Did Karen Dalton get onto the list yet?
Or Pinkie Maclure? certainly her early stuff showed that, haven't heard her stuff with John Loop.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Regina Spektor? She can get a bit old sometimes but when the urge strikes, she's fantastic (try: Pavlov's Daughter)
<3 Yoko so much
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Sue Tompkins of Life Without BuildingsMolly Siegel of Ponytail
― zappi, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
xp and on a completely different tip.. Wanda Jackson? Fujiyama Mama and others?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Dorothy Moscovitz and Nancy Blossom.Grace slick
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Leila Mourad, Betty Davis, Serafina Steer― Melissa W, Thursday, August 23, 2012
― Melissa W, Thursday, August 23, 2012
I was thinking of coming back and adding Leila Mourad! Shocked to see her name pop up.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Nice! I really love her.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
La Lupe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRIV23LQyI
Yes, she was a self-parody, but great nevertheless and she could kill (in a good sense!) a straight bolero without camping it up.
Yolanda Rivera, mostly known for her work with La Sonora Poncena. I still find her vocal timbre a bit weird at times, but in most cases I've grown to enjoy her songs. Also a decent timabelero, incidentally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvUngEjcHA
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
looooove la lupe
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Also happy birthday La Lechera!
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
don't forget my hero maureen! she might actually pay me a visit this fall on a trip east. kinda nervous...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogZn8sQGUY
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, Laser Pace. Awesome.
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Soap & Skin? Not super weird but definitely not traditional pop either.
― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Some Brigitte Fontaine perhaps?
― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Cuban Haila Mompie has kind of an odd voice. 100% sure this is not what dog latin is looking for, however.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Really hate the pinched trumpet sound in the beginning, something very contemporary Cuban.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
but like it overall.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Do you guys ever get ILX usernames in your head, too? I've been walking around for like the past five days saying "lil swayne of pie" to myself... I feel like I'm going nuts.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
A lot of these are very dramatically weird, and my suggestion is just weird weird. Anyway, Jenny Wade of Rude Buddha, Vodka, Timber, Swans, etc. I'm not quite sure how she ever decided to *be* a lead singer, but over time I find her voice kind of endearing. The Timber cover of Television's "Friction" seems to only be available here, and is worth hearing...
http://www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/timber-released-unreleased/
― dlp9001, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, duh: Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux/RTX/ Black Bananas). Didn't even realize for some time that her voice belonged to a woman.
― Old Lunch, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
How about Maja Ratkje? (Or is that just "doing weird stuff with a female voice"?)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
im sure she's mentioned somewhere in the linked threads, but for those of you like me, who sometimes just dont follow the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmYA5imuyw
― 69, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Another one that I've gone crazy over the years trying to remember: there was some twee minimalist pop band in the 90's, from Southern US I think, had a female lead singer with a really cartoonish voice. they definitely came to NYC at least once. Probably reviewed in chickfactor, had a catchy song or two, but I can't seem to remember the name. I *think* it was a one-syllable band-name. They were, you know, around...but never famous or anything. When I try to remember the band name, I always think "Doop" but that's not it. Probably played Mercury Lounge...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Smack Dab?
― cwkiii, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yes!!!!!!!!
― dlp9001, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
God bless you! I've been trying to remember that for years.
That is some classic Joan La Barbara. I misread that as "redundant gypsy" even though I already know the title.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
xp Haha, no problem! I was going to mention her (Linda Hagood) earlier, but she could be a bit much.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Mimi Goese was one I thought of earlier then Kristen Hersh came on my walkman too.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Anita Lane might fit toojust being reminded by the C&TCS thread
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hey. It's Jun Togawa!
