Let’s not forget Page/Plant!

How is Page/Plant not on here

Page/Plant

Hall & Oates put the rest to shame. End of discussion. Listen to their albums from the 70s and you will cry. They are that good.

Morales/Culos

Morales/Culos

no Sal & Rob? Blasphemous!

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

Lieber and Stoller
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Elton John-Bernie Taupin
Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter
Otis Redding-Steve Cropper

Mike Lieber and Jerry Stoller
Eddie Holland-Lamont Dozier-Brian Holland
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
Elton John-Bernie Taupin
Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter
Otis Redding-Steve Cropper

MORALES/CULOS!!!!

COME ON! page/plant easily has to be on here!

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Page/Plant
Tyler/Perry
J. Bon Jovi/Sambora
Waters/Gilmour

Waits/Brennan
Gira/Jarboe
Bo wie/Ronson

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen

Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler
Waits/Brennan, for sure.

Jimmy Page is awesome, but Robert Plant writes about Hobbits and Fraggles and such (and that’s just when his lyrics make sense, most of the time they just don’t).

Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler
Waits/Brennan, for sure.

Jimmy Page is awesome, but Robert Plant writes about Hobbits and Fraggles and such (and that’s just when his lyrics make sense, most of the time they just don’t).

Oh, yeah, holland/dozier/holland. Good on that one. I hear a symphony….

Solyoni songwriters Dan Lurie and Dominic Aulisio

What! No way could Jagger/Richards ever top the greatest songwriting duo of all time (Lennon/McCartney). This is how it goes..
1. Lennon/McCartney
2. Jagger/Richards (more like it)
3. Plant/Paige
4. Simon/Garfunkle

TOM PETTY/MIKE CAMPBELL

Waters/Gilmour should be way up there!!

it’s a fucking sin that no one said the best modern brit duo:

barat/doherty.

and i spose:

page/plant.

How could anyone not have Page/Plant, Waters/Gilmore, or Simon/Garfunkle on this type of list!!

Page/Plant, Townshend/Daltry, and Tyler/Perry.

waters/gilmour

pink floyd rules!!

crap, I forgot Townsend/Daltry

Top 10 should be:
Lennon/McCartney
Jagger/ Richards
Page/Plant
Edge/Bon o
Waters/Gilmour
Tyler/Perry
Townsend/Daltry
J. Bon Jovi/Sambora
Bowie/Ronson
Ta upin/John

Can’t really include Simon and Garfunkel because Paul Simon wrote 99% of everything.

If there were trios
Lee/Lifeson/Peart would be #1
Young Brothers/Johnson (AC/DC)
Hetfield/Ulrich/Hamme tt
Van Halen brothers/Sammy Hagar

Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Waters/Gilmour

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Waters/Gilmour

Waters/Gilmore and Simon/Garfunkle never wrote songs together (maybe one or two). Really Roger Waters wrote pretty much all the Floyd songs on the golden era an I don’t even know of one song Garfunkle co-wrote (much less wrote) except for the sound collage of old people talking on “bookends”

Townshend wrote all of his stuff without Daltry. As did Simon without Garfunkel.

Lennon/McCartney
J agger/Richards
Page/Plant
Tyle r/Perry
John/Taupin

Period.

The only one that really comes to mind with me is Alex Chilton/Chris Bell.

and take this from a devout Zep fan, i’m against page/plant. Plant was just not that good at lyricsm– and really he wasn’t all that much a front man but … like a lead guitarist with his mouth. Page was Zep’s frontman and he served the singer/songwriter role with his guitar… Plant is someone with an incredible range who had an incredibly lame preoccupation with hobbits and wizards. Really Zeppelin were just an incredibly talented groove band that accidentally created heavy metal with an entirely original, black magic approach to the blues more than they were great songsmiths.

I’ll go as far to say they were the best riff band in rock history, but well written in depth songs? Nah, man they’re just fucking bad ass– don’t treat Zep like they’re bob dylan or anything.

I’m also a little against Gilmour/Waters, although i think Floyd’s songwriting is underrated in general. Just because they really dont like eachother and they deny a real functional relationship. That and most great Floyd songs are credited to Waters alone with a defining solo by Gilmour to go along with it.
They weren’t really a great team, they were a great dysfunctional combination who rubbed off on eachother enough to squeeze out some of the best concept albums of all time.

i’m sorry, but did somebody forget to mention cage/jables?

dylan/zimmerman

no page&plant ??????
this is a joke

my favourites:
LENNON/MCCARTNEY

JAGGER/RICHARDS
PAGE/PLANT
JOEY RAMONE/DEE DEE RAMONE(not a real duo but anyway)
HETFIELD/ULRICH (despite the fact that they are underrated in the non-metal world, i still believe they are huge)

steven tyler and joe perry

Gotta have these on the list –

Page/Plant
Waters/Gilmo ur
Tyler/Perry
Townsend/Dalt ry

Buckingham/Nicks

Okay, quite tenuous, but still..

Lennon/McCartney
Jagger/Richar ds
Buckingham/Nicks
Petty/Camp bell
Bowie/Eno
Bowie/Ronson
Bo wie/Alomar
Bowie/Pop
Bowie/Gab rels
Francis/Deal (sort of)
Stipe/Mills
Stipe/Buck
Pag e/Plant
John/Taupin
Bono/Edge
Waits/Brennan

patton/benjamin
a.k.a. big boi/andre 3000

Kid/Play

rose/slash
page/plant
tweedy /kline

thom yorke/jonny greenwood from radiohead are the best since jesus/god

thom yorke/jonny greenwood from radiohead are the best since jesus/god

Pete Brown/Jack Bruce
Tony Asher/Brian Wilson
Taupin/John
Lieber/Stol ler
Page/Plant is good but keep in mind a lot of their credits also include Jones, Bonham, both, or the original writer they were ripping off.

Also, Waters/Gilmour wrote maybe five songs together. Waters/Wright almost have as many credits as a duo.

bjork/sjon

I don’t understand how Rolling Stone, a band that rightly calls Sgt. Pepper the greatest album of all time, and the Beatles the greatest artists, in all their lists, can possibly name Jagger/Richards as a better songwriting combination than Lennon/McCartney.

I’m also not positive how easy it is to narrow down the collaborations that have shaped the history of rock and roll down to just songwriters. Roger Daltrey never wrote a decent song in his life, but has Pete Townshend, the author of all their classics, ever had any real success without him singing for him? For that matter, Art Garfunkel never wrote, but that didn’t make his pairing with Paul Simon any less historic.

If we’re just talking about songwriters: Then the other obvious ones are

Jerry Leiber- Mike Stoller
Holland-Doz ier-H ollan d
David Bowie-Brian Eno
Page-Plant
Elton John-Bernie Taupin
Johnny Rotten-Glen Matlock

And I’m not sure if it counts or not, but between the two of them, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have changed the vocabulary of the modern rock song between them. Even if they never ‘collaborated’ per se, they remain the musical core of the world’s most innovative band. That’s gotta count for something.

Tyler / Perry

Gwen Stefany / Tony Kanal

Page/Plant
Jack Black/Kyle Gass
Cedric Bixler-Zavala/Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez

Big Boi/Andre 3000

My Top 5:

Jagger & Richards
Gram Parsons & Chris Hillman
Lieber & Stoller
Garcia & Hunter
Waits & Brennan

reed/cale
eno/fripp
tweedy/o rourke
malkmus/spiral stairs

reed/cale
eno/fripp
tweedy/o rourke
malkmus/spiral stairs

Buckner/garcia
(pac-man fever)

Although I am taking the risk you may say that… ABBA does not perfectly qualify for the list and not please rd core rock fans, obviously if you talk about Pink Floyd and Simon & Garfunkel, you could not leave great musicians like Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson.

Page/Plant certainly
Tweedy/Bennett- Wilco is still great, but they produced some magic in their partnership

One small point: U2 songs are credited to all the members. Yeah, I know, Bono and Edge probably write the songs, but the band gets credit as a whole. Lennon/McCartney often wrote songs separately and still listed them together. Any thoughts on this (calling me an asshole or shit for bringing this up doesn’t qualify as a thought.)?

ABBA – Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson – true geniuses.

What kind of idiot would put Jagger/Richards before Lennon/McCartney?

Milly/Vanilly

Milly/Vanilly

I’m surprised no one mentioned
May/Mercury

doherty and barat

Morrissey/Marr ffs!

Stipe/Mills

or would it be…

Stipe/Buck

I should know this…

cobain and his guitar

difford/tillbrook (squeeze)

roger daltrey and pete townshend! on anyway anyhow anywhere! mwa ha ha!!!

bono/edge for sure…but lennon/mccartney? thier lyrics are so superficial! i like deep lyrics. not “i wanna hold your hand” stuff.and i love mercury/may & page/plant

Partridge/Moulding
Cantrell/St aley
Fripp/Belew

For anyone who said Townshend/Daltry, Daltry never wrote anything. Maybe one song early on.

I love how no one knows how to spell Daltrey…and AAA is the only song credited to both of them…

Bon Scott/Angus Young

Waters/Gilmour
Mould/Hart
John /Taupin
Farrar/Tweedy

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan need to be in the top few. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks should be on the list.

N. Gallagher/L. Gallagher

Westerberg/Stinson

Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne

Go listen to Full Moon Fever or Into The Great Wide Open!

For Oye….

It is Stipe/Buck for most. SOME with Mills & SOME with all members.

has everyone forgot to mention damon albarn and graham coxon of blur?

Richards/Jagger
Page/Plant
Gil mour/Waters
Townsend/Daltry
Pe ter Gabriel/Phil Collins

This list is to english! Where are the other nations, latins etc.?

This list is to english! Where are the other nations, latins etc.?

Stop spelling Townshend and Daltrey wrong! Have some respect and take a second to spell right!

ulrich/hatfield

Chuck/Berry

“This list is to english! Where are the other nations, latins etc.?”

There over at the Latin websites. You should check ‘em out.

Hall & Oates should be up there.

