The Shrine

Figure since we're have had a few Q'aires going recently I would try my own hand at one. Something a little different. Female vocals, 1990's era music vs 2000's era music:


Grunge/heavy: 90's Jack off Jill - Vivica vs. 00's Evanascence - Lithium

Electronic: 90's Garbage - Push It vs. 00's Ladytron - Playgirl

Punk/grunge/fast: 90's Veruca Salt - Seether vs. 00's The Veronicas - Untouched

God, I miss Version 2.0. Garbage really found their way on that album, and immediately lost it with the next one. Not a big fan of Ladytron, but that one isn't bad. Anyway, I have a ton of female vocalists, though forgive me if some of them don't have actual videos:

Electronic Hard Rock: 90's Republica's Drop Dead Gorgeous vs. 00's Curve's Hell Above Water

D&B: 90's Lamb's Gorecki vs. 00's Kosheen's Damage

Electropop: 90's Engima's Return to Innocence vs. 00's The Knife's We Share Our Mother's Health

Vocal Bigbeat: 00's BT's Dreaming vs. errr... 00's Hybrid's If I Survive

Alt Rock: 90's Fiona Apple's Criminal vs. 00's Tori Amos's Spark
(Tori Amos, another artist who found her way then promptly lost it after she ditched her mixer.)

Pop Rock: 90's Dido's Thank You vs. 00's Poe's Hey Pretty
(Fun fact: The narration on the Poe song is actually her brother. It's on the Haunted album with frequent quotes from her late father, who had recently died beforehand. Walk the Walk is another good song, with a great quote from her father at the 3m mark.)

Alt Electronica: 90's Imogen Heap's Getting Scared vs. 00's Frou Frou's Let Go
(Surprise! Same artist, two different names.)

Bjork: 90's Bjork's Human Behavior vs. 00's Bjork's Pagan Poetry

Trip-Hop: 90's Portishead's Only You and Massive Attack's Protection vs. 00's Mandalay's Insensible and Morcheeba's Trigger Hippie
(Massive Attack, also known for their House theme, and strange video, called Teardrop.)

Sneaker Pimps: Kelli Dayton's Sneaker Pimp's Six Underground vs. Chris Corner's Sneaker Pimp's Half Life
(The two mixers decided to ditch Kelli after the first album because they thought they were getting too much like "Trip Hop". Dumb idea, IMO, but at least the 2nd album isn't all that bad.)

Hooverphonic: Liesje Sadonius's Hooverphonic's 2 Wicky vs. Geike Arnaert's Hooverphonic's Battersea
(I like both singers equally.)

Well I can see what youve been doing while I was taking a nap lol

*sigh* I miss the 90s

EDIT: You also summed up my favorite artists/genres in one post, yay!

The Sneaker Pimps ditching Kelli Dayton still ranks right up there on my personal list of "greatest missed opportunities in music history", right next to Dave Matthews Band's decision to stop working with Steve Lillywhite and Axl Rose's post-"Use Your Illusion" slide into crackheaded dissipation.

It also fucked them over, because her voice was the only thing making them accessible to a mainstream audience. What was so wrong with trip-hop anyway?

Completely agree Replay. Sneaker Pimps was like my first experience with Trip-Hop and its my favorite genre now, too bad there aren't many artists.

listen to any yeah yeah yeahs or land of talk album. They're not really "single" bands (as in bands with albums driven by singles), but there are some pretty great bands with female leads.

here are some examples from their albums

Land of Talk - All My Friends

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads will roll
Dull life

Anybody get any good recommendations from these?

Seraphina wrote:Completely agree Replay. Sneaker Pimps was like my first experience with Trip-Hop and its my favorite genre now, too bad there aren't many artists.

No kidding.

Interestingly, check out Nelly Furtado's early stuff, before "Whoa, Nelly!" Even some of the songs on there are pretty trip-hoppy in a pop sense ("Shit on the Radio" comes to mind) but before that I understand she was VERY dark and trip-hop oriented. I haven't listened to it myself, but I might go a-searching and see if there are any gems.