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Name: Keno
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Subject: Glimmer Twins/Jethro Tull/VS/Revolver
Date: Monday, October 05, 2015
Time: 1:03:24 AM
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It’s time for week 843 of the Stones poll and this week’s question asks: Keith Richards vs Mick Jagger in the 1970s, who contributed more to the band?
vs. In the 1970s, the Stones released 7 new studio albums (that's with counting Metamorphosis) and they were very active indeed. This was a decade in Stones history where as far as the Glimmers went, you had 2 totally different periods for them.
In the first few years, Keith was at his peak and really the band's true leader, as Mick was busy running around enjoying himself with friends and a new wife, and also with side work, and he allowed Keith to take on the band's main load - even if they were supposed to still be equals. But then you had the rest of the decade, with Keith allowing his H problem to get in his way, to where he was missing many sessions. Worst for Keith, it was during this period when his many absences caused and allowed Mick to take over control of the band, something that still holds true to this very day. So you got to mix all of this together when you look at the ‘70s for these 2 before you vote.
It’s now time to choose which Glimmer you will pick as far as the ‘70s went. Just click on: Stones Weekly Poll to vote.
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In last week’s Stones poll we asked: Keith Richards vs Mick Jagger in the 1980s, who contributed more to the band?
This poll was close, but Keith still led Mick all the way and held out to be chosen as the one who contributed more for the decade. To see the poll’s final results, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 842 . I’ll also add the results of this poll to the brand new Stones VS Page 2. Just click on “Band Members” when you get there to see the results.
Now to the Classic Rock Poll, where it’s week 485, and as usual, we will vote in 2 different polls for the week. In the first, regular poll, we will ask: What is your favorite song recorded by Jethro Tull?
Jethro Tull was a British rock group, formed in early 1968 and who got their first big break thanks to the Rolling Stones, when they were picked over Led Zep to appear at the Rock n Roll Circus as the "new" band in the show's lineup (as seen in the above photo). They only in the last year broke up, as the band's founder, songwriter, vocalist, flautist, guitarist Ian Anderson, the main person behind the band, decided in 2013 to only go by his own name when releasing any new material.
Besides Anderson, the original band members were guitarist Mick Abrahams, with Glenn Cornick on bass (RIP, I hadn’t known that he died in the last year), and drummer Clive Bunker. Abrahams left as the first album was to be released, and Anderson asked a young and unknown guitarist named Mick Taylor to replace him. But since Tull wasn't a well-known band yet, he declined the offer. Anderson then asked Tony Iommi, who had just formed a new band called "Earth" (later to be renamed "Black Sabbath"), and he decided to put his new band on hold and give Tull a shot, just in time to be a part of the lineup that played at the Stones Circus show. But after that he decided to go back to his other band, and in January of 1969 Martin Barre took his place in Tull, and Barre would stay put in the band for the entire run of the group, being the band's only constant member besides Anderson. In