completely insane diva suggestions for mixed cd + needing Grace Jones rare remix

gorgeous stuf on moreboy george's protien label

.. a whole host of mixes were released .. but i'm buggered if i can recall any of them now.

downtempo and sultry.

of course i should have said :

more protein - boy georges label.

http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25YYK9QBRC0U4023EDFZ9EEL8

Well, if you like something a bit different, try Art Ensemble of Chicago's "Theme de yoyo" (with Fontella Bass on vocals) - diva funk meets free jazz!

omg! - how could i forget nina hagen????

Red Snapper: "The Rough and the Quick" (basically, diva house played live, ending with a fake orgasm)

Flora Purim: "Moon Dreams" (this starts kinda slow, but Flora's shrieks towards the end are quite something)

The original ("She Regrets" on his NY Muscle album) and Jesper Dählback's remix have a lot of diva-vocals, the Superpitcher remix only uses a small fraction of it and is probably (though terrific!) less suitable for your mix.

also curiuos about non-campy divas - like divas that go insane but remain completely sincere and personal about it almost to the point of scaring you. i don't have an example but the idea intrigues me.

unless you mean like the vcl house sense of the word diva

"I've got a little biscuit tin
to keep your panties in
soiled panties, white panties, school panties, y-front panties"

i'm going to try and get my hands on everything. thx everyone who replied! if anyone would like to add anything i probably won't be done tune-picking till next week as I think it'll take me awhile to find samples of all these songs. I'll post my mix when i'm done tho. merci

other suggestions:

Björk - Pluto (hardcore squawking over headache beats but bizarrely very catchy and danceable)
Trina ft. Ludacris - B R Right (the rudest song in the history of music, do not play closing monologue in front of your mother)
Tori Amos - Datura (eight-minute psychotropic loop of radio sounds, a dirty piano riff, electro beats, druggy synth swirls and Tori reciting a list of sexually suggestive plant names)
Christina Aguilera - Make Over (take tune of 'Overload' by the Sugababes; add Xtina's OTT vocal, hysterical treated strings and relentless castanet action)
Miss Kittin ft. LA Williams - Requiem For A Hit ("I'll beat that bitch with a hit! I'll beat that bitch with a hit!" etc. Oh, and Miss K singing booty bass)
Lady Fury - Murk Dem (16-yr-old (at the time) grime MC murks boys goth style over Hitchcockian strings - "I'll snatch your heart and drink your blood", "watch your souls go straight below")

-- davidsim (davidmsi...), May 4th, 2005.

crikey moses!

You might want to put a Diamanda Gallas track on there too, maybe "Double-Barrel Prayer". It's a little more accessible, but she still sounds like a possesed woman with a bat stuck inside her throat.

also off that Khan album (No Comprendo) - the Françoise Cactus collaboration 'Les Gros Nichons' (drunken rant about how she wants breasts like balloons) and the Hanin Elias collaboration 'The Bee' (electropop noise which darts all over the place with lots of sexual metaphors)

"I.M.!"

"BEEEEEEEEEE!"

"I.M.!"

*pyyyyyyyyyyyooooooooooooooo*

"DO THE BIIIIIM!"

(if you can rent The Apple DVD and record the first song, that would be the perfect intro for your mix CD)

Maria Callas needs to be on this. I have no idea what the piece is called (I am an opera know-nothing) but it's one of her last ever, ever performances. I saw it on TV and damn nearly fell off the couch in shock!

And for "divas that go insane but remain completely sincere and personal about it" you could try Mylène Farmer's "Sans Logique", "Comme J'ai Mal" or "A Quoi Je Sers". They're in French too, but they're great songs.

Jennifer Hudson singing "I Have Nothing"

as far as my mixtape goes - I"m still working on it (ugh) but I threw out a lot of stuff that months later realized didn't have staying-power and am still undecided on others (like Mu and Antony - which i think i'll keep)

these are the ones i'm def. keeping:
Troy - Sinead
Watching you Without Me - Kate Bush
Zarah - Nina Hagen
No Easy Way Down - Mark Eitzel
She's Lost Control - Grace Jones
Open - Ellen Allien

its been hard to find and fit appropriate sultry slow-burning diva-songs alongside the flambeed ones but i definitely need to do this as otherwise thing becomes unlistenable.

Enjoy Grace. If I get a better quality rip of this, I'll post again.