Tori Amos
Björk
PJ Harvey
Liz Phair

1 PJ Harvey
2 Björk
3 Liz Phair
4 Tori Amos

1. Bjork
2. PJ Harvey (but it's very close... different day and I have them switched)

3. Liz Phair (definitely not as great as the above two, but has released the best album of any of them)

4. Tori Amos (not in the running)

1. PJ
2. Bjork
3. Liz
4. Tori

Much as I hate to do that to Liz--I will confess to a longstanding minor crush on her--she's several yards behind Bjork and about a mile behind Polly.

Tori is nice.

Tough call between PJ and Bjork, but White Chalk made the difference...

1. PJ Harvey
2. Bjork
3. Tori Amos
4. Liz Phair

Tori gets undeserved flak, IMO. Her first 2 albums especially deserve reapprisal.

PJ, Bjork, Liz, Tori

1. Björk (#13)
2. PJ Harvey (#43)
3. Liz Phair
4. Tori Amos

where's Kate Bush?
1. Tori Amos (close enough to Kate)
2. PJ Harvey
3. Bjork
4. Liz Phair (not ashamed to admit I didn't like Guyville but liked everything else she made)

you also forgot Sinead O' Connor

Many of you have been close, but the right answer is

1. Björk
2. PJ
3. Tori
4. Liz

1. Björk (number 86 all time)
2. PJ Harvey
3. Liz Phair
4. Tori Amos

Tim, I view Kate Bush as more of an 80s artist overall, and I had to limit it to 4! I quite like both Kate Bush and Sinead, but I wanted to keep the format.

1. Björk (#4)
2. PJ Harvey (#41)
3. Liz Phair (#120)
4. Tori Amos (not on my list)

I've seen Björk, PJ and Tori live, and all were fantastic. Liz had a great album (Exile) one and a half good ones (Whip-Smart and White Chocolate Space Egg) and then she devolved into Sheryl Crow.

they used to look alike.

1. PJ Harvey
2. Liz Phair
3. Bjork
4. Tori Amos

I'm sure Björk deserves the acclaim she gets for being innovative and what not. But as a pure matter of what I put in the CD player:

1) Harvey
2-3) Tori and Liz
4) Björk

1. Björk
2. PJ Harvey
3. Tori Amos
4. Liz Phair

I hope you'll do the results for these mini-polls all in one thread.