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Who are your current songwriting influences?

jonspratt	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 2:29 PM So yeah, like the title says: Right now, whose work really gets your creative juices going and inspires you to keep trying to get better? Personally, I've been in a huge Queen phase the last 6 months or so. Such great songwriting. Discovering "A Night at the Opera" was like opening my eyes to a new world of possibilities. But their whole discography is great. Stretching a bit further back, some of my underlying songwriting influences all did their best stuff before I was alive. That would be McCartney, Harrison and Lennon (in that order), as well as Ray Davies (The Kinks) and Ric Ocasek (The Cars). In my high school years I was also a huge Weezer/Rivers Cuomo fan, a lot of my earliest songwriting was somewhat in that mould. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and Black Francis of the Pixies are also two of my songwriting idols, they always get me thinking outside the box. For some Canadian, and modern-day content, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Sam Roberts and the boys from Sloan--All of them, incredible pop songwriters when they nail it.
ndstgmoe	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 3:35 PM Lots and lots and lots. I've been listening to a lot of Ratatat and that's getting me into a simple catchy electronic sort of vibe. Good stuff. Okkervil River always makes me want to use more organic instruments. Pick up the mandolin or sit at the organ or what have you. If people don't know about this band, you gotta try it out - particularly "Don't Fall in love with everyone you see" and "Black Sheep Boy." Good call on Frank Black there. Dude can pump out like 12 albums a year. I can really appreciate his use of time signature and fucked up chord progressions. Although I don't think he'll ever get better than his first two solo albums (and, you know... pixies). I think I have a running subconscious influence from Ween, They Might Be Giants, Portishead, The Frogs, Beatles, Jose Cuervo, and about 1000 others i am forgetting.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 11:56 AM Guthrie Govan, Frank Zappa, Mattias IA Eklundh, Pat Metheny and a lot of others.
hate9wicket	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 12:26 PM I've mentioned this somewhere else, but yeah, I'm a sucker for U2, but not necessarily their out put in these last few years, my opinion would be I like how they work to make the whole more than the individual, but they should've just made Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno bandmates. Ditto on Frank Black, but don't dismiss Dog in the Sand, which I think was recorded live to 2 track, The Catholics I think are probably the best backing band since, well, The Band. Too many to mention, but, a few at the moment: Wilco,Ron Sexsmith, Nada Surf,The the, .....
Alwex	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 12:32 PM Well at the moment Sigur Ros & Radiohead. Cause they keep me in the mood.
ndstgmoe	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 3:41 PM Yes. Dog in the Sand is one of the stand outs as well. I think a large amount of material he did with the Catholics was recorded live. 30-ish takes per song or something.. yuck. It makes a difference, though... Got that "we're all playing together like a real band" kinda vibe.
allflowerz	Date: March 14, 2007 @ 8:13 PM I agree with weezer
celtaidd	Date: March 14, 2007 @ 9:16 PM Have to say that, at the moment I'm working on something inspired by Ry Cooder and Pink Floyd, though must admit a lot of my tunes are slightly Floydesque with a touch of my own style obviously
Mojosnake	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 12:55 AM hey celtaid ...only slightly floydish!!! if i didnt know better i'd think you were gilmore in disguise seriously though i love the floyd feel of your work :bowdown
Mojosnake	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 1:03 AM oh i geuss i should stay on topic and that would be : H.I.M. , dutch celtic/metal band within temptation old ministry , lacuna coil , bauhuas, christain death, and pink floyd , buddy guy , b.b. king robert johnson, tony rice , sonny boy wiliamson, joe king , fairlight mariah, hank williams sr and jr, jonny cash, lots of eletronica ... man the list goes on and on and on mostly if it's got a beat i'm down
Mojosnake	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 1:12 AM oh and lets not forget plastic mojo , willie nelson, jake loggins band, srv ,albert king , freddie king, evenesensce , birthday massacre, nightwish, epica ....
Mojosnake	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 1:13 AM terrorizzor
imemine	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 2:01 AM MJ!
Mojosnake	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 2:05 AM mary janes not a musician she spider mans girl michael jackson rules...well he did before well ...you know
dafendabenda	Date: March 20, 2007 @ 10:03 PM linkin parks lyrics are good
Distilled1	Date: March 20, 2007 @ 10:10 PM Hip hop actually isn't that funny? maybe its the fact that the samples are things like... supper tramp lol but yeah listening to Trick Trick, and Shiny toys, Gym Class heroes,then sether and googoo dolls etc. yeah not my normal forte
Woof	Date: March 20, 2007 @ 10:19 PM Norihiko Machida. Which explains why I'm not writing much of anything these days...
stat30fbliss	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 10:47 PM Kinda cliche, but Ive been listening to a bunch of old impromptu John Lennon recordings lately for inspiration...
soundcheck1	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 5:29 AM Mogwai influence me a lot on the instrumental side of things but my biggest influence right now would have to be Biffy Clyro. Blink 182 influence me as well.
Snoogans775	Date: April 24, 2007 @ 1:18 AM I've been dancing on the edge of some Mogwai albums for a while now. Right now, I'm diggin real deep into the Aphex twin catalogue, it's really driving me nuts, because my amazon.com cart has about $60 of Richard D. James stuff in it, and I just don't have the moolah. But I just got the "Come to Daddy" EP in the mail, and Bucephalus Bouncing Ball is still giving me a hard-on. I've also been listening to some nice healthy portions of MF Doom, always gets me thinking about the way words sound.
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 24, 2007 @ 1:20 AM Aphex Twin is an inspiration a lot of the time but I am nowhere near that crazy I have to say a hell of a lot of artists are right up there, hence why I make so many different styles within my electronic tunes but the current fav is definitely Nine Inch Nails...
devilboy	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 6:19 AM Tool Dio Rush queen! but i started playing guitar because of Metallica (kirk hamett) Jimi hendrix Deep purple Diamond head Nirvana!
SimonWaldram	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 3:26 PM I've not written much so far this year, but at the moment I'm listening to Elliott Smith, Yoko Ono, Daniel Johnston, Jandek, the Wipers, Husker Du and Jeff Buckley. I'm hoping that these influences will seep into my soul so that when I start writing again I can filter them back through into my own music.
NickSawyer	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 5:36 PM my blueberry photo frame
DeadraveN	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 7:04 PM mostly Culture Club.
GTOriginal	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 7:22 PM The Angel On My Shoulder. But maybe "influence" isn't the right word, "annoying gnat that wakes me up at night" is more like it, a lot of the time.
tsand20175	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 9:38 PM for me...the Spice Girls
GTOriginal	Date: April 28, 2007 @ 10:23 PM ...but maybe "influence" isn't the right word hehe.
zedsalt	Date: April 29, 2007 @ 10:28 AM I remember an old issue of Guitar Player or Guitar World or some such wherein they had various big name guitarists list a few major influences. One of the metalheads listed a Stryper album, saying "It taught me how to hate".
Snoogans775	Date: April 29, 2007 @ 1:47 PM I think people saying how Grateful Dead taught them how to love is just as inane
DeadraveN	Date: April 29, 2007 @ 2:03 PM Grateful Dead taught me how to inhale.
Snoogans775	Date: April 29, 2007 @ 2:20 PM and whitney houston, to exhale.
Orion	Date: April 29, 2007 @ 3:05 PM I've been listening to Queen, Rush, Pink Floyd, Tool/A Perfect Circle, Tenacious D, Dio & Metallica a lot lately

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