Women in Music All-Time Lists - Submissions (Artist Deadline March 18)

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I agree there are cultural double standards between men who sing songs about having lots of sex and women who sing songs about having lots of sex, but I don't think it's fair to attribute anyone who doesn't like Missy Elliot or Kelis to having this bias. And calling something crass is not the same as disliking it for being overly sexual.

I don't like Missy Elliot but I rate Betty Davis very highly.
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Live in Phoenix wrote:Damn, your lists are so fancy, I thought those were the results :mrgreen:
Thank you!

Just edited my list, I forgot Emmylou Harris...
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Top 250 please!
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If I could get an extension until tomorrow, that would be great. My list will give a boost to St. Vincent and recent acts in general, so at least you have that to look forward to. Thanks BleuPanda.
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So, I believe andyd1010 is the only one who explicitly asked for an extension? If anyone else needs one, please ask soon - though I do have some friends coming from out of town this weekend, so I likely won't start until Monday anyway.
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I made a change to my list. I forgot about Karen O before. Added her now and moved everything under her down, sadly at the cost of Kathleen Hannah.
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Rob wrote:I made a change to my list. I forgot about Karen O before. Added her now and moved everything under her down, sadly at the cost of Kathleen Hannah.

You could always have 51...
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BleuPanda wrote:
Rob wrote:I made a change to my list. I forgot about Karen O before. Added her now and moved everything under her down, sadly at the cost of Kathleen Hannah.

You could always have 51...
Alright, let's. Although I do prefer round numbers. But for this time I make an exception.
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What exactly are the criteria people look at when assessing artists? I'm just shocked that someone has landed in our top 100 when we just did a top song and album poll and they placed a single song that ranked outside of our top 500. How can someone be a great artist if we apparently don't care much for their music? Especially when other artists who landed multiple top 100 works on either list are lower? Is being an icon considered more important than making good music, and if so, why?
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Though, now that I think about it, it could be like my old Florence + The Machine/Muse situation; for a long time, both artists had multiple songs and albums at my 7.75/10 rank, which is one notch below an 8/10 where I start giving artists points. So, they were teetering close enough to the edge with a large body of music of similar quality where, if I ever became slightly more appreciative of their work, they'd likely go from zero points to immediately landing on the upper half of my ranked artist list - this eventually became true for both of those groups. So perhaps this artist I'm curious about simply has a lot of songs people like but none particularly stand out enough to rank in many people's top 250 songs by women?
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BleuPanda wrote:Though, now that I think about it, it could be like my old Florence + The Machine/Muse situation; for a long time, both artists had multiple songs and albums at my 7.75/10 rank, which is one notch below an 8/10 where I start giving artists points. So, they were teetering close enough to the edge with a large body of music of similar quality where, if I ever became slightly more appreciate of their work, they'd likely go from zero points to immediately landing on the upper half of my ranked artist list - this eventually became true for both of those groups. So perhaps this artist I'm curious about simply has a lot of songs people like but none particularly stand out enough to rank in many people's top 250 songs by women?
This is exactly correct for me. When rating my top artists, I gave 1 pt for a song I rated a 7, 2 for an 8, 3 for a 9, and 4 for a 10. Even though I gave 4 times the points for a 10 as a 7, artists with hugely extensive catalogs still benefited from having numerous songs I like but don't love. Ella Fitzgerald would be the most glaring example. She has so many songs I give a 7 that I actually moved her down in my list because I only have a few songs of hers that would rank among my all-time favorites. My formula for ranking songs/albums/artists has really come a long way over the years, but I'm still not sure of the best way to compensate for this (besides just moving rankings around if something seems not quite right).
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Some artists had one great song, left a huge mark then burned out. Or some had very long careers and put out so much and had so many career phases they split their own votes on song polls.

