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| Rolling Stone: 50 Greatest Female Albums | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 22 2012, 09:45 PM (312 Views) | |
| Riverwide | Jun 22 2012, 09:45 PM Post #1 |
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50. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill Quote: The jagged little Canadian with the jagged little voice manages to make sensuality and rage act like kissing cousins. So give her a hug. She's not angry at you. And her record is hook-y as hell. Essential moment: From "You Oughta Know": "Will she go down on you in a theater?" 49. The Breeders: Last Splash 48. Bonnie Raitt: Give It Up 47. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 46. Salt N Peppa: Hot, Cool and Vicious 45. Taylor Swift: Speak Now Quote: She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click. Essential moment: "Long Live," the best Bon Jovi song Bon Jovi never wrote. 44. Siouxsie and the Banshees: Once Upon A Time 43. Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Quote: The former Fugee puts her heart, mind and soul into telling you everything she knows about love and life, and unites hip-hop, R&B and reggae under a single groove. Essential moment: "Doo Wop (That Thing)," where her warmth and strength are not a combo but one quality. 42. Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel 41. Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual 40. Yoko Ono: Walking on Thin Ice 39. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine Quote: This complex song cycle wasn't easy to make – it took three years of sweat and turmoil. But since when would Fiona Apple do anything the easy way? Essential moment: "O Sailor," a showcase for her mournfully sultry vocals. 38. Bjork: Post Quote: Bjork's artistic stature grew by yards in the course of this strange, affecting work, by turns harshly industrial, meditative and neon jubilant. Essential moment: The soul-feeding beat on "Headphones." 37. Beyonce: 4 Quote: Ever since she broke out of Destiny's Child, Beyonce has been the world's favorite pop princess, whether she's in a feisty mood or making nice. Essential moment: "Countdown," which swerves from abstract beats to killing-me-softly soul. 36. X-Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolescents 35. The Ronnettes: The Best of the Ronnettes 34. Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat 33. Irma Thomas: Soul Queen of New Orleans 32. Dolly Parton: Best of Dolly Parton 31. PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 30. Alicia Keys: As I Am Quote: A classically trained piano girl from Hell's Kitchen, Keys was one R&B prodigy who knew how to put a song together, and her magnificently smoky voice proved she was the real deal. Essential moment: "No One," a lullaby that builds into the essence of modern soul. 29. M.I.A.: Kala Quote: Maya Arulpragasam took hip-hop places it had never been before, from Third World battlegrounds to the Pineapple Express trailer. The Sri Lanka-born provocateur sounds festive and enraged at the same time. Essential moment: "Paper Planes," a Clash-sampling rap chant that somehow stormed the Top 10. 28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz! 27. Dionne Warwick: Presenting... 26. Janet Jackson: Rythm Nation 25. Heart: Little Queen 24. Hole: Live Through This 23. Donna Summers: Bad Girls 22. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville 21. Carole King: Tapestry 20. Etta James: At Last 19. Joan Jett: Bad Reputation 18. Madonna: Like A Prayer Quote: Such a nice quiet Catholic girl, at least for the first 30 seconds. Then she starts getting out of hand. Madonna’s best album has her brightest pop along with her most cathartic confessions. Essential moment: The title song, when she gets down on her knees to feel the power in the midnight hour. 17. Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock 16. Labelle: Nightbirds 15. Patsy Cline: The Patsy Cline Collection 14. The Pretenders: The Pretenders 13. Mary J Blige: My Life 12. Janis Joplin: Pearl 11. Lady Gaga: Born This Way Quote: It’s already hard to remember a world where we didn’t have Gaga, although we’re pretty sure it was a lot more boring. Essential moment: "Edge of Glory," where a born glam-rocker earns her meat-dress bloodstains. 10. Bikini Kill: The Singles 9. The Supremes: Anthology 8. Blondie: Parallel Lines 7. Missy Elliott: Under Construction 6. Adele: 21 Quote: The British belter had a timeless source of inspiration – as she put it, "a rubbish relationship." But she turned her fiercely wounded heart and soul-on-fire voice into the hugest pop success of our time, doing for rubbish relationships what Thriller did for zombies. Essential moment: The window-rattler chorus of "Rolling In The Deep." 5. Patti Smith: Horses 4. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours 3. Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis 2. Joni Mitchell: Blue Quote: An acoustic tour de force with a swinging cast of beautiful losers, cafe romantics, sugar daddies, drunkards, liars and Rolling Stone-reading jet-setters in Spain. The one-liners cut sharp enough for a Preston Sturges film. Essential moment: "Carey," a jaded love ditty. 1. Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You Quote: The greatest rock, pop or soul singer ever steps to the mike and clears her throat. Franklin was shocking in 1967, and still is: Nobody has ever sung with more intensity, more swagger, more soul. Essential moment: "Respect," which never stops kicking your ass. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 22 2012, 09:46 PM Post #2 |
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Adele at #6?
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| Riverwide | Jun 22 2012, 09:47 PM Post #3 |
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And Missy Elliot at #7?
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| Beautiful Stranger | Jun 23 2012, 01:54 AM Post #4 |
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I stopped reading when I saw Taylor Shit. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? |
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| TickTock | Jun 23 2012, 02:23 AM Post #5 |
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I Fckt Riverwide N Da Azz Real Hard Again
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Too high? |
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| Riverwide | Jun 23 2012, 03:11 AM Post #6 |
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It has no place in the Top 50, let alone #6. |
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jun 23 2012, 09:06 AM Post #7 |
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What a poor attempt by RS... No sings of Sade, Mariah, Whitney?.. Amy Winehouse.?. What are they on? Very very random list...brrrrrr and yes, Talor Swift Maybe it's not JUST female albums, but has some added criteria? Otherwise its just stupid of them. Edited by Anastasia Beaverhausen, Jun 23 2012, 09:10 AM.
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jun 23 2012, 09:58 AM Post #8 |
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When I lay in bed I touch myself and I think of you
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I don't really know much about Sade but Whitney and Mariah aren't exactly renowned for their strong albums. |
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jun 23 2012, 10:22 AM Post #9 |
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The first two albums by Whitney are way stronger than... Linda Rondstat, and even Tapestry goes way down, it has one really great song, that's all. Mariah's first album deserve to be in the top 50. And Back to Black deserve to be at least 30 places above Adele. I'd put it to No1. How did they miss Duffy?...
Edited by Anastasia Beaverhausen, Jun 23 2012, 10:26 AM.
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jun 23 2012, 10:34 AM Post #10 |
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BTW, I think Missy Elliot feels embarrassed today. I loved her album, it was VERY fresh, but it's not for eternity for sure. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 23 2012, 10:34 AM Post #11 |
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God, I hadn't realised that Amy's "Back To Black" isn't there. That is utterly inexcusable. |
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jun 23 2012, 11:26 AM Post #12 |
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Yep, especially if they wanted it to be the list of the woman who 'rocks'. Talor Swift rocks.......... and The Supremes with Fleetwood Mac The last list from RS for me |
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| Beautiful Stranger | Jun 23 2012, 02:22 PM Post #13 |
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Whitney and Mariah would have no business on this list either. Sade? Yes. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 23 2012, 05:08 PM Post #14 |
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I agree. Neither Mariah nor Whitney ever made a truly indispensible album. |
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