10 Greatest Female Singers In Rock History

Every band that has come and gone in rock music wants to try to make their type of music separate from the pack. As much as it could be fun to make a good old fashioned rock and roll tune, there comes a point where you want to start exploring. While countless musicians have that period of taking risks, Bjork pretty much modeled her entire career on that principle.

Across every single one of her albums, you're never quite sure what you're going to get, with her '90s output still sounding like some of the most futuristic sounds of the alternative rock scene, with feet planted in trip hop, industrial, and downright insanity. As the years go by though, the experimentation has become much more elastic, with the operatic sounds of something like Verspertine sounding nothing like the mammoth vocal collage that happened once we reached Medulla.

Even when Bjork was deliberately trying to mess with her usual style, there's always a unique sense of comfort that comes with her voice, almost like she's burrowed into your skull and is somehow singing directly to you with every single track. When you look at the body of work in the rearview though, it's almost like rock doesn't even fit all of her aesthetic in a neat package. For all intents and purposes, Bjork is pretty much her own genre at this point.