Yorke/Greenwood (Radiohead)
Page/Plant (Led Zeppelin)
Waters/Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
Danger Mouse/Cee-Lo (Gnarls Barkley)
Morello/De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine)
Frusciante/Kiedis (RHCP)
Lazarra/Nolan (Original TBS)
Rhoads/Osbourne (Ozzy Osbourne)
Iommi/Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
Perry/Tyler (Aerosmith)
Slash/Axl (Guns N Roses)
Gossard/Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Rodriguez-Lopez/Bixl er-Za vala (At The Drive In and The Mars Volta)
Asheton/Iggy Pop (The Stooges)
Navarro/Farell (Jane’s Addiction)
Young/Johnson (AC/DC)
Ramirez/Manson (Marilyn Manson)
Big Boi/Andre 3000 (Outcast)
Simon/Garfunkel
Arms trong/Fredrickson (Rancid)
Malakian/Tankian (System of a Down)
Gass/Black (Tenacious D)
Van Halen/Roth (Van Halen)

oh and hetfield and ulrich are not even close to be considered a writing duo. All they do together is make some mumbling noise and then end it with a gutteral “YEAH!!!”

Waters/Gilmour Pink Floyd, Page/Plant

how did page/plant not make it on here?? thats the first thing i thought of

how did page/plant not make it on here?? thats the first thing i thought of

Kay/Edmonton – Steppenwolf

page/plant was also instantly the first pair that I thought of!

Admiral Halsey/Uncle Albert

Tom Petty/Mike Campbell
Chris and Rich Robinson

page/plant is a definite entry. If they are left off then this magazine is awful.

waters and gilmour should be at least #6. with classics like wish you were here, comfortably numb, dogs, shine on you crazy diamond (with help from wright of course) pink floyd usually worked together as a group, but the heart was waters and gilmour. waters wrote the lyrics, gilmour brought his music. how are jagger and richards #1! McCartney and Lennon greatest musicians ever.

Dave & Serge Bielanko (Marah)

Taupin/John

(Peter) Doherty/ (Carl) Barat

Paul Westerberg and Bob Stinson

definitely Daltrey/Townshend. . .come on!

How about Chris Cornell/ Kim Thayil?

slash/axl guns n roses

Ian Gillan/Ritchie Blackmore
Geezer Butler/Tony Iommi
Steve Tyler/Joe Perry
Angus Young/Malcolm Young
Morissey/Johnny Marr

Page and Plant were not a duo. John Paul Jones also wrote Zeppelin songs.

Glenn Frey and Don Henley
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen

AXL & SLASH /// GUNS N ‘ ROSES

Rob Tyner/Fred “Sonic” Smith (MC5)

Boeckner/Krug

Okay, it’s a bit early, but still….

Evan Dando/Tom Morgan

dude, izzy and axl. izzy is responsible for almost the same amount of GNR hits as Axl, and Slash is a great guitarist, but is not nearly the songwriter Izzy was/is.

dude, izzy and axl. izzy is responsible for almost the same amount of GNR hits as Axl, and Slash is a great guitarist, but is not nearly the songwriter Izzy was/is.

Butler/Chassagne (The Arcade Fire) by far the best!!! Why hasn’t anyone said them yet?
White/White (White Stripes)
Yorke/Greenwood (Radiohead)
Page/Plant (Led Zeppelin)
Waters/Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
Morello/De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine)
Iommi/Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
Perry/Tyler (Aerosmith)
Slash/Axl (Guns N Roses)
Gossard/Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Rodriguez-Lopez/Bixl er-Za vala (The Mars Volta)
Asheton/Iggy Pop (The Stooges)
Navarro/Farell (Jane’s Addiction)
Young/Johnson (AC/DC)
Simon/Garfunkel
Gass /Black (Tenacious D) Just kidding. But seriously.
Barat/Doherty (Libertines
Van Halen/Roth (Van Halen)
Lennon/McCartney (Beatles)
Jagger/Richards (The Stones)
Townshend/Daltrey
Fa rrar/Tweedy

Also, Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It’s true, Oh, It’s true. Daniel. Candle in the Wind. Levon. Tiny Dancer.

Also, Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It’s true, Oh, It’s true. Daniel. Candle in the Wind. Levon. Tiny Dancer.

Also, Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It’s true, Oh, It’s true. Daniel. Candle in the Wind. Levon. Tiny Dancer.

Axl Rose and Izzy
James Hetfield and Lars

Simon And Garfunkel
Page / Plant
The Chemical Brothers

And What About Hip Hop Duos?:

Timbaland / Missy Elliot
Eric B And Rakim

Great Producing Dous (yeah I know, its kinda off topic, but what tha hell):

Brian Eno and Daniel Lenois
The Neptunes
The Dust Brothers

Axl Rose and Izzy
James Hetfield and Lars

Simon And Garfunkel
Page / Plant
The Chemical Brothers

And What About Hip Hop Duos?:

Timbaland / Missy Elliot
Eric B And Rakim

Great Producing Dous (yeah I know, its kinda off topic, but what tha hell):

Brian Eno and Daniel Lenois
The Neptunes
The Dust Brothers

Pete/Carl(The libertines)
Gustaf/Bjorn(Mando Diao)
N. Gallagher/L. Gallagher(oasis)

Garcia/Hunter

well, I think you have the reason Izzy Stradlin wrote good songs (appetite for Destruction,use your illusion I II), You could be mine, Dont Cry, Rocket Queen, Paradise City, Nightrain, Patience, Use to love Her, Right Next Door to Hell… AXL/SLASH & AXL/STRADLIN

Lee/Lifeson
Page/Plant

Hall & Oates hands down!

(Oasis)
Noel Gallagher/No Partner needed
(The Beatles)
Lennon/McCartney
(Led Zeppelin)
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
(The Rolling Stones)
Mic Jagger/Kieth Richards
(Blink-182)
Tom DeLonge/Mark Hoppus

Page and Plant were not a duo. John Paul Jones also wrote Zeppelin songs.

Difford & Tillbrook (Squeeze)
Farrar & Tweedy (Uncle Tupelo)
Winwood & Capaldi (Traffic)
Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks
Boyce & Hart
Goffin & King
Gary Brooker & Keith Reid (Procol Harum)

viva la smiths

nathan and caleb followill

nathan and caleb followill

jones\keenen – tool.

ashford and simpson! they wrote all those amazing songs for marvin & tammi. yes, they’re solid as a rock.

despite the fact that so few know who they are, somebody should mention anne preven and scott cutler from ednaswap.

chris collingwood and adam schlesinger from fountains of wayne.

and big ups to anyone who mentioned lieber/stoller.

hmmm… clearly many more people have opinions than have ever actually looked at the writing credits for their favorite songs. Listen folks: singer and guitar player do not equal songwriting duo!

Robbie Williams/Guy Chambers

Hell YEAH!

Goffin/King
Garcia/Hunter
Ba rret/voices in his head

Tennant & Lowe (Pet Shop Boys)
Becker & Fagen (Steely Dan)
Godley & Creme (10cc)
Chilton & Bell (Big Star)

Page and Plant weren’t a duo because John Paul Jones contributed to Zeppelin songs?
So I guess Lennon/McCartney doesn’t count because George Harrison penned a tune or two.
Have you heard the story behind Bron-Y-Aur (and really all of Zeppelin III?)
Page and Plant were a duo, idiot.

Farrar and Tweedy(Uncle Tupelo)

Leiber/Stoller
Bacharach /Davi d

Leiber/Stoller
Bacharach /David

gilmour/ waters needs to be there

Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan

1)Page/Plant
2)Chris Cornell/Kim Thayil
3)Jeff Buckley/Gary Lucas
4)Hetfield/Ulrich
5)Dave Grohl/Himself on every foo fighters record
6)Daltrey/Townshend
7)B rian Johnson/Angus Young (I like the bon scott stuff too, but just listen to back and black it is unparalleled in rockage)
8)Slash/Axl (circa the 80s)
9)Van Halen/DLR (let’s not pretend michael anthony wasn’t the John Paul Jones of Van Halen)

What about Ozzy and Rhandy Rhodes. Does Blizzard of Oz ring any bells in great no…phenomenal records. Greatest duo by far!

Simon/ Garfunkel
Cash/ Carter

Already posted, but i second them!

Mothersbaugh / Casale – Devo

Leiber/Stoller

Leiber/Stoller

AXL ROSE/IZZY STRADLIN
AXL ROSE/IZZY STRADLIN
AXL ROSE/IZZY STRADLIN

JERRY CANTRELL/LAYNE STALEY
JERRY CANTRELL/LAYNE STALEY
JERRY CANTRELL/LAYNE STALEY

Becker/Fagen (Steely Dan)
Lennon/McCartney (The Beatles)

Herb Alpert/Lou Adler/Sam Cooke

Donald Fagen/Walter Becker

Carole King/Geoff Goffin

Alan & Marilyn Bergman

Rodgers/Hammerstein

Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn

Axl Rose was obviously the main songwriting talent not just in Guns N Roses, but in the entire world for years. Izzy was definitely a talent as well.

Axl Rose was obviously the main songwriting talent not just in Guns N Roses, but in the entire world for years. Izzy was definitely a talent as well.

Yeh, but the same goes for Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell….. duel harmonies went hand and hand with duel lyrics…. and with songs like Nutshell and Got Me Wrong?….. its hard to argue the pure talent in this band, that is greatly overlooked and underated.

John Frusciante/God

i don’t care who makes the list. i just want to vote against jovi/sambora

Obviously all the ones mentioned above.

Neil Peart/Geddy Lee
Johnny Rotten/Glen Matlock
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Gilbert & Sullivan
Ray Davies/Dave Davies (On a select few songs, mostly on Something Else)

The reason why page/plant souldn’t be on here is because the rip off other artist all the time like howling wolf. were as plant is just wierd lyrics
But people that sould be on here are jim morrison everyone else from the doors, Waters/Gilmour, greenwood/york, barat/doherty, Carole King/Gerry Goffin, Carole King/David Goffin, Eddie Vedder/Stone Gossard, when they were doing original songs Axl Rose/Slash , Layne Staley/Jerry
Cantrell, Ian Curtis/Bernard Sumner, Ian Astbury/Billy Duffy

theres alot in here that arent really songwriting duos
like simon/garfunkel
art garfunkel hardly wrote anything
it was all paul simon
and townsend/daltrey
roger daltrey only wrote a couple of songs for the who

but id definately go elton and bernie

Okay lets get some things sorted out first. Axl/Slash shouldnt be an entry when Izzy wrote most of the material, same thing with Daltrey/Townsend (sp?) Townsend wrote about 99 percent of their material. Can you say Quadrophenia, Tommy, Who’s Next? Also, Dave didnt write shit in Van Halen. He showed up and made catcalls. Ed and Alex made the music, that is at least till Sammy came in.

Okay, now for my list:

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora
They deserve to be on that list and to the moron who says they should needs to get his head out of his ass.

