To ask if you like great music by women?

[NoLoveofMine]

Well?

I strongly suspect this thread was started by Wolf Alice's mum as a cunning ploy to plug her videos

Don't think Elkie Brooks has been mentioned.
Dusty Springfield.
And I forget her name now, but the lead singer from Heart.

My latest find musically is Aldous Harding. Check her out - new album out last week.

Also I love:
Björk
Rokia Traore
Kellis
Lady Hawke

Kate Tempest

YY to Kate Rusby and Amy Winehouse was just fab.

Bands with female lead vocals:
Mazzy Star
Cowboy Junkies.

Natalie merchant (solo and 10,000 maniacs) and Macy gray. Got to have great lyrics.

Agnes Obel, though lots of instrumental.
Emilie Sande.
Blondie
Chrissie Hynde.
Donna Summer
Dusty Springfield
Tina Turner
Tracey Thorn
Lots of others already mentioned

My latest find musically is Aldous Harding

I was going to mention her. Interesting but I don't like her at all so will mention Courtney Marie Andrews

kd Lang is my absolute favourite female singer but I also like:

Pink
Joan Armatrading
Annie Lennox

There are quite a few female singers whose voices I really can't stand:

Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are ones that I have to turn the radio off when their songs come on. All that warbling and screeching drives me mad.

No mention of Shirley Manson yet.. or Gin Wigmore

Fridays' Jools Holland was made up entirely of female singers, which has to be a first.. Aldous Harding was completely fascinating BorisTrumpsHair, i'd never heard of her before.

Listening to Garbage as we speak Jelly

Belly (Tanya Donnelly, ex-Throwing Muses, rather than the rapper of the same name)
Melanie Martinez
Helen Shapiro
Millie Jackson
Strawberry Switchblade
Echobelly
Eddie Reader
Sheryl Crow
Pink
Ute Lemper
Rosie Vela
Stacey Kent
Nellie McKay
Blossom Dearie
Goldfrapp
Edith Piaf
Sarah Vaughan
The Chiffons
The Ronettes
The Bangles

And also as previously mentioned, Siouxie Sioux, Tori Amos, k d lang, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Julianne Regan, Tracey Thorn and Courtney Love.

Thats a coincidence Hiding, fair play!
Have you ever heard this -

? Powerful stuff!!

Some of my favourite female artists, who I listen to a lot:

Bjork
Aretha Franklin
Amy Winehouse
Corrine Bailey Rae
Veruca Salt
Norah Jones
Lilly Allen
Cher
Britney
Beyoncé
Taylor Swift

...though scanning through my mp3s, I have to say a lot more of my music collection is by male artists and composers.

I hadn't Jelly but I love it, cheers

Florence
Nina Simone
Billy holiday
Amy wine house

Christine & The Queens
Haim
Ella Fitzgerald
Etta James
Eartha Kitt
Nina Simone
Billie Holliday
Joni Mitchell
Kate Bush
Debbie Harry/Blondie
Annie Lennox
Chrissie Hynde
Patti Smith
Tracy Chapman
Sade
Belly/Tanya Donelly
The Duke Spirit
Aimee Mann
Suzanne Vega

Surprised no mention of Kim Deal (former bassist and vocals Pixies, and Breeders guitar and lead vocals). Will try to link to Cannonball.

Also love Queen Adreena, Emiliana Torrini, Ida Maria and, more recently (and much more famously), Sia (Furler).

I like

Courtney Love
Nina Simone
Adele (sometimes)
Sandy Denny
PJ Harvey (sometimes)
Anne Briggs
Kate Tempest (is it music though?)
L7
The Staves
Warpaint
Trembling Bells

Cana anyone recommend any female rap/hip hop/grime artists?

I mainly mean current/new...

Traceyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura is the best songwriter in Britain. Fact.

Tina Weymouth, bassist in talking heads and the reason for their signature sound. Cool as fuck and one of THE great bass players of all time.

Out of interest I just went through my music and the following women came up...probably about the same proportion as male artists in my music at the moment.

Janis Joplin
Joni Mitchell
Sandy Denny
Cat power
Kate rusby
Kirsty mccoll
Lizzo
Missy Elliot
Toian
Lady patra
TLC
Left eye Lopez
Florence welch
Tracy chapman
Alicia keys
Kate bush
Alice temple
Regina spektor
Aretha franklin
Annie Lennox
Patti smith
Regine chassagne (of arcade fire)
Dolores O'Riordan (Of the cranberries)
Cindi lauper
Rihanna
Joan jett
Beyoncé
Carole king
Joan Baez
Karen O
Stevie nicks
Siouxsie
Macy gray
Lauryn hill
Tina turner
Indigo girls
Lady gaga
Pink
Dolly Parton
Lil' kim
Allison moyet
Pj harvey
Jenn wasner (of wye oak...what a voice)

Now I'm going to go and listen to some of these incredible artists before I go to bed