Oh boy...another music list!! Alrighty then, I'll start us off with mine.

5. Ann & Nancy Wilson (seperate they're good - together they're amazing)
4. Dido
3. Ambrosia Parsley (of Shivaree)
2. Neko Case
1. Alicia Keys

In no particular order:

Sandhya Sanjana (http://www.sandhyasanjana.com/)

Ella FitzGerald - not exactly the nicest voice, but she does some really uplifting and relaxing songs.

Umm Kulthum (http://almashriq.hiof.no/egypt/700/780/umKoulthoum/Songs/ouzkourini.html)

Whisper Lillith from Soulgrind - great singer and good looking!

Máire Ní Chathasaigh - A very talented singer and harp player

In no particlar order,

Dido
Enya
Loreena McKennitt
Kate Bush
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Been there, done that. It was more extensive here:

Top Ten Male and Female Vocalists (http://www.sorcerers.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/21/385.html)

I didn't see that one, so in no order

Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance)
Liz Bennett (Cocteau Twins)
Dido
Enya
Stephanie Louise Nicks

bjork
joni mitchell
beth gibbons
patsy cline
tori amos

oh, and Loreena McKennitt, Enya, and Lisa Gerrard are pretty awesome in their own right- just not my favorites.

:doh: How could I EVER not put Bjork in there! She's great! Bye Sophie.... but Bjork beats ya hands down.

1. Hayley Westenra
2. Deborah Gibson
3. Judy Garland
4. Alanis Morissette
5. Aretha Franklin

No Bjork on my list - too weird for me. Dido and Kate Bush are quite good though. Never heard of most of the others mentioned.

Been there, done that. It was more extensive here:Yeah, well screw that list. That was last year. We're due for an update anyway.

Yeah, screw that list :p

In this modern fast paced world, we only have attention spans to list five singers. Nobody does top tens any more. ;)

Bjork almost made my top 5. She's number 6. I'd say "with a bullet," but that honor is for Neko Case. I've only discovered her recently and man, I'm smitten. Most surprising of all is that it's her latest, a country album, which hooked me (and I don't really listen to much country). She's historically more punk, so it's kinda cool.

A punk country singer? What is the world coming to?

Wait a sec... six people posted and nobody listed Janis Joplin? :shame:

Go listen to some of her music and try again!

1. Hayley Westenra
2. Sarah Brightman
3. Tarja Turunen
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Heather Alexander

at the moment, of course :p

Is this about who I like best or who I think sings the best?
(I have to think a while for making both these top 5s)
Also, can they be part of a band or should I solely sum up female vocalists with a solo carriere?

Whatever you want, MoN. It should probably be your top 5, not who you think are the best of all time.

Sharon den Adel
Floor Jansen
Tarja Turunen
Liv Christine
Sarah Brightman

Not necessarily in order...

A random selection of ones I can think off off the top of my head

Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
Katy Jane Garside (From Daisy Chainsaw days, I haven't heard Queen Adreena)
Alanis Morissette
Lou Rhodes (Lamb)
Diane Charlemagne (On Goldies "Timeless" album)

Also up there would be the lass from Puretone (only because of the one song), and Sophie Ellis Baxter.

Nice! An other Lou Rhodes fan :) And now I got Goldie's "Innercity Life" stuck in my head as well. Interesting stuff, Carc.

Here are some of my list, in no particular order. Just a few. There are many other women that I like (to hear them singing, mind you)

Lou Rhodes - Lamb's singer has gone solo. :)
Sia - One of the females of Zero7. She's gone solo as well. The other women, Sophie Barker and Tina Dico are not too bad either (understatement here)
Dido
Skye Edwards - A pity she doesn't sing anymore for Morcheeba. And while the new singer isn't that bad, Morcheeba's new album didn't meet my expectations.
Lisa Bassenge - Singer of Micatone

I might as well have listed Shirley Bassey, Nina Simone, Sarah Bettens (K's Choice), Geike Arneart (Hooverphonic, an other Belgian lady), Sinéad o'Connor (if only for appearing on Massive Attack 's "The 100th Window") and Björk (of who I have no albums yet, shamefully).

[ May 17, 2006, 01:27: Message edited by: Master of Nuhn ]

Well, my top five have not changed. So, I will list them again:

Amy Lee
Annie Wilson (and she is awesome, DR)
Dido
Sara Brightman
Linda Ronstandt

[ May 17, 2006, 08:10: Message edited by: Chandos the Red ]

Carcaroth- cool to see another Beth Gibbons fan. I am looking forward to the third portishead album to come out this year.

