Oh, I love her voice! Your description of it is great - which is why it makes this song so perfect too:Rum wrote:Wow - this thread took off! Here's someone from the past - my first sense of what 'sophistication' was about..her voice was a bit flat, disinterested and sooooo coooool..
Female Voices
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I really like the disinterested sound.
Here's someone who sounds flat, disinterested, but NOT sophisticated.
(In other words, a bit crap).
Here's someone who sounds flat, disinterested, but NOT sophisticated.

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I still get shivers! I have at one time or another had all her and most of the other Brazilian bosaa nova composers' music in my collection - right along side Frank Zappa and Wild Man Fischer!maiforpeace wrote:Oh, I love her voice! Your description of it is great - which is why it makes this song so perfect too:Rum wrote:Wow - this thread took off! Here's someone from the past - my first sense of what 'sophistication' was about..her voice was a bit flat, disinterested and sooooo coooool..
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Nina Hagen ...
Fantastic performer ... Unbehagen is one of my favourite albums.
Fantastic performer ... Unbehagen is one of my favourite albums.
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Strings version live in 1999.
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No mention of Grace Slick yet?

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Fiona Apple is strange and I have a serious chrush on her!
As is Beth Orton:
As is Beth Orton:
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That hangs his heid and a' that
The coward slave, we pass him by
We dare be puir for a' that.
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Anna Nalick, kind of a classy folksy modern voice:
Sneaking an Avril video into this wonderful thread. This is one of the few Avril songs I like:
Sexy song from Nora Jones:
Eva Cassidy. Gorgeous, just gorgeous voice:
Sneaking an Avril video into this wonderful thread. This is one of the few Avril songs I like:
Sexy song from Nora Jones:
Eva Cassidy. Gorgeous, just gorgeous voice:
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One girl; two cocks. Ultimate showdown.
You know, when I read that I wanted to muff-punch you with my typewriter.
One girl; two cocks. Ultimate showdown.
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Or live, but it's not as weird (love the hat from the album cover):
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What? No Kate Bush?
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And just purely because we need some Scottish in here somewhere. I'm sure I'll find a better example.
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