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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2009 at 00:44
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2009 at 09:01
Roger Waters
John Lennon
Peter Gabriel
Bob Dylan
Neil Peart

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2009 at 00:46
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Peter Gabriel
Steven Wilson
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Tomas Haake
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2009 at 21:26
Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Roger Waters
Paul Simon
Jim Morrison
John Lennon

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2009 at 04:20
Peter Gabriel
Matt Johnson
(from The The, maby you would not call that prog. im not strong in those definitaions, but great lyric)
 
After those a lot of lyrics that i cant put in any order like David Bowie, Roger Waters, Pete Sinf., John Lennon, the Tool writer , ect ect.
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2009 at 03:03
I'll give you a top 2.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2009 at 18:46
Frank Zappa for when it's time to be in the real world and Peter Sinfield for when it's time to be a baby octopus.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:41
Prog:
Hammill, Gabriel, Waters

Not prog:
Dylan, Cohen, Waits

Not rock:
C. M. Bellman, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Alf Prøysen
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:50
Roy Harper
Robert Calvert
Alan Hull
Ian Anderson



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2009 at 07:02

My top 3, off the cuff:-

Roger Waters
Andy Tillson
Pete Sinfield
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2009 at 07:34
My faves are Roger Waters and Ian Kilmister (aka Lemmy) Star.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2009 at 15:19
Have to add Joanna Newsom to this discussion. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2009 at 16:55
There have been many brilliant lyricists in our time, but for my money, it's Roger Waters.

I should point out though...not just any roger waters. He had a period from around Meddle to probably The Wall where he couldn't write a meaningless, banal lyric if he spent all day trying.

It's like he had a magic pen filled with poignancy.

Unfortunately....for some reason when he went solo, he also seemed to lose his lyrical touch.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 04:05
I suddenly thought... how the hell could I have forgotten Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2009 at 08:51
Peter Hammill (far the best lyricist IMHO, very emotional singer. no wonder he writes those lyrics)
Roger Waters
Peter Gabriel
Neil Peart
Pete Seinfield
Syd Barrett
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2009 at 08:55

most of the guys mentioned above plus Jim Matheos (Fates Warning, OSI)
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sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2009 at 12:27
I never care much for lyrics, but Peter Gabriel, Neil Peart, and Dream theater as a whole are good.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2009 at 14:38
Prog:
 
1. Greg Lake
2. John Wetton
3. Roger Waters
 
Non - prog:
1. Sting
2. Paul Simon
3. Stevie Wonder
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2009 at 10:39
Tomas Haake.
Here's an excerpt from Closed Eye Visuals:

"Unbound to the pale and lifeless day by the multicolored, multiform
A spinning antidream unthought--Exceeding the obsolete reality
Overheated inner shape generator. Blowing every cerebral fuse
Insanity filtered and systematized. Feeding the tools of mind abuse.

Mind-signal transmissions peaked, distorted, bent, unrestrained
Neuroreceivers short circuit. System parameters overgained
Neverthreads decoding the stream of the reality--inverting revolution
The patterned untruth of nondream. The closed eye visual delusion"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2009 at 10:56
Bernie Taupin
Roger Hodgson
Peter Sinfeldt
Richard Palmer James (Starless have wonderfull lyricks and Wetton sing them perfectly)
Tim Rice
Lol/Creme
Roger Waters
Denis Wilson/Brian Wilson
Robert Lamb
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