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Great Song Writers - Post 1980

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soak:
Everytime list of songs or songwriters are released they are always dominated by artists from the 60's and 70's as if this was the peak era for music. I personally think that alot of that stuff is great but I think that 60's nostalgia is the equivalent of chloroform when discussing music.

I think some of the greatest song writers of all all time have come well after this period.

I would nominate -

Robert Smith
Black Francis

La Creme:
+ Ben Eshbach
+ Mark Oliver Everett
+ Danny Elfman
+ Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton, Trey Spurrance, and the rest of the Bungle crew.
+ John Petrucci. (He wrote both Paradigm Shift and Acid Rain, so...)
+ Les Claypool

Super Dave:
Dave Mustaine and Steve Harris

soak:

--- Quote ---+ Danny Elfman
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Hell yes

KharBevNor:
^ Great avatar.

+ Steve Ramsey, Martin Walkyier, Georgina Biddle (best Skyclad team)
+ Dan Swano (Most Edge of Sanity (with Dread Axellson et al), Most Nightingale (with Dag Swano), some Bloodbath, all Ribspreader, solo stuff)
+ Quorthon (Bathory. nuff said)
+ Bruce Dickinson (Best maiden tracks, plus solo stuff is great. Needs instrumentalists to work with of course)
+ Halford/Tipton/Downing (the ultimate Judas Priest songwriting team, and thus probably the ultimate metal songwriting team)
+Tony Wakeford (Crisis, Death in June, Sol Invictus, etc.)
+Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Blackmore's Night. The dude wrote Smoke on the Water ffs)
+Lisa Gerrard, Brandan Perry (Dead Can Dance)
+Jim Fogarty (Meads of Apshodel, Ewigkeit)

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