Spinoff thread: Who are the best modern songwriters?

In no particular order:

James McMurtry, Mike Cooley, Two Chainz

Cory Branan

Nick Cave
Sufjan Stevens

Johnette Napolitano

LINK ]"Days And Days" Recent Live Version HERE
The dirty leaves are sailing
On a hot wind ocean
And the summer comes
And the summer goes and always has & will
And something somewhere
That you said
goes ricochet
All through my head
And flashing like a neon sign
The time stand still
Chorus:
Hours are forever,
running all together
At the crossroads of a minute
And you and me were in it.
I never saw it coming
but I saw it fade away
Today, today, today....
Days and Days
And still the whining of the wheels
Sounds closest to the way I feel.
Winter comes and winter goes.
And always has & will
Another hour, another day, another year
You pissed away
Remember walking in the Rain?
I'm walking there still.
(Chorus)
Like every heart that's beat before
And every wave to kiss a shore
I'm not the first, I'm not the last...
That's soon to be your past
But every morning
when the light
Comes creeping in
around my eyes
Another future falls behind
The one I had in mind!
(chorus)

A little more simple but still powerful:
LINK ]"Carry Me Away"
Today I went & bought myself a bottle,
like we used to do,
reminded me of you.

Today I saw a train roll by the river,
blowing off the steam,
reminded me of me.

That's when I threw the bottle in the river.
That's when I started running for the train.

There's nothing that you need I can't deliver,
carry me away, carry me away.

Make it seven o nine California time,
whoever said it was a small world was either a liar or a fool,
cause it's not true.

And any promise we make is as easy to break
as the plastic people on a wedding cake so says you
but you know, I do.

I hear you thinking,
from far away.
If ya keep lying & crying & trying & drinking,
I'm gonna carry me away, carry me away.

If you think about me,
from far away,
I hope you find it with me or without me.
Carry me away, carry me away,
carry me away, carry me away,
carry me away, carry me away.

Jay Farrar was incredible at his peak.

Ryan Adams, although he could use a filter due to the sheer volume of output, is one of my favorites..

Patty Griffin and Gillian Welch... Damien Jurado... I'll just stop now.

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What thread is this a spinoff from?

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Who are the best modern lipsync artists?

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Who are the best modern lipsync artists?

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Thanks. I was looking for the best songwriters of alltime thread.

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What thread is this a spinoff from?

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This one

I probably could have made the title resemble it more.

Some great stuff in here.

Days and Days is great:

"Hours are forever,
running all together
At the crossroads of a minute
And you and me were in it.
I never saw it coming
but I saw it fade away
Today, today, today....
Days and Days
And still the whining of the wheels
Sounds closest to the way I feel.
Winter comes and winter goes.
And always has & will
Another hour, another day, another year
You pissed away
Remember walking in the Rain?
I'm walking there still."

That's a great piece of lyrics. Reminds me a bit of Morrissey's songwriting.

Alex Turner is one of my favorites:
A Certain Romance
And a live version from 05

Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks
Or knackered Converse
Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks
But all of that's what the point is not
The point's that there ain't no romance around there

And there's the truth that they can't see
They'd probably like to throw a punch at me
And if you could only see them, then you would agree
Agree that there ain't no romance around there

You know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell 'em if you like
We'll tell 'em all tonight
They'll never listen
'Cause their minds are made up
And 'course it's all okay to carry on that way

And over there, there's broken bones
There's only music, so that there's new ringtones
And it don't take no Sherlock Holmes
To see it's a little different around here

Don't get me wrong, oh there's boys in bands
And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands
And just 'cause he's had a couple o' cans
He thinks it's all right to act like a d**khead

Don't you know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell em if you like
We'll tell em all tonight
They'll never listen
'Cause their minds are made up
And 'course it's all okay to carry on that way

I said no
Oh no
Oh you won't get me to go
Anywhere, said anywhere
I won't go
Oh no no

Well over there, there's friends of mine
What can I say? I've known 'em for a long long time
And yeah they might overstep the line
But I just cannot get angry in the same way
Not in the same way
Not in the same way
Oh no, oh no no

Linda Perry
Ryan Tedder
Butch Walker
Ed Sheeran

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