Friday Five

[ericcoleman]

Top five favorite songwriters
1 Pete Townsend - The Who
2 Paul K
3 Richard Thompson
4 Mary Chapin Carpenter
5 Ian Hunter - Mott The Hoople

Comments

[erik]

Ivan Doroschuk - Men Without Hats

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Steve Goodman
Ray Davies

[ericcoleman]

Ray was on the original list I made up, but I've been listening to a lot of Mott lately, and not as much of the Kinks. I love Goodman, but he wouldn't make my top 5.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

If you haven't heard them yet, give Davies's recent solo albums, "Working Man's Café" and "Other People's Lives" a shot.

[ericcoleman]

There was a wonderful interview with him a couple weeks ago on Sound Opinions, which is a podcast done by Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis. soundopinions.org

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I heard that. I was surprised since I didn't realize his last name was pronounced "Davis."

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

It's actually closer to "Day-vizz" (as he said on NPR a year or two ago).

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to see what happened if you extended this to 10 song writers. I was trying to think of my favorites and so far I have Tom Chapin, Tom Paxton, Lennon/McCartney....

[ericcoleman]

It would get weird ...

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that mean you're obligated to do it?

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

My top pick is Stan Rogers. Picking just four others to round out the top 5 is too hard, so I'm not going to try.