Favorite Lyricist of All Time

nieh · Post by **nieh** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:12 pm

PJ HARVEY

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:18 pm

well, the question was "favorite." if the question had been "greatest," half of my people wouldn't have been on and Joni Mitchell and Carole King (for her Brill Building stuff rather than the singer-songwriter stuff) would at least have been shortlisted. but Eno, Moz, and Albarn make me LMAO. i love Joan, but Moz makes me laugh, and everybody knows that's the key to a lasting relationship.

coldbrightsunlight · Post by **coldbrightsunlight** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:52 am

Can't believe I missed out Patti Smith somehow... What the hell, past me?

And Dan Mangan!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77tzkmQ-Mc[/youtube]

I was not doing well that day.

phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:28 am

Shit yeah, Joni Mitchell and Jeff Mangum are both extremely good too.

Rygot · Post by **Rygot** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:01 am

Yeah I'm gonna have to go ahead and put this out there...

Layne Staley. :duck:

Alright. Also...
Josh Homme
Thom Yorke
Florence Welch
Trent Reznor

julius_deane · Post by **julius_deane** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:51 am

Yoni Wolf (of Why?)
"In Berlin I saw two men fuck in a dark corner of a basketball court / Just the slight jingle of pocket change pulsing"

Los Campesinos
"I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock / Feels like the build-up takes forever but you never get me off"

Emily Haines (solo/& the Soft Skeletons/Metric)
"If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been
When you phone me tell me everything I did
If I'm sorry you lost me you'd better make it quick
Cause this call costs a fortune and it's late where you live"

Tom Waits
Do we really need an example?

Wesley Willis
just YouTube him if you don't know.

Honorable mentions:
Natasha Kahn (of Bat for Lashes), Yeasayer, Lou Reed, Lil' Wayne (for real), Sage Francis

julius_deane · Post by **julius_deane** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:01 am

aens_wife wrote:There are a lot of people who have written a couple of perfect songs (alan sparhawk "when I go deaf"), but I don't love all of their songs.

I would say "Sunflowers" is Low's perfect song, but I'm not sure if he writes them all or what.

smile_man · Post by **smile_man** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:03 pm

jamie stewart
tim kinsella
brendan fowler
phil elvrum

julius_deane wrote:Yoni Wolf (of Why?)
"In Berlin I saw two men fuck in a dark corner of a basketball court / Just the slight jingle of pocket change pulsing"

aw yeah, don't leave out dose though.

julius_deane · Post by **julius_deane** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:23 am

smile_man wrote:jamie stewart

YEEEEEHHHHH

smile_man wrote:
julius_deane wrote:Yoni Wolf (of Why?)
"In Berlin I saw two men fuck in a dark corner of a basketball court / Just the slight jingle of pocket change pulsing"

aw yeah, don't leave out dose though.

Yes, cLOUDDEAD also datshit

chippywallace · Post by **chippywallace** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:16 pm

David Yow, I mean come on "the dead princess lay screaming and her cunt's ripped".

Derelict78 · Post by **Derelict78** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:10 pm

Syd Barett
Rodger Waters
Kevin Ogilvie

GardenoftheDead · Post by **GardenoftheDead** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:21 pm

Blake Schwarzenbach
Marilyn Manson
Aaron Turner
Matthew Bellamy
Robert Smith

Zounds Perspex · Post by **Zounds Perspex** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:41 pm

Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Ray Davies
Leonard Cohen
David Bowie
Lou Reed if he died in 1972
Marvin Gaye
Robert Wyatt
D. Boon
Nick Cave
Prince
Morrissey
Jason Spaceman/Pierce
Will Oldham
Buzz Osbourne
Ghostface

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:57 am

bob the r0bot wrote:Kevin Barnes

YES!

"He's the kind of guy who would leave you in a K-hole to go play Halo in the other room."

Skeletal Lamping is the greatest thing to happen this millennium.

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