Your top 5 lyricists

[worldwide_suicide]

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...

 

[illidurit]

dylan
lennon/mccartney
simon/garfunkel


over/under on how many people will list akerfeldt and/or swano = 40

 

[worldwide_suicide]

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.

 

[i aint play this]

-Jonas Renkse
-Neil Peart
-Morrissey
-Bob Dylan
-David Sylvian

 

[worldwide_suicide]

HOLY SHIT!!! how could i forget Morrissey?

 

[makethestringscry]

-Scott Weiland
-Mikael Akerfeldt
-Layne Staley/Jerry Cantrell
-LES CLAYPOOL
-Thom Yorke
In no particular order.

 

[i aint play this]

+1 for Staley/Cantrell

 

[i aint play this]

HOLY SHIT!!! how could i forget Morrissey?

yeah the guy owns

 

[Scarlett Letterman]

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.

 

[dcat]

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.

 

[NFU]

Neil Peart
David Eugene Edwards
Joni Mitchell
Morrissey
Bob Dylan

 

[OpethNZ]

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

 

[the_drip]

Drake
Gabriel
Buckley.

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

robert zimmerman

 

[illidurit]

I see wat u did there

 

[metal_wrath]

the guy from voivod

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

Jonas Renkse
Ben Gibbard
Morrissey
Thom Yorke
Hmmm... gotta have Dylan...

Honourable mention to Nasir Jones. Some may laugh, but his lyrical ability is mind-bending sometimes.

 

[metal_wrath]

Honourable mention to Nasir Jones. Some may laugh, but his lyrical ability is mind-bending sometimes.

this is best displayed on the songs "Undying Love", "Rewind", "Nas is Like". Peace Out

 

[Deadlift]

Chuck from Death wrote some cool lyrics. (the later ones)

Defleshed wrote some badass lyrics to. Always liked their easy rhyming lyrics.

I do like some swedish lyrics to....like Allegiance "Kristet blod flyter &#246;ver land och &#246;ver jord" = Really cool if you're Swedish.

But i also have to add that i don't care very much about lyrics at all.

 

[CAIRATH]

Bob Dylan
Jhon Balance (Coil)
Martin Walkyier (Skyclad/Sabbat)
Michael Gira (Swans/Angels of Light/solo)