Lou Reed is the greatest rock songwriter of all time

Lou Reed is the greatest rock songwriter of all time.

Prove me wrong

Used a gay voice

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Lulu

chuck berry is a hit

The "suck on my dingle-ling" guy?

He was really good but totally not the best of all time though.

What a gay pose

Michael Stipe

He was a lot better working with John Cale and the rest of the velvet underground.

With that said, I think the velvet's debut might be one of the few albums that is worthy of being called GOAT.

That's cute, OP.

No. Just.... no.

No. Just.... no.

Because he's dead

Dude's like Charles Dickens. Only he uses big words for the sole purpose of impressing.
Lou Reed: "she's too busy sucking on my ding-dong."
Bob Dylan: "She's very occupied performing fellatio on my male reproductive organ."

He wasn't even the best songwriter in the Velvet Underground

Doug Yule is.

What are you on about? Bob had an incredibly simple lyrical vocabulary.

"no"

One of Dylan's most famous songs has a chorus of

I want you,
I want you
I want you so bad
Honey, I want you

Then why are some people here praising his "lyrical complexity"

They called him the best rock songwriter, not the most complex. It's no wonder you consider him to use big words if you struggle with monosyllabic ones.

basically this

irrefutable proof that op is correct

Holy kek

Nico's songwriting is fucking horrible pretentious shit

Bob Dylan's writing is complex, but around the electric trilogy it was mostly horrible nonsensical psuedo-arty crap. Nobody wants to point it out because nobody wants to seem like they don't "get it", but he was a really bad songwriter. Dylan's fans seem to think that the fact that he used some old metaphors that they had to look up makes him a literary genius. I'd much rather read real Beat poets and not a watered-down version for rocktards

>Nobody wants to point it out because nobody wants to seem like they don't "get it"
Maybe you just don't get it?

You seriously calling me stupid? I'm on Sup Forums arguing about wether or not a dead faggot (RIP) is better than another wrinkly, soon-to-be-dead has-been faggot at writing Rock songs. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, dumb-ass.

I get it, I just don't like it. The idea is interesting, like a literate, surrealist take on blues, but in execution Dylan falls on his face.

I like John Wesley Harding though

is this bait?

Nah. He arguably had ideas that were cool and very innovative, but as an actual songwriter/composer he's weak as fuck. That's why all the music inspired by TVU is far more advanced and explores those ideas far more than TVU ever did. Noise/Power Electronics guys did far more with noise than MMM. The rest is baby ass pop garbage that's no different from generic catchy radio song.

>I just don't like it.
And there we have the crux.
If Dylan's execution was as weak as you claim, nobody would. But they do. Call me a populist, but when most educated poets, lyricists, and literary analysts agree that someone is talented, they probably are.

Cool that edge son

Populist.

Lou Reed is a fantastic lyricist, but he's not the Boss

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Yeah op is right, the dude wrote Heroin and all the other great VU songs

Fuck you Doug Yule played on the shitty albums, he sucks. Cale and Lou all the way nigga

Dude, it was bait. Relax.

Also, Oh! Sweet Nuthin' is fucking great. How could you hate that?

Dylan's less pretentious than most of the Beats.

And The Beats themselves aren't that hard to understand, Dylan's work is as "watered down" as anything by Ginsberg.

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I just get mad thinking about how shitty Loaded is, even though that is not entirely Yules fault.

he looks like Harvey from TMZ

>s/t
>shitty
off yourself

It had some great songs (Sweet Jane/R&R/O!SN), it's not all bad. Not like Squeeze

Tallest midget?

>I must admit I felt a little uneasy. When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe

Yes indeed

Well there's this guy.

Great songwriter but he had to work with a good producer/arranger. His work with John Cale, David Bowie and Mick Ronson is fucking fantastic but that weird funk period in the 80's he went through and Lulu were terrible.

Meh

HOWEVER, that same song also features verses such as:

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you
and I wait for them to interrupt me drinkin' from my broken cup and ask me to open up the gate for you

he was glamorous, not such a great songwritter

nice cherry picking

he's dead

if he was better he wouldn't have died

He perfectly embodied rock songwriting, simple and honest, but there have been more talented writers in the genre, far and wide.

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>who is Paul McCartney

Overrated hack that took credit for better people's work

Unironically one of the best roasts I've seen in some time. Godspeed, user.

>nananana
>dududududu

sure

Bob dylan's lyrics are very poetic and they always have a cool meaning

"But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right."

Good, bruce springsteen is no bueno

None of those are difficult words though. It's just a bit of a runon

He's definitely one of the best. I mean, the guy had Delmore Schwartz as a mentor, which is a big leg up on the competition. He also spent a long time at Pickwick, where he'd have to write, like, ten songs a day.

I don't know. All I know is that whenever I get writers block I always listen to Magic and Loss. That album, and especially that song, does wonders for my motivation.

Roger Waters

Well. That was easy.

Bob just strings together american plains-peak in strange ways