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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Your top 5 lyricists
These are mine:

-Eddie Vedder >This guy can connect to me with lyrics like no other can<
-Bob Dylan
-Neil Peart
-Joni Mitchell
-Lennon/McCartney >cliché? NO!<



some other favorites: Neil Young, Jerry Cantrell, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Mikael Akerfeldt, etc...
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
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dylan
lennon/mccartney
simon/garfunkel


over/under on how many people will list akerfeldt and/or swano = 40
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:35 AM   #3 (permalink)
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While Akerfeldt does get respect from me as a lyricist (not in my top 5 by any means, though), Swano is like one of the bottom 10 in my list.
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:37 AM   #4 (permalink)
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-Jonas Renkse
-Neil Peart
-Morrissey
-Bob Dylan
-David Sylvian
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:41 AM   #5 (permalink)
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HOLY SHIT!!! how could i forget Morrissey?
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:41 AM   #6 (permalink)
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-Scott Weiland
-Mikael Akerfeldt
-Layne Staley/Jerry Cantrell
-LES CLAYPOOL
-Thom Yorke
In no particular order.
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:43 AM   #7 (permalink)
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+1 for Staley/Cantrell
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Old August 6th, 2006, 12:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
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HOLY SHIT!!! how could i forget Morrissey?
yeah the guy owns
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Old August 6th, 2006, 01:34 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Neil Peart
Maynard James Keenan
Neil Young
Roger Waters
Jerry Cantrell

Mike's lyrics are beautiful sometimes but usually they're meaningless, to me atleast.
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Old August 6th, 2006, 01:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Difficult to pick just 5, although Arthur Lee would be right up there with the best of them.

Check out the lyrics to Forever Changes guys, see below...

http://www.utterlyrics.com/l/love/forever-changes-1967/

"By the time that I'm through singing
The bells from the schools of wars will be ringing"

^ These are the correct words to verse 3 of the song "A house is not a motel"

Awesome.
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Old August 6th, 2006, 03:38 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Neil Peart
David Eugene Edwards
Joni Mitchell
Morrissey
Bob Dylan
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Old August 6th, 2006, 03:57 AM   #12 (permalink)
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dylan
lennon/mccartney
simon/garfunkel


over/under on how many people will list akerfeldt and/or swano = 40
add joni mitchell to this and PERIOD, was listening to S&G last night man their lyrics pwn
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