Who Is the best songwriter of All Time ? (THE BEA LAST)

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Poll: Who Is the best songwriter of All Time ?
Bob Dylan
30%
 30%  [22]
John Lennon
7%
 7%  [5]
Paul McCartney
7%
 7%  [5]
Bruce Springsteen
4%
 4%  [3]
Joanna Newsom
11%
 11%  [8]
Neil Young
0%
 0%  [0]
Roger Waters
2%
 2%  [2]
Paul Simon
4%
 4%  [3]
Kate Bush
0%
 0%  [0]
Mick Jagger/Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
1%
 1%  [1]
Van Morrison
2%
 2%  [2]
Joe Strummer/Mick Jones (The Clash)
2%
 2%  [2]
David Bowie
4%
 4%  [3]
Thom Yorke
5%
 5%  [4]
George Harrison
1%
 1%  [1]
Elton John
0%
 0%  [0]
Jeff Mangum
8%
 8%  [6]
Elvis Costello
1%
 1%  [1]
Robert Plant/Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
4%
 4%  [3]
Win Butler/Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire)
0%
 0%  [0]
Total Votes : 71

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Behrus58



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Ok ... Not let's talk about lyrics ! Let's see the result on the poll . and please name the band/singer not mentioned here. TNX !
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How can you do this thread and miss out Leonard Cohen?
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In modern, popular culture - Joanna Newsom. Listened to Have One On Me and damn, she somehow keeps brilliant melodies and orchestrations going for the entire two hours. Bob Dylan would be my second choice, purely because he's been going since he was a kid and the breadth of amazing songs probably hasn't been matched.

There's probably someone better out there though who does classical or something, and is theoretically a genius.
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itsit wrote:
How can you do this thread and miss out Leonard Cohen?


Or Isaac Brock. that guy's either a genius or a madman.
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Borve Baunehoj
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Bob Dylan win by quite a strech for me. But I'd also have included Nick Drake and Mark Kozelek in the poll
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Applerill wrote:


Applause Applause Applause

Such an epic picture of him too.
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From the poll I would certainly lean towards Joanna Newsom, in addition to her melodic abilities, she has quite a bit of range, writing both very simple songs and some quite complex.

Its kind of tempting to just list all of my favourite musicians who write pieces of music which could vaguely be defined as "songs"...but I'll interpret songwriter as people who write short pieces of music focused on melody...and out of that I'd point towards Low (Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker), who have managed to write a large number of beautiful songs with decent variety in writing style (simple basic chords and melodies, longer chromatically moving things, songs built around dissonant harmony, smart uses of vocal harmonies and the odd counter-melody) despite almost always remaining within their self imposed constraints of slow and minimal songwriting.
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I got the dumb. I voted for Van Morrison because I didn't see Newsom.
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From the list: Joanna Newsom

Actual favourite lyricist: Don Van Vliet/Captain Beefheart
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