Thursday, February 23, 2006

Best Living Songwriters poll

Paste Magazine is taking a reader poll of the greatest 100 living songwriters (and songwriting teams), and you can click over and pick your top 20 now (look for the link at the middle right of the page). Write-ins are encouraged, so be sure to correct the obvious oversight of leaving Scram faves Deniz Tek, Scott Miller, Brute Force and John Parker Compton off the list.

Here's my picks (and I am sure I'm forgetting someone I'll regret); if you vote, please list yours on the comments below:
1) Alex Chilton
2)
Arthur Lee
3)
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil
4)
Brian Wilson
5)
Carole King/Gerry Coffin (sic!)
6)
Colin Blunstone/Rod Argent (they forgot Chris White, but I ain't blowing a write-in on one Zombie!)
7)
Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry
8)
Jeff Mangum
9)
Jimmy Webb
10)
Joni Mitchell
11)
Pete Townshed
12)
Ray Davies
13)
Roky Erickson
14)
Steve Earle
15) Peter Perrett (Only Ones)
17) Scott Miller (Game Theory/Loud Family)
18) Brute Force
19) John Parker Compton (Appaloosa)
20) Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman)

2 comments:

Hayden Childs said...

Wow, they don't know that Fela Kuti died years ago.

Hey, Kim - did you see Pitchfork's news for today? Os Mutantes (or, at least, some of them) are going to reunite for a single concert in London.

Kim said...

Laura Nyro was up there for a while, too.

It's cool when people live long enough to play big shows in London.