Music: What are your Top 10 Albums by Women?

[Leafsdude7]

Good list. Love Amanda Marshall.

Did the 1 per artist rule or I would have included Tuesday's Child, too. Everybody's Got A Story probably sits just outside that top-10 as well. Very underrated, IMO, though her falling off the face of the Earth in 2002, apparently due to clashes with her record label, doesn't help.

That said, if I didn't go with 1 per artist. I would have had 3 or 4 Jann Arden albums: Happy?, Blood Red Cherry and her self-titled album are all probaby in or near my top-5 as well.

 

[Pilky01]

In no particular order, either women artists or lead singer/co-lead singer albums that I love.

Emily Haines - Knives Dont Have Your Back
Metric - Live it Out
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Land of Talk - Applause, Cheer, Boo Hiss
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Taylor Swift - Red
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
July Talk - Self titled

 

[frisco]

I'll try to keep it to girl groups or solo female artists and no more than one each.

Kim Carnes-Mistaken Identity
Gwen Stefani-Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Stevie Nicks-Wild Heart
Laura Branigan-Self Control
Kyle Mynogue-Fever
Bangles-All Over The Place
Pat Benatar-In The Heat Of The Night
Mary Chapin Carpenter-Come On, Come On
Go-Go's-Beauty And The Beat
Sheryl Crow-C'mon, C'mon

My Best-Carey

 

[valeriammm]

Don't have a ton of women artists I frequently listen to but here are a few modern artists and albums I like.

Lauyrn Hill - The Miseducation of
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Mariah Carey - Daydream
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Kesha - Rainbow (really enjoyed the single praying)
Adele - 21

Finally some respect for Mariah Carey

 

[valeriammm]

I would say (in no particular order)...

St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
The Runaways- Queens of Noise
Joan Jett- I Love Rock and Roll
Torres- Sprinter
Sharon Van Etten- Are We There
Bully- Feels the Same
FKA Twigs- LP1
Paramore- Riot
Lorde- Pure Heroine
Mitski- Bury Me At Makeout Creek

 

[valeriammm]

1. Sleigh Bells - Treats
2. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
3. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
4. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
5. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
6. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
7. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
8. Adele - 21
9. Emmylou Harris - Elite Hotel
10. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Sleigh Bells and Lykke Li ahh how could I have missed these!!!

 

[valeriammm]

1) Jann Arden - Living Under June
2) Amanda Marshall - Amanda Marshall
3) Melissa Etheridge - Your Little Secret
4) Enya - The Celts
5) Lisa Loeb - No Fairy Tale
6) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
7) Tegan & Sara - If It Were You
8) Vanessa Carlton - Harmonium
9) Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
10) Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

Left off a lot of bands with women leads but significant male contributions (Pretenders, Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, Roxette, just to name a few).

Thats the Tegan and Sara album to make the list?

 

[valeriammm]

Honorable mention has to go out to Warpaint

 

[Ben Grimm]

Shoot out the Lights is a great album.