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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2006, 05:25:00 pm »
Bob Mould is a huge omission as well.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2006, 05:33:00 pm »
yeah, i got that and i think it's not a terrible list but i still think they left out plenty and were wrong in plenty of places...
 
 i don't really know why these magazines put out stuff like this in the first place.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2006, 05:38:00 pm »
Who's Connor Oberst?

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2006, 06:27:00 pm »
Why do I always forget that Leonard Cohen is still alive?
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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2006, 07:26:00 pm »
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  Who's Connor Oberst?
He was TV's MacGyver's second banana.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2006, 02:39:00 am »
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Originally posted by brennser:
  no Billy Bragg??
 no Matt Johnson??
Or Paul Heaton
 
 Or Mike Scott
 
 Joe Jackson....Difford and Tilbrook???
 
 Moz at 57?? Bowie 16??  :roll:  
 
  I'm going out on a limb and guessing this is a US compiled list because 8 out of the top 10 are doodles? (If  you include canucks as doodles for this list) So your saying that McCartney and Costello are the two best Brit songwriters! That's just fucking insulting
 
 Come on already.

Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2006, 06:58:00 am »
Well most good music IS written my Americans.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2006, 02:13:00 am »
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Originally posted by Chaz Nakatestes, Breaststroking Guy:
  Well most good music IS written my Americans.
I completely agree, but ALL GREAT music is written by Brits and Canadians.
 
 BTW.....
 
 Shane MacGowan?
 
 Morrissey and Marr?

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2006, 09:36:00 am »
Ok, I'm a fan of REM just like the next guy/girl.....But #26?  How many of their songs actually make any sense? It's just a bunch of blabboring, if that's even a word, I'm sure REM would use it though.
 
 Eminem has more song writing talent then 90% of the people/groups mentioned on that list.  But I guess rap isn't considered song writing.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2006, 10:11:00 am »
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  Ok, I'm a fan of REM just like the next guy/girl.....But #26?  How many of their songs actually make any sense? It's just a bunch of blabboring, if that's even a word, I'm sure REM would use it though.
I disagree strongly. R.E.M.'s lyrics are very dense and rich, and, yes, they make plenty of sense. The fact that you can't make sense of them is perhaps a comment on your limited attention span and/or intelligence. Refer to the R.E.M. Lyric Annotations FAQ and the Complete R.E.M. Lyrics Archive for enlightenment.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #25 on: June 07, 2006, 10:14:00 am »
Leave Rob alone; he's gets plenty of deep lyrics:
 
 American Girls and American Guys
 We'll always stand up and salute
 We'll always recognize
 When we see Old Glory Flying
 There's a lot of men dead
 So we can sleep in peace at night
 When we lay down our head
 
 My daddy served in the army
 Where he lost his right eye
 But he flew a flag out in our yard
 Until the day that he died
 He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
 To grow up and live happy
 In the land of the free.
 
 Now this nation that I love
 Has fallen under attack
 A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in
 From somewhere in the back
 Soon as we could see clearly
 Through our big black eye
 Man, we lit up your world
 Like the 4th of July
 
 Hey Uncle Sam
 Put your name at the top of his list
 And the Statue of Liberty
 Started shakin' her fist
 And the eagle will fly
 Man, it's gonna be hell
 When you hear Mother Freedom
 Start ringin' her bell
 And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
 Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue
 
 Justice will be served
 And the battle will rage
 This big dog will fight
 When you rattle his cage
 And you'll be sorry that you messed with
 The U.S. of A.
 'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
 It's the American way
 
 Hey Uncle Sam
 Put your name at the top of his list
 And the Statue of Liberty
 Started shakin' her fist
 And the eagle will fly
 Man, it's gonna be hell
 When you hear Mother Freedom
 Start ringin' her bell
 And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
 Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue
 
   
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 he fact that you can't make sense of them is perhaps a comment on your limited attention span and/or intelligence.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #26 on: June 07, 2006, 10:16:00 am »
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
 Eminem has more song writing talent then 90% of the people/groups mentioned on that list.  But I guess rap isn't considered song writing.
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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #27 on: June 07, 2006, 10:27:00 am »
Florian Schneider & Ralf Hütter rate at least 52 spots below Pubic Enemy?  Professor Griff must be at 101.

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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #28 on: June 07, 2006, 10:33:00 am »
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Re: 100 Greatest Living Songwriters
« Reply #29 on: June 07, 2006, 10:33:00 am »
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Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  The fact that you can't make sense of them is perhaps a comment on your limited attention span and/or intelligence. [/QB]
I really hope we meet in person someday.  I just made an opinion, something that me and a bunch of people had agreed with over the years (sorry we're not rocket scientist like you, since you obviously have to have a Harvard degree to listen to the same music as you). You should have just stopped after the first sentence.  Then I would have respected your response.