Who is the best writers in the history? (Single, duo etc...)

She doesnt really sing her own songs either...

I'd say good ol' Macca.

That would put her at a definite disadvantage, yes...

Hm...I only know composers. So, can I add Dvorak and Mahler to the list, pretty please?

Ja ne!

Only one person mentions Page & Plant??

They are the Lennon and McCartney's of heavy rock.

Freddie is awesome as well.

djaef wrote:

Only one person mentions Page & Plant??

They are the Lennon and McCartney's of heavy rock.

Freddie is awesome as well.

I mentioned Page and Plant and let's not forget Gilmour/Waters. Without Gilmour, Waters' music vision would not have been realized. If you listen to The Wall demos then the studio album, David Gilmour plus Bob Ezrin turned The Wall into a classic.

NOTWMEDDLE wrote:

djaef wrote:

Only one person mentions Page & Plant??

They are the Lennon and McCartney's of heavy rock.

Freddie is awesome as well.

I mentioned Page and Plant and let's not forget Gilmour/Waters. Without Gilmour, Waters' music vision would not have been realized. If you listen to The Wall demos then the studio album, David Gilmour plus Bob Ezrin turned The Wall into a classic.

Yes, you were the one I mentioned :)

Yes, let's not forget Gilmour/Waters. I've never heard the Wall demos (I'd love to though), but I've never been one to underestimate Gilmours position within Pink Floyd. I saw Floyd on the first post waters tour and let me tell you, from the front row, they were freakin' awesome, Waters or no Waters...

How about Strummer & Jones? Anyone mentioned them?

Obviously, the Queen guys *top* (May, Mercury, Deacon, Taylor - in that order) my list...but my other choices are:

The Brothers Gibb (ducking the tomatoes already - look/listen to everything BESIDES Saturday Night Fever people)

David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, & Tina Weymouth (better known as Talking Heads)

Jagger/Richards

Bowie (David and Mystic) (Okay - you know who David is...but Who the hell is Mystic Bowie? Go find out for yorself at www.MysticBowie.net)

That's all for now.....

The person who started this topic has no idea of good music.
Elvis presley NEVER wrote songs (except one)
Giorgo Moroder is NOT a good songwriter.
Anyway it's his opinion, here is mine:

1) Freddie Mercury
2) Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
3) Heather Nova
4) Miles Davis
5) Bono

Mercury
May (my fav)
Deacon
Taylor
Page/Plant
McCartney/Lennon
Jagger/Richards
Guns n' Roses

Freddie Mercury my dears!

Brian May is the best, followed by(in no particular order):

Freddie Mercury
Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
The lead singer of Coldplay(name???)
Roger Waters
David Gilmour

gotta say:

Lennon/MCartney

Mercury and May, the other 2 wrote soo few songs that it is stupid to set them up on the list for the histories best writers.

Ray Davies is great too.

But this is such a stupid topic beacause nobody knows so much about other genres then rock.

The really best must be someone like beethoven, chopin, bach, mozart.

Lyrically, imo the best was John Winston Lennon. `In My Life` is hunky-dory.

Musically, I choose John Winston Lennon. I don`t think anyone else is able to write such a fantastic piece like `Woman` just with six bloody chords

Freddie Mercury
Lennon/McCartney
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Bowie

Freddie Mercury
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Jim Steinman
Carole King
Billy Joel
John Lennon
John Deacon