We just need to remember that when other people’s musical tastes do not jive with our own musical politics or gender politics, we still have to respect each other and not accuse each other of sinister motives for ranking someone higher or lower.
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1 | Aretha Franklin
2 | Lana Del Rey
3 | Fiona Apple
4 | Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine)
5 | Johanna and Klara Söderberg (First Aid Kit)
6 | Beyoncé
7 | Adele
8 | Lorde
9 | PJ Harvey
10 | Dusty Springfield
11 | St. Vincent
12 | Regine Chassagne and Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire)
13 | Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)
14 | Kacey Musgraves
15 | Joni Mitchell
16 | Victoria Legrand (Beach House)
17 | Taylor Swift
18 | Sia
19 | Amy Winehouse
20 | Laura Marling
21 | Björk
22 | Debbie Harry (Blondie)
23 | Feist
24 | Lady Gaga
25 | Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes)
26 | Diana Ross (The Supremes)
27 | Janis Joplin (Big Brother and the Holding Company, solo)
28 | Lauryn Hill (Fugees, solo)
29 | Angel Olsen
30 | Grimes
31 | Katy Perry
32 | Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
33 | Rihanna
34 | Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA)
35 | Kesha
36 | Neko Case (The New Pornographers, solo)
37 | Gwen Stefani (No Doubt, solo)
38 | Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, solo)
39 | Etta James
40 | Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches)
41 | P!nk
42 | Miley Cyrus
43 | Patsy Cline
44 | Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders)
45 | Kelly Clarkson
46 | Veronica Bennett / Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes)
47 | Shirley Owens (The Shirelles)
48 | Kim Deal (Pixies, The Breeders)
49 | Hayley Williams (Paramore)
50 | Darlene Love (The Crystals, solo)
51 | Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays)
52 | Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
53 | Jessie Ware
54 | M.I.A.
55 | Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
56 | Alanis Morissette
57 | KT Tunstall
58 | Courtney Barnett
59 | Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff)
60 | Lily Allen
61 | SZA
62 | Janelle Monáe
63 | Romy Madley Croft (The xx)
64 | Mitski
65 | Ellie Rowsell (Wolf Alice)
66 | Joan Jett
67 | Norah Jones
68 | Maren Morris
69 | Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (Of Monsters and Men)
70 | Britney Spears
71 | Alicia Keys
72 | Duffy
73 | Anohni (Antony and the Johnsons)
74 | Mama Cass (The Mamas & the Papas)
75 | Courtney Love (Hole)
76 | Liz Phair
77 | Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)
78 | Santigold
79 | Sharon Van Etten
80 | Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (The Crystals)
81 | Carole King
82 | Irma Thomas
83 | Regina Spektor
84 | Natalia Lafourcade
85 | Madonna
86 | Ariana Grande
87 | Nina Simone
88 | Whitney Houston
89 | Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)
90 | Mariah Carey
91 | Judy Craig (The Chiffons)
92 | Linda Perry (4 Non Blondes)
93 | Dua Lipa
94 | Tove Lo
95 | Cyndi Lauper
96 | Sinead O'Connor
97 | Christina Aguilera
98 | Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura)
99 | Lucinda Williams
100 | Heart
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One more change to my own list...for some reason I overlooked Beach House so I'm adding Victoria Legrand.
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Also, since I can't start today and won't this weekend, I've extended the deadline to Sunday (which really means any time before Monday morning).
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1 | Nina Simone
2 | Björk
3 | Aretha Franklin
4 | Madonna
5 | Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA)
6 | Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
7 | PJ Harvey
8 | Kate Bush
9 | Cesária Évora
10 | Joni Mitchell

11 | Ella Fitzgerald (solo, duets with Louis Armstrong)
12 | Anohni (Antony & The Johnsons, solo)
13 | Patsy Cline
14 | Gillian Welch
15 | Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
16 | Billie Holiday
17 | Karin Dreijer (The Knife, Fever Ray)
18 | Laura Marling
19 | Diana Ross (The Supremes)
20 | Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes)

