Let's End the Debate...Stax or Motown?

[Crude]

Motown had more talent from top to bottom and was more commercial, but you can't deny Stax either they were a heavy hitter from that era.

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Stax had Isaac


He won an Oscar for the greatest theme song ever

 

[feelosofer]

Stax made the rawer more grimy music but it's tough to compete with the overall talent of Motown you're talking about era defining artists, here.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Otis Redding, tho

 

[get these nets]

Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92

His background was in country music. But Stax, the label he founded with his sister, achieved a level of success with Black artists that rivaled Motown’s.

www.nytimes.com