Page and Plant
One song, Stairway to Heaven

Joe Perry and Steven Tyler
Dream On, Mama Kin, the list goes on and on.

Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen
Ya i know i am saying Sammy over Dave but it is true. When Sammy joined the band, you could see his personal style come through much more than you could with Dave.

Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Alex Chilton & Chris Bell (of Big Star)
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan
David Bowie & Mick Ronson
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
Brian Eno & Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music years)
Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks
Exene Cervenka & John Doe (of X)
David Johansen & Johnny Thunders (of the New York Dolls)
Jeffy Tweedy & Jay Farrar (of Uncle Tupelo)
Josh Homme & Nick Oliveri (of Queens of the Stone Age)

Garcia/Hunter

theres alot in here that arent really songwriting duos
like simon/garfunkel
art garfunkel hardly wrote anything
it was all paul simon
and townsend/daltrey
roger daltrey only wrote a couple of songs for the who

but id definately go elton and bernie

You won’t list it, but THE GALLAGHER BROS. (oasis)
Prove me wrong.
PROVE ME WRONG!!!

Yeah, not really a songwriting TEAM, but kind of.

elvis costello/elvis costello
gifford/tillbrook
s moky

doherty/barat
bob/dylan
harry/ dick

if anybody remembers art rock as an extension of folk and blues and soul, then, no question, the duo
Winwood/Capaldi
of all Traffic 70’s albums!

eddie vedder/ rest of pearl jam

eddie vedder/ rest of pearl jam

White Stripes…?wait,i got it… CEE LO AND DANGER MOUSE OF GNARLS BARKLY.HA!

Two Words —- Page and Plant, yes Jones and Bonham contributed ALOT also, but check songwriting credits on all the Zep albums, with the exception of In Through The Out Door, this album mostly Plant /Jones, Page and Plant wrote the majority of Zep’s BEST tunes.

Glenn Frey/Don Henley

Marriott and Lane. The Small Faces never really made it in the USA, but just listen to anything written by these guys in the 60’s, when they were still teenagers, and you’ll be impressed. “All or Nothing”, “Tin Soldier”, “Have You Ever Seen Me”, “I’ve Got Mine”, “You Need Lovin”, “Autumn Stone”, “Be Like You”, “Itchykoo Park”, “Song of a Baker”, “Here Come the Nice” and “I’m Only Dreaming”, just to name a few. Blues, R & B to psychedelic rock. They did it all in only 3 years too. Timeless, great music.

ummm….tyler/perry of Aerosmith

YES!!! Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead.

Wylde/Osbourne

dela rocha/morello
Tweedy and Bennet
The Young Brothers

yah i agree with robert/plant
elton/bernie and hunter/garcia but the gallagher brothers sucks

Garcia/Hunter
Weir/Barlow
Ma carthy/Lennon

okay, we have page/plant left out. that’s a bummer. then we have to include gossard/vedder, because they are one of the better ones of the modern generation. and how come nobody is mentioning mercury/may? both absolute freak songwriters. best ever, though, has to be yorke/greenwood, though some folks are too impatient to sit through the music and acknowledge their genius.

Felix Cavaliere/Eddie Brigati
Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb [does anyone figure Maurice 'wrote' much?]
Kurt Neumann/Sam Llanas

Waters/Gilmour (seriouslky, why do you people love to pretend that you hate progressive rock? Methinks you be jealous).

Waters/Gilmour (seriously, why do you people love to pretend that you hate progressive rock? Methinks you be jealous).

Waters/Gilmour (seriously, why do you people love to pretend that you hate progressive rock? Methinks you be jealous).

Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Jim & William Reid
Ian Brown and John Squire
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (you didn’t think elvis wrote those hits himself, did u?)

Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Jim & William Reid
Ian Brown and John Squire
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (you didn’t think elvis wrote those hits himself, did u?)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan
Craig Finn/Tad Kubler
Jack Black/Kyle Gass

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan
Craig Finn/Tad Kubler
Jack Black/Kyle Gass

Avey Tare and Panda Bear.

Tom Petty/Mike Campbell
Paul Rodgers/Andy Fraser (Free)
Billy Paliselli/Gary Herrwig (Artful Dodger)

leiber/ stoller–yes
john/ taupin also
goffin/ king–indeed
but simon and garfunkel did not write songs together!I guess this has been pointed out, but things like this upset me.

Lennon/McCartney
Waters/Gilmou r
Hall/Oates
Page/Plant

Lennon/McCartney
Waters/G ilmou r
Hall/Oates
Page/Plant
Fagen/Becker

Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman

Hall & Oates hands down and they have the album sales to prove it.

Robert Forster and Grant McLennan (Go-Betweens)

and yes Hall & Oates kill.

Ferry/Manzanera
Waters/Gilmore

Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards followed by John Squire and Ian Brown, and Morrissey and Johnny Marr….those are the only true songwriting teams worthy of mentioning that I can think of. Morrissey/Marr and Brown/Squire are far behind though if you ask me, simply because I don’t think they really sat around together writing songs much which makes me think twice about calling them a songwriting team.

Someone below said the Gallagher brothers and dared to be proved wrong and….well…that simply isn’t a songwriting team. Noel Gallagher is in fact one of the best songwriters ever, but Liam has nothing to do with it. He’s written a few ok ones, and one great song (Songbird), but no matter how you cut it, they’ve never written a song together. They’ve never even been credited together.

Just for the sake of clarity, when I say ‘are the only ones I can think of worth mentioning,’ I just mean that literally those are the ones that came to mind. I’m sure there are a ton of others worthy of the list. Some that have been mentioned I don’t really think of as teams, like Bono and the Edge for example.

Vedder/Gossard has to be # 1 by far.

Method Man/Redman
Kiedes/Frusciante
a nd last but not least
Trey and Mike from Phish!

Ha. No Americans.

No Americans! Funny.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala/Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez

by far the greatest song writers of all time. At the Drive-in.. The Mars volta. they have written almost everything together and have written unbeliveable songs

COMPLETELY UNDERRATED/OVERLOOKED ALERT:

–Alkaline Trio–
Matt Skiba/Dan Andriano

Even if Skiba’s stuff is better, Andriano is good too.

Lennon-McCartney
Jagger-Richa rds
Page-Plant
Perry-Tyler
Mercury-May
Bono-The Edge
Gillan-Blackmore
Stanle y-Simmons
Osbourne-Iommi
Bow ie-Ronson
White-White
Black- Gass >> Tenacious D

first of all, i’m glad everybody’s jumped on my Tenacious D bandwagon. viva la revolucion!
secondly, you have to put the gibb brothers. even if it’s not your cup of tea, they literally invented an entire genre of music.

tom delonge and mark hoppus BLINK!!! hahahaha

how could i have forgotten townshend and daltry? yes obviously they should be up there. I also agree with the MC5 suggestion and the caleb/nathan followill…I hadn’t thought of them but good suggestion (I don’t think I would say they are one of the all-time best though, but I do love KoL). Also, does meg white help with writing TWS songs? I can’t remember but if she does then yes, excellent duo for the weekend rock list!

Jagger/Richards
John Frusciante/Anthony Kiedis

PAGE and Plant should definitely be there

Page & Plant absolutely have to be on that list and in the top 5.

Also, those who listed Townshend/Daltrey are idiots. By no means am I putting down the work of the Who, they’re absolutely great, but Daltrey didn’t write songs, nor did he have any imput in them. He gets a barely deserved credit on “Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” and on a song off of their second album, and that’s about it.

Gossard/Vedder
Malakian/Tanki an

page/plant
elton/taupin
perr y/tyler
gilmore/waters
jim croce/muary muehleisen
+ the five already here

No Americans. That’s funny.

Elton John / Bernie Taupin
John Doe / Exene Cervenka (X)
(^probably not going to end up on any lists of “all-time greatest” but they deserve some recognition anyway)

Elton John / Bernie Taupin
John Doe / Exene Cervenka (X)
(^probably not going to end up on any lists of “all-time greatest” but they deserve some recognition anyway)

oh n how could i forget mercury/may

add that one…tho decan and taylor did contribute a good deal…

n allen collins/ronnie van zant

keith flint/maxim

Alex Chilton & Chris Bell was a good call, along with Jack & Meg White. Also, the Leiber/Stoller, Boyce/Hart, Bacarach/David partnerships work. I suppose if everybody’s trying to get Dylan in, I could say Dylan & Jacques Levy.

also, i know its the rock list, but why not include rogers and hammerstein, the greatest songwriting duo ever?

Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain for their efforts on “Live Through This.”

Now, Let’s sit back and count those who don’t grasp sarcasm.)

PAGE/PLANT

frusciante/kiedis (RHCP)
Cuomo/Sharp (Weezer)
Barman/Carlens (Deus)

Its gotta be a trio- flea, frusciante and kiedis. Best band ever! RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

gilmour/waters

clapton/b ruce

garcia/hunt

elliott smith/elliott smith

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis – they created Mary J. Blige and Janet Jackson for chrissake!

Do Dave Matthews and Steve Lillywhite count?

I totally agree with Kiedis and Frusciante.

Obviously Morrissey/Marr but also 3-D Del Naja, Mushroom Vowles and Daddy G of Massive Attack

those two guys from air?

dude, Page/Plant is essential
Angus/Angus—can’t forget the thunder from down under!
Simon/Garfunkel

Difford and Tilbrook from Squueeze.
Page and Plant
Lieber and Stoller.
And my wild card would be Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney. McCartney’s best post Lennon writing partner.

Difford and Tilbrook from Squueeze.
Page and Plant
Lieber and Stoller.
And my wild card would be Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney. McCartney’s best post Lennon writing partner.

Lennox & Stewart (Eurthymics)
Farriss & Hutchence (INXS)

Tom Delonge and Mark hoppus, you might not like the music but you have to admit its catchy.

Or what about the teo guys in Death From Above 1979

Or maybe Liam and Noel Gallagher

Tom Delonge and Mark hoppus, you might not like the music but you have to admit its catchy.

Or what about the teo guys in Death From Above 1979

Or maybe Liam and Noel Gallagher

And Maybe Page/Plant isn’t on ther because John Paul Jones was part of the songwriting in Led Zeppelin too

Fats Domino & Dave Bartholomew
Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan
Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Steven Page & Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies)

People need to realize that some of these listed duos aren’t duos. Townsend didn’t write with Daltrey, Noel Gallagher wrote on his own, all R.E.M. songs are credited to all members of the band, all Radiohead songs are credited to all members of the band, Simon didn’t write with Garfunkel, Jack White doesn’t write with Meg.

