Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

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What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhaps, joined the band in the first place for the purpose of scoring.

But sexy women now dominate pop music, and the same mojo that's stuffed Mick Jagger's dressing room for time immemorial draws would-be groupies to female icons in the same way.

It just shows that being sexy is about more than looks. Nothing's hotter than a woman who can rock a mic, and we mean nothing; these musicians may have once been on our walls, but they live on in our fantasies. -Ben Westhoff

20. Samantha Fox
A pop star and model with some edge, Samantha Fox posed topless at age 16 for a newspaper in her native London. She sold boatloads of records, but the boys of my generation knew her mainly from her risque posters for sale at the back of hair metal magazines. Though these adverts were tiny, and a thin black line blocked out the good parts, I'm certain any of us would have married her. -Ben Westhoff

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19. Grace Jones
A Jamaican-born model and muse of Andy Warhol, Grace Jones became a pop-disco siren in the '70s and '80s. She is the epitome of androgynous beauty. With her severe features, radiant skin, and lanky 5'10" physique, Jones rocks Reagan-era fashion hard, making shoulder pads and leotards look hot. And she wasn't afraid to take them off, either -- in 1998, she exposed her breasts at Disney World and was banned forever from the park. Yep, Grace Jones is officially too adult for the Magic Kingdom. -Linda Leseman

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grindass
grindass

Where in the fuck is Karen Carpenter or Agneta from Abba ?


mdrodriguez
mdrodriguez like.author.displayName 1 Like

I cannot believe the people who chose these selections and wrote about them!!!!! This list is the most pathetic and stupid list of choices I could ever imagine! The people who chose them are totally out of touch and have a limited knowledge of beauty and music history!!!! Plus some of their disgusting worship praise to some of these talentless skanks made me want to puke!!!! I don't think any of them have been laid in a long time. Moving on, where is Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Chrissie Amphlett(Divinyls), Nanci Griffith, Martha Davis, Carol Van Dijk(Bettie Serveert), Tracy Tracy(The Primitives), Hope Sandoval(Mazzy Star), Tanya Donelly, Andrea(The Darling Buds), Jane Wiedlin(The Go-Go's), Jennifer Fitzpatrick(Eve's Plum), Bif Naked, Louise Weiner(Sleeper), Susanna Hoffs, Nancy Wilson(Heart), The Great Kat, Siouxsie Sioux, Karla Devito, Danielle Dax, Kim Shattuck(The Muffs), Becky Stark(Lavender Diamond), etc, etc, etc..........I could go on and on!!! I think one of the worst choices in this almost totally bad list is M.I.A.!!!!!! Talk about butt-ugly and totally talentless!!!!! Shirley Manson, Liz Phair and Debbie Harry were the few welcomed choices. Grace Jones!? Avril Lavigne!? OH GOD!!! You guys are DESPERATE!!! 

ffejherb
ffejherb like.author.displayName 1 Like

I thought this list was going to feature female MUSICIANS! This list is irrelevant given the glaring omission of Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles.

drewzer15
drewzer15

What a sh!tty list. I could really dispute over half of it. I'm not even sure Grace Jones is female.

drewzer15
drewzer15

What a sh!tty list. I could really dispute over half of it. I'm not even sure Grace Jones is female.

daveclements1
daveclements1

No Linda Ronstadt on this list totally invalidates it.

fav.legrant
fav.legrant

shakira ?????? fakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee    the number one of  hot girls are britney and shirley manson !!!

isolda_benicio
isolda_benicio

AVRIL? You guys are shitty heads!
I mean... You don't even have Simone Simons or Sharon Den Adel. Way more beautiful and talented than 90% of those women.
You live in a bubble.

livesabbat_1999
livesabbat_1999

Lita Ford?? Really guys.. No Lita Ford and you call this a complete list?

