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who are your favorite songwriters?

Post by starvingeyes »

top 5.

mine are

1. uhm. duh. our lady peace/raine maida albums 1-4
2. jared leto
3. pete yorn
4. stephan jenkins
5. matthew good
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1 olp
2 pat parker
3 matt good
4 Smashing Pumpkins
5 Zwan ( i guess i can say that)
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Cuomo
Maida
Skiba
Alexakis
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I can agree with alexakis and maida all tha time
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1. maida
2. matt good
3. jeff buckley
4. daryl palumbo (of glassjaw, W&T has amazing lyrics)
5. chino. i can't wait for the new deftones album :drool:
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(no order)

raine maida
martin tielli
chris martin
elliott smith
jose contreras
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Post by Susan »

OLP - album 1 to 4
Jimi Goodwin and Andy Williams from Doves
Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott from Sloan
Pete Yorn
The guys from 54-40
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Post by Potato Girl »

(No Order)

Thom Yorke
Bono
Chris Martin
Raine Maida
Gordon Downie
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Post by One-Eye »

Why has nobody mentioned Adam Duritz? That man is god.

And thusly:

Duritz
Maida
Stipe/REM
Paul Simon
John McCrea (Cake)
Wally Pleasant :mrgreen:
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1. Bryan Adams (if just for "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" and "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman")
2. Bono (for "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", "All I Want Is You" and the obvious others)
3. Sting (it's... Sting. C'mon.)
4. Jimmy Page/Robert Plant (The Zep? Natch.)
5. Joey Ramone ("Ey, oh! Let's go!")
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Post by Odin »

In no particular order:

Radiohead (it's not only Thom that gets all the credits!)
Matt Good
Bjork
Portishead

We're talking about songwriters, does that include classical? Then I would include:
Bach
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1. Dan Andriano
2. Raine Maida
3. Layne Staley
4. Matt Skiba
5. Anti-Flag (Can't think of names)
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Johnny Rotten
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1. OLP
2. No Doubt
3. Robbie Williams
4. Michelle Branch
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Post by allison »

My top 5:

1. left Pencey/Brad Lyons
2. OLP/Raine
3. J. Englishman
4. Sarah Slean
5. Breach of Trust/Marty Ballentyne
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1. OLP
2. James Taylor
3. Radiohead
4. Harvey Danger
5. John Lennon
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Post by cor3y »

1. Alexakis
2. Maida
3. Jason Wade (esp. Lifehouse's first album)
4. Peter Stuart
5. Michelle Branch

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1. OLP
2. Radiohead
3. Silverchair/Daniel Johns
4. Maynard James Keenan
5. Coldplay
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Post by liam »

someone said Harvey Danger, i've heard some of the stuff but i wouldn't say GREAT song writers
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Post by One-Eye »

Oh, and Glen Philips, former lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket. I'm seeing him in concert tonight! :mrgreen:
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