Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
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Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
We haven't done one of these type of things in a while so I thought it might be fun
1) Bob Dylan
2) Paul Westerberg
3. Patterson Hood
4) Joe Strummer
5) Will Johnson
6) Tom Petty
7) Townes Van Zandt
8) Bruce Springsteen
9) Brent Best
10) Mike Cooley
1) Bob Dylan
2) Paul Westerberg
3. Patterson Hood
4) Joe Strummer
5) Will Johnson
6) Tom Petty
7) Townes Van Zandt
8) Bruce Springsteen
9) Brent Best
10) Mike Cooley
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That's tough. I'd have to look over my catalog
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Re: Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
Neil Young
Jeff Tweedy
Robyn Hitchcock
Iommi/Butler
Steve Kilbey
Robert Pollard
Steve Malkmus
David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
Neko Case
Graeme Downes
mostly a bunch of old white guys.
Jeff Tweedy
Robyn Hitchcock
Iommi/Butler
Steve Kilbey
Robert Pollard
Steve Malkmus
David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
Neko Case
Graeme Downes
mostly a bunch of old white guys.
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Mike Cooley
Todd Snider
Jagger/Richards
Craig Finn
Tom Petty
Robbie Robertson
James McMurtry
Neil Young
Paul Westerberg
Bob Dylan
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Todd Snider
Jagger/Richards
Craig Finn
Tom Petty
Robbie Robertson
James McMurtry
Neil Young
Paul Westerberg
Bob Dylan
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1) Bob Dylan
2-10) Some other people
2-10) Some other people
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Waters wrote most of the lyrics and basic melodies, while Gilmour made them into actual rock songstinnitus photography wrote: David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
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Re: Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
Dylan
Young
Prine
McMurtry
Jagger/Richards
Springsteen
Hubbard
Hood
Cooley
Petty
Plus 1-Haggard
Young
Prine
McMurtry
Jagger/Richards
Springsteen
Hubbard
Hood
Cooley
Petty
Plus 1-Haggard
Re: Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
1. Bob Dylan
2. Mike Cooley
3. Jason Isbell
4. Patterson Hood
5. Leonard Cohen
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. Neil Young
8. Lucinda Williams
9. James McMurtry
10. Townes Van Zandt
2. Mike Cooley
3. Jason Isbell
4. Patterson Hood
5. Leonard Cohen
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. Neil Young
8. Lucinda Williams
9. James McMurtry
10. Townes Van Zandt
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Re: Your Ten Favorite Songwriters
Mine isnt in any particular order just a list of my favorite ten.
Cooley
Kristofferson
Tom T. Hall
James McMurtry
Chris Knight
Todd Snider
Steve Earle
Jason Isbell
Townes Van Zant
Levon Helm
Cooley
Kristofferson
Tom T. Hall
James McMurtry
Chris Knight
Todd Snider
Steve Earle
Jason Isbell
Townes Van Zant
Levon Helm
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#1 is a lock, the other 9 are not in order
1. Robert Hunter
2. Bob Dylan
3. Neil Young
4. Elvis Costello
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. Jagger/Richards
7. Lennon/McCartney
8. Ray Davies
9. Lou Reed
10. Merle Haggard
was extremely tough to leave out: Hank Williams, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Hood and Cooley, Jeff Tweedy, Woody Guthrie, Paul Westerberg, John Prine, Prince, Bernie Taupin, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa, Willie Nelson
1. Robert Hunter
2. Bob Dylan
3. Neil Young
4. Elvis Costello
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. Jagger/Richards
7. Lennon/McCartney
8. Ray Davies
9. Lou Reed
10. Merle Haggard
was extremely tough to leave out: Hank Williams, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Hood and Cooley, Jeff Tweedy, Woody Guthrie, Paul Westerberg, John Prine, Prince, Bernie Taupin, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa, Willie Nelson
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except for The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of ReasonZip City wrote:Waters wrote most of the lyrics and basic melodies, while Gilmour made them into actual rock songstinnitus photography wrote: David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
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And someone else wrote list of those lyrics for him.tinnitus photography wrote:except for The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of ReasonZip City wrote:Waters wrote most of the lyrics and basic melodies, while Gilmour made them into actual rock songstinnitus photography wrote: David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
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And "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".tinnitus photography wrote:except for The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of ReasonZip City wrote:Waters wrote most of the lyrics and basic melodies, while Gilmour made them into actual rock songstinnitus photography wrote: David Gilmour (though i am not 100% clear on the Gilmour/Waters breakdown)
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No order....
