Wednesday, April 1, 2009

IF YOU NEEDED ANOTHER REASON ABOUT HOW POOR THE N&O IS ....



You can find it in the Life, etc. section this month.

The News and Observer, in the spirit of March Madness decided to compose a "Music Madness" tournament. Simply put, they matched up 64 musical groups and indivduals over the course of pop music history and invited readers to participate in deciding who is the greatest pop music act in history.

So why bring this up today, April 1st?

Yes it's the birthday of arguably the greatest soul musician ever - Marvin Gaye.

And guess what? He's not on the list.

Nope, but somehow the O'Jays, Isley Brothers, and Sly and the Family Stone made the list? What braintrust over at the N&O put together the soul pairings for this? Were they even over 30 years old?

How in the world does this not make the list?

Weak. You can see the N&O list here.