TomC
TomC

Musicians? Musicians? Since when are people like Brittany Spears, Beyonce, and Shakira musicians? Singers and entertainers...yes, but I've never seen them or some others on this list actually play and instrument!! The sexiest female musician of all time is Nancy Wilson from Heart no contest!! She's always been smoking hot, a decent guitarist, and soon to be inducted into the RRHOF!!

MrScorpio
MrScorpio

So, you're going to leave SADE off of this list and expect me to take it seriously?

I don't think so. 

zilla
zilla

Alicia Keys?

rockamod
rockamod like.author.displayName 1 Like

hey douchebag!!! ever hear of Haley Williams ie PARAMORE!!!???

wadems
wadems

Where is Pat Benatar?  Quite the hottie in her day, and clearly MUCH sexier than somebody like Stevie Nicks.

 

/Big Fleetwood Mac fan.

Prefabfan
Prefabfan

ARE YOU FRIGGING NUTS. Where is Grace Potter, who is better looking than all of these combined (except Shakira)? And Cat power Chan?  THAT is a beautiful woman.

xtct5
xtct5

First of all, replace Courtney love with Wendy O Williams. Courtney was never sexy. maybe slutty, though. Brittany S. is not rock and sometimes not really sexy. Avril is sexy, but not Rock. PJ Harvey is sexier then hell. Ya missed her.

glampunksg
glampunksg like.author.displayName 1 Like

This article is suffering from a severe lack of Christina Aguilera.

joecinqmars
joecinqmars

hey you guys are missing the point..is a list of women in music that can make you pitch a tent, nothing to do with "Depth" or "Talent"...keep it simple guys ..don't get confused..I agree with Shakira , J Lo, and such, not so much with Taylor Swift?..cute but I don't think of sex inmediately after I see her...they messed up there!

klansman
klansman

i masturbate 24/7 to Sam Fox's young nude pics.  at 15 she was at her hottest.  to bad she's a fucking dyke.

Trans-LoveAirways
Trans-LoveAirways

I'm sorry, you've committed a Class-A felony by not mentioning Grace Slick.  It doesn't really apply now, but back in the '60s?  Name another singer who combined startling good looks with such a powerful voice that was both sultry and commanding.

nicolettelefaye
nicolettelefaye

This is the shittiest article I've ever read in my life. Way to boil down a person's achievements into a sum of their body parts. You make it sound as if these people cast a spell on the men of the world with their evil female witch charms in order to get a record deal, not by ACTUALLY WORKING. Join me in 2012 when you grow the fuck out of middle school and recall that 40 years have passed since the dawn of the anti-sexist movement. Then again, what else should I expect from Los Angeles?

zz_zzz1441
zz_zzz1441 like.author.displayName 1 Like

wow!?!  JANET JACKSON must be one ugly b!_tch (~_~) 

illgottengains
illgottengains

I'll never take this publication seriously after seeing this garbage list.

Holy shit...Britney Spears?!  Go listen to a Breeders or Portishead album.  

aaw2
aaw2

@illgottengains 

I love how you act pretentious when you can't even read. It's a Top 20 SEXIEST musicians, you ignorant fool. Learn to understand basic English before embarrassing yourself, you ignorant idiot.

aloop4687
aloop4687

Hayley Williams much? I don't like Paramore, but she is damn good looking. And why on earth is freaking Courtney Love on this list? Do you like the trashy, heroin addicted, body? If so then, perfect! If not then, RE-DO THE LIST!!!!! 

sunset40
sunset40

bey "once"... shakira... and britney spears?? wow.. and HOW ??  i like the comments ...REALLY ..try to search real contenders...always in the shadows..Kim Deals' "SISTER" in her band is nice...PJ Harvey..yes.a musician who really plays..and I agree with Sade and Neko Case.. this next one may be because of my love for well endowment, but where is Dolly Parton in her prime before all the experiments and lifts??..anyway good try..you should make a list just out of the comments and see the difference

