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Best lyricists ever?

Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:05 am
Posted by Macintosh504
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:05 am
Bono
McCartney/Lennon
Dave Matthews
Bob Dylan
Win Butler


Who else (besides Drake)?

This post was edited on 8/9/14 at 2:14 am
Posted by HempHead
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:18 am to
John Prine
Townes van Zandt
Kris Kristofferson

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This post was edited on 8/9/14 at 2:23 am
Posted by CaptainPanic
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:35 am to
MF DOOM
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:42 am to
Young

Eta why is I post in this thread?
This post was edited on 8/9/14 at 2:44 am
Posted by GCTiger11
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 2:51 am to
Lennon McCartney = GOAT
Posted by Tigerwaffe
Orlando
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 3:03 am to
Dylan, Don Fagan, Zappa, Jagger/Richards, McCartney/Lennon, David Byrne, Bob Weir/Jerry Garcia, Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett, T-Bone Walker,
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 5:50 am to
quote:

Townes van Zandt
John Prine


I'll go with that.

and add:

Guy Clark
Paul Simon
Jay Farrar
Butch Hancock
Eef Barzelay

Bob Dylan maybe.
Posted by Sayre
Felixville
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 6:52 am to
Gibby Haynes
Tunde Adebimpe
John Prine
Neil Fallon
Peter Steele
Posted by LucasP
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 6:55 am to
Simon
Tweedy
Georgia Florida Line
Posted by urinetrouble
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 7:05 am to
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Leonard Cohen
John Prine
Conor Oberst
Damien Rice
Posted by Pectus
Internet
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 7:51 am to
Ben Gibbard - Deathcab for Cutie
Posted by Chef Leppard
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 8:22 am to
Dylan


Tweedy



Everybody else..
Posted by PeaRidgeWatash
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 8:41 am to
quote:

Bob Weir/Jerry Garcia


Barlow and Hunter wrote almost all of their lyrics.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 9:37 am to
I would throw John Hiatt in the discussion for one of the greats.
Posted by Snatchy
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 9:37 am to
Posted by hogfly
Fayetteville, AR
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 9:39 am to
Just because I'm listening to him right now as I open this thread:

Gregory Alan Isakov (not the greatest of all time... but damn he's good).
Posted by Ray Penpillage
Western Slope
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 9:41 am to
Chris Difford of Squeeze
Andy Partridge (XTC)
Posted by MrFreakinMiyagi
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 10:01 am to
Stan Bush
Posted by Snatchy
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 10:18 am to
quote:

Let me fall out the window With confetti in my hair
Deal out jacks or better On a blanket by the stairs
I'll tell you all my secrets But I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forever more.




quote:

Frank settled down in the Valley and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead.



quote:

I'm so Goddamn horny the crack of dawn better be careful around me


Posted by UPT
NOLA
Member since May 2009
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Posted on 8/9/14 at 10:35 am to
Bob Dylan



Robert Hunter
Paul Simon
Neil Young

I also like Eddie Vedder, Warren Zevon, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Farrar, Jason Isbell, and Ben Nichols, but I'm not ready to put them up with the 4 guys I listed above.
This post was edited on 8/10/14 at 12:20 am
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