Favorite Artists Outside the Mac

[kathy1]

hi my other favorite artists are celine dion,gloria estefan, olivia newton john, pat benatar, mariah carey, heart, whitney houston, janet jackson, diana ross, sheena easton, tina turner, amy grant, natalie cole, katharine mcphee, carrie underwood, abba, blondie, chely wright.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by kathy1

hi my other favorite artists are celine dion,gloria estefan, olivia newton john, pat benatar, mariah carey, heart, whitney houston, janet jackson, diana ross, sheena easton, tina turner, amy grant, natalie cole, katharine mcphee, carrie underwood, abba, blondie, chely wright.

Good choices Kathy. Never heard of Chely Wright, gotta look her up now.

Edit: Never heard of her because she's country.

[kathy1]

she is a country artist . i didn't hear of her from listening to country stations. i saw one of her videos on tv. you can check her website out.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by kathy1

she is a country artist . i didn't hear of her from listening to country stations. i saw one of her videos on tv. you can check her website out.

Yeah I looked her up, unfortunetly I'm not so fond of country music.

[kathy1]

i am not a fan of country music either but i like her. that's alright if you don't.

[Mad4stevie]

Wow - I am shocked that no one has mentioned Alanis yet.
She has got to be one of the best female songwriters out there!!! She is my fav after Stevie.

Also:

Tom Petty
Don Henley
The Eagles
CNSY
Neil Young
James Taylor
The Who
The Beatles
John Lennon
Sarah M.
Kate Bush
Sade
Evanescence
Sheryl Crow

[kathy1]

i am not really a big fan of alanis.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

yeah, very true, but it seems that everyone had to get started getting popular way before 1980 to fit your faves. No faves from the last 25 years, Chili?

Check the list...Dwight Yoakam, Big & Rich, Vince Gill, etc. Basically, I started appreciating country music within the last 25 years (actually, 15).

But, basically, from a rock/pop standpoint, not really. (everything that has come from the last 25 years in the rock/pop category, to me, is just rehash, and not what I'd call "creatively", of what came before it.) However, if you consider that Derek Trucks of the Allman Bros Band is only 27 years old, his own band, the Derek Trucks Band is one of my faves...they'd meet your criteria.

So, yeah, the '60s & '70s was the peak of music for my generation (people born between 1955-1965), so it would just be natural (as opposed to Bb or B#) that music from that era would be what I'd prefer to gravitate toward.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by kathy1

i am not really a big fan of alanis.

That makes two of us. One of the worlds greatest atrocity's to music. She's just terrible.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by LiamMcConville

That makes two of us. One of the worlds greatest atrocity's to music. She's just terrible.

you sure are an extremist. or so it seems in some of your posts. I'm not a HUGE Alanis fan, but she's written some great songs and is very creative, innovative and original. that alone keeps her out of the atrocity category, imo.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

you sure are an extremist. or so it seems in some of your posts. I'm not a HUGE Alanis fan, but she's written some great songs and is very creative, innovative and original. that alone keeps her out of the atrocity category, imo.

I really am. Certain things not so much, music yes. I can agree that she's written some decent songs, but for the most part she can't sing. I've notcied that the great majority of her recordings are her talking/ranting quickly with music in the backround. The one song I will admit to liking at one point in my life was "Precious Illusions."

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by LiamMcConville

I really am. Certain things not so much, music yes. I can agree that she's written some decent songs, but for the most part she can't sing. I've notcied that the great majority of her recordings are her talking/ranting quickly with music in the backround. The one song I will admit to liking at one point in my life was "Precious Illusions."

That's really sad, I think. If there is one thing on this planet that has plenty of room for grey areas - and I mean EVERY shade of grey - then, it's music.

I like some of Alanis's stuff, and some of it I don't. Her style is her own, and I don't have a problem with her using "speak-sing" from time to time.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by Sarah

That's really sad, I think. If there is one thing on this planet that has plenty of room for grey areas - and I mean EVERY shade of grey - then, it's music.

I like some of Alanis's stuff, and some of it I don't. Her style is her own, and I don't have a problem with her using "speak-sing" from time to time.

I can agree with you on that, but one can think Alanis is awful and one can think she's amazing, to each their own.

I haven't heard her do anything but speak-sing. But its quite possible that since I've decided I really don't like her, I haven't found something of hers that proves me wrong.

[BlackWidow]

Alanis is my girl.

[Livia]

I love Alanis. Jagged Little Pill is a "must have" album, imo.