21 | Édith Piaf
22 | Annie Lennox (Eurythmics, solo)
23 | Beyoncé
24 | Debbie Harry (Blondie)
25 | Joanna Newsom
26 | Lykke Li
27 | Missy Elliott
28 | M.I.A.
29 | Etta James
30 | Lauryn Hill (solo, Fugees)

31 | Alison Krauss (solo, duets with Robert Plant)
32 | St. Vincent
33 | Tori Amos
34 | Susanne Sundfør
35 | Barbara
36 | Candi Staton
37 | Amy Winehouse
38 | Fiona Apple
39 | Dinah Washington
40 | Dusty Springfield

41 | Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)
42 | Le Mystère des voix bulgares
43 | Janelle Monáe
44 | Loretta Lynn
45 | Martha Reeves (Martha & The Vandellas)
46 | Miriam Makeba
47 | Dolly Parton
48 | Victoria Legrand (Beach House)
49 | Janis Joplin (solo, Big Brother & The Holding Company)
50 | Tina Turner (solo, duets with Ike Turner)

51 | Bessie Smith
52 | Emmylou Harris
53 | Sarah Vaughan
54 | Cat Power
55 | Gal Costa
56 | Tracy Chapman
57 | Erykah Badu
58 | Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention)
59 | Klara Söderberg, Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit)
60 | Iris DeMent
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Last minute artists list:

1 | PJ Harvey
2 | Julia Holter
3 | Sleater-Kinney
4 | Björk
5 | Kate Bush
6 | Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)
7 | Trish Keenan (Broadcast)
8 | Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
9 | Alice Coltrane
10 | Joanna Newsom
11 | Nina Simone
12 | The Ronettes
13 | Grimes
14 | Carly Rae Jepsen
15 | St. Vincent
16 | Kim Deal (Pixies)
17 | Fever Ray (The Knife)
18 | Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces)
19 | Fiona Apple
20 | Aretha Franklin
21 | Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead)
22 | Susanne Sundfør
23 | Laura Marling
24 | Sharon Van Etten
25 | Laura Nyro
26 | Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
27 | Madonna
28 | Joni Mitchell
29 | Kelly Lee Owens
30 | Janelle Monáe
31 | Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne)
32 | Jane Weaver
33 | Annie
34 | Patti Smith
35 | Santigold
36 | Sky Ferreira
37 | Melody's Echo Chamber
38 | Jessy Lanza
39 | Debbie Harry (Blondie)
40 | FKA Twigs
41 | Julee Cruise
42 | Diana Ross (The Supremes)
43 | Donna Summer
44 | Ann Peebles
45 | Nico
46 | Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
47 | Tori Amos
48 | EMA
49 | Holly Herndon
50 | Molly Rankin (Alvvays)
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BleuPanda wrote:What exactly are the criteria people look at when assessing artists?
I didn't do an album and song list so we can't readily compare, but I'm sure all mentioned artists would have multiple entries on my song list and most would be present with an album. I don't use any point based system, but go with feeling. I actually find ranking artists harder than albums or songs, because it is more intangible what exactly we rank. For me it works best if I have some sense of a career overview, which means that the artist has to have multiple works out already and that there is a sense of development. That also means I need to know various works by said artist in different stages. Though there are multiple artists in my list that are relative newcomers (Laura Marling, Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey, Mitski), it definitely works better if the artists are somewhat older, at least with a 10 year+ career. Artistic development is a time process. I don't think that's unfair; newer artists can be in future lists. The reason why earlier mentioned young artists are already here is because they have worked hard and showed a lot of development in that time (and I listened to it a lot). With FKA Twigs, Courtney Barnett and perhaps even Grimes I still need to see where they are going.
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BleuPanda wrote:We currently have 18 lists; right now, I'm comfortable with doing a top 200 (a single #1 vote currently sits at #218).
Please, Top 250, many non anglo female artists could be considered.
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I just moved Fiona Apple up from No. 5 to No. 3. She was probably in the 30-40 range a month ago and has been rocketing up since then. I just finished getting through her discography, and her consistency is remarkable. She's a contender for No. 1 once I get more familiar with her work.
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