This is greatest SONGWRITING duos, not duos, period.

Axl Rose/Izzy Stradlin the rest of the list is pefect

Axl Rose/Izzy Stradlin the rest of the list is pefect

HALL & OATES!

Okay all you music lovers chili peppers do not have a two man writing team, they all contribute to the songs via the method of Jamming.

Plus, Frusciante is heads abouve the rest of them anyways

Jagger/Richards
Bowie/Ronson

Gallagher/Gallagher (Oasis)
Difford/Tilbrook (Squeeze)
Ferry/Manzanera (Roxy Music)
Strummer/Jones (Clash)
Ogilvie/Burns (Stiff Little Fingers)
McCartney/Lennon
Da vies/Davies (Kinks)
The guys from TEENAGE FANCLUB!

Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Oh sorry wrong poll. Although they did have some kick ass songs on The South Park Movie and Team America. So actually ill stick with Parker and Stone

anybody ever heard of Hatchett/Morris? from Guilty As Charged? no?

Lennon/mcCartney
Mick/Ke ith
Plant/page
Joe/steven
Axl/Iz zy
Now that I’ve settled this for you…All you list making geeks can now actually go outside and get some sunshine.

Bush/Cheney: ‘We are the World’

Axl/Izzy so kick Jones/strummer’s butts!! Guns were more dangerous, rocked harder, sold more albums and if axl would stop dragging the good GnR name thru the mud Guns would have a much greater place in history than the CLASH.

Louris/Olson of the Jayhawks. Just listen to “Tomorrow The GReen Grass” and “Hollywood Town Hall”

jerry garcia / robert hunter

To rockstar70-you talk bollocks

I think the Gallagher brothers wrote “Let there be love” together, but I could be wrong

IZZY STRADLIN AND AXL ROSE

JERRY CANTRELL AND LAYNE STALEY

DOMINO/BARTHOLOMEW!!!

Plant & Page
Anastasio & Marshall

The Reid brothers from Jesus and Mary Chain.
And, even though they only wrote a couple of songs together, Iggy and Bowie.

yorke/greenwood

elton john/bernie taupin

first of all, i am a gigantic RHCP fan. and in my opinion, the best RHCP lyrics written come on the album “One Hot Minute”, which people seem to hate without actually listening to it. and because john frusciante wasn’t on that record, and dave navarro was, it was kiedis and flea who wrote the lyrics (ex. listen to “transcending”, “warped”, “my friends”). though fruscisnte IS a god, i think kiedis-flea is the best RHCP writing duo, not kiedis-frusciante

Liam and Noel Gallagher do not write songs together.

sleater/kinney
sonic/youth
bright/eyes

jay ferrar – jeff tweedy (uncle tupelo)

elton john and bernie taupin

jack black/kyle gass?

I guess there are no Supertramp fans indoors, because I can´t see the names Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson anywhere in these comments. Not that I would claim to be a fan really, but they have written a lot of classic songs that I´m sure even the Zeppelin fans would be caught humming along to if played on the radio… Don´t deny it – I heard you!

Best Songwriting Duo?
George W. Bush and Jesus Christ.

They’ve been playing the same song for the past 7 years and America is tiring of it. However, they are still a hit on FoxNews!

Jesus wrote Blessed are the poor and Bush penned Kill the Poor.
Talk about balance! They ROCK!

Let’s not call Meg White a songwriter , okay? Love the White Stripes, but it’s all Jack.

Lou Reed/John Cale

so Mr Wolf to which statement to I speak Bollocks? The fact that you guys have nothing better to do or are you a misguided Clash fan.

Being a big Zep fan…….Page/Plant…..
Jag ger/Richards
Daltrey/Townshen d
Waters/Gilmour
Tyler/Perry
Ray Davies/Dave Davies
Bono/Edge

For greatest of all time youve gotta think classic…
lennon/mccartney
bo no/edge
townshend/daltrey
page /plant
and bringing up the newer music i give credit to stephen jenkins…
but, overall winners must be richards/jagger, theyve wrote the best songs ever, and played them for the longest period ever of any rock band

jerry garcia/robert hunter
brian wilson/van dyke parks
wilson/asher (pet sounds)

ok how many people have to put page/plant down cause its on there about a million times but rightfully deserves it but i would also say Greg/Dwane Allman

Simon/Garfunkel
Thom Yorke/Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead)
Page/Plant

Bell/Chilton
Snoop Dogg/Dr. Dre

Carole King and Gerry Goffin
Glenn Frey and Don Henley
Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller

kd lang & Ben Mink
Elliott & Valentino (Beau Brummels)

Lieber and Stoller

Jim Morrison/The Doors

Edward Van Halen/David Lee Roth
Jagger/Richards
Pa ge/Pl ant
Kevin Martin/Peter Klett

Clarke & Bell (erasure)
Loney & Jordan (Flamin’ Groovies)

I would say Eminem and Jay-Z, both feature prominently on your “500 Greatest” lists, and no hip-hop artists have yet been suggested – I think they absolutely deserve to be there.

Nailed it! Happy to see Marr/Morrissey in there, too. That’s the one I figured wouldn’t end up in there, but, surprises never cease.

Ray and Dave Davies
Page and Plant
Maynard James Keenan/ Billie Howerdel

Ray and Dave Davies
Page and Plant
Maynard James Keenan/ Billie Howerdel

I would go with The Allman Bros too!!

maybe I missed it but what about bernie taupin and elton john???

I would def add Mahoney/Adams from BTRU…the two of them are a perfect balance of organized chaos

I would say Eminem and Jay-Z, both feature prominently on your “500 Greatest” lists, and no hip-hop artists have yet been suggested – I think they absolutely deserve to be there.

Lennon/McCartney is the best although i’ve heard that most of those lennon/mcCartney songs were writen either by lennon or mcCartney and not together

yeah and Keenan/Jones(tool)

by the way tenacious d is stupid jack black and kyle gass aren’t good writers

Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC. Classic Australian Rock group that I doubt will get a mention and highly deserves to.

AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
AXL/IZZY AXL/SLASH
GUNS N ROSES

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. I absoutely agree with your Beatles pick – I would also say the Wilson brothers from The Beach Boys.

How could I have forgotten Elton and Bernie Taupin. Lieber and Stoller and Elton and Bernie would bump Morrissey and Marr & Bono and The Edge, both of whom are great themselves.

Eminem and Dr Dre – best musical partnership of RECENT times, especially on the R&B / Hip Hop scene.

Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Alex Chilton & Chris Bell (of Big Star)
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan
Lou Reed & John Cale
David Bowie & Mick Ronson
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
Brian Eno & Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music years)
Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks
Exene Cervenka & John Doe (of X)
David Johansen & Johnny Thunders (of the New York Dolls)
Jeffy Tweedy & Jay Farrar (of Uncle Tupelo)
Josh Homme & Nick Oliveri (of Queens of the Stone Age)

Rick Davies & Rodger Hodgson – Supertramp
Walter Becker & Donald Fagen – Steely Dan
Chris Difford & Glen Tillbrook – Squeeze
Daryl Hall & John Oates
and perhaps -
Tom Petty & Mike Campbell (although Petty writes solo and with lots of others)

The most profoundly overlooked duo on RS’s default list is Mike Lieber and Jerry Stoller, rather than the ever-overrated Led Zeppelin team. After Leiber/Stoller, there are other important duos that I would suggest, such as Fagen & Becker, Waters & Gilmour (before the former lost his mind, just a little bit), etc. But when I see people proposing Hall & Oates as the one glaring omission from this list, I begin to worry…

Waters/Gilmour
Petty/Campbell
Petty/Lynne
Paige/Plant
Ga rcia/Hunter
Mercury/May

Best writers are Jack Bruce and Pete Brown– remember Cream?

Lennon/McCartney is obviously the best!

cezarock,you dude ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Is no-one going to mention tyler/perry? Surely one of the most influential partnerships of the 70’s. Once they stopped taking drugs they went downhill a bit, but they are still capable of knocking out the odd tune now and then.

Richard Thompson & Dave Swarbrick. I notice no ones mentioned this one. It’s a partnership that didn’t yield that many songs but, it did produce most of the originals on the last two Fairport Convention albums that Richard Thompson appeared on. And Some great songs such as Sloth, Now Be Thankful, Crazy Man Michael, Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman, etc.

so…i guess it’s ok to overlook Hetfield/Ulrich because metal apparently doesnt count as music…its ok, we all know Metallica is real music, and hip/hop will die out soon

Barat/Doherty (The Libertines)

Barat/Doherty (The Libertines)

albarn/coxon

Gene Ween / Dean Ween

Absolutely shocked you have forgotten two of the most famous writing duos in Elton John/Bernie Taupin and Robert Plant/Jimmy Page.

brownstein/tucker – sleater-kinney
the intertwining guitars, lack of a bass player, give them some credit

brownstein/tucker – sleater-kinney
the intertwining guitars, lack of a bass player, give them some credit

Morrison/Krieger
Keenan/Jones

Of course, Beatles and RS duos are tops…here are my other favs…love to hear feedback on the picks:

- Bono/Edge (Edge deserves more credit than he gets)
- Bowie/Eno – Berlin sessions
- Yorke/Greenwood (Radiohead)
- Dylan/Lanois (TOOM & L&T recordings)
- Simon(99%)/Garfunkle(1%) but the sum is great
- Elton John (voice)/Taupin (everything else)
- Henley/Frey/Walsh
- Stipe/Buck
- Farrell/Navarro
- CSN&Y – have to include Young here

ok….
Beside all the obvious ones RS came up with:
Lou Reed & John Cale
David Bowie & Mick Ronson
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant

QUOTE: “Axl/Izzy so kick Jones/strummer’s butts!! Guns were more dangerous, rocked harder, sold more albums and if axl would stop dragging the good GnR name thru the mud Guns would have a much greater place in history than the CLASH.”

Haha… that’s a good one. Exactly how as G N’ R more ‘dangerous?’ than the Clash? They took more drugs?

Exactly, how does ‘rocking harder’ have anything to do with penning a tune? We’re talking about songwriting duos…not “level of hardness of the rocking.”

uhm…people…Gamble and Huff!!!

Don Henley & Glenn Frey
Brian Wilson & Whomever he was writing with at the time (T Asher, V D Parks, M Love)
George & Ira Gershwin

By the way, Noel & Liam Gallagher do not write songs together. Nor did Buckingham & Nicks, and least not once they joined FM.

