Crossdressing Soundtrack

[Kayla_CD]

So, when I'm at home alone and dressing I usually like to have some music on. I've found that I'm much more in the spirit when I have some danceable or girly music on. I tried listening to Pussy Cat Dolls, Britney Spears, or whatever had that feel, but really the hipster inside of me hated it. So I've been in search of other cool groups to listen to en femme. This leads me to my (High Fidelity inspired) question.

What are your top five artists to listen to when dressing?

Sub question; does your personal musical taste change en femme?

My top five:

Scissor Sisters
CSS
Dragonette
Tegan and Sara
Metric


And yes, my taste has changed a lot as I've embraced my femme side.

[dianarg]

Interesting question. I could say my music taste changes *a bit* for example I listen to music I don't usually listen from bands I usually listen...
Ok, say my favorite drab tracks are 1,2 and 5, now when I CD I listen to 3,8 and 9, the slower more melodic and avoided songs.

My top 5 follows:

Kamelot
Dream Theater
Rhapsody of Fire
Moonspell
Nightwish

[Dee Jay]

What I listen to stays the same regardless of how I'm dressed.

I'm mainly into old rock. The Who,Pink Floyd, AC-DC etc etc,
Then there's the blues... Robert Johnson. Simply stunning!
But the greatest Album ever made and hardly a day goes by where I don't play at least on track from it....

Carole King's "Tapestry"

It's quite a girly album, but it's by far the greatest collection of songs you'll ever get on one place.

DJ

[Stephanie Stephens]

Headwig - wig in a box
Stephanie

[NatalieBliss]

Morningwood (sounds dirty but the lead singer is a rockin' chick)
No Doubt
Anna Nalick
Sublime (not girlie, but a constant favorite for over a decade)
Pink

I have always loved female vocalist that can front rock. I have always been a crossdresser. chicken/egg? egg/chicken? I don't dare hazard a guess.

[Raquel June]

I've always liked electronic, ambient techno, heavy metal, symphonic classical, melodic new-age stuff and dream pop. So the bands I really like are NIN, Chemical Bros, Crystal Method, Moby, Benny Benassi, Massive Attack, old Metallica, Between the Buried and Me, Dredg, Geminiani, Handel, Enya, Azam Ali, Trespassers William, Postal Service, etc. But I like a decent amount of hip-hop type stuff, and when I go out en femme I hear a lot of dance music, and there are songs I hear a lot of, like Rihanna's Umbrella and Timbaland's The Way I Are, so those make me think of being girly.

I guess I like just like a ton of different music. I like variety. The only things I don't really like are male country singers with a lot of twang, and I don't like most R&B. For some reason I've been listening to Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun a couple times a day lately. And last time I heard Charlie Daniel's Long Haired Country Boy I was wearing a skirt on the way to hang out at a gay bar, so that's a little strange for me.

I guess I like the same music either way, but some music affects me differently. Here are some songs I've been listening to lately that make me want to be very girly:

Trespassers William - Vapour Trail
Hayley Westenra - Pokarekare Ana
The Postal Service - Nothing Better
BT - All That Makes Us Human Continues
Moby - Dream About Me
Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like To Die
Chemical Brothers - Alive Alone
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Azam Ali - Endless Reverie
Black Lab - Remember
Fischerspooner - Cloud


These songs kinda make me wanna be a dancing girl, but I also like them in guy mode when I'm working out:

Benny Benassi - Rocket In The Sky
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
Paul Van Dyk - We Are Alive
Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise
Chemical Brothers - Chico's Groove
Chemical Brothers - Orange Wedge
Crystal Method - PhD
Crystal Method - High Roller
Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (Trip Hope Mix)
Alice Deejay - Everything Begins With An E


And these make me wanna be a badass guy:

Between the Buried and Me - Selkies: The Endless Obsession
Machine Head - Clenching the Fists of Dissent
Metallica - Am I Evil?
Strapping Young Lad - AAA
Beastie Boys - Posse In Effect
Green Day - I Fought The Law
Prodigy - You Will Be Under My Wheels
Eminem - You Don't Know
K-Os - Electrik Heat (The Seekwill)

...and anything by Lamb of God or Killswitch

But lately I think Between the Buried's Alaska might be the best album ever made.

[il.dso]

Great question.
I listen to the same music regardless.

Grateful Dead/DarkStar Orchestra
Allman Brothers
Hot Tuna
Tom Petty
and many more!

[Nicole Erin]

So I've been in search of other cool groups to listen to en femme. This leads me to my (High Fidelity inspired) question.

What are your top five artists to listen to when dressing?

Sub question; does your personal musical taste change en femme?NO I listen to the same music regardless of mode

My top five:

Scissor Sisters
CSS
Dragonette
Tegan and Sara
Metric


And yes, my taste has changed a lot as I've embraced my femme side.

