| Re: Favorite Songwriter In Last 40 Years...? [message #341518 is a reply to message #341510 ] |
Wed, 14 May 2008 19:44   |
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| maxim wrote on Wed, 14 May 2008 20:30 |
imo, sir paul is one of the GREAT melodists (up there with gershwin and bacharach) of the last century, it is his lyrics that leave me cold...
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Absolutely. My favorite Beatle stuff tends to be John's, but Paul had some great ones.
And I'm with Maxim-his sense of melody is astounding. Look at Silly love Songs. Lightweight twaddle to be sure. But that song has three or four melodic figures you could build a hit song around.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
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| Re: Favorite Songwriter In Last 40 Years...? [message #341568 is a reply to message #341554 ] |
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:08 |
Edvaard
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| Re: Favorite Songwriter In Last 40 Years...? [message #341638 is a reply to message #341126 ] |
Thu, 15 May 2008 09:50 |
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McCuteone wrote some absolute gems, no question some of the greatest songs ever written, equal to the Gershwins. But he was a genius of the precedented.
Lennon was a leap - in honesty, in compositional inventiveness, in directness. Shouting "Help!" while the world was adoring him, using everyday hesitant stammering speech in "Strawberry Fields Forever", taking Dylan's brilliance and doing him one better by bringing it down to our level. He changed it all, and remains out front.
DS
PS - there's a lot of controversy as to whether Willie Dixon wrote all those songs that made him rich. You didn't want to be around a bunch of the old Chicago blues guys when his name came up. Trust me on this.
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck, from a speech he delivered in Florence, Italy in 1944, entitled "Das Wesen der Materie" (The Character of Matter)
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." - Stephen Hawking
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| Re: Favorite Songwriter In Last 40 Years...? [message #341662 is a reply to message #341638 ] |
Thu, 15 May 2008 10:58 |
jnorman
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since a few people have already mentioned joni mitchell and james taylor, i am going to suggest:
john williams - that guy has taken us to a galaxie far far away, and on a hunt for the ark of the covenant, to schindler's germany, and so many other places, in the most glorious and inspirational fashion. love that guy.
jnorman
sunridge studios
salem, oregon
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