VA - 100 Greatest Songwriters (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

GREATEST SONGWRITERS

Previously posted March 27, 2020

VA - 100 Greatest Songwriters (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CD's)

This list of songwriters was inspired by an article from Rolling Stone magazine, The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, a feature published by the American magazine Rolling Stone in August 2015. The list presented was compiled based on the magazine's music critics. It predominantly features American and English songwriters of the rock era.

The list received mixed response from fellow publications. Writing for Flavorwire, Judy Berman criticized the selection of the songwriters, saying "Predictably, it's over 70% white and features only nine solo female songwriters (five other women are included as part of mixed gender writing teams). Classic rock is over-represented; every other genre and sub-genre of popular music is underrepresented." Geeta Dayal from The Guardian accused "corporate sponsorship" in determining the list's content. Tom Moon from NPR wrote that "This list represents another trip through the hagiography, hermetically sealed rock hall of fame, with the same stars you've been reading about in Rolling Stone since the dinosaur age." The Daily Telegraph editor Martin Chilton responded with a list of 100 best songwriters missed out by Rolling Stone, including Cole Porter, Townes Van Zandt, Ewan MacColl, Kate Bush, and Ray Charles. [Agreed] (NEW Compilation Next) (Wikipedia)

[Agreed] (NEW Compilation to follow Next week) 

Dylan wrote "A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true,"... "They're like strange countries that you have to enter." And so we do, marveling at the sights, over and over again.

Prince said “Attention to detail makes the difference between a good song and a great song. And I meticulously try to put the right sound in the right place, even sounds that you would only notice if I left them out. Sometimes I hear a melody in my head, and it seems like the first color in a painting. And then you can build the rest of the song with other added sounds. You just have to try to be with that first color, like a baby yearns to come to its parents. That’s why creating music is really like giving birth. Music is like the universe: The sounds are like the planets, the air and the light fitting together."

John Lennon said “Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed.”

However which way a song is written it is the skill the writer has to make us see something that moves us. Here is the list mostly inspired by The Rolling Stone magazine article in August 2015.

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Track lists

Track    Songwriter    Title

CD1
       
01    Bob Dylan    Like a Rolling Stone    5:58
02    Paul McCartney    Maybe I'm Amazed    3:49
03    John Lennon    #9 Dream    4:33
04    Chuck Berry    Johnny B. Goode    2:41
05    Smokey Robinson & the Miracles    The Tears of a Clown    3:01
06    Mick Jagger and Keith Richards    Gimme Shelter    4:32
07    Carole King and Gerry Goffin    I'm Into Something Good    2:51
08    Paul Simon    Kodachrome    3:32
09    Joni Mitchell    River    4:03
10    Stevie Wonder    Superstition    4:25
11    Bob Marley    Redemption Song    3:48
12    Brian Wilson    The Warmth of the Sun    2:56
13    Hank Williams    I Saw the Light    2:43
14    Bruce Springsteen    I'm on Fire    2:41
15    Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland    Where Did Our Love Go    2:40
16    Leonard Cohen    Suzanne    3:48
17    Neil Young    After the Goldrush    3:46
18    Prince    Purple Rain    8:44
19    Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry    You Don't Know    3:15
20    Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller    Jailhouse Rock    2:25
21    Lou Reed    Satellite of Love    3:42
22    Van Morrison    Madame George    9:41
23    Robert Johnson    Crossroads Blues    2:35
24    Elvis Costello    Man Out of Time    5:30
25    Randy Newman    Sail Away    2:52

CD2

26    James Brown    I Got You (I Feel Good)    2:46
27    Ray Davies    Waterloo Sunset    3:18
28    Woody Guthrie    This Land is Your Land    2:38
29    Buddy Holly & the Crickets    That'll Be the Day    2:17
30    Pete Townsend    Baba O'riley    5:08
31    Dolly Parton    I Will Always Love You    2:58
32    Burt Bacharach and Hal David    This Guy's in Love With You    4:01
33    Merle Haggard    Mama Tried    2:15
34    Michael Jackson    Billie Jean    4:53
35    Bono & The Edge    With Or Without You    4:55
36    Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter    Ripple    4:09
37    Jackson Browne    The Pretender    5:52
38    Al Green    Back Up Train    2:21
39    David Bowie    Space Oddity    4:59
40    John Fogerty    Long as I Can See the Light    3:32
41    Sly & the Family Stone    Family Affair    3:05
42    Johnny Cash    Ring of Fire    2:40
43    Jimmy Webb    Macarthur Park    7:25
44    Robbie Robertson    The Weight    4:38
45    Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong    I Heard it Through the Grapevine    2:49
46    Neil Diamond    Cracklin' Rosie    2:58
47    Elton John and Bernie Taupin    Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters    4:57
48    Glenn Frey    Tequila Sunrise    2:47
49    Billy Joel    Piano Man    5:36
50    Willie Dixon    I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man    4:52

CD3

51    Stevie Nicks    Silver Springs    4:46
52    Nirvana    Lithium    4:16
53    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers    American Girl    3:32
54    Tom Waits    Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)    6:38
55    Willie Nelson    Crazy    2:52
56    Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman    Save the Last Dance for Me    2:34
57    Harry Nilsson    Without You    3:21
58    Chrissie Hynde    Brass in Pocket    3:04
59    Bert Berns    Piece of My Heart    4:13
60    Billy Paul    Me and Mrs. Jones    4:45
61    Morrissey and Marr    There is a Light That Never Goes Out    4:04
62    James Taylor    Fire and Rain    3:14
63    James Carr    The Dark End of the Street    2:28
64    Fats Domino and Dave Barthomolew    Ain't That a Shame    2:27
65    Patti Smith    Amerigo    4:36
66    Sam & Dave    Soul Man    2:39
67    Benny Spellman    Fortune Teller    2:13
68    Rod Stewart    The Killing of Georgie (Part I and Ii)    6:29
69    Lucinda Williams    Passionate Kisses    2:38
70    Dire Straits    Private Investigations    5:59
71    Byrds    I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better    2:32
72    Steely Dan    Reelin' In The Years    4:37
73    Everly Brothers    Bye Bye Love    2:23
74    Righteous Brothers    (You're My) Soul and Inspiration    3:22
75    Replacements    Unsatisfied    4:01

CD4

76    Sting    Fields of Gold    3:40
77    Allen Toussaint    Southern Nights    3:35
78    Curtis Mayfield    Move on Up    8:54
79    Carole King    (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman    3:49
80    Roger Waters    It's a Miracle    8:30
81    Doors    Riders on the Storm    7:21
82    Marvin Gaye    Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)    3:15
83    Ashford & Simpson    Solid    5:07
84    Led Zeppelin    Stairway to Heaven    8:04
85    R.E.M.    Electrolite    4:05
86    Sam Cooke    A Change is Gonna Come    3:13
87    Otis Redding    These Arms of Mine    2:35
88    Fleetwood Mac    Go Your Own Way    3:39
89    Loretta Lynn    Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' Your Mind)    2:10
90    Kris Kristofferson    The Silver Tongued Devil and I    4:16
91    Buffalo Springfield    For What It's Worth    2:32
92    Paul Westerberg    Runaway Wind    4:26
93    Suzanne Vega    Luka    3:13
94    John Prine    Hello in There    4:30
95    Bee Gees    Words    3:12
96    Steve Winwood    While You See a Chance    5:14
97    Warren Zevon    Excitable Boy    2:42
98    Otis Blackwell    Daddy Rollin' Stone    2:41
99    Tom T. Hall    The Year That Clayton Delaney Died    2:45
100  Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (ABBA)    The Winner Takes it All    4:55
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