Music: Greatest Songwriters in History

[Nike19]

🙂 Fill your Boots Folks – open play.

*****Noel Gallagher***** From His time with Oasis

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[Rover]

It would have been a great forum but if you say oasis then it’s no use even debating. Not even the top 100.

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[Pagan]

What’s the criteria?

Album sales

Lyrics

Innovation

…………Pagan

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Not looking like you body double in “Thunderbirds”? 🙂

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[nine nine nine]

In no particular order Dylan, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, King and Goffin, Paul Simon, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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[steveosnakeeye]

Carlisle
Wilde
Roxette
Transvision vamp
Stevie nicks

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Stock, Aktin & Waterman have to #1… they did give us…

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[Brian blue]

Gershwin
Rodgers and Hart
Irvinne Berlin
Cole porter
Baccarach
Rodgers and Hammerstein

When we had Big bands, Orchestras, that was music. For me , the most exciting is a really good Big band in full swing mode. I mean a BIG Band not these smaller versions. They pack 4/5 in trumpet. 4 Trombones 5 sax/clarinet plus a top drummer , Piano , vibes and bass player

Better still have you have full orchestral support as well!!!!

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[Nike19]

Rover, you’re welcome to bring forward your own taste as the guys have done on here so far. That’s the beauty, the diversity.

I just threw Noel into the hat.

I would say ultimately, it’s what those lyrics mean to you individually and how powerful and compelling they are in the way they are harnessed into the melody of the song and the message it conveys.

Liam himself has wrote some quality tunes without his brother.

I liked Brett from Suede – great songs from the early to the mid 1990s.

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[Pagan]

Bit off topic, one for Chuckles here, Billy Idol is touring next year, special guests the Go Go’s……….Pagan

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Seen Billy a couple of times, does what he says on the tin, and saw the lovely Belinda once during her “solo” years, and that’s 1 evening of my life I’m never getting back (her “performances” in my shower are much, much better!)… never saw the Go’Go’s though…

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[Brian blue]

Sometimes you have to understand how music is constructed to appreciate it fully

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[Shiney]

One of the most underated and understated writers was Donovan

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Jason? You sure about that?

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[Shiney]

Oh yes

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[Anonymous]

Was it here or somewhere else that I recently told my half story? (not really but ya) If so, sorry about that.

Basically, as a teenager, I’d go from school into my dads repair shop (Cork, Ireland). I was learning to do repairs on car stereos and such. Another service that he provided was video tape copying and conversion.

One day this older gentleman comes in and he was handing in or collecting a video and my dad was talking like he knew the man. I think he introduced me or something and says this man is a famous musician, Donovan.

Over the years, this memory sat there undisturbed until I was playing something on spotify and Donovan came on. I thought to myself that such a small exchange, must have meant that I’d mistaken some local musician etc. I googled Donovan, seeing that he’s Scottish and thought “ahhh”. Then I saw that his parents were both irish and he lives/lived here.

So I masked him and no, it was actually Donovan. He went on to say that he didnt just come in the once, that he’d get tapes copied every now and then. Said that sometimes he would have what my dad thought was an assistant coming in for him. Said he was a pleasant, super normal guy.

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[nine nine nine]

“Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love” 😊

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