CLASSIC ALBUMS BY WOMEN
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33 r.p.m.
CLASSIC ALBUM SUNDAYS
Contents 6 8
Introduction by Colleen Murphy
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Lauren Murada ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody by ESG
Orbital
50
Daniel Wang Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall by Ella Fitzgerald Adrian McNally Dry by PJ Harvey
9
Phil Hartnoll Orchestra of Bubbles by Ellen Allien & Apparat
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9
Paul Hartnoll Penis Envy by Crass
54
Paul Fogarty Dusty in Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Declan McKenna The Red Shoes by Kate Bush
57
Victoria Broackes Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
12
Barbie Bertisch First Take by Roberta Flack
58
Michael Kurtz Rabbit Hole by Mindy Gledhill
13
The Black Madonna Madonna by Madonna
60
Alejandro Asencio Worldwide Underground by Erykah Badu
15
Mr Scruff Alice Clark by Alice Clark
62
Gina Lapsley The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
16
Peter Hook Chelsea Girl by Nico
63
Blues DJ Tracy At Last by Etta James
18
DJ Yoda Eyes on This by MC Lyte
65
Jon Savage The Marble Index by Nico
19
Robert Raths Dolmen Music by Meredith Monk
66
Soweto Kinch First Take by Roberta Flack
20
Gabriel Szatan Visions by Grimes
68
Tim Lawrence Live at Montreux by Marlena Shaw
23
Andrea Trout Quiet Fire by Roberta Flack
69
Phoebe Anastasia Scott Lungs by Florence + the Machine
24
Youth The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane by Alice Coltrane
70
Paul Morley I’m the One by Annette Peacock
26
Raj Chaudhuri It Is Finished by Nina Simone
72
Jenn D’Eugenio Soul of a Woman by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
28
Xanthe Fuller Island Life by Grace Jones
74
Steve Mason Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega
29
Kate Hennessy Sweet Child by Pentangle
76
Jasmine Kent-Smith Take Me Apart by Kelela
30
Marcia Carr Before the Dawn by Patrice Rushen
79
Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy Blue by Joni Mitchell
31
Mari Kimura Viva! La Woman by Cibo Matto
80
Rob Mello Adventures in Paradise by Minnie Riperton
33
Alina Bzhezhinska Journey in Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane
81
Jo Kendall Smell of Female by The Cramps
34
Greg Wilson Rufusized by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
82
Fred Deakin Cut by The Slits
35
Nicole Melotte Dinah Jams by Dinah Washington
85
John Harris The North Star Grassman and the Ravens by Sandy Denny
36
Nick Mason Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell
86
Nancy Noise Brenda Russell by Brenda Russell
37
Elsa Hill Spice by Spice Girls
88
Keith Cameron Penis Envy by Crass
38
Don Letts Horses by Patti Smith
90
Oliver Keens Elastica by Elastica
40
Lee Zee The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell
91
Alan Dixon The Moody EP by ESG
41
Yvonne Hawkey Horses by Patti Smith
92
Simon Harper Only for the Lonely by Mavis Staples
43
Yvette Young Ys by Joanna Newsom
94
Ian Tregoning Doin’ It Right by Denise LaSalle
44
Karen Gibson Everlasting Life by Kim Burrell
96
DJ Paulette Nightclubbing by Grace Jones
46
Owen Jones Grafts by Kara-Lis Coverdale
98
Gilles Peterson City Life by Alive!
11
101
Neil McCormick Lemonade by Beyoncé
147
Matt Johnson She Is Africa by Miriam Makeba
102
Takaya Nagase Irons in the Fire by Teena Marie
148
Ashley Beedle Gonna Take a Miracle by Laura Nyro and Labelle
103
Jenifa Mayanja Butterfly Dreams by Flora Purim
150
Kent Horne Crepuscular Hour by Maja S K Ratkje
105
Emily Moxon Who Is Jill Scott? Volume 1 by Jill Scott
151
Dean Meredith Just a Stone’s Throw Away by Valerie Carter
106
Leanne Wright Reggae Vibes by Love Joys
153
John Grant NunSexMonkRock by Nina Hagen
108
Queen Josephine Live and More by Donna Summer
154
Ruby Savage Come Away with ESG by ESG
109
Kate Wildblood Guilty by Barbra Streisand
155
Erica Shirley Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega
110
Kate Hutchinson The Singles by Bikini Kill
157
Jeannie Hopper Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits by Janis Joplin
111
Joe Lapan New Amerykah Part One by Erykah Badu
158
Daddy Ad Lost & Found by Jorja Smith
112
Sara-Jane Power I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got by Sinéad O’Connor
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Neil Mason Tom Tom Club by Tom Tom Club
113
Sophie Thurston Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
162
Amy Van-Baaren Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman
115
Dom Lawson Everything Is Changing by Anneke van Giersbergen
163
Andrew Pirie Dancing for Mental Health by Will Powers
117
Rankin 1000 Forms of Fear by Sia
164
Lauren Martin Where Are We Going? by Octo Octa
119
KT Tunstall Tapestry by Carole King
166
Lauren Reskin Homogenic by Björk
121
Ralph Moore Under the Pink by Tori Amos
167
Megan Page Alas, I Cannot Swim by Laura Marling
123
Jamie XX It Is Finished by Nina Simone
168
Honey Dijon Island Life by Grace Jones
124
Joe Boyd Car Wheels on a Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams
169
Martin Cullingford Elgar: Cello Concerto by Jacqueline du Pré
126
Emika The Best of Romantic Callas, discs 1 & 2 by Maria Callas
170
Mac DeMarco Ai ga Nakucha ne by Akiko Yano
128
Joanne Shaw Taylor Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin
172
Kimberley Dunne Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia by Hannah Peel
130
Jim Poe Gala by Lush
173
Nina Kraviz Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday
133
Beardyman Hejira by Joni Mitchell
175
Mousse T Afro-Harping by Dorothy Ashby
134
Emerald Rose Lewis Arular by M.I.A.
