Happy Holidays! Here are a bunch of POLLS: Mark E Smith vs. Iggy Pop vs. Captain Beefheart vs. Damo Suzuki vs. Lee Perry

What's the connection here?

I mean MES, Beefheart and Brown I can kind of see, but Suzuki and Pop are basically singers and Perry is something else altogether.

referring to MES vs. Black Francis poll...Black Francis is great but out of his league, so I was pitting MES with people "in his league" I guess...kind of...no connection really...

Iggy Pop, because of "The Idiot". The rest are/were all generally insufferably annoying.

Alright in order:

1) Lee Perry Productions (Marley, Congos, Romeo, Murvin, Byles, Heptones, Dr. Alimantado, et all)--just way way too much greatness here. It's not all him, but he's got his name on the master tapes.
2) James Brown
3) The Fall
4 tie) The Stooges/Damo Suzuki's Can releases
6) Captain Beefheart
7) Lee Perry stuff where he's actually singing/scatting/rapping or doing whatever he does on them (i.e. Time Boom X, Roast Fish, Secret Lab)
8) Iggy Pop stuff released under his own name

Nate Dogg

that's a list I can agree with except
a) The Fall & James Brown switch places (sry but it's true_
b) Can should be tied with the Captain.
c) some of Lee Perry's singing stuff (People Funny Boy, Finger Mash) isn't all that bad, esp. when he's with the Upsetters (their instrumental/dub tracks are a noticable ommission in your list--though you are right, there's a LOT of stuff out there)

I voted for Lee Perry because I really don't like Mark E Smith or Iggy Pop or Damo Suzuki too much. Even though I probably have enjoyed more Captain Beefheart music than Lee Perry music, I think if I dug into Lee Perry I'd find more to like. Also, as much as I like some Captain Beefheart, I can't listen to him most of the time, whereas even the Lee Perry stuff I just kindof like okay is easy enough to have on. And I didn't see James Brown until after I'd voted, but I still might have voted from Lee Perry since I don't like James Brown nearly as much as is normal around here (or around lots of places).

"(their instrumental/dub tracks are a noticable ommission in your list--though you are right, there's a LOT of stuff out there)"

I count these as Perry productions. Perry singing (either over his own tracks or more likely over other folk's stuff is it's own thing.)

Mark E Smith by a mile.

Love all the others to a greater/lesser degree though.

Lee Perry, on general principles, 'cuz while I spent most of my adult life avoiding ska, reggae & dub, it turns out some of it is not entirely terrible.

OK, another vote for MES, but Iggy comes a close second with the Captain third. Although if the question were "who would win an on stage fight out the following?" then it would still be MES first, but Iggy would be last.

Iggy. Just because. Also, I have more of his records. I tried to sell the one Lee Perry LP I have, but the French postal service sent it back. Still don't like it, maybe they'd have kept a Stooges bootleg.

Where's Louis Armstrong?

What on earth is Damo Suzuki doing in this poll?

Lee Perry

"Although if the question were "who would win an on stage fight out the following?" then it would still be MES first, but Iggy would be last."

This is a stupid argument, but Perry was a bad ass back in his day. Pretty sure he could take the rest of these guys no problem. Don't know about Beefheart or Smith, but most of these guys are pretty short.

But Perry is the shortest of the lot! I bet James Brown could handle himself in a fight.

Yeah a fight with his wife.

Him and MES both

Smith couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. Still, I voted for him.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Captain Beefheart in his rightful place, at last.

Black people robbed in this poll