Certain songs make me think of it for either nostalgic reasons or whatever. Not so much whether they are feminine or not. These songs take me back to times and places concerned with big steps in my CD'ing

Stepping out by Joe Jackson. [I think the first time I got ahold of a pair of PH this song was on]

Break Out - Swing Out Sister [Very femme song, When I was a kid I always wanted to dress all pretty and dance to this.]

Night of the unborn - Mercyful Fate [The first time i went to a gay club and really noticed what CD/TS/DQ's are, I had listened to this song getting ready for the night's clubbing. WARNING - This is not a pretty song]

1 2 3 4 - Feist [This one is popular lately and feminine. I am re-entering the CD life and this song makes me think of it. It will probably remain in my mind as such.]

I can see the world tonight - Paul McCartey [The first time I bought femme clothes other than hose, this song was playing]

[Kayla_CD]

1 2 3 4 - Feist [This one is popular lately and feminine. I am re-entering the CD life and this song makes me think of it. It will probably remain in my mind as such.]

If you like her vocal style go get her first album, "Let it Die"
She is Canada's gift to the world.

And yes, she has a beautiful feminine voice that makes me feel beautiful and really comforted and happy all at once.

[Jocelyn Quivers]

Anything by Anita Baker with personal favorites being,

"Caught up in the Rapture,"
"Sweet Love",
"Same ole Love"

Denise Williams
"Lets here it for the boy"

The Mary Jane Girls
"All night long"

Also God help my wife and neighbors when I attempt to sing them in my femme voice which has quite a lot of bass in it.

[Bethany_Anne_Fae]

Depends on what femme I'm donning for the day.

Zarabeth: (Mostly gothic, grunge, ska) Garbage, No doubt, Poe
Embyrre: Loreena McKennett, Blackmore's Night, Enya

and now Queen Anne: Lord of the Rings, Rob Roy, Henry V

and as my drab self... all of the above and so much more

*hugs*

Zara

[Jennaie]

Interesting question.

When dressed or feeling femme, I love the Corrs, as I like to pretend it's me singing. Others I enjoy are Jane Monheit, Holly Cole, and any other sexy voiced blues/jazz singer.

[Blixa]

Me too, I love Break Out, but the song Love Won't Let You Down from Swing Out Sister's latest album is pretty good too. I quite like Shelby Lynne, a most recent discovery. The album Rise from Samantha James, with her silky smooth vocals, is excellent from beginning to end. In-Grid has an amazing voice singing in french and her rendition of Un Beau Roman makes it the sexiest song there is, which you can find on her album of covers La Vie En Rose (Chilling With In-Grid).

[Laurelanne]

Interesting question you know I never really thought about it but I listen to old Big Band music and swing from the 40s etc., I love that music anyway but en femme ALWAYS that.

[Juanita O]

Hi all

I mostly listen to rock and roll oldies.

[Soulless&Shallow]

Precious- Depeche Mode
Been Caught Stealing- Jane's Addiction

[Laura Greenhall]

Tend to dig out things such as Micah P. Hinson or Nick Drake and occasionally Billy Bragg.

[Sally24]

Mindi Abair is my favorite when dressing. Her smooth jazz saxaphone has a real female vibe to it that I love. I just put my i-tunes on and play her over and over. I also will put a little electronica on as that is what plays in the clubs alot. Gives me a chance to practice dancing with no one else looking!

[jennifer41356]

I listen to what I always listen to

1.Pink Floyd
2.Led Zep
3.Bauhaus
4.Deep Purple
5.Hendrix
6.Ministry

As you can see, this girl is a rocker/punk/goth....if its loud and heavy, I just might like it

[Sarah Doepner]

I still love K.D.Lang's "Invincible Summer"
Billie Holliday, Emmylou Harris and Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women all are on my playlist when I want to get dressed.

[Farrah]

I ususally think about the song I'm a Barbie Girl in A Barbie world" I don't acutally have the song, but I do hum or think about that tune.

[jamie55]

Hi Kayla: Strange night just before my 53'rd. A lot of young uns in here. By far the best music to listen to period. Pink Floyd. My personal favs Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Comfortably Numb, Time, Sorrow, etc.

[jamie55]

HI all: sorry to post back to back but here it is. After midnight I'm another year older. My so gave me a present, a 24 kt. gold 45 single, 1 of 500, copy of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall. "We don't need no education, Hey teachers leave us kids alone".
Appropriate I think for all cd's, whad' ya think?

[Jada Rose]

Mostly soft and soothing music, like Enya or Loreena Mckinnett, but sometimes I pull out some good ol' Motown. Just depends on the mood I'm in.

[Bethany38]

I like No Doubt or anything by Gwen Steffani