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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why? If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
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Does she not fall outside the 20 year scope? I'd have gone for Streisand at her peak if we're talking further back but I did say 20 years!
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Oh, missed that. Yeah, guess she's SLIGHTLY out of range.
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why? If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeThe phrase "..outside the classical tradition..." leaves quite a bit of wiggle room for niche vocalists maybe.
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Does she not fall outside the 20 year scope? I'd have gone for Streisand at her peak if we're talking further back but I did say 20 years!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
Ahhh - fooey. You're just getting rid of the real competition so those of the last twenty years have anything like a chance. And, being the contrarian I love to be: Grace Slick in the early Jefferson Airplane
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The phrase "..outside the classical tradition..." leaves quite a bit of wiggle room for niche vocalists maybe.
Missed that. You're probably right...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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That's ok, she probably hates you too... ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why? If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeJohnny J. wrote:
If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
No, most of the best music today is by independent artists. While some of the more main stream performers are indeed good vocalists, they spew out the garbage that the industry steers them towards instead of trusting their own creativity.
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why? If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeDon't think that follows at all. In fact I specifically asked for the best, not the most commercially successful, in the hope that it would raise up some candidates that I had no knowledge of. The record business being the clumsy great machine that it is there is no reason to believe that the cream necessarily rises to the top or gets the backing of the great promotion budgets. Also there are many great singers working in areas such as English folk which have never had the audiences to bring people into widespread recognition. I would put Kate Rusby's "My Young Man" easily into the top ten singer/songwriter recordings of all time, for example, but I doubt that more than a handful of people outside the folk audience are even aware of it's existence (and they heard it from me!)
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Oh, missed that. Yeah, guess she's SLIGHTLY out of range.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)If we're going outside the range, then I want Patti Smith in there. And Joan Armatrading. And Aretha Franklin. And ...
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why? If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeYou might want to do a little research on how the pop industry works.
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You might want to do a little research on how the pop industry works.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
You think I should care about that? ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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You think I should care about that? ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeListen, Kiddo, you care about what I Tell you to care about! Now go and sit quietly in the corner, while I finish my martini and think up things for you to do.
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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
Tarja Turunen
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If we're going outside the range, then I want Patti Smith in there. And Joan Armatrading. And Aretha Franklin. And ...
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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
OK, so most male pop singers are gay, so they kinda qualify as female, but that's not the point.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What is this obsession with "Verleiding Binnen"? If it's the boobies, just bear in mind that 99.99999999999% of women have two each, so they're nothing special.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Sander's SOTW thread
w0000t! :D I usually don't care much for vocals, so I don't really have favorite singers. The entire package must be right and a beautiful voice can be really unfitting in certain music. Putting together this top five was pretty challenging, but fun nonetheless :D In no particular order: Kimbra - Two Way Street - LIVE Studio Session[^] (posted by @BillWoodruff some time ago, became my SOTW after that. That lady has a really very good singing voice). Solefald - Tittentattenteksti[^] (was my SOTW a few weeks back, say what you want, but this lady (Agnete Kjølsrud, also in Djerv and Animal Alpha) sounds like a maniac, which is exactly what makes her, and this song, pretty awesome). The Devil's Blood - The Anti Kosmik Magick[^] (Farida Lemouchi sounds like she's somehow slightly off tune which is exactly why her voice adds perfectly to this dark psychedelic satan worship). Idina Menzel - Let It Go[^] (yes, that song from Frozen which is waaaaaay too catchy! No denying that Idina Menzel has a strong voice with a pretty wide range). Igorrr - Tout Petit Moineau[^] (this song came to me in a SOTW thread (thanks @RUs123!) and also became a SOTW. Laure Le Prunenec goes from beautiful classical singing to screaming and psychopath, awesome!) Maybe not the best singers in the world (beauty is in the eye, or in this case ear, of the beholder/listener anyway), but pretty unique and awesome nonetheless! :D
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