A couple of weeks ago, I was tagged with a Facebook meme asking me to take 15 minutes to list 15 albums that would always stay with me. My friend Louisa McCune saw some value in my list and was gracious enough to point it out to her own friends. One of Louisa's friends then pointed out that it was "sad" that I hadn't listed any female-oriented acts.
I had noticed that myself, and it was kind of sad. I almost wrote down Bettie Serveert's Palomine as I was finishing up, but then I remembered that I had been listening to an awful lot of Leonard Cohen lately and really ought to include something by him, and Bettie Serveert went by the wayside. In my defense, if it had been 15 Singles in 15 Minutes, "Ode to Billie Joe," "You're So Vain" and "Both Sides Now" would have been near the top, although I don't necessarily attach those songs to a specific album.
But that's not much of a defense: Women make a lot of great records. I could have made an entire list of 15 albums that were strongly estrogen-influenced. So I thought, why not? Here's the other half of my Facebook list:
Bettie Serveert, Palomine
Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
PJ Harvey, Dry
Ella Fitzgerald, Best of the Songbooks
The Breeders, Last Splash
Back to Mono, a Phil Spector box set featuring the best of the Ronettes, the Crystals, and Darlene Love, among many others
Sleater-Kinney, The Hot Rock
Silversun Pickups, Swoon
The Carter Family, Wildwood Flower
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Pizzicato Five, Made in USA
The Pretenders, The Pretenders
Dionne Warwick, The Dionne Warwick Collection
Throwing Muses, The Real Ramona
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