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Andy Partridge, XTC... practically unbeatable in my book.
Michael R. Gira
Tim Buckley, Beck, Lennon/McCartney
Not necessarily admire, more like appreciate
Lennon/McCartney
Phil Lynnott
Van Morrison
Joni Mitchell
+1 on Lennon/McCartney (don't forget George!), Band of Skulls, Neil Young and Roger Waters
Jim Steinman. He's very hit or miss lyrically ("Total Eclipse of the Heart" vs. "Rock and Roll Dreams Come True"), but he really knocked it out of the park on the original "Bat Out of Hell" album, especially on the title track (assisted by Todd Rundgren defining the term "soaring lead guitars") and THIS:
Carole king and Burt Bacharach too. I vaguely recall hearing about those guys Lennon and McCartney, did they write anything I'd know? ;-)
Roberst Forster:
...and Grant McLennan, of course. I miss him a lot:
@mrufino1 I think they had something to do with the soundtrack to that classic BeeGee's movie, "Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band."
Oh, I nearly forgot Paddy McAloon:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Johannes Brahms
Guiseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Alban Berg..... and some more.
Not songwriters but i have so much respect to these geniuses!
Silvio Rodriguez
Justin Vernon
Tom Waits,
Joanna Newsom,
Michael Gira,
Brian Eno,
Steven Wilson
Nena...well...sorta..
On a more serious note..Kevin Gilbert.
Or Danny Elfman....actually, too many to list. Are we talking lyricists or song writers?
How did it take so long for Tom Waits to be mentioned? He is the master.
Leonard Cohen...
Notice that I am the only one who followed the rules...
Gerald Finzi - Ecologe
Rules??
Sixto Rodriguez...great movie (Searching for Sugarman..I think) too.
Captain Beefheart
Well, I thought I'd give it 24 hours before chiming in. Great partial list for any Martian who knows nothing about modern songwriting. And I know there could be a hundred more names on here in the blink of an eye. Also some really good stuff that is new to this Earthling, so plenty to consider and snuffle about over. Thanks all.
My contribution goes by many names so I included them all. One (astonishing) songwriter though. I'm a rule follower!
And if this were a question of "which songwriter would I like best?" from JG's perspective, I'd put money on Will Oldham provided be listened to at least two full records. And I hardly know the man!
Prince Billy is an otherworldly creature who can not help but make out with English. He finds the sex within our otherwise unmusical and asexual language, occasionally biting its lip a little too hard and then feeling sorry about it, but still, a little excited by the whole thing and somehow expressing all of that inner turmoil (aka being human) in a lyric we non-interstellar creatures can understand and even, without effort, relate to.
In twenty years kids will be digging up his records and singing his praises. He's the Tim Buckley:Syd Barret:Nick Drake of our time.
JG gets the message and puts Prince on his Trello in the firm belief that the Professor's enthusiasm will save him from confusing his royalty come the morning...
Good.
You know the sliver of country music you've heard since emigrating that somewhat surprisingly spoke to you in words so plain you couldn't help but feel them? Listen for that. It's not always there but it's pretty pervasive (dude writes as many lines as a hip hop emcee so some lines are to be forgiven). Along with a mastery of that smashingly American honest charm he occasionally, just enough, lets go with his Woodsworth/Yeats level ability to flip a phrase that will leave you lost for a moment and then hungry with jealousy and want (as a human and as a writer).
Perhaps he's not actually special but at least now you might know why he is extraordinary to me. He's a bit of problem in that his output is so immense that it's hard to recommend something in particular yet it requires some level of honest exploration, perhaps repeated, to really grok. Hope you go for it and hope it pays you back like it did me.
I'll buy you a songwriting app if it doesn't.
Carla Bley, too.