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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: SW vs Aftermath/SF/Aerosmith/Y16/False ending Fabs
Date: Monday, August 03, 2015
Time: 1:33:50 AM
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SW vs Aftermath/SF/Aerosmith/Y16/False ending Fabs

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It’s time to talk about this week’s polls, and as usual we start off our poll post with the Stones poll, where we enter week 834 of our poll and we’ll ask this question:Steel Wheels vs Aftermath, which album do you like the best?

Well it's been a long 5 months since we last ran this longest on-going series of poll questions, where we placed 2 Stones albums up against each other. So tonight let's start another round of this question, which in the past has been a popular question, one so popular that years ago lead to me starting up the weekly VS polls.

In case you are new to our polls in the last few months, the way this is done, is one Stones album is chosen to be voted on for the next 5 or 6 weeks and it will go up against different Stones albums each week. Since I like to name the poll series after the album being featured, and it's Steel Wheels turn to be featured, I'll call this one the "Wheels of Steel poll" series of questions.

Steel Wheels was the 19th British and the 21st American studio album by The Stones and it was released in 1989. Looked at as the comeback album for the band, this is the album where Mick and Keith patched up the problems in their relationship and actually started to work together again. This all coming after MJ almost left the Stones, but thanks to us fans rejecting his solo work, while embracing Keith’s, Mick saw the light and the Stones were saved.

The album was the Stones' first digital recording. 4 singles came from it, with “Mixed Emotions", a biographical reference to the Glimmer Twins’ problems, becoming the Stones' last major hit single in the US, reaching No. 5. Steel Wheels itself reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in the US, where it went double-platinum.

I should note that this was also Bill Wyman's final full length studio album with the Stones, with his final tenure with the band on 1991's mainly live album Flashpoint.

Aftermath was released in the UK in April of 1966 by Decca Records. It was a fourteen-track LP and the fourth British studio album by the Stones. But in the US, where it was released 2 months later by London Records, as their sixth US album, only 11 tracks were included. The American LP also featured different cover art and eliminated the songs "Out of Time", "Take It or Leave It", "What to Do", and "Mother's Little Helper". In their place, the album substituted "Paint It, Black". This Aftermath still reached No. 2 in the US, eventually going platinum. Several of the songs on the album were initially meant for the US release Could You Walk on the Water. But that LP was rejected by London Records who felt the album's title was making fun of Christianly and Jesus.

Aftermath was the first Stones album to consist entirely of Jagger/Richards compositions, while it also was Brian Jones' peak album, with him playing a variety of instruments not associated with rock music, including sitar, dulcimer, marimbas, and Japanese koto, as well as guitar, harmonica and keyboards. It was the first Rolling Stones album to be recorded entirely in the US, at the RCA Studios in California, and their first album released in true stereo.

When voting in this poll, you should just consider the version of Aftermath that you like best when you compare it to Steel Wheels. To make your pick and vote, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll.

In last week’s Stones poll we asked this question: Which new Sticky Fingers (2 CD Deluxe version) bonus track do you like the most? Something strange happened last week, something which we have never seen at our polls before…. the top pick chosen in this poll was by fans who never heard any of the bonus songs out of the ones listed. Although Sticky Fingers entered the Billboard Top 100 at #3 on the week of it's reissued, the album pretty much plummeted down the chart in the next few weeks, and now a month later isn’t any longer on the chart at all. I think that tells a couple of things. First, many diehard Stones fans got the new reissue as soon as it came out (no real surprise), but after that, that was it for big sales. If this reissue had been more along the lines as the reissued EOMS or SG, they just might have had the number 1 album in the top 100 in its second week, after word of mouth got out abut it. But for this LP, the word of mouth that got out wasn't as great as it was for the other 2 reissues, as many of us fans weren’t sweep off our feet, and that killed sales a bit when others heard or read about this reissue. Anyway, I guess this explains why many who voted in our poll hadn’t yet heard all of the new bonus songs, and that was the top choice with 23.2% of the vote! Wow, I didn’t expect that to happen….. As far as those who have heard the bonus songs, the new, longer "Bitch" is clearly the favorite, taking in 22.9% of the vote, and over second place “Midnight Rambler (Live At The Roundhouse, 1971), which received 13.7% of the vote.

You can check out the final results from this poll using this link: Stones Weekly Poll - week 833 .

Now let’s head over to the Classic Rock Poll, where its week 476, and as usual, we will vote in 2 different polls for the week. In the first poll we will ask this: Who was the most underrated member of Aerosmith?

Aerosmith, the American rock band, sometimes referred to as "the Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band”. The group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 when lead guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, who originally were in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with 2 transplanted New Yorkers, one was named Steven Tyler, who would become the band’s lead vocalist, along with Tyler’s boyhood friend, guitarist Ray Tabano. Along with drummer Joey Kramer, the 5 formed Aerosmith. In 1971 Tabano would leave and was replaced by Brad Whitford. In 1973, their eponymous debut album was released.