Christ people, stop pulling collaborations out of nowhere. Ray Davies and Dave Davies were hardly a songwriting team. I can only think of three songs that they wrote together: Got My Feet on the Ground, Party Line, and Death of a Clown. 95% of their originals are just credited as Ray Davies. Also, I wouldn’t consider Gilmour/Waters a songwriting team. They collaborated on a few songs (Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, Young Lust), but Waters was the principal songwriter from Dark Side on or things would get credited to the entire band.

To the guy who said it was funny there were no americans, i’d like to point out most of the great american bands/musicians either wrote music by themselves or with the entire band. Dylan, Morrison, and Cobain all wrote music by themselves. The Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses, R.E.M., and Pearl Jam (Vedder is involved in most of there songs but the other person/people varies) all write/wrote music as a group. Alice in Chains very rarely had Staley and Cantrell writing together, it was generally one or the other writing.

And I think the Hetfield/Ulrich duo isn’t getting enough credit. I know a lot of people like to downplay heavy metal, but in my opinion that duo is in the top 10.

Halford/Tipton/Downing

Halford/Tipton/Downing

Page/Plant
David Gilmour/Roger Waters
De La Rocha/Morello

?uestlove and Black Thought of the Roots would be awesome to see on here, if only because no one else in hip hop does what they do.

tyler/perry
mick mars and tommy lee

Freddy | Bryan May

How about George & Ira G.

axl rose/izzy/slash

Chris and Rich Robinson

Iggy Pop and David Bowie with Raw Power and subsequent solo work.

Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding from XTC.

The Arcade Fire guys. the husband and wife. you know who i’m talking about.

The Arcade Fire guys. the husband and wife. you know who i’m talking about.

Tyler/Perry

Holland/Dozier/Holland.

Wit hout this trio, who knows if Motown would have reached the level which it did.

Paul Westerberg/Bob Stinson – The Replacements.

Intelligent and artful stuff but completely unpretentious. That is not easy to do.

thom yorke / jonny greenwood

Elton John and Bernie Taupin are clearly Number 3 on this list, behind Lennon & McCartney and Jagger & Richards.

Simon & Garfunkel

tyler/perry
paige/plant
cumm ings/bachman
jagger/richards

lennon/mccartney
young/young (acdc)
bon jovi/sambora

I don’t think Strummer/Jones is as obvious as pick as RS might think and they sure don’t belong in the Top 5 listed above. They were good, but ALL TIME?? Nope. I would place them behind Becker/Fagen of Steely Dan and John/Taupin. Both of those duos have long lasting artistic and popular credentials that The Clash could not compile in the relatively short time they were together. In fact, during the height of their popularity, they probably ranked behind Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.

The Strummer/Jones guy was probably the same one who listed Whip Smart as a bad album.

Page/Plant? I went back and looked at all my albums. There are plenty of John Paul Jones credits listed on those songs and he says there are plenty more that don’t list him that should. That is part of the rancor between Jones and Page/Plant. Jones feels he is being jobbed on writing credits. Based on the rather pedestrian Page/Plant songwriting since Led Zep, I believe Jones.

And some of you guys, c’mon. Listing obscure bands makes you hip and smart….maybe to the people described in The Rock Snobs’ Dictionary, but not to anybody else.

Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze)
Don Henley & Glenn Frey
Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter
Walter Becker & Donald Fagen

Tom Petty and Mike Campbell are incredibly underrated.

Definitely – Hall & Oates !!!
simon & garfunkel
lennon /mccartney
b jovi/ r sambora
steve perry /journey
don henley /g frey
g michael / andrew

Definitely – Hall & Oates !!!
simon & garfunkel
lennon /mccartney
b jovi/ r sambora
steve perry /journey
don henley /g frey
g michael / andrew

First I would have to say that most of the greats have been listed here already.
Page/Plant Ihave to question as has been meantioned Jones did write alot of the tunes there.
So the list has to be.
Lennon McCartney They wrote together and apart but the songs that first brought them fame were collaborations.
It would put Lieber and Stoller next because without them there would have been no Elvis. No Elvis means no Rock and Roll as we know it today, he inspired everybody on this list.
You would have to put Goffin and King up there somewhere with Bacarach and David.
I would include Jagger and Richards after these. Then
John and Taupin
May and Mercury
Reed and Cale
Bruce and Brown
and I don’t think anybody said Slick and Kantner.
I am sure this isn’t all but that would be a good start.

Hetfield/Ulrich

(battery, sad but true, wherever I may roam, the outlaw torn…)

How about Thayil and Cornell?

A.Young/M.Young/B.Scott or A.Young/M.Young/B.Johnson or just A.Young/M.Young greatest song writers ever

axl rose / slash

Yorke/Greenwood. Where would alternative music be without Kid A and OK Computer?

Weiland and DeLeo. STP is awesome

Weiland and DeLeo. STP is awesome

James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich

BTW, to the person below who nominated David Bowie and Iggy Pop – Bowie didn’t have anything to do with the songwriting for Raw Power; he just mixed it. The album was written by Pop and James Williamson.

waters/gilmour

waters/gilmour

If you actually look at the OK Computer and Kid A CDs, you’ll see the songwriting credits being given to the bandmembers and not just Thom York and (pick one) Greenwood.

garcia/hunter!!

Layne Staley/Jerry Cantrell
Ozzy/Zakk Wylde
Ozzy/Randy Rhodes

Reid brothers of The Jesus and Mary Chain should be in there.

Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter

Page/Plant

Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood
Simon and Garfunkel
Adam Jones/Maynard James Keenan
Jeff Tweedy/Jay Farrar
Jack and Meg White
Dean and Gene Ween

haji/emmanuel
they deserve to be on top of this list only for the “take me away” track

k i just cant include ulrich/hetfield cuz too many good metallica songs include the whole band n all their 90s stuff was crap
n but i do think petty/campbell is a good addition

waters/gilmour
page/plant

chris and rich robinson

Carole King/Gerry Goffin
Burt Bacharach/Hal David
Tom Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes

Izzy Stradlin/William W. Rose

And to the idiot who said Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley rarely collaborated together, do your homework before you make a bold assumption like that. These 4 people deserve to be on the final list Monday.

No one mentioned Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield!

Courtney Love/Kurt Cobain
Fall Out Boy/Their Record Company
Trent Reznor/ProTools Console
Kanye West/His Ego
Micheal Jackson/12 year old boy

Rodgers & Hammerstein. Those dudes really rocked. All the others mentioned here are losers and will soon be forgotten once the boomers die off.

Daryl Hall & John Oates

1)J. Bon Jovi/R. Sambora
2)S. Tyler/J. Perry
3)G. Simmons/P. Stanley

-That’s my Top 3-
BON JOVI 4-EVER!

Waters and Gilmour hands down

waters/gilmour

Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Corgan/Howerdel

seems like everyone at rollingstone collectively hate led zeppelin for some reason

hats off to the person who said
cobain and his guitar

I’m going with:
1. Lennon/McCartney
2. Jaggar/Richards
3. Elton John/Bernie Taupin
4. Goffin/King
5. Just to support my boyhood heros — Boyce/Hart.

Peace….

Lynne/Petty/Harrison/Dyla n/Orb ison

no particular order

1. Axl Rose/Slash
2. Axl Rose/Stradlin
3. Jagger/Richards
4. Bon Jovi/Sambora

no particular order

1. Axl Rose/Slash
2. Axl Rose/Stradlin
3. Jagger/Richards
4. Bon Jovi/Sambora

John Doe/Exene Cervenka – X
Jordan/Wilson – Flamin’ Groovies
Green/Spencer – Fleetwood Mac
Kooper/Katz – on the first Blood Sweat and Tears album.
Brecker/Fagan – you don’t have to like them, but you can’t deny them.

no particular order

1. Axl Rose/Slash
2. Axl Rose/Izzy Stradlin
3. Jagger/Richards
4. Bon Jovi/Sambora

James Hetfield / Lars Ulrich

“No Elvis means no Rock and Roll as we know it today, he inspired everybody on this list.”

Elvis did NOT invent rock n roll.

SM/Spiral Stairs

Billy Idol/Steve Stevens

Corgan/Howerdel
Waters/Gi lmour e
Simon/Garfunkel

Sitek/Adebimpe/Malone/Bunton/S mith

I’m surprised so many people are mentioning Simon and Garfunkle as a songwriting duo. Simon did 99% of the writing.

My picks…

Lennon/McCart ney
Jagger/Richards
John/Taupin
Lieber/Stoller

Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood!

Morrison/Krieger (The Doors)
Page/Plant
Tyler/Perr y
Stipe/Buck

just a few people have forgotten

Morrison/Krieger (The Doors)
Page/Plant
Tyler /Perr y
Stipe/Buck

just a few people have forgotten

Lars Ulrich is a pretentious ass

Robert Plant/ Jimmy Page
Barry Hay/ George Kooymans

Becker/Fagen
Gibb/Gibb/Gibb

these are the ones not mentioned:

Keidis/ Frusciante
Page/Plant
Young/ Young
John/Topin
Perry/Tyler
Townsend/Daltry

Steven Page/Ed Robertson
Steven Page/Stephen Duffy
Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

…and Scott, “Holland-Dozier-Holland” is not a duo; it’s a trio.

Linnell/Flansburg
(of They Might be Giants)

They’re the Lennon/McCartney of my world.

What I learned thus far:

1) Many people don’t know duo means two people.
2) Many people don’t know that writing songs is different than performing them.
3) Many people don’t know who John Paul Jones is and why he is important.
4) Lots of people think Pete Townshend actually wrote songs with Roger Daltrey!! HAHAHAHAHA!
5)That Roger Waters is the kind od guy who might hunt you down if you keep insisting he was part of a songwriting duo with Dave Gilmour. (oh, by the Rick Wright = John Paul Jones)

Gotta agree with everyone who has said Elton John/Bernie Taupin. Also, I think Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter should be on the list.

Re. those suggested so far -
What’s with?…
Simon & Garfunkel … Writing was all Paul Simon
Townsend/Daltrey … All Pete
Waters/Gilmour … Were there really that many of the songs that they exclusively wrote together?

