Music Women by 
Robert Anton Wilson 
MUSIC BY FEMALE ARTISTS
Oftentimes we think of women in music as singers and this chart does sway in that direction. However, to me it is important that an artist write her own song or play an instrument. This chart is clearly not a top 40 or top selling female artists chart.
In order to prevent ranking hell and aberrations, I have created sub-groups within the chart (ordered by personal preference within):
[Actual numbers will change as the chart is completed]
The Top 50 are actual personal favorites
Starting at about 49 [to 58] are albums/bands that have hit a nerve with me and belong, but that I have not yet given the proper listening time or attention to be certain of where they belong in my personal canon.
[60-64] The Grande Dame, ladies and queens of blues, soul and jazz (Aretha, Billie, Ella, ...) including the pioneers (Big Mama Thornton, Memphis Minnie, ...)
[66-68] The contemporary blues -usually girls with guitars (Johanne Shaw-Taylor, Ana Popovic, Susan Tedeschi, ...)
[69-76] The French singers, mostly from Quebec or France (Isabelle Boulay, France D'amour, Luce Dufault, ...)
[77-86] The obligatory hit makers and mainstream artists I can stand and appreciate (The Bangles, The Go-Go's, ...)
[88 to end of chart] - The artists who made the chart on the strength of an exceptionally strong song or album (Babe Ruth, 4 Non Blondes, Alannah Myles, ...)
Ok. I am stuck and I am sure I am missing some critical entries. Hence, I leave it up to your perusal, I am hoping you will make some discoveries or that some of those choices resonate with your own favorites.
Open for suggestions with the following caveats
Top 40 female artists such as Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Ariana Grande or Beyonce => I don't go there
The missing stratospheric divas: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion => I don't go there
No disco or hip-hop
Anyway, you should get hints from my current choices of what I may go for or not
Artists I know I am missing, but do not know what to do about it yet: Nina Hagen, No Doubt, Melissa Auf der Maur (I love her but can't stand the other one! Sorry). Bands that do not come across well as "female artists" even though one of their member is, e.g. Talking Heads, Crash Test Dummies.
- Chart updated: 07/15/2023 03:15
- (Created: 02/17/2022 01:19).
- Chart size: 93 albums.
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This is a compilation album. Thanks to the CD format her 2 great albums, X-Dreams and The Perfect Release are included in their entirety with additional tracks. I first discovered her thanks to her amazing vocal performance on the song Adios a la Pasada from the album Feels Good to Me by Bill Bruford (drummer of Yes, King Crimson, UK and Earthworks among others). Her synthesized voice is unique and her texts are socially significant.
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Probably the greatest voice ever. To me, "Non je ne regrette rien" is the greatest vocal performance ever.
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The second greatest French rock band from Quebec. Second only to Offenbach. This rocks and Marjo's voice is classic rock. The song Ailleurs is among the greatest rock anthems to have come out of Quebec. With the CD format, you get a career spanning double CD and save some dough.
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Hey! I'm a dad rocker and I don't dance. But things like Army Of Me or the other songs on this collection stand on their own musical merit even if you don't get up and shake yer booty!
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Classic rock, almost destroyed by pop in the 80s. The sisters Ann (singer) and Nancy (guitar) Wilson have proven that girls can rock with the big boys. They went back to the origins in latter years and even their syrupy 80s horrors got second leases on life when they remembered that musicianship (as opposed to sales) is where it's at.
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Associated with the birth of East Coast American punk and the New York scene. I never really got the punk in their sound myself -it was more of a sub-culture scene than musical style thing. Songs like Call Me or One Way or Another stand as classic rock anthems. Sometimes they even threw in some Caribbean feel to good effect (The Tide is High). Rapture is among the few songs with rap singing I absolutely love.
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All she wants to do is have some fun.
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NOT rock'n roll. Shall we describe this as muzak? Well, good muzak. Sweet and atmospheric. Good dinner party accompaniment. Good party diner atmospheric music. Zen and new age.
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Music Women composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 8 | 9% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 27% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 16% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Lee Aaron | 2 | 2% | |
| Édith Piaf | 1 | 1% | |
| Bet.e & Stef | 1 | 1% | |
| Enya | 1 | 1% | |
| Cyndi Lauper | 1 | 1% | |
| Meg Myers | 1 | 1% | |
| Cat Power | 1 | 1% | |
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43 | 46% | |
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18 | 19% | |
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11 | 12% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Music Women chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 91st to 93rd Alannah Myles by Alannah Myles |
| New entries |
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 Call Of The Wildby Lee Aaron |
| Witchy Activities And The Maple Death by Monika Roscher Bigband |
| Ding Dong. You’re Dead. by Hedvig Mollestad Trio |
| Leavers |
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 Powerline: The Best Of Lee Aaronby Lee Aaron |
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