Women "screamers" in music

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Who are the best ones?

― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yoko Ono

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Adris from Harry Pussy.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Paty Waters
Linda Sharrock

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamanda Galas

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bjork

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney? You mean Courtney Love? Of course. I used to love her.

― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

kim shattuck from the muffs (though she's more of a growler than a screamer)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

DICKLESS

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the gal who lets out those dubby shrieks on the Pixeltan songs.

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Friday, 22 October 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bas Sheva, vocalist on Les Baxter's "The Passions." Her shriek on "Terror" cannot be equaled. I was playing this track one evening at home and the neighbors called the police.

Runner up: the back-up singer who got stabbed/electrocuted/what have you on the Ohio Player's "Love Rollercoaster."

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 22 October 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Alicja Trout from Lost Sounds

― todd (todd), Friday, 22 October 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kanna from Bleach(mobile)

― todd (todd), Friday, 22 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

While she never really cut loose on record, Janet LaValley of the late, great Tribe always conveyed a sense of extraordinary but tightly-controlled vocal power.

― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dagmar Krause (cf. Art Bears' Freedom)
Honorable mention to Abbey Lincoln on Max Roach's "We Insist! Freedom now suite"

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yoshimi P-We (especially on the early Boredoms stuff)
Carla Bozulich ("you might think I....HATE YOU!")

― mama brain, Saturday, 23 October 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

All Chicago house divas to thread!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 23 October 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Corin Tucker, dogg. Plus Kathleen Hanna when she's not doing her cheerleader thing.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Saturday, 23 October 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

beth gibbons.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Saturday, 23 October 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

janis joplin!

― p$, Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaainticket

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Janis blows the lot out of the water.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 23 October 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Betty Davis, the Whyte Boots, Sparkle Moore, Lydia Lunch, Kristin Hersh.

I'd do much, much better with a belting/shouting list.

― babyalive (babyalive), Saturday, 23 October 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

*seconds Kristin Hersh of course*

Lesley Woods pulls out some great hair-raising screams in the middle of The Au Pairs' "Stepping Out of Line".

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 23 October 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

So many greats already mentioned, my favourite being Yoko. (One hot Fujiyama Mama!)

How 'bout Yma Sumac and Nina Hagen, do they qualify? Or are they too operatic to be considered "screamers"?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 23 October 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hanin Elias
Gina V. D'orio

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh come on now...if it's screaming you want, seek ye...

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How soon they forget.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Junko Hiroshige from Hijokaidan

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Sunday, 24 October 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Kat Bjelland of Babes In Toyland owns this thread. Check out her screamage on their album "Fontanelle".

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Sunday, 24 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The girl from Vive La Fête. You have to hear her scream on their song "Noir Désir". Best vocal performance ever.

― Seb (Seb), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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