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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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Any Turk would direct you to Sezen Aksu, the Little Sparow, the Queen of Pop. Meh. She is a great songwriter, but I'm not a fan of her voice. If you want classic/classy in Turkish song sung by a woman, well, I'd suggest Candan Ercetin's Elbette.
If you insist on English, then anything by Koko Taylor is the gold standard of female blues singing. And, of course, the gold standard of her songs is Wang Dang Doodle. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs) is good.
Tracy Chapman
Suzanne Vega
Cowboy Junkies
Kate Bush
Michelle Shocked --- Here's a nice, somewhat sad song (Come a long way)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o6UKmWdFPtI
That's all I can think of right now, sure there are many others of course. |
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Tarmangani
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: the Calm
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and the hot little number from Evanescence are not exactly classic but are by far my favorite female singers. |
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Slep
Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot about Regina Spektor. She blends jazz, blues, rock and pop. Incredibly interesting piano driven music that everyone should check out.
My favourite tracks of hers include buildings, pavlov's daughter, 2.99 cent blues, on the radio and edit
another great female musician is liz powell from land of talk
http://myspace.com/landoftalkmtl
Another hyped montreal next big thing band, but definetly deserving of the hype. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:50 am Post subject: |
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PJ Harvey-This is Love
Rock chicks are hot. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
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| I see people are taking the "classic" requirement of the thread title rather liberally... |
Considering the first set of nominations included Cher, any reasonable notion of 'classic' went out the window immediately...
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Gypsies, tramps and thieves: http://fileanchor.com/80041-d
No matter what one's opinion on Cher, that song is a classic.
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'll check 'em out. I'm not a huge Tori fan but I do like the song 'Crucify' very much.
Also, call me what you like, but 'Only U' by Ashanti is AWESOME!  |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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I don't know that putting the song up so people can actually hear it is going to further your argument, but at least it's proof that 'classic' is a relative term.
I'll second PJ Harvey's "This is Love".
Also...
Sugarcubes/ Bjork- Birthday
Patti Smith - Rock n Roll Nigger |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf
Stormy Weather - Lena Horne
The Man that Got Away - Judy Garland
Precious - Chryssie Hind (sp?) (The Pretenders)
Different Drum - Linda Rondstadt |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)- Here comes the rain again
Sweet Dreams (are made of this)
Crissie Hynde (The Pretenders)- King of the Road, Back to Ohio |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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insamjunkie
Joined: 04 Oct 2006
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Slep
Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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i used to date a girl who used to always sing it to me. I think she singlehandedly reminded me of awesome classic female musicians. |
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Bulsajo
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: ... |
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"History Repeating" bu Shirley Bassey
"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
"Respect" by Aretha Franklin
"I Feel Love" by Donna Summer
"Heart of Glass" by Blondie
"Head Over Heels" by the Go Go's
"What I Am" by Edie Brickell
"Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman
"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
"Black Steel" Tricky (Alison Goldfrapp on vocals)
"Gigantic" by the Pixies (Kim Deal on vocals)
Horses by Patti Smith (whole album) + "Rock & Roll Nigger"
Janis Joplin.
"When the Levee Breaks" by Memphis Minnie (made popular by Zeppelin)
Billie Holiday.
"Part of the Process" by Morcheeba
"Bull in the Heather" (among others) by Sonic Youth (Kim Gordon on
vocals)
"*beep* and Run" by Piz Phair
"This Is" by Ruby
"Is That All There Is?" (Peggy Lee original or as covered by PJ Harvey)
"Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon
"Dreams" by the Cranberries
"Miss World" by Hole
"I Feel For You" by Chaka Khan
and ashamed to admit I like it, but
"What's Up?" by 4 Non-Blondes |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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