Leiber/Stoller (should have been on RS List)
B. Wilson/ M. Love
Johansen/Thunders
Simmo ns/Stanley
Boyce/Hart (How did the guys responsible for the pre-fab Four get overlooked?)
Doe/Cervenka

Don Henley and Glenn Frey must be put at the top of any list of songwriting duos. Whether it was just the two of them, or what they did with musical riffs and chord progression provided by other band members, they time and again achieved excellence. Their success record puts to shame almost all other suggestions other than the Motown greats and Lennon/McCartney. Some examples:

Desperado
Tequil a Sunrise
Best of My Love
One of These Nights
Take It to the Limit (with Meisner)
Lyin’ Eyes
Hotel California (with Felder)
Livin’ Life in the Fastlane (with Walsh)
New Kid in Town
Wasted Years
The Long Run
Heartache Tonight (with Bob Segar)
I Can’t Tell You Why (with Schmit)

Hall & Oates are a good duo, but a lot of their big hits were written by just Hall on his own or with someone other than Oates.

Kurt Cobain and his Fender Mustang

Mine are:(no particular order)
Elton john -Bernie Taupin
Don Henley-Glen Frey
Holland-Dozier -Holland
Peart-Lee-Lifeson(RUSH)
Page-Plant
Lieber and Stoller
Goffin-King
Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter
Gibbons-Hill (ZZ Top)

Slash and his Gibson Les Paul

Bush/Hitler

Glenn Tilbrook & Chris Difford of Squeeze

Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson of ABBA

Gerry Goffin & Carole King

Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman (”Save the Last Dance For Me”)

Steve Winwood & Will Jennings

Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks for The Beach Boys

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Burt Bacharach & Hal David

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin

… and what would the 1980s have been without …

Tom Kelly & Billy Steinberg (”Like a Virgin,” “True Colors, “So Emotional,” “Eternal Flame,” “Alone,” “I Touch Myself,”Sex As a Weapon,” etc.)

Pete Doherty/Carl Barat (Libertines)

DOHERTY/BARÂT and Ian Brown/John Squire

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry

Favorite songwriting duo?
How about Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye. The former is a great artist and the latter is her great apologist. Voila!

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant-I know a lot of Zep songs are credited to the whole band, but alone, They Wrote Stairway to Freakin Heaven. What more do you need?

Also: Brian Wilson couldn’t have written Pet Sounds without Tony Asher.

Ok, if Page & Plant gets on this list for Stairway to Freakin’ Heaven, then let’s add Whitfield & Strong for “I Heard it Through the Grapevine.”

Bob Dylan and God during his “Christian” Period. LOL!! Just kidding

Becker and Fagen, of course!

Props to Niles Rodgers & Bernard Edwards from Chic.

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. They have to write together, unless they’re half blind.

What about Ian Curtis & Bernard Sumner? Life would have been very boring without the two of them.

Even more props to Ashford & Simpson

Gaudio & Crewe wrote all the Four Seasons hits and Buddy Holly’s writing partner was Norman Petty.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David
David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks
Holland and Dozier
Roy Acuff and Charlie Rose
Lou Reed and John Cale. (Black Angel’s Death Song is not only songwriting genius, it’s the coolest song title ever)

Miles Davis/Gil Evans

Jeff Tweedy/Jay Farrar

I’m suprised that not as many mention Dylan/Lanois (TOOM & L&T recordings)…Dylan is the best solo writer, but Lanois brought new mood, texture and structure for dylan…and the old (lengendary) dog/new tricks saying applies here…have to give some props for ol’ Danny boy

cock/balls

Me and Myself

cock and balls

How about the Matrix? They’ve certainly been successful. Also, Glenn Matlock and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.

Liam Gallagher doesn’t do any writing to my knowledge for Oasis. Noel does all the writing. Also, Bill Berry did a lot of songwriting for REM. He wrote the chords for “Everybody Hurts.”

Bert/Ernie

Bert/Ernie

Gilmour/Waters

Henley and Frey are second only to McCartney & Lennon and perhaps the Motown greats. Alone or with others, they wrote:

Desperado
Tequila Sunrise
Best of My Love
One of These Nights
Take It to the Limit
Lyin Eyes
Hotel California
New Kid in Town
Livin Life in the Fastlane (phrase didn’t exist prior to Eagles)
Wasted Time
The Long Run
I Can’t Tell You Why
Heartache Tonight

Page and Plant wrote some great songs, but even Plant admits, the lyrics were weak and you can’t understand the words on most. Same thing with the Stones–great songs (amongst a whole lot of crappy ones), but lyrically questionable.

Hall & Oates have a better catalog of “songs” but many were written by Hall without Oates. Henley and Frey were a true duo, although at times had assistance from other band members who offered chord changes, riffs, etc.

axl rose/izzy stradlin

Didn’t Marr and Morrissey despise each other?

Jim & William Reid- Jesus and Mary Chain

Sex Pistols?! They had one album!

Greatest Individual Songwriters:
1) Pete Townshend
2) Bruce Springsteen
3) John Lennon
4) Neil Young
5) Ray Davies
6) Paul McCartney
7) Bob Dylan
Brian Wilson
9) Neal Peart
10) Noel Gallagher

Dean Ween + Gene Ween = GENIUS

There were a lot of silly answers here, or maybe I just have a strict definition of what a songwriting duo is. I love the VU but Reed and Cale never had much of a partnership. David Gilmour and Art Garfunkel weren’t really writers. Brian Wilson just worked with collaborators.

Anyhow, my picks:
Lennon/McCartney
Becker /Fagen
Forster/McLennan
Collin gwood/Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne)

jim morrison/Lsd
page/plant
garc ia/hunter

chris and rich robinson are also pretty clever.

dont forget tom waits and kathleen brennan!

lennon and mccartney is the best no matter what. they have passed the test of time and their songs are the considered the greatest ever made

Noel Gallagher and cocaine

Jim Capaldi/Steve Winwood…there’s an actual songwriting duo that deserves credit.

doherty/barat should be there

Bono and Edge should be 1-2 slots higher

Pink Floyd’s Waters/Gilmour

Echoes
Brea the
Time
Money
Us and Them
Brain Damage
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1&2)
Welcome to the Machine
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Dogs
Pigs
Sheep
Every Song on the Wall and on
The Final Cut

I mean Roger Waters would write the lyrics, but it wouldn’t have made Pink Floyd the greatest band of all time without the brilliance of Dave Gilmour’s guitar work.

I don’t know that constitutes “best”, but I was surprised only one person said Otis Redding and Steve Cropper

Yeah Mick & Keith are top of the stack but don’t forget that other pair Robert Johnson and Satan. They were real friggin’ good.

ROCKMAN

Elton John/Bernie Taupin. Who Else went almost 20 years without any 2 songs sounding alike? Not only that but in all styles of music, mellow, reggae, country, rock, hard rock, etc. Something for everyone.

Hey “Go Terps” – are you ON the Turps? Greatest Songwriting DUOS of all time you moron. Don’t write in and suggest INDIVIDUALS you knob, any freak can do THAT.

Michael Jackson / Quincy Jones
Eminem / Dr Dre
Chris Martin / Guy Berryman
Jay-Z / 50 Cent
I can’t disagree with your Lennon / McCartney pick

Elton John/Bernie Taupin!!!

Long live Dean and Gene Ween!

i just want to thank the one guy for making a joke about filipino politics. wow. it’s like the eclipse. you don’t see it often, but its magical every time.

oh, and andy summers and sting.

my vote is for morrissey and marr, and sorry there buddy, but sting’s ego doesn’t allow for summers/sting songwriting, read you album credits.

issac something and jhonny marr of modest mouse?wait, DANGER MOISE & CEE LO OF GNARLS BARKLY!! what about Buck/Cheery? LOL

issac something and jhonny marr of modest mouse?wait, DANGER MOISE & CEE LO OF GNARLS BARKLY!! what about Buck/Cheery? LOL

You have Morrisey, Bono and Joe Strummer on this list, and not…

ROGER WATERS and DAVID GILMOUR or JIMMY PAGE and ROBERT PLANT or
ELTON JOHN and BERNIE TAUPIN?

C’mon guys… is SOMEONE over there in the editing room on crack?

I have to echo the top three picks of The Irving Bongo:

Glenn Tilbrook & Chris Difford of Squeeze

Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson of ABBA

Ashlee Simpson and John Shanks.

Kidding.

K. Cobain & K. Novoselic.
J. Page & R. Plant
L. Buckingham & S. Nicks
K. Gordon & Th. Moore
E. Erlandson & C. Love
Edge & Bono
B. Corgan & J. Iha
Björk and her laptop
P. Westerberg and alcohol
M. Faithfull and anyone she chooses to work with
T. Reznor and heroin

…so many great duos out there!!!

am i really the first person to drop Trey Anastasio/Tom Marshall??

Lot of youse are saying Bowie/Ronson. Can’t remember the great guitarists name on any songs from “Man who sold the World” to “Aladdin Sane”. He wrote a few good ‘uns with Ian Hunter though.

Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding from XTC wrote most of their stuff seperatly.

Strummer/Jones was my initial reaction towards this rock list.

such limited tastes the greatest songwriting duo of all time and even lennon or mccartney would concede to this would be:

the greshwins.

don’t know who they are? time to exercise those google brains brothers

the gershwins i meant

Gotta go with Hall and Oates on this one.

Hall/Oates

Steve Perry/Neil Schlon

that is all that needs to be said.

oh, and

maynard and adam jones.

Greg Ginn/Chuck Dukowski. I know MOST of the songwriting credit on “Damaged” and the First Four Years era reads “G. Ginn” but they created that sound together (Ian MacKaye said it best “Flag is about pre and post Dukowski”).

Dick Wagner / Alice Cooper

Jerry Cantrell & Layne Staley

Gossard/Ament

Sheryl Crow/Jeff Trott

George and Ira Gershwin.

Rock on, dudes.

hop hop altın top

Flansburgh and Linnell, obviously.

PAGE/PLANT!!

AnthonyKiedis/Jo hnFrusciante/Flea/ChadSmith

PAGE/PLANT!!

AnthonyKiedis/Jo hnFrusciante/Flea/ChadSmith

Daniel Brummel/Ryan Slegr
(Ozma)

Elton John & Bernie Taupin

“Robert Forster and Grant McLennan (Go-Betweens)”

I second that one.

Thom Yorke/Jhonny Greenwood

Thurston Moore/Lee Renaldo

Paul Stanley/Mark St. John

Paul Stanley/Mark St. John

Bacharach/David
Goffin/King
Th e Doors
Winwood/Capaldi
Garcia/H unter

Vanda & Young – don’t know who they are? Check out The Easybeats and early AC/DC…

Alex Chilton and Chris Bell – Big Star

Beeb Birtle and Graham Goble – Little River Band

The Finn Brothers – Split Enz/Crowded House

Zappa/Beefheart

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page!

