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Why the disclaimer? It's your subjective opinion on a list of women artists. Are women's opinions about women's art more valid because they are women?
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Patty Waters - Sings (1966) !!!!!!

And #1, that's simplistic. We all know that dudes lecturing women about women musicians is an actual, and actually-annoying actually-rude phenomena. DS is right to acknowledge it explicitly.
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Great stuff here but it needs more Olivia Block.
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@2 It IS simplistic and what shouldn't be simple about giving your opinion. My issue is that it seems over complicated to add a qualification round before you give your opinion.

The world is full of guys that lecture people in an annoying fashion. If you don't want to be perceived as one of those guys, you don't have to apologize for all those guys, just dont BE one of those guys.
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Amazing list! Thank you for putting this together. I look forward to exploring.

May want to check some of the vids. Nina Hagen clip is just a dude holding the album cover and talking about it in...well, not English.
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It's a disgrace that Betty Davis isn't already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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to NPR:

some good ones for sure, but:

no Goldfrapp !
no Azealia Banks !
no Lida Husik !
no Kendra Smith ! ( ...at least Dave listed her)

any of the above easily replace the double Madonna placements in a world of artistry, aesthetics and fair sex justice

yeah
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Great list! (I mean Dave's, not the NPR list). Here's a few more suggestions:
Iva Bittova, "Iva Bittova" (Nonseuch label) and "Bile Inferno"
Susie Ibarra, "Flower After Flower"
Mellow Candle, "Swaddling Songs"
Lisa Germano, "Geek the Girl" and "Happiness"
Vashti Bunyan, "Just Another Diamond Day" and "Lookaftering"
Hildur GuĂ°nadĂłttir, "Without Sinking"
PJ Harvey, "Stories from the city, stories from the sea" and "Let England Shake"
Cat Power, "Moon Pix", "You are Free", "Myra Lee", "Dear Sir"
Rosy Parlane, "Jessamine"
Tiny Vipers, "Hands Across the Void"
Agnes Obel, "Philharmonics"
Marilyn Crispell, "One dark night I left my silent house"

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It was a very NPR list, and I'm shocked that they left out Jefferson Airplane and Janis Ian. Come on, Grace Slick is one of the greatest, most powerful singers of the 60's, and Eskimo Blue Day is one of the coolest songs of that that decade, although Surrealistic Pillow would've been the obvious album choice.

Also probably would've added Melanie (maybe just MY personal favorite), The Pentangle, Juliana Hatfield, France Gall, Maria Laforet, The Fifth Dimension. And of course Throwing Muses.

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Oh, and also Suzanne Vega's self-titled first album, Dory Previn's Live at Carnegie Hall, and BJ Snowden's Life in the USA and Canada.
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Okay, Nina Hagen is on this list so everything is okay now.
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There's nothing wrong with the list. The omissions just point out that a list of 150 is not long enough.
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Why is it when I saw the NPR list I just knew more critics would have lists of omissions...geezus. I agree with @12, 150 is just a start as there are a ton more - many of which Mr. Segal pointed out. I love the Linda Perhacs, Gal Costa and the Raincoats LP's...these too are some of my favorites for sure.
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The disclaimer is most likely because nothing has set in motion more mansplaining "you offended my penis," reaction, than this list. Even right off the bat this writer misses the point. The list is the greatest albums (albeit subjective but steeped in facts to back up the impact) it's not. " the most obscure and every single album ever made by a woman." The albums you list, how were they influenced by others? Sure many were left out and many out in that not all would agree on. Yet once again, the greatest albums of all time, has rarely been contested on the same merits as this critique. It's about influence and impact on society and music on the whole. The blurbs explain this. And, as is stated over and over... it's a conversation, but it seems to evoke a lecture in response. A week ago you weren't even thinking critically about women in music, now you are. That's the impact of the list. Critiquing is easy. Conversing is harder.
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Furthermore, you give no explaination. This is something you whipped up based on one mans opinion. It's different and very easily critiqued. You say it's not mansplaining... and yet. Greatest Albums made by women, not albums made by women.
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Mansplainer: I'll listen to a woman just not these women. I'll vote for a woman just not these women. I'll hire a woman just not these women. I'll read a woman just not these women...

These Women= women supported by women, women too old, women too young, women too black, women too white, women too loud, women who don't live for giving men boners, women who are his mother ...
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I'd made this mix last year, and includes a handful of the artists represented on both list.

https://soundcloud.com/diskono/womens-hi…
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A much needed addendum. The NPR list had some great albums. That said, the inclusion of some great albums by mostly male bands who happened to have female singers really highlighted the omissions of great all female projects and/or female led projects like Boris or Geraldine Fibbers.

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