...on another note- Sarah Brightman's voice is so weirdly mucus like to me. Yes, her voice reminds me of mucus. I for one think that Emmy Rossum, as Christine in the movie version of Phantom, has a much prettier voice. Sarah Brightman just sounds so damn weird.

[ May 17, 2006, 06:44: Message edited by: auril ]

Auril,
Her voice is pure sex, absolutely stunning on the frist album.

Auril/MoN,
I always thought Lambs first album was the sort of direction that Portisheads second should have taken, if you haven't heard the other, I would recommend.

MoN, Now I'm shocked, I didn't expect anyone else on here to know any Drum & Base. "Angel" is usually the track to get stuck between my ears. I'd forgotten about Morcheeba.

What a weird mix of singers listed so far. Who is Lamb? I have never heard of him / her / it / them.

Geeze...this is going to be hard.

In no particular order:
Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries - one of the only chick bands I can stand)
Amy Lee (Evanescence- tollerable in small dosses)
Dido (Tollerable if stuck at a dance concert)
That lady who does the "la da da da" in Metallica's 'The Memory Remains'...
And because I can't think of any others...this list is limited to just 4. :p :rolling:

HB, Lamb is a duo consisting of Andy Barlow and Louise Rhodes. Both have gone solo now. Lamb was some sort of mixup between triphop and drum&bass. They seem to be like an upbeat Portishead and others compare them with the Sneaker Pimps.

Carcaroth, consider yourself a little less special now then. :p I don't have much D&B. Just the best known of the scene, like Roni Size and Reprazent, Aphrodite, Adaf F, Grooverider etc

Kitrax, you could always add Prince to make that 5 :p

An other female singer I like is Beth Hirsch, who appeared on Air's album Moon Safari. (I got slapped by my roommate for not mentioning her)

Edit: I yet have to find an other person, real-life or online, who has heard of Micatone.

[ May 17, 2006, 14:11: Message edited by: Master of Nuhn ]

Its Maryann Faithful Kitrax ;) (Memory Remains)

Let's see...

India.Arie
Angie Stone
Beth Gibbons
Shirley Manson
Roisin Murphy

of Beth Gibbons Her voice is pure sex Indeed.

I've haven't heard of Lambs, I should explore them.

I'd forgotten about Dolores O'Riordan- what happened to The Cranberries anyway?

As for Amy Lee, although I'm thoroughly bored to death of that sort of "Linkin' Park" music- if it can be called such- she admittedly has a good voice. I agree with Kitrax's assesment of "small doses" only.

1. Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull (ex-Theatre of Tragedy, Leave's Eyes)
2. Anneke Van Giersbergen (The Gathering)
3. Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish)
4. Paulina Maślanka (Delight)
5. Anja Ortodox (Closterkeller)

Never heard of ANY of those people, Undertaker, or the entities named in brackets after them. :borg:

Nightwish is another Evanscence sort of band. Formula:
metal group + power ballads + operatic female voice = lotsa fans.

hi DarkStrider,

The singer from Cocteau Twins is called Liz Frasier.
Otherwise pretty good choices.

Both her and Lisa Gerrard are on my top 5 list as well.

@HB: no wonder DotW calls you Caveboy :p

@HB: no wonder DotW calls you Caveboy [Razz] Well, it's not my fault if I have taken a liking in poking fun out of Harbs. :evil:

I agree for Liv Kristine, but not with the ***** from Nightwish.

So, my own top five:

1. Kari Rueslatten
2. Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull
3. Kicki Höijertz
4. Cadaveria
5. Tie between Lisa Johansson and Caroline Wilson

i thought the nightwish chick was quite good, an opera chick singing in a finish metal

i like the
nightwish chick
evanesence chick
tadpole chick
cranberries chick
and um shirley manson from garbage

Dammit. How could I leave out Shirley Manson...

DotW, I have never heard of any of the people on your list either. They sound vey obscure. Where do you find out about all these singers?

I prefer Death Rabbit's and Takara's lists because at least they are singers that I have any chance of having heard of.

Plus...my list kicks more ass. Cuz it's mine.

Just sayin'. :cool:

ps - HB, I think tastes and certainly exposure differ from region to region. If memory serves, most on Disciple and Undertaker's lists are more European, and aren't necessarily mainstream at all. So while they may be obscure as hell to you and I (as we're both in countries where English is the official language), they're probably local favorites the closer you get to eastern Europe.

