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Dylan #2? Really? Your list is "best", not "favorite".
Best songwriter is Bob Dylan of course. Nobel laureate, most prestigious prize.
great content! thanks!
Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry.
Sting, Carole King, John and Paul.
Dianne Warren is the most influential songwriter of the modern era; her hand is literally in every genre of music playing on the radio today.
Paul Simon?
kendrick lamar? tupac? they are more skilled wordsmiths than all of these guys and often talk about realer issues
Stones completely copied the blues
The greatest is lucio battisti
N2 Paul McCartney.
You can tell this guy's from Canada in the first three seconds.
Lee Mavers from The La's was a genius. Sadly after one amazing album he walked away because he hated the music industry and was a perfectionist who could never quite find the authentic sound he wanted when he was in a studio.
The La's could have been one of the biggest bands of all time. Mavers is up there with any on this list.
You are an idiot. What a crock of shit!!!
Are u on fucking drugs. Stones never wrote anything as good as Lennon n McCartney…and they should have been number 1…. worst order I've ever seen prob why u only got 60 likes u idiot
Lennon McCartney is the best songwritting team and songwritters as individually,no one can be like their music even George Harrison and ringo starr is good in songwritting too.
1 Paul McCartney 2 Benny and Bjorn 3 Barry Gibb 4 Billy Joel 5 Gershwin 6 Carol King 7 Burt Bacarach 8 Paul Simon 9 Cole Porter 10 Bernstein
Paul McCartney is the best sing/songwriter this universe will ever see
for my money: Bob Dylan, Thom Yorke, The Beatles, Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields)
McCartney is an will be forever the greatest Songwriter of all Time. His Melodies give us Good for Make a better World
Ice T?
Ray Davies will always be number 1. I was glad to see him as an honorable mention. The village green preservation society was decades ahead and stays truer than ever today. All of his music was, really…
Paul is the greatest songwriter in history. John is second best.
Shake McGowan
My grandmother is from Hibbing Minnesota and grew up baby sitting Bobby Zimmerman. I've never met him, but she got his autograph before he started going by Bob Dylan
I’m surprised you didn’t at least put John Denver (my fav songwriter) and The Avett Brothers under honorable mentions. Both wrote/write brilliant melody and deep, poetic lyrics.
What abt noel
Bob Dylan but he wasn't as good as John & Paul
Lennon McCartney at #6…..???
McCartney couldn’t write as good as Lennon…..???
Brah, what??
What? Wait, WHAT???
Brah….I can’t even.
I appreciate the honorable mention of George Harrison, I feel he is very underrated
Where is Jamaican Ernie Smith
That the white man list
Bob Marley is better and more consistent than Bob Dylan Cat Steven Paul McCarthy John Lennon Paul Simon why the white man always think they are the best. I think Bob Dylan is overrated
Bob Marley Bob Dylan Bob Andy
There is Bob Marley then there are the Rest
i about shit myself when you started off the list with Kurt Cobain, and let John Prine and Guy Clark roll by on the ticker tape of honorable mentions. i damn near turned the video off and went to bed. But i was just too damn curious as to who your top pick was. So i waited. For the simple fact that you had Hank at #3, Dylan at #2, and Townes Van Zandt at #1…. you’re OK in my book. Long live Texas !!!! ???
Tom Waites?
With all due respect guys, how can one of the greatest songwriters ever lived make a career in music nowadays? https://open.spotify.com/album/40Dx45kgMIHfvcnpedibPa?si=2lyaIsz4ReKJe-tJgyA5KQ
despite opinion, just thank you. this is the only one talking about songwriting and in depth. thank you
Oh hell yeah — Cat Stevens. John/Taupin.
Did Jackson Browne even get honorable mention?
Nice list, mine is…
1. John Lennon
2. Barry Gibb
3. Roland Orzabal
4. Sting
5. Bryan Wilson
6. Buddy Holly
7. Paul Simon
8. Martin Gore
9. George Harrison
10. Benny and Bjorn fron Abba
stuart adamson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbEx1BbEtA&t=360s
Stuart Adamson is as good as it gets. Bro i watched your video and im confused why did you not mention Stuart Adamson ? maybe you just havent expanded that far as he's Scottish.