Deepest Blue
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Great songwriters Bill but lyrics the weakest part of the whole IMO.de niro said:
Now had you said Smokey Robinson.....
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Best Lyric Writers of the last 50 Years
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Now had you said Smokey Robinson.....
FromPollockToSilva
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Will Sheff (Okkervil River)
Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)
Stephen Malkmus (Pavement)
Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)
Elvis Costello
Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
Notorious B.I.G.
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
Jens Lekman
Joanna Newsom
Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Aesop Rock
Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)
Stephen Malkmus (Pavement)
Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)
Elvis Costello
Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
Notorious B.I.G.
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
Jens Lekman
Joanna Newsom
Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Aesop Rock
Newman Noggs
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Two living poets;
Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave
union city blue
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:The next person to spell Morrissey with one r gets banned ;)
For me
Morrissey
Gifford / Tilbrook
Lloyd Cole
Paul Heaton
Bruce Springsteen
Mike Scott
The next one to spell Difford with a G also gets banned.
jimmy blue shoes
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Guy Garvey
Dylan - by a country mile, Dylan.
There have been some great names mentioned, so far - and some that haven't (Paul Brady, Tom Waits, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider etc etc) but Bob is something else again.
Like a Rolling Stone, alone has had two books written about it.
His lyrics are on the curriculum of more than a dozen countries' second level schools and have been accepted a third level since Oxford was the first to do so in the early 80's.
I'm not sure any other lyricist can match that recognition by the academic establishment.
There have been some great names mentioned, so far - and some that haven't (Paul Brady, Tom Waits, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider etc etc) but Bob is something else again.
Like a Rolling Stone, alone has had two books written about it.
His lyrics are on the curriculum of more than a dozen countries' second level schools and have been accepted a third level since Oxford was the first to do so in the early 80's.
I'm not sure any other lyricist can match that recognition by the academic establishment.
andyhinch
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Can you do that, fuck,I had know idea.union city blue said:Mad Eyed Screamer said:The next person to spell Morrissey with one r gets banned ;)
For me
Morrissey
Gifford / Tilbrook
Lloyd Cole
Paul Heaton
Bruce Springsteen
Mike Scott
The next one to spell Difford with a G also gets banned.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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andyhinch said:Can you do that, fuck,I had know idea.union city blue said:Mad Eyed Screamer said:The next person to spell Morrissey with one r gets banned ;)
For me
Morrissey
Gifford / Tilbrook
Lloyd Cole
Paul Heaton
Bruce Springsteen
Mike Scott
The next one to spell Difford with a G also gets banned.
OK, just given myself a 24 hour ban (but hope to have it reduced to 12 hours on appeal)