Who's your favourite female singer and songs OT?

More of a 70's/80's/90's music fan (POP,R&B) so ...

1)Aretha Franklin (I say a little Prayer)

2)Chaka Khan (I'm every woman)

3)Natalie Cole (This will be)

4)Donna Summer (This time i know its for real)

5)Stevie Nicks (Edge of seventeen)

6)Karen Carpenter (Close to you)

7)Joan Jett ( I love Rock n Roll)

8)Mariah Carey ( Underneath the stars )

9) Bonny M (Sunny)

10) Toni Braxton - (Un Break my Heart)

ETC.

Well? reply already :)

Michael Jackson...? Muahahaha

Nah, lately I've been appreciating Taylor Swift's songs and I've always liked Florence and The Machine. Couldn't specify a single song though.

LOL. Janets a good singer also lol.

@indzman: I thought I knew a Janet Jackson song, turns out it's by Alicia Keys anyways. lel. Guess I've only ever heard her name.

Ahhh!

• Ruthie Henshall -I Dreamed a Dream
• Sissel Kyrkjebø -Sancta Maria
• Ana Gabriel (Various songs)
• Shirley Walker -Mask of the Phantasm OST
• Shirley Bassey -Moonraker
• Rita Coolidge -All Time High
• Carly Simon -Nobody Does It Better
• Jo Stafford -No Other Love
• Julee Cruise -Questions in a World of Blue
• Laura Branigan -Self Control
• Shakira (Bunch of old songs like Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos and Moscas en la Casa)
• Cyndi Lauper -All Through the Night
• Celine Dion -It's All Coming Back To Me Now
• Taylor Swift -Blank Space
• Adele -Skyfall
• Regina Spektor -The Call and Us
• La Quinta Estación -(Various songs)
• Laura Pausini -Víveme and Las Cosas Que Vives
• Natalie Imbruglia -Torn
• Pink (Various songs)
• Olga Tañón (Various songs)
• Whitney Houston (Various songs)
• Ronettes -Be My Baby

Among many others of course.

Joan Jett, Bad Reputation.

artist: björk

track: thunderbolt (current value remix)

track: mutual core (these new puritans remix)

Emeli Sande - Heaven

Janice Joplin:Leaving on a Jet Plane+A few more of her hits.

Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I don't like a lot of modern singing techniques to be honest, adding technical bits for the sake of it that add nothing to the song.

None of them.

I'm surprised I'm so far the only Janice Joplin fan.

Oh, I am. I just didn't list her since I just named my top female singer. Janis Joplin was great.

It's good to see I'm not the only fan.I also see I spelled her name wrong,I'm sorry.You don't think Janis would be upset with me,do you??

Bjork - a lot of what she's done.

Chaka Khan's a woman? lol, I thought that was a man. I don't really know much about Chaka, but for some reason it sounds like a man's name to me.

Celine Dion, Mariah, and Shania. Oh and whoever the lady was that sang in "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man". The lady who sings Barracuda.

As far as current singers go Taylor Perry has some good songs, like "Dark Red Goes to Jail" and "I Kissed Tear Drops on a Mad Black Woman".

Let's see who else is good...hmm. Christina Aguilera, Mowaffak al Rubaie, Carley Rae Jepsen, Caity Lotz (well technically she doesn't sing, but she did some back up dancing in some of JLo's videos and she is the Canary so I'll put her on that list). I don't really care for most of Nicki Minaj's songs but I like "I wish I could have this moment for life", that song reminds me of Len Suzio (I'm probably the only person that thinks of Len Suzio when I hear that song, but then again I'm probably also the only person who used to think of Baden when hearing that song "Love Story" by Taylor Slow).

Patsy Cline - Crazy

I'm going to get so much crap for this, but...

I really like Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Also a fan of Shirley Manson, particularly on their self titled album. (I love the bitter, angry tone of these albums).

Lacuna Coil - Christina Scabbia both vocalists are good, but well one's a dude so he doesn't fit here, and he doesn't even come close to Christina, one of my favorite singers ever, right behind Chad Grey

oh yeah. That song's on GTA San Andreas (I would've just said "San Andreas" but then I realized you might've thought I meant the movie with the Rock in it).

Yeah, but isn't it sung by Willie Nelson in that game?

Uhhh way too many but I got a thing for Courtney Barnett recently

Eva Cassidy

Norah Jones

Now that you mentioned it, I think it is sung by a man in that game. I guess I found out about Cline singing that song because on the show Nashville Juliette Barnes gets a job playing Cline in a movie and sings that song as part of the movie.

Willie Nelson wrote the song, 'Crazy'. It wasn't until that game that I actually found out he sung a version of it. Patsy Cline's is obviously the superior version.

Michael Jackson ain't no woman!

Also Ironically, I was just near one of Taylor Swift's houses earlier today, heck I was probably closer to the house then she was (presuming she's on tour today). It was a few buildings over from the restaurant I was eating at, plus I had to go by the house on the way to the restaurant and the way back.

@jasean79: Interesting, I didn't know that he wrote that song.

I suppose a few would be:

Päivi Virkkunen

Ailyn Giménez

Maria Arkhipova

isn't he a guy?

1. Madonna

Favorite song:

That "famous faces, far off places" part is such a moment. One of the most powerful middle eights ever.

Ray of Light is a stunningly beautiful album in general. The depth and ambience of it is incredible.

2. Sia:

Dat voice!

3. Kate Bush:

The song>the book.

Patti Smith - Ain't It Strange

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) - Eskimo Blue Day

Ferri - Fading Sigh

Siouxsie - Here Comes that Day

Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

That would be because I accidentally copied the wrong name (for the sake of proper accent)...

Fixed that.

The girl from Unleash the Archers.

I went through a Bjork phase years back, I like her entire Volumen collection of music videos.

I'd say you gave her the kozmic blues again :P

If that's Angus Young, I dig the avatar.

Madonna - Like a Virgin, La Isla Bonita, Borderline, Papa don't Preach.

Culture Club -

That is Angus Young.I'm a HUGE fan of AC/DC,it's my favorite group.

Honorable mention: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts,Blondie.

Phew, back on GSFs after a years-long hiatus...

As a musician myself, I've an incredible amount of respect/admiration for Regina Spektor. Her voice and piano riffs are absolutely mesmerizing... need I even mention, for instance, the inarguably commendable fact that she recorded her second album in a single day, in one take.

So many levels on which one can appreciate her.

EDIT: I hate spotlighting individual songs, but since the title asked... I've always considered Christina Aguilera's "Fighter" to be an indisputable classic. Won't go beyond that; too intractable for me!

I hate to admit this but...

@brimmul777: I absolutely adore AC/DC. They were the band that got me into rock and I never looked back :D

I remembered Orianthi. She's great. 'According to You.'

Florence/The Machine, Lana Del Rey, Enya, Sarah Mclachlan. Female sad/depressing rock lol

Whitney Houston and Billie Holiday

Nearly all of their classic songs were amazing.

I guess i don't have one...

Aimee Mann.