the best song writers ever - HL2DMU Forum Archive

sisterFISTER

2010-01-23 10:43:35

I'm drunk, browsing youtube and i know a lot of you guys listen to shit music, really really shit music. I can appreciate a lot of different music but that doesn't necessarily mean its good so here's a small introduction to some of what i consider the best written songs ever.

Gordon Lightfoot
Awesome song, not a huge lightfoot fan but Sundown is a good song too.
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Bob Dylan
It's fucking Bob Dylan, does it really need any explanation?
Tangled Up In Blue

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Simon & Garfunkel
When it comes to S&G you could pick any song they ever recorder, but no matter what mood I'm in this song just makes everything better, so i picked it as a personal favorite
The 59th Street Bridge Song

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Tom Petty
Alright For Now

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Jimmy Buffet
Everyone loves Jimmy, not many of the casual fans know about this song though and it is seriously one of his most impressive. I know Paradox will love it. Other amazing songs by Buffet would be: Come Monday, Pencil Thin Mustache, A Pirate Looks At Forty and idk i could seriously list this guy's entire greatest hits as some of the best written songs ever.
He Went to Paris

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I really wanted to put "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" on here, by the Traveling Wilburys (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty) but since youtube has gone pop all i can find is bullshit covers by other bands that don't deserve my attention.

I'll list more when i've had less to drink but seriously, if it's not some homo electric fucking bullshit, feel free to add to this post, i doubt it's anything i've never heard of (if it truly is amazing) but this post is to educate the obviously younger population of this forum in what is real music and not just some catchy beat with some over hyped fucking retarded ass sun glasses wearing bum looker rhyming the same word 4 times in 8 different bars about the repression of his race.

The Argumentalizer

2010-01-23 12:41:26

Its a joke right?!?! These are some of the finest songs ever? The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?!??!

Freakin Jimmy Buffet?
Please tell me its a joke.

provost

2010-01-23 17:32:48

We clearly have different taste, but I LOOOOOOOOOVE UNKLE's work.

some of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJTJR83wWfI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWf7tHhnjMc

Blasphemy

2010-01-23 18:46:45

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sisterFISTER

2010-01-23 21:37:47

The Argumentalizer wrote:Its a joke right?!?! These are some of the finest songs ever? The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?!??!

Freakin Jimmy Buffet?
Please tell me its a joke.

i could see the argument with gordon lightfoot, but buffet is pro dude, idk wtf your talking about.

Tranthor

2010-01-23 23:18:23

all I have to say is GENTLE FUCKIN' GIANT

two snails

2010-01-23 23:34:47

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Blasphemy

2010-01-24 00:18:12

I like me some John Darnielle.

lead

2010-01-24 00:31:06

provost wrote:We clearly have different taste, but I LOOOOOOOOOVE UNKLE's work.

some of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJTJR83wWfI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWf7tHhnjMc

you have good taste m8 love unkle's remix of FEAR

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Briggs

2010-01-24 06:21:37

I just thought I'd throw this out there and see if I get yelled at.... but its what I listen to so meh.

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Tranthor

2010-01-24 07:38:30

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Nutri-Grain

2010-01-24 07:48:44

Miley Cyrus.

Beef

2010-01-24 08:16:13

Ah, hells yeah. Great fucken thread. Especially when drunk!

ok:
Ol' Loudo:

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I too am a Lightfoot fan, but it's this song that kicks my ass:

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Yay Mountain Goats, boo bad lip sync:

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The "Punk Monk" Stuart Davis

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ninojman

2010-01-24 08:42:32

sisterFISTER wrote:I'm drunk

Paradox

2010-01-24 09:39:40

Yeah I like Lightfoot and Jimmy Buffet too. I own albums from both.

For newer stuff I have albums from Breaking Benjamin and Nickelback.
I also like a lot of classic rock like Rush, The Who, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Robert Palmer and bunch of others.

Ghost Dog_TSGK

2010-01-24 13:27:18

RIDE THE TIGAH

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EDIT: Bow to it.

two snails

2010-01-24 18:41:58

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CellarDweller

2010-01-24 19:05:56

i dont necessarily agree with this list:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs

but its fun to click on the song of your choice and get a some background on its origins.

<kyle>

2010-01-24 19:46:30

Link

Paradox

2010-01-24 20:09:54

lol I think this thread went from a best song writers to what is your favorite music

keefy

2010-01-25 01:55:54

Feddie Mercury Good writing, great voice.

Tranthor

2010-01-25 03:03:08

Link

the_big_cheese

2010-01-25 05:26:46

Frank Zappa

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Tranthor

2010-01-25 07:39:20

Yeahhh Frank Zappa

I went to see Zappa Plays Zappa over the summer, it was rad

ether

2010-01-25 08:40:56

I like to play HL2DM in a thong with this cranking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqqdZZddFE and my 70-year old Mom pole dancing in the corner.

If you only see it, your eyes would burn.

Paradox

2010-01-26 02:27:19

lol not an image I needed......but funny nonetheless

old time no.7

2010-01-29 05:29:05

what i like.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA
gilscott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psvCUWze ... re=related
nirvana rape me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0j0GCbMC7A
ratm bullet in the head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUx6wGC ... re=related
flying lotus

madlib aka lord quas quasimoto. deep crate. dude redid teh whole blue note label by himself as a five piece quintet.
aka yesterday's new quintet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RleIPAaAoyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUZ7-C0w ... re=related
mfdoom gazilionare good shit.

night night kids

ninjins

2010-02-01 05:50:36

lmfao @ edmund fitzgerald

Idk what you guys consider "the best song writers ever" because that's a matter of opinion really. But here's what I classify as 'innovative'. Something most people don't know about. Yeah that's right I said it. Now go listen to your fucking Nickleback.

