# Top 5 Females on your Ipod **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168 "2008-07-03T08:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/1 "2008-07-03T08:51:29Z")
Simple. Look at your Top 25 Most Played. What are the top 5 songs by a female artist, or featuring a female vocalist? Mine: “Baby Don’t You Break My Heart Slow” - Vonda Shepard “Pancho and Lefty” - Emmylou Harris “The Vultures Fly High” - Renaissance “Channel Z” - B-52s “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” - Mary Chapin Carpenter ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/2 "2008-07-03T09:14:50Z")
1. “Don’t get me wrong” - The Pretenders 2. “Don’t come the cowboy with me” - Kirsty Maccoll, 3. “They don’t know” - Kirsty Maccoll 4. “Jolene” - Dolly Parton (who I’m going to see on Sunday - woohoo!) 5. “Cornflake Girl” - Tori Amos ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/3 "2008-07-03T12:04:37Z")
Cassandra Wilson Joni Mitchell Sarah Harmer Sarah McLaughlin Feist Because I tend to listen to the whole album rather than a specific song, none of the play counts show any one song played more than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/4 "2008-07-03T12:08:05Z")
I don’t use an iPod, BUT if I did, it would be very obvious- Tori Amos Sarah MacLachlan Enya Kate Bush Heart ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/5 "2008-07-03T12:36:08Z")
The Burns Sisters - “Listen to the Beat of a Heart” Tracey Ullman - “They Don’t Know” Eileen Ivers - “Paddy in Zululand” Laurie Anderson - “O Superman” Tish Hinojosa - “God’s Own Open Road” Kirtsy MacColl - “He Never Mentioned Love” Okay, so that’s six … shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/6 "2008-07-03T12:42:20Z")
“The Big Guns,” Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins “Kingsport Town,” Eleni Mandell “Long Time Gone,” The Dixie Chicks “Churches Off the Interstate,” Laura Cantrell “You’re No Rock and Roll Fun,” Sleater-Kinney The next 5 are all Jenny Lewis or Pretenders songs. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/7 "2008-07-03T13:11:09Z")
Don’t Think Twice - Susan Tedeschi Time After Time - Cassandra Wilson One Belief Away - Bonnie Raitt Can’t Let Go - Lucinda Williams Push It - Garbage ---
**Author:** ![Bravo\_Romeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bravo\_Romeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bravo_Romeo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/8 "2008-07-03T13:27:50Z")
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt Space They Cannot Touch - Kate Miller-Heidke Come Away With Me - Norah Jones This Love - The Veronicas Peachy - Missy Higgins ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/9 "2008-07-03T13:38:50Z")
No iPod, but as per last.fm, you have to get to my 12th most played song, before you get one that ISN’T with a female vocalist - 10, if you don’t count TV length and full length versions of the same anime op/ed as different songs (I’ll be using that count): Mayonako no Door - yifei Inori no Uta - Savage Genius Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii - Ishikawa Chiaki Running So High - the brilliant green Nekonyan Dance - Harenchi☆Punch FTR, the first song on my most played list by a male vocalist is Welcome Back by John Sebastian. (Also the first not by an Asian artist.) ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/10 "2008-07-03T14:43:29Z")
Another from last.fm: Top Five tracks with female vocalists: Everything But the Girl - We Walk the Same Line Azure Ray - November Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Barbara Lynn - You’ll Lose a Good Thing Dance Hall Crashers - Cricket Top Five female artists or bands with female vocalists: Madonna Everything But the Girl HorrorPops Amy Winehouse Björk ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/11 "2008-07-03T14:50:24Z")
Nice to see Eleni Mandell mentioned up there! I don’t even have to look, this is easy. Kate Bush Happy Rhodes Jane Siberry Noe Venable Kirsty MacColl Suspended In Gaffa (not a group, but a podcast featuring female vocals) Yeah, that’s 6, but SIG features so many different artists (including Eleni) I can’t not include it. If I were to keep going, I know it would include Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan (love their early work especially, back when they were physically accessible). (Top males would be Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel’s Genesis, and Rufus Wainwright) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/12 "2008-07-03T15:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=psycat90] Top Five female artists or bands with female vocalists: [/QUOTE] Looking there, my list is… the brilliant green MiniMoni Under17 Puffy yifei #s 1, and 3-6 on my overall chart, with Oingo Boingo invading at #2. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/13 "2008-07-03T15:55:36Z")
Elastica “Connection” Liz Phair “Fuck and Run” The Sugarcubes “Birthday” Tori Amos “Cornflake Girl” Luscious Jackson “Naked Eye” ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/14 "2008-07-03T16:09:20Z")
Interesting, not what I expected: Pat Benatar- Shadows of the Night Amy Winehouse- You Know I’m No Good The Story- Brandi Carlisle Fading Like A Flower- Roxette My City Was Gone- The Pretenders ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/15 "2008-07-03T16:20:25Z")
“Die on a Rope” - The Distillers “Fairytale of New York” - Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues “Valency” - The Spinanes “Blood Pigs” - OTEP “Broken Homes” - PJ Harvey & Tricky ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/16 "2008-07-03T18:20:00Z")
Annie Lennox Joni Mitchell Heart Ella Fitzgerald Alison Krouse ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/17 "2008-07-03T18:34:57Z")
[QUOTE=HongKongFooey] “Fairytale of New York” - Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues [/QUOTE] Counting it this way, that would be 2nd on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/18 "2008-07-03T18:35:38Z")
Belly Mazzy Starr Cat Power The Gossip Smoosh ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/19 "2008-07-03T18:46:07Z")
Elastica, “Stutter” Sleater-Kinney, “Stay Where You Are” The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - “Fairytale of New York” Lush, “Lovelife” Saint Etienne, “Hobart Paving” ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168/20 "2008-07-03T18:51:58Z")
Heart, Flyleaf, Lacuna Coil, Sarah McLaughlin, Aretha Franklin [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-females-on-your-ipod/455168.md?page=2)