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Favourite Lyricist Of All Time!!

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    #32
    Electric Mole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Electric Mole


    Michael Stipe's the best. Following are good also:

    Lou Reed
    Bob Dylan
    Morrissey
    Leonard Cohen


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    #33
    m
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭m


    has to be morrissey by a mile.....


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    #34
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    stevie hyper d [rip] - best drum and bass mc ever, will never be forgotten.

    dylan gets in there.

    your man the streets.

    loads more cole porter leonard cohen anni di franco jeff buckley chuck d mc conrad bjork jello biafra...


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    #35
    lordsippa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Damn - you're right bout Larry Beckett. Had forgotten that... he also helped write some of the stuff on Lorca.


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    #36
    Kwizatz Anorak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Kwizatz Anorak


    It would have to be Bob Dylan. He's the reason I started listening to music with lyrics again, I'd been in the electro trancy fold for a few years till I gave him a go.

    For fun lyrics though, Jimmy Pop from the Bloodhound Gang

    "If I were God I'd get a bunch of slaves to do everything...
    Norwegian lesbians that feed me grapes and know how to sing.."


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    #37
    cartman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭cartman


    Damien Rice,
    Tom McRae


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    #38
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,275 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    alot underestimated because his dad is bob dylan but JOKOB DYLAN of the Wallflowers is top notch


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    #39
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain or Tupac. i know your all going to say no to tupac but he has a book of poems and some of them are brilliant "the rose that grew from concrete"


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    #40
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    no where near the best but i think were isd the love by black eyed pea's was a good one. Kevin bloody wilson has great funny songs. he's class


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    #41
    yom 1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭yom 1


    Ian Brown

    Stone Roses songs are class but love F.E.A.R.


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    #42
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Al Stewart

    What a wordsmith!
    Rainstorm, brainstorm, faces in the maelstrom,
    Huddle by the puddles in the shadows where the drains run
    Hot dogs, wet clogs clicking up the sidewalk
    They're disappearing into the booze shop
    Rainbow queues stand down by the news stand, waiting for the late show.
    Pin ball sin hall, minds in free fall
    Chocolate coloured lady making eyes through the smoke-pall


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    #43
    one-angry-dwarf
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭one-angry-dwarf


    I can't believe no one has mentioned ben folds yet.
    one of the greatest song writers ever, ( thats not an overstatement) if you've heard him, you're a fan, if you haven't then you need to.
    saw him two years ago supporting divine comedy in the ambassador. best gig ive ever been to.

    SMOKE

    Leaf by leaf, page by page
    Throw this book away
    All the sadness, all the rage
    Throw this book away
    Rip out the binding, tear the glue
    All of the grief we never even knew
    We had it all along
    Now it's smoke

    The things we've written in it
    Never really happened
    All the things we've written in it
    Never really happened
    All of the people come and gone
    Never really lived
    All the people come have gone
    No one to forgive - smoke

    We will never write a new one
    There will not be a new one
    Another one, another one

    Here's an evening dark with shame
    Throw it on the fire
    Here's the time I took the blame
    Throw it on the fire
    Here's the view we didn't speak
    It seemed for years and years
    Here's a secret
    No one will ever know the reasons for the tears
    They are smoke

    Where do all the secrets live
    They travel in the air
    You can smell them when they burn
    They travel in the air
    Those who say the past is not dead
    Stop and smell the smoke
    You keep on saying the past is not dead
    Come and smell the smoke
    You keep saying the past is not even past
    You keep saying ...
    We are smoke ... smoke ... smoke

    .............................................................................

    SELFLESS COLD AND COMPOSED

    I said what you wanted to hear
    And what I wanted to say
    So I will take it back
    Are all the dishes in tact
    Let them be broken

    It's easy to be
    Easy and free
    When it doesn't mean anything
    You remain
    Selfless, cold and composed

    You've done me no
    Favor to call and be nice
    Telling me I
    Can take anything I like
    Your don't owe me to be so polite
    You've done no wrong
    You've done no wrong
    Get out of my sight

    It's easy to be
    Easy and free
    When it doesn't mean anything
    To remain
    Selfless, cold and composed

    Come on baby
    Now throw me a right to the chin
    Don't just stare like you never cared
    I know you did
    You just smiled
    Like a bank teller
    Telling me blankly, have a nice life

    Come on baby
    Throw me a right to the chin
    Just one sign
    That could show me that you give a ****
    But you just smile politely
    And I grow weaker and I ...

    Said what you wanted to hear
    And what I wanted to say
    So I will take it back

    It's easy to be
    Easy and free
    When it doesn't mean anything
    When it doesn't mean anything
    You can take anything
    So selfless, cold and composed


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    #44
    The Phenom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭The Phenom


    Bob Dylan without a doubt he is the greatest of all time nobody beats him.


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    #45
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Patti Smith , she's mad


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    #46
    Paddy20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,797 ✭✭✭Paddy20


    Billy Joel,
    Leonard Cohen
    Art Garfunkel,
    Paul Simon
    John Lennon
    Paul McCartney
    The Bee Gees Yeah, my time & my kinda music :)

    P. :ninja:


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