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Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:10 am
by AlexVonHaig
There are a few acts that don't cowrite much. Its one person's song. If they write it, they sing it. Not this board's genre but Veruca Salt comes to mind.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:38 am
by Love_Industry
Kiss and Frehley's Comet.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:58 am
by HueyRamone
Beatles, L7
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:15 am
by Mister Freeze
The Cars. Teenage Fanclub. Fastball. XTC. Urge Overkill. The Bangles. Queen to some extent.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:19 am
by Mister Freeze
The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac almost feel too obvious.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:50 am
by DevastatinDave
Mister Freeze wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:15 am
The Cars. Teenage Fanclub. Fastball. XTC. Urge Overkill. The Bangles. Queen to some extent.
Cars, sort of. Rik wrote most, but Ben had a better voice.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:01 am
by Bono Nettencourt
BOC
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:54 am
by Ozzy Stradlin
Guns N’ Roses had a bit of that going on during the Illusion albums. Izzy sang 4 songs, and Duff sang one.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:15 pm
by Wiseacre
Um, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say almost all of them unless the producer decides otherwise. Other exceptions might be a band like QUEEN where you have a MAIN vocalists and other guys sometimes sing their own tunes and sometimes they go to the main guy. In those cases it would be almost unthinkable for the a secondary vocalist to sing a song they didn’t actually write.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:24 pm
by VinnieVincentsVag
Eagles
Kiss
Styx
Beatles
Damn Yankees
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:36 am
by Hellsinkey
Yeah, classic line up had 5 writers and at least 3 singers. I'm not sure if Albert or Allen sang.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:49 am
by WentEast
Scorpions with Uli. Not always, but when they did, it was a mistake.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 5:52 pm
by purple70rt
DevastatinDave wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:50 am
Mister Freeze wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:15 am
The Cars. Teenage Fanclub. Fastball. XTC. Urge Overkill. The Bangles. Queen to some extent.
Cars, sort of. Rik wrote most, but Ben had a better voice.
no, no he did not
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 8:45 pm
by Van Ailin'
The Byrds were like this, with Gene Clark and David Crosby most often singing their own songs.
Obviously, Crosby Stills & Nash, also.
Night Ranger, although with some crossover on each other's songs and a lot of co-writes.
Split Enz in the later era usually had Tim Finn singing his songs and Neil Finn doing his.
The Bears most often had Adrian Belew singing his and Rob Fetters his.
It occurs to me that this approach of making a band of several singer-songwriters and having each do his own was much less common in the hair metal era, where bands depended on a singer-frontman to communicate with the audience and where that frontman most often didn't play an instrument on stage (so would have nothing to do if a different band member were singing).
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:54 pm
by SW
Mötley Crüe
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:53 am
by HottKarl777
SW wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:54 pmMötley Crüe
Did your parents have any kids that lived?
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:46 am
by SW
HottKarl777 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:53 am
SW wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:54 pmMötley Crüe
Did your parents have any kids that lived?
Yes, he was called Brandon.
We can add Rocketship to the list, why not Find Myself too.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:46 am
by Bono Nettencourt
Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:36 am
Yeah, classic line up had 5 writers and at least 3 singers. I'm not sure if Albert or
Allen sang.
True Confessions.
Actually, they all sang songs on Agents of Fortune.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:06 pm
by HottKarl777
SW wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:46 am
HottKarl777 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:53 am
SW wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:54 pmMötley Crüe
Did your parents have any kids that lived?
Yes, he was called Brandon.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:26 pm
by HueyRamone
purple70rt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 5:52 pm
DevastatinDave wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:50 am
Mister Freeze wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:15 am
The Cars. Teenage Fanclub. Fastball. XTC. Urge Overkill. The Bangles. Queen to some extent.
Cars, sort of. Rik wrote most, but Ben had a better voice.
no, no he did not
You might personally like Rik's voice more, but he was a far less skilled singer.
Im sure some people like Ace sung songs the most, but hes obvs not a better singer.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:47 am
by tooth
The Cars didn't have more than one writer. Greg Hawkes has maybe 4 or 5 cowrite credits with Rik, but that's it.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:00 am
by CrankerBait
Supertramp. With a few exceptions of co-writes and/or shared lead vocals, whatever Rick Davies wrote he sang, and whatever Roger Hodgson wrote he sang.
Though both Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia used other writing partners, they typically sang songs they had a part in writing for the Grateful Dead.
Re: Bands with more than one writer and the writer sings the songs.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:01 am
by VinnieVincentsVag
tooth wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:47 am
The Cars didn't have more than one writer. Greg Hawkes has maybe 4 or 5 cowrite credits with Rik, but that's it.
Orr didn’t write the songs he sang?