Mike Cooley
John Prine
Jay Farrar
Merle Haggard
Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry
Guy Clark
Kristofferson
Jagger/Richards
James McMurtry
And I feel like a piece of garbage for leaving Gene Clark, Tom petty, Hayes/Porter, Steve Cropper, Harlan Howard, Dan Penn, Patterson, Tom T, etc etc off the list.
Mike Cooley
John Prine
Jay Farrar
Merle Haggard
Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry
Guy Clark
Kristofferson
Jagger/Richards
James McMurtry
And I feel like a piece of garbage for leaving Gene Clark, Tom petty, Hayes/Porter, Steve Cropper, Harlan Howard, Dan Penn, Patterson, Tom T, etc etc off the list.
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I love the Band, LOVE the Band....however, I think Robbie wrote about one total album of great songs. The highs are very high but there is some bad stuff in his catalogue.Iowan wrote:Mike Cooley
Todd Snider
Jagger/Richards
Craig Finn
Tom Petty
Robbie Robertson
James McMurtry
Neil Young
Paul Westerberg
Bob Dylan
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"It Makes No Difference" isn't a good song until Rick Danko sings. "Jemima Surrender" isn't a lyrical gem, but listen to levon bawl that tune. I couldn't sing "Chest fever" if you paid me, but I sure remember Garth's organ intro. There are quite a few like that.
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it's tough to shape a record you're not involved with.Flea wrote:And "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".tinnitus photography wrote:except for The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of ReasonZip City wrote:
Waters wrote most of the lyrics and basic melodies, while Gilmour made them into actual rock songs
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I think of most of those songs as being written by The Band. Neither Robbie nor the rest of them wrote as well alone as they did working together.jr29 wrote:I love the Band, LOVE the Band....however, I think Robbie wrote about one total album of great songs. The highs are very high but there is some bad stuff in his catalogue.Iowan wrote:Mike Cooley
Todd Snider
Jagger/Richards
Craig Finn
Tom Petty
Robbie Robertson
James McMurtry
Neil Young
Paul Westerberg
Bob Dylan
My love/hate relationship with Minnesota on display
"It Makes No Difference" isn't a good song until Rick Danko sings. "Jemima Surrender" isn't a lyrical gem, but listen to levon bawl those lyrics. I couldn't sing "Chest fever" if you paid me, but I sure remember Garth's organ intro. There are quite a few like that.
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tinnitus photography wrote:it's tough to shape a record you're not involved with.Flea wrote:And "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".tinnitus photography wrote:
except for The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason
That's my point!
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Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan
Joni MItchell
Mark Eitzel
Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
Jason Molina
Neil Young
Mike Scott
Mike Cooley
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Joni MItchell
Mark Eitzel
Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
Jason Molina
Neil Young
Mike Scott
Mike Cooley
Bruce Springsteen
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These other nine are hard to put in order, so I won't, and I thought about skipping Hood and Cooley because I am not rational on the subject when they come up, but then I realized Dylan was in a class by himself, so I made a little list of ten second-place finishers and left this sentence inconsistent with itself.John A Arkansawyer wrote:1) Bob Dylan
2-10) Some other people
Warren Zevon
Joni Mitchell
Randy Newman
Laura Nyro
Elvis Costello
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Whoever really wrote those songs in The Band
Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley
Ray Davies and Dave Davies
Gary Louris and Mark Olsen
Sometimes a songwriter is either a team that works together or a synergy that makes each better, so if you think those last four are cheating, well, doesn't everybody love a good cheating song?
