Vote for your winners, results posted tomorrow:
#1 The Rolling Stones vs. #5 Buddy Holly
#3 The Doors vs. #2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix vs. #4 Parliament/Funkadelic
#3 The Kinks vs. #2 Elvis Presley
#1 Stevie Wonder vs. #4 Creedence Clearwater Revival
#3 Sly & The Family Stone vs. #2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan vs. #5 Frank Sinatra
#3 Chuck Berry vs. #2 James Brown

Stones
Marvin
Jimi
Kinks
Stevie
Sly
Dylan
JB

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic
#3 The Kinks
#4 Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye (tough one!)
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#2 Elvis Presley (tough again, on a somewhat lower level)
#1 Stevie Wonder
#3 Sly & The Family Stone
#5 Frank Sinatra (my #34 vs. #36, but voting for Sinatra is much more fun)
#2 James Brown

Stones
Doors
Jimi
Elvis
CCR
Sly
Dylan (Happy Birthday)
Berry

Very stacked! (Four top 10!)
I would like to see CCR or Sly pull off an upset.

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#3 Sly & The Family Stone
#1 Bob Dylan
#2 James Brown

#1 The Rolling Stones
#3 The Doors
Beyond his best few singles I've never gotten that into Marvin Gaye.
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
Don't know what happened to Elvis after his original Sun recording sessions.
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#2 James Brown

The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Stevie Wonder
The Beach Boys
Bob Dylan
James Brown

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic - Tough call. P-Funk just simply is more pleasurable.
#3 The Kinks - Blow out of the day.
#1 Stevie Wonder
#3 Sly & The Family Stone - A much better (and funkier!) vision of California.
#1 Bob Dylan
#2 James Brown

It's so hard for a lot of them :
#1 The Rolling Stones
#3 The Doors
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#3 Sly & The Family Stone
#5 Frank Sinatra
#2 James Brown

Ahh…at last! A day full of very difficult choices!

THE ROLLING STONES. This was NOT an easy call for me.

MARVIN GAYE. But this was. I would take nearly anyone over the Doors, but the funky, cool and brainy work of Marvin just blows them away.

PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC. Really tough. This is partly based on the “what would I rather listen to right now?” test, which I decided is enough to overcome Jimi’s mammoth influence (although P-Funk is not shabby at all in the being-influential department). Also, frankly, a lot of Jimi’s acclaim comes from his virtuosic playing – which is fine, but which is not an important criterion for me.

THE KINKS. Well, I knew I’d have to dethrone the King eventually, but I kind of wish the choice had been more obvious. The Kinks are the fourth- or fifth-best British band of the 60s, and this isn’t a slam dunk, but I’ve been grooving on “Sunny Afternoon” and “Well-Respected Man” lately, so what the hell.

STEVIE WONDER. Besides Marvin’s matchup, the only other easy choice today. I don’t mind CCR, but this isn’t close. Stevie’s headling ACL this year, by the way.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE. Very close one, and I’m not sure how vociferously I want to justify it. Let’s just say San Francisco over Los Angeles and leave it at that.

BOB DYLAN. Sinatra vs. Elvis would have been a fascinating matchup – the two foremost interpreters of other people’s songs in the fifties.

JAMES BROWN. The most difficult choice of the day. Chuck would obviously win on influence alone, but JB is ahead – though not massively so – in songwriting, performing, and experimenting.

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#2 Elvis Presley (I am not a big Kinks fan, but they are still pretty good, just not as good as Presley in my estimation)
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

The Rolling Stones
Marvin Gaye
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
CCR
The Beach Boys
Frank Sinatra
Chuck Berry

Holy cow, toughest week so far.

#1 The Rolling Stones (Some artists are disadvantaged by the fact they died too young. The Stones are disadvantaged by the fact they've lived too long)
#3 The Doors (Gaye tends to be a little overrated)
#1 Jimi Hendrix (Three massively-great albums)
#2 Elvis Presley (Could have gone either way)
#1 Stevie Wonder (My personal percent: 50.1 vs. 49.9)
#3 Sly & The Family Stone (Stand tops Pet Sounds, and There's a Riot Going On tops whatever the Beach Boys' second best album is)
#1 Bob Dylan (Never got into the wanna be gangster)
#3 Chuck Berry (Trying to keep some '50s artists alive)

#1 The Rolling Stones
#3 The Doors
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#3 Sly & The Family Stone
#1 Bob Dylan
#2 James Brown

Thanks!

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#2 Elvis Presley
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

Stones
Doors (by a hair)
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis
Stevie Wonder
Beach Boys
Dylan (could have been Sinatra, but Dylan was just on my mind at the moment)
James Brown

#5 Buddy Holly: I own nothing by the Stones, but I own a Buddy Holly comp. Buddy Holly wins!
#3 The Doors: I like Marvin Gaye, but I love The Doors, in spite of how unpopular they seem to be these days.
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic: P-Funk is legendary. So is Jimi Hendrix. Both are probably equally good, but this matchup showcases my affinity for 70s over 60s and funk over rock.
#3 The Kinks: Very easy choice, even before I got into Village Green Preservation Society.
#1 Stevie Wonder: I admire CCR, but Stevie Wonder is an absolute powerhouse.
#3 Sly & The Family Stone: Touch call. In the end, I have 2 Sly albums and 1 Beach Boys album, so that decided it for me.
#1 Bob Dylan: I found a Dylan song I liked thanks to the 80s poll, but I have yet to find a Sinatra song I enjoy.
#2 James Brown: Cruel matchup here, but the P-Funk/Jimi argument applies here as well, except for shifting the decades to 50s/60s.

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#3 The Kinks
#4 Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 The Beach Boys
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys (wow, very difficult one)
#1 Bob Dylan
#2 James Brown

#1 The Rolling Stones
#2 Marvin Gaye
#4 Parliament/Funkadelic
#3 The Kinks
#1 Stevie Wonder
#2 The Beach Boys- Tough matchup. Maybe the toughest yet.
#1 Bob Dylan
#3 Chuck Berry

RESULTS:
The Rolling Stones 91.2% / Buddy Holly 8.8%
Marvin Gaye 52.9% / The Doors 47.1%
Jimi Hendrix 67.6% / PFunk 32.4%
***TIE*** The Kinks & Elvis 50% each ***
Stevie Wonder 70.6% / CCR 29.4%
The Beach Boys 61.8% / Sly & The Family Stone 38.2%
Bob Dylan 70.6% / Frank Sinatra 29.4%
James Brown 61.8% / Chuck Berry 38.2%

Lucky break for the King...

more familiar territory

#1 The Rolling Stones (just read the Keith book, and i never understood why people love Holly and Costello (the glasses ?)
#2 Marvin Gaye
#1 Jimi Hendrix
#2 Elvis Presley (hard choice)
#1 Stevie Wonder : stevie or CCR ? I was like Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a highschool changing room (for girls) : who to chose ? Stevie (because i heard CCR concerts were the most boring experience ever)
#2 The Beach Boys (hard choice again, wow those 60s)
#1 Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry (as a good Frenchman, I like pervs : DSK was my candidate)