Your 5 favorite female vocalists?

[Worf101]

you didn't need an apostrophe in reasons, so be careful when hurling those stones at others.

Swish Baby

I hate it..... HATE IT......

when.....

you're........

right!!!!!!..............

Arrrgh!!!!! Touche!!!!

Da "willing to admit when I'm dead wrong" Worfster

[Worf101]

Actually, spellcheck wouldn't have picked up on "odor", since it is spelled correctly.

"Hey man.. I jest got's ta know?"

What the hell is that thing in your Avatar???? I've been looking at it for weeks and I know it's some sorta stuffed sumpthin' but I'm stumped as to what it's supposed to look like? Is it Alf's illigitimate son?

Da "Enquring MInds Wanna Know" Worfster

[tugmcmartin]

In terms of PURE favorites, i tend to favor the older vocalists from jazz and blues such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Etta James, Ruth Brown and Maxine Brown.

For more contemporary favorites, i'd probably go with:
Allison Krauss
Beth Orton
Annie Lennox
Patty Loveless
Joan Osbourne
Kelly Willis
Mae Moore
Maia Sharp
Sarah McLachlan
Vanessa Carlton
Tori Amos
and Nanci Griffith

I guess thats more than 5, but i never was very good at following directions...

T-

[Dusty Chalk]

"Hey man.. I jest got's ta know?"

What the hell is that thing in your Avatar???? I've been looking at it for weeks and I know it's some sorta stuffed sumpthin' but I'm stumped as to what it's supposed to look like? Is it Alf's illigitimate son?

Da "Enquring MInds Wanna Know" Worfster

Snowbunny seems to think it's an emu. It's not stuffed. Someone saw it, and said it looks like me in the morning. I've just looked at a picture of myself in the morning and have to agree.

I tried posting a full size of the original image in a prior thread, but for some reason, that activity kept crashing my browser (Opera). I'll try again at some point.

[Swish]

Actually, spellcheck wouldn't have picked up on "odor", since it is spelled correctly.

have intended to type as a joke. I mean, how do you type odor rather than order and not do it intentionally. I suppose it's possible, but not probable.

[Dusty Chalk]

have intended to type as a joke. I mean, how do you type odor rather than order and not do it intentionally. I suppose it's possible, but not probable.

Just out of curiosity -- did you intentionally only underline 75% of odor and 80% of order?

And that was my sense of humour -- just being pedantic in a pedantic thread. We now return you to your regularly scheduled list mongering.

I would also like to mention that way too many of you (no, I am not going back and counting) cannot follow the rules. He said, "5".

[jbangelfish]

Ann and Nancy Wilson were great together
Pat Benatar
Aimee Mann
Sarah Mclachlan
Annie Lennox
Tori Amos
Currently listen to old AR9's and female voices seem very natural. I never minded listening to them on old 901's either. Forget the new ones.

[-Jar-]

Snowbunny seems to think it's an emu. It's not stuffed. Someone saw it, and said it looks like me in the morning. I've just looked at a picture of myself in the morning and have to agree.

I tried posting a full size of the original image in a prior thread, but for some reason, that activity kept crashing my browser (Opera). I'll try again at some point.

yea I think it's a Possum. at certain times in my life I might have claimed to have looked like a possum too.

[jbangelfish]

Looks like an emu, maybe a rhea. Both are very large birds. Not many did follow the directions, me either. How many listed their speakers?
Bill

[hifitommy]

shirley horn
carmen mac rae
sarah
emmy lou harris
wanda de sah
bonnie raitt

NOT nina hagen

[Dusty Chalk]

Okay, gonna try again...

[Worf101]

You see size does make a difference. I could never make out the eyes before. I thought that the NOSTRILS were it's eyes. With the nostrils as eyes the thing looks like a possum not a bird. Wow... Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe is time to get some glasses!!!

[Dusty Chalk]

I could never make out the eyes before. I thought that the NOSTRILS were it's eyes.

Okay, now that you've said, that, I can see how you and jar would say that. But having come from the other direction (seeing the full-size one first), I never saw that until you described it that way. Maybe you ought to just decrease your resolution. (I.E. 1024x768 to 800x600 or sumpin')

Okay, okay, I'll stop crappin' all over this thread. Please resume your normal femme vox talk.

[DMK]

here goes...

In order:

1) Mahalia Jackson - she can do it all, and with SOUL!
2) Janis Joplin - aside from #1, no one gets this soulful.
3) Sainkho Namtchylak (tread lightly!) - a free improvising vocalist
4) Lydia Lunch - bizarre but effective
5) Ella Fitzgerald - using the voice as an instrument.

[hifitommy]

shirley horn
carmen mc rae
jimmy scott ;^) not a fave
annie ross
peggy lee
abbey lincoln

yeah, there are a lot more.

[psyopwak]

Anymore? I need some new CD's?

How about male vocalists?

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Ella Fizgerald
Shirley Horn
nina Simone
Sarah Vaughn
Lucinda Williams
Poly Styrene
pj harvey
kd lang
Mo Tucker

[opt80]

Christine Collister

Christine Forgeron

Sarah Mclachlan

Patricia O'Callaghan

Natalie Merchant

Jesse Sykes

[tentoze]

Antony and his Johnsons.

[Hawkeye]

I think just about everyone's been mentioned that I would have put forth with one exception...Julie Gribble. She recently was mentioned on KLOS as one of the top up and coming young recording artists. Check out cdbaby for clips off her cd, "So Typical"

http://cdbaby.com/cd/jgribble

[Dusty Chalk]

Arise from the grave, ancient thread of old! Live, dam you, live!

I guess I should actually answer the question (thought I did, but can't find it in this thread) (as usual, I'm going to cheat and pick ones that haven't been picked already, otherwise my list would like like: Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Bjork):

Jenifer Smith (aka Code Mesa)
Heather Thompson (of Tapping The Vein)
Rebecca Coseboom (of Halou)
Anneke van Giersbergen (of The Gathering)
Madeleine Peyroux (as herself)

I usually listen through headphones, of various dynamic sort, usually Beyerdynamic DT770's, but sometimes others. I also have a Stax "earspeaker" system, and my dynamic speakers are Dynaudio Special 25's.

[Bernd]

Most of the usual suspects got a mention already.Here are some I like a lot.

1) Bebel Gilberto
2) Eve Selis
3) Mary Black
4) Toni Childs
5) Beth Nielsen Chapman

Good Thread

Bernd

[Dave918]

Quickly jotted down 30 female singer/songwriters that I cannot live without. Painfully narrowed my top picks down to the following -

1. Lucy Kaplansky
2. Lucinda Williams
3. Eliza Gilkyson
4. Heather Waters
5. Erin Moran (A Girl Called Eddy)
6. Amiee Mann

My top male picks would be -

1. Greg Brown
2. John Prine
3. Leonard Cohen
4. Lyle Lovitt
5. John Hiatt
6. Bill Morrissey

-dave

[Dave918]

Didn't notice the speaker reference until just now. I listen to everything through Jean Marie Reynaud Twin MK III's. I use them on both the bedroom (driven by a Blue Circle CS amp) and living room (driven by a Pioneer Elite VSX-45TX receiver) systems - absolutely love them.

-dave

[shokhead]

Linda R by a mile.