Chili
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Holy crap grimm....
I consider Grimm a great contributor, but I never read any of his posts!!!
Holy crap grimm....
I consider Grimm a great contributor, but I never read any of his posts!!!
I know, I know....Holy crap grimm....
Me neither.I never read any of his posts!!!
I consider Grimm a great contributor, but I never read any of his posts!!!
David Bowie has written some fantastic songs at various junctures of his career. He's done crap too, but right from '66~'67, he had a dazzling sense of melody and a personal if at times bizarre lyrical gift, mixed with very catchy, often simple and subtly clever music.
I always thought Suzanne Vega was a fantastic writer. Her first three albums guarantee her songwritng immortality ! And not just her superb lyrics. The way the words, instruments, music and mood fit just does my head in.
Yeah, her debut album is pretty fantastic. It took me about 2 years to get into Suze's first two though. A mate of mine used to play her stuff all the time. We'd be at his place doing fundraising and planning and he'd have those two on in the background. So it crept in by osmosis but by '89 I was well and truly hooked. Still am.I really loved that first album with Small Blue Thing etc but she lost me with Tom's Diner, which was still pretty early on for her I guess. And then when she allowed that hip-hop song to me made, that made me sad.
I love that "Hunky dory" album. I just saw a great documentary last week about how he put together the Ziggy Stardust persona and they very briefly touch on "Hunky". It's always the album that seems to get skimmed over because of the album and general excitement that followed. I like his lyrics even though I rarely have a clue what he's going on about.You know I've tried a bunch of times but I just can't get into Bowie. Not sure if I've heard the '66 to '67 stuff you're talking about, and for sure I like the older stuff better, as cliche as that is...Man Who Sold the World and Hunky Dory are my faves, but even those I rarely listen to....he just always seemed really stiff to me...like some uptight privileged art-school kid. And his lyrics often seem too self-conscious to take to heart...
Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Dave Grohl, etc... You can't go wrong with the Grunge Scene.
Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Dave Grohl, etc... You can't go wrong with the Grunge Scene.
According to the book of Genesis in the bible, it was a guy called Jubal.There are so many great songwritters from,...well,... when the first person (whomever it was)