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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: This week's polls!
Date: Monday, June 01, 2015
Time: 1:00:36 AM
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Today we enter a new month and a new week (#825) of our Stones poll with this new question: Rate the artwork for the front cover of Singles Collection: The London Years Released in 1989, this is a compilation, triple album put out by Stones old label, of every single, including their B-Sides, up to 1970, and released in both the UK and US during their time with Decca Records in the UK, and London Records in the US - where the album's title comes from. Of course with this vote, what’s inside this excellent album doesn’t matter, what does is what’s on the cover, and for this one it shows all of the covers used on the single’s sleeve, all grouped together.
So how would you rate this cover? Click on: Stones Weekly Poll, to cast your vote!
In last week’s Stones poll we asked: Rate the artwork for the front cover of Stripped Us fans seem to like this cover, with it getting what I would say is the average vote number for when we ask this question, that being an “8”, with 27.8% of the votes cast.
To see the poll’s final results, just click on this link: Stones Weekly Poll - week 824 . Or you can also see how this album's cover stacked up against all of the other Stones album covers that we voted on in the past at this page: Ratings for the Stones Album Covers standings at the Stones Fans Picks Page 2.
Over at the Classic Rock Poll it’s week 467, and as usual, we will vote in 2 different polls for the week. In the first poll we ask: What is the best autobiographical rock song (Part 2 of 3) The second and last week of voting for the songs that tell a true story about the life of the rocker who wrote it. As I noted last week, the song does have to be autobiographical to make the list. If a band recorded the song, then it can’t be a song written by one of the band’s members for or about another member, the person the song is about had to at least have a hand in writing a part of the song.
We have 32 more songs on this week’s list, and I would say even stronger songs than we saw in Part 1. I know I’m gonna have a hard time picking just one from this excellent list. Just click here to see the new list of songs: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
In this week’s VS poll, we ask this: 'School's Out' (by the Alice Cooper Group) vs 'Another Brick in the Wall' (by Pink Floyd), which song about rebellious students is better?
Two songs that had a few connections to each other. "School's Out" came out first, in 1972, and was a hit single released by the band Alice Cooper on their 5th album of the same name. The entire band was credited for writing the song, although the wonderful, hard rocking guitar riff to the song came from lead guitarist Glen Buxton, who usually, rarely, wrote anything. Almost all of the guitar parts heard on most of the band’s songs were written by rhythm guitarist and the group’s main songwriter, Michael Bruce, but not this one. This was the band's second big hit single, reaching #7 on the US charts and #1 in the UK… The song covers what all school kids feel around this time of year when school lets out for summer, but in this song, the kids also blow up the school, so it's out forever. Hard to believe (unless you were around in 1972 and recall how thing still were back then), but the song was banned by many US radio stations because they felt it's rebellious lyrics were bad for children.
"Another Brick in the Wall" has 3 parts to it, and was another anti-school song, released by Pink Floyd in 1979 and written by the band's bassist, Roger Waters. It had a lot in common with "School's Out", including the very same producer, Bob Ezrin, and some felt the song was a rip off of the Cooper song. Like "School's Out", it not only was about rebellious students who hated school, but they also used actual school children to sing the backing vocals. But that was just Ezrin reusing his old idea from SO all over again, and the structures of the 2 songs are different…. After the man Alice Cooper went solo, he would sing parts of "Another Brick in the Wall" live when he sang SO, and there's no question the 2 bands were close friends with each other, with Pink Floyd living with the Alice Cooper band on their commune while on their very first US tour. So AC really didn't care if PF used their idea, which PF just expanded on; in a way this song was just a sequel to SO. Also like SO, this song was a number 1 UK hit, and sold 4 million copies, and it too was also banned in at least one country, that being South Africa, for the same stupid reasons SO was banned in the US.
For the videos that you will find links to in the voting booth, the AC song is a live cut from a UK TV special in 1972, something I had never seen before, and for PF, you can watch the official video, which covers all 3 parts of the song. Just remember, we aren't rating the videos for this poll, only the songs.
So which song out of the 2 will you vote for? To cast your 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 Rock poll we asked: What is the best autobiographical rock song (Part 1 of 3) In the first week of voting on this question, the following songs made the cut to be voted on again in Part 3: Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Written by John Fogerty) (13.9%); Fire And Rain - James Taylor (12.4%); Ballad of John and Yoko - The Beatles (Written by John Lennon) (8.8%); Long Live Rock - The Who (Written by Pete Townshend) (8.4%); Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone (Written by Sly Stone) (8.3%); Night Moves - Bob Seger (8.3%); Coming Down Again - The Rolling Stones (Written by Keith Richards) (6.8%), and with just under 5% of the vote, “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh, at 4.9%, more than likely will also be included on the final list unless we have a much larger than normal list of songs from this week’s vote chosen and no room to include it. Time will tell.
To see where all of the other songs from this poll ended up, click on: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 466.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked: 'Going Mobile' (by The Who) vs 'Call Me the Breeze' (by Lynyrd Skynyrd), which one of these 2 songs about a traveler is better? Once again, another very close final result to a VS question, it does seem rare when one songs blows away another, and no, that didn’t happen at all last week. To see which song did end up on top, just go here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 466. You can also check out the final results at the VS results page 2, at the Classic Rock site, just click on: VS Page 2, List Page 10.
I close out this poll post as usual with our Beatles’ poll, where it’s week 220, and this week we ask: Who was of the most overall value to the Beatles? Besides listing the 4 Fabs in this poll’s choices, also listed will be producer George Martin, and manager Brian Epstein. Makes sense to list them along with the Beatles, as some fans feel that without Epstein promoting them, they never would have been known, and Martin was the one to get that special sound out of them in the studio.
To vote this week’s Beatles poll, use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Beatle poll we asked: Which Beatle had the best solo career? I was thinking that Ringo might do real well in this poll, but boy was I mistaken! Paul McCartney was the top choice in the end, but to see how the others did in the voting, just click here: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 219. Or, you can check out the final results at the Beatles miscellaneous Poll Page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
As usual, I like to close this post out with a big “Thank You” to all who take part in the voting in our polls, especially with last week being a holiday week, glad nobody took off from voting like was done at work, as our vote tallies weren’t down anything too bad! Holiday weeks really don’t affect our poll numbers anymore, other than maybe Xmas week when we still see a slight drop off, but that’s it.
I hope everybody reading this has a great new week (and month) ahead!
Keno
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