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Yet another list!

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:

1. Lennon/McCartney
2. Jagger/Richards
3. Strummer/Jones
4. John/Taupin
5. Marr/Morrissey
6. Becker/Fagen
7. Garcia/Hunter
8. Waits/Brennan
9. David/Bacharach
10. Lieber/Stoller

Discuss.

Yawn. Thanks for telling me the Beatles are the greatest thing ever for the millionth time, rollingstone.

I had the same reaction, but there is no better songwriting duo than those two.

6. Becker/Fagen
7. Garcia/Hunter

These guys ain't so bad either...

Anastasio/Marshall
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Marshall_(singer)

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.

Where's

HAll/Oates?









*flees n' hides while giggling*

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'.

A Gunslinger wrote:Where's

HAll/Oates?









*flees n' hides while giggling*

Thanks for the belly-laugh, Guns.

Nobody mentioned the Captain or Tennile, either.

Lord Mhoram wrote:
8. Waits/Brennan

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.

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.

I thought it was Walter Brennan.

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.

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.

The RS lists are truly nothing more that talk-generators. It works...hell...look at US!

Exactly, that's what I think of them as.

But much as I love The Beatles, it irritates me when they top every list.

My long lingering love for bubble-gum is rearing its ugly head again...

What about Loggins and Messina?

Or Buckingham/Nicks.

Or Henley/Frey.