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who are your favorite songwriters?
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:19 pm
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
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:20 pm
by liam
1 olp
2 pat parker
3 matt good
4 Smashing Pumpkins
5 Zwan ( i guess i can say that)
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:24 pm
by committed
Cuomo
Maida
Skiba
Alexakis
Lavigne
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:26 pm
by liam
I can agree with alexakis and maida all tha time
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:37 pm
by sandsleeper
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 
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:45 pm
by happening fish
(no order)
raine maida
martin tielli
chris martin
elliott smith
jose contreras
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:46 pm
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
Posted: 12/4/2002, 5:52 pm
by Potato Girl
(No Order)
Thom Yorke
Bono
Chris Martin
Raine Maida
Gordon Downie
Posted: 12/4/2002, 6:14 pm
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
Posted: 12/4/2002, 6:16 pm
by Ray 2
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!")
Posted: 12/4/2002, 7:46 pm
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
Posted: 12/4/2002, 8:06 pm
by Sufjan Stevens
1. Dan Andriano
2. Raine Maida
3. Layne Staley
4. Matt Skiba
5. Anti-Flag (Can't think of names)
or
Johnny Rotten
Posted: 12/4/2002, 9:40 pm
by xoNoDoubt69
1. OLP
2. No Doubt
3. Robbie Williams
4. Michelle Branch
Posted: 12/4/2002, 9:47 pm
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
Posted: 12/5/2002, 12:07 am
by curtman16
1. OLP
2. James Taylor
3. Radiohead
4. Harvey Danger
5. John Lennon
Posted: 12/5/2002, 2:28 am
by cor3y
1. Alexakis
2. Maida
3. Jason Wade (esp. Lifehouse's first album)
4. Peter Stuart
5. Michelle Branch
Notebles...
Eddie Vedder
Scooter from Cold
Candlebox
Posted: 12/5/2002, 7:59 am
by Solidarity 9-6347
1. OLP
2. Radiohead
3. Silverchair/Daniel Johns
4. Maynard James Keenan
5. Coldplay
Posted: 12/5/2002, 11:49 am
by Sufjan Stevens
A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics
Posted: 12/5/2002, 3:02 pm
by liam
someone said Harvey Danger, i've heard some of the stuff but i wouldn't say GREAT song writers
Posted: 12/5/2002, 4:10 pm
by One-Eye
Oh, and Glen Philips, former lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket. I'm seeing him in concert tonight!