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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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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:28 am |
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Quoting kafesteki kus: As far as lyrics go I love INXS...and nothing can beat them...what a pity the leader committed suicide_(((((( |
He didn't - he was getting his sexual kicks by "temporarily" slipping into unconsciousness...and messed up big time!
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 12:49 am |
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Quoting kafesteki kus: 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!!!! |
I didn't say I had never heard of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, I said I had never heard any of their songs - this thread is about favourite lyricists not favourite poets!!
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 01:02 am |
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Quoting lady in red: I didn't say I had never heard of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, I said I had never heard any of their songs - this thread is about favourite lyricists not favourite poets!! |
Didn't you know?!? Stock, Aitkin and Waterman have recently signed them both up - they are hoping to make a come back with this disco duo.... 
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03 Jan 2008 Thu 01:49 am |
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Quoting AEnigma III: This part of the forum is actually supposed to be about TURKISH music, singers and lyrics - I am surprised at you Peace Train for spoiling this forum with your western lyricists! 
If you want to post about such things you should use the off-topic section  
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You are quite right dear. This is what I said when I introduced the thread:
"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."
I think I also responded to some one else's post by saying Turkish lyricists are especially welcome.
Call it mutual appreciation if you like. I realise that a great deal of western music is well known in Turkey but there may be some that isn't, that's why I posted the item about Donovan.
I know that my efforts are futile in your eyes but I am using this site for my own pleasure, just as, in your opinion, you do, and that is as it should be.
If you aren't interested in these threads, they're easy enough to avoid. But your antics are obvious. I am probably contravening rule 9 of the Forum Rules (wooooooooooooooooooo I hear you say) right now (and I'm sure you'll tell me of any others I'm breaking too)but so are you. One particular sentence there "If you don't have anything nice to say then just don't say it at all."
As this is a lyrics thread:
"Bang bang you shot me down, bang bang I hit the ground." probably before your time dear.
and a James Blunt : "Here we go again" definitely before your time.
If my threads are not appropriate to the spirit of the site, complain to the moderators and they will take the appropriate action. I can always reincarnate myself as "your majesty"
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