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Name: Keno
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Subject: Stones LP covers/Female guitarists/VS/more Lennon
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2015
Time: 11:14:31 PM
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Week 827 of our Stones poll is here and this week’s question is: : Rate the artwork for the front cover of Flashpoint.
This my Gassy friends, is the very last Stones album cover for us to rate, and it did take a few years to get through them all! Flashpoint is a live album put out by The Stones in 1991, having been recorded throughout 1989 and 1990 on the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, but as I like to remind you, once again, we don't care what's inside the album for this poll, only the cover needs to be considered when you vote. Flashpoint's cover is pretty simple, it just shows a single flame burning, surrounded by a lot of the color red (at least, I think that's red, but I'm badly color blind). But overall, what do you think of this cover? Click on: Stones Weekly Poll, to rate this album cover now!
In last week’s Stones poll we asked: Rate the artwork for the front cover of Rarities 1971-2003 . This cover didn’t do too great in the voting, and I believe it was more because of the goings-on behind it, with the current band members making a bad decision and coming off as mistreating yet another former member. Otherwise, you had a great photo if it had been left unaltered; one that I believe would have given this cover a much higher rating if it had been left alone. With that said, the top rating chosen was a “5”, with 23.4% of the vote, and although that’s really a poor rating, most voters still voted this cover from between a 5, up to an 8, which really doesn’t seem that bad. Yet still, another 2.3% also gave it a zero rating, too, and that is a high percentage vote for “zero” for a rating in these Stones album cover rating polls compared to the other albums that we rated. Stones fans rarely vote a zero, other than when we ran the question for the Grrr cover, when “zero” was the top pick for that album cover, fans flat out hated that cover!
To see the poll’s full final results, just click on this link: Stones Weekly Poll - week 826 . Or you can also see how this album's cover stacked up against all of the other Stones album covers, except Flashpoint, which we are voting on this week. But you can check out the entire list at this page: Ratings for the Stones Album Covers standings at the Stones Fans Picks Page 2..
Over at this week’s Classic Rock Poll, it’s week 469, and as usual, we will vote in 2 different polls for the week. In the first poll we have a brand new question to tackle, which is: Who is/was the Best Female Guitar Player in Rock music? This should be of no surprise to most of you, but there aren't a lot of well-known female guitar players out there playing rock music. For country music, and even more so for folk music, you see many women playing guitar, but that’s not the case for rock music. Yet I still came up with 51 names for our poll list, although now I'm thinking as I type this, maybe I should have added in the names of the bands they played for (where that applies), since that would help remind some of our voters who was who. But it's too late to do that now…. Remember, this poll covers guitar playing only; we aren’t looking for your favorite overall female performer. Plus I also have a few women listed in the choices who were better known as great bass players (like Suzi Quatro, or Carol Kaye), but who also played some guitar, so they are listed too, but not for their bass playing, as we are not looking at any bass playing for this poll, we are only looking at 6 and 12 string guitar playing.
To vote in this question about women guitarists, just click: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
Now before we get to the VS poll question, a note about a soon, upcoming Classic Poll, which will be re-run next week, or at least sometime soon in the next month…. I have never re-run any of the 532 Classic Rock and VS polls that I've run weekly here - other than tie breakers, since I haven't had a shortage of questions for this poll. But I did make a big enough mistake several years ago in one poll I ran when I left out 2 important choices that I think would have changed the outcome to the poll if they had been listed. The poll's question, asked back in June of 2009, was: Which rock song has the hardest to understand lyrics? and the 2 songs that were omitted from the poll, as I just didn't think about them when I put the poll's song list together, were Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites", which many say is the hardest to understand song ever made, along with Bruce Springsteen's "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", which sometimes I even think just may be the hardest to understand lyrics (until I hear Desmond's wonderful little song). I think back now and don't know how I forgot to list those two, so I want to run the question again, this time with those 2 songs added in along with the other 27 songs that we voted on already. That, and since I'm going to rerun this, I ask that you please take a look at this poll's song list (just click here ), and if you feel I missed any songs on that list, please just email me and make a suggestion. If you can think of a song, I only ask that it be a fairly well known classic rock song, as the list really is long enough, but, since I'm gonna run this question again, I want to make sure I don't forget any other song that should to be listed, like I did the last time.
