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Old 10-15-2009, 01:09 PM
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Default Paste 100 Best Songwriters (FM #83)

[This is from June 14, 2006, but I didn't see it posted before]
http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...ters-8190.html
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #81-90

83>>FLEETWOOD MAC (Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie)

“I’ll follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you”

Amidst the tumult of two heart-wrenching breakups, Fleetwood Mac’s three capable songwriters penned the aptly named 1976 release Rumours. In exposing their pain to the world, the two sets of ex-lovers (Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Christine and John McVie) also managed to produce an album so authentically sorrowful, angry and hurt—yet naively hopeful—that it became the second-best-selling album of all time. Nicks’ soft chords and sharp lyrical sense could put a man in his place with one carefully crafted line (“Players only love you when they’re playing”) in contrast with Buckingham’s more blunt approach (“You can go your own way”). McVie was a bit more optimistic, with stay-strong songs like “Don’t Stop.” The result was an album that ran the gamut of emotional turmoil, and ensured the feuding pairs plenty more years more to lash out at each other with one chart-topper after another. Allie Goolrick

GET>> “Dreams” (1976), “Beautiful Child” (1979)


100. T Bone Burnett
99. Andre Benjamin & Antwan Patton (Outkast)
98. Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo)
97. Josh Ritter
96. Jimmy Cliff
95. Patti Smith
94. Sam Phillips
93. Joseph Arthur
92. Alejandro Escovedo
91. Drive By Truckers (Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell)



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90. Nick Cave
89. Victoria Williams
88. Parliament (George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell)
87. Lyle Lovett
86. Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)
85. David Bazan (Pedro the Lion, Headphones)
84. John Linnel & John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants)
83. Fleetwood Mac (Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie)
82. John Darnielle (Mountain Goats)
81. Wayne Coyne & Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips)


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80. Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason)
79. Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, Silver Jews)
78. Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices)
77. Bruce Cockburn
76. Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Palace Music, etc.)
75. Ron Sexsmith
74. Linford Detweiler & Karin Bergquist (Over the Rhine)
73. Julie Miller
72. Michael Jackson
71. Vic Chesnutt


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70. Alex Chilton (Big Star, The Box Tops)
69. Merle Haggard
68. Allen Tousaint
67. Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes)
66. Charles Thompson (aka Frank Black, Black Francis) (Pixies)
65. Bill Mallonee (Vigilantes of Love)
64. Andy Partridge (XTC, Dukes of Stratosphear)
63. Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention)
62. Sting (The Police)
61. John Hiatt


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60. Jimmy Webb
59. Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs)
58. Sly Stone (Sly & the Family Stone)
57. Morrissey (The Smiths)
56. James Brown
55. Dolly Parton
54. Aimee Mann
53. James Taylor
52. Paul Westerberg (The Replacements)
51. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham


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50. Public Enemy (Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Hank Shocklee, Eric Sadler, et al)
49. Cat Stevens
48. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
47. Sufjan Stevens
46. David Byrne (Talking Heads)
45. Jackson Browne
44. Al Green
43. Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown)
42. Loretta Lynn
41. Ray Davies (The Kinks)


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40. Burt Bacharach & Hal David
39. Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham)
38. Kris Kristofferson
37. Smokey Robinson
36. Beck Hansen
35. Steve Earle
34. John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
33. Pete Townshend (The Who)
32. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
31. Carole King


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30. John Prine
29. Tom Petty
28. Robbie Robertson (The Band)
27. Radiohead (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway)
26. R.E.M. (Peter Buck, Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe)
25. Chuck Berry
24. Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, Loose Fur, etc.)
23. Elton John & Bernie Taupin
22. Lucinda Williams
21. Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)


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20. Van Morrison
19. Patty Griffin
18. U2 (Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton)
17. Holland-Dozier-Holland
16. David Bowie
15. Willie Nelson
14. Stevie Wonder
13. Paul Simon
12. Mick Jagger & Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
11. Randy Newman


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The Top 10




10. Prince
9. Joni Mitchell
8. Elvis Costello
7. Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
6. Leonard Cohen
5. Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings)
4. Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan
3. Bruce Springsteen
2. Neil Young (Buffalo Sprinfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1. Bob Dylan
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From Yahoo Music, October 14, 2009, by Shawn Amos

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/get...her-sometimes/

The Couple That Plays Together, Stays Together (Sometimes)

STEVIE NICKS & LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
This musical romance began in high school where Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were members of the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band. They both dropped out of San Jose State, and Stevie waited tables and cleaned houses to support them. They probably have the most creatively successful breakup record in all of music. Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, "Rumours," very publicly chronicled the demise of Buckingham and Nicks' relationship (as well as that of everyone else in the band).
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Aww, I'm so glad to see my boy Joseph Arthur made the list! I think besides the Mac, he's the only artist who can elicit tears in me . I guess for artists 91-100 they don't get a write up? I was hoping to hear what they said about him.
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Aww, I'm so glad to see my boy Joseph Arthur made the list! I think besides the Mac, he's the only artist who can elicit tears in me.
Do you mean to say that you aren't moved to tears when you listen to the Benedictus of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?
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I'm surprised that Carole King is higher (or lower? ) on the list, considering she and Gerry Goffin wrote practically every song in the world.
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Lists are a challenging endeavor, but this is pretty inane (Morrissey, Dolly Parton, Public Enemy in the 50s... and no Iris Dement or Pet Shop Boys or Bernard Sumner?!?!)
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Aww, I'm so glad to see my boy Joseph Arthur made the list! I think besides the Mac, he's the only artist who can elicit tears in me . I guess for artists 91-100 they don't get a write up? I was hoping to hear what they said about him.
Yes, they did write them up. That's at:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...ers-91100.html
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