Music Albums To Make You Feel Feminine/Masculine

[Mister]

Some MTF.

[tekla]

I don't know about that, but I do know the CDs have been pretty well received and the band seems to be doing OK.  I don't know how the person views their inner self, but to play with that sense in a performance art setting could be its own statement.

[Stealthgrrl]

Singing helped me tremendously to alter/stretch my voice, in addition to the way some singers' music makes me feel. Also, women singers simply wrap themselves around words differently. Some of my favorites for this have been:

The Motels
Joni Mitchell
Til Tuesday
Holly Cole

[sabrina]

DO I ever feel out of place.  Ot3p is one of if not my most fav group, but I have always been a heavy~metal type of girl.   

[aisha]

hmm for feeling feminine I like the roches, especial their album Keep on Doing they are really good three girl folk harmonies, so perfect

theres also Antony and the Johnsons, Antony the lead singer is a MtF transexual and he sings from that perspective his voice is a interesting mix of both sides, but more definitely more feminine its good for kind of in between serious moods..

How about you get your basic respect down before you start posting in a trans forum?

Sorry? This forum is open to everyone, especially us who identify as trans, crossdresser, or androgyne. I try to respect everyone, but what do you mean by basic respect? I'm just here to be able to share with people who are going through a similar experience as I am, and for support/to support others.

My post before was just music that I personally like to listen in certain moods like the title of the thread says.

I hope nothing I've written here has seemed disrespectful, if so please tell me I'm pretty new here and new to the culture at large so maybe there's something I'm missing. I'm just trying to express myself clearly and honestly

[Pica Pica]

hmm for feeling feminine I like the roches, especial their album Keep on Doing they are really good three girl folk harmonies, so perfect

theres also Antony and the Johnsons, Antony the lead singer is a MtF transexual and he sings from that perspective his voice is a interesting mix of both sides, but more definitely more feminine its good for kind of in between serious moods..

How about you get your basic respect down before you start posting in a trans forum?

Sorry? This forum is open to everyone, especially us who identify as trans, crossdresser, or androgyne. I try to respect everyone, but what do you mean by basic respect? I'm just here to be able to share with people who are going through a similar experience as I am, and for support/to support others.

My post before was just music that I personally like to listen in certain moods like the title of the thread says.

I hope nothing I've written here has seemed disrespectful, if so please tell me I'm pretty new here and new to the culture at large so maybe there's something I'm missing. I'm just trying to express myself clearly and honestly

don't worry about mister, he picks fights for no reason, i know this would seem a personal attack, but i can't send this as a PM. But it needs to be said that you haven't done anything wrong.

[noxdraconis]

hmm for feeling feminine I like the roches, especial their album Keep on Doing they are really good three girl folk harmonies, so perfect

theres also Antony and the Johnsons, Antony the lead singer is a MtF transexual and he sings from that perspective his voice is a interesting mix of both sides, but more definitely more feminine its good for kind of in between serious moods..

How about you get your basic respect down before you start posting in a trans forum?

Sorry? This forum is open to everyone, especially us who identify as trans, crossdresser, or androgyne. I try to respect everyone, but what do you mean by basic respect? I'm just here to be able to share with people who are going through a similar experience as I am, and for support/to support others.

My post before was just music that I personally like to listen in certain moods like the title of the thread says.

I hope nothing I've written here has seemed disrespectful, if so please tell me I'm pretty new here and new to the culture at large so maybe there's something I'm missing. I'm just trying to express myself clearly and honestly

I think he is upset that you referred to an MtF with masculine pronouns (and understandibly so, because I would have beef with someone using the wrong pronouns when referring to myself or anyone else).  Everyone makes mistakes, we just need to learn from them.

[tekla]

The singer in question does it, at times using masculine, at times feminine when speaking and writing about themselves - so when writing about the singer, it would be OK to use either, or both.

[sabrina]

Can't we just talk about music?  Or does it have to be "Makes you feel feminine/masculine"  I listen to all types of music and I still feel fem even after listening to Sevendust or Sheryl Crow

[tekla]

In fact I think that opposites rule the music industry, females attracted to John Legend, or Usher, and men to the divas.  And it kind of leaves out instrumental stuff, which is still the majority of music, just not pop schlock.

