What are some Veeky Forums tier musicians?
Cohen and Bob Dylan come to mind
What are some Veeky Forums tier musicians?
lou reed
if you like Cohen, I recommend checking out Warren Zevon and Randy Newman (yes the toy story guy). Better known musicians like Tom Waits and Nick Cave also kind of fall into this category of americana/blues/folk/rock stuff.
that feel when my shit's fucked up
oh yes Ive heard some Newman I like this song youtu.be
Lotta jews in the music biz huh
>I wanna be black
>have natural rhythm
>shoot twenty feet of jism too
>and fuck up the jews
lou reed owns
Bob Dylan is a talentless hack.
Townes Van Zandt
Neil Young
Fabrizio De André
>For you — the blind who once could see —
>bell tolls for thee…
Bruce Springsteen
Chico Buarque, he even wrote some interesting novels.
before he went downhill
Paddy MacAloon
youtube.com
Joanna Newsom tbqh
Are Veeky Forums's preferred books the literary equivalent to these entry level singer-songwriters?
all singer-songwriters are entry-level
sure
Leonard Cohen is head and shoulders above any other musician, tBh.
I believe Bob Dylan said pretty much exactly that.
He also said his (Cohen's) melodies were superior to everyone else's, too.
>(Cohen's) melodies were superior to everyone else's, too.
Eh... Len got a lot of help from his producers and arrangers on this one, especially in the first half of his career.
>especially in the first half of his career
Which was undoubtedly the best half. Seems the real artists, the unsung heroes, were those producers and arrangers,
this
Jon Anderson
Joni Mitchell
>destroyer
writes great music, and the lyrical content is fairly dylanesque
these and mine for more contemporary artists
The most telling thing I've read, from John Lissauer (produced New Skin and Various Positions):
"Leonard had just been on Broadway and bought a Casio piece-of-crap synthesizer, for tourists. I go to his hotel, and he pushes a button, and it goes, boom-tish, boom-tish. He starts to sing the song, and I envisioned it with real musicians, letting it build and build. But he had his finger on this one key, playing the drumbeat. He was grinning like a school-kid. He loved the simplicity of it, and the fact that talented musicians weren't over-playing, Leonard can be stubborn. Usually to champion simplicity, or demo-like takes."
I have the feeling that a lot of his songs were basically just spoken word pieces before he got into the studio. That seems to be the case with The Captain, which I think is his best song. Granted, there is something to his idea of simplicity, and even the basic frameworks that he came up with are inspired. So I don't mean to insinuate he's talentless aside from his writing.
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I remember reading about him and what was probably that same Casio, how he loved using it in a ultra-simplistic childlike solo on Tower of Song.
It's so anti-music it's got more of a fuck-the-music-establishment feeling than most punk songs
Even moreso as it was done in the late '80's when everyone was trying to build these lush soundscapes with their cutting edge synths.
I remember Kate Bush saying something like, "If I hear Orc.5 in one more song I'll go insane!"
this!
I respect that she tried to play just as much regular piano as synthesizer as the '80s chugged on.
Gord Downie & The Tragically Hip
All of these guys, and Elvis Costello.
He's only getting better.
"I'm having guy problems" for more than 2 songs gets a little tedious
This fabulous lunatic
Mark E Smith
"The mad kid walked left-side south side towards me – he was about seven. His mother was a cleaning lady; she had a large black dog. And the mad kid said: 'Gimme the lead, gimme the lead, GIMME THE LEAD!' I'd just walked past the alcoholics dryout house... The lawn was littered with cans of Barbican. There was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside, with anti-nicotine anti-nuclear stickers on the side. The boys on the inside said 'give me a smoke'... Anyway two weeks before the mad kid had said to me 'I'll take both of you on! I'll take both of you on!' Then he seemed the young one. He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat, with a green-fuzz skull and crossbones – he'd just got back from the backward kids' party. Anyway then he seemed the young one, but now he looked like the victim of a pogrom."
also these
Jim Morrison
Morrissey
I am a poor, freezing-cold soul,
So far from where I intended to go.
Scavenging through life's very constant lulls,
So far from where I'm determined to go.
Wish I knew the way to reach the one I love.
There is no way.
Wish I had the charm to attract the one I love,
But, you see, I've got no charm.
Tonight I've consumed much more than I can hold,
Oh, this is very clear to you.
And you can tell I have never really loved.
You can tell, by the way, I sleep all day.
And all of my life no-one gave me anything.
No-one has ever given me anything.
My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye.
You must be such a fool to pass me by.
Sir Isaac Brock
Kevin Barnes
And by musicians, you mean songwriters, right?
Burt Bacharach is a great songwriter but not a great musician.
Cohen could barely sing.
Ritchie Blackmore can play a mean guitar but is not known for being a songwriter.
Is that fucking Ratko Mladic?
Jeff Mangum not even memeing
Kendrick Lamar
Drake
Kanye West
Gainsbourg
John Darnielle
Gil-Scott Heron
Jandek
Gasping - but somehow still alive
This is the fierce last stand of all I am
Gasping - dying - but somehow still alive
This is the final stand of all I am
Beethoven
MOTHER I CAN FEEL THE SOIL FALLING OVER MY HEAD
mommy! :3