Top 5 lryicists

chooch
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Other than Eddie (who, in my humble opinion, is good, but not great. His lyrics are great, but more from emotion and phrasing than brilliance. Don't get me wrong, he is the man). I am talking strictly lyrics here....
In no order:
Tom Waits
Donald Fagen
Bob Dylan
Neil Finn (thanks Ed)
Pete Townshend
Honorable: Jeff Tweedy (the king of the opening line) I love Wilco
Too many more to mention
In no order:
Tom Waits
Donald Fagen
Bob Dylan
Neil Finn (thanks Ed)
Pete Townshend
Honorable: Jeff Tweedy (the king of the opening line) I love Wilco
Too many more to mention
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At the moment..
Nick Cave
Ed Vedder
Billy Corgan
Neil Young
Thom Yorke
Dylan is probably the best lyricist of all time, but he's not fitting my mood right now.Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
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ahhhhh.....Uncle Neil....."Tonights the Night" and "American Stars and Bars" alone are enough for top five.0
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Could you guys post some examples of why you think they're one of the greatest lyricists? Because I always love good lyrics, and I wanna see if I might get into some people that I've never heard that are mentioned.
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Off the top of my head....
Eddie Vedder
Stone Gossard
Chris Cornell
John Lennon
Thom Yorke
Dave Matthews
Neil Finn
Fiona Apple
Layne Staley
Jerry Cantrell
Maynard James Keenan
Ben Harper
Elliott Smith
Stopping at 5 of anything is way too hard.¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Doh! I can't not mention Joni Mitchell!¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Morrissey
Robert Smith
Eddie Vedder
Pete Townshend
David BowieThe kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies Nineties.0 -
Can't have a thread like this without mentioning Roger Waters.
He might be a crap singer but a visionary lyricist.
..................through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eye
I can barely percieve,
the shape of this moment in time........
from the final cutMusic is not a competetion.0 -
Right Now:
5. Jim Morrison
4. Eddie Vedder
3. Ad-Rock
2. Mike D
1. MCA“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut0 -
1 Kevin Coyne
2 Bob Dylan
3 John Lennon
4 Paul McCartney (Whether you care for him or not, these days - and I do - his lyrics are often still exemplary)
5 Bob Martin (singer-songwriter from Lowell MA):
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lucylespian wrote:Can't have a thread like this without mentioning Roger Waters.
He might be a crap singer but a visionary lyricist.
..................through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eye
I can barely percieve,
the shape of this moment in time........
from the final cutCome on pilgrim you know he loves you..
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"0 -
or..................
Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
...................these are teh lyrics that set teh course of my life, so I always bring em up.Music is not a competetion.0 -
FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:1 Kevin Coyne
2 Bob Dylan
3 John Lennon
4 Paul McCartney (Whether you care for him or not, these days - and I do - his lyrics are often still exemplary)
5 Bob Martin (singer-songwriter from Lowell MA):
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Yep, Macca did write Yesterday, For No One, Penny Lane, and Maybe I'm Amazed. Those songs alone give him the cred to be in anyone's top five.
Bob Martin is a very obscure country-folk singer-songwriter. His album Midwest Farm Disaster has some of the best lyrics I've heard in popular music.
Here's a CD Baby page on his album The River Turns The Wheel:
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1. Bob Dylan
2. Josh Ritter ( if it wasn't for the sheer wealth of Bob Dylan stuff this guywould be number 1)
3. John Lennon
4. Paul McCartney
5. Ed VedderJUST PLAY THE F***ING NOTE!!!0 -
Bob Dylan
Maynard James Keenan
Nick Cave
Roger Waters
Jeff BuckleyThe wind is blowing cold
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?0 -
Bob Dylan
Chris Cornell
Roger Waters
Maynard James Keenan
Jim Morrison0 -
steven tyler/joe perry...pre 1990
Axl Rose
Ed Vedder
Billy Coregan..however you spell it
Ozzy Osbourne...in his early Black Sabbath days
Jerry GarciaWhats got the whole world faking?0 -
Oh, and someone mentioned Stone Gossard.....are you kidding me?!Whats got the whole world faking?0
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Bob Dylan
Tupac Shakur
Brandon Boyd
Jerry Cantrell
Noel Gallagher0 -
elliott smith
the guy from hold steady
shannon hoon
whoever does the writing in tv on the radio
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