[chrysalis]

I like a lot of Riot Grrrl stuff actually. Sleater Kinney has a few albums which rule, and Bikini Kill put out some nice stuff as well. No Doubt's "Bathwater" makes me feel fem.

Mostly I prefer "genderless" music. Like trip-hop or ambient techno flavored stuff that takes me beyond gender and just into the recesses of my mind.

[katherine]

I enjoy Enya very much.  I also love to listen to Diana Krall.

[imaz]

Feminine? Has to be Francoise Hardy, this is a really great collection: http://tinyurl.com/achr2u

She really made my gender situation a lot worse when I was young, was totally obsessed with her!


Joan Jett always makes me feel good..

[chrysalis]

I JUST found this song, but oh do I love it! Makes me feel girly, but more importantly Jubilantly happy. It also happens to have a super cool music video.

MIKA - Lollipop: 16:9 Bunny Action

[PinkSunshine]

I like listening to Natasha Bedingfield, she always seems to have a simple way to say things  .

[Janet_Girl]

Even though I came to hate the album, because of my ex, I still love Cher.

If I could turn back time
Believe
Half Breed
Dark Lady
And so much more............

Janet

[metal angel]

Anything sung by Serj Tankian makes me feel all hardcore and boyish. x] A lot of times, though, guy singers with higher voices make me feel masculine simply because I can hit the notes properly, in ways that I can't with deeper-voiced males or females anymore. This would include Interpol, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, and Placebo.

hrmmm... actually i had a really brilliant experience a couple of nights ago. Alchemist LIVE!!!! The first gig of there's i went to i moshed like such a girl that someone who i'd never met even mentioned it on a review of the gig on the web. Their music is very heavy, but it has this hypnotic undertone that just makes me move like a woman, and like it. You should listen to Chinese Whispers! Freaking beautiful, it is the most perfect music ever, so many simple interlocking motifs slowly evolving but never falling out of sync with each other. It even got a male friend of mine – who earlier that night had been flexing his muscles at me – swinging his hips along with the music.

about 4 mintes into this...
Alchemist...Chinese Whispers

As for masculine, JUDAS PRIEST! Until... i turn it down low enough that i can hear myself over it, and i hear how dismally i am failing to sound like a guy

...EXCEPT... Hell Is Home, by Judas Priest in that brief period they had with Ripper Owens on vocals, i still don't sound great at it, but that song is nearly in my range and i can belt it out from deep down within me, punching the air on every time they say "HELL is home..." and getting every last ounce of power out of my voice. I probably still don't quite sound male, but i feel it.

[DamagedChris]

Heya

You might want to try a band called Manowar. A friend refers to it as fantasy warrior metal and the description fits. When I was deeply absorbed with being male I used to listen to their music all the time.

You can find several of their songs on youtube.

Dee

Lol, definitely...they overshoot "masculine" into "viking warrior macho".
I've got a good amount of Manowar myself.

[EveMarie]

Andrea Boccelli "Amore"
B-Tribe, "Suave Suave"
Chris Botti, "To Love Again"
Enigma "LSD-Love Sensuality Devotion"
Govi, "Saffron & silk"
Jesse Cook, "Vertigo"
Jose Luis Encinas, "Guitarra Romantica"
Keiko Matsui – anything
Loreena McKennitt "The Visit"
Moya Brennan, "Two Horizons"
Ottmar Liebert, "Surrender 2 Love"
Carly Simon, "Moonlight Seranade"
Diane Schuur
Indigo Girls
Janis Siegel
Joan Armatrading
K.D. Lang
Les Nubians
Lou Rawls
Madeleine Peyroux
Mariza
Mediaeval Baebes
Maysa
Norah Jones
Phoebe Snow
Sarah Brightman
Sarah McLachlan
Si*Sé

and too many others to list
Evie

[Muffin]

^^^ I haven't heard of any of those other than K.D, S.McLachlan & Enigma!
I enjoying singing along with:-
Ladyhawke - ladyhawke
The Blow - paper television
Mirah - the old days feeling
The Sundays - blind
Kate Bush - the sensual world
Blake Babies - Innocence and Experience