176
Nikki Lucas Mother India by Lata Mangeshkar
135
Lucky Cat Jamaica’s First Lady of Songs by Hortense Ellis
177
Edowa Shimizu Comme à la radio by Brigitte Fontaine
136
Naoko the Rock Sharon by Sharon Forrester
179
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike Nightclubbing by Grace Jones
137
Miss Feelgood At Studio One by Marcia Griffiths
180
Pauline Moisy To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey
138
Sweetie Steppin’ by Marcia Griffiths
182
Frank Turner Sweet Kind of Blue by Emily Barker
139
Debbie Golt Cost of Living by Isha Bel
185
Tom Findlay Estate of Mind by Evie Sands
140
KIOKO Nightclubbing by Grace Jones
186
Captain Sensible El Perro del Mar by El Perro del Mar
142
Jocelyn Gonzales Crimes of Passion by Pat Benatar
188
Yvonne Turner Blessed by The Emotions
144
François K My Way by Nina Simone
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Index of Albums
Barbie Bertisch
Classic Album Sundays/ Love Injection/DJ
Roberta Flack’s 1969 debut album First Take is the soundtrack that we need right now. It touches on political struggle, breaking with society norms, and divisiveness. It couldn’t be more timely or more beautifully rendered by Flack’s emotional delivery. It gets me every time and perfectly exemplifies the transformative power of music.
First Take Roberta Flack 12
DJ Yoda DJ/producer
MC Lyte is one of my alltime favourite female MCs (honourable mention: Roxanne Shanté), and this album came out in my favourite year for hiphop – 1989. It stands the test of time – I still play this!
Eyes on This MC Lyte 18
Robert Raths Erased Tapes
Meredith Monk has completely changed my perception of the human voice as an instrument. Dolmen Music performed by her ensemble of four facing each other in a circle is among the most powerful things I’ve ever seen.
Dolmen Music Meredith Monk 19
Gabriel Szatan
Music journalist/Classic Album Sundays
Visions – Grimes
Xanthe Fuller Head of Community, Mixcloud
The compilation album Island Life summarises the immense talent of Grace Jones. It is powerful, delicate, sexy, beautiful, funky, fun, intelligent, subversive and outrageously unique. I never tire of it.
Island Life Grace Jones 28
Kate Hennessy Music writer
Growing up, English folk/jazz/ blues band Pentangle was the only music my dad, sister and I all adored. Jacqui McShee’s voice is as clear and pure as an alpine stream and this 1968 double album also features Anne Briggs’ song ‘The Time Has Come’.
Sweet Child Pentangle 29
Mari Kimura Worldwide FM
’Cibo matto’ means ‘crazy food’ in Italian. Japanese women (Miho and Yuka) cooking hip-hop, jazz, electronic and all sorts of sounds in the East Village of New York City in the ‘90s was and is sensational! And it still sounds fresh and original.
Viva! La Woman Cibo Matto 31
Nicole Melotte
Handel & Hendrix Museum
Dinah Washington could sing anything – jazz, standards, blues, pop – and make it her own. And she could wear the hell out of a blonde wig!
Dinah Jams Dinah Washington 35
Nick Mason Pink Floyd
I love this album just because I do...great songs and really well performed.
Ladies of the Canyon Joni Mitchell 36
Elsa Hill
Stamp the Wax/Worldwide FM
The Spice Girls were revolutionary for third-wave feminism: popularising it as ‘Girl Power’ put it back on the mainstream map, albeit commercialised, and enabled it to develop into feminism today.
Spice Spice Girls 37
Don Letts
Film-maker/DJ/radio broadcaster
Released in 1975, Horses is an undeniable milestone that inspired women from that time until now. The thing is, Patti’s combination of beat poetry and strippeddown rock’n’roll delivered with a serious attitude struck a chord with the men, too. A stunning debut!
Horses Patti Smith 38
Kent Horne
Classic Album Sundays
Ratkje’s piece extends beyond limits by including physical light as an integral part of the composition, tweaking traditional elements using noise and randomisation to create new sounds and expand space.
Crepuscular Hour Maja S K Ratkje 150
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Across the genres, across the generations, across the board, this book presents more than a hundred inspirational albums by women, from top-selling hits to the indie and obscure.
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