Syd Barrett

http://www.inthelabyrinth.com/bild-Syd_Barrett.jpg

Daniel Johnston

I would call them both geniuses. Curtis, them words - they get me every time.

http://www.shopfordvds.com/media/leonard_cohen.jpg

I don't know if Leonard Cohen counts as "tortured", but he is supposedly quite reclusive and much of his lyric content is self-effacing and lonely and sad. Def. genious anyway.

edit: I meant self-deprecating.

Nick Drake

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eleyUBUfVW...0/drake_p1.jpg

^

Yes. A real genius, offered his best and when he thought that he no longer had it in him, he just stopped. I have lots of respect for that, a lot of artists flog a dead horse.

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Joe Meek

kurt cobain, really? he wrote "edgy" pop/rock songs. are we putting him in the same category as leonardo da vinci here? good example of a true genius, and somehow cobain seems out of that league...

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This bitch seriously can't get over being bullied at school. If she's not an actual tortured genius, she at least pretends to be. :laughing:

Brian Wilson.