A bloke I follow on twitter does these music 'challenge' months. e.g. in May anyone taking part was invited to post one track per day from the new wave/postpunk era, 78-84, any genre as long as it was from that time period, and a different artist each day. He then collated all the responses and posted a 2-cd compilation made from the top choices across the month.
The one for July was female voices - simply that, post a track each day by a different artist, the only criterion being it has a female voice, no time/genre restrictions (some people included ones where a male voice featured too but still had a lead female one too). I find so much of my listening revolves around female-voiced music so I had a struggle to hone it down to 31 tracks across the month, reluctantly discarding ones I really hoped to include. It was interesting seeing other people's choices, which have led me to some good stuff I didn't know.
This was my list for the month:
1 SYLVER TONGUE – Hook You Up
2 KYLIE MINOGUE – Stars
3 JUDEE SILL – Jesus Was A Crossmaker
4 AROOF AFTAB – Inayaat
5 EMIKA – Common Exchange
6 COLOURBOX – Arena II
7 LANTERNS ON THE LAKE – Beings (live at the Quay Sessions)
8 LADY GAGA – Joanne (piano version)
9 MALL GIRL – Bubbly Cool Drink
10 JAIN – Makeba
11 SOPHIE – Faceshopping
12 RAISSA – Your Summertime
13 DUBSTAR – Not So Manic Now
14 ANGEL OLSEN – Lark
15 SLEIGH BELLS – Sing Like A Wire
16 KIKI DEE – Amoureuse (live on TOTP)
17 KT TUNSTALL – In This Body (live)
18 CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS – Starshipper
19 BEABADOOBEE – Cologne
20 WENDY & LISA – Why Wait For Heaven
21 NADINE SHAH – Kitchen Sink
22 GOLDFRAPP – A&E
23 SHARON VAN ETTEN – I’ll Try
24 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – Put Your Sad Down
25 ARLO PARKS – Softly
26 TUNEYARDS – Water Fountain (live on Later)
27 LISA GERMANO – Everyone’s Victim
28 JULIANA HATFIELD THREE – Supermodel
29 JULIA HOLTER – Turn The Light On
30 THE CARPENTERS – Goodbye To Love
31 MADONNA – Drowned World (Substitute For Love)
PS - his next theme will be B-sides, in September.