Best songwriters

karoly aczel

The Axe man

Culture

28 Feb 12

pete3246

Joined: 19 Mar 05
Moves: 17709

12 Apr 12

Jagger-Richards..... right next to lennon-Macartney

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

12 Apr 12

Nick Cave, for The Mercy Seat.

Will Oldham, for I See A Darkness, and a few more.

Traditional, for Folk.

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53321

13 Apr 12

Originally posted by whodey
You thought the other two were serious? 😲

Ok, you have a sense of Yuma🙂 (You won't get lost in Arizona)

karoly aczel

The Axe man

Brisbane,QLD

Joined: 11 Apr 09
Moves: 103369

14 Apr 12

Originally posted by pete3246
Jagger-Richards..... right next to lennon-Macartney

I dont know man... I thought the Stones more bluesy and less experimental with their chord changes- although I have heard only half of the Stones music whereas I have heard nearly all the beatles stuff

~~vandervelde~~

Joined: 10 Dec 11
Moves: 143494

16 Apr 12

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Burt Bacharach
Charles Trenet
John Barry
Henri Mancini
Arsen Dedic

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

17 Apr 12

Originally posted by vandervelde
Burt Bacharach
Charles Trenet
John Barry
Henri Mancini
Arsen Dedic

Serge Gainsbourg
Henri Salvador
Georges Brassens
Jacques Brel
Barbara

Leo Ferre ... not so much.

- Atahualpa Yupanqui

mikelom

Ajarn

Wat?

Joined: 16 Aug 05
Moves: 76863

18 Apr 12

David Foster has had quite an input of originally written songs of the second millenia (The Prayer being memorable)

So has Pierpaolo Guerrini.

How could Andrew Lloyd Webber not be in the list?

Nor Stock/Aitken/Waterman?

And even though very popsical, but with a self-developed style of chordal repetition, the second best selling group of all time behind the Beatles, is of course ABBA.

I would have thought the above would have some recognition in a list of best songwriters.

-m. 😉

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

18 Apr 12

Originally posted by mikelom
How could Andrew Lloyd Webber not be in the list?

Nor Stock/Aitken/Waterman?

For the same reason that you won't find McDonald's and Pizza Hut on a list of best restaurants. They may be succesful, but success doesn't equal high quality.

Richard