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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: OOOH/Cowbell/SB/Disliked Fab songs
Date: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Time: 10:49:27 PM
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We enter week 724 of our Stones poll with this question: Rate the artwork for the front cover of the US version of Out Of Our Heads. This LP had 2 different covers, one for the US, and another one for the UK. For this week’s poll, we will look at cover for the US release, which came out on July 30, 1965.
A much tamer and innocent looking band shot on this US cover compared to the UK release’s ‘60s long harried punk look. How come when only now while typing out that last sentence, did I realize what an interesting VS poll question it would make if we put these 2 different covers up against each other for a vote. I’ll first need to check to see if maybe I did ask that question years ago, but I don’t think I did.
But anyway, this week it’s all about rating the US cover only. So to do so, just click here to vote: Stones Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Stones poll, we asked: What is the best Brass/Horns (excluding Sax) in a Stones song? When I think “brass” or “horns”, the trumpet comes to mind first, followed by maybe a trombone, but not the french horn. Yet still, I and 15.6% of those who voted on this question picked “You Can't Always Get What You Want”, with the French Horn by Al Kooper, as the number 1 pick to this question! Those of us who know Al Kooper, well, know him more as perhaps a producer, or as Dylan’s former keyboard player, or maybe as he preferred to be known, as a guitar player. But although he did blow some horns from time to time, we don’t think of him as a horn player. But damn did he do a grand job on this song! Brian Jones had brought Al into the session that day without asking the others. Being this song was recorded in late November of 1968, and Jones’ time in the band was very limited, you might say that bringing him in was Brian’s last major contribution to a Stones song, even if Brian ended up not playing on the song himself.
You can view the full, final results from this poll by clicking here: Stones Weekly Poll – week 723 – poll results.
Okay, now over to the Classic Rock Weekly Poll, where it’s week 366, and as usual, 2 poll questions will be asked this week. Here’s this week’s first question: What rock song contains the best use of a cowbell? (Part 3 of 3) Time to get a final answer to this question from the top 10 songs picked in parts 1 and 2.
Just remember, don’t pick your favorite song listed; the question isn’t asking for that. We just want to know which song has the best cowbell in it. To make your pick, click on Classic Rock Poll, and 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, and with summer officially starting next weekend, let’s ask this question: “Summertime Blues” (by The Who) vs “Summertime Blues” (by Blue Cheer), which cover is best? Now talk about 2 cover songs that took this original 1958 Eddie Cochran song and totally changed it to fit with the heavy rock sound of the late ‘60s. The Who actually started to play their version of the song live in the early 60s, but it wasn’t until 1970 when the Woodstock movie and soundtrack, along with the Who’s live album Live at Leeds, were both released and did most fans get to know their heaving rocking version of the song. It was and still is today a blast to hear!
Blue Cheer recorded the song in early 1967, but it wasn’t released until the next year and became a giant hit for them – and although this band stayed together touring until just a few years ago (until 2010 I believe, when lead singer/bassist Dickie Peterson died), this was their only hit song. Blue Cheer was looked at as the first true heavy metal band, thanks to their first album, but they didn’t want that title and rejected it, but what they truly were, were both a protopunk and Stoner rock band. Heck, they were even named after a street brand of LSD. But damn, call then what you wish, their take of this song was truly outstanding!
It isn’t going to be easy to pick one over the other with these 2 great covers. To make it a bit easier, I linked to 2 great videos on YouTube that you can view before you vote, which are clickable on the voting page. I should point out that normally with these VS questions, I go with the studio cut of the songs. But not this week, since the Who’s studio cut, although also recorded in 1967, wasn’t released until around 1995, and many don’t know it. The 2 live Who versions I noted above are the ones most known, and since YouTube only has a video of the Who playing the song with a take from the Woodstock movie, we’ll link to that one. But feel free to go with whatever version you know best when voting. I’ll also note that the guitar is off a bit on the Youtube video, and I’m not sure why. I don’t recall that in the movie, yet the singing parts on this video are all okay, so why is the guitar part like that? Oh well, both videos are very cool to watch anyway, I haven’t watched the Blue Cheer video in years, so that was a treat to see it again!
To pick the cover song you feel was done best, click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
In last week’s Classic Rock Poll, the first poll question was: What rock song contains the best use of a cowbell? (Part 2 of 3) Okay, here are the top 10 songs voted on last week: Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones (33.4%); Mississippi Queen – Mountain (9.9%); Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan (8.6%); You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (7%); Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac (6.3%); A Hard Days Night - The Beatles (6.1%); We're an American Band - Grand Funk Railroad (5.9%); Low Rider – War (3.2%), Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat, and Tears (3.2%); Every Day People - Sly and The Family Stone (2.3%).
To see the full, final results from this poll, click on: Classic Rock Poll week 365 .
In last week’s VS Rock poll we asked: 'What's Your Name' (by Lynyrd Skynyrd) vs 'Stay with Me' (by Faces), which song about a one night stand is better? Fans overwhelming like the older song better I now see. Which song is that? Click on the following link to see the final results from this VS poll: Classic Rock Poll week 365 . You can check out past VS poll results – including last week’s results, here .
For week 119 of the Beatles poll we will answer this question: Of these 10 disliked Beatles songs, which one is really the worst? Funny, there really are few Beatle songs that I dislike, and most of the songs listed in this poll I either dig or at least don’t dislike and find okay. But yeah, yeah, yeah, even I can pick one I dislike the most out of this bunch, and it isn’t the one most Beatle fans (I think) dislike. I took the songs that have gotten the most votes in the Beatles On-going poll for worst Beatle songs – minus the hit songs that ended up on that list, like “Hey Jude”, since a song like that is just too loved to be on such a poll list like this one. We did have the same deal at the Stones’ poll when we asked the same question a few years ago, and I did the same thing there. I just can’t see listing a beloved song by fans because other fans do detest it. So I’ll only list songs that most fans seem to agree on as being unloved.
To see the 10 songs that are listed, just click on Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Beatles poll, we asked: What was the best rock song written about Pattie Boyd-Harrison? All week long this was one of those polls where each day the 2 same songs would exchange the lead by a vote or two for first place. I mean every day! I got a feeling if I ran this question for a month or even a year that would still hold true. Anyway, I myself didn’t vote for either song, but in the end Pattie’s first husband‘s song, “Something”, won out by 3 votes over her second’s hubby’s song, “Laya”.
To see the full, final results from this poll, click on this link: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 118. The top results from this poll will also show up on this page: Beatles miscellaneous page .
I thank all of you for taking a part in the voting in the many different polls we have here at keno.org, from these four weekly ones, to our non-stop On-Going Polls!!
Keno
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