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Great Song Writers - Post 1980
Inlander:
--- Quote from: JLM ---I don't necessarily want to feel like I'm being condescended to by some guy with an acoustic guitar.
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See, for me the condescending songwriters are those who seem to assume that I can't handle anything more sophisticated than "I love you baby, oh yeah." If somebody makes the effort to write intelligent lyrics or an interesting melody it makes me very happy, because it indicates to me that the songwriter trust the listener to be intelligent enough to understand something that's a little different from the norm.
Valrus:
Has anyone mentioned Sam Beam yet?
Edit: Not 'til now.
somewhat_removed:
i'm not normally one to care about lyrics or singing. i'm more of an instrumental kind of guy. that said, when lyrics DO hit me, it means something.
i have a soft spot for Stephen Jenkins' (Third Eye Blind) writing, Ben Gibbard's work on The Postal Service's "Give Up" is a guilty pleasure, and Richard Patrick of Filter could always write a mean tune.
others, like Opeth's Mikael Ankerfeldt and John Petrucci have already been brought up, which is good. ^_^
sjbrot:
I might switch that around and say Third Eye Blind is the guilty pleasure, at least personally. But I have a great deal of nostalgia for most popular stuff released around '98.
normz:
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Maynard James Keenan.
and Daniel Johns
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oooh what he said ....especially maynard *sighs* i love him
im also seconding petrucci and adding the tea party (its a joint effort fromt he whole band), tori amos (such beautiful sweeping lyrics) and even lyric wise you have to admit that marilyn manson comes up with some pretty cool lyrics, themes and ideas (i so know someone is going to disagree with me ont his one but oh well)
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