I mean the spelling of the names alone on Disciple's list makes me more distant to Europe than before. ;)

DotW, I have never heard of any of the people on your list either. They sound vey obscure. Where do you find out about all these singers? Harby, you have just said it yourself: They're from obscure bands. Apart from me, Undertaker would be the only other to have ever heard those names. There are a lot of great underground talents, you know.

@DR: ALL mentioned on my list are European bands :p And yes, those bands are obscure and only me and DotW know most of them (but I'm sure Nightwish is more known band :p as well as Theatre Of Tragedy)
and all hear this
Liv Kristine Espenæs Krul is da best voice in the world!

great underground talents What makes an artist "underground"?

Not being mentioned in mainstream radio/TV/press,
Being known to such people like me and DotW only :p recording in garages, or in cheat (=poor) studio for your own money.
Etc

If they started getting played on the radio, would you still like them?

Believe me, no commercial radio would play most of the underground metal music :p

Liv Kristine Espenæs Krul is da best voice in the world!Maybe for you, but for me it's Kari Rueslatten all the way! :love: :love: :love: :love:

If they started getting played on the radio, would you still like them? Believe me, no commercial radio would play most of the underground metal music Undertaker has summed it up pretty nicely. They're not three-minutes radio-friendly hits.

@HB: no wonder DotW calls you Caveboy Yeah? Caveboy? HB rocks on the "Booktalk" boards. Imagine that, a literate guy who knows good books, but little about pop music. What's this world coming to? :)

Chandos, don't let them hear you call it "pop" music! It's underground-alt-death-speed-trip-metal (or something). If you (or I) have heard of it then it must be some mainstream sell out.

I hate to be the hall monitor, but...

:yot:

PS - I had heard and heard of Nightwish before this list, but was never interested enough to find out who the singer was.

Back on topic, I'd like to add Heather Nova to my top 5 list, now that I have discovered that she has had more than one album.

So, DR, what is the combined Top 5 for SP so far?

Well, the only ones to get multiple mentions are Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull, Tarja Turunen, Dido, Aretha Franklin and Dolores O'Rierdan, in order of votes (from a quick glance).

Though someone else can do the tally next time. I don't like thinking! That's why I come here. ;) :rolling:

Bjork, Beth Gibbons, and Sarah Brightman also got multiple mentions.

So did Annie Wilson...

Precisely why I don't like to be counter guy. :D

Count this:

Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin

Nobody else in rock even comes close. :D

Janis Joplin is too depressing for me.

True, but she is the all-time greatest female singer in rock. No one has the pipes she had.

Eh, don't know if I would agree with that one. She was good, but all-time greatest is pushing it I think.

Amy Lee
The Girl Who Sings in that Nightwish band
Singer out of Killing Heidi

Hmm, don't know how I missed this...

In no order

Ann/Nancy Wilson gotta love em
Charolette Church, the girl's got pipes
Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart is so awesome, raw emotion)
Melissa Ethredge
Janis baby, she was the bomb
Lita Ford

Oops thats six, sorry couldn't prune it down any more.

Tina Turner.
Sharleen Spiteri (Texas).
Marie Fredrikkson (Roxette).
Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries, soon to go solo).
Bonnie Tyler
Cyndi Lauper.

Ooops, that's six...
Is unfair, I like some other girls too, and they should make to the top five too.

I am surprised at how popular Dolores O'Riordan is on Sorcerers. Shes not exactly popular in her home country and no-one can stand her harsh singing style.

All right, I guess I had enough time to think about this.

1. Janis Joplin. I fully agree with T2.
2. Eva Cassidy. Probably the odd one out in this list, since she is a bit more jazzy, but she was a great singer.
3. Melissa Etheridge. She rocks :happy:

4... and then it became a little bit harder. I mostly listen to male vocalists, and although I know plenty of songs from female singers, I'm not really familiar with most of their repetoire. I could probably fill the list up with people like Dolores O'Riordan (she isn't that bad) or Tracy Chapman (Fast Car is a great song), but I'm gonna stick with a top three.

Oh, and anybody who says Janis wasn't the best that ever lived is just plain wrong :p

i like the
nightwish chick
evanesence chick
tadpole chick
cranberries chick
shirley manson from garbage

yes it seems the nightwish chick is quite popular on here

In no particular order...

Janis Joplin
Aretha Franklin
Lisa Gerrard
Enya
Loreena McKennit

cyndi lauper? pffffff! that's like putting madonna on the list.

And yes, although I neglected to put her on my list- Janis Joplin rocks. She sings to the soul.