i would like to know who sings angle in your arms?

i would like to know who sings angle in your arms?
Do you mean Angel In Your Arms?

Aretha(any decade) and Natalie Merchant should be added

#1  madonna
#2  cyndi lauper
#3chrisse hynde
#4  blondie
#5  debbie gibson

I chose Taylor Dayne

  I never realized, until just now, what a babe Laura Branigan was.  With her elastic alto voice I'd compare her to Quarterflash and Bonnie Tyler.  Nah, better...

  Her image, back then, was of your best friend's decent looking mom...

On my list are

Whitney Houston
Taylor Dayne
Olivia Newton-John
Sheena Easton
Pat Benatar
Annie Lennox

  C'mon guys!  Whare's your imagination?  All I'm seeing is Cyndi Lauper and Whitney Houston...

  Can I hear it for Alison Moyet?  Kate Bush?  Suzanne Vega?  Aimee Mann..?

  I know for a fact Maxwell and Foo can pull out a laundry list of 80s alt divas...

  C'mon guys!  Whare's your imagination?  All I'm seeing is Cyndi Lauper and Whitney Houston...

  Can I hear it for Alison Moyet?  Kate Bush?  Suzanne Vega?  Aimee Mann..?

  I know for a fact Maxwell and Foo can pull out a laundry list of 80s alt divas...


Except that you already covered Laura Branigan. 

She's known for Gloria (1982) and Self Control (1984), but the title track off 1987's Touch stands up.  Suppose you took Sheena Easton's Strut and crossed it Sarah Vaughan's Fever.  Something like that.

Of course, all divas have moments they'd rather we all forgot.  Sarah Brightman - whose career has been all about pretentious pop-opera and classical vocal works - was the awesomeness belting out Hot Gossip's 1978 disco cheezefest (I Lost My Heart To A) Starship Trooper.  Yep, you'll never think of Phantom of the Opera's Christine Daae quite the same way when you realize she also sang "Flash Gordon's left me / He's gone to the stars / And evil Darth Vader / Has been banished to Mars!" (and then the lyrics get really cheesy :) with complete sincerity.

Likewise, the hidden gem on Touch is hearing Laura Branigan singing Shirley Ellis's The Name Game with equal deadpan sincereity.  Its awesomeness is that it's such an obscene waste of vocal talent that you can't help but admire her for singing her way through it.  ("...and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme!  Let's do Doug!  Doug, Doug, bo-bug, banana-fanna-fo-fug, fee-fi-mo-mug!  Doug!  Now you got it!  Tony!  Tony, Tony bo-boney, banana-fanna-fo-foney, fee-fi-mo-money!  Tony!  A little trick with Rick...")

But while we're on the subject, yeah, big shout-out to Alison Moyet. 

Recommended listening: Yazoo, State Farm (Madhouse Mix).  The 1990 mix by DJ Dakeyne takes the 1983 original from You And Me Both to new heights. A version is available on Ultimix 38.  (and Ultimix Looking Back vol. 4)

Close second: DMC/Yazoo Megamix, Situation (Re-Situated).  9:48.  This 1990 remix does for Yazoo, what "Substance Abuse" did for New Order's Blue Monday.  Too many samples to count, so one of these nights I'll try to source 'em all on the lyrics board.  It, like the New Order mix, is probably worthy of its own thread.

Close third: Yazoo, Situation (Larkero's Rockin' House Mix).  It's 7 minutes of the original track, then it gets weird.  Ends with four minutes of the acid-house freakout of Situation (Space Dub), edited with funky phasing effects, with a couple of verses sung by none other than Tom Jones.  (He introduces it with "'Think I better dance now!", which also appears on Art of Noise's Kiss.  Not sure which came first.)

Of the list I liked many of those choices. But if I had to pick just one ..it would be Annie Lennox!

I also really liked Suzanne Vega a lot......

Of the ones listed, I voted Belinda, Debbie, and Susanna.  I'll probably list my other favorites later if I have time.  Too many to list.

   C'mon guys!  Whare's your imagination?  All I'm seeing is Cyndi Lauper and Whitney Houston...

   Can I hear it for Alison Moyet?  Kate Bush?  Suzanne Vega?  Aimee Mann..?

   I know for a fact Maxwell and Foo can pull out a laundry list of 80s alt divas...
 

ok then i'll bite!  the key word here is "greatest"  now aimee man had ahhhh  lets see, one song,  it was a good song  but that dont make hear a great singer!  suzzane vega??  surely you jest,  and as for alison, the one or two songs from yaz were good, but still not great!  and i dont recall any song from kate bush?

Other - Alison Moyet

Stevie Nicks (For the other vote)
Madonna
Pat Benatar
Belinda Carlisle
Whitney Houston

Tina Turner
Annie Lennox
Pat Benatar
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Taylor Dayne

Apparently I already voted... then again this poll is from a few years back.

Anyway my votes back then went to the mainstreamers... Whitney (you can't deny those first 2 albums) and my other vote amazingly went to Annie Lennox. I must've been in a "There Must Be An Angel" phase.  :)

1.  GLORIA ESTEFAN - Not on list  :P
2.  Madonna
3.  Whitney
4.  Janet
5.  CC Catch

1.  GLORIA ESTEFAN - Not on list  :P

Nothing like a good Gloria ballad for night time drives!

Anne and Nancy Wilson!!!! from "Heart"; aren't they awesome voices??? Come on... Whitney Houston must be number one or close! Annie Lennox, Donna Summer, Taylor Dayne. I respect Madonna, she worked hard and she is an awesome performer and songwriter, but her voice is just average compared with these!!!

I forgot Stevie Nicks!!!! Talk about a powerful, distinctive, unique, mesmerizing voice!!!


Anne and Nancy Wilson!!!! from "Heart"; aren't they awesome voices??? Come on... Whitney Houston must be number one or close! Annie Lennox, Donna Summer, Taylor Dayne. I respect Madonna, she worked hard and she is an awesome performer and songwriter, but her voice is just average compared with these!!!

Eve's right about the Wilson sisters. Plus any Fleetwood Mac fan(like me) will tell you if you're going to include Stevie Nicks, you better list Christine McVie as well(If you ask why, you've obviously never heard "Hold Me" or "Little Lies"). NTM someone mentioned Sheena Easton, but inexplicably she isn't on the list either! Have we forgotten "For Your Eyes Only", "Morning Train", "Strut", and "The Lover In Me"?

Your Pal,
Doc
8)

P.S.: Why is Kate Pierson on the list twice?

Kate Pierson
Alison Moyet
Annie Lennox
Pat Benatar
Xaviera (aka Xavier) Gold - sang on Ralphi Rosario's 1987 House Classic "You Used To Hold Me"

Whitney Houston and Taylor Dayne.

Nothing like a good Gloria ballad for night time drives!

Well said, Robby! And also from Miami, we can't leave out the gals from Expose!

Your Pal,
Doc
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I voted for:

Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks, .

Since Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks fall into "other", My last vote went to Belinda Carlyle since I didn't know who else to vote for and felt Belinda was the best of the rest there.

My favorite would be a toss up between Stevie Nicks, Cyndi Lauper and Pat Benatar.

Pat Benatar.

IMO she opened the door for a lot of future female rock singers.

chaka khan, carole king, edie brickell, gladys knight, basia, diana ross

Other good female singers:

Rindy Ross (Quarterflash)
Lorraine McIntosh (Deacon Blue)
Christina Amphlett (Divinyls)

Other good female singers:

Rindy Ross (Quarterflash)
Lorraine McIntosh (Deacon Blue)
Christina Amphlett (Divinyls)


Thought her name might crop up in this thread this week.  :\'(

Martika had a tremendous voice in "Toy Soldiers".

Ant

Thought her name might crop up in this thread this week.  :\'(


Her vocals on 'Pleasure and Pain' were just wonderful.  No one sang like her

I chose Taylor Dayne, Belinda Carlisle, Whitney Houston, Pat Benetar, and Joan Jett. Runner up would be Madonna.

I chose Cyndi, Madonna, Pat, Debbie and Tina.

I didn't see the 'other' option when I was voting (a derp moment, to be sure), if so it would have been Stevie Nicks as she is my all time favorite female vocalist.

I like Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson the most.

I chose Cyndi, Madonna, Pat, Debbie and Tina.

I didn't see the 'other' option when I was voting (a derp moment, to be sure), if so it would have been Stevie Nicks as she is my all time favorite female vocalist.


My 3 favorites are Stevie, Cyndi & Pat. I used to have a huge crush on both Stevie & Cyndi. In 1984 I contemplated dying my hair like Cyndi. I still listen to 5 or 6 songs from her "She's so unusual" album every week.

I just noticed a typo.

Sioxsie Sioux is her name not Siouxsie Slioux.  :)

Right now I'm very into Janet's Rthymnation (spelling??) album. I think that was her best album.

Can't say I'm in love with Tina Turner, but her song 'What's love got to do with it' is one of the best songs of all time! Like seriously!!  :D

My write-in is Melissa Etheridge.

I chose:

1. Taylor Dayne
2. Lisa Stansfield....even though she made her debut in 1989 it's still 80s.

Of those not on the list, Laura Branigan and Gloria Estefan for sure.

Patty Smyth was another one I love to this day. Both solo and with Scandal.

Aimee Mann who was with Til Tuesday at the time.

My favorite stuff by Cher was her late 80s and early 90s string of hits.

On the R&B side, Anita Baker had a lot of good songs in the 80s. So did Sade.

A couple others not so big but who I enjoyed were Basia and Swing Out Sister, both had a similar quality in their voice.