Normally, well most of the time, I will list all the official members of a band in the poll choices even if they weren't in the group for that long, but this time I won't, since not only were the other 3 official members never in the band a long time, the current lineup has been the main one for almost the entire time Aerosmith has been around, that's 31 out of 35 years, plus for the most part, those 3 other guitarists (Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay are the other 2) really never added anything to the band, plus it seemed that Crespo and Dufay were mainly there filling in for Perry and Whitford until their return, and Tabano, although an original member, was there for less than a year and never recorded anything with the group.

But anyway, this band has often been compared to the Stones, with Perry and Tyler being called the “Toxic Twins”, to Jagger and Richards’ Glimmer Twins nickname. You can read more on the group at the Classic Rock site’s Aerosmith Bio Page if you like, and guess I should note that their bio is one of only 2 not written by me on the domain, but written by my friend Stoneman, (aka Doug Stone, who was actually a former employee of mine from the old Keno Marketing Services days).

So now it’s time to vote, to do so in this week’s first rock poll, just click on: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

For this week’s VS poll, we ask this: 'You’re Sixteen ': Johnny Burnette's cover vs Ringo Starr’s cover, which version is better? 'You’re Sixteen’ was written by the Sherman Brothers (aka Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman), who were better known for writing musicals. The ditty was first performed by singer Johnny Burnette, whose version reached # 8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in December 1960 and #3 in the U.K. in 1961. It was Burnette's biggest hit in his short career, which ended tragically just 3 years later in '64 after his death in a boating accident. His version became a hit again in 1973 after it was featured prominently in the motion picture soundtrack of the film American Graffiti.

Ringo Starr's version was released on the album Ringo and also as a single in the US on December 3, 1973, and in the UK two months later, on February 8, 1974. The song was a hit and went all the way to #1 on the charts. The performance reunited Starr with Paul McCartney. McCartney played the solo on a kazoo. Ringo’s friend Harry Nilsson was also on this cover, singing backing vocals.

So which cover of this song sounds better to you? 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: Who was the most underrated member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young? Mainly a 3 way race between Crosby, Stills, and Nash, with Nash being voted on in the end as the most underrated member of this super group.

To see the full, final results from this poll, click on: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 475. Or you can check out the list of each person selected from all of the other bands that we already voted on at Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.

In last week’s VS poll, we asked: ’I Want to Tell You': the Beatles' original vs Ted Nugent's cover, which version is better? I noted last week that other than when we run a VS question that involves the Beatles, the results are very close, whereas with the Fabs they usually seem to win in landslides. Well that wasn’t the case last week, as the polling was close…. but would crazy-man Ted Nugent, of all people, become the only other artist besides the Stones and Joe Cocker, to beat the Beatles in a VS poll? .

To see the final results from this poll, just click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 475. 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 close out this week’s poll thread with the Beatles’ poll, where it’s week 229, and for the first time since June 1, we will not answer to a guitar related question in the Beatles poll (that was one long stretch of guitar questions, wasn’t it?). The new poll asks: What is the best false ending to a Beatles song? Sometime in the future I will ask this question for all groups at the Classic Rock poll, and about 2 weeks ago I started to put the poll choices together for that future poll. But this is one poll that it isn’t easy to remember all the songs that would qualify (so feel free to send in suggestions to me for that poll), but, when I started doing a web search, I found out something that I never thought about before, that being, that the Beatles not only had a lot of such songs, but they got more out there than any other artist, and by a very large margin. Yes, the Fabs were the kings of false endings indeed. I came up with 15 such Beatle songs, and even if the rock poll runs for 3 weeks, that's still too many Beatle songs to list. So it makes sense to ask a separate question on this here at the Beatles poll and take the top songs voted on and use them in the rock poll when it runs. So, here we go!

Now this question isn’t asking for the best song listed, but the song that has the best false ending to it. I'm listing "Cry Baby Cry" even if technically, after its false ending, what followers is really a different track, but since it's a untitled hidden track (some fans call it "Can You Take Me Back"), most fans look at this as the same song, and since it has no title and was never listed as a separate song, it could be looked as a continuance of "Cry Baby Cry", too.

To vote in this week’s interesting Beatles poll and make your pick, please use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

In last week's Beatles we asked From the 3 top songs voted on for best acoustic guitar by each Beatle, which one was the Beatles best acoustic guitar part played? Interesting results, as back in ’14 when we ask this question and included all of the many Beatle songs with an acoustic guitar, this time it was only for 3 songs, for the favorite acoustic guitar played by John, Paul and George, and yet we saw almost the same final results that we saw in ‘14 (the finial order was the same, just the percentages were different) with ‘Here Comes the Sun’, with the Acoustic Guitar by George Harrison, taking first place with 33.9% of the vote, or by less than one percentage point over the other 2 songs listed. All 3 choices were great, IMO, but I still dig John’s playing better.

To see where John and Paul ended up in the voting, check out the final results here: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 228. Or, you can check out the top pick at the Beatles Miscellaneous page located at the domain’s Lennon Site.

I thank all of you who take part in the voting here each week in our 4 weekly polls!

Keno

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