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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Tour questions/LSD songs/Fab LIB questions
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Time: 11:02:11 PM
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It’s time to kick off week 720 of our Stones poll, and for one last week, another tour question. This week we ask: Is the Stones current live set list long enough? Well here is a chance to see - perhaps – if us fans will be kind to that Stones. So far in the last few weeks, we haven’t been too kind in our votes. But one thing the Stones have been giving us more of on this new tour is the set list, playing several more songs per show than they have in the last several years. We always gave them shit for that in the past and this year it appears they listened. But are all of us satisfied with the number of songs being played now, which seems to be around 22 songs per concert?
Let us know how you feel, just click here to vote: Stones Weekly Poll. BTW, if you have any tour questions you feel we should ask in this poll, do drop me an email and let me hear about it, as I’m now out of tour question to ask.
In last week’s Stones tour poll, we asked: Should the Stones return to using the B stage? In yet another landslide vote by fans against something new with the Stones current tour, 62.8% of the voters want the Stones to return to the B stage set-up. Clearly we fans miss the B stage, which does make some bad seat much better - for several songs, anyway.
You can view the full, final results from this poll by clicking here: Stones Weekly Poll – week 719 – poll results.
Okay, let’s mosey on over to the Classic Rock Weekly Poll, where it’s week 362, and for the poll’s first question we will ask the last of the series of questions about drug songs. This week the question is: What is the best rock song about LSD? Yet another drug that seemed to say “rock ‘n roll” back in the mid to late ‘60s, and yes, many famous Rockers partook in many trips with the drug.
Like the other drug polls run in the last few weeks, we are looking at songs for this poll that we know for sure were about LSD, and which had more than just one line about the drug in the song. So a song like “19th Nervous Breakdown”, the first Stones song to talk about taking a trip, will not be listed, since only one line was about that. But 2 Stones songs are listed, along with 5 from the Beatles, who no question, were more into the drug then the Boys were. Yet the Grateful Dead, the one rock band you think of most when LSD comes up, only have one song (“Truckin’”) listed. If they have another one, somebody please let me know and I’ll add it, since I’m not a Deadhead and maybe they did put out more than one such song about acid. I could not think of any more by them.
Just remember when you vote, we are looking for the best song about LSD, we are not asking for your favorite song listed, nor are we looking for your favorite “acid rock” song, either.
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 trippy 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: “Light My Fire” (by The Doors) vs “Light My Fire” (by José Feliciano), which version is better?
The 1967 number 1 big time hit single by the Doors, was written mainly by their guitarist Robby Krieger (other than keyboardist Ray Manzarek wrote the opening bit), but credited to the entire band. The question is, how the hell did José Feliciano managed to get a number 3 hit out of this song less than a year later when he turned it into a Latin like number, and in turn, his song spurred the Door’s version back into the top 100 song list.
So which version of this 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 cocaine? Of the first 4 songs picked, only 5 votes separates them in the final vote tally. “Cocaine”, by Eric Clapton, and “Can't You Hear Me Knockin’” by The Stones, were fighting it out most of the week for the number 1 spot, but they ended up in second and third place in the end, with “Casey Jones” by The Grateful Dead taking over the lead over the weekend and keeping it by one vote and 16% of the vote when the poll closed.
To see the full, final results from this coke poll, click on: Classic Rock Poll week 361 – 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: ” Teenage Idol” (by Rick Nelson) vs “I'm Going To Be A Teenage Idol” (by Elton John), which song is better? Once again, for at least the 3rd week in a row for our VS poll, I picked the song that got the least number of votes. To find out what song got the most votes, click here: Classic Rock Poll week 361 – Poll 2. The final results from our entire VS poll questions can be check out at this list page: VS lists, page 8.
Now on to the Beatles weekly poll, where it’s week 115. Just like last week, this week we will vote in a VS poll for this week’s poll question, and also like last week, the question isn’t worded in that way for one reason – being that there’s no room in the poll’s subject field for such a long question, since the question is too long to fit in the poll’s subject title field. But it’s still a VS poll, and here’s how I ended up wording the question: Which version of the song 'Let It Be' do you like better? Yeah, kinda like a part 2 to last week’s question. Another Paul McCartney song from the album of the same name that Paul hated.
In this case, at least Paul wasn’t as pissed off with the final take of the song after Phil Spector got his hands on it, since Spector didn’t change this one as much. But Ringo of all people hated the way he was forced to play his drums differently on Spector’s (i.e. the album) take of the song.
The single version of the song wasn’t the same as the version heard on the album, with the main difference being the album version was well over a minute longer, and with a lot more of George’s lead guitar solo heard. So those are 2 of the choices to choose from in our poll, along with 2 other ones. One of them being the version recorded live for the Let it Be movie/doc (yet the movie ended up using the sound from the album cut while showing them playing the song, for whatever stupid reason). It wasn’t until Let It Be…. Naked came out years later did we get to see the video match what they were actually recording on that day, as that version of the song was released on that LP (and IMO, the best thing to come from that unneeded McCartney made album). The last version we will consider in this poll is the one released on the album Anthology 3, which was one of the earlier takes of the song and features John and Paul talking to each other before and after it ends.
So which version of this song do you dig the most? I have included YouTube links (on the voting page) so you can give each version a listen before you vote. But I would suggest when you play the Naked video, that you just listen to the music and don’t watch the video, since it’s the only one of the 4 with a actual video to go with what you are hearing, and that gives it an unfair advantage, since the vid is great. But we aren’t voting on the video, just the song, so try to remember that.
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: Which version of 'The Long and Winding Road' do you like better?
After reading all of those positive comments on YouTube about the Naked version of the song and how so many Beatle fans there liked that boring take better than what was actually released on the Let It Be album, I was thinking maybe it was just me, but with the final votes from our poll, I see it isn’t just me, more than likely just Paul fans who just what to agree with their hero. Anyway, 58.6% of us agree that the Phil Spector take of the song is the better and best version of the tune, although the cut McCartney wanted to use did well enough in the voting, too.
To check out the full, final results from last week’s Beatles poll, click on this link: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 114. I also removed the Beatle polls I had listed on the Rock VS page and placed them on a new Beatles VS page, which is located here: Beatle’s VS page. I may also do the same with the Stones VS poll results up on there, maybe place them on the old Stones album vs Stones album page. It's the only way to keep the list's page up at the Rock site from growing too long, too fast, and then in turn needing yet another new page. BTW, I know it's been a very long time since I last ran a Stones LP vs Stones LP poll, and it was those very poll questions about the Stones that lead to the now popular VS Rock polls that we now run once a week. In time we will start asking those Stones album questions again, promise!
Thanks to all of you who voted in all of this week's and last week's polls!
Keno
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