favourite SONGWRITERS?
 

I'm sure there has been a thread like this before but uhh I don't care :)

Songwriters I especially like are:
Rivers Cuomo (sure, he hasn't really did anything decent in awhile but Blue Album and Pinkerton are songwriting gold!)

Elliott Smith (obvious choice, but he was one of a kind, very beautiful songs)

John Frusciante (not his RHCP stuff, but his solo stuff is some of the most unique songwriting I've ever heard)

give me some of your choicessssss

tom verlaine

don van vliet


and:
daniel johnston
jandek
john fahey
robbie basho
richard bishop
john reis
hiro

bill callahan
nick drake
jeff tweedy
bob dylan
leonard cohen
frank zappa

edit* I'm confused are we talking about artist who do singer/songwriter stuff or about the guys who write songs for the groups they play in?

Both, any songwriter you like.

Tom Waits
M. Ward
Conor Oberst
Mark Linkous
Daniel Johnston

yeh tom waits is cool

Berman, Tweedy, Malkmus...

tom waits
bob dylan
neil young
john frusciante

Daniel Johnston is a good choice.

nick cave

ok Derek, i'm really sorry for being a twat/cunt/dick, but how in hell can you say you're from "Scotland and write such grammatical abomination as "He hasn't really DID..."!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't give a flying fuck usually, but it just is strange to be Scottish and write like you're huh Italian (sorry Nic) or Polish (oops sorry mil) or French (doh sorry SYRfox).


anyways my fave songwriters would probably be.
- Thurston
- Black Francis
- SM
- Lou Barlow

and countless others but these 4 really inspired me a greatdeal when i started out writing stuff, and they still do in spite of all the NEW music i swallow daily.

Julie Awesome- Mary

Will Oldham
Alan Sparhawk/Mimi Parker
Bill Callahan
Ben Chasny
David Tibet
Tara Burke
Mark Kozelek
Diane Cluck
Stuart Murdoch

all the obvious ones have been said..

black francis

Benny & Bjorn, Xenomania.

Good call.

uriah hit the crapper......it is genius!!!

another one would have to be jeffrey lewis... sorry but he is good and funny and thats ok in my book!

Yeah, I saw him play last week, I thought he was pretty good. My mate bought one of his comics.

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)