Top 10 Favorite Songwriters

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Mark

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w0rd, we don't have a thread on this we have one in rock thats like TOP 10 FAVORITE LYRICISTSZZ IN ROCK, but thats lame.

1. Conor Oberst
2. Elliott Smith
3. Mike Kinsella
4. Patrick Wolf
5. Blake Sennett
6. Jeff Mangum
7. Frank Turner
8. Nick Drake
9. Tim Kinsella
10. Ben FolRAB

Honorable mentions: Geoff Rickly, Rocky Votolato, Drew Speziale, Ben Gibbard (some stuff).

It also would be cool if we could bust out some lyrical discussions and attack eachothers lists and call eachother idiots and stuff.
 
No Order

Dallas Green
Nick Drake
Elliott Smith
Ben FolRAB
Conor Oberst
Bob Dylan
Geddy Lee
Devin Townsend
Cedric Bixler Zavala
Daniel Gildenl
 
1. Dustin Kensrue (Go ahead, call me a fanboy)
2. Conor Oberst
3. Geoff Rickly
4. Brendan Losch
5. Jon Felton
6. Elliott Smith
7. Michael Nau
8. Ben Gibbard
9. Jeff Buckley
10. Leonard Cohen
 
No Order....

Mark E Smith
Stuart Murdoch
Luke Haines
Ian Curtis
Jarvis Cocker
Ray Davies
Darren Hayman
Frank Black
Tom Waits
Captain Beefheart

Some of my favorite Mark E Smith lyrics....
 
Paul Mccartney/John Lennon/George Harrison
Roger Waters/David Gilmour/Rick Wright
Kurt Cobain
Bjork/Guy Sigsworth
Pete Townshend
Billy Corgan
Tom Waits
David Bowie
Brian Wilson
Neil Young
 
Too many to squeeze into a top 10.
This list will change in my head, once I've posted it too.

Brian Wilson
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
Smokey Robinson
Ray Davies
John Lennon
Holland/Dozier/Holland
Paul Weller
Pete Townshend
Robert Smith
 
Pete Townshend
Bob Dylan
Sufjan Stevens
Tom Waits
Ani Difranco
Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
John Lennon
Brian Wilson
Ray Davies
David Bowie
 
(In no order.)

Mikael Akerfeldt
Kurt Cobain (His music wasn't all that good though.)
Aaron Turner
Dax Johnson
Anders Jacobsson
Songwriter of Tool (I can't think atm. It is either Jones or Maynard.)

i have to go to church so will put more up when I get back.
 
1. John Lennon
2. George Gershwin
3. Richard Wagner
4. Nick Drake
5. Efrim Menuck
6. Elliott Smith
7. Dmitri Shostokavich
8. Sammy Nestico
9. Woody Guthrie
10. Drew Speziale
 
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