Stevie Nicks on Rolling Stone "100 greatest songwriters of all time" list

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

You've got to take these lists with a grain of salt - they're generationally slanted, and intended for the under-30 crowd, which is the largest music buying demographic.

I agree.Back in the 1970's and 1980's RS was focused under 30 something which I fall in and they were not or little bit of talking about musicians from my parents s generation which was Benny Goodman ,Jacky Gleason, Lawrence Welk,Tony Bennett and others.

[He's So Unusual]

Madonna? She has written precisely seven songs single-handedly in 32 years. It should read: "Madonna and all the other people who have helped her out." The last time she wrote a song by herself was the mid-1980s (Gambler). There are songs on her last three albums written by seven and eight different people. Overrated hack.

[caterwench]

Stevie's devotion to her craft and love are so deserving of being on this list. Timeless and ageless.

[aleuzzi]

Stevie has written about seven iconic songs. The rest of her songs are passable-to-very good. That's not bad at all.

Christine is one of rock's sturdiest, cleverest songwriters. She should be on this list.

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Christine is one of rock's sturdiest, cleverest songwriters. She should be on this list.

If Christine would have had a Barry in her life, I'm sure she
would be on that list.

[Jondalar]

Stevie is ahead of Tom Petty. Bet he loves that. 😆

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Stevie is ahead of Tom Petty. Bet he loves that. ��

I bet it means absolutely nothing to him.

[johnnystorms]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Stevie has written about seven iconic songs. The rest of her songs are passable-to-very good. That's not bad at all.

Christine is one of rock's sturdiest, cleverest songwriters. She should be on this list.

tough to argue with Christine's tunes being "sturdy" but that's not great... probably the ONLY iconic track she wrote was Don't Stop, and that's primarily due to the Clinton revival.. her songs are catchy, "sturdy" and consistently good, but none have gotten into the zeitgeist like Landslide, Rhiannon, Gypsy, Edge.
I haven't seen the list and might consider CM better than many... but there's been little cultural impact from her songs

[The Juggler]

Stevie has about an albums worth of excellent songs, and another albums worth of pretty good stuff, all before 1982. But I think 53 is a bit high.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by johnnystorms

tough to argue with Christine's tunes being "sturdy" but that's not great... probably the ONLY iconic track she wrote was Don't Stop, and that's primarily due to the Clinton revival.. her songs are catchy, "sturdy" and consistently good, but none have gotten into the zeitgeist like Landslide, Rhiannon, Gypsy, Edge.
I haven't seen the list and might consider CM better than many... but there's been little cultural impact from her songs

I don't entirely disagree. But as songs in themselves, very few of Stevie's tunes would make any impact on the "Zeitgeist" if she weren't singing them. It's her voice and how she sells those songs that make them spark. Anyone else singing Rhiannon, Edge, Stand Back, or Gypsy sounds lame. Only Landslide and some of her country-inflected tunes translate to other singers.

I would argue that Little Lies, Hold Me, and--as you mention--Don't Stop are iconic in a different way, as pop anthems. And Clinton's theme song would not have blown up the way it did if it wasn't already a major song. Oh Daddy is iconic in its own way as much as Rhiannon. Just because there aren't a gazillion women dressed as Christine in the front rows of her concerts or drag queens holding a night of a thousand Christines doesn't mean at least five of her songs aren't deserving of being on the list: they have a strong cultural impact on a lot of people.

There is also the little matter of Songbird being pretty damn iconic.

And a pop tune like Say You Love Me is like a Cole Porter tune, so excellent because of the way it balances wry humor with genuine feeling.

[Jondalar]

Lets give a shout out to Dolly Parton for making it so high on the list. Well-deserved. But what about Loretta Lynn?