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Your best songwriters ever (lyrics)? Your top 10 When I was younger I never paid much attetion to the lyrics, I was more into the "music" itself... But for the past few years i've been listening to the words and some songwriters are great poets... Her's my top 10 when it comes to songwriters (lyrics), in no particular order: - Tom Waits - Bob Dylan - Bob Marely - PJ Harvey - Eminem - Tupac - David Bowie - Trent reznor - Prince ( - Lauryn Hill - Lil wayne (kidding
... Who are your favorite songwriters? Quotes from your favorite songs are welcome Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves. | |
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CURTIS MAYFIELD PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Weird Al You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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John Lennon Bernie Taupin (never gets props) Bob DYlan (just hate his voice) Paul Wakktaar Savoy Magne Furuholmen Tom Waits (also hate his voice) Joni Mitchell David Bowie Bob Marley Paul McCartney "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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yup.....
Along with:
Smokey Robinson
Sly Stone
Carole King
Gamble & Huff [Edited 3/12/11 14:02pm] | |
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1. Myself 2. Sting 3. Stevie Wonder 4. Prince 5. Paul McCartney 6. John Lennon 7. Martin Gore 8. Don Henley 9. Bernie Taupin 10. Donald Fagen
Let me add, that I'm not a big Beatles fan. But McCartney and Lennon are and were great songwriters. Prince is lucky I'm a fan. lol His songwriting is clearly an afterthought at times. [Edited 3/11/11 21:53pm] I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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yup...He have his moments | |
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-STEVIE WONDER -jacques brel -cole porter -billy strayhorn/duke ellington -ray davies -ashford & simpson -gamble & huff -michael jackson -elvis costello -gil scott-heron [Edited 3/12/11 1:24am] | |
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yankovic is brilliant, man... 'all about the pentiums' is about a billion times better than that puffy track. | |
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1. Lennon/McCartney 2. Stevie Wonder 3. Prince 4. Curtis Mayfield 5. Bob Dylan 6. Marvin Gaye 7. Leiber and Stoller 8. Joni Mitchell 9. Gamble and Huff 10. Smokey Robinson JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!! | |
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I love Terence Trent D'Arby and Adam Green With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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Paul Weller | |
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Bruce Springsteen and Prince....it begins and ends there for me! www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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Bobby Womack Percy Mayfield - The Poet Of Blues Oscar Brown Jr. Lauryn Hill Erykah Badu Joni Mitchell Curtis Mayfield Stevie Wonder Prince Sly Stone - Extremely prolific IMO! | |
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george michael & neil tennant. "what's that book where they're all behind the wardrobe?" | |
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Smokey Robinson Billy Joel Lennon McCartney Sting Cole Porter Stevie Wonder Patrick McAllon Morrissey Elvis Costello | |
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1. Teena Marie 2. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis 3. Erykah Badu 4. Michael Masser 5. Kate Bush 6. Paul Laurence Jones III 7. Gamble & Huff 8. Stevie Wonder 9. Prince 10.Jill Scott [Edited 3/12/11 12:50pm] Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
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1. Ryan Adams 2. John Lennon 3. Jeff Buckley 4. Stevie Wonder 5. Burt Bacharach 6. Bob Dylan 7. Bernie Taupin 8. George Harrison 9. Cat Stevens 10. Sting
I am a Rail Road, Track Abandoned
With the Sunset forgetting, i ever Happened http://www.myspace.com/stolenmorning | |
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My next ten would be:
11. Holland/Dozier/Holland 12. Michael Jackson 13. Gamble & Huff 14. Terence Trent D'Arby 15. Ashford & Simpson 16. Bob Dylan 17. Curtis Mayfield 18. Bruce Springsteen 19. Carole King 20. Barry Gibb
I think I did this second list to see if I could actually get George Michael in here. Didn't happen. Jam & Lewis also didn't cut it. They'd be 21st I think. [Edited 3/12/11 13:25pm] I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Defiantly, Bob Dylan.
And then John Lennon, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Prince, Lauryn Hill, EMINEM, David Bowie, Tupac, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Jeff Buckley in no order for me. [Edited 3/12/11 13:45pm] | |
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I was waiting for someone to say Carole King. I am surprised she is so low on your list. I think she is a wonderfully gifted lyricist. | |
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In no particular order...
1. Prince 2. Teena Marie 3. Boy George 4. George Michael 5. Tori Amos
That's all I can think of right off the top of my head.... If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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1: Michael Jackson 2:Rod Temperton 3:The Corporation 4:The Jacksons (Randy, Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine, Tito ect.) 5:The Bee Gees 6:Smokey Robinson 7:Gamble & Huff 8:Tupac 9:Prince 10:Mick Hucknall “The only male singer who I’ve seen besides myself and who’s better than me – that is Michael Jackson.” – Frank Sinatra | |
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I forgot 2 metion Elton John & The Carpenters “The only male singer who I’ve seen besides myself and who’s better than me – that is Michael Jackson.” – Frank Sinatra | |
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1. Mariah Carey (she wrote the soundtrack to my entire life) 2. Prince 3. Smokey Robinson 4. Carol King 5. Sade 6. Emminem 7. Juan Gabriel (Spanish songwriter) 8. Babyface 9. Lionel Richie 10. The Carpenters
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I think you mean Bernie Taupin, not Elton John I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Cole Porter Clyde Otis Nivek Ogre Harry Warren Seal Steve Overland That Guy Who Wrote the Silverhawks Theme Song Jimmy Webb Holland-Dozier-Holland Chage and Aska
 I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. | |
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Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis | |
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Diane Warren Babyface Billy Joel John Mellencamp Marvin Gaye Berry Gordy Mariah Carey Freddy Mercury Carly Simon Bob Dylan Of course the sleuth other songwriters already posted | |
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I think Bono should have been in my Top 20. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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