Pete Doherty: Greatest Songwriter of His Generation?

Rented Mule

AllForIt wrote: »

Elton John is one of the greatest lyricists ever. Even if you don't like his music which I think was great especially in the early 80's, he is one artist who when he sings I pay attention to the lyrics where otherwise I'd ordinarily pay more attention to the melody, which is the most important part of course.

Bernie Taupin wrote all of auld Reg's lyrics.

riclad

I doubt it there,s lots of songwriters who are not famous ,
they write songs for rihanna and other famous singers .
Right now i think its either ed sheeran or Sia ,in terms of songwriters
who can write songs that appear on hit albums , and that have
lyrics that have some meaning and depth.
i know billboard now counts audio streams and youtube views to complile its chart rankings.
I never heard any of his songs but i don,t think hes even in the top 10
songwriters of his generation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters
i think in 20 years time he will be forgotten.

refusetolose

riclad wrote: »

i think in 20 years time he will be forgotten.

not a chance
if anything he'll be more appreciated as time goes on

The Golden Miller

riclad wrote: »

I doubt it there,s lots of songwriters who are not famous ,
they write songs for rihanna and other famous singers .
Right now i think its either ed sheeran or Sia ,in terms of songwriters
who can write songs that appear on hit albums , and that have
lyrics that have some meaning and depth.
i know billboard now counts audio streams and youtube views to complile its chart rankings.
I never heard any of his songs but i don,t think hes even in the top 10
songwriters of his generation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters
i think in 20 years time he will be forgotten.

Ffs

VeryTerry

riclad wrote: »

I doubt it there,s lots of songwriters who are not famous ,
they write songs for rihanna and other famous singers .
Right now i think its either ed sheeran or Sia ,in terms of songwriters
who can write songs that appear on hit albums , and that have
lyrics that have some meaning and depth.
i know billboard now counts audio streams and youtube views to complile its chart rankings.
I never heard any of his songs but i don,t think hes even in the top 10
songwriters of his generation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters
i think in 20 years time he will be forgotten.

That Rolling Stone list has one singer born in the 80's, 3 born in the 70's and the rest are much older.

Taylor Swift aside (wtf) Rolling Stone don't think anyone under the age of 47 has ever written anything worthy of the top 100. It's about 90% Americans too. **** list.

smurgen

Hyped British nonsense.his lyrics are derivative nonsense. And Alex turner has gone absolutely woeful . He's gone so pretentious and up his own hole it ruined their earlier work for me.

PARlance

Fairly haunting song written in the aftermath of Amy Winehouse' death. Fairly strong lyrics there even if the melody was taken from Pink Floyd, Gunners Dream.

Still not a patch on Cheap Trills by Sia or Galway Girl by Ed however.