Best Songwriters of All Time

Thoughts? 😕

Um, since “songwriter” is such an open ended term... J.S. Bach.

Interesting response, 2D. I had forgotten completely about classical music. However, my intention is for the rock/pop/R&B/soul/hip-hop era.

Originally posted by BobbyD
Interesting response, 2D. I had forgotten completely about classical music. However, my intention is for the rock/pop/R&B/soul/hip-hop era.

Ok cool because that narrows it down tons. I'll get back to you on the best "rock/pop/R&B/soul/hip-hop era" songwriterS, if I think of SOME.

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Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Ok cool because that narrows it down tons. I'll get back to you on the best "rock/pop/R&B/soul/hip-hop era" songwriter, if I think of one.

Psst..songwriter/s.

...can be plural. 😉

many to name, but my personal favorite is Elliott Smith.

Prince, Sufjan Stevens, Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke, Rivers Cuomo.

-AC

Prince & Jimi Hendrix

(BTW Alpha Centauri, I Guess U Digged Planet earth? Love ur signature)

Yeah, it's a brilliant album.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Prince

-AC

..most definitely belongs in the team photo, if not front and center.

Prince is the best songwriter, by far.

I Have 631 songs of his in my Itunes.
A fraction of what he has written.

He definately is the greatest.

Can 't wait to see him live on the 28th.

Great picks with Buckley, Sufjan, and of course Prince.

Another songwriter I really like, who hasn't been mentioned, is Andrew Bird.

Stevie Wonder is great too.

Frank Zappa says me.

Zappa is a good songwriter. He's a great writer of music, though, moreso.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Zappa is a good songwriter. He's a great writer of music, though, moreso.

What's the difference?

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
What's the difference?

Well, you wouldn't really call Mozart a good songwriter.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Well, you wouldn't really call Mozart a good songwriter.

Well that depends on if you compare Frank Zappa with Mozart... I personally do not. Besides "songwriter" to me is a really ambiguous term, but the thread starter clarified what he meant.

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Well that depends on if you compare Frank Zappa with Mozart... I personally do not. Besides "songwriter" to me is a really ambiguous term, but the thread starter clarified what he meant.

I do, because he writes music as well as more strict 'songs'. It's not to do with quality, but form.

I think songwriting refers to writing short-ish songs that are perfectly realised, rather than longer passages of music or extended songs.

That's how I interpret it, anyway.