Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum

Lou Reed
Chan Marshall
Nick Cave

And this man of course:

Phil Elverum

Are you my English teacher?

Who gives a shit? There's plently of Americans here who have worse grammar than I do.

mark e. smith
scott miller (game theory)
beefheart
tom smith (to live and shave in la/etc..)
john lydon
tom verlaine
lou reed
robbie basho
john fahey
jandek
bruce loose (flipper)
dylan
van morrison
lee ranaldo
jad fair
jennifer herrema/neil hagerty
will oldham
johnny cash
arthur lee
curtis mayfield
ian curtis
robert wyatt
robert fripp
bryan ferry
marc bolan
michael gira

forgot:
james brown
sly stone

and hip hop:
scarface
ghostface killah
chuck d
big L
the gza
rakim
mf doom
raekwon
the notorious big
nas (illmatic)

Will Oldham and Mark E. Smith are good choices, I've forgotten a lot of good songwriters!

You gotta say : "There ARE PLENTY of....":D

Someone pass me my shotgun...






:p

sorry for being a dick
you have a nice sense of humour
yay for you

I didn't really take you seriously as I don't care about grammar on an internet forum. :)

Scott Walker
Serge Gainsbourg
Neil Young
Françoise Hardy
Nick Drake
Tim Buckley
Markus Acher from the Notwist
Ian Curtis
Tom Verlaine
Robert Smith
Laura Veirs (on Carbon Glacier / Year of meteors at least)
Thom Yorke

Leonard Cohen
John Lennon
Buddy Holly
Frank Black
Jeff Mangum
Kurt Cobain

Graeme Downes
Tom Verlaine
Ed Kuepper
Morrissey/Johnny Marr

Paul Westerberg (Replacements)
Chris Bell (Big Star)
Alex Chilton (Big Star)
Bruce Loose (flipper)
Neil Young
Leonard Cohen
Ace / Paul / Gene (KISS, no Peter Chris songs though)
Robert Pollard (GBV, don't ike any of the solo stuff)
Metal Mike (or whoever wrote the tunes for Angry Samoans)
Jennifer Herrema / Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux)
Jagger & Richards (STONES!!)
John Fogerty (CCR)
Mark Sultan & King Khan
DIO!!!

greg ginn
d. boon
nick drake
yamatsuka eye (prolly one a lot of people dont think about, but a lot of his lyrics are abstract and incredible)

people focus too much on singer songwriter folk types when thinking of the best "song writers", even though someone like bruce loose of flipper writes lkyrics as amazing as any dude chillin in a coffee shop with an accoustic guitar.

o, fuck, forgot these too:
sir richard bishop/alvarius b/alan bishop
HENDRIX!!!!!!!! (because of his guitar playing people often overlook how phenomenal his lyrics were)