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Posted by: Adrian Figallo Sep 23 2011, 06:47 AM

Hey guys, i love music, i love melody, but i also love some good lyrics on a song, i don't like the rock n roll macho type songs too much, or the romantic predictable ballad from bon jovi, ok, i gotta admit i love "i'll be there for you", but that's a whole different story, because mr richie sambora made an incredible job on that one.

So my question is, because i wanna listen to more, who are your favorite lyric song writers?

i can share some of my own and i hope you google up the lyrics to see more smile.gif

All of these are genius in my opinion, in no particular order.

Alex Turner - The Arctic Monkeys




Bob Dylan anyone?




Jim Morrison - The Doors





i would love to see new ones smile.gif

Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 23 2011, 08:36 AM

I've never really been a lyrics guy (I know, I'll be burned at the stake for this) probably because the first thing that always grabbed my attention was the music, guitar sounds and atmosphere.

But I do appreciate good lyrics. I always loved the lyrics from Ozzy Osbourne's album 'The Ultimate Sin' but I was dissapopinted to learn years later that a lot of Ozzy's lyrics were written by other people, namely Bob Daisley, his bassist.

Dave Mustaine can, and has, written some excellent lyrics which have improved over the years... the best are probably from the 'Countdown to Extinction' up to the 'Risk' albums.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Sep 23 2011, 02:50 PM

man, Jim Morrison is so good. So authentic.

I'm not a lyrics guy either. I used to like Sepultura lyrics tongue.gif


Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Sep 24 2011, 04:13 AM

There are a lot of songwriters that I like. Every music genre has awesome songwriters. I could say that Dave Grohl is one of my favourite songwriters nowadays...

Posted by: Sabbz Sep 24 2011, 05:01 AM

David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Jim Morrison, Dave Mustaine, Bernie Taupin, Phil Anselmo.....I could go on and on.

Posted by: Gary Sep 24 2011, 05:23 AM

Either this man or Jim Morrison. BTW.. listen to the little jam Carl Perkins has going on in the background wink.gif



Cheers!
Gary

Posted by: Michael AC Sep 24 2011, 05:34 AM

For Lyrics Johnny Cash has some really good ones...I like Todd Agnew also.

Iron Maiden told great stories in their albums and I liked how they weave each song together.

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Sep 24 2011, 10:54 AM

when it comes to lyrics i really enjoy mr.Mustaine and mr.Petrucci

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 24 2011, 10:44 PM

With all due respect, but nowadays good songwriters don't exists ! Jim Morrison,Dylan,Simon and Garfunkel,Janis Joplin,Robert Plant,John Lennon,Pete Townsend...These were writers with a message!

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Sep 25 2011, 01:31 PM

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Sep 24 2011, 03:13 AM) *
There are a lot of songwriters that I like. Every music genre has awesome songwriters. I could say that Dave Grohl is one of my favourite songwriters nowadays...


YES SIR!!! I totally agree smile.gif


My favorites (the ones coming to my mind in this instant) would be:






Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 25 2011, 08:22 PM

Not sure, it depends on the person, I always like those mystical lyrics that you can find with Hendrix, Morrison, Zep, and other bands. You just dunno what they were talking about (who knows if they knew as well back in those days biggrin.gif ), but it sounds right.

Posted by: Adrian Figallo Sep 26 2011, 05:00 AM

I love all these musicians, i gotta listen more to the foo fighters tho..


QUOTE (Sinisa Cekic @ Sep 24 2011, 04:44 PM) *
With all due respect, but nowadays good songwriters don't exists ! Jim Morrison,Dylan,Simon and Garfunkel,Janis Joplin,Robert Plant,John Lennon,Pete Townsend...These were writers with a message!


I think you should really hear the arctic monkeys, the guy is a genius.


Posted by: fkalich Sep 26 2011, 06:07 AM

I agree. There are some exceptions. At least as far as the 90's. I don't know about now, it is pretty dry now. There are exceptions. This is nice.





QUOTE (Sinisa Cekic @ Sep 24 2011, 04:44 PM) *
With all due respect, but nowadays good songwriters don't exists ! Jim Morrison,Dylan,Simon and Garfunkel,Janis Joplin,Robert Plant,John Lennon,Pete Townsend...These were writers with a message!


Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 26 2011, 02:30 PM

Of course there are exceptions! But at that time, whatever you choose - you couldn't get wrong! Nowadays -it's a surprise when you run into a good text!

Posted by: tonymiro Sep 26 2011, 03:08 PM

There are many but just to add couple more great song writers:

Holland-Dozier-Holland. They wrote many of the 60s and 70s Motown hits.
Irving Berlin - He wrote White Christmas, Say It Isn't So, and so on.
Ira Gershwin - The Man that I Love, Someone to watch over me...
Leiber and Stoller - Jailhouse Rock, Kid Creole, Pearl's a Singer...
Michael McDonald - What a Fool Believes, Minute by Minute...
Mancini and Mercer - Moon River
Rogers and Hammerstein - Carousel, The Sound of Music
Elvis Costello
Bacharach and David
Nick Cave...

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