Who are your favorite songwriters?

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jimmys69 said:
Jellyfish (specifically Andy Sturmer), Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Alanis M. Though this goes into more of the fact that Glenn Ballard co wrote Alanis's stuff on her first productive album.

So where do we draw the line at who wrote the songs. I'm not sure it really matters, when it comes to creating.

I have a childhood friend that has co-written a Billboard top 10 hit just recently. It has nothing to do with writing in genre. Nor does songwriting equate to being a hit.

Ok, wait. I just strayed completely from your topic Triquee.

Sorry, I digressed.....

I would probably go with Eminem as my favorite writer, if their were some type of poll here.
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Wow- I NEVER would have guessed you for a JellyHead or Fiona, Tori or Alanis fan. I always thought you were a metal head. Assumptions make a big dumb ass out of me once again.
 
hey i would have never known Henry knew anything of hip hop or micing a upright bass ...assumptions those bad things
 
Hold up, there are other people here who like Alanis Morissette? :eek:

I'm not alone. Even if Glen Ballard helped her write it, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was quite a piece of work
 
Wish I was wealthy enough to travel the globe and search out all the other great songwritters outside of North America who contribute great material to their cultures.Would be cool to experience first hand as many different influences musically as possible,...put them all into a big melting pot and see how those creative influences would shape ones songwritting style.That's kind of what the members of The Beatles and Led Zepplin had the opportunity to do at a very young age,...and look at the timeless works they created that will continue to be listened to for many generations to come.
 
chuckduffy said:
Wow- I NEVER would have guessed you for a JellyHead or Fiona, Tori or Alanis fan. I always thought you were a metal head. Assumptions make a big dumb ass out of me once again.
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Not all metal heads are naive. lol.

That is just where my particular style of playing led me. I listen to most anything, as long as it is good. :)
 
Anyone seen the Celebration Day DVD yet? My copy arrived a couple of days ago & I've only managed to play about 3 tracks but the songs & performance are still powerful. I'm stunned that Jones doesn't get a writing credit for kashmir - it's him that makes it monumental.

Here's something I need to know. What does M&M write? Does he do the arrangements, the melody, the lyric, the what? I ask because I do not know.
 
RollTape said:
Wish I was wealthy enough to travel the globe and search out all the other great songwritters outside of North America who contribute great material to their cultures.Would be cool to experience first hand as many different influences musically as possible,...put them all into a big melting pot and see how those creative influences would shape ones songwritting style.That's kind of what the members of The Beatles and Led Zepplin had the opportunity to do at a very young age,...and look at the timeless works they created that will continue to be listened to for many generations to come.
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Since the advent of TV, radio and in particular records, the world has been so small, no one really needs to travel the world in order to discover new music and different songwriters. The members of Zeppelin and the Beatles hadn't travelled the world before their writing styles developed. They'd barely left England ! {George Harrison's first forays into Indian music with actual Indians took place in London}. And their styles developed in different ways as they progressed, some of which was to do with travel, some of which was to do with drugs and most of which was to do with life......
I'm stunned that Jones doesn't get a writing credit for kashmir - it's him that makes it monumental.
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He was the colourist for the song, coming up with the mellotron part and the orchestral arrangement. But the song already existed, indeed, when recording began, it was just Page and Bonham that laid their parts down.
I've long felt though, that it's not the songwriting per se that's important, rather, it's what everyone contributes and the performance that really makes a song happen.
 
there is no better lyricist right now than Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.
 
Personally, the guys I find to be the most enjoyable currently (they change week to week) are David Eugene Edwards, Corb Lund, Ween, Joe Strummer, uhhhhh, Brian Wilson, I guess.

Corb Lund is great - nothing too complicated, but for modern country, he's hard to beat. In fact, I'm not a big fan of too much modern country, but his lyrical wit and dark tones really work for me.

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Tom Waits. And Gershwin of course.... (or doesn't that count?)
 
Tom Waits, Aimee Mann, Paul Simon, Shel Silverstein, Roger Waters, Leroy Carr, Janis Ian, Jimmy Webb, George & Ira Gershwin, and Roger Miller.
 
The best writers ever were J.S. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Beatles, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, and the list can go on. You have to find out who you like and let the music take you where you want to go.
 
Matthew West- People sent him letters of impossible circumstances and he turned around and wrote songs with a positive message.
 
Not a good question, you can never say a million dollar song did the same as a billion dollar song....
 
I agree...

Its taken me a long while to shed my discriminations against a particular artist just b/c they are too popular or what have you - a good song is a good song.
 
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