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Who is your favourite lyricist?
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01 Jan 2008 Tue 05:26 am |
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I have been reading the thread requesting members to post the 25 all time favourite poets and it gave me the idea for this thread. When I read poetry I often think of lyricists crafting their lines too. For instance, I have a Turkish friend (you know who you are!) who is an enormous fan of the lyrics of Roger Waters (Pink Floyd).
I would love to learn of members' favourites, especially turkish as I would like to learn more. It would be helpful to give the era or context in which they were written.
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 11:15 pm |
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James Taylor...my personal favorite.
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 11:27 pm |
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I listened to him as a young teenager and before that this Scottish guy . . . lovely lyrics, which I've posted elsewhere too I'm afraid.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8RZsOZ1Dw
People likened him to Dylan and actually they were influenced by the same people eg Woody Guthrie and Ramblin Jack Elliott.
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 11:46 pm |
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Bob Dylan - especially his early songs. Leonard Cohen and, currently, Alex Turner, lead singer of Arctic Monkeys (I am far too old to admit this but I find his lyrics so clever and funny!)
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 11:51 pm |
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Feridun Düzağaç is my favorite. His songs are very touching as well. Sorry that I don't have any favorite English lyric writer 
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:02 am |
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Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson..not to mention Polish poets))))
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:11 am |
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Quoting kafesteki kus: Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson..not to mention Polish poets)))) |
I have never heard any of their songs.
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:13 am |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting kafesteki kus: Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson..not to mention Polish poets)))) |
I have never heard any of their songs. |
check Tc poems..Wisława Szybmorska..the Nobel Prize winner...czesław miłosz the same..well,shame on u!!!!
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:17 am |
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Quoting caliptrix: Feridun Düzağaç is my favorite. His songs are very touching as well. Sorry that I don't have any favorite English lyric writer |
My original post invited Turkish lyricists . I want to be enlightened.
Presently, I like James Blunt's new album "All the lost Souls". He comments on the effects of fame and in his song "I can't hear the music" there is a line "and if I can't hear the music and the audience is gone, I'll dance here on my own" - what he is saying is, he loves his music so much, he would be doing it whether or not he was famous and he will continue even if the 'fame' thing disappears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9im7gKdTZk
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:21 am |
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As far as lyrics go I love INXS...and nothing can beat them...what a pity the leader committed suicide_((((((
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