Lead singers who didn't write shite or very little.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 3:06 pm
Ozzy is an obvious one here but there are others.
Eric Adams
Roger Daltrey
Vince Neil
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There's a reason for that. Listen to his solo album Play My Game, where he has co-writes on every track. It's...something.
Gillen wrote quite a bit in Badlands.
Now youre making me want to!Anthrax442 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:09 pmThere's a reason for that. Listen to his solo album Play My Game, where he has co-writes on every track. It's...something.
Geddy Lee wrote almost all of Rush's music. He just didn't write the lyrics.kytepunches wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:34 pm Geddy Lee of Rush and Tom Araya of Slayer come to mind.
Fun when Sharon thinks he wrote Mamma I'm Coming Home just for her. Uh, no.
Name some names; I would say most of the biggest names on the charts and a lot of the newest artists at least co-write some of their songs. For the “fossils” like Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan or Blake Shelton now, they have no need to (even though Aldean and Bryan have a few co-writes on their last albums), but when I’m looking at the credits of most country songs, most artists at least have a co-writing credit.
Not a Slayer fan….who wrote the lyrics?kytepunches wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:34 pm Geddy Lee of Rush and Tom Araya of Slayer come to mind.
Mostly King and Hanneman on the early albums. Araya wrote a big chunk of lyrics from South of Heaven onwards, mostly in songs where the music was written by Hanneman. Araya (and Hanemann) lyrics were usualy better written and mostly about war/serial killers, King's lyrics were about satanic/anti christian/tough guy topics and usually cruder and dumber. If I recall correctly the last album was almost all King.VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:39 pmNot a Slayer fan….who wrote the lyrics?kytepunches wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:34 pm Geddy Lee of Rush and Tom Araya of Slayer come to mind.
Nashville has a unwritten songwriting rule of thumb. Its just expected and no one cares I guess, whomever is in the writing secession gets a writing credit even if they didn't add one word. They were there. they sat in. they may have made suggestions and it didn't work. they are still in. I have been able to float around the aldean writing ppl team and others of his league and seen it first hand to name drop one. there are others. And if I was submitting a song for someone that huge to possibly track? I would give them main songwriting credit because it would be a good revenue stream since that name carries weight. I have sat in writing sessions where I wrote all the music, split the lyrics between three of us combined and since others were there sayin "sounds good" or that doesn't fit right", they were included in the song writing credits. And due to the potential of one of mine getting picked up, i gave up 50% of the writing credit. The ppl that have it can do more with it than I could ever do..so there you go...Nate S Axel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 12:46 pmName some names; I would say most of the biggest names on the charts and a lot of the newest artists at least co-write some of their songs. For the “fossils” like Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan or Blake Shelton now, they have no need to (even though Aldean and Bryan have a few co-writes on their last albums), but when I’m looking at the credits of most country songs, most artists at least have a co-writing credit.
Geddy cowrote every Rush song. And Araya has enough cowrites. What are you retarded?kytepunches wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:34 pm Geddy Lee of Rush and Tom Araya of Slayer come to mind.
Not sure how you work but, do you have riffs/ideas "put aside" that you feel are especially strong for the likes of, say, a Jason Aldean when/if the chance comes? Like how do you decide, this is an eightball song/that's for an established artist etc.?keyofgee wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 4:49 amNashville has a unwritten songwriting rule of thumb. Its just expected and no one cares I guess, whomever is in the writing secession gets a writing credit even if they didn't add one word. They were there. they sat in. they may have made suggestions and it didn't work. they are still in. I have been able to float around the aldean writing ppl team and others of his league and seen it first hand to name drop one. there are others. And if I was submitting a song for someone that huge to possibly track? I would give them main songwriting credit because it would be a good revenue stream since that name carries weight. I have sat in writing sessions where I wrote all the music, split the lyrics between three of us combined and since others were there sayin "sounds good" or that doesn't fit right", they were included in the song writing credits. And due to the potential of one of mine getting picked up, i gave up 50% of the writing credit. The ppl that have it can do more with it than I could ever do..so there you go...Nate S Axel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 12:46 pmName some names; I would say most of the biggest names on the charts and a lot of the newest artists at least co-write some of their songs. For the “fossils” like Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan or Blake Shelton now, they have no need to (even though Aldean and Bryan have a few co-writes on their last albums), but when I’m looking at the credits of most country songs, most artists at least have a co-writing credit.
George strait, 44 #1 hits. Didn't write a lyric. Coolio. Gangsters paradise. Sampled a Stevie Wonder song. Stevie demanded 70% of writing credit for it and got it. There were 13 writers on that song. Coolio made his performance money and had to split the song sales that many ways. He may have made money but he lost a ton with that many writers.
most hiphop country these days sounds like its the same writer/s on a lot of them. I have not dug into it to confirm, but they all have the same fingerprints.