Top 115 Female Music Artists Results | No.1 page 63

[RobMCFC]

I’d be more than willing to do another music poll but @RobMCFC ,@BlueHammer85 or someone else may have alternative thoughts about that.

You've done a great job here - I'm happy for you to carry on.

I'm currently running one music thread and am toying with the idea of another two, so feel free to carry on running the polls.

 

[west didsblue]

Surprised no-one's picked Anastacia unless she's in the top two. Can't see her being ahead of DH or KB though.

 

[threespires]

Kate Bush vs Debbie Harry. Come on Deb, bash the posh bird!

lol - neither of them in my top ten but I think I'm with you on this one!

Edit:

Having just done a rough 'Ryder Cup' on the top 100 it's about a 60/40 split in favour of the US even after making the likes of Kylie an honorary brit. I've added in the Canadians to the US because I know how much they appreciate being lumped together.

So in the spirit of honours even and all that, it would be good if the top spot goes to a (suitably eccentric) European.

 

[mackenzie]

lol - neither of them in my top ten but I think I'm with you on this one!

I had Kate as my number 1 and Debbie as 2. ;-)

 

[RandolphMABlue]

She attached more importance to her albums. She only put out the singles because the company was pushing her to, in the way that companies and managers did in those days. All the albums through the 70s are pearls: Blue (which I personally am not that fond of, although many consider it to be her masterpiece), For The Roses, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Court and Spark, and above all Hejira. First album I ever bought was Song To A Seagull, in 69. I was astonished by the overall quality. Her voice got a lot smokier and bluesier over time — not surprising, with all the cigarettes and drink. Still interesting, though.

This was one of Joni's responses to the record company's demands . . .

 

[threespires]

This was one of Joni's responses to the record company's demands . . .

Nothing if not her own person, she has definitely trodden her own path.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

She is an album artist mate. Blue is my favourite. She is famous for her songwriting and influence on other artists such as CSNY and James Taylor. Folk are likely to have voted because of her large body of sublime work.

Blue is as personal and soul revealing as they come.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

She attached more importance to her albums. She only put out the singles because the company was pushing her to, in the way that companies and managers did in those days. All the albums through the 70s are pearls: Blue (which I personally am not that fond of, although many consider it to be her masterpiece), For The Roses, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Court and Spark, and above all Hejira. First album I ever bought was Song To A Seagull, in 69. I was astonished by the overall quality. Her voice got a lot smokier and bluesier over time — not surprising, with all the cigarettes and drink. Still interesting, though.

Hejira is well up there.
Blue is extremely open and personal. She leaves nothing of herself behind.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Then


And now, as she admits herself, that she fully understands what she wrote back then.

 

[stonerblue]

christ on a bike...

If ever there was a voice guaranteed to get me up and turn the radio off it's hers.