5. Alanis Morrisette

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_pn1Uw9jA

4. Doloris O’Riordan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MuhFxaT7zo

3. Ann Wilson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvQ3WG10QY

2. Grace Slick

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoLcgxvf98

1. Johnette Napolitano

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jfNc2PZuiU





Honorable mention to Stevie Nicks

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOkZUEeKc4

and, Amy Winehouse

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-paWx8pNw

1. Stevie Nicks
2. Janis Joplin
3. Ann Wilson
4. Tina Turner
5. Joan Jett

No to Janis Joplin. She just screamed and groaned.

One song at a time sounds okay, but listening to a whoel CD gets old real quick.

No Hope Sandoval?

No Kim Deal?

Number 1:

What? No love for Debbie Harry?

(06-20-2020, 03:44 PM)magikod Wrote: No Hope Sandoval?

No Kim Deal?

(06-20-2020, 08:11 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What? No love for Debbie Harry?

I’d love to see your lists! There’s no right or wrong answers up in this thread. Show me watcha got!

Big Concrete Blondes fan. But I'd have to say my favorite is Florence Welch.

(06-20-2020, 11:31 PM)Benton Wrote: Big Concrete Blondes fan. But I'd have to say my favorite is Florence Welch.

She did have a great voice and I loved her in the Brady Bunch

Pat Benatar is one of the most powerful female vocalist of all time.

I could do another completely different list.......

Annie Lennox
Tracy Chapman
Joan Jett
Lady Gaga
Madonna
Cher
Pink
..........

(06-21-2020, 11:35 AM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: I could do another completely different list.......

Annie Lennox
Tracy Chapman
Joan Jett
Lady Gaga
Madonna
Cher
Pink
..........

Well, If you're going to lean it toward pop music, I would think that any top list would have to have Aretha Frankin and Whitney Houston as 1/1A, and most definitely Adele in the top 5.

Mavis Staples
Barbera Lewis
Darlene Love
Patti Smith
Stevie Nicks
Etta James

I couldn't stop at 5.

(06-21-2020, 04:54 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Well, If you're going to lean it toward pop music, I would think that any top list would have to have Aretha Frankin and Whitney Houston as 1/1A, and most definitely Adele in the top 5.

Yeah, Aretha is basically unrivaled IMO.  She was a total force of nature.  

I'd toss Ronnie Spector in there, too.  She was the original bad girl.  Timeless voice.  

Her contribution isn't massive, but Merry Clayton is also significant for her vocals on Gimmie Shelter.  She managed to upstage the best frontman in rock history on that song.

Stevie gets the love, but I'm partial to Christine McVie. I see her as the alpha female of that band.

I don't know if Florence Welch is a rock singer, but she's just about the best I've heard from the modern group. I like everything about her.

Also, honorable mention for Corrine Tucker from Sleater-Kinney. Kick-ass guitar player and singer.

(06-20-2020, 12:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No to Janis Joplin. She just screamed and groaned.

One song at a time sounds okay, but listening to a whoel CD gets old real quick.

Yup; a woman celebrated for her non-musical attributes, rather than her musical attributes.

Annoying to death and doesn't actually sing; shrieking and yelling, like Robert Plant, 50% of the time.

(06-20-2020, 08:11 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What? No love for Debbie Harry?

Pop Singer, IMO.

Also, more-beloved for her look than her singing chops (which are average at best, I feel).

The names people are putting in here (Ella, Aretha, etc.) are absolutely NOT rock singers lol; phenomenal singers yes, but not rock.

She by no means has a pleasant voice and also yells to death, but Tairrie B has one of the most powerful voices I have ever heard in rock/rock subgenres; WOW can she belt it out. Sure, it doesn't sound too great but for raw power in a singing voice, few (if any) can touch her.

(06-22-2020, 02:34 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Yup; a woman celebrated for her non-musical attributes, rather than her musical attributes.

Annoying to death and doesn't actually sing; shrieking and yelling, like Robert Plant, 50% of the time.


Pop Singer, IMO.

Also, more-beloved for her look than her singing chops (which are average at best, I feel).

The names people are putting in here (Ella, Aretha, etc.) are absolutely NOT rock singers lol; phenomenal singers yes, but not rock.

She by no means has a pleasant voice and also yells to death, but Tairrie B has one of the most powerful voices I have ever heard in rock/rock subgenres; WOW can she belt it out. Sure, it doesn't sound too great but for raw power in a singing voice, few (if any) can touch her.

That shrieking and yelling is in key though... Don't believe me? Watch somebody karaoke Janis sometime.

(06-22-2020, 12:43 AM)samhain Wrote: I don't know if Florence Welch is a rock singer, but she's just about the best I've heard from the modern group.  I like everything about her.

My husband and two of our dearest friends went to see them and it was a beautiful experience. Florence is an amazing singer and performer. Her natural vibrato is like none other.

Not my kind of music, not specifically rock'n'roll but Lara Fabian is a hell of an interpret.

She's from Belgium and she has the presence of Jacques Brel on stage.

Besides that I like Lera Lynn.

(06-22-2020, 02:34 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Pop Singer, IMO.

Also, more-beloved for her look than her singing chops (which are average at best, I feel).

The names people are putting in here (Ella, Aretha, etc.) are absolutely NOT rock singers lol; phenomenal singers yes, but not rock.

Yeah, somewhere the thread went from "rock" to "most genres", but some artists are good enough to transcend over multiple styles of music.  Heck, even "rock" is a very vague term, so many different types and styles.  What started out at "rock" music, back in the '50's has most definitely morphed into what most folks would consider "pop" or "top 40" music.  So, I guess technically, you can't blame a listener to call "pop" rock music, as that is where it all came from.

(06-22-2020, 09:14 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yeah, somewhere the thread went from "rock" to "most genres", but some artists are good enough to transcend over multiple styles of music.  Heck, even "rock" is a very vague term, so many different types and styles.  What started out at "rock" music, back in the '50's has most definitely morphed into what most folks would consider "pop" or "top 40" music.  So, I guess technically, you can't blame a listener to call "pop" rock music, as that is where it all came from.

Indeed.

Half of Rock is ripped off from Blues and R&B (don't get me started on how THAT has been distorted lol) as well...