100 Top Living Song Writers

Paste is building a list of the 100 best living songwriters. Here are the ones I chose from the list:

• B.B. King
  
• Bill Mallonee (Vigilantes of Love)
  
• Bob Dylan
  
• Bruce Cockburn
  
• Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes)
  
• King's X
  
• Leonard Cohen
  
• Loudon Wainwright III
  
• Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings)
  
• Peter Case (The Plimsouls)
  
• R.E.M. (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe)
  
• Sufjan Stevens
  
• T Bone Burnett
  
• Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)
  
• U2 (Bono, Edge, Mullins, Clayton)
  
• Van Morrison
  

I felf the need to write in

• The Choir,
  
• Steve Taylor,
  
• The Alarm
  
• Terry Scott Taylor
  

Who would you pick?

- Peace