You guys had a lot to say about this weekend’s rock list. After digging through hundreds of nominations, we decided to focus on artists who were widely recognized as songwriting duos, as opposed to those who’ve occasionally written some good tunes together, or who wrote together primarily as part of a larger group. That means we left off Page and Plant, one of your most frequent nominees, because John Paul Jones had a hand in so many great Zep songs. So, without further ado:
Lord Mhoram wrote:I had the same reaction, but there is no better songwriting duo than those two.
Meh, those two bore me to tears. I fart in their general direction. Personally, I'll take Ozzy and Tommy Iommi (or whoever wrote BS's early songs) over any of the losers on that list.
The thing about Lennon and McCartney is, did they actually *collaborate* on many songs? I thought John and Paul essentially wrote their own songs, but always credited them to both? So are they really a songwriting duo, or two great songwriters who happened to be in the same band?
Most of the list either did work together to write their material, or in sequence a la Bernie writing lyrics and then giving them to Elton to write the music. Hunter and Jerry worked the same way... I'm also rather impressed that they got onto this list.
"History is a myth men have agreed upon." - Napoleon
Another worthless list from RS. Hmmmm, "That means we left off Page and Plant, one of your most frequent nominees..." so that we could use the word 'duos' rather than 'teams'.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I love me some Tom Waits. Couldn't agree more, though I so often forget that they are a song writing duo, and not just Tom, since Kathleen Brennan stays way the hell out of the limelight. Is there even a picture of her out there somewhere?
Edit: Just answered my own question.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
Cail wrote:Another worthless list from RS. Hmmmm, "That means we left off Page and Plant, one of your most frequent nominees..." so that we could use the word 'duos' rather than 'teams'.
The songwriting duo is a pretty time-honored tradition in rock. This is a narrow list, only of duos. It's not about groups. No need to needlessly bash RS just because Zeppelin isn't on it.
Needlessly bash RS? RS has become a sad parody of what they used to be.
Time-honored tradition in rock? Maybe for the last 40 years, that's hardly time-honored.
Sorry LM, RS has done more on its own to marginalize and ridicule themselves that I possibly ever could.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I almost never agree 100% with these lists, but I enjoy reading them, and the fact that we all post links to them on these message boards attests to the fact that RS is still relevant by some standard. And anything that's 40+ years old in rock is time-honored by rock standards.
Meh, I post and respond to these lists from RS and others more to mock them than anything else.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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