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Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:51:00 2015 No.53927654 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the greatest songwriters? Is there an official /mu/ list? Who is the best?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:52:57 2015 No.53927691 syd barrett nick drake brian wilson i dunno im not too well versed

>>	John Darnielle !!nyYYqlrnWKI Fri Feb 27 23:54:22 2015 No.53927714 File: 118 KB, 600x899, 1346628734026.jpg [Show reposts] Image reverse search: [iqdb] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:55:54 2015 No.53927747 >>53927714 This forever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:57:30 2015 No.53927779 http://www.scaruffi.com/music/songwrit.html

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:57:58 2015 No.53927788 >>53927691 Brian wilson owes a lot to van dyke parks but he is a genius though

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 23:58:56 2015 No.53927806 >>53927788 yeah true, vdp is amazing in his own right.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:01:14 2015 No.53927850 >>53927779 >billy joel makes the cut >no beatle listed straight gangster

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:08:39 2015 No.53927967 John Lennon Freddy Mercury

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:09:39 2015 No.53927983 Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:16:37 2015 No.53928070 Springsteen Mark Sandman Elliott Smith

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:26:28 2015 No.53928222 Elliott Smith is my fav. Rowland S. Howard is amazing. Townes Van Zandt Bob Dylan

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:28:07 2015 No.53928246 Fiona Apple Robert Fripp Zach Hill Lou Reed

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 00:28:52 2015 No.53928252 joanna and suffy

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:09:30 2015 No.53929472 Warren Zevon Cat Stevens Bruce Cockburn Peter Hammill Elvis Costello Jimmy Buffett (not even memein on u) Billy Joel

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:21:59 2015 No.53929593 >>53927654 John Lennon, Elliott Smith, Dylan, (some of the time) Bruce Cockburn, Robby Robertson, Richard Thompson, Josh Homme, Sam Phillips, Tom Waits, Kurt Cobain, (suck it contrarians) Roger Waters, Bill Mallonee, Mark Heard, etc

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:28:55 2015 No.53929650 >>53927691 >nick drake >brian wilson nice. Daniel Johnston Nick Bassett Elliott Smith Jordaan Mason Dan Barrett

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:38:31 2015 No.53929727 Phil Elverum

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:40:32 2015 No.53929748 >>53929472 >Jimmy Buffett Way underrated

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:41:12 2015 No.53929755 >>53927779 >Melissa Ethridge >no Paul >no John >no Suffy

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:41:32 2015 No.53929759 >>53929650 >Jordaan Mason ehhhhhhhhhhhh

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:51:46 2015 No.53929842 >>53927654 1. David Byrne 2. Frank Zappa 3. Daniel Johnston 4. Jim Steinman 5. Kurt Wagner this is the definitive list

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 02:55:30 2015 No.53929882 Townes van Zandt x100

>>	Yukino !!y23ouArtV1P Sat Feb 28 03:00:47 2015 No.53929927 Sam Cooke

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:04:33 2015 No.53929952 Stevie Wonder Antonio Carlos Jobim Burt Bacharach Walter Afanasieff George Gershwin

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:05:35 2015 No.53929960 Shel Silverstein

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:06:02 2015 No.53929963 Brian Wilson is the greatest songwriter of all time. Sly Stone is the Brian Wilson of soul music. Stevie Wonder is pretty cool too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:14:19 2015 No.53930019 also forgot about Caetano Veloso >>53929842 >no brian wilson >definitive nice joke

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:15:45 2015 No.53930035 >>53930019 brian wilson was barely a songwriter more of a tune decorator his taste in frills was decent

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:17:59 2015 No.53930046 >>53930035 He wrote songs, he wrote melodies and chords and he structured them. That's called as being a songwriter. If we we're talking about lyricism only then I would've agreed with you, but we're not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:18:11 2015 No.53930048 Joanna Newsom John Darnielle Mark Kozelek Elliott Smith Aaron Weiss

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:18:14 2015 No.53930050 >>53929960 lel'd

>>	Yukino !!y23ouArtV1P Sat Feb 28 03:19:16 2015 No.53930059 >>53930048 lol branch out from /mu/

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:24:49 2015 No.53930114 My favorites are Bob Dylan Warren Zevon Blind Willie McTell Robert Hunter David Byrne (although it wouldnt occur to me until someone mentioned.) Pure Americana

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:25:53 2015 No.53930123 >>53930114 Oh shit! Forgot Tom Waits

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:29:43 2015 No.53930149 For my money: Townes Van Zandt Bob Dylan Leonard Cohen Nick Cave Warren Zevon Gene Clark Tim Hardin There are quite a few I think are "great." But those are some that come to mind. >>53929952 Agree with these, too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 03:30:00 2015 No.53930154 File: 21 KB, 240x285, john_linnell.jpg [Show reposts] Image reverse search: [iqdb] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 04:02:28 2015 No.53930405 >>53929472 >>53930114 >>53930149 >Warren Zevon my niggas >>53929842 >Jim Steinman Apparently working with Meat Loaf on new stuff. Feels great

>>	poly-style loving lush-bleak orchestrafag !!1WXOIRq5Dbq Sat Feb 28 04:09:19 2015 No.53930447 >>53927654 Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Monteverdi, Fauré, Poulenc... the list kind of peters off Cohen and the Buckleys are also good

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 04:10:45 2015 No.53930456 >>53930447 what do you think of Brian Wilson poly?

poly-style loving lush-bleak orchestrafag !!1WXOIRq5Dbq Sat Feb 28 04:14:07 2015 No.53930477

>>53930456
pretty good vocal harmonies and catchy 70s-esque tunes, but not something I would want to listen to. Tried listening to pet sounds and just didn't do it for me. maybe if I was a 17yo girl in the 70s...?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 04:22:26 2015 No.53930515 >>53930477 >maybe if I was a 17yo girl in the 70s...? fuck off poly also >doesn't likes brian wilson >doesn't likes mozart certified P.L.E.B.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 05:09:37 2015 No.53930807 >>53929593 >Dylan (some of the time) Really? He gets a qualifier but all those others who have written some of the most godawful music ever released, don't?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 05:41:48 2015 No.53931105 File: 6 KB, 180x206, 18.jpg [Show reposts] Image reverse search: [iqdb] [google] >>53930807 >>53929593 Surely Dylan should be 'Most of the time'?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 05:44:04 2015 No.53931125 I like that picture

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 05:57:52 2015 No.53931302 >>53930154 Yes, x10

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 05:59:58 2015 No.53931322 >no paul simon 'no'

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 06:05:42 2015 No.53931381 It depends how hungry they are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 06:16:56 2015 No.53931510 The best and my favourite have been named already, so I'll name some that I like, but I'm not sure if they all count: >Robert Wyatt >Sweet Baboo >Thom Yorke >David Thomas Broughton

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 06:56:28 2015 No.53931901 Leonard Cohen Georges Brassens Serge Gainsbourg Bob Dylan Judee Sill John Lennon

>>	TrapInfluences !RkVMGAgFp. Sat Feb 28 07:14:00 2015 No.53932045 Robyn Hitchcock Nick Cave Jim O'Rouke >>53928222 >Rowland S. Howard is amazing. mah fuckin nigga

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