Who's your favorite "Fucked Up", "Stoned Out" "Totally Wasted" songwriter?

blue)dolphin said:
Elliott Smith

lets get real now..

Anyone who does not know this guys music and fancys themself somebody with good taste in music, go listen to X/O , From A Basement On The Hill, and Figure 8 right away!
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Call me a sappy fuck, but I have an XO tattoo on my wrist. He was and still is incredible.
 
Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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"Heh"
 
Jim Morrison, hands down. He said and did things that all of us think about, and wish they could do. He had the balls to do them, even though he was drunk 75% of the time and on the verge of being a high-level sociopath. Maybe *I'm* a little bit sociopathic, and feel like I can relate to some of his thoughts and actions? Who knows. Whatever the case is, the guy gets tons of respect from me. One of the best human beings to grace this earth, that I know about, at least.

He was my Mom's favorite in the 60s and early 70s too! She had the MISfortune of seeing The Doors perform in the early 70s, during Jim's darkest moments. So drunk that he really couldn't perform. Apparently back then, she said this was common. She also said Johnny Cash performed at her college and was in a similar state.

Most things are contextual. Take into context what OTHER bands were doing in 1966 and 1967, when The Doors first hit the scene and started playing some of their first (bigger, non-bar) shows. Read interviews with some venue owners or people who saw them for the first time, especially in 1967. They literally transformed "Rock-n-Roll", especially in the realm of performance.
 
previouslyhere said:
Jim Morrison, even though he was drunk 75% of the time
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how do you know he was "drunk 75% of the time"?

every1 assumes he was always drunk, but i've seen alot of concert footage of the doors and most of the time he looked sober to me.

obviously the infamous miami show he was not...
 
Dude fucking drank himself to death. Makes it pretty easy to assume he was loaded most of the time, eh? It doesn't take a genius to realize the guy was fond of the drink.
 
Venetian Snares!!!

I have a really hard time listening to him if I'm not high. I can't "understand" it if I'm not.
 
captain insult.

drank himself to death?

i thought he died of a herion overdose.....

just because he was "fond of drink" doesn't mean he was drunk 75% of the time.

no, it doesn't make it easy to assume anything....at least for me...maybe for you.

i'm "fond of drink" also but i'm not a "drunk".
 
stinkfoot said:
i thought he died of a heroin overdose......
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i have this version too

" Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.
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In Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the United States. According to his account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose. Courson said that Morrison inhaled the substance because he thought it was cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, but the majority of fans seem to have accepted the mistaken heroin overdose account. Courson herself died of a heroin overdose a few years later." (wiki)
 
atlas said:
and he's an egotistical prick, and he made terrible music.
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you mean he (was).

and....how do you know he was "an egotistical prick"? did you read about it?
 
only one other person mentioned syd barrett??
and to think, they only noted him as a great rhythm guitarist...

i say brad nowell also, because he was a true musician. it was his love, and his passion... but so were his addictions. music like that, is what will come to be accepted as the classic rock from our time.

and sorry to sound lame, but jim morrison had the soul of a true poet. someone earlier mentioned he may have been a sociopath... the fact that someone who might have been so fucked up mentally, was able to use the imagery in his words to express it, gives alot of insight into the nature of what he, or many of us think and feel.

i also gotta note that i think it's an absolute travesty that no one said cream, or even eric clapton.
 
Elliott Smith-Elliott Smith/Heatmiser
David Yow-Scratch Acid/ the Jesus Lizard
David Berman-the Silver Jews
Mike Williams-Eyehategod
 
elliott smith... by about a million miles.

shannon hoon, layne staley, and mike patton are all great picks as well.

axl rose deserves a mention too, provided we're talking about the axl of the 80s/early 90s and not today.
 
Kiedes / Frusciante
Jimi Hendrix
Bradley Nowell
Eminem (not huge into rap but he's fucking incredible, at least his older shit was)
 
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