have we had a 'brilliant women in music' thread yet???

[totalmisfit]

my votes go to:

Patty Smith

Sandy Denny

Bjork

Didn't write her own stuff afaik which seems to be the sine qua non of this thread but Dionne Warwick is a great fave of mine.

Someone else who has largely not written her own stuff but who still deserves massive respect for her musicianship: Emmylou Harris.

ooh. Liz Fraser is sublime- try looking up "song for the siren' (with This Mortal Coil), for a truly inspired cover...(would link, but rubbish at them!)

That's my fave too Raahh!

bf is tryiong to convince me of eliza carthy

but i hate hey nonny fol k music

i am planning to convince him of laura marling and lucinda williams

totalmisfit, I'm a fan, and even I know she's a bit

also, from my childhood: I love Barbra Streisand!

have come back from school run and after a lot of near misses, have managed to do

this

Am very proud

lots of the above but also

Betty Davis
and Skin

who mention Cesaria? I was born where she is from, love her

how could I have forgotten Sonic Youth, clearly the years are weighing heavy

As all my rock women have been rightly mentioned (PJ, Kim D and Kim G!) I have gone back to my folky roots for my absolute favourite singer Shirley Collins she has a beautiful unique voice.

Debbie Harry
Patti Smith
Siouxsie
women in bands such as The Vaselines and Slits who opened the doors for so many women in bands
Liz Frazer
Kate Bush

Oh and Sinead O'Connor

Ooo Raahh!

you are a star!

Saved the link for later as pesky child has pulled out sound cable from machine and have to wait until DH can sort it.

Raah thank you for that link it is going on my list for my homebirth mix cd

oh this mortal coil

my pleasure. It is one of my favourites. Wish i'd thought of it when i had dcs- mind you- i was too drugged to notice what they played...!

Kirsty MacColl. Great voice, great songs

Kirsty Maccoll- criminally underrated, adn one of the only famous peolple ever to play ay my uni when i was there ( cos it was in Wales at the back end of nowhere)

the others being jools holland

and doctor and the medics

(blimey my spelling was a bit there, sorry)

I would love to get some more votes in for this lady Sandy Denny

cos she's fab. and so very underrated.

how awful of me to forget Kirsty MacColl

yes Kirsty MCcoll had a lovely voice but imvho Sandy Denny was even better in many ways, with reference to my earlier link