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Greatest Songwriter of all time

I was reading the Dylan post and it got me thinking. There are many great songwriters that come to mind, my expertise/knowledge is primarily with rock music. If you could only pick three, what would they be? My vote for best lyrics goes to:

Jim Morrison
Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Costello

Best music goes to:

Mark Knopfler
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Frank Zappa
jeffloistarca
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grannyring
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Van Morrison 
audition__audio
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Dylan and Tom Waits.

 

I also like Andy Partridge of XTC.

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roxy54
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"In fact occassionally one tune would be so good he'd use on about 6 or 7 different songs....."

 

That's funny. I've heard it said that every band just writes the same 7 songs over and over. I think that might be true.

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Gene Simmons

Tiny Tim

Diane Warren

 

MIKE DROP

 

immatthewj
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Three best of all time is a pretty high bar, but I certainly appreciate the lyrics by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen,  Steve Earle.  But that leaves so many out, such as Townes Van Zandt & so may more that if I thought about it might be in my top three.

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