Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Songwriters

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Thoughts on this?

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>Just a list of the songwriters who corporate advertises so they have to be the best since corporate artificially picked them to be popular
Lol nope

filtered contrarian

rolling Stone always has the shittiest, safest lists

imagine being this underage, not even subtle

They have biggie smalls in the top 50. That alone should tell you something.

>black man bad

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Let me guess, the best artists of all time are the Beatles followed by Bruce and Bob?
Yep surely this is based on the wide range of artists that never got popular and not just what made corporate executives money by advertising them and continue to do so you can buy reissues

Any list with Dylan, Cohen and maybe Mitchell at the top 10 is a competent list.

>obscure = good
>popular = bad
based avant-teen

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Number 1 is Dylan, unsurprisingly. Yeah, it's dumb that these lists are always populated by the same faces but it's no different than if there was a list of best actors and somebody complained that Joe Indie wasn't feature. Ultimately there are two kinds of musicians, the kind that makes music, and the kind that is famous for making music, and these lists only ever concern the latter.

>Eminem at 91
>Taylor Swift at 97
>Kanye West at 84
>Jay Z at 68
>Taylor Swift above ABBA
>R. Kelly at 80
>Chuck Berry at 4
>No Kate Bush
>No Townes Van Zandt
>No Roger Waters or David Gilmour
>No Jim Morrison
>Brian Wilson only at 12
>Leonard Cohen only at 16

Throw it in the trash.

Popular doesn't mean bad, but it doesn't mean best ever

Chief Keef should have been in biggie's place

Paul McCartney over John Lennon.

Ok this is based

Being patronizing to black people isnt a good look, atleast for what youre going for

Rolling stone is trash and we all know Brian Wilson is the goat

Has anyone else noticed that this list seems to have been written several years ago?

Yeah why didn't they pick some obscure artist who released one album in 1984 that sold 12 copies?

The only thing that would change is Kendrick Lamar is 4th place and Billie Eilish is 7th

based

>Taylor Swift
>Timbaland
>R. Kelly
>Madonna
>Max Martin
>Anywhere near the top 5000, let alone the top 100
LMAO

>R. Kelly
How did they get away with it?

They would probably also exclude R Kelly.

>no Roger Waters

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>Brian Wilson not in the top 3
dismissed

I hope these posters die a horrible death.

See

>no gershwin
>no jobim

shitty meme list

Is xxxtentation there ?

If I made this list it would include
Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe

It was written before he got big.

Kendrick Lamar is unironically a better songwriter than most of the people on the list, contrarians just like to say otherwise

And Michael Jackson.

Brian Wilson shouldn’t be on the list.

>>Brian Wilson only at 12
How many truly great albums has Brian Wilson written?

>Chuck Berry at 4
Embarrassing. ALL his songs have the same chord progression.

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>No Ed Sheeran

Into the bin it goes.

His career was still in its early stages at the time it was written.

Brian Warner > Brian Wilson

If lennon isn't first, this is fake and gay

>No Jerry Cantrell

>Jay z but not avey tare or Jeff mangum
Bruh

Morrissey
>67
BS

>THIRD
FAKE AND GAY

>McCartney over Lennon
A granny must’ve made this list.

>No Noel Gallagher

Literally changed the face of music in the 90's but OK.

Like Rolling Stone would know who the 100 greatest songwriters are. Or even what an actual songwriter is/sounds like.

>open article
>guys from ABBA are 100 not top 10
>close article

What do you mean? He's number 1 in the list

they fucking have taylor swift

There are plenty of real pictures of Nazis to use. You don't have to use soijacks.

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Surprising he even made the list.

>No Wyatt

Not a good list.

Rolling Stone hasn't been relevant for decades, but even so anybody can make a list of successful songwriters. And to all you contrarian morons out there, if your precious favorite isn't on the list, chances are they aren't quite as good as you think they are, otherwise they would be on the list.
Goddammit will you stop posting this, it makes the archive searches go all wonky

based tourist

They aren't black. Stop being racist you piece of shit.

Why don't they fuck with Jim Morrison?

irrelevant outside the UK

>no Roger Waters/David Gilmore in top 10
>not even top 100
what

Perhaps they just aren't that good?

Yeah, Taylor Swift is so much better than either of them.

I agree.