List: Top 10 female singers that are awesome

Haven't done a top 10 list for a while so here is another one. I downloaded Metric's new album Fantasies tonight and am enjoying it. The past few weeks I've been obsessed with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Portishead released one of the best albums of 2008 last year. Stars are an awesome band. I was on a Fleetwood Mac kick a few weeks back. What do these all have in common? They all feature females singing lead vocals.
For the longest time I only liked "rock music" with male vocalists. But over the past few years that has changed. While Avril Lavigne and Evanessence still makes me want to jump off a bridge, the use of female vocals on albums can have a great positive impact.
This list is of my personal favourites, so thats why people like Janis Joplin or Patti Smith are ignored. And like my previous list, this is not in order.

1. Amy Milan - Stars, solo




2. Feist - Broken Social Scene, solo


3. Emily Haines - Metric, solo


4. Lykke Li

5. Jenn Grant

6. Stevie Nicks - Fleetwood Mac, solo


7. Karen O - Yeah Yeah Yeahs


8. Beth Gibbons - Portishead, solo


9. Catherine McCandless - Young Galaxy


10. Sarah McLachlan

List: Top 10 songs that are 7+ minutes

Anybody can make a two and a half minute long song with generic sounds that will grab the attention of mass audiences on public radio. But to release a song that is over seven minutes long takes some skill. Well anybody can make a long song, but making a song that keeps your attention for over seven minutes is no small feat in this day and age of lightening quickness.

This list is in no particular order, although it may look like alphabetical order (because it is).

1. Aphex Twin - Tha (9:07)
from Selected Ambient Works 85-92



2. Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric Feel (7:52)
from Folkloric Feel



3. Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (10:06)
from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere



4. DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain (9:22)
from Endtroducing...



5. Jose Gonzalez - Cycling Trivialities (8:08)
from In Our Nature



6. LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them (8:29)
from Sound of Silver



7. Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal (11:53)
from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer



8. Sigur Ros - Festival (9:23)
from Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust



9. Wintersleep - Miasmal Smokes & The Yellow Bellied Freaks (8:06)
from Welcome To The Night Sky



10. Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive (10:52)
from At Mount Zoomer