best singer/songwriter

Started by Slay7 pages

In no order:
Jon Crosby
Jeff Buckley
Thom Yorke
Prince
Neil Young

Bob Marley

Originally posted by Slay
In no order:
Jon Crosby
Jeff Buckley
Thom Yorke
Prince
Neil Young

This always, always happens. I read a list, thinking its good, and I always disagree with the last one. A weird coincidence that happens when people make lists where I like many of the entries.

Not that I dislike Neil Young, but I just wouldn't have suggested him.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
This always, always happens. I read a list, thinking its good, and I always disagree with the last one. A weird coincidence that happens when people make lists where I like many of the entries.

Not that I dislike Neil Young, but I just wouldn't have suggested him.


Yeah, kinda disappointed with myself aswell. I was stuck at number 5, so I just added Neil Young because I own alot of his work. I wanted to edit him away for Maynard James Keenan but I thought of it after the 15 minutes.

neil young never gets due credit. he deserves to be on any list also including bob dylan, brian wilson, tom waits etc. just because he's been a tool for twenty-odd years doesn't mean is earlier work is anything but genius.

Originally posted by Slay
Yeah, kinda disappointed with myself aswell. I was stuck at number 5, so I just added Neil Young because I own alot of his work. I wanted to edit him away for Maynard James Keenan but I thought of it after the 15 minutes.

Yeah. I wasn't so much criticising the choice as thinking it was odd that I always agree with some lists up until the very final entry, when you could have put Neil Young at any place on the list.

That happens a lot, when I read lists- it was just a random point.

Maynard isn't really a songwriter, in the scheme of things.

Originally posted by manorastroman
neil young never gets due credit. he deserves to be on any list also including bob dylan, brian wilson, tom waits etc. just because he's been a tool for twenty-odd years doesn't mean is earlier work is anything but genius.

Some would argue that.

Bob Dylan is on too many lists in my opinion.

I think he's on too few. His impact on music is indescribable. But as always with music it's a matter of taste if you like it or not.

Originally posted by manorastroman
neil young never gets due credit. he deserves to be on any list also including bob dylan, brian wilson, tom waits etc. just because he's been a tool for twenty-odd years doesn't mean is earlier work is anything but genius.

I really, really liked Mirror Ball, on the first few listens Living With War wasn't bad, but the amazingly obvious propaganda in it pisses me off now.

Best songwriters:
Garth Brooks
Tom. T. Hall
Dolly Parton
Lars Winnerbäck

Best singers:
Tarja Turunen
Fred Durst
Sandra Nasić

😄

Originally posted by Bardock42
I really, really liked Mirror Ball, on the first few listens Living With War wasn't bad, but the amazingly obvious propaganda in it pisses me off now.

i could listen to after the gold rush and on the beach all day long.

Originally posted by manorastroman
i could listen to after the gold rush and on the beach all day long.

Harvest makes me piss rainbows. Especially 'Heart Of Gold'; "I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold" is a line of beautiful simplicity.

Originally posted by manorastroman
i could listen to after the gold rush and on the beach all day long.

Oh, his earlier work is excellent, I was just saying that I don't agree witht he 20 years statement.

Originally posted by vanice
I think he's on too few. His impact on music is indescribable. But as always with music it's a matter of taste if you like it or not.
It's also a matter of taste whether his impact was good.

I wasn't putting some kind of value on the number of lists a person is on. I was making the point that if you go by such lists, Dylan is- with The Beatles- more or less the biggest artist ever. He's not though, which leads to the conclusion of people being sheep.

1.Prince
2.Freddie Mercury
3.Jack white
4.Chris Cornell
5.Jeff Buckley

New list...srug.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
It's also a matter of taste whether his impact was good.

I wasn't putting some kind of value on the number of lists a person is on. I was making the point that if you go by such lists, Dylan is- with The Beatles- more or less the biggest artist ever. He's not though, which leads to the conclusion of people being sheep.

He is the best.

The man is shit, ****ing shit, he's a ****.

Everyone who likes him is and are a **** and ****s.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
The man is shit, ****ing shit, he's a ****.

Everyone who likes him is and are a **** and ****s.

Wrong...since he is great.

He's alright.

Bit* overrated though.

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i've never crossed paths with you before von doom, but saying bob dylan is immensely overrated just reveals a kind of ignorance. he's a bit overrated, hard not to be when you're a legend, but the number of brilliant albums he's done is mind boggling.

bringing it all back home, highway 61, blonde on blonde, blood on the tracks, john wesley harding, nashville skyline, desire...the list goes on'n'on'n'on.

the number of cultural, social, and political references in "subterranean homesick blues" alone makes him more thoughtful than the vast majority of musical artists.

What the hell, if anything, I would say Bob Dylan is underrated.