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| Poll: Who Is the best songwriter of All Time ? |
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| Bob Dylan |
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30% |
[22] |
| John Lennon |
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7% |
[5] |
| Paul McCartney |
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7% |
[5] |
| Bruce Springsteen |
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4% |
[3] |
| Joanna Newsom |
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11% |
[8] |
| Neil Young |
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0% |
[0] |
| Roger Waters |
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2% |
[2] |
| Paul Simon |
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4% |
[3] |
| Kate Bush |
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0% |
[0] |
| Mick Jagger/Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) |
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1% |
[1] |
| Van Morrison |
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2% |
[2] |
| Joe Strummer/Mick Jones (The Clash) |
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2% |
[2] |
| David Bowie |
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4% |
[3] |
| Thom Yorke |
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5% |
[4] |
| George Harrison |
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1% |
[1] |
| Elton John |
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0% |
[0] |
| Jeff Mangum |
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8% |
[6] |
| Elvis Costello |
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1% |
[1] |
| Robert Plant/Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) |
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4% |
[3] |
| Win Butler/Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) |
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0% |
[0] |
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| Total Votes : 71 |
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Behrus58
Gender: Male
Age: 28
- #1
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:01
- Post subject: Who Is the best songwriter of All Time ? (THE BEA LAST)
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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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alelsupreme
Awful.
Gender: Male
Age: 27
- #2
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:05
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How can you do this thread and miss out Leonard Cohen?
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- #3
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:07
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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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- #4
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:07
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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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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
- #5
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:08
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- #6
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:16
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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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Jasonconfused
If We Make It We Can All Sit Back and Laugh
Gender: Male
Location: Washington
- #7
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:20
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Such an epic picture of him too.
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- #8
- Posted: 02/05/2013 20:40
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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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- #9
- Posted: 02/05/2013 21:18
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I got the dumb. I voted for Van Morrison because I didn't see Newsom.
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- #10
- Posted: 02/05/2013 21:30
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From the list: Joanna Newsom
Actual favourite lyricist: Don Van Vliet/Captain Beefheart
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