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what is the motor city's greatest contribution to the popular culture??

Poll Results

Option	Votes
motown records, 1959-72	28
techno techno techno techno	22
OBIE TRICE	4
stooges / MC5 axis	3
parliafunkadelicment thang, inc	2

― haitch, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

You're kidding, right? Top 3 are absolutely genius, but nothing beats classic Motown.

― JN$OT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

In pop-culture terms, I don't see anything beating Motown. But I don't know shit about techno, much less anything after that.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 17 May 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.metrotimes.com/20/29/Images/artsNotFade2.jpg

― I am not afraid of you and you can spank my ass, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

I want to vote Stooges, but I can't really.

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh god this is impossible

― braveclub, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

no Madonna :(

the techno is what i listen to most out of all these.

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

it all springs from the same fountain

― m coleman, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

what does this fountain look like?

― braveclub, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK, okey dokey, Obie's here...

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

what does this fountain look like?

http://www.rebecan.com/bb34.jpg

― m coleman, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

hmmmmmm....what if I suggested CKLW???

― peepee, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

The way the question is phrased, there is no choice but Motown. If it had been the more vague "Which do you prefer," then maybe... I mean at least half of today's chart hits stem directly from Motown's cultural contribution.

― MC, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

motown = the fountain

― m coleman, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

where's the Coop?

― henry s, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, okay...I guess I misunderstood the question. I was taking "contribution to popular culture" to mean something encompassing more than just the MUSIC itself, in which case Motown is pretty much unsurpassed. (For example, you could argue that the Sugar Hill and Death Row labels might never have existed, had Berry Gordy not demonstrated that a black-owned independent record label could be a huge success.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Is Vernors a detroit thing? I used to drink it every year on my trips to visit the grandparents in Cleveland.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://fuseblog.typepad.com/fuseblog/images/jack_white.jpg
i voted Motown tho.

― stevie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

no Madonna :(

bah i assume this is because we have to be fair to the others though.

ticked TECHNO but would be equally happy with a MOTOWN win

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

cultural contribution aside, i prefer pfunk to motown. but prefer this the most

http://www.thestencil.com/archives/images/dilla.jpg

― jaxon, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

voted obie trice to butthurt his many fans :D

actually voted techno

― deej, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

(f) horrorcore

― and what, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

(g) Royce da 5'9

― deej, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Why no "all of the above"? But I say Motown, by a whisker (over MC5 tied with Parliafunkadelicment thang)

― Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I ticked techno, but now I'm not so sure because motown is a pretty big one as well.

― saudade, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Where all the Juggalos at? (Not here, thank god...)

― MC, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

BITCH!

― jim, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://goodfelloweb.com/detroit/overview/pic/nice.jpg

― joygoat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

where's the Coop?

Arizona?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

he is! (just published a golf book)

― henry s, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ahem, given that I now understand the question better than I thought I did, I choose to retract (or renounce) my vote for Motown. And decline to vote at all, since I refuse to choose between the first three.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ dude voting for the white stripes btw

― deej, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews3/hoffa1.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 17 May 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Knack!

― I eat cannibals, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I would argue P-Funk is a Jersey thing (Clinton, Worrel, Hazel from Plainfield) rather than Detroit. So they're DQ'd.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

B RABBIT

― jhøshea, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

coleman young should have been an option.

― keythkeyth, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I wonder what I'm gonna pick here...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/8/0/w/e8026966pwk.jpg

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

OBIE TRICE 4

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, okie dokie Obie's here.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

poll needs more outrageous cherry

― electricsound, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

despite starting the thread, i forgot to vote in this.

― haitch, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

is it too late to vote for kid rock?

― uhrrrrrrr10, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

and how come no option for teh "put yr hands up" meme?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

FUCKING AMAZING best of detroit mix by metrotimes w/youtubes

america's great musical city.

http://metrotimes.com/music/the-music-issue-1.1061782

― i got two wax cylinders and a speaking trumpet (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 November 2010 16:43 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I loved this mix. "I'm the Baddest Bitch (In the Room)" is my new jam.

― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Friday, 12 November 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

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