Name your favourite top 6 songwriters

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Morrissey
Booth/Glennie/Gott
Paul Heaton/Dave Rotheray
Noel G
Ian Broudie
Weller

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

RAY DAVIES(AKA God)
Weller
Morrissey
Noel G
Lane/Marriott.

Re-edited. I thought it was top 5.
Add Lennon.

 

[Bill Walker]

Dylan
Paul Simon
Judee Sill
Richard Thompson
Nick Drake
Cole Porter

I thought I was the only Judee Sill fan on Bluemoon ! :)


*I would add Neil Diamond to my list as well.

 

[Victorinodennistua]

He wrote lyrics, not songs, and while I love Rush, adore the man, and he's the most talented rock drummer I've ever heard, he's inconceivably pretentious at a level that has rarely been topped. Please refer to my Moving Pictures review (10/10) on the album review thread for more information on this remarkable paradox.

Neil Peart. Jimmy page. Steely dan. Kate bush. Joe Walsh. Stevie wonder.

 

[PinkFinal]

Strummer / Jones
Burgess/Fielding/Lever/Smithies
Jagger / Richards
Bowie
Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield
Pete Shelley

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Bob Dylan songs that stand the test of time he is the only one who won the Nobel Prize
George Harrison
Noel Gallagher only if Liam sings his words
the Gibb brothers are my number one songwriters
Lennon
the Kinks Ray Davies

Knowing we can only have 6 there are so many great song writers
Tom Petty
Bob Marley

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Paul Simon
Neil Young
Leonard Cohen

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

Scott and Seth Avett

Saw them in concert a long time ago in a small venue in Dublin. Very underrated band in this part of the world.

 

[buckshot]

I'm basing this solely on lyrics.

Boss
Paul Simon
Lennon
McCartney
Bob Marley
Tom Petty

 

[buckshot]

Maria McKee
Lizzy McAlpine
Jimmy Webb
Julia Jacklin
Bruce Springsteen
Matilda Mann

Maria McKee is maybe the most underappreciated artist of all time. The stuff she did with Lone Justice is great and they look like a great live band too.