Two leftie-guitarist songwriters (Washington born) who rose to prominence almost overnight with a hard-edged music that made everyone stand up and pay attention. Both fronted pared down no-nonsense bands, released three studio albums in their brief existence in the spotlight and both died in slightly mysterious circumstances after a rapid rise to the top of the musical heap. Too rapid, maybe.

In a way, both are slightly underrated. The songs you'd associate most with them don't do justice to their abilities but that's usually the case anyway. On the other hand, their "celebrity" profiles have probably never been higher (you see Hendrix t-shirts almost every day)

So who is your favourite of the two? Or if you want to be more objective, who was a better songwriter?