Best ever song sung by a female or female band

[Dover]

Stop! Sam Brown.
One Of Us. Joan Osbourne.
Ode To Billy Joe. Sinead O Connor.
Moments Of Pleasure. Kate Bush.
Touched By Jesus. All About Eve
Night In My Veins. The Pretenders.

 

[Jesus Gul]

my pick is (perversely)

A Man Called Adam - Barefoot in the Head

 

[Biscuit]

Wannabe?

 

[towbarball]

Any song by Curved Air.
Sonya Christina: Horniest female lead vocallist ever.

 

[Curious Orange]

Lady Fingers, by Lucious Jackson

 

[chez]

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

A bit (well, Very) obscure, but excelent track,

I wouldnt say thats obscure. i thought it was a very famous song.

Echo Beach far away in time

 

[Icy Gull]

Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull

"At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair".

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Anita Baker - Sweet Love

 

[CHAPPERS]

Okay, here's a few....

Morcheeba - Part of the Process
Moloko - Fun for me
Aaliyah (RIP) - Try Again
Missy Elliot - Get your freak on
Candi Staton - You got the love

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oh and the d'n'b mix of 'Heard it all before' by Sunshine Anderson.

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM

 

[jail bird]

I'd have to pip for;

Cherish - Madonna

its romantic and appeals to my girly side

oh, and Aretha Franklin - Angel, really beautiful

 

[Cian]

I wouldnt say thats obscure. i thought it was a very famous song.

Echo Beach far away in time

Yeah, but its never managed to get much of the recognition as a Timeless track that other songs from that era (26 years ago, IIRC) have. Hence most people under the age of 30 will probably never have heard it. I myself first heard it on a "Canadian Music Day" on a small radio station here, squeezed between Celine Dion and Bryan Adams.

 

[Glyndwr red wxmfc]

Piece of my heart - Janis Joplin
Stupid girl - Garbage
Favorite game - Cardigans
Big Exit - PJ Harvey
Hand in my pocket - Alanis Morissette
International Velvet - Catatonia
And a tune I can't get out of my head at the moment
Deepdish (i think) - Flashdance.

 

[Cian]

Flashdance as in the "What a feeling/Is believing" track?

Thats Irena Cara.

 

[Juan Albion]

I myself first heard it on a "Canadian Music Day" on a small radio station here, squeezed between Celine Dion and Bryan Adams.

Did they play any Doug and the Slugs?

 

[Braders]

oh yeah and most the stuff by joss stone -( anything but her new one or her murder of the white stripes " fell in love with a girl")

 

[Cian]

Did they play any Doug and the Slugs?

No idea. As soon as I heard Echo Beach I dived for KaZaA (which was still safe and usable then) to get it and stopped paying much attention. As it did take TWO HOURS to get it.

 

[Glyndwr red wxmfc]

Flashdance as in the "What a feeling/Is believing" track?

Thats Irena Cara.

No it's a new track.
Really fit bird with black hair.

 

[Cian]

Don't know it. Hope they can avoid being sued over the name, the chick that Flashdance is about has sued anyone else who's used her name/image/whatever since the movie was made.

 

[Safeway]

Blondie - 'Atomic'.