Music Tournament: Albums by Women who Rock (1 Viewer)

[Angelo.M]

music tourney: albums by women who rock!


Stop me if this has been done already...

Inspired by posts in the Music Draft, a tournament for albums by women. Despite the title, albums in all genres of music are eligible, provided the artist is a woman, a group of women, or a group featuring a woman. Classical albums by female soloists are eligible, unless the group feels as though we should exclude them.

These are 32 automatics. I'd like to shoot for 128 albums.

1. Joni Mitchell: Blue
2. Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon
3. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
4. Janis Joplin: Pearl
5. Carol King: Tapestry
6. Nanci Griffith: Flyer
7. Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball
8. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
9. Sleater-Kinney: One Beat
10. Tracy Chapman (self-titled)
11. Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing
12. Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily
13. Neko Case: Blacklisted
14. 10,000 Maniacs: Our Time in Eden
15. Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor
16. The Innocence Mission: Glow
17. Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs
18. Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley
19. Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter
20. Holly Cole: Don't Smoke in Bed
21. Dar Williams: End of the Summer
22. Beth Orton: Central Reservation
23. Julie Miller: Broken Things
24. Tift Merrit: Bramble Rose
25. Mary Chapin Carpenter: Stones in the Road
26. Diana Krall: All for You
27. Eva Cassidy: Songbird
28. Patricia Barber: Cafe Blue
29. Bonnie Raitt: Luck of the Draw
30. Shannon Curfman: Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions
31. Susan Tedeschi: Just Won't Burn
32. Cowboy Junkies: The Trinity Session

In via seconding...

33. Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
34. Hole: Live Through This
35. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
36. Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
37. Sinead O'Connor: The Lion and the Cobra
38. Sugarcubes: Life's Too Good
39. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
40. Patti Smith: Easter
41. Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg
42. No Dobut: Tragic Kingdom
43. Fiona Apple: Tidal
44. 10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe
45. Bjork: Post
46. Fleetwood Mac: Rumors
47. Heart: Dreamboat Annie
48. 10,000 Maniacs: Blind Man's Zoo
49. Bjork: Debut
50. Cocteau Twins: Treasure
51. Kate Bush: The Dreaming
52. Tori Amos: Under the Pink
53. Mary Margaret O'Hara: Miss America
54. Bananarama: Bananarama
55. The Bangles: Different Light
56. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock N Roll
57. Bananarama: Bananarama
58. The Bangles: Different Light
59. Mary Margaret O'Hara: Miss America
60. No Doubt: Rock Steady

Ten nominations each, for now. Five seconds each. No thirds needed.

Go nuts...

 

[Peter Mazur]

How about:

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion

 

[george kaplan]

I don't have time to think about this carefully right now, but the most obvious omission so far:

The Pretenders

 

[Mike Hutman]

I'll nominate

1)Poe-Hello
2)Poe-Haunted
3)Tori Amos-Under The Pink
4)Nina Gorgon-Tonight And The Rest Of My Life
5)Jill Sobule-untitled
6)Hole-Live Through This
7)No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
8)Jewel- This Way

I'll second

1)Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

 

[Rain]

Nominate:

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Alanis Morissette
Martinis & Bikinis Sam Phillips
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor
The Lion and the Cobra Sinead O'Connor
Whitechocolatespaceegg Liz Phair
In My Tribe 10000 Maniacs
Pearl Janis Joplin
Horses Patti Smith
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention
Pirates Rikie Lee Jones


Second:

Live Through This Hole

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Nominate:
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
Bjork - Debut
Bjork - Post
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Spice Girls - Spice

Second:
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra


Angelo: why not submit your choices to the seconding process as well? I know it's your tourney and all, but I, for one, have never heard of Tift Merrit or Shannon Curfman, or a couple of these other ones. They may be your personal favorites, but I hate a tourney with a bunch of 1-0 or 2-0 victories (or worse, 1-1 ties). I'm staying away from some obscure favorites myself for that reason.

I think "automatics" in general are a bad idea.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

I nominate

-Sleater Kinney : Call the Doctor (Best album of the 90's IMHO)
-Sleater Kinney : Dig Me Out
-Patti Smith Group : Easter
-Sugarcubes : Lifes Too Good
-L7 : Bricks are Heavy
-Liz Phair : Exhile in Guyville
-Veruca Salt : Eight Arms to Hold You
-Fiona Apple : Tidal
-Suzanne Vege : Suzanne Vega
-Eurythmics : Sweet Dreams

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Second:
Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (one I thought of nominating myself... "This City Never Sleeps" gives me chills every time!)

 

[george kaplan]

I'll second Easter - Patti Smith

and nominate

Horses - Patti Smith

 

[Brian Lawrence]

I'll second

Whitechocolatespaceegg Liz Phair

 

[JenB]

Nominate:

Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow featuring standout songs sung by Grace Slick: "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love"

Enya's A Day Without Rain featuring "Only Time"

Dido's No Angel featuring "Here with Me"

Paula Cole's This Fire featuring "I Don't Want to Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac featuring Stevie Nicks singing "Gypsy" and many other great songs

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Second
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Nominate
Dixie Chicks - Fly
No Doubt - Rock Steady

I like some of the tourney albums so far.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac featuring Stevie Nicks singing "Gypsy" and many other great songs

Hmm, I was assuming that "best of" collections didn't count. Angelo, what do you say?

 

[JenB]

Since he did not say that they did not count, I assumed they were probably ok. /shrug

 

[Rain]

Horses - Patti Smith

If George didn't have me on ignore, he would have known that I already nominated that album.

 

[Brook K]

2nd
Fiona Apple - Tidal
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
Bjork - Post

Nominate
Bjork - SelmaSongs
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo
Ace Of Base - The Sign

 

[george kaplan]

Nope, just missed it (probably because the name Rickie Lee Jones sends me running whenever I see it).

I will second Horses

and Pearl - Janis Joplin too.

I'll also second Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

 

[Brian Lawrence]

I'll second

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

 

[Rain]

probably because the name Rickie Lee Jones sends me running whenever I see it

Had to get one in, huh? :p)

Anyway, as was pointed out to me earlier, Janis Joplin's Pearl was on the master list, so I didn't need to nominate it. :b

This means I have one nomination left and I'm going nominate something less revered and more bubblegum:

Joyride Roxette

 

[Angelo.M]

Master list updated with all albums in sofar.

I suggest we leave greatest hits albums, boxed sets, compilations and other reissues out of the tourney. JenB, you get a nomination back for The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac.