Rate these male song writers 1 to 10

Bob Marley

Mick Jones

Lou Reed

Kurt Cobain

Cole Porter

Vince Clark

Prince

Barry White

Elvis Costello

Johnny Cash

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Elvis Costello
Prince
the rest

bob fucking marley? are you joking?

I'm by no means a big fan of the genre, but Marley was a pretty fuckin' terrific songwriter.

Johnny Cash
Lou Reed
Elvis Costello
Bob Marley
Prince
Cole Porter
Kurt Cobain
Barry White
Mick Jones

Lou Reed when it gets late.

Prince when its gettin' CRUNK.

thats all you need for a party.

Not the list I would have made, but it's got it's highlights... Reed / Costello being two of them.

Dylan/Stevens/Reed/Lennon etc.

Agreed, but the omission of both Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits basically makes the whole thing null and void.

Drink Coke, play again.

1. Cole Porter
2. Elvis Costello
3. Prince
4. Lou Reed
5. Johnny Cash
6. Bob Marley
7. Mick Jones
8. Kurt Cobain
9. Barry White
10. Vince Clark

I was going to say Cohen too... and Burt Bacharach, if you care about half the hits that were written in the 70s.

(I'm a sucker for Rain drops keep fallin on my head, and I just don't know what to do with myself)

I've noticed that a lot of people seem to hate reggae around here. Is there some reason for that? Or is it just because it's standard frat boy fare that it's become marginalized?

Nothing wrong with it. I enjoy it, but don't have a strong interest in it.

LIke some things, perhaps I just have not been exposed to it enough to really get into it.

Reggae has generally been ruined by smelly hippies.

[Edited on Mar 16, 2005 by sadisticmika]

Who is Vince Clark?

A barely important pervayor of synth pop.


[Edited on Mar 16, 2005 by sadisticmika]

hmm, depeche mode, yazoo and erasure. a pioneer of electronic music and a preservor of analogue synth. I'd say he was more than a foot note. but then, he didnt do all the writing alone.

...and bob marley is someone i've just got sick to death of hearing, which probably is a shame.

Boys say Go vs Watching the Detectives, that's all I'm sayin'

(meaning, he may be important to synth pop, but as a real song writer, meh, I wouldn't include him)


[Edited on Mar 16, 2005 by sadisticmika]

That's exactly how I feel. I took the ten guys listed and ranked them according to songcraft. Vince Clark, huge contributor to music, but not to songwriting.

Sorry but did you just put Prince ABOVE Johnny Cash?

Some part of me just died.

Mick Jones without Joe Strummer? What's the fucking point of that? Unless there's a fanatical B.A.D. fanclub I've missed.