Brett and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family.

Oh, how could I forget- Gene and Dean Ween! Ween ROCKS!

Oh, how could I forget- Gene and Dean Ween! Ween ROCKS!

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

Bush/Cheney

Wilson/Love
Wilson/Van Dyke Parks
Henley/Frey

well this list depends on what the criteria are..if sales and longevity matter then..Carole King/Gerry Goffin
Burt Bacharach/Hal David lennon mccartney, jagger/richards, lieber/stoller, holland/dozier/holland, and definatly elton/taupin

PETE WENTZ/YOUR MOM

-Waters/Gilmour
-Page/Plant
-H enley/Frey
-Leiber/Stoller (I mean come on…)
-Hall/Oates

neil young and god

Chris & Apple

Noel & Alcohol

Beck & Cereal

Axl Rose & Paris Hilton

Zuniga/Scalzo

Garcia/Hunter – hands down

Page/Plant
Gilmour/Waters
Lenn on/McCartney

Izzy Stradlin/William Bruce Rose Jr

Layne Staley/Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr

Kim ThayilChristopher John Boyle Cornell

Paige/Plant
Izzy Stradlin/Axl Rose/

Lennon/McCartney are responsible for more indisputably great songs than anybody else, but they don’t belong at the top on the basis of what they wrote together (very little after 1965). That honour belongs to Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Leiber and Stoller (Jail House Elvis and all of the Coasters songs)

Felice & Boudleaux Bryant (Everly Brothers and LOVE HURTS)

I hope someone mentioned Goffen & King

In the tradition of Boyce & Hart, The Bryants and Goffin & King, you have to add Weill & Mann, plus Bonner & Gordon. Let’s make sure The Brill Building is well represented!

OH! And I just thought of two more no one seems to have mentioned:

Walter Becker & Donald Fagen of Steely Dan

David Hidalgo & Louie Perez of Los Lobos

… and about Harry Vanda & George Young: while they were The Easybeats and produced AC/DC’s early records, they also were the synth-heavy New Wave group Flash and the Pan from 1979 to 1985. Great songs from them include “Hey St. Peter,” “Walking In The Rain” and “Media Man”

Butler-Chassagne from the Arcade Fire! People, c’mon!

axl rose!

Simon and Garfunkel
should be in any list…they were and are great….

im tellin you guys…tom waits and kathleen brennan…wrote together since swordfishtrombones in the 80’s right up to present day…has to be on the list somewhere.

Anthony Kiedis/Flea/John Frusciante/Chad Smith

Barat/Doherty

Yeah…why not add songwriting duos that have been at it since..what?…2000? that no one has heard of to an “all time” list?

Cobain/guitar

rockstar70 I thought your assertion that GNR were superior to the Clash to be bollocks. I actually like GNR however, at least the old GNR and did in fact agree with the second part of your comment.

Eddie / Dave

Hey PEOPLE…HIP-HOP exists ya know…Andre 3000 and Big Boi, Eric B and Rakim!!!! Also on the rock side, Frank Black and Kim Deal as well as Thom York and Johnny Greenwood

Trent Reznor / Steinberg Wavelab

Guy Picciotto/Ian Mackaye

how about steve tyler and joe perry, deff plant and page,

Vedder/Gossard

Kiedis/Frusciante

Definitely Robert Plant & Jimmy Page.

John Squire and Ian Brown

Lennon/McCartney with out a doubt, Elton John/Bernie Taupin and Rolling Stone always neglects one band that is underrated, what about the great duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker from Steely Dan?

Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Dave Matthews and Pain.

Thanks for the feedback Jim. I don’t think i said Elvis invented RnR, but lets see. Lennon McCartney, Jagger, Richards, Page, Wilson, Elton to name a few have all claimed Elvis inspired them to play Rock and Roll. I don’t actually think Rock and Roll was invented by anyone. More of a musical mutation of RnB, Country and Swing, with a little Jazz on the side.

Seriously people, Buckingham & Nicks did not write together. Stop calling them a songwriting duo.

We’re not all going to agree on the same duo, but at least we can try and all understand what a songwriting duo is.

Garcia/Hunter…..how could one not pick them when there lyrics took breaths away and Garcia’s guitar melted faces

Midnight Oil’s Moginie/Hirst

They are newer but I think Craig Finn and Tad Kubler have made the best music so far this decade.

deaner and gener

Bono/Edge

chris and curt kirkwood.

eno:
and bowie
and byrne
and fripp
and ferry

bowie/iggy pop

Hetfield/Hammet/Lars/Burton

Tweedy/Farrar

oh, and wayne coyne/ steve drozd

page and plant!!!

gilmour and waters

both are must haves!

Prine and Dement

Gimour/Water and Page/Plant

Gilmour/Water and Page/Plant

Definitely Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

jon bon jovi and richie sambora
HAHAHA

Nick Hexum/ S.A. Martinez

George lucas – Steven spielberg
Garcia – Nebia
Cerati – Melero
Milli – Vanelli

etc.

Procter & Gamble

mark hoppus and tom delonge

crap i forgot tim kasher & alchohol

Tyler/Perry for sure

lambert and potter

HOLLAND AND DOZIER= ALL THE GREAT MOTOWN HITS

Page/Plant

What ive learned thus far:
1) dusk442 is a pretentious idiot
2)everyone knows the bass guitarist from led
3)finally you have never met roger waters

Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor from Blue Rodeo.
Bob Mould and Grant Hart – although I’m not sure they actually wrote together

Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor from Blue Rodeo.
Bob Mould and Grant Hart – although I’m not sure they actually wrote together

Gilmour/Waters
Page/Plant
Re znor/Manson
Axl/Slash
Tyler/ Perry
Bowie/Iggy Pop
Bowie/Reznor (I’m Afraid of Americans! Come on!)
Morrissey/Marr
Osbourne /Wylde
Osbourne/Iommie
Lenno n/McCartney

Difford and Tillbrook s/b #3 on list b/h Jagger Richards and Lennon McCartney

deedee/joey ramone

snoop dogg/dr dre
haha

Dean and Gene…..Tom Waits and Kathleen Brenan(spelling)…Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri or Josh Homme with thought.

Alexander Nevermind & Jamie Starr

the boys from the who Townshend/Daltrey

the boys from the who Townshend/Daltrey

Def. need Page/Plant & Kiedis/Frusciante on there, c’mon now… lol

Hetfield and Ulrich.
Ozzy and Randy Rhoads.
Page and Plant.

I hate it when people call plant a good song writer all of his lyrics suck and when he took control of writing for zeppelin they sucked.
writers that are good
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Greg Allman/Duane Allman
Donald Fagen/Walter Becker
Jack Bruce/Pete Brown
Richard Ashcroft/Mick Jagger haha

eno/bowie
bowie/iggy pop

David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel

Holland and Dozier (Motown)
Gamble and Huff (70’s Philly sound)
Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart)
Rodgers and Hammerstein(Broadway)
Duke Ellington & Billy Strahorn
George and Ira Gershwin
Elton John and Bernie Taupin

jimmy page / robert plant
elton john / bernie taupin
roger waters / dave gilmour
sammy hagar / ronnie montrose
stevie nicks / lindsay buckingham
eddie van halen / DLR

Come on..Page/Plant, Axl/Slash

Tweedy and Bennett from Wilco.

Bob Weir/Jerry Garcia

Leiber-Stoller
Goffin-King
B joern-Benny (ABBA)

Why people mention Hall and Oates is a mystery to me; almost all the hits were Daryl Hall alone.

And Buckingham-Nicks wrote their songs separately, not together.

tom petty/mike campbell
robert plant/jimmy page

Hey how’se about
Freddie Mercury/David Bowie
F. Mercury/ Brian May, Queen
Simon/Garfunkel

Axl/Izzy
Axl/Slash
Kiedis/RH CP

Holland/Holland/Dozier and whatever group of guys happened to get together on a STAX single (but absolutely must include Steve Cropper). Do Yo La Tengo count? Or are they a songwriting group as opposed to a team

1) Fagen and Becker (Steely Dan)
2) Robertson and Danko (The Band)
3) Krauss and Tyminski (Union Station)
4) Bob Dylan and Jaques Levy (Desire)
5) John and Taupin

dear idiots, do your research before you put posts up, gilmour/rogers did about 1 song per album(which is why waters says, great guitar player, but no ideas, which is why gilmour had to have his wife and various others help him write songs on his post-waters/solo albums)
also roger daltrey does not write songs, he sings pete townsends songs
john/paul spent the first few albums doing some songs together, the rest are solo songs credit together, to keep fans from keeping score.
also, axel rose does not write music her writes corny lyrics to others songs.

Some strange suggestions here. Simon/Garfunkel? Townshend/Daltrey?
This is supposed to be about songwriters, not songwriters and their (talented) singing companions.

Page/Plant really needs to be on the list, as do Drozd/Coyne!

Of course page-plant! The best duo ever!!!

Fats Domino/Dave Bartholomew
Page/Plant
Jack white/Brendan Benson
c’mon,Steady As She Goes is awesome

Rose/Stradlin

Lane/Marriott Small Faces

Staley/Cantrell – Alice In Chains
Hetfield/Ulrich – Metallica

Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Anthony Kiedis and Rick Rubin

Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Anthony Kiedis and Rick Rubin

Lennon/McCartney
Jaggar/Richa rds
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Goffin/King
David Porter/Isaac Hayes
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil
Leiber/Stoller
Bacharac h/David
Rodgers/Hart
Rodgers /Hammerstein
Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne
Gershwin/Gershwin
Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg
Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II
Holland/Dozier/Holland

Tyler/Perry
Manson/Twiggy
Oz zy/Rhodes
SRVaughan/D. Bramhall
Hetfield/Ulrich
Phi l/Dime
Hendrix/Guitar

america – g. beckley and d. bunnell
tears for fears – r. orzabal and c. smith
wham – g.michael and a. ridgeley
simon and garfunkel
eagles – g. frey and d. henley
rolling stones – m . jagger and k . richards
petshop boys – n. tennant and c. lowe
savage garden – d. hayes and d jones
journey – s. perry and n schlon
bon jovi and r. sambora
air supply – r. hitchcock and g. russell
foreigner – l. gram and m. jones
beatles – lennon and mccartney
abc – m. fry and m . white
the everly brothers – p. everly and i. everly
the bacon brothers – k. bacon and m. bacon
page and plant – j. page and r. plant
Hall & Oates – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES !!!

