vote for your winners, results posted tomorrow:
#1 The Rolling Stones vs. #8 B.B. King
#5 Buddy Holly vs. #4 Little Richard
#3 The Doors vs. #11 The Jackson Five
#10 Duke Ellington vs. #2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix vs. #8 Leonard Cohen
#12 Louis Armstrong vs. #4 Parliament/Funkadelic
#3 The Kinks vs. #6 The Allman Brothers
#7 The Zombies vs. #2 Elvis Presley
#1 The Rolling Stones
#5 Buddy Holly (close call)
#3 The Doors
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#12 Louis Armstrong
#6 The Allman Brothers
#2 Elvis Presley
#1 The Rolling Stones
#5 Buddy Holly
#11 The Jackson Five
#10 Duke Ellington
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#12 Louis Armstrong - The most painful vote I have had to make, voting against P-Funk... but it's not even close.
#3 The Kinks
#2 Elvis Presley
#1 The Rolling Stones
#4 Little Richard
#11 The Jackson Five
#10 Duke Ellington (tough to vote against Marvin)
#8 Leonard Cohen
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic (tough to vote against Louis)
#3 The Kinks
#7 The Zombies (tough matchup for The King!)
Buddy Holly (Just an impossible choice. These are two titans of 50s rock, on a level just below Chuck Berry. The case for Little Richard is that he’s outrageously exuberant compared to Buddy’s somewhat constrained, not to say mannered, performing style. The case for Buddy is that he was a bit more musically inventive. As is often the case with me, I just went with the one from Texas.)
The Jackson 5 (The Doors’ entire catalog doesn’t stand up to “I Want You Back.”)
Duke Ellington (An impossible choice, but for a different reason. Ellington is clearly one of the most accomplished musicians – popular or otherwise – of the last 100 years. Marvin is great, but not quite on that level; however, he’s much closer to the musical tradition which the UMT celebrates in general. So, what to do? I love Marvin, but I think What’s Going On is overrated. And I have been a consistent champion of Ellington on this forum – I think for a lot of people, his pre-hard bop, pre-modal jazz sounds kinda musty. So I’ll give him the props.)
Jimi Hendrix
Parliament/Funkadelic (Similar to the Duke/Marvin matchup, but I’m going the other way this time. Sorry, Louis.)
#1 The Rolling Stones
#5 Buddy Holly
#3 The Doors
#2 Marvin Gaye
#8 Leonard Cohen (Damn, shitty draw for Cohen. For me it's not even close though)
#12 Louis Armstrong
#3 The Kinks
#7 The Zombies (Original pop versus the original swindler)
#1 The Rolling Stones
#4 Little Richard
#3 The Doors
#10 Duke Ellington
Beyond What's Going On I don't like much of Marvin Gaye's stuff.
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#12 Louis Armstrong
#3 The Kinks
#7 The Zombies
Tough vote.
#1 The Rolling Stones
#4 Little Richard
#3 The Doors
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix - Damn, hard choice
#12 Louis Armstrong
#6 The Allman Brothers
#7 The Zombies
RESULTS:
The Rolling Stones 100% / B.B. King 0%
Buddy Holly 59.4% / Little Richard 40.6%
The Doors 75.8% / The Jackson Five 24.2%
Marvin Gaye 71.9% / Duke Ellington 28.1%
Jimi Hendrix 81.8% / Leonard Cohen 18.2%
Parliament/Funkadelic 59.4% / Louis Armstrong 40.6%
The Kinks 84.8% / The Allman Brothers 15.2%
Elvis Presley 60.6% / The Zombies 39.4%
