Some of my favourites. - Warren Zevon, John Prine, Guy Clark, John Hiatt, John Stewar, David Oney, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, Lucinda Williams, John Mellencamp, Rory Gallagher, Sturgill Simpson, Nanci Griffith.
His songs were largely about nothing in particular, or the stories they told were trivial. He rarely made meaningful observations about society. His melodies are great, but i feel you have to be a jack of all trades to be considered the greatest.
David Gilmour isn't on this list? Does he not sing enough or write enough songs for the band, in your opinion? I also have to do my obligatory shoutouts. James Hetfield, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Davies, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bono, Mark Knopfler, Ric Ocasek, Steve Miller, Tom Petty, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Geddy Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Bob Seger, Todd Rundgren, and Jack White all deserve consideration and recognition.
I love Gilmour as a guitarist and singer and musician, but his songwriting skills were never the strongest. he did have some great songs like fat old sun and the chorus of comfortably numb, but roger seemed to carry most of the songwriting duties during the 70s
Daltrey is the lead singer but Pete still shared lead vocals on a ton of songs. I didn't put him that high though bc he's not "the singer" in the same way that Robert Plant or Kurt Cobain is
High you mean, above prince, carole king, lou reed. All of which have albums far surpassing out of the blue. Tapestry, the velvet underground and nico, velvet underground, purple rain. And aside from sufjan Stevens, and cobain he didn't place any artists from the 90s onwards. Jeff lynne was taken over black francis, thom yorke, jeff buckley, jeff mangum, elliot smith, morrissey, ray davies, sade, d'angelo, damon albarn, robert smith, fiona apple, ozzy osbourne and many other songwriters. Given all that, jeff lynne's placement is incredibly generous.
@@tangytangerine9021i dont think so, he actually deserves top 15, you cant compair someone like thom yorke or cobain bc thy never made that much intersting and new music like jeff did, he remastered the beatles albums, even lennon said that if beatles were in 70's they would sound like ELO. and as everybody knows the beatles is the best band
@@highagzeppeli7409 jeff lynne's remastering work isn't songwriting though. i can get behind what you said about cobain, but definitely not thom, jeff lynne always played within the symphonic pop zone, while thom did britpop, space rock, electronic and even jazz on his new project "the smile". Thom's body of work is far more interesting and varied imo. That's all kind of besides the point though, jeff lynne simply doesn't have one definitive album that stands out as on par or better than say, a purple rain or an ok computer. Elo also lacks the influence of others on the list and even outside of it, ok computer shook the rock world when it came out, basically forming the template for cerebral rock music going forward, nevermind launched alternative music into the mainstream. Elo didn't have that kind of impact, they didn't create musical movements, they didn't create a genre defining album like most all in the list did.
@@tangytangerine9021 1st elo opened wide orchester music in rock 2nd raiohead shook mtv's "rock" 3rd ofc radiohead is more popular bc in 90's every body already had a tv and in 00's pc 4th elo have define them is out of the blue 1977 that had sold 10 mil records what is an ubeliveble for 2disc albums 5th rafiohead did not invented anything "new" they just copied art rock of 70's and did it 100x poppier
@@highagzeppeli7409 i will agree to some extent the radiohead made underground and obscure sounds more accessible or "poppier", but i do disagree with your assessment that their main influence was from the 70s, the only 70s sound i hear would be the space rock proggy elements on ok computer, but i don't hear that on any other album. I think they drew more from their contemporaries and the idm scene. Regarding your point about elo, orchestral arrangements had been in pop long before elo. look at essentially most of traditional pop, sinatra and his contemporaries. Even the beatles were quite big on orchestral arrangements. And as for out of the blue, yeah it sold well, but sales don't dictate influence. I won't say they aren't influential, but elo compared to a Prince? Artists that deserve to be on such a list have to have influence on a similar level. my point about radiohead wasn't their success, but how many alternative acts followed in their footsteps and based their sound off of them. And radiohead isn't the sole example, every artist i listed in my previous comment has had a great deal of influence. Morrissey? The smiths influenced so many indie guitar acts, even today. Ray Davies? The kinks basically invented riff based rock, and invented britpop, in sound and in spirit. Black francis? The pixies were hugely influential, defining both the mainstream and alternative of the 90s, nirvana and most of grunge owe their style to them, radiohead cites them as a huge influence, even a pop act like weezer was influenced by them. These artists that aren't on the list have such groundbreaking bodies of works that created entire movements and artists in their wake. Yet jeff lynne was placed above them, yes elo had quite some commercial success and visibility, but you literally can't say they had a greater legacy than the artists i just listed.
Some of my favourites. - Warren Zevon, John Prine, Guy Clark, John Hiatt, John Stewar, David Oney, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, Lucinda Williams, John Mellencamp, Rory Gallagher, Sturgill Simpson, Nanci Griffith.
