Great Songwriters

[roberto duran legend]

Billy Joel, absolute legend and a top fella.

[Beanz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Jv4dzFqg



When this came out I was convinced that James sung "So damn easy to cave in, Mad Cows Everything"

FASTER

I hate purity
Hate goodness
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere
I want everyone corrupt

I am an architect, they call me a butcher
I am a pioneer, they call me primitive
I am purity, they call me perverted
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave

I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please
A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell

The first time you see yourself naked you cry
Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing

Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

[p4pking]

Cool thread, lots I would've listed as well have already been done. I haven't seen;

Brian Wilson
Nick Drake
Van Morrison
Warren Zevon
Joni Mitchell
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash

Or how about say; George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hammerstein? Guys like that practically invented popular music.
Thelonius Monk, Bill evans, Miles Davis for straightahead jazz composers, etc. Will post more I'm sure when they come to me.

[Gandalf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Jv4dzFqg



When this came out I was convinced that James sung "So damn easy to cave in, Mad Cows Everything"

FASTER

I hate purity
Hate goodness
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere
I want everyone corrupt

I am an architect, they call me a butcher
I am a pioneer, they call me primitive
I am purity, they call me perverted
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave

I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please
A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell

The first time you see yourself naked you cry
Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing

Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

The lyric writing on The Holy Bible is exceptional, but Faster is particularly good. Edwards wrote amazing words there, but Bradfield is the man that had to write the chords and sing them. Great song and great album. Lyrically I don't many albums get as condense, meaningful, political or personal.

[Andre]

Brian Eno.

Maybe he's got the record for the most varied stuff. The volume he has written is astonishing too.

One of my favs

[Beanz]

Brian Eno.

Maybe he's got the record for the most varied stuff. The volume he has written is astonishing too.

One of my favs

Good Pick. I am reading this at the moment




and it is interesting to note how much influence Eno had in the development of David Byrne as a songwriter. The work they did together has in turn influenced many many others.