Something I've been listening to lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8

I worship Animal Collective. They are my gods.

two snails

2010-02-01 05:56:04

Link

Tranthor

2010-02-01 06:24:33

The Argumentalizer

2010-02-01 07:02:14

Steely Dan (favorite writers) and my favorite pop tune of all time.
I love it.
Babylon Sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiy09DIsZFU

And i know, GHEY! but i love this silly tune also, and as Songwriters, awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUAMvd9cyQ

And this tune is just great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV8ARjMqBVM

And for songwriters, none better than McCartney/Lennon/Harrison
This tune set a high bar for a pop tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxyJLxV0_-8

Songwriters don't get much better than this guy. This tune is one of my favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChN-6VDakA
And here is a great songwriter team, Jagger/Richards, with a tune that sends chills down my spine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4

Lots of folks sell him short and hate him, but when i was High School, he was almost as big as Zeppelin.
He wrote this piece of Americana that i truly love. What a great song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ExmL4LzCk

I'll quti with another GREAT songwriter and a song you can ID from the first chord.
This one song reminds me of being 13 more than anything in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0WCQadt864

I'll stop with a tribute to his awesomeness and genius with this little tune, which is about the most beautiful and complex masterpiece i have ever heard.
Listen to it a few times at least, you'll get it. And then try to play it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmeznspMIc

OMG that is awesome! I'll call it my No. 1 TUNE since it is an instrumental.
Jeeeez that is genius.

EDIT: I have to add three songs that changed the face of modern music, two that are revolutionary and changed what is capable and one that is just plain beautiful
Songwriters are Brian Wilson/Carl Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeD_6Y3GQc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58

And this gorgeous little song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc

Tranthor

2010-02-01 07:54:16

Zappa is the only overly talented, unique, or impressive one of that bunch, argumentalizer

The Argumentalizer

2010-02-01 08:13:13

Wrong!
That is just plain wrong.
The thread is about songwriters, no?

WOW, being a fan of techno/industrial stuff, that Animal Collective sounds like Brian Wilson with a DJ rig!
That shit is hot.

I dig the visceral electronics and layering.

Haha! The Black page No. 2, starring Chad Wackerman (not Terry Bozzio), Scott Thunes (pronounced Tune is)on bass, Bobby Harris on Key and Sax, the amazing Tommy Marrs on Keys, Ed Mann on percussion, Ike Willis on vocals and Ray White!

two snails

2010-02-01 09:27:42

poetry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A

The Argumentalizer

2010-02-01 12:13:26

Ace of Base!?!?! AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

Tranthor

2010-02-02 06:36:46

Gogol Bordello is rad
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Ha ... ta/8374826

two snails

2010-02-02 08:42:33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A

ninjins

2010-02-02 11:40:24

I will shove them up my rear. They are still my gods and just as innovative.

{EE}chEmicalbuRn

2010-02-02 16:46:47

keefy wrote:Feddie Mercury Good writing, great voice.

amen brotha.

my favorite, hands down......

Trent Reznor

lead

2010-02-02 22:28:15

can't believe jagger/richards and lennon/mccartney arent here

neither are radiohead

The Argumentalizer

2010-02-02 23:43:46

I have Stones and Beatles on my list.
Radiohead are horrible, so they don't make the cut.

two snails

2010-02-03 03:03:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A

Tranthor

2010-02-03 05:56:56

lead wrote:neither are radiohead

The Argumentalizer wrote: Radiohead are horrible, so they don't make the cut.

^
This at least I can agree with you on. Radiohead is just awful.

Now, Beardfish, on the other hand...
Same with Porcupine Tree, Bigelf, Anglagard, Transatlantic,

Turns out there are good modern rock bands. Not Radiohead though

And tiggy, just sos you don't misunderstand me, Animal Collective is dece, they're just not innovative

ninjins

2010-02-03 07:24:14

I guess that's everyone's opinions but I for instance happen to love Radiohead. And I also think Animal Collective are innovative. I like music for the feel and not based on some standardized, set in stone, template for what "good songwriting" is.

two snails

2010-02-03 07:27:09

dont make me post it again.

dbanimal

2010-02-03 20:26:28

Well if you want to take into consideration of great song writers and who are very talented as far as the instruments they play, I would have to vote Dream Theater. Very talented musicians and they put a ton of thought into their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saiVkeI9 ... re=related

The Argumentalizer

2010-02-03 21:02:15

Well, i REALLY like The Bends, especially Just. Its a great album of songs. Everything after that seems to be a bunch of effects or unidentifiable guitar with mumbly singing or outright WTF is this?!?!
Frankly, OK Computer seems about as over-rated as any album could be. JMHO.

lead

2010-02-03 21:51:58

The Smiths were also amazing songwriters Morrisey for his lyrics and Johnny Marr for his guitar playing who can argue with the following lines:

Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again ?
The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself

Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music they constantly play

On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
Provincial towns you jog 'round
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ

and one of their best live performances

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two snails

2010-02-03 22:48:25

lead wrote:The Smiths were also amazing songwriters

yesssss. even morrisseys new album is awesome.

Tranthor

2010-02-05 01:40:19

TiGGy wrote:I guess that's everyone's opinions but I for instance happen to love Radiohead. And I also think Animal Collective are innovative. I like music for the feel and not based on some standardized, set in stone, template for what "good songwriting" is.

Everything Animal Collective "innovates" has been done before, is what I was saying

And Dream Theater is decent but that's not a very good song. Try "The Glass Prison."

More good song writers:
Syd Barrett