Who are the best songwriters of all time?
Do not post rap in this thread.
Great Lyrics
Cooper Hill
Xavier James
Bob Dylan
Joanna Newsom
Leonard Cohen
John Lennon
Neil Young
Dolly Parton
Frank Sinatra
Zachary Ross
Corey Taylor
Mick Thomson
Paul Gray (RIP)
Joey Jordison
Shawn Crahan
Chris Fehn
Sid Wilson
Craig Jones
Kevin Martin
>Frank Sinatra
He never actually wrote anything, did he? Or is this bait that I've fallen for?
Elijah Morris
eminem
hopsin
mgk
logic
Mason James
Morrissey.
Paul Simon
Robert Smith
David Tibet
Charles Carter
Ian Anderson
Brad Roberts
Howard Ashman
Stephen Sondheim
Parker Wright
lou reed
bruce springsteen
tom petty
paul westerberg
robert smith
lee mavers
Lincoln Price
Deathspell Omega but who the fk knows who writes their lyrics
Jef Whitehead's Leviathan lyrics but im super biased
Dagon in Inquisition
honorable mention of xasthur, very special indeed lmao
this is prob the most arbitrary list ive ever done
Caleb Hall
me
Nolan Watson
Cringe
This has to be bait
Noah Flores
this
Isaiah Long
based
cringe
Matthew Watson
Obvious ones:
Bob Dylan
Roger Waters
Jeff Mangum
Van Morrison
Stefan Burnett
Personal picks:
Aaron Bruno
Peter Sinfield
Billy Joel
Neil Pert
Jackson C. Frank
Juan Hughes
roger waters
Henry Nelson
Gord Downie
Gordon Lightfoot
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Cockburn
John Prine
Stan Rogers
Niel Young
Dolly Parton
Paul McCartney
Ethan Lopez
Based David Tibet. My three personal favorites are
David Tibet
Bill Callahan
Mark Kozelek (yes his blog posting lyrics also)
Owen Ross
>Bill Callahan
Gabriel King
you just KNOW
Asher Carter
fyi OP songwriting encompasses more than just writing lyrics. Just giving you a heads up so you dont embarrassingly misuse the term irl
David Reed
Lyrics are literally the least important part of music. Seriously, you could be singing about baking a dog turd and I would overlook it as long as the rest of the music sounded good.
Robert Adams
What is pop music
Jacob Nelson
Personal Picks
>Michael Gira
>Rowland S. Howard
>for punk and goth music Peter Murphy
>Devendra Banhart
>ofc Bob Dylan
Nathaniel Davis
thanks for letting us know you prefer the picture book equivalent of music.
Ayden Gray
What a fucking moronic statement. It's fucking music. The actual music should always come first. I'm not listening to song where it's just the same chords being strummed on an acoustic guitar and some dweeb doing storytime.
Chase Green
Dan Bejar (Destroyer)
Malkmus
Jason Molina
Isaac Brock
Bill Doss/Will Cullen Hart
A. Savage
Logan Lee
This picture proves they dated.
Cameron Jenkins
u mad?
Christian Scott
One of the stupidest things I've seen written on this board.
Logan Davis
a picture book is something that more directly expresses ideas (as in, conveys a message without putting it in language) the same way music without lyrics does. Chill out with that inferiority complex bruh
Jason Turner
Ron Mael is the only good answer
Carson Johnson
but why not? Different forms of musical artist expression are valid from one another for different reasons. Claiming that lyrics aren't important for any kind of music is just tiny brain closed minded turbopleb tier. I'll love an instrumental track or a track with mediocre lyrics if the instrumentation is good but that doesnt mean that that should be the only thing of worth in all other music as well.
Wyatt Garcia
the dude is clearly young. he'll come around. Or not I guess lol
Austin Cruz
Ebin dubbl b8 man
Dylan Campbell
Since literally the dawn of human history, music has been used to accompany poetry. You may prefer the music to the lyrics, but it doesn't mean you're a pleb if you care about lyrics too.
Andrew Jones
Costello
Morrissey
Zachary Hughes
Oh yeah, he's the young one here!
David Gray
Based centrist
Bentley Phillips
Jesse Lacey
Carter Cox
Besides the typical answers I’ll throw in a wild card, John Congleton
Andrew James
Trent Reznor
Michael Gira
Elton John
Joshua Evans
Ian Stuart Donaldson
Ian Peterson
mac miller