In this week’s VS poll, we ask this: 'I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone': The Monkees cover vs. The Sex Pistols cover, which cover is better?
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" was written by the writing team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in early 1966. It was first recorded by Paul Revere & the Raiders, but most have forgotten about that cover. It was then released by The Monkees a few months later on their second album, and also released by them as a B side single, where it became a Top 20 hit, making it the first Monkees B-side to chart. As was the case with all of the songs on the Monkees first 2 albums (other than on 2 songs per album), none of the Monkees played on "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (or sang on it) other than their main lead singer, Micky Dolenz, who sang the lead vocals. Yet this song would become one of their most loved songs by their fans.
The Sex Pistols cover wasn't released until after they were officially broken up, on what was billed as their second and last album, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, which wasn't really a true Sex Pistols LP, as other artists appear on the album and the entire band doesn’t appear on any songs, with Johnny Rotten refusing to participate in making the album. So on the few songs he does appear on, his vocals were taken from songs he sang in the studio 2 years earlier, including a cover version of this song. However, The Sex Pistols used to play this song live often, with Rotten bringing the Stones up in the song, singing at times: "I'm not the Rolling Stones", instead of "I'm not your stepping stones". For the video link in the voting booth, I went with a take that the Pistols did of this song live (with their original and only true bassist, Glen Matlock), where the band actually plays on the song, instead of the phony studio version, which only features one member of the Pistols (besides Rotten's vocals), Steve Jones, playing guitar. Funny, with Rotten's vocals and the band's playing on this live take, they sound more like The Clash. Plus their version of this song sounds nothing at all like the Monkees version, which, for the video link for the Monkees I used in the voting booth, is a clip that they showed on their TV show of the song. But remember when you go to vote, we are not voting on the videos for this poll, only the songs, and for the Pistols take, you should really only rate the official studio release, which does sound close enough to the live take, and in doing that, for the first time in a VS poll, we will be putting 2 songs and 2 bands up against each other where the 2 competing bands don't really even play on the songs being voted on. Oh well, at least their 2 lead singers did sing the songs, I guess.
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 3 of 3). After 3 weeks of voting on this question, the song picked was “In My Life’ by The Beatles and written by John Lennon, seeing 9% of the votes. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas & the Papas, written by John & Michelle Phillips, took in another 8.7% of the vote for second, and at 8.4% in third was “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty.
To see where all of the other songs from this poll ended up, click on: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 468. You can also check out the Top 10 list from this poll at Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked: 'Lookin' for a Love' (by The J. Geils Band) vs 'Another Saturday Night' (by Cat Stevens), which song is better? 2 songs about lonely guys looking for a lover. The vote was very close, but which song came out on top? To find out, just go here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 467. 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.
We rap this up with our Beatles’ poll, where it’s week 222, and we ask: What was John Lennon's most significant guitar parts after leaving the Beatles? Remember last week's Beatle question, where we asked this same question about John while he was in the Beatles, other than we only covered his acoustic playing in that poll, and didn't cover any of his electric or slide playing? Yet we had 55 different acoustic guitar songs that John played on to choose from when we voted, as John played a lot of guitar while in the Beatles. That wasn't the case at all once he went solo, he still played guitar, but he seemed to play as much piano as guitar as a solo artist. So, we only got 16 songs to choose from, since we are looking for his most significant guitar parts. He did play guitar on a few other solo songs not listed, but the songs that are, are the ones he stood out the most on for his guitar playing, and yes, this list covers any kind of guitar he might have played, not just acoustic guitar.
To see the list and vote this week’s Beatles poll, use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week’s Beatle poll we asked: What was John Lennon's most significant acoustic guitar part while playing in the Beatles? In a landslide, “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” took first place with 22.3% of the vote.
To see how the other picks went, just click here: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 221. Or, you can check out the top pick also at the John Lennon Poll Page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Thanks to all of you for voting in this week and last week’s polls! I hope all of you have a great upcoming week!
Keno
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