Favorite song-writers (lyricists)

[one_true_leroy]

Bob Dylan
Townes Van Zandt
Guy Clark
Jeff Tweedy
Jay Farrar
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Stipe
Tori Amos
Kurt Cobain

[Ron Green]

1. I like your list, especially Townes and Dylan. I would also add

Mitchell Parish
Ira Gershwin

[XNASA]

2. Andy Partridge, Martin Newell, Thom Yorke, John Lennon, Van Dyke Parks...

David Bowie and I'll throw Neil Young in, just so you don't think I'm a prude.

But Jimi H.? :shrug:

[leftofthedial]

3. although he's not my style of music at all

Alan Rich is a lyrical genius--GREAT pop lyrics.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Joni Mitchell n/t

[one_true_leroy]

5. how did I forget Tom Waits!

he's one of my Holy Trinity of SongWriters!

BAD LEROY! :spank:

[DeepGreen]

6. Waters and Gilmore as well as

Dylan
Hendrix
CSN
Young

:)

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I'll Add Four Names

David Byrne, David Bowie, Cy Curnin, Todd Rundgren.
The Professor

[HEAVYHEART]

8. I'm sure there are more..

I agree with alot of what's been posted. Off the top of my head, I'd like to add:

Simon and Garfunkel
Cake
Bob Dylan
Billy Joel
System of A Down
Joan Baez

[opiate69]

9. A few more..

Maynard James Keenan
Ian Anderson
Geezer Butler
Nick Cave
Chris DeBurgh
Tori Amos
Skin

[Sugarcoated]

10. Some of my vary favs are:

Lennon and McCartney
Pete Townshend
Patty Griffin
Joni Mitchell
Aimee Mann
Brian Wilson
Difford and Tilbrook/Squeeze
Gillian Welch
Paul Simon
Robbie Robertson

[Beaverhausen]

18. Great list- many of my favs are there

nice to meet someone who knows the astounding Patty Griffin!
:hi:

edited cause I can't type!

[Abelman]

11. Dylan

Joni Mitchell
The dudes from Barenaked Ladies
Shel Silverstein

[musiclawyer]

12. Ray Davies

looks up to no one in the pantheon of rock

[6000eliot]

21. Definitely Davies!

Also Lennon and McCartney.

[leftofthedial]

13. Ira Gershwin

Guy Clark
John Prine
Alan Rich
Harry Nillson
Harlan Howard
Roger Miller
Bruce Cockburn
Steve Earle
Bernie Taupin
Hank Williams
James McMurtry
James Taylor
Butch Hancock
John Hiatt
Joe Henry
Lowell George
Lucinda Williams
Lyle Lovett
Michael Smith
Neil Young
Shane McGowan
Randy Newman
Tom Waits
Rodney Crowell
Jay Farrar
Tom Petty
Warren Zevon

are a few of my favorites

[rbnyc]

14. Kristin Hersh, Neil Young, Nick Drake...

...Leonard Cohen, Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley, Carol King

[rbnyc]

15. Can't believe I left out Tom Waits and Lou Reed. (nt)

[livinginphotographs]

16. Leonard Cohen, Ian Curtis.

n/t

[Papa]

17. Chris Cornell, Bono, Springsteen

Those are my favorites right now.

[no name no slogan]

19. A lot of unknows, and some known

Known:

Burt Bacharach/Carol Bayer Sager
Van Dyke Parks/Brian Wilson
Lennon/McCartney
Carol King
Marvin Gaye
Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs)
Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music)


Lesser Known:

Mark Burgess (The Chameleons)
Adrian Borland (The Sound)
Steve Fellows (Comsat Angels)
Nick Drake
Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke)

[Dukkha]

20. Roger Waters by far

also

John Lennon
Robert Smith
Peter Murphy
Morrisey
Bono
Bob Dylan