who's in your opinion the best singer songwriter?

According to me:

Bob Dylan
Jagger/Richards
Chuck Berry
Bruce Springsteen

Jagger/Richards & Robert Johnson..........say it all for me.

ROCKMAN

I of coarse have to mention my boys Mick and Keith but besides them here are a few...

Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Jim Morrison
Robert Johnson
Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia
Neil Peart

Led Zeppelin
Dylan
Neil Young

Besides Mick 'n Keef there's a ton of old blues legends. Also Lennon/McCartney of course. Furthermore I could name Kurt Cobain as a very good singer songwriter.

JumpingKentFlash

This is a very specific topic....there is no better singer/songwriter/arranger (remember that term?) than Van 'the man'. I'm sorry but he just knows what goes where and nobody sings better with a band.

But if I had to split:
I would give songwriting to Dylan or Prine
I would give singer to Van
nobody uses the term arranger any more

Singer/songwriter/arranger?

Brian Wilson

Add in Paul Simon, Carol King and Billy Joel.

Jagger/Richards
Lennon/McCartney
Jim Morrison
Dylan

Raise your glass to the good and the evil, Let's drink to the salt of the earth.

Of course Mick and Keith plus Bob Dylan and Lou Reed.

hi
1.jagger/richards- they have done it all.. no one i mean no one has written as much different kinds of music for as long..

2.paul/john
3. chuck berry
4. elton john
5. michael jackson... i don't like him, but..can't take it away from him!
6. bob dylan

Lennon/McCartney
Jagger/Richards
Strummer/Jones
Elvis Costello
Paul Westerberg

My choices (in this order):

1. Roger McGuinn
2. Jagger/Richards
3. Leadbelly
4. Bob Dylan
5. Astbury/Duffy
6. Nick Drake
7. Gram Parsons
8. Olson/Louris
9. Lennon/McCartney
10.Chuck Berry

Lennon/McCartney
Jagger/Richards
Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry
Young Brothers

Michael Jackson
Jagger/Richards
Stevie Wonder
Prince
Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Lou Reed
Lennon/McCartney
Steve Winwood



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Ralf & Florian

Don`t forget the lads in King Crimson

I thought "singer/songwriter" usually referred to a person who wrote/sung independant of a regular band. Like, say, James Taylor or Carole King. Anyway, aside from Dylan, who is in a league of his own, my votes would be for the Canadians:

Leonard Cohen and Neil Young.

She was black... and her eyes were blue!

These are mine, at the moment

1) Jagger-Richards
2) Richards-
3) Nanker-Phelge
4) Phil Lynott (go thru the catalogue e.g. 1972-1981...)
5) Jim Morrison-R.Krieger-R.Manzarek-J.Densmore
6) Larsen-Beckerlee-Jönsson-Mogensen (Danish group Gasolin´)
7) Kobor-Mihály-Molnar-Szülei-Adamis-Presser
(in various constellations; Hungarian porogressive band Omega,
exactly as old as Stones as a group and still goin strong).
8) Nick Cave
9) Whoever wrote the songs in King Crimson.
10) Gillan-Glover-Paice-Lord-Blackmore (DP mark II)
11) Trad

Sorry, forgot Chuck Berry!

And "porogressive" is not an unknown style,
you who´ve already seen this strange word may have guessed
I meant progressive.

One could say Cohen, Dylan, Lennon/McCartney; but I see many others do -
and I´m quite fed up with them.

Yes. I'd have to say the guys from Gasolin' too. There's some really good music from this group. Rabalderstræde, Refrainet Er Frit, Stakkels Jim etc. All of them very good rock songs. They are the Danish Rolling Stones for sure.

JumpingKentFlash

Jan en Zwaan

At last; we´ve hit a hot spot here;
"Gasserne" as they´re called at home.
Read this below or go to [www.karma.dk]
Had a chat this summer with our rented summer cottage (at Fyn, Gasolin´s singer Kim Larsens current home island) with our chimney sweeper back there... He used to see Larsen every now and then in downtown Odense. Cool.
For novices; Gasolin´existed 1969-1978 and made Scandinavias heaviest and rolliest rockenrål during that period. Guitarist Franz Beckerlee nowadays makes junk art from trashed cars (well, he seems to have been a real far out junkie along, say, 1972-75... He is as close to Hendrix as a guitarist can be without copying; takin ol´ Jimi a bit further, I´d day. Big-eyed Jönsson was a driving bassist. Sören Berlev one of the most canonading wardrumming rockenrål drummer the world have seen, most active - and youngest - of the boys (born 1942-1950)= thats Gasolin´.
You rock ´n´roll fans out there ready for trying out those Danish Stones-answers; why don´t you start with the record Gas III or Stakkels Jim. There are also some more recent compilations that are good. larsen solo is as uninteresting as Jagger... Which, in fact, is interesting in itself: Both have been called "whiggers". Larsens main influence is said to be Ledbelly.
My favorite Gasolin´rock songs: "Det var Inga, Katinka og smukke Charlie på sin Harley"(1973, Gas III); "Bob-Shi-Bam" (1977, Gör det noget); "Det bedste til mig og mine venner" (same); "Daddy Ding-Dong" (1974, Stakkels Jim or Gas 4); "På banen (derudaf)" (1972, Gas II); "Kap Farvel til Ümanarssuaq"(1974, Stakkels Jim or Gas 4); "Girl You Got Me Lonely"(1978, Killing Time, in English).
Finally; I have to adjust my own statement above: Kim Larsen have made two terrific album and one quite good: The former are "Vaersgo" from 1973, "Kim Larsen og Yankeedrengerne" from 1977 with American session musicians, where he make some fine Chuck Berry-covers (other tímes - on an EP - he has made Leiber-Stollers "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello" in a way that would have made Elvis proud. The quite good solo album is with The @#$%& from 1977, where he makes some fabulous job with Stig Möller. Guitarist Beckerlee have not really made it solo either, I hear some stuff he did with Christianshavn Blues Band (it can still happen?) is O.K. I dont recall drummer Berlevs new group.
Scandinavian rock in 1977-78 was terrifyingly good; with Hurriganes in Finland, Nationalteatern and an awakening punk scene in Sweden, and Gasolin´in Denmark (sorry Norway)... And, remember: Gasolin´ i s Denmarks Stones.
No shit.

Where are you from Baboon Bro??? Wrie me man: JumpingKentFlash@hotmail.com

JumpingKentFlash

I´m writing, Kent: I´m Swedish... Says the passport.
It´s a gas gas gas - JJF came in ´69, right? Where did Gasolin´ pick their name in the first place... ? I´ve heard they wanted to set people on Fire. Though.

I think the story was that they wanted a name that was rockish and it should say that it would be like a gasoline using machine when they play. Then they was named Gasoline, but dropped the last e because it simply looked better. I never heard that they wanted to set people on fire. But they sure did at concerts. My dad was at some of them. He still has an orange silk scarf bought at one of the concerts.

If you're a fan I can tell you this: A Gasolin' Anthology DVD (Like Beatles Anthology, though not that long) is coming out later this year or next year. It's gonna be great.

JumpingKentFlash

i really,have to agree with dylan,even though the stones are my favorite,and there best 30 songs rival anyones.the amazing thing with dylan and im sure most would agree,he simply never runs out of great new material.his last 2 records 97'time out of mind,and 01,love and theft are both masterpieces,and thats after 40 or so studio albums.really incredible.

john scialfa



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Mozart.

GOLDSMITH........nice to see Paul Westerberg's name. He was and still is a great tunesmith, with the Replacements (second favorite band after the Stones) and solo. The Replacements were great, they didnt give a SHIT ! What attitude. They were their own worst enemy.....never a commercial success (1 top 40 hit i 1988) but The band, and Westerberg in particular, have been so influential to so many bands/musicians/writers. Westerberg has been one of the true unique originals to come along since many of the writers listed above. I think he is great. Love his acoustic stuff and his lyrics

If any of you want to listen to some new "old" stuff check out the Replacements and Westerberg on WinMx. If you like the Stones chances are you will connect with The Replacements/Westerberg solo.......and they sound nothing like the Stones.

Milo, NYC
Throw me down the keys

Too Rude III Wrote:
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> I thought "singer/songwriter" usually referred to
> a person who wrote/sung independant of a regular
> band. Like, say, James Taylor or Carole King.
> Anyway, aside from Dylan, who is in a league of
> his own, my votes would be for the Canadians:
>
> Leonard Cohen and Neil Young.
>
> She was black... and her eyes were blue!

That's what I think too, but everyone was just posting their favorite songwriters... so I did the same.

Kent, you should use gmailbecause you have 1GB storage. And such a popular guy as you needs lot of storage..I can send you an invitation if you want to...