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View Poll Results: Lennon-McCartney vs Waters-Gilmour vs Page-Plant | |||
Lennon-McCartney (The Beatles) |
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12 | 85.71% |
Waters-Gilmour (Pink Floyd) |
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1 | 7.14% |
Page-Plant (Led Zeppelin) |
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1 | 7.14% |
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Good point.
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you may close the poll if you want to but if not you can just leave it, no worries
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Go ahead, Mr. Wendal
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It’s funny how the Beatles don’t get as much love around here as Floyd and Zepp, but when it was time to vote, they murder stomp the others
Really, it’s not a question of who do you like best, but a one about who was - as objectively as you can - best And as much as people can have different tastes, to say that Gilmour/Waters or Page/Plant were better songwriters, or better „songwriting teams” than Lennon-McCartney is fairly absurd Quote:
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Like Lennon/McCartney were working together on „Gimme Some Truth” and „I’ve Got A Feeling”. Taking what Lennon was saying after the break-up aside, it seems they didn’t change the process much in the later years. Like, you can’t actually write a song together with someone else. You need to have an idea that your partner will develop on. Another example would be „Come Together”. Lennon wrote the lyrics and chords, but it was McCartney who came up with the bassline (which is the most iconic element of that song). If that’s not writing in team, then I don’t know what is. And like, yeah, sure, they probably spent more time together in the early years, but a quick fact check actually proves they complimented each other as songwriters all throughout. |
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#18 (permalink) |
Call me Mustard
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Maybe comparing Lennon-McCartney with Gilmour- Waters/Page-Plant isn't the right comparison. Maybe it wouldn't be so lopsided compared to say Jagger- Richards or Strummer-Jones. Oh, don't get me wrong, Lennon- McCartney would win that one too, but maybe the opposition would garner more than one vote. Just a guess though.
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...here to hear...
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Yes, r-s, I'd definitely say that Jagger-Richards would have been a good choice for comparison with Len-Mac - and although they weren't part of a rock group, Goffin-King were very much competitors of The Beatles too. From 1961, the two songwriting teams were both fighting for space in the pop charts: same years, same genre, which is not quite the case with the P Floyd and Led Zep teams.
Here's a list of songs to make my case, and to remind some of us of just how many classic hits Goffin-King wrote together:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_Gerry_Goffin Something I learnt from the list: when the Byrds sang "Wasn't Born To Follow", they were indeed following - they were following G-K's words and music. @ Eleanor: ![]()
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Call me Mustard
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True, just what they wrote for the Monkees alone (Pleasant Valley Sunday, Porpoise Song) would rate them among the great songwriting duos. The Byrds were also another band who seemed to like Goffin-King when they weren't doing their Dylan interpretations (Goin Back being another favorite of mine). Goin Back incidentally was also recorded by Dusty Springfield and is about as good as the Byrds' version.
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