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Thread: Who is the best lyricist in music history?

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    Default Leadbelly

    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    One of the unsung heroes of music, the grass roots who innovate not the mainstream who capitalise, I take my hat off to him whoever he was.
    Just for you Fred:- http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/redir...ion=WebResults

    Mmmm, doesn't seem to work! Ach well, just Google to learn about Leadbelly, an amazing character!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaldtimer View Post
    Mmmm, doesn't seem to work! Ach well, just Google to learn about Leadbelly, an amazing character!
    Well thank you Aaldtimer, I got the link to work by removing the part caithness.org puts on the front. A very interesting read, I'm fond of the old Orleans blues players, in my youth I had the good fortune to be acquainted with one of the best but Leadbelly's story is one I had never read before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    Well thank you Aaldtimer, I got the link to work by removing the part caithness.org puts on the front. A very interesting read, I'm fond of the old Orleans blues players, in my youth I had the good fortune to be acquainted with one of the best but Leadbelly's story is one I had never read before.
    I love Leadbelly, I have two of his records on cassette, great stuff. Jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton, jump down turn around pick a bale of hay, jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton etc etc ..... I love the old timey blues!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cedric Farthsbottom III View Post
    OOOhhhhhhhhhhhh.Mine would have to be for local issues Morrisey.For a wee bit world wide Bono,even though he was made oot to be Jesus!!!!!For his own art of music Fish.For Fish,I think he wrote his best lyrics when he was pissed oot his face.I love that.
    I was just looking for a link to post elsewhere and remembered this thread.

    Tom Lehrer by a long way, nobody else even comes close.

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    Default greatest lyrics

    Cole Porter!

    LET"S DO IT!

    birds do it, bees do it
    even educated fleas do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love
    in spain, the best upper sets do it
    lithuanians and letts do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love

    the dutch in old amsterdam do it
    not to mention the finns
    folks in siam do it
    think of siamese twins

    some argentines, without means, do it
    people say, in boston, even beans do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love

    romantic sponges, they say, do it
    oysters, down in oyster bay, do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love

    cold cape cod clams, against their wish, do it
    even lazy jellyfish do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love

    electric eels, i might add, do it
    though it shocks 'em, i know.
    why ask if shad do it
    waiter, bring me shad roe.

    in shallow shoals, english soles do it
    goldfish, in the privacy of bowls, do it
    let's do it, let's fall in love
    Richard Sutherland

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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    I don't think anybody wrote for Elvis. Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes I know that but I don't think he wrote any of the others, wouldn't surprise me if every song didn't have a different composer.
    Whoever wrote One Night should have had a rethink before letting The King sing the line "I ain't never did no wrong"

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    Conor Oberst.

    People may perceive him to be awfully pretentious but there's no doubting his talent.

    "As they take eye for and eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history."

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    Thumbs up

    Has to be the Zimmerman & Bowie.

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    "And outside Pedro sits there dreamin`
    he`s found a book of magic tricks in a garbage can,
    stares out the window and looks at the cracked ceiling,
    at the count of three I can disappear and fly fly away,
    from this dirty boulevard".

    Ol` Lou Reed at his best from "Dirty Boulevard" on the New York album.

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