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The Clash

I thought about adding The Clash, but Paul and Topper only wrote a handful of songs combined. They recorded more covers than Simonon or Headon originals. And that probably also goes for songs they collaborated with the other members on. That's also why I left The Stones out. Sorry guys. But it's Jagger/Richards.

Yeah I thought about it but then realized, they may not have written A LOT of songs but they did write GREAT songs. So technically they fit the bill.

All of Guns & Roses wrote but principally Axl, Izzy and Duff.

Squeeze - Difford, Tilbrook, Carrack

Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curley

Highwaymen (Cash/Nelson/Jennings/Kristofferson)
10cc (Gouldman/Stewart/Creme/Godley)

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Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curley

Yeah and Metallica Hetfield-Ulrich-Burton-Hemmitt

2 1 2 0

Cream

Baker (Sweet wine) Bruce (Sunshine of your love) and Clapton (Badge, alot afterwards)

Ultimately the arrangement that we all come to know and love is down to the band as a collective unit, so doesn't that undermine the importance of the songwriter as an individual?

NRBQ:
original group:
Terry Adams
Joey Spampinato
Steve Ferguson

later editions:
Al Anderson
Johnny Spampinato
Scott Ligon

Madness.I believe all 7 contribute.

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Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curley

Plus the alternates - Shemp & Joe

The Hollies.
The Monkees.
Chicago had more than 3.

Led Zeppelin

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Cream

Baker (Sweet wine) Bruce (Sunshine of your love) and Clapton (Badge, alot afterwards)

Ultimately the arrangement that we all come to know and love is down to the band as a collective unit, so doesn't that undermine the importance of the songwriter as an individual?

The thing about Cream was that they were a 3-man group with 4 songwriters. They got a lot of their lyrics from poet Pete Brown, as a lot of Cream's output is credited to Bruce/Brown. One of Ginger Baker's gripes is that Pete Brown makes more money off of Cream than he does ["by a considerable margin"].

Pressed rats... don't cut it...

Someone above mentioned Fleetwood Mac. There's a pretty solid example. Buckingham, Nicks and McVie all had a load of great tunes. FM isn't as universally loved as the Beatles, but they were a band of great collective talent.

Drive By Truckers: Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

Genesis (when they were good) - Gabriel, Rutherford, Banks

Replacements

Kiss

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Blue Oyster Cult
Buck Dharma
Eric Bloom
Allen Lanier
Albert Bouchard
Joe Bouchard

X2

This was the first group that came to mind for me -- all contributed songs in their canon considered classics. Also they also all collaborated with each other, and with many outside talented writers such as Patti Smith (and in-house S. Pearlman and R. Meltzer). Truly a brilliant collective.

As much as I love the Beach Boys, Who, Velvet Underground -- casting them as 3 deep is a stretch. I love like 3 Carl Wilson songs but he (unlike Dennis and obviously Brian) was not a great writer. In VU you have Lou and maybe Cale. Daltrey isn't a writer.

And yes -- NRBQ!

Traffic - Winwood/Capaldi/Mason.

The Doors

The Wailers-- Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston

Fairport Convention - Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Dave Swarbrick, Ashley Hutchings

Wailers - good one.

Dirty Mac
Superheavy
Traveling Wilburys

Young/Young/Scott then Young/Young/Johnson
DLR/EddieVH/AlexVH/Mike Anthony
Lee/Peart/Lifeson

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The thing about Cream was that they were a 3-man group with 4 songwriters. They got a lot of their lyrics from poet Pete Brown, as a lot of Cream's output is credited to Bruce/Brown. One of Ginger Baker's gripes is that Pete Brown makes more money off of Cream than he does ["by a considerable margin"].

Yeah, Ginger gripes about Pete quite a bit, sometimes he can be downright venomous about the guy. Which is why I was so surprised to recently learn, at least according to Classic Albums: Disraeli Gears, that Ginger is the one who brought Pete in. Ginger brought him in to write with, but it didn't take off and the partnership with Jack ended up working.

Nobody said Kiss?

Frehely, Simmons, Stanley, Criss ^^

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The Beatles were the best and everyone since has followed and copied but just imagine how much better they could have been if George had been allowed to do more.
Lennon and McCartney are proberbly the greatest songwriters of all time but with George, wow, how good could they have been.

X-pensive Winos (Richards Wachtel Jordan)

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The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards/Wood)
The Byrds (McGuinn/Hillmann/Clark/Crosby/White/Gram Parsons/Gene Parsons)
Status Quo (Francis Rossi/Rick Parfitt/Alan Lancaster)
The Faces (Wood/Lane/Stewart)
The Who (Townsend/Daltry/Entwhistle)

+ many more...

I love The Who, but I wouldn't put them as a three talented song writer category. Daltry's writing output has been very small, often with not very good results.

Motörhead
Hawkwind
Fleetwood Mac-Peter Green
Patti Smith Group
Sonic Youth
Humble Pie
Quicksilver
Black Sabbath
The Soft Machine