Paste Magazine - Top 100 Songwriter's List

[DudeAsInCool]

Stereogum posted this list from Paste's roundup at his website. Here is the recap (in full):

Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters

Another list to argue about! But this one should result in a heck of a lot less eye-rolling. Paste Magazine invited fifty journalists and musicians to compile...

100 Best Living Songwriters

1. Bob Dylan

2. Neil Young

3. Bruce Springsteen

4. Waits/Brennan

5. Paul McCartney

6. Leonard Cohen

7. Brian Wilson

8. Elvis Costello

9. Joni Mitchell

10. Prince

11. Randy Newman

12. Jagger/Richards

13. Paul Simon

14. Stevie Wonder

15. Willie Nelson

16. David Bowie

17. Holland/Dozier/Holland

18. U2

19. Patty Griffin

20. Van Morrison

21. Lou Reed

22. Lucinda Williams

23. John/Taupin

24. Jeff Tweedy

25. Chuck Berry

26. R.E.M.

27. Radiohead

28. Robbie Robertson

29. Tom Petty

30. John Prine

31. Carole King

32. Leiber/Stoller

33. Pete Townshend

34. John Fogerty

35. Steve Earle

36. Beck

37. Smokey Robinson

38. Kris Kristofferson

39. Led Zeppelin

40. Bacharach/David

41. Ray Davies

42. Loretta Lynn

43. Ryan Adams

44. Al Green

45. Jackson Browne

46. David Byrne

47. Sufjan Stevens

48. Welch/Rawlings

49. Cat Stevens

50. Public Enemy

51. Penn/Oldham

52. Paul Westerberg

53. James Taylor

54. Aimee Mann

55. Dolly Parton

56. James Brown

57. Morrissey

58. Sly Stone

59. Jack White

60. Jimmy Webb

61. John Hiatt

62. Sting

63. Richard Thompson

64. Andy Partridge

65. Bill Mallonee

66. Charles Thompson

67. Conor Oberst

68. Allen Toussaint

69. Merle Haggard

70. Alex Chilton

71. Vic Chesnutt

72. Michael Jackson

73. Julie Miller

74. Over the Rhine

75. Ron Sexsmith

76. Will Oldham

77. Bruce Cockburn

78. Robert Pollard

79. Stephen Malkmus

80. Pink Floyd

81. The Flaming Lips

82. John Darnielle

83. Fleetwood Mac

84. They Might Be Giants

85. David Bazan

86. Sam Beam

87. Lyle Lovett

88. Parliament

89. Victoria Williams

90. Nick Cave

91. Drive-By Truckers

92. Alejandro Escovedo

93. Joseph Arthur

94. Sam Phillips

95. Patti Smith

96. Jimmy Cliff

97. Josh Ritter

98. Jay Farrar

99. Outkast

100. T. Bone Burnett

[KiwiCoromandel]

The Flaming Lips??....Nick Cave??...MORRISSEY???... ...aw yeah...sez who?...

"I consider rock reporting as a state of journalistic art on a level with Ben Gay ads." — Warren Hinkle.... :) :)

edit:...OUTKAST??!!....

[method77]

I like most of them but Paul McCartney should not be #5

I like Nick Cave kiwi

[KiwiCoromandel]

I like most of them but Paul McCartney should not be #5

I like Nick Cave kiwi

i`ve seen him live mate....both in nz and aussie..i hated it both times.....i just find him depressing....each to his own as they say... :)

[method77]

I've seen him live twice and loved it

Cohen and Cave have something that others don't. Depressing yet nice

[KiwiCoromandel]

i`ve never liked cohen either.....for the same reasons......the closest i could go towards that sort of downer, suicide-at-every-corner musical style/imagery or lyricism would be patti smith, tim buckley or even some of lou reed`s darker lyrics.....again, only my humble opinion... :)

[method77]

Different taste in depressing music hehe

[KiwiCoromandel]

i`m very depressed.....

[DudeAsInCool]

i'm with kiwi on this one--nick cave and leonard what...what songs of their's are on the all time best list?

.and paul mccartney should be high up there somewhere

[Excrement_Cranium]

I'll add to your Outkast objection.

The should have only listed Andre'. Big Boi is only half as talented.