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my point was that Gilmour's attempt to create rock songs on those two records failed miserably.Flea wrote:tinnitus photography wrote:it's tough to shape a record you're not involved with.Flea wrote:
And "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".
That's my point!
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Just to show how hard this exercise was this next bunch could all easily be in the top tenTequila Cowboy wrote:We haven't done one of these type of things in a while so I thought it might be fun
1) Bob Dylan
2) Paul Westerberg
3. Patterson Hood
4) Joe Strummer
5) Will Johnson
6) Tom Petty
7) Townes Van Zandt
8) Bruce Springsteen
9) Brent Best
10) Mike Cooley
Neil Young
Jagger/Richards
James McMurtry
Andy Partridge
Steve Earle
Robbie Robertson
Elvis Costello
Nick Lowe
John Prine
Bob Mould
Joni Mitchell
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The Weight might be the best song of all time. I'm fine crediting the rest, a la Jagger/Richards, but I was always under the impression that Robbie wrote the words, came up with the basic outline musically, and the rest of the guys took it from therejr29 wrote:I love the Band, LOVE the Band....however, I think Robbie wrote about one total album of great songs. The highs are very high but there is some bad stuff in his catalogue.Iowan wrote:Mike Cooley
Todd Snider
Jagger/Richards
Craig Finn
Tom Petty
Robbie Robertson
James McMurtry
Neil Young
Paul Westerberg
Bob Dylan
My love/hate relationship with Minnesota on display
"It Makes No Difference" isn't a good song until Rick Danko sings. "Jemima Surrender" isn't a lyrical gem, but listen to levon bawl that tune. I couldn't sing "Chest fever" if you paid me, but I sure remember Garth's organ intro. There are quite a few like that.
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Because you can't polish turds. Waters had the lyrics and brilliant ideas about songs, but he was very rigid and calculating. Gilmour brought soul and flair.tinnitus photography wrote: my point was that Gilmour's attempt to create rock songs on those two records failed miserably.
A perfect example is Waters' demo for "Money", which sounds like a funeral dirge:
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That would be an excellent song for The Kinks to cover, just like this demo, only more so.Zip City wrote:Because you can't polish turds. Waters had the lyrics and brilliant ideas about songs, but he was very rigid and calculating. Gilmour brought soul and flair.tinnitus photography wrote: my point was that Gilmour's attempt to create rock songs on those two records failed miserably.
A perfect example is Waters' demo for "Money", which sounds like a funeral dirge:
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afaik, Waters had nothing to do w/ those turds on Momentary Lapse and Division Bell?Zip City wrote:Because you can't polish turds. Waters had the lyrics and brilliant ideas about songs, but he was very rigid and calculating. Gilmour brought soul and flair.tinnitus photography wrote: my point was that Gilmour's attempt to create rock songs on those two records failed miserably.
A perfect example is Waters' demo for "Money", which sounds like a funeral dirge:
it's not like Gilmour's solo records set the world on fire either. some decent stuff here and there, but #neverforget
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Correct, Waters had nothing to do with those records. Gilmour was left to co-write those songs with people like Bob Ezrin or his wife, and his weakness as a songwriter really became clear. He played some nice guitar solos and stuff on those records, but the songs just weren't there. Waters, on the other hand, was smart enough to know his weaknesses in fleshing out his song ideas, so he recruited musicians like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck to play on his solo records
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Are you mocking Blue Light? I love that song. Plus he had a killer band on that record.tinnitus photography wrote:
it's not like Gilmour's solo records set the world on fire either. some decent stuff here and there, but #neverforget
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1) Robert Hunter/Garcia
2) Bob Marley
3) Bob Dylan
4) Vedder/Gossard/McCready
5) Bernie Taupin /Elton John
6)Hood/Cooley
7) Stevie Wonder
8)Neil Young
9) Tweedy
10) Ryan Adams
2) Bob Marley
3) Bob Dylan
4) Vedder/Gossard/McCready
5) Bernie Taupin /Elton John
6)Hood/Cooley
7) Stevie Wonder
8)Neil Young
9) Tweedy
10) Ryan Adams