Bro is never Running out of ideas 😭
Bro is creating Ideas 💡
Syd Barrett is my favourite songwriter
Shame he didn't get to write more songs with PF
Rick Davies or Roger Hodgson - Supertramp?
Thx for Joni ❤
Paul McCartney is the greatest
His songs were largely about nothing in particular, or the stories they told were trivial. He rarely made meaningful observations about society. His melodies are great, but i feel you have to be a jack of all trades to be considered the greatest.
David Gilmour isn't on this list? Does he not sing enough or write enough songs for the band, in your opinion? I also have to do my obligatory shoutouts. James Hetfield, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Davies, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bono, Mark Knopfler, Ric Ocasek, Steve Miller, Tom Petty, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Geddy Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Bob Seger, Todd Rundgren, and Jack White all deserve consideration and recognition.
David didnt write many songs when he was in pink floyd
I love Gilmour as a guitarist and singer and musician, but his songwriting skills were never the strongest. he did have some great songs like fat old sun and the chorus of comfortably numb, but roger seemed to carry most of the songwriting duties during the 70s
How is Pete Townshend a singer songwriter when Roger Daltrey was the lead singer of the Who
Daltrey is the lead singer but Pete still shared lead vocals on a ton of songs. I didn't put him that high though bc he's not "the singer" in the same way that Robert Plant or Kurt Cobain is
No tom Petty?
Steven Tyler?
Great list, man, but Michael jackson? hell NO.
Yea because the person who wrote Billie Jean while just beat boxing in his car is totally undeserving. You are delusional
jeff lynn is unbelibly low
High you mean, above prince, carole king, lou reed. All of which have albums far surpassing out of the blue. Tapestry, the velvet underground and nico, velvet underground, purple rain. And aside from sufjan Stevens, and cobain he didn't place any artists from the 90s onwards. Jeff lynne was taken over black francis, thom yorke, jeff buckley, jeff mangum, elliot smith, morrissey, ray davies, sade, d'angelo, damon albarn, robert smith, fiona apple, ozzy osbourne and many other songwriters. Given all that, jeff lynne's placement is incredibly generous.
@@tangytangerine9021i dont think so, he actually deserves top 15, you cant compair someone like thom yorke or cobain bc thy never made that much intersting and new music like jeff did, he remastered the beatles albums, even lennon said that if beatles were in 70's they would sound like ELO. and as everybody knows the beatles is the best band
@@highagzeppeli7409 jeff lynne's remastering work isn't songwriting though.
i can get behind what you said about cobain, but definitely not thom, jeff lynne always played within the symphonic pop zone, while thom did britpop, space rock, electronic and even jazz on his new project "the smile". Thom's body of work is far more interesting and varied imo.
That's all kind of besides the point though, jeff lynne simply doesn't have one definitive album that stands out as on par or better than say, a purple rain or an ok computer. Elo also lacks the influence of others on the list and even outside of it, ok computer shook the rock world when it came out, basically forming the template for cerebral rock music going forward, nevermind launched alternative music into the mainstream. Elo didn't have that kind of impact, they didn't create musical movements, they didn't create a genre defining album like most all in the list did.
@@tangytangerine9021 1st elo opened wide orchester music in rock 2nd raiohead shook mtv's "rock" 3rd ofc radiohead is more popular bc in 90's every body already had a tv and in 00's pc 4th elo have define them is out of the blue 1977 that had sold 10 mil records what is an ubeliveble for 2disc albums 5th rafiohead did not invented anything "new" they just copied art rock of 70's and did it 100x poppier
@@highagzeppeli7409 i will agree to some extent the radiohead made underground and obscure sounds more accessible or "poppier", but i do disagree with your assessment that their main influence was from the 70s, the only 70s sound i hear would be the space rock proggy elements on ok computer, but i don't hear that on any other album. I think they drew more from their contemporaries and the idm scene.
Regarding your point about elo, orchestral arrangements had been in pop long before elo. look at essentially most of traditional pop, sinatra and his contemporaries. Even the beatles were quite big on orchestral arrangements. And as for out of the blue, yeah it sold well, but sales don't dictate influence. I won't say they aren't influential, but elo compared to a Prince? Artists that deserve to be on such a list have to have influence on a similar level. my point about radiohead wasn't their success, but how many alternative acts followed in their footsteps and based their sound off of them. And radiohead isn't the sole example, every artist i listed in my previous comment has had a great deal of influence. Morrissey? The smiths influenced so many indie guitar acts, even today. Ray Davies? The kinks basically invented riff based rock, and invented britpop, in sound and in spirit. Black francis? The pixies were hugely influential, defining both the mainstream and alternative of the 90s, nirvana and most of grunge owe their style to them, radiohead cites them as a huge influence, even a pop act like weezer was influenced by them. These artists that aren't on the list have such groundbreaking bodies of works that created entire movements and artists in their wake. Yet jeff lynne was placed above them, yes elo had quite some commercial success and visibility, but you literally can't say they had a greater legacy than the artists i just listed.
Morrissey?
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