Your Top Ten Female Artists

[dissention]

Originally Posted by xdreamsunwindx

Ooh, I haven't heard that. I need to. I <3 Darlene. I really want to hear that. She can outsing almost anyone. She's amazing.

Oh, man, it's priceless. Darlene plays the gym teacher. Her first song, "In," is basically her singing to the students at the top of her lungs in the gym locker room about how they have to keep their bodies thin. It's so eighties and so horrendous that it's shocking how anyone ever greenlighted it. 30 year olds playing teenagers, singing about periods & killing pigs & how "Eve was weak."

[dissention]

Originally Posted by markolas

There are a couple of albums of hers that I heard a few years ago and didn't care for, but that I'm going to give a second listen. Don Juan is one of them.

I love Don Juan. The overture is absolutely stunning, as is "Paprika Plains." It's really an album to behold.

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by amber

7. Bonnie Tyler (yes, I'm a dork)

It's a Heartache is one of the very first songs I ever remember loving. I was about 8 or 9, I think, when it came out. I had no concept of anything besides hearing a song on the radio. But I know it stayed with me for years - and it was years before I ever heard it again. I recently bought it off puretracks - and I love it still. Brings me right back to being a kid.

Speaking of it, has anyone ever been reminded of this song by If You Ever Did Believe? Think about the line...

"have you forgotten... meeee...eeeee?" Sing the "meee" part to yourself... See what I mean?

[Travis]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Some of her stuff is ultra-cheesy (namely her Germany-only releases from the early '90s, and her "It's A Heartache"-era country-lite), but that voice... that voice is just out of this world. And I don't care what anyone says... no one's voice, not even MeatLoaf's, can convey the Sturm und Drang of Steinman's mini-epics the way Bonnie's can.

Hey JS!

I always liked "Holding Out For A Hero."

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by markolas

Generally, I like her albums from Court & Spark on. On the earlier stuff, she was singing too high for my taste. Blue is an exception.

IMHO, Court and Spark is her masterpiece

[amber]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

It's a Heartache is one of the very first songs I ever remember loving. I was about 8 or 9, I think, when it came out. I had no concept of anything besides hearing a song on the radio. But I know it stayed with me for years - and it was years before I ever heard it again. I recently bought it off puretracks - and I love it still. Brings me right back to being a kid.

Me, too! Only I think I was 3. So then, when I got my first tape player, when I was 8, my mom told someone I liked her, and they got me Faster Than The Speed of Night for Xmas. At the time I didn't know what it was or anything, I wanted something else. But I got used to it and still like it.

[David]

Originally Posted by Travis

Hey JS!

I always liked "Holding Out For A Hero."

Figures!

[David]

Originally Posted by amber

Me, too! Only I think I was 3. So then, when I got my first tape player, when I was 8, my mom told someone I liked her, and they got me Faster Than The Speed of Night for Xmas. At the time I didn't know what it was or anything, I wanted something else. But I got used to it and still like it.

As I recall, "It's a Heartache" was a favorite of the critics that year. However Bonnie Tyler's later recordings of the Jim Steinman dreck didn't please them.

[DavidMn]

Hmm this is interesting for me. But I'll give it a shot

Stevie Nicks
Christine McVie
Carly Simon
Carole King
Harriet Wheeler, lead singer of the group The Sundays
Nicolette Larson
Debbie Harry
Sarah McLachlan
Linda Ronstadt
Judy Collins

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by Travis

Hey JS!

I always liked "Holding Out For A Hero."

My favorite has always been her remake of Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

[amber]

Originally Posted by David

As I recall, "It's a Heartache" was a favorite of the critics that year. However Bonnie Tyler's later recordings of the Jim Steinman dreck didn't please them.

Well pbbblllbbttt to them!
I like Holding Out For a Hero a lot, too. I get really excited when it comes on my ishuffle. The drum interlude is awesome through headphones.
What can I say? Cheesy and overdramatic with a huge throaty vocal gets me every time...

[catinthedark]

^^ And, uh, hello?? Total Eclipse of the Heart??

The BEST!!

Total cheese - totally over the top. In a word - perfect.

[amber]

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Oh, I know - but actually I like a few other songs on the album better than that one. I like that one a lot now, but when it first came out, not so much. I thought it was too slow, and I heard it quite a bit, probably too much. I thought it was schmaltzy, 'cause I was tough and hard when i was eight..love was not cool. Kickball was.

[Dark Angel]

These change with my mood, and I couldn't narrow to ten.

Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Pat Benatar
Annie Lennox
Terri Nunn
Loreena McKennitt
Tori Amos
Debbie Harry
Christine McVie
Stevie Nicks
Ann Wilson
Kate Bush
Sarah McLachlan
Sheryl Crow
Lita Ford
Reba McEntire
Tanya Tucker