Your favourite north-americain songwriter
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Topic: Your favourite north-americain songwriter
Posted By: Alucard
Subject: Your favourite north-americain songwriter
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 07:13
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This is NOT a prog Poll, but I didn't knew, where to put it elsewhere. (What about a Non-Pro- Music-Poll) So, here is my list of americain songwriting-recording artists (Sorry, no Cole Porter, no Elvis)! My favourite : Randy Newman, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 07:31
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Hmmmmm no Neal Morse either! You could have put this in "Polls" BTW ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 07:37
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Another tough one - I've gone for Bruce coz he wrote Born To Run. Lou Reed and Stephen Stills would have been close. Isn't Neil Young Canadian? |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 07:42
Neil Young is Canadian,as is Joni Mitchell. (I cheated a little bit )------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 07:50
| That might upset a few Canadians. Snow Dog might get upset if I decided Manic Street Preachers were English. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:12
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Yes but "American" could refer to someone from the continent of America, and if one said that MSP are British, then theres no problem with that, look you, boyo! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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chopper wrote:Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:44
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Yes Snow Dog! You're right. Alucard, if you want to make a poll for best U.S. singer, dont right best north american singer because that include canada, usa and mexico. For my part, my best north american singers are Neil Young and Jim Morrisson.
------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 11:03
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Neil Young (my Canadian past life spoke), since you chose the wrong Buckley!!!! How could you choose the son over the father! Not that the son was bad , either, but: Tim rather than Jeff!!!!!
You might also have mentioned Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 12:00
Lots of Songwriters missing, I love Jeff Buckley! There was a lot of hipe when he died but he was a truly gifted musician/songwriter and ...I don't know his father's records. If I remember well Tim Buckley's first record was produced by Zappa, but I never heard it. ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 12:32
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Dylan! |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 12:49
| I went for David Crosby. He is a great favourite of mine. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:40
I still prefer Neal Morse, but of those mentioned, Neil Young! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:49
i hate bob dylan . so i voted for young------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:49
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Neil Young is my fave from that list ------------- 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:33
Can't believe that I'm the first to vote Paul Simon.... ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Scrambled_Eggs
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 19:34
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I'm personally partial to Warren Zevon, but from the list I'll go with Mr. Young. ------------- And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. I never said I was frightened of dying. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 20:32
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Neil Peart would the best North-American songwriter, but from that list, Neil Young is incredible |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 20:49
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Leonard Cohen. ------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 20:50
Paul Simon  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:37
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Simon and Cohen are great too! Maybe the amount of writings done made me to choose Bob...
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 05:42
If you are a proghead (and I believe you are since you've been hanging around for a while now), you will appreciate much more the Happy/Sad (my fave) and Lorca albums: Fusion folk/jazz/rock. A lot of fans appreciate most Starsailor, but I find it a bit too much (over the top). Most folkies will choose Goodbye And Hello - quite fine also. among the later work (before his overdose death) is the impeccable but much funkier Greetings From LA Among the live albums : Live in London , Morning glory and Dream letter
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 05:46
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bob dylan, neil young, jeff buckley are all great. I prefer the songwriter partnership of rubenstein and moore though. ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 10:29
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Neil Young and Joni Mitchell win hands down. I've never been able to get into Springsteen, and others in the list bore me after a while. Still, they're great musicians, even if my tastes are a bit different. |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 14:07
John Petrucci ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 16:05
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Kerry Livgren. ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 16:19
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I like most of the people on the chart- particularly Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, but all in all my fave is Neil Young, as 'Like A Hurricane' is simply sublime. Tim Buckley is another fave though- he was somebody you could definitely call a progressive artist in that he was willing to experiment with the singer-songwriter medium like few others ever have. However, I'm not saying he should be on this site though... |
Posted By: billyshears'67
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:02
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A very tough list. My 3 fav's of them are Jeff Buckley, Bob
Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon. If you could combine the talents of those 4
you'd have a God. Peace & take care |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 19:33
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Thers's no competition Bruce Springsteen wins well over everyone else... except Pual Simon. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |