re: #67 Cato

My own list is this: The best lyricist in the last 40 years is Roger Waters. Pete Townshend (for “Won’t Get Fooled Again”), Neil Peart (“Trees”) and Dylan (“Tangled Up in Blue” is just amazing) round it out.

Dylan. Didn’t mention Dylan. I’m an idjit. A good measure of respect in the industry is the number of songs and the number of times a song is covered. On that level, Townshend and Waters don’t rack up the points, but then again The Who and Pink Floyd are pretty hard to cover, yes? I’m not familiar at all with Peart.