Who are your favorite songwriters?

[jimmys69]

All true....

Hell, sometimes it isn't just how we hear it but WHEN we hear it. Took me a long time to realize what all the Radiohead fuss was about. Didn't really get it the first time I heard them. Then years later I caught a whiff of them and was like, "Who IS that??!!!" Fucking Radiohead. The drums on "Wolf at the Door" make me very, very, very happy.

LOL! Funny enough, I hear you, in a special way.

I'm just gonna have to rep you now. Like that matters at all.

[Xdrummer]

Way to many writers to really have "favorites". That being said - many of the collective works of Lennon/McCartney are very good and timeless songs. Many of the collective works of the various writers who contributed to the songs of the Eagles show an effective mastery of the craft. Tom Petty have written some very solid pop songs.

Many of the writers from the days of Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building created some amazing examples of solid, memorable songs.

I own close to 6,000 CDs and hundreds of albums and cassettes which I am gradually burning to CD/MP3(it's a sickness) - and I could fill pages and pages with names of people who have written outstanding songs ........ although in many cases, no one would know who they are.

[darscuzlo]

I'll second Fiona Apple.
I also love the work of Emil Adler and Julie Flanders (October Project)
I don't know off hand who did the songwriting but there was an indy band called Grey Eye Glances that wrote some really good songs

[CrowsofFritz]

John Frusciante (anything between 2001-2009)

George Harrison

I like a little Sinatra here and there.


And the rest would have to be classical composers and flamenco composers.

[Greg_L]

Greg_L.....

[rayc]

If I had to limit myself to just one it'd be Elvis Costello up until 1990 or there abouts.
I can't get to grips with M&M as a "songwriter" as I still have the idea in my head that it's lyrics, melody & chordal structure and what he usually does don't comprise those elements.
I think it may be my age & the fact that I really can't abide more than a couple of false rhymes in any one text.

[grimtraveller]

I like a little Sinatra here and there.

Did Frank do much writing ? Did he do any writing ?

Way to many writers to really have "favorites"

and I could fill pages and pages with names of people who have written outstanding songs ........ although in many cases, no one would know who they are.

I hope this doesn't happen here, but many of these kind of threads just become boring lists that few would ever want to honestly look at. There's been a couple here over the last two years and too many of the entries are just lists that mean nothing. I couldn't be less interested in "Cabbagepuncher of Minesota" listing 5 songwriters and not saying anything about them. At least tell us something that makes your choices worth knowing about ! Especially the more obscure writers. Sometimes it's good to know about the unknowns rather than the usual suspects.

[fat_fleet]

I can't get to grips with M&M as a "songwriter" as I still have the idea in my head that it's lyrics, melody & chordal structure and what he usually does don't comprise those elements.

Right, Eminem is NOT a songwriter. He's a rapper.

[fat_fleet]

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[CrowsofFritz]

Did Frank do much writing ? Did he do any writing ?

He wrote very few songs. I guess it's the style he sung everything in that I like. He sang over 1,200 songs though. Quite a feat.