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True or False: Alanis Morissette is one of the greatest female singers in rock history (1 Viewer)
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If we're talking about singing voice, PJ is OK. I wouldn't put her up there with Joplin or Wilson or anyone like that, but the voice she has suits her material well.
Her material blows Alanis' out of the water and is among the best of any woman in rock.
SWC
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ole willie it is good to see you around these parts i hope you are still doing radio shows sponsored by doans you are one of the greats take that to the bank bromigo
Brunell4MVP
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Ugh. No. Not even top 1000.
Tom Servo
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Mr. Know-It-All
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Whats missing here is -
more current - Amy Lee
grunge - Kim Deal, Kim Gordon
new wave - Kate Pierson, Wendy O. Williams, Terri Nunn, Belinda Carlisle, Eddie Brickell
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BobbyLayne
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Edie is a good comp, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was as good as any album that came out 88-89
Brandi CarlisleBelinda, meh for me (couple great pop hits tho)
I presume the rest of those are amazing, don’t know any of them
Doug B
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BobbyLayne
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BobbyLayne
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pretty sure all my CDs are in a box in the deepest part of my storage unit
will end up at Goodwill one day
will end up at Goodwill one day
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Ghost Rider
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I think of Stevie Nicks are more rock than pop, although I guess Fleetwood Mac and most of her solo material was always more soft rock than anything. I think of pop as stuff like Madonna (good singer considering her limited vocal abilities, meaning she wasn't born with pipes to belt it out like Whitney or Mariah). Back to Stevie, she'd be high on my list.
Karen Carpenter has to be way up there as well, even if the Carpenters aren't a band I really ever listen to (nothing wrong with easy listening music, just not stuff I actively seek out).
Chrissie Hynde always struck me as more of an icon than a great singer. Pretenders were a good band at their peak.
I wish Annie Lennox had more songs I liked because she has a terrific voice.
Her voice is awesome. The list of great female rock singers is not that long....Janis, Joan, Ann, Chrissie, Tina, Pat, Gwen, Stevie, Grace and a handful of other iconic female rock singers. Alantis vocally is on par with all of them. But her music is not.
Karen Carpenter is vastly under appreciated. I have seen lists of top 50 female singers and she did not even make the cut. One of the most beautiful smoothest voices ever. I think because she stayed mainly in the low-range and rarely showed off her high range, which was very distinctive and rare for a women to sound that great there, people discount her talents.
Ghost Rider
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Yeah, I wish she had more songs I liked. It's unfortunate that her most well known songs will ultimately be the ones where I find her yelping to be annoyingly distracting (You Oughta Know, for example).
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Ghost Rider
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That's probably the song of hers I have liked the longest, which I credit to Steven Wilson who did a cover of it a long time ago that got me to realize how good of a song it is. He later did it live with his Blackfield side project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ngaRY9T4g
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Mr. Know-It-All
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Amy Lee - EvanesenceEdie is a good comp, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was as good as any album that came out 88-89
Belinda, meh for me (couple great pop hits tho)
I presume the rest of those are amazing, don’t know any of them
Kim Deal = Pixies; Breeders
Kim Gordon = Sonic Youth
Kate Pierson = B-52s
Wendy O. Williams = Plasmatics
Terri Nunn = Berlin
BobbyLayne
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thanks!
Obviously at no point in my rambling, incoherent response was I even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having to read it. May God have mercy on my soul.
dhockster
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Isn't Aimee Mann Canadian? I like her a lot.
Not Canadian, and maybe not technically considered a rocker, but Kate Bush is one of my favorite female vocalists of all time
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Binky The Doormat
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Tau837
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Just ran across this and haven't read the thread yet. My immediate thought was, the number of women in the group that comprises the "greatest female singers in rock history" would have to be really large to include Morissette.
Judge Smails
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FALSE
Ghost Rider
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Update: Alanis recently released a meditation album. It sounds like music you'd listen to when getting a massage. Props to her doing something really different, but I doubt it will improve her rock cred with this crowd. 
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McBokonon
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“I’ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other one has found some middle ground and we can really build from this.”
Ghost Rider
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Damn typos. 
Alex P Keaton
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This crowd has definitely been on pins and needles waiting for an Alanis update.Update: Alanis recently released a meditation album. It sounds like music you'd listen to when getting a massage. Props to her doing something really different, but I doubt it will improve her rock cred with this crowd.
Ghost Rider
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Major
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with a mediation and massage album, there's definitely a Deshaun Watson joke somewhere in here.
Ghost Rider
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I doubt most will disagree with Ann Wilson, but I have been surprised over the years to see how many do like Stevie's voice. I like the raspy, more natural quality her voice always had, and she could belt it out a little in her prime, before she destroyed her range in the early 80s. And her success, both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artists, is impossible to deny. On the list of most iconic female rock singers, Stevie Nicks sits right near the top.
rockaction
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This thread started out giving and it kept giving. Pleasantly surprised by the bump. Would rate it an A-.
Jayrod
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Took until the second page to mention the best female rock singer of the last 20 yrs.
Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Stevie Nicks,, Janis Joplin, Ann Wilson and Pat Benetar were the first ones that came to mind.
I'd probably put Alanis somewhere firmly in the top 100 and likely in the top 50 without actually going through the exercise. I honestly thought of her more like edgy pop than Rock N Roll.
Ilov80s
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Those were also my first thoughts along with Patti Smith, Kim Deal, Dolores O'Riordan, Liz Phair and Grace Slick.
Dan Lambskin
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Some newer/ underrated chick singers
Dorothy Martin from Dorothy
Lzzy Hale from Halestrom
Sandra Nasić from Guano Apes
Bif Naked
Morgan Lander from Kittie
Militia Vox
Dorothy Martin from Dorothy
Lzzy Hale from Halestrom
Sandra Nasić from Guano Apes
Bif Naked
Morgan Lander from Kittie
Militia Vox
Ilov80s
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Adrianne Lenker from Big Thief is absolutely #1 right now IMO. Best rock/indie rock band out there.
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I don’t know if Lake Street Dive counts as rock, but Rachael Price is way up there for me.
Tau837
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Comments:
- Tina Turner would like a word. As would Stevie Nicks. And Janis Joplin.
- I wouldn't personally view Donna Summer as a rock singer.
- I like Joan Jett, but Mount Rushmore, i.e., top 4 of all time?
leftcoastguy7
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I could listen to that Irish accent all day long.
Captain Cranks
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Her voice is great on certain tracks (All I really want, You Oughtta know) but nails on a chalkboard for others. Also, Hand in My Pocket and Ironic are two of the dumbest songs in rock history.
Tecumseh
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Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Aimee Lee, but Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine has the edge. Take a listen to Girl With One Eye.
HellToupee
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