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Lyrical Quality
Jooooosh:
The Long Winters most of the time.
thebignothing:
Can't we all just get along?
NEVERMIND
I like Elliott Smith & Cake.
Also Minus the Bear & Bruce Springsteen.
tomselleck69:
my list goes like this:
1. Jason Molina
SensoryOssuary:
Besides the obvious heavyweights like Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, etc.:
- Daniel Higgs, both solo and with Lungfish
His songwriting is totally singular--often repetitive and abstract, and with lots of references to the occult, religion, mythology, etc., especially in his solo work. His (instrumental) album "Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot" album comes with a book of acrostics; here's my favorite one:
Mighty
Undulations
Synchronize
Into
Cosmoses
David Berman (Silver Jews)
This guy is channeling Dylan, as far as I'm concerned. Steeped in Americana but with a philosophical weight.
Joanna Newsom
Definitely my favorite songwriter of the "New Weird America"/whatever scene. Totally deserves the recognition she's getting. Some of the songs on Ys are just totally breathtaking.
Immortal Technique
I can't wait for this guy's next album. Insane political rap with a wide breadth of historical knowledge, and some brutal disses.
Captain Beefheart
People tend to focus on how weird his music was, while his songwriting remains overlooked. His early lyrics had a firm basis in blues tradition, but later in his career his lyrics were more like great abstract art--they often contained veiled sociopolitical or environmental commentary, but were sometimes total dada.
"the ocean/gave me oysters/the people watching it/gave me ulcers/when the ocean/is wounded/it takes the/whole world to heal"
Also: Jandek, Nico, Bill Callahan, Michael Franti.
Valrus:
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Wow, he is a good lyricist.
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