Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters: The List

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  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    Handsome Devil wrote:

    Andy Partridge (XTC, Dukes of Stratosphear)

    is he still making plans for Nigel?
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  • merlin401
    merlin401 Posts: 230
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    what a fucking shit list,yeah lets leave out ed ved jonh lennon and james hatefield.fucking crock
    lennon probably wasn't on the list cause of the, eh, "living" requirement
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  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    no way Bruce Springsteen should be ahead of Tom Waits. thats ridiculous.

    It's nice to see Pollard get some respect. I think he should be way higher than 78, though. wow.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • clutching_benjamin
    clutching_benjamin Posts: 95
    Nick Cave should be higher and where is PJ Harvey?
  • Mohab
    Mohab Posts: 310
    Bruce cockburn is the shit, highly underrated usually
  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    Greg Dulli?

    We have Afghan Whigs fans here?

    "Debonair" is one of the greatest songs ever.


    Also, U2 should be MUCH higer on the list (top 5). Say what you will about them, they can write
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Pearls&Stones wrote:
    Greg Dulli?

    We have Afghan Whigs fans here?

    "Debonair" is one of the greatest songs ever.


    Also, U2 should be MUCH higer on the list (top 5). Say what you will about them, they can write


    how about, they can't write?
    printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n");
  • cafeamericain
    cafeamericain Posts: 88
    i love looking at top whatever lists for whatever and i have to say that was the worst list i've seen in my life...hands down...fucking awful
    "I never make plans that far ahead"
  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    cafeamericain wrote:
    i love looking at top whatever lists for whatever and i have to say that was the worst list i've seen in my life...hands down...fucking awful
    why? who doesn't belong there? how about the top 20. who out of that group doesn't belong? who would you replace and with whom?

    just curious.
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    Pete Townshend should be number one :D

    but yeah, a list with McCartney but not Lennon, please, that's a joke in itself

    edit: missed the 'LIVING' part :)

    makes sense now
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    bitch all you will I think the top ten is decent
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  • danielson
    danielson Posts: 25
    Spartancus wrote:
    Big shocker Mr. Marblemouth Bob Dylan makes #1. Anyone else think this guy gets too much respect?


    No, no one else thinks that. Obviously not a great singer, but the fact that he is unquestioned as the greatest lyricist of all time by everyone who has ever done anything in the music business has to tell you something.


    And where the hell is Bob Marley?

    He's dead. The list is living songwriters. I'm just curious how two seperate people clicked on this post, considering the title, and then questioned why John Lennon and Bob Marley aren't on the list.

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