Most Poetic Song Writer
 

Who do you guys think is the most Poetic Song writer? I know that all songs are poetry but which ones are the most meaningfull or beautiful.

I think Connor Oberst of Bright Eyes is an amazing song writer, He really puts thought into his music.

Leonard Cohen
Tomi Amos
Eminem

Someone forgot to tell 50 cent, then. Exhibit A:

"I love you like a fat kid love cake."

I rest my case.

Anyway, I think Bono's always been one of the best.

Ben Folds
Paul Simon

Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty

paul simon
don mclean
bob dylan
john lennon

Bob Dylan
early Bruce Springsteen

Joni Mitchell
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I really like Billy Bragg's lyrics (and music). Oh, and Will Oldham.

Jim Morrision.

Oh and I am also fond of Jeff Mangum and Bob Dylan

Best Writers I don't really know what "Poetic" means

Muddy Waters
Neil Young
Bob Dlyan
George Harrison
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
Lennon McCartney
Robert Smith
Kurt Cobain
and
Elliott Smith

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Shane McGowan

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David McComb

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Neil Hannon

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Mark Eitzel

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Kate Bush

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Bernard Sumner

I talked to a guy who saw The Pogues with the original members set up in London a couple of weeks ago. With Shane. I had no idea they were back together again. Apparently Shane wasn't that drunk and the band was tight. I would love to have seen that.

Belfast King's Hall, Christmas 1987 - the best gig I've ever attended. :)

I think The Pogues need Shane as much as he needs them right now (I saw them once in Liverpool after the band kicked him out, with Joe Strummer on vocals and it was quite sad) and McGowan's still a fierce talent. He'll probably outlive us all....

Man, that Belfast gig sounds like it was something else... Cait is back in the band too.

I've seen The Pogues once, with Strummer (or was it Spider?) behind the mic.

I also saw a documentary about MacGowan about a year ago or so and that was sad. He is in such a crappy state. But at the same time he does not exactly seem unhappy. Maybe playing with the boys can help him up a bit. It's a miracle he's still alive.

And, yes, he is a fantastic talent. I really love The Pogues and Shane's lyrics. Do you have a favourite album?

I was 14 when I went with a few schoolmates to the gig, Fairytale of New York was at number 2 and it was the first 'proper' concert I'd ever been to. The only downside was that Kirsty McCall couldn't make it so Spider's wife stepped in.

Favourite album? It's gotta be -

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They way they mixed original material with well-worn standards (Dirty Old Town, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda) was fantastic. McGowan still had a singing voice (I saw him with The Popes a few years ago and was almost in tears) and hadn't yet decided to dedicate his life to becoming a musical Brendan Behan (in his own words - a drinker with a writing problem).

If I Should Fall From Grace With God is another fantastic record but the band started it's decline soon after.

Have you got a fave?

Darn, how could I forget the World's Tallest Hobbit?

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Van Morrison.

Poetic pretensions ahoy! For example -

Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools

Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page

Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Uptempo, frenzied heels

Rave on, Walt Whitman, nose down in wet grass
Rave on fill the senses
On nature's bright green shady path

Rave on Omar Khayyam, Rave on Kahlil Gibran
Oh, what sweet wine we drinketh
The celebration will be held
We will partake the wine and break the Holy bread

Rave on let a man come out of Ireland
Rave on on Mr. Yeats,
Rave on down through the Holy Rosey Cross
Rave on down through theosophy, and the Golden Dawn
Rave on through the writing of "A Vision"
Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on

Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools

Rave on, down though the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on words on printed page

EDIT - great song though :)

Since Kirsty's passed away I read that Cait O'Riordan was singing her part on the reunion gigs. I also read that Shane wrote the song with her in mind originally. Are you from Belfast?

That's interesting. That's the two I would pick too. "Rum Sodomy and the Lash" is the most even album, I think. All the songs are fantastic, they just line them up. "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" I would say is a greater accomplishment for them as musicians but it sometimes "goes over the line". I've never liked "Fiesta" for instance...