Shirley Manson!
how could she have been left out? :O
Janis
Joplin
Jenny Lewis's voice
but that may have something to do with the fact that it's coming out of Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis seconded
Also Suzannah Hoffs from the Bangles. She's not been mentioned yet.
And Nat from Monkey Swallows The Universe. I played a song of theirs to a mate recently and he said her voice was really plain but I love it.
Billie Holiday
Edith Piaf
Liz Frazer
Jasmine Levy
Alesha Dixon
Joni Mitchell
Also, Aretha Franklin, PJ Harvey, and the chick that comes in halfway through this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP2SOnN4Y
Joanna Newsom is capable too (Only Skin, Crab Clam Cockle), but can also be very annoying (Sprout and Bean)
Regina Spektor
Annie Hardy from Giant Drag
Juanita from Howling Bells
Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes
and Joanna Newsom
Neko
Case
:O
nobody said bjork yet?
so yeh.. bjork.
I came here to say
Bjork.
Natasha Khan,
Kate Bush, PJ, Bjork...
I'd have to say the top 3 are
Diane Cluck, Joanna Newsom and erm...Regina Spektor maybe...
Wait
Scratch Spektor, I meant Emily Haines.
Scout Niblett
sometimes.
niconiconiconico
nico
:)
xx
Tom Clarke
Has no one
mentioned Hope Sandoval?
DAMN IT!
I was just about to say Hope Sandoval!
Really been getting into Mazzy Star over the last month or so. I could listen to her all day.
imogen heap
Minnie
Ripperton.
.
Emily Haines, Joanna Newsom and Essie Jain
oh shitman!
forgot edith piaf...xx
Shingai Shoniwa
Sierra Rose Casady
of CocoRosie. e.g. on Werewolf.
Her voice gives me the chills alright.
Kristin Hersh
powerful and unnerving in equal measure.
I'm not really a massive Cocteau Twins fan but Liz Frazer is an incredible singer.
Femala Vocalists
Dionne, Aretha are my favorites as well the others you mentioned get a big yes. Must all I love Gladys, Whitney and Deniece Williams what voices!!
mum
defo
Frankie Lymon
or Michael Jackson singing 'Got To Be There' - they're nearly female...
Laura Groves
As of last night, Jingle All The Dayer was well good, and Laura's a lovely lass!
last night
her voice gave me shivers so bad i had to put my coat on.
in a good way.
Beth...
...Gibbons. Blimey, the thread has gone this far without a mention of said singer. Hurry up and get that album out.
Gibbons.
Of course.
I was thinking
Beth Gibbons,
ALSO
Kim Deal
Bjork
Natalie Imbruglia
Sia
Regina
Theres something REALLY important I've forgotton and thats not mentioned and its bugging me
Mimi Parker from Low
Tracyanne Campbell from Camera Obscura
Victoria Bergsman from the Concretes
Juanita Stein from Howling Bells
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Nancy Sinatra
the saddest voice ever?
nobodys mentioned
Marissa Nadler
For me it would be...
Liz Fraser
Tracy Chapman
Karen O
Feist
Bjork
a lot of the ones already mentioned
and Judith Boyle of Adventures In Stereo and Amy Linton of The Aislers Set