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Soap & Skin is phoney baloney. Yecch.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
sidsel endresen - seek her albums with humcrush & helge stein which are bizarre smoky abstract vocalese - usually (on other albums) she's working a more conservative beth gibbons/ diana krall thing but she weirds it up a treat when she wants to.also if you don't know les rita mitsouko you need to check them for catherine ringer's spine tinglingly screechy punk-chansonrie. i'd recommend "bestov" & "marc & robert" . padma talwalkar - best hindustani khyal singer i ever heard. tujiko noriko i find not much like björk at all, despite comparisons. thankfully she doesn't work predictable scale-runs, etta james wookie belches or b52s rip offs into her vocal style, which is considerably more breathless & minimalist. tsehaytu beraki worth checking - eritrean krarist & singer. some groove - sounds like black sabbath to me but then my brain is corrupted. XP:mimi goese's singing on hugo largo's "mettle" album particularly but also her "soak" album under her own name. sainkho namchylak - tuvan throat singer who ventures successfully into free improv outer space.stina nordenstam gets some stick for doing cutesy ickle high voiced squeak-singing jazz-pop early in her career, but became the utmostest deadpan noir-dramatist with her "dynamite" album, "morning belongs to the night", "the birds sing for their lives" and a buncha other stuff.
― iglu ferrignu, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
A lot of these suggestions are just weak singers who sing English with bad accents. Living in Europe long enough has cured me of any fascination I once had for such.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Mrs. Miller is something else though. I think she's brilliant!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much all of the female vocalists mentioned on this thread will seem weird to western ears (sometimes SWM ones):
Carnatic Music Recommendations?
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Ayelet rose Gottlieb
― windjamm voyager (blank), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah and of course The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson
Weird how there's so many Swedish female singers who seem to downright imitate her now, like the singer form Zeigeist, Malin Dahlström from Niki & The Dove, and Karen Park especially.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody mentioned Grimes and Lizzi Bougatsos from Gang Gang Dance yet?
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Karen Dalton. Gorgeous.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
who I had mentioned on one of the threads I linked to, not that it's not worth repeating. She's not always that weird though really.
― an infusion of catharsis (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Lisa Gerrard has one of the most impressive and unusual voices. Hard to believe sometimes that it's all from the same person.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Charlotte Marionneau from La Volume Courbe
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
Marie Daulne from Zap Mama
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Melissa Arpin-Duimstra does a nice hissing gas shoegaze coo with lovesliescrushing who out-cocteau the cocteaus by sounding more like thomas köner goes pop. really can't listen to liz fraser these days - often sings flat - embarrassing lyrics & cheap ethno-forgeries, honestly think alison goldfrapp is a better vocal technician. also julee cruise - want to hear her doing shoegaze? pluramon's "dreams top rock" & the one after deserve attention.
― iglu ferrignu, Friday, 24 August 2012 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
The point at which "weird-voiced female singers" or even "distinctive female singers" (because, honestly, what on earth is weird about Kristin Hersch's voice? Or Charlotte Marionneau's?) becomes just "recognisable female singers, let us list them."
Anyway, if we're just doing distinct, I'd like to add Alison Shaw of Cranes.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really understand what is meant by weird so will go along with distinctive instead just so i can recommend romica puceanu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYYtxJqFak
― cestu, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:28 (eleven years ago) link
also idjah hadidjah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJDd49R6ZIU
― cestu, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
what on earth is weird about Kristin Hersch's voice?
To be honest I have no use for Throwing Muses beyond House Tornado so maybe I have a different impression of them to everyone else, but certainly Hersh used her voice in a very idiosyncratic way on some of those early tracks. Thinking of the epiglottal garglings on Call Me, the way she jumps all over the scales on those staccato bits of America (She Can't Say No) and generally the way she would switch into different modes of singing within the same song, something very Monk-like about that.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Friday, 24 August 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
Anna-Lisa Ingemansson
― cock chirea, Friday, 24 August 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
Yoko kinda maybe owns this thread. First Plastic Ono Band album is basically "What if the Beatles survived into the 70s and made a krautrock album?"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
Scout Niblett, maybe?
― Mule, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Minnie RipertonMelanie SafkaMae Questel
― rods & cones (doo dah), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yolandi Visser
― cock chirea, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
Catherine Jauniaux from Aksak Maboul (her solo record from the early 80s is great)Anna Nacher from Atman/Magic Carpathians
― cock chirea, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
fell like posting some Ewa Demarczyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm2RusSu-IY
goosebumps. this performance is amazing beyond words.
― cock chirea, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
Robin Holcomb
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
Shelley Hirsch
― cock chirea, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
urszula dudziakflora purim
― KitevsPill, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
her voice isn't weird so much as it is a powerful deep bellowone to watch for surehttps://circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link