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Also Carol Brown by FOTC!

I was never a Kid Rock fan and would never pay to seem him, but his Live Trucker album justified his musical existence, as far as I'm concerned.

Top 3 are easy, although order fluctuates

Dylan

Leonard Cohen

Tom Waits

The other 2 slots are tough. *Right Now*, I'd say

Jason Isbell

First Aid Kit (known for their voices, but underrated writers)(probably make the list only because I've been on a bit of a bender with them due to the new album)

The Argus by Ween

Black sheep boy - Okkervil River

Townes Van Zandt, Jeff Rosenstock, Kendrick Lamaar, Tom Waits, and Niel Young

well, a bit of both. you could record music yourself back in the day, but without the proper (very expensive) equipment, it was probably gonna sound pretty terrible. modern technology has made it so that you can make professional sounding songs for incredibly cheap or even free with equipment you probably already own, like a laptop. and then obviously distributing it and marketing has become much more available as well.

Cool, maybe update the genre so the stereotypes stop applying

Nick Cave - Jubilee Street. Crescendo makes the hair on my neck point upwards every time

That's almost 6 years ago though.

I'd say Dancing Queen by RAYSHUN

Have an upvote for Paddy McAloon!

Lennon/McCartney

Jason Isbell

Tom Waits

Difford/Tibrook

Noel Gallagher

There is nothing wrong with not liking her. There’s plenty of artists who I know are talented but they just don’t work for me, quite often for reasons I can’t explain. It’s no big deal. And honestly, Lana is one of them.

Ah okay my mistake… yeah the Bends was a very similar album to Pablo Honey, now that I am remembering it… let me look it up… ah yes a lot of good ones her: Street Spirit, Just, Fake Plastic Trees… Here we see Radiohead becoming the Radiohead we know and love

>my point is that no great artists now are being held back by the inaccessability of making music

I'm going to assume you mean recording music and having it widely available to the general public, because nothing was holding anyone back from making music.

In no particular order:

Lennon and McCartney

Garcia and Hunter

Gilmore and Waters

Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Burt Bacharach and Hal David

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My very first time seeing/hearing her was on Saturday night Live. So all my opinions of her were born out of those two terrible performances.

Any list without Tom Waits and Shane McGowan needs a bit of a think.

Charles Thompson always gets left just on the outside of these lists for me, but he's such a monster songwriter. He'd be on my top 6 list.

She's cool AF! ...and rips some great covers to.

Frédéric Chopin

Franz Liszt

David Bowie

Prince

Bob Marley

Just the perfect songwriging combo.