Favourite Musicans/songwriters.

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:21 am**

1. Shane
2. Tom Waits
3. Bruce Springsteen (the old stuff)
4. Satchmo
5. Jem Finer

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:22 am**

Add to the above:
Bob Marley
Bruce Springsteen
Leonard Cohen
Patti Smith
PJ Harvey

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:30 am**

in no partcular order

zack da la rocha
shane obvisuly
the behans dominic and brendan
van morrision even tho he is chessy at times
ewan mcoll
pete st jhon
phill coulter
dylan
neil young

goes on forever really

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:26 pm**

What about Hank Williams, you can elements of his work in lot of other artists like i.e. Shane!

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:29 pm**

jonny rotten anyone!!

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:48 pm**

5. Bob Dylan
4.Christy Moore
3.Bill Bialey ( one of the funniest men on the planet)
2.Tenacious D ( i no theres 2 of them but ther so amazing)
1.Shane MacGowan obviously

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:03 pm**

Recently i've really got into Ian Dury, a truly great song writer and an amzing bloke aswell.

Ian Dury R.I.P

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:15 pm**

Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Paul Simon
Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plíhal
(The Pogues go without saying, of course.)

Btw, a pain in the neck that we can hardly share our favourite songwriters from non-English speaking countries. E.g. the above mentioned Czechs, Nohavica and Plíhal, are absolutely great – both as musicians and as lyricists, their songs varying from lyrical up to incredibly crazy ones with terrific puns and verbal humour. Makes me think what great songwriters are unknown just because they write in languages other than English. To hell with those forefathers of ours who caused the language confusion when building the Babel Tower!

**Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:47 pm**

how could i forget bob marley!

**Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:00 am**

Oh, and (not previously mentioned, i think):

Ray Davies
John Martyn

And Zuzana, yes, you're right, we miss out on so much by not being multilingual. It's possible still to appreciate the quality of the music, or even the passion and beauty of the song in an unknown language, but the lyrics are a mystery...

**Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:09 am**

firehazard wrote:Ray Davies

Exactly!!! I was thinking about him

**Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:39 pm**

Simon Maguire wrote:jonny rotten anyone!!

No fucking way :roll:

**Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:46 pm**

goodbar wrote:how could i forget bob marley!

good point bob has inspired may of the musicans that people have been listing

another forgotten name from the lists is mike ness from social distortion who has written many good songs in his career

**Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:27 pm**

antoney kedis from red hot chilli peppers wrote great stuff aswel.

**Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:23 pm**

Favourite Songwriters, without who's mighty work my life would be much, much less rich.

Guy Clark
Smokey Robinson
Strummer and Jones
Tom Waits
Nick Lowe
Mick Thomas
Shane Macgowan
Hank Williams
Dan Penn

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