Name a better lyricist

Name a better lyricist.

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Paul Banks nigga

Townes Van Zandt

Julian Casablancas

peter gabriel

>I hate that stupid old pickup you never let me drive

Yeah great lyricist.

she's only good in the way that you have to google the esoteric words that she uses

my nigga
scott walker
leonard cohen
julia holter

Kozelek

>google "esoteric"

Fucking hypocrite.

*blocks your path*

she knows words. got the best words

ha...good one

Nick Cave

Fucking kek

Dee Dee Ramone
David Gedge
The guy from Mowtown.

this

Anthony Kiedis

Nicki Menage.

>Roy Orbison

Mark E Smith

>all of my 1,234 ex-boyfriends are horrible self-centered douchebags
>nah, it's not just me

>I know, I'll write an overly polished """country""" track chock full of tired, old cliches!
and then, suddenly, a pop album. Still about ex-boyfriends.

Yeah, no thanks.

This.


And Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Neil Young and even Axl Rose.

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Mr. E

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>she's only good at writing because she knows words

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whats yr fave syd tracc

Obviously

no
and her spirit was gold and her face was silver and her eyes were jewels and her skin was diamonds and her blah blah
lmao
give me an example (not for cohen obviously)

Tom Waits might be my favourite. Has he ever written a bad line over the ~15 albums of his that are excellent? God I love the man so much

Leonard Cohen close second.

Shoutout to earlier John Darnelle for being the champion of "my love is like" similes

Shoutout to Stephin Merritt

I was never a fan of her lyrics really. She always feels like somebody who has read a lot and understood little. I hope that soon she will develop past the phase that I think she's still in of trying to be profound, and develop into being able to write lyrics that are moving in more subtle, emotive ways.

I'm still a huge Newsom fan btw, and she undeniably has a talent for writing.

I know you're baiting but this is fucking dumb and triggered me anyway, big word doesn't = good word

Silkk da Shocker is best lyricist of all time.

Proof:

>I hits an run like an accident
>Mr. hit em fast an slow is back again
>If you don't believe me go an ask a friend
>I got more hoes than the ozone
>I hits em wit they close on
>(Why's that Silkk?)
>So they can go home

Sandy Pearlman

>wrote a bunch of early Blue Öyster Cult stuff
>Even helped Black Sabbath write a couple songs.
>Just listen to Workshop Of the Telescopes and tell me I'm wrong

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and all the federales say they could have had him anyway but they let him slip away outta sympathy I guess

True

Nick Drake of course

TOP KEK

Lil Pump

Aaron Weiss (esp. in Rainbow Signs, Gentlemen, Silencer, The Dryness and the Rain, The King Beetle On A Coconut Estate)
Bob Dylan (Visions of Johanna, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), All Along the Watchtower)
Jeff Mangum (O Comely, Holland 1945, Little Birds)
Leonard Cohen (Suzanne, Treaty, Avalanche)
MC Ride (Come Up and Get Me, No Love, On GP)

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i cant.

it will require winning two nobel prizes in literature to be considered better than bob

good luck, musicians

Mark E Smith