Top 10 CDs for women
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#1: Tori Amos: American Doll PosseAmerican Doll Posse comes off as an eccentric ploy for album sales to non-fans—and a favourite for Amos-addicts. The retail album special package edition includes a number of perks to entice consumers to purchase rather than download...[read more] |
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#2: Mindy Smith: Long Island ShoreAlthough she may have scored a bigger audience with her first album after “One Moment More” was featured on The Notebook, Mindy Smith’s Long Island Shores is a beautiful mix of folk guitar and country twang that can have the listener dancing one moment and crying the next.
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#3: Madonna: Bedtime StoriesThe release of Bedtime Stories showed the world a softer side of Madonna. Collaborations with soul-guitarist Babyface and techno-freak Bjork proved how ever-adaptable and formidable the great Madonna really is.
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#4: ABBA: GoldFrom “Mamma Mia” to “Waterloo,” anyone can be a dancing queen when ABBA comes on!
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#5: Cat Stevens: Greatest HitsCat Stevens has always sang from the heart, and his soulful wonder is evident in “Wild World,” “Moonshadow,” and “Father & Son.”
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#6: Cyndi Lauper: She’s So UnusualThe title of Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 debut album, She’s So Unusual, explained the singer very well. But despite her eccentricities, the album went on to become a feminist favourite with songs like “She Bop” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”
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#7: Loreena McKennit: The Book of SecretsLoreena McKennit brings the Celtic out in everyone when she harmonizes her way through The Book of Secrets.
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#8: Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the CanyonLadies of the Canyon was Joni Mitchell’s third album and was released in 1970. It contains noted hits “Big Yellow Taxi” and “The Circle Game.”
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#9: Eric Clapton: UnpluggedEric Clapton performs his trademark hits on an acoustic, and sings a heart-wrenching rendition of “Tears in Heaven.”
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#10: Jewel: Pieces of YouWith songs like “Pieces of You” and “Daddy,” Jewel sings from a woman’s perspective with a girl’s voice.
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10. Jewel: Pieces of You
9. Eric Clapton: unplugged
8. Joni Mitchell: Ladies
7. Loreena McKennit: Secrets
6. Cyndi Lauper: She’s So Unusual
5. Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits
4. ABBA: Gold
3. Madonna: Bedtime Stories
2. Mindy Smith: Long Island Shores
1. Tori Amos: American Doll Posse
The darker and more guitar-driven tracks Tori Amos’s American Doll Posse, performed by the raven-wigged Pip, including “Teenage Hustling” and “Fat Slut,” continue Amos’s tradition of writing in girls and teens as the protagonists (or villains) in her usually abstract lyrics, apparent in the albums Little Earthquakes (1992) and Under the Pink (1994).