Brown & Squire – Stone Roses
Barat & Doherty – The Libertines

MERCURY/MAY

Sedaka / Greenfield
Wilson / Love

Dylan/Dylan

barat/doherty

Marley/Tosh

doherty-barat!!!!nuff said really

First and foremost:
Van Halen/Roth
Page/Plant
Frusci ante/Kiedis

What, no Hall and Oates…the music world is saddened…i don’t want to even mention the absence of Simon and Garfunkel…this is a pitiful list.

David Hidalgo and Louie Perez

first of all this is an america so we should only list american artists. none of this los lobos crap. having said that, here is my list in descending order:
page/plant
lenno n/mcc artney
ozzy/iommi/butler
m. jackson/q. jones
clarkson/crowell

Page/plant – cant be stressed enough at the end of the day

Heres one i havent seen – jon anderson/chris squire!

Also – beck/his super powered brain

Lieber and Stoller
Bernie Taupin and Elton John

Lieber and Stoller
Bernie Taupin and Elton John

Booth/Cantwell elfshu

Paul Stanley/Gene Simmons from KISS. Mark Mothersbaugh/Gerald V. Casale from Devo. Pierce/Samarin from Buddies With The Devil. The list goes on…

The Doors: Morrison / Krieger….

1)McCartney/Lennon
2)Bono/E dg e
3)Gilmour/Waters
4)Plant/P age
5)Jagger/Richards

Captain/Tennielle

Kember/Pierce of SPACEMEN 3

you should add:
Page & Plant
De La Rocha(&Morello/Commerford)
Ma rley & Toch
Waters & Gilmour
Cobain & Grohl
Kiedis & Flea

God/Christ

the truth, three of your five are from Great Britain.

Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter

Lieber/Stoller
Bacharch/David
Wilson/Parks
Lennon/McCartn ey
Page/Plant
Morrissey/Marr

Lieber/Stoller
Bacharch/David
Wilson/Parks
Lennon/McCartn ey
Page/Plant
Morrissey/Marr

Hmmm… I don’t know if this was mentioned: How about Pet Sounds collaborators Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ??? Some of the “teams” I’ve seen mentioned weren’t teams at all. Kudos to those who mentioned Squeeze and ABBA… both well deserved, and true collaborators.

Barat & Doherty!

Loggins & Messina

E. John / B. Taupin
W. Becker / D. Fagan

Top 5 Songwriting duos

Lennon/McCartney
Jagg er/Richards
Difford/Tilbrook

Bacharch/David
Mastromarino/ Buttich

Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

thom yorke/johnny greenwood

thom yorke/johnny greenwood

Bob Dylan and anyone who can shut up long enough for him to crank out another masterpiece.

Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Freddie Mercury & Brian May
Lennon & McCartney
David Lee Roth & EVH

This whole duo thing is ridiculous. It is the entire band that writes songs. You are disrespecting many musicians.

Schlesinger/Collingwood – Fountains of Wayne

from, Haulin’Oats: Hall/Oates

hall & oats for sure,
especially Oats

Thom Yorke/Johnny Greenwood
Carrie Brownstein/Corin Tucker
Jack White/Meg White
Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon

Hetfield and Ulrich

Anastasio/Marshall
Garcia/Hun ter

Anastasio/Marshall
Garci a/Hun ter

I love the White Stripes, but the notion of Jack and Meg White for a songwriting duo is absurd. Jack writes everything.

steven tyler and joe perry

axl rose and his ego

ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN!!!!!!!

DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY!!!!!

Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller!

ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN!!!!!!!

DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY!!!!!

Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller!

Page/Robertson of Barenaked Ladies

brian johnson/angus young
page/plant
van halen/roth
morrison/krieg er
yorke/greenwood
hetfield/ul rich
john/paul
kief/mick
elton/bern ie
bono/edge
strummer/jones

Oops… I misspoke on Tony Asher being left out… I underestimated the “astuteness” of the bloggers. Brian Wilson collaborated with a lot of people (Love, Christian, Asher, Parks), and was extremely successful as a result.

lennon/mccartney (beatles)
page/plant (zeppelin)
gilmour/water (floyd)
garcia/hunter (dead)

DAMON ALBARN/GRAHM COXON (BLUR)

Can’t wait for the new album and hopefully tour

I was really happy some of you guys put Kiedis and Flea from my favorite band,but you can’t leave out Frusciante!

Elton John/Bernie Taupin

chris hillman / gram parsons

You forgot Brian Adams and Jim Vallance (Summer of ‘69, Heaven, and many others)

stradlin and rose (gnr)
page and plant (zeppelin)

Harrison / Clapton

Page/Plant , Eddie Van Halen/Dave lee Roth , Gilmour/Waters

EDWARD VAN HALEN / DIAMOND DAVID LEE ROTH

Genesis (Peter Gabriel/Phil Collins)

how could u forget…

Layne Staley / Jerry Cantrell

they really don’t get enough credit… have you listened to Dirt anytime recently… better yet…

even if these two were only left with the work of Jar of Flies… just within those seven songs i truly believe they are worthy to stand next to the greatest songwriting duos.

The Stick – Jake Vogel/Drew Dominguez

anthony Kiedis / flea
red hot chili pepers

anthony Kiedis / flea
red hot chili peppers

Maynard & Jones
Morello & de la Rocha
Staley & Cantrell
Havok & Puget
Hetfield & Hamett
Matthew Bellamy and his various instruments.

man… no respect for Tom Petty and his right hand man Mike Campbell!

lennon/mccartney jagger/richards george&ira gershwin rogers/hart rogers/hammerstein gilbert/sullivan leiber/stroller kern/hammerstein backerach/david goffin/king boyce/hart holland/dozier/holland hall/oates john/taupin brian wilson/others garcia/others dylan/others porter/hayes tyler/perry bono/edge barry&robin gibb robertson/danko fry/henley

Prince-Nobody else was needed that’s how good he is

Give the nod to Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament. I know it’s three but they’ve penned some classic songs from the past twenty years.

Win Butler and Regine Chassagne from the Arcade Fire!!!!!1

How about Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. They may not have a partner, but the fact is that nobody wrote songs like them. It is like a “Tropical Hotdog Night, it’s like two flamingoes in a fruit fight, and steppin into strippedl light.”

ELTON JOHN/ BERNIE TAUPIN -
So many great lyrics and melodies from them over the last 40 years – yes they have been writing together for 40 years. How can you argue with that!

wow. yorke/greenwood was almost forgotten

Elton John & Bernie Taupin. The best duo ever.

Ernie/Bert

Gilmour/Waters
Jagger/Richards
Lennon/McCartney
Taupin/Jones
Daltrey/Townsend

Elton John and Bernie Taupin should top the list!!!

They are by far the best!

Lennon-McCartney the best songwriting duo ever! Elton John-Bernie Taupin are great too

lennon/macarteny
jagger/richar ds
bono/edge
page/plant
mercur y/may
waters/gilmore
townshed/ daultrey
bob dylan/his guitar

Elton John & Bernie Taupin… I mean COME ON!

Keith Emerson & Greg Lake

“- Simon(99%)/Garfunkle(1%) but the sum is great”

BUZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!

Wrong. Art Garfunkle never wrote a single note or word on any of the S&G work. It wasn’t until an album he did a few years ago that he even tried songwriting (with a collaborater not named Paul Simon).

“How could anyone not have… Simon/Garfunkle on this type of list!!”

See above. They are no more a SONGWRITING duo than Abbott & Costello. Great performers! Not songwriting duo.

Wow, i guess RS hates Zeppelin as much as I do. Of all the 60-70’s acts I had on vinyl and cassette before the advent of the CD,Zeppelin is the only one I have not upgraded-still on vinyl or cassette (with the exception of “Physical Graffiti”), I guess Page/Plant suck too much for me to spend any more hard-earned dollars on by getting CD’s of.
jagger/Richards deserve #1 out of sheer longevity and consistency.
Macca/Lennon #2 out of lack of longevity.Anybody on this thread who doubt McCartney’s musical genius should listen to his bass playing on just about any Beatles song,but most notably on “Come Together”. Lennon and Macca needed each other like fish and water.
Witness the bass playing (and subsequent musicality of Lennon’s solo albums (mostly on “Mind Games” with it’s atrocious bass playing)to see how Macca’s musical abilities helped Lennon’s material.
It’s great that the world got to have LenMac for as long as it did,but i wish they’d figured out a way to make it last at least half as long as jagger/richards have,(as long as the quality remained what it was.)Page should’ve stayed as a session guitarist and Plant should try to retrieve his oysters from his abdominal cavity,then his voice might improve.

elton and bernie
Elton and Bernie
ELTON AND BERNIE
oh and
John and Taupin

First off I would say Elton and Bernie, and I am glad to see their names come up so many times on the list as well. 40 years together, and they still produce something as stellar as Captain and the Kid last year, which sounds like they wrote it in 1973 (around their peak time). Simply amazing.

John/ Paul, Mick/ Keith, Page/ Plant, Morrisey/ Marr were all good in their time, and it’s evident in their solo work that they needed each other.

page/plant of course ! definetely…

townshend/daltr ey is not a duo. daltrey didn’t write a lot for the who.

for ac/dc we should say young/young rather than johnson/young. the two brothers are the real songwriters in ac/dc all over the years.

Anthony Kiedis – JOHN FRUSCIANTE

(I love John, I love him, I love RHCP!)

and Phil Collins – Gabriel

Uh! And Chad Smith-Flea-Josh Klinghoffer

Yeeeeah ;D

Rose/Stradlin

Rose/Stradlin

I just stumbled across this accidently. But judging from this list, RS has miraculously been able to gather in one place, the worst genetic defectives and low- grade morons to ever roam the planet!

gregory allman and dicky betts crosby/still/nash r. van zant/ a. collins / g. rosington

Lennon-McCartneey !! heeii !! (:

Guys! Page/Plant was often actually Page/Plant/Jones and even Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham, so they don’t hold a place. Besides, Robert Plant was never a great lyricist. Hall and Oates wrote some good stuff but not amazing stuff, especially not legendary stuff. Guys! Garfunkel never wrote anything in that duo, Paul Simon was the brains behind their music. I think you’ll find that this is the best list RS have ever done.