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[milanbaros]

My musical taste seems to bring me back to white frontman, guitar heavy rock and think that most albums by women are crap but what would you say is the best? There are a few gems however.

My top 3 in no particular order are:

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama

And why is it do you think that most women are lame at making music?

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Women aren't lame at making music.

Women authors are lame at writing books.

 

[Korranator]

Women are lame at making music.

Women authors aren't lame at writing books.

Fixed

 

[Tarazet]

This is not quite on topic, but I'm a pianist, and I'm working on a waltz by Amy Beach, who was a successful pianist-composer of the late 19th and early 20th century. It's really fucking hard. I can barely play it, and I have huge hands...

 

[Wellington]

 

[Odnetnin]

I find the topic strangely offensive.

I second Lauryn Hill's Miseducation. Great tracks all around. Deserved its win over Ray of Light

 

[Gattsu25]

this topic is a load of shit...women are just as accomplished as men in many rights and music is one of them

as for my choices:

hmm....
....

 

[lexy]

I find the topic strangely offensive.

Yeah me too. I don't know if I should direct the anger/disgust I am feeling at the topic starter or at humanity.

 

[Fifty]

And why is it do you think that most women are lame at making music?

You mean why do you think that? I don't know....maybe because you're an idiot.

 

[Guzim]

 

[Agent Dormer]

I'd buy that but she'd rather starve than let me listen.

 

[siege]

Jagged Little Pill and Miseducation are probably the two best I can think of. Songs in A Minor and Diary are strong albums by Alicia Keys as well.

 

[Odnetnin]

Jagged Little Pill and Miseducation are probably the two best I can think of.

jagged little pill was largely produced/written by Glen Ballard. If you know what his work legacy... you won't respect it.

 

[Wellington]

Since this topic is still-born I might as well take the opportunity to say that I hate, in music threads, when someone posts an album cover that has no discernable album or artist name. :lol (Though this one is obvious. Mods, make that a rule, ban these fucks!)

 

[nitewulf]

just a few, off the top of my head, from different genres:

 

[siege]

I'm also quite fond of

 

[Star Power]

Oh dear God...

etc., etc., et-fucking-cetera.

 

[ManaByte]

My musical taste seems to bring me back to white frontman, guitar heavy rock and think that most albums by women are crap...

 

[IJoel]

Very hard to pick. One of my faves:

 

[radioheadrule83]

I actually prefer female vocals but I'm not too hot on knowing where to find records by the good ones. I agree with some of the recommendations, and I'm going to have to check out the rest.

This is one of my favourite albums. It's fucking awesome.

 

[Matlock]

 

[Star Power]

Should she really count, though? As much as I love (what I've heard of ) Billie ("Gloomy Sunday" is one of my absolute fave tunes) her tunes were all written by men.

 

[Matlock]

Star Power: if we're going by that, then we'd have to disregard a lot of female artists listed in this thread.

Point is, she was a great, great singer and made some damn fine music.

 

[Vicious]

.

 

[Instigator]

Album packed with top 20 hits.

 

[hXc_thugg]

And why is it do you think that most women are lame at making music?

You're no longer allowed to have opinions about things. I'm sorry it had to happen this way.

 

[tyguy20204]

Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez
Emmylou Harris

 

[kitchenmotors]

Múm counts! =)

 

[Star Power]

and that's not even counting alll of the wonderful female soul vocalists, bands with female member/ male primary writers, etc.

 

[iapetus]

And why is it do you think that most women are lame at making music?

I don't know. Why is it do you think that you're lame at making posts?

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

At lot of the above, plus Aimee Mann!

 

[Meier]

Can't decide which.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

My personal favourite is Alanis Morissette MTV Unplugged:

 

[Star Power]

Fever is so obviously better. The only song on Body Language that approaches Fever quality is "Chocolate," which is the shit!

 

[Jill Sandwich]

The thread says WOMEN

 

[SolidSnakex]

Can't decide which.

Body Language is good (specifically Chocolate) but basically every song on Fever is good to amazing. I'd probably rank BL a tie with Light Years for second.

 

[Outdoor Miner]

For me it's easy-

 

[Star Power]

Body Language is good (specifically Chocolate) but basically every song on Fever is good to amazing. I'd probably rank BL a tie with Light Years for second.

We're like twins!

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I could never stomach Fever. Maybe I should check it out again.

 

[Mercury Fred]

Kim Deal > *

 

[gigapower]

For me it's easy-

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001E7T.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/25/55/3b019330dca08bcaee863010.L.jpg

Hey I was going to say that too!

 

[White Man]

Matlock wins this thread.

Star Power gets bonus points for listing Peaches. However he loses those points for not listing The Teaches of Peaches, and instead going for the not-as-good Fatherfucker. Her live act is insane. Nude titty chicks, body paint, hula hoops. Excellent stuff. Definitely, uh, empowering to women, yeah.

Oh yeah, and women do suck at writing books.

 

[Mercury Fred]

Her live act is insane. Nude titty chicks, body paint, hula hoops. Excellent stuff. Definitely, uh, empowering to women, yeah.

At one of her gigs, she came out in tight white jeans and half way through the song, she started "bleeding" from the crotch as the red spread out all the way across her front and legs. I'd like to send her to entertain our boys in Iraq.

White Man, please tell me you've enjoyed some sweet, sweet buttlove lately.

Blah, just realized that I duplicated a few of the albums in Star Power's post. Ah well, Kim and Liz deserve the props.

 

[The Faceless Master]

 

[Star Power]

I'd keep Mary J and maybe one Ladysaw record (which one has "Under the Sycamoure Tree?"), but.. yeah... I strong case can be made against majority of those, particularly because it's more of an image driven thing, over-sexualized, and they don't write their own tunes (and yes, I'm aware all of those can be diirected towards Kylie as well, which is why I don't particularly agree with ehr being in the thread.. particularly because the of creators tatses).

 

[SolidSnakex]

We're like twins!

Heh, Fever is seriously a f'ckin awesome album though. But I still don't get why Can't Get You Out of my Head was the biggest hit off of it in the US. Out of all the singles she released from it, that song is the least impressive. Especially compared to Come into my World and Love at First Sight, both of which blow it away.

 

[kIdMuScLe]

oh shit, women make music???! fuck since when?















j/k. they probably make the best sappiest, tear-jerking songs all-around.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I'd keep Mary J and maybe one Ladysaw record (which one has "Under the Sycamoure Tree?"), but.. yeah... I strong case can be made against majority of those, particularly because it's more of an image driven thing, over-sexualized, and they don't write their own tunes (and yes, I'm aware all of those can be diirected towards Kylie as well, which is why I don't particularly agree with ehr being in the thread.. particularly because the of creators tatses).

you wouldn't keep queen of the pack or the bodyguard? wtf!?

 

[Meier]

Body Language is good (specifically Chocolate) but basically every song on Fever is good to amazing. I'd probably rank BL a tie with Light Years for second.

Those were my thoughts at first listen to, but over time Body Language has grown on me and I like it just as much as Fever. Red Blooded Woman is amaaaazing by the way!

 

[Star Power]

The Body Guard Soundtrack is sooo fucking sappy. I mean, jesus. The only Whitney album worth it, in full, is her s/t IMO.

And I will forever hate Patra for butchering that Grace Jones song.