Vote for Jimmy James!!

[JacketGal]

Do the Paste Mag's poll of the 100 Best Living Songwriters:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

[ratsprayer]

i chose my 20, but i didnt do what the topic title told me to.  


jim is awesome, and mmj are my current favourite group by far, but i can't see picking jim along with tom waits, nick cave, leonard cohen, bob dylan, stephen malkmus, and some of the others i chose.  if it was based on fanboy merit, he'd have nearly all my votes though.

[dragonboy]

Go Don Henley!!!  ;)

[sweatboard]

This is impossible.  I couldn't pick just 20.  They should have made it "best songwriters of the last 10 years or something.

Sufjan Stevens
Jim James
Andrew Bird
M. Ward
Isaac Brock
Thom York/Collin Greenwood
Patterson Hood, Jason Isabell, Mike Cooley
Beck
Sam Beam
Chan Marshall
Brit Daniels
Jeff Tweedy
Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips)
Mark Kozelek
Devandra Banhardt

[primushead]

Damn...VERY tough list.  I'm glad they had Jeff Mangum on there.  He is fuckin' incredible.

[ratsprayer]

Damn...VERY tough list.  I'm glad they had Jeff Mangum on there.  He is fuckin' incredible.

i never would have guessed you thought that based on your avatar.   ;D

[MMJ_fanatic]

did it

[Mr. T.]

I'm happy they included Damien Jurado. He's one of my favourites.

I do believe Jim deserves his place on the top 20. I can't think of anyone who wrote a better song than Golden this century.

[tomEisenbraun]

I can't think of anyone who wrote a better song than Golden this century.

 ;D

[sideroad32]

I'm happy they included Damien Jurado. He's one of my favourites.

Yeah Mr Jurado doesn't get the notice he deserves.  Really great song writer.

[ChiefOKONO]

Done and done!!!
thanks Jacketgirl!! :D

[Chills]

This is impossible.  I couldn't pick just 20.  They should have made it "best songwriters of the last 10 years or something.

Right, this is a weird list.
And it needs Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine).

[ratsprayer]

i did a write in for will sheff (okkervil river) and greg dulli (afghan whigs, twilight singers).  okkervil river is a newer band in the past few years, but i dont see how the fuck greg dulli was left off with some of the other choices they had on there??

[Dee.]

Go Don Henley!!!  ;)

Surely you mean Daryl Hall & John Oates!

Why no Devendra on the list?  His songs mean a lot to me, m'kay, Paste?  And can I get a little Joey Burns from Calexico up on dat?  Great, thanks.  :)

Thanks for posting it, JacketGirl.

[blainesanders]

man... i gotta agree...
there are some GREAT ones on there, but IMO jim james is up there with the elite... i mean i know MMJ is a case of "you get it or you don't", but name me 1 song this guy has that is "bad"...
there are some i like more than others, BUT there are some that just rule your face...
almost ANYONE that hears "the way he sings" will want to hear it over and over!!

[SFTH]

The quantity and quality of the songs is what impresses me most about the Jacket.  

Jim's written how many songs in the last 8 years or so?  And I've yet to hear one that's not, at the very least, a solid song.

The only person that wrote as many songs without a clunker, that I can think of off hand, is Bob Marley.