Most Poetic Song Writer

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Their groundbreaking, trendsetting, fantastic debut has always been something of an obsession for me.... *sigh* If I had to write a top 10 or even a top 5 "The Stone Roses" would be on it any day of the week.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Loreena McKennitt:

The Mummer's Dance -

When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair

When owls call the breathless moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Amidst the lantern light

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
We bring a garland gay

Who will go down to those shady groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days

And so they linked their hands and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone

A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord's hand.

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It's just a pity that they burned out so soon. Great while it lasted though, eh?

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Brad Nowel

Sam Cooke a young prophet in his day

Page/Plant obviously for me
Neil Young (I love how his songs tell stories. . .sometimes, like on Rust Never Sleeps)
Jim Morrison definately
Lennon/McCartney
Johnny Cash

I know, I know, all the ones I named are frickin' obvious choices.

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Remember, remember, the 5th of November
I'm afraid I must bid you adieu.
He woke up one night with a terrible fright
And found he was eating his shoe.

To me it was more like them turning into stone (harr harr) than burning out. The gap between their two "real" albums was too wide. Seems like they were inhibited by their own legend status. But maybe it's time to give "Second Coming" a second chance... (I swear, I'm not trying to be funny...).

I think it was more of a case of being incapacitated by various substances which led to near-terminal laziness...

I've got Second Coming somewhere but ain't listened to it in years, I remember 10 Story Love Song being darned good though but most of it's just dull rock.

Saw them in 1990 (I think) - couldn't play, couldn't sing but absolutely brilliant all the same. Happy days.

I remember that they switched producers several times and I even think they recorded almost a complete album, only to start all over again. "Ten Storey Love Song" was the one song on "Second Coming" that sounded like it could have been from the debut. The others sounded more like the outro of "I Am the Resurrection". I think they did the right thing trying not to do the same album one more time... only thing is they didn't know how to do something else as brilliant.

I never saw them here in Sweden. I saw a live show on video though.. from Liverpool I think. Ian Brown wasn't even looking for the right key...

Damien Rice
Sarah McLachlan

nuff said

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

Stuart Staples from Tindersticks.

Sample

How about Patti Smith? She started off as a poet.

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"Like all dreamers, Steven mistook disenchantment for truth."

Jim Croce!...i don't know

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Prince.

Poeti: Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison ... there are others too, but now I'm a bit tired

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Movie Reviews

RESURRECTION MODE ... Activated

Tom Waits
Patti Smith
Robert Zimmerman
Viv Stanshall (Bonzo Doggy Doo Da Band)
Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)
Hawkwind (for cosmic scifi and who can beat their Quark, Strangeness and Charm a song about sub atomic particular love)

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Damien Rice

Joni Mitchell

Jeff Buckley

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