Best songwriters

Jagger-Richards..... right next to lennon-Macartney

Nick Cave, for The Mercy Seat.

Will Oldham, for I See A Darkness, and a few more.

Traditional, for Folk.

Originally posted by whodey
You thought the other two were serious? 😲

Ok, you have a sense of Yuma🙂 (You won't get lost in Arizona)

Originally posted by pete3246
Jagger-Richards..... right next to lennon-Macartney

I dont know man... I thought the Stones more bluesy and less experimental with their chord changes- although I have heard only half of the Stones music whereas I have heard nearly all the beatles stuff

Burt Bacharach
Charles Trenet
John Barry
Henri Mancini
Arsen Dedic

Originally posted by vandervelde
Burt Bacharach
Charles Trenet
John Barry
Henri Mancini
Arsen Dedic

Serge Gainsbourg
Henri Salvador
Georges Brassens
Jacques Brel
Barbara

Leo Ferre ... not so much.

- Atahualpa Yupanqui

David Foster has had quite an input of originally written songs of the second millenia (The Prayer being memorable)

So has Pierpaolo Guerrini.

How could Andrew Lloyd Webber not be in the list?

Nor Stock/Aitken/Waterman?

And even though very popsical, but with a self-developed style of chordal repetition, the second best selling group of all time behind the Beatles, is of course ABBA.

I would have thought the above would have some recognition in a list of best songwriters.

-m. 😉

Originally posted by mikelom
How could Andrew Lloyd Webber not be in the list?

Nor Stock/Aitken/Waterman?

For the same reason that you won't find McDonald's and Pizza Hut on a list of best restaurants. They may be succesful, but success doesn't equal high quality.

Richard