Janis Joplin vs Molly Ivins

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Janis Joplin vs Molly Ivins

Born: January 19, 1943
Texas

Died: October 4, 1970
California




Born: August 30, 1944
California

Died January 31, 2007
Texas

[tonysam]

1. Molly, no contest

I can't stand Janis Joplin. Her "singing" is like nails on a chalkboard.

[kentauros]

2. Molly Ivins

Never was a fan of Joplin, nor much of the 60s music, unless you're talking about jazz, musique concrete or early electronic ;)

[tonysam]

5. LOVE '60s music, but Joplin absolutely stinks.

The funny thing was I was a HUGE fan of hers when she was alive and was horrified and saddened when she died. I was 15 and a sophomore in high school back in 1970 when she passed. But now I can't see how anybody could possibly find her work listenable. She really merits total obscurity.

She tries to imitate the great blues singers like Bessie Smith, for example, but she falls far short of the mark. The problem with her voice is she boozed it up so much that it had that rasp that's like nails on a chalkboard. And she approached all of her songs in the same way. If you heard one song of hers, you heard them all. Believe me, I heard ALL I ever want to hear.

[kentauros]

6. Most people around here like the music from the 60s.

With but a few exceptions, I live happily without it :)

Raspy voices turn me off, too. So, any of the popular ones I can't think of right now, then I probably don't like ;)

[livetohike]

10. You're in the minority n/t

[Ohio Joe]

3. I have to go with Janis - nt

[NNadir]

4. Well, at least Janis died 30 years before she could work to malign the Democratic nominee

in what may have been the most portentous election since Roosevelt ran against Wendell Willkie.

I personally had no use for Ivins. Henry Wallace (1948) one could almost understand, but Ralph Nader?

Janis was more sensible than that even when blitzed out of her mind, which was, apparently, all of the time.

[Iggo]

7. I prefer Janis, but let's go to the scorecards, and...

...it's Ivins by 37 in a blowout.

[onestepforward]

8. Molly Ivins

I would so welcome reading a column of her's about what happened tonight. I miss her wit, wisdom and brute honesty. :)

[NoPasaran]

9. Molly's best move was ditching her back up band

What a bunch of no talent losers.

[jobycom]

11. Janis. Molly was overrated.

Self indulgent and pretentious writer who enjoyed tearing down more than building. Molly's writings were rarely informative, she just found the outrage du jour and mocked it. That's fun for a comedian, but not productive in politics, imho. She's created or at least encouraged a lot of voters who vote on what they are against instead of trying to work for what they are for.

Janis was great. She wins.

[Chemical Bill]

12. Both. n/t

[Demoiselle]

13. Agreed. Never heard Molly sing. Never heard Janis commentate.(?)

And I love them both.

[Captain Hilts]

14. I'd take either one on my side in a fistfight. nt

[sarge43]

15. Either one could make an evening out a night to remember.

Together - the stuff of legend.