on my list, i just forgot to type it

OK...i thought i was going insane for a minute. :D

To me, Kashmir is the greatest, most epic rock song ever written and recorded. It's simply brilliant.

see, problem with listing them for me is that i thought the thread was about lyrical writers...and if so, my personal favorite zep LP is the first one...and, well we all know where those lyrics came from...uncredited black blues men... but anyway. page is a genius and i love zep so.... im with ya.

if i had to pick one totally original zep song as a fav, it would be Going to California. perfecto

A lof off the stuff in LZI is covers. Very, very good covers- but covers nonetheless.

Robert Smith of the Cure

"A feather hits the ground before its' weight can leave the air" Michael Stipe REM

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Woody GuthrieSmileWavy

California Stars


I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel
Your hand touching mine
And tell me why
I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
of California stars

I'd like to dream
My troubles all away
On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed
Make another day
Underneath my California stars

They hang like grapes
On vines that shine
And warm the lovers' glass
Like friendly wine

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel
Your hand touching mine
And tell me why
I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
of California stars

I'd like to dream
My troubles all away
On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed
Make another day
Underneath my California stars

They hang like grapes
On vines that shine
And warm the lovers' glass
Like friendly wine

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

(Dream a dream with you)
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damn, i cant stop

I echo the Zep comments - some don't like them b/c they were so "popular" - I'd say look again.

I'll include Cobain also.

It's The Ocean for me. After all those years, In My Time of Dying and No Quarter are slowly creaping up to that top spot for me. Zep is my fav band still.

Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons.... Love Gun :D

Good call..these guys do a great cover;


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Beat me to it... and his son Arlo...

How can you beat:

I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motor sickle

And IIIIIIIIIII don't want to die... just want to ride my motor... cyc... cull

And the best rap song ever, Alices restaurant. :D

Pete Seeger, Ian Anderson, and whoever wrote for the Talking Heads. Also the Byrds.

Was it Steven Foster who wrote all those songs around the time of the Civil War. A lot of depth in his songs, but today we remember him for ''I dream of Geannie with the light brown hair''.

I will admit that I don't know too many of the new Writers, but a lot of the music coming out for about ten years was just painful to endure. Screaming at me will get you nowhere. I liked the Indigo Girls, but they are hardly new anymore. I am also a big Pink Floyd fan, but only a few of their songs are truly great as songs. They are all truly great as art however.

Bob Marley also had some truly great songs.

Funny you say that. I was at a record store a few years ago. I was at the counter and I asked the kid. "What is your generation so angry about?" He looked bewildered for a second or two and said. "I don't know" To funny. I have to admit I like some of Distrurbed & System of the Down's stuff.

Dean and Gene Ween.

While some of their music is rather odd, the depth of their range is incredible.

Long Live Ween.

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Grew up with Zepplin. Like their stuff, but the lyrics were pretty lame imo - a little too unicorn and wizard hat for me. Can't deny that the music was excellent, but again imo, not the best songwriters.

I'll go sort of in chronological order with Orbison, Neil Diamond, Dylan, Neil Young, Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke, Win Butler.

edit - oops - forgot Frank Black

Neil Peart
John Lennon
Bruce Springsteen
Geoff Tate (Queensryche)
Neil Diamond
Jeffrey Gaines
Lionel Ritchie
Jimmy Page
Bernie Taupin (for Elton John)
Billy Joel
James Taylor
Pete Townshend
Paul Simon
Neil Young
Roger Waters/David Gilmour
Roy Orbison
Freddy Mercury
Kurt Cobain
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Lars Ulrich & James Hetfield
Eddie Vedder
Tracy Chapman
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Phil Collins
Angus Young
Van Halen (they wrote together)
Steven Stills
Mark Knopfler
Jerry Leiber
Brian Wilson
Stevie Wonder
Prince
David Bowie

How could you pick a best?

Kurt Williams