Severensm
Severensm

 @sunset40  Right, forgot about Sade! She should've been in there aswell

Severensm
Severensm

Grace Jones? Madonna? Shirley Manson? ..? Some of these shouldn't even be in a top 50.. Come one.. Madonna is nothing but ordinair and vulgar.. I could top many on this list..: Diana Ross? Donna Summer? Olivia Newton-John? Toni Braxton? Sia Furler, she's maybe not the most 'beautiful', but definitely one of the sexiest singers!

svricatto
svricatto

Tina Weymouth, Zia Mccabe, Kim Deal?

djdrdru
djdrdru

All of the musicians on this list are mostly known as singers.

lmlyp71
lmlyp71

Courtney "Hole"? "Glenn or Gwen" Stefani? Joan Jett? What the fuck is going on here?!

pepenacho
pepenacho like.author.displayName 1 Like

i cant see Kylie Minogue in the list.....

August
August

You missed Cindy Wilson of B-52's. Taylor Swift looks like she has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or maybe Down's. Courtney Love was never sexy, even if you liked Nirvana (since no one ever really liked Hole). Nobody would have ever gone down on Love.

Fiona Apple and Annabella Lwin should have been on the list

mdrodriguez
mdrodriguez

@August Unfortunately, Annabella Lwin has not aged gracefully and is stuck up, doesn't give a shit about her fans and is pathetic. I met her twice and she stiffed me and others both times when she lied straight out that she would come sign our records and take photos! She snuck out another exit! What a selfish asshole. Probably why she was kicked out of Bow Wow Wow! Her attitude!

shines1965
shines1965

No Tina Turner?  Um, PJ Harvey?  In order to qualify as a sexy musician you need to actually BE a musician so we need to remove Madonna, Brittney and J Lo.

 

Shakira couldn't carry Kim Gordon's handbag.

salv
salv

hey what about Lysa Flores? She of Star Maps and Trohy Girl? The princess of hotness east  of the river.!

fredquarters
fredquarters topcommenter

 

Courtney Love? Courtney Love sexy? Yuck.

steve1215
steve1215

@what a dumb list..where is Vanessa Contenay-Quinones, Jane Birkin, Francois Hardy just to name the french ones! (Ok Birkin i know is English but honorary french by dint of marrying mr Gainsbourg and recording the sexiest record on the planet) in any case they are all dead sexy but nowhere to be seen on this crap list..hang on Grace Jones - Courtney Love.. You kiddin me! And no Carly Simon..c'mon! No Shakira??

hessian3
hessian3

...a few good choices, but a plethora of bad ones...and where are Nena and Kim Wilde?...

 

drdavem73
drdavem73 like.author.displayName 1 Like

What a stupid list. What about:

 

Annabella Lwin

Josie Cotton

Poison Ivy

Lita Ford

Susanna Hoffs

Julie London

Elka Zolot

Alice Bag

 

naturalist
naturalist like.author.displayName 1 Like

This is the stupidest list ever, was it written by the staff at a teen magazine?

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter

List FAIL!

 

Courtney Love ?? ... sexy like road-kill is appetizing

 

"With her kohl [sic] rimmed eyes" -- is there an Editor in the House?

 

Taylor Swift ?? 

 

Fucking daft.

mandofan
mandofan

No mention of Louise Weiner makes this list completely pointless...that and the fact that many of these folks are not musicians but celebrity entertainers with some dancing talent and million dollar production teams to create their music for them.

mdrodriguez
mdrodriguez

@mandofan   So glad that someone remembers the band "Sleeper". You have great taste!

Kala
Kala

I'm sorry but No Doubt did not launch third wave ska. It had built a huge head of steam by the time No Doubt broke out and once they made it big they dropped the ska influence anyway. But anyway, yeah... Gwen is hot.

Mikemiledi
Mikemiledi

No Alison Mosshart, no Alexis Krauss, no Neko Case??? It is time to get out and check out some music from this century.

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