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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: B stage/coke songs/Long & winding road
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Time: 10:18:23 PM
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We enter week 719 of our Stones poll and once again, another tour question. This week we ask: Should the Stones return to using the B stage? Since the mid ’90s the Stones used a B stage where they would perform several songs during the middle part of their concerts. But with this new tour, no more B stage.
Do you miss the B stage, or perhaps you don’t care? To let us know how you feel, just click here to vote: Stones Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Stones tour poll, we asked: Do you think the prices being charged for the Stones new tour are fair to fans? I think before this poll took place, all of us knew that most of our fellow fans didn’t care about the prices being charged for this new tour. But I myself didn’t think the final results would result in a major landslide of fans who feel this way, as the results show that almost 9 out of every 10 Stones fans feel the band is charging us too much to see them play on this tour.
You can view the full, final results from this poll by clicking here: Stones Weekly Poll – week 718 – poll results.
Okay, now to the Classic Rock Weekly Poll, where it’s week 361, and for the poll’s first question we continue with the series of questions about drug songs. This week we ask: What is the best rock song about cocaine? The drug that seemed to say “rock ‘n roll” in the early ‘70s, with so many users (including many famous Rockers) having no clue how bad this white powder was for their bodies.
A bunch of interesting rock songs about the drug did come about, but of course, cocaine was around long before rock music, and a few of the poll’s listed songs (including the one Keith Richards sings) were written back to the 1920s.
Just remember when you vote, we are looking for the best song about the drug, we are not asking for your favorite song listed.
As usual, I suggest you go to YouTube to hear any songs on the list you don’t know, you just might find a song that will change your vote, or at the least, you might find an old but new song to you that you just might dig a lot.
To vote in this week’s coke song poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll. When you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
This week's second Rock Poll question is the usual “VS” poll series of questions: ”Teenage Idol” (by Rick Nelson) vs “I'm Going To Be A Teenage Idol” (by Elton John), which song is better?
These 2 songs look at both sides to being a teen idol. The first one, recorded in 1962, was by Rick Nelson, who was a real teenage idol. The song is a ballad, and went to number 5 on the charts, and tells the story about how lonely and uncool it can actually be living such a life. Although Rick (who had changed his stage name a year earlier from “Ricky”, to help him pull away from being a teen idol) didn’t write the song, it was written for him and was about his frustration with being in such a position.
The Elton John song, which is a bit more upbeat, and sung by a guy who never was a teenage idol, is about a kid who longs to be a teenage idol, dreaming about how cool such a life would be. This song was a deep cut from Elton’s excellent LP Don’t Shoot Me…..
In case you don’t know these 2 songs, I have including links (over on the voting page) to their YouTube videos, so you can give them a listen before you vote.
So which song do you feel is better? To vote in this week’s VS poll, click on Classic Rock Poll and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
In last week’s first Classic Rock Poll, the question was: What is the best rock song about heroin? Looks like we know our heroin songs well enough, as 2 of the top 3 songs picked, are not that well known songs, at least not to the average rock fan, and you rarely if ever hear these songs on the radio, even back when they first came out. But yes, I agree, these 3 songs cover the subject matter excellently; I just would have picked a different order for them, with the third place song at number 1 and the first place song second. Anyway, these songs are: “Heroin” by Lou Reed/Velvet Underground (16.4%); “The Needle and the Damage Done” by Neil Young (15.1%); and my pick, “Sam Stone”, by John Prine (13.5%).
To see the full final results from this H poll, click on: Classic Rock Poll week 360 – Poll 1. The Top 10 results from this poll will show up at the Top Ten lists, page 7, where there are all other kinds of top 10 fan lists to check out, too.
In last week’s VS Rock poll we asked: ”The Letter” (by Joe Cocker) vs “The Letter” (by The Box Tops), which version is better? I’m getting real good at picking the song that lands in second place in these VS polls. To see find out what song was chosen, click here: Classic Rock Poll week 360 – Poll 2. The final results from our entire VS poll questions can be check out at this list page: VS lists, page 8.
Last but least, let’s move on to the Beatles weekly poll, where it’s week 114. We will also vote in a VS poll for this week’s Fab question, however, the question isn’t worded in that way for one reason – there’s no room in the poll’s subject field for such a long question, since in part the song we will look at has a long title and needs to be repeated 3 times in the question. But it’s still a VS poll, and here’s how I ended up wording the question: Which version of 'The Long and Winding Road' do you like better? Ah yes, the Paul McCartney song that Paul claimed helped to end the Beatles, and which he actually mention in court briefs as being a factor of the problems in the band, when he sued the other 3 Beatles in 1970 to force a breakup of the group.
The 3 choices you will have to choose from are: The single and LP version that shows up on the album Let it Be. This was the Beatles very last single release (not counting the singles released years after their breakup), and their last song to hit number 1 on the charts. Fans loved it, as did 3 of the Beatles, but Paul flat out hated it, well, he hated how it turned out after Phil Spector took over the song and totally changed it around and added in a female chorus and orchestra (kind of like his wall of sound songs)….. The second choice listed in the poll is the cut that was at first going to be used back when the Get Back album was supposed to happen, which of course never came out. This version was released years later on Anthology 3 . The vocals on here sound a lot like the ones heard on the single, with the cool “yeah… yeah… yeah” at the close, but the rest of the last bit of this version’s vocals does sound very different, as most of the lyrics are more so spoken by Paul and not sung. The music of course is very different, well, it’s just the Beatles playing (with John on bass and Paul on the piano).... Then the last choice is from the album Let it Be…. Naked, and this is the version that Paul wanted to see released and used but never was, as the others rejected it.
So which version of this song do you dig the most? I know all of us know the single release very well, but in case you don’t know the other two, I have included YouTube links (again, at the voting booth) so you can give each version a listen before you vote. To place your vote in this week’s Fab poll, click on the following link Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Beatles poll, we asked: Of the Beatles songs we chose as having the best vocals per category, which one overall has the best vocals? The top 7 songs picked were all very close in the voting, with “Because” the top choice with 11.4% of the vote.
I very much like how we have been picking our number 1 choices of late - in all of the weekly polls we run here – and not just voting for our favorite songs, but instead voting for the songs that handle the subject matter best. Great job voters! This Fab poll was a perfect example of that, not only do I agree “Because” is one of their best sung songs, but in our On Going Beatles poll for favorite Beatle song - where we do want to see everybody vote for their favorite song, “Because” in that poll comes in only at number 96! So no, it may not be a favorite Beatle song, but it is the best sung song out of al of their songs… So yeah, some great picking here of late!
To check out the full, final results from last week’s Beatles poll, click on this link: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 113. BTW, I will be making up a new list page at the Lennon site soon that will have all of the songs we picked in that last few weeks listed. I was hoping to have it up tonight, but as usual, I’m falling behind in things I wish to do.
Thanks to all of you who voted in all of this week's, and last week’s polls!
Keno
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