/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9287868]

What are some /lit/ tier musicians?
Cohen and Bob Dylan come to mind

[Anonymous No.9287876]

lou reed

[Anonymous No.9287879]

https://youtu.be/XzotawVmmVc

[Anonymous No.9287881]

>>9287868
if you like Cohen, I recommend checking out Warren Zevon and Randy Newman (yes the toy story guy). Better known musicians like Tom Waits and Nick Cave also kind of fall into this category of americana/blues/folk/rock stuff.

[Anonymous No.9287887]

https://youtu.be/PtdYnhnoGI0

[Anonymous No.9287891]

>>9287881
that feel when my shit's fucked up

[Anonymous No.9287899]

>>9287881
oh yes Ive heard some Newman I like this song https://youtu.be/gMdWKfOLCro
Lotta jews in the music biz huh

[Anonymous No.9287909]

>>9287876
>I wanna be black
>have natural rhythm
>shoot twenty feet of jism too
>and fuck up the jews

lou reed owns

[Anonymous No.9287996]

>>9287868
Bob Dylan is a talentless hack.

[Anonymous No.9288001]

>>9287868
Townes Van Zandt

[Anonymous No.9288688]

>>9287868
Neil Young

[Anonymous No.9288689]

>>9287868
Fabrizio De André

[Anonymous No.9288694]

>For you — the blind who once could see —
>bell tolls for thee…

[Anonymous No.9288932]

Bruce Springsteen

[Anonymous No.9288957]

>>9287868
Chico Buarque, he even wrote some interesting novels.

[Anonymous No.9288965]

before he went downhill

[Anonymous No.9288971]

Paddy MacAloon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSPNboKCzM

[Anonymous No.9288974]

Joanna Newsom tbqh

[Anonymous No.9288980]

Are /lit/'s preferred books the literary equivalent to these entry level singer-songwriters?

[Anonymous No.9288987]

>>9288980
all singer-songwriters are entry-level

[Anonymous No.9288988]

>>9288980
sure

[Anonymous No.9288992]

Leonard Cohen is head and shoulders above any other musician, tBh.

I believe Bob Dylan said pretty much exactly that.
He also said his (Cohen's) melodies were superior to everyone else's, too.

[Anonymous No.9288999]

>>9288992
>(Cohen's) melodies were superior to everyone else's, too.

Eh... Len got a lot of help from his producers and arrangers on this one, especially in the first half of his career.

[Anonymous No.9289017]

>>9288999
>especially in the first half of his career

Which was undoubtedly the best half. Seems the real artists, the unsung heroes, were those producers and arrangers,

[Anonymous No.9289018]

>>9288694
this

[Anonymous No.9289021]

>>9287868
Jon Anderson

[Anonymous No.9289023]

>>9287868
Joni Mitchell

[Anonymous No.9289029]

>destroyer
writes great music, and the lyrical content is fairly dylanesque

>>9288974
>>9288965
these and mine for more contemporary artists

[Anonymous No.9289033]

>>9289017
The most telling thing I've read, from John Lissauer (produced New Skin and Various Positions):

"Leonard had just been on Broadway and bought a Casio piece-of-crap synthesizer, for tourists. I go to his hotel, and he pushes a button, and it goes, boom-tish, boom-tish. He starts to sing the song, and I envisioned it with real musicians, letting it build and build. But he had his finger on this one key, playing the drumbeat. He was grinning like a school-kid. He loved the simplicity of it, and the fact that talented musicians weren't over-playing, Leonard can be stubborn. Usually to champion simplicity, or demo-like takes."

I have the feeling that a lot of his songs were basically just spoken word pieces before he got into the studio. That seems to be the case with The Captain, which I think is his best song. Granted, there is something to his idea of simplicity, and even the basic frameworks that he came up with are inspired. So I don't mean to insinuate he's talentless aside from his writing.

[Anonymous No.9289048]

[Anonymous No.9289076]

>>9289033
I remember reading about him and what was probably that same Casio, how he loved using it in a ultra-simplistic childlike solo on Tower of Song.
It's so anti-music it's got more of a fuck-the-music-establishment feeling than most punk songs
Even moreso as it was done in the late '80's when everyone was trying to build these lush soundscapes with their cutting edge synths.
I remember Kate Bush saying something like, "If I hear Orc.5 in one more song I'll go insane!"

[Anonymous No.9289084]

>>9289023
this!

[Anonymous No.9289105]

>>9289076
I respect that she tried to play just as much regular piano as synthesizer as the '80s chugged on.

[Anonymous No.9289154]

Gord Downie & The Tragically Hip

[Anonymous No.9289290]

>>9287881
All of these guys, and Elvis Costello.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZGNJTdh-Z0

[Anonymous No.9289302]

>>9288965
He's only getting better.

[Anonymous No.9289311]

>>9289023
"I'm having guy problems" for more than 2 songs gets a little tedious

[Anonymous No.9289341]

This fabulous lunatic

[Anonymous No.9289347]

Mark E Smith

"The mad kid walked left-side south side towards me – he was about seven. His mother was a cleaning lady; she had a large black dog. And the mad kid said: 'Gimme the lead, gimme the lead, GIMME THE LEAD!' I'd just walked past the alcoholics dryout house... The lawn was littered with cans of Barbican. There was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside, with anti-nicotine anti-nuclear stickers on the side. The boys on the inside said 'give me a smoke'... Anyway two weeks before the mad kid had said to me 'I'll take both of you on! I'll take both of you on!' Then he seemed the young one. He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat, with a green-fuzz skull and crossbones – he'd just got back from the backward kids' party. Anyway then he seemed the young one, but now he looked like the victim of a pogrom."

also these
>>9288001
>>9288932
>>9288974
>>9289023

[Anonymous No.9289388]

>>9287868

Jim Morrison

[Anonymous No.9289394]

Morrissey

I am a poor, freezing-cold soul,
So far from where I intended to go.
Scavenging through life's very constant lulls,
So far from where I'm determined to go.

Wish I knew the way to reach the one I love.
There is no way.
Wish I had the charm to attract the one I love,
But, you see, I've got no charm.

Tonight I've consumed much more than I can hold,
Oh, this is very clear to you.
And you can tell I have never really loved.
You can tell, by the way, I sleep all day.

And all of my life no-one gave me anything.
No-one has ever given me anything.
My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye.
You must be such a fool to pass me by.

[Anonymous No.9289408]

Sir Isaac Brock

[Anonymous No.9289413]

Kevin Barnes

[Anonymous No.9289427]

>>9287868
And by musicians, you mean songwriters, right?
Burt Bacharach is a great songwriter but not a great musician.
Cohen could barely sing.
Ritchie Blackmore can play a mean guitar but is not known for being a songwriter.

[Anonymous No.9289685]

>>9289347
Is that fucking Ratko Mladic?

[Anonymous No.9289703]

Jeff Mangum not even memeing

[Anonymous No.9289708]

Kendrick Lamar
Drake
Kanye West

[Anonymous No.9289737]

Gainsbourg

[Anonymous No.9290018]

>>9287868
John Darnielle
Gil-Scott Heron
Jandek

[Anonymous No.9290042]

>>9289394
Gasping - but somehow still alive
This is the fierce last stand of all I am

Gasping - dying - but somehow still alive
This is the final stand of all I am

[Anonymous No.9290051]

>>9287868
Beethoven

[Anonymous No.9290054]

MOTHER I CAN FEEL THE SOIL FALLING OVER MY HEAD

[Anonymous No.9290069]

>>9289341

mommy! :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1DDndY0FLI