Top 100 Living Songwriters

Ok Listen MisfitsPunk, I don't wanna hear it. When this movement is dead someone else "in no way should be behind U2."

I don't think they write brilliant lyrics either but I'm not going ape **** Waits came in 4th, but be thankful paste actually thought this list was right and weren't making an issue to sell copies or appease their corporate paymasters.
 
I more so meant the higher ranked ones when I said the predictable comment, I know I didn't put that in my post, but I meant to. But yes, I'd say the entire top 10 is predictable and I'd almost expect Rolling Stone to make the same list, though they may have put U2 in place of Joni Mitchell.

But it is fairly dead on, though I think Patti Smith deserves to be a bit higher, Sufjan neeRAB to be lower, and I would have put Elton John in the top 15.
 
You'll get more cool points with a few other merabers here for stating Waits at nuraber one.

And I agree with you about Dylan, he's a brilliant lyricist all the same.
One of the most economic songwriters has got to be Smokey Robinson, not a single word wasted.
A lyrical magician who manages to put across so much, with just a single phrase. Genius.
He should be at least in the top 10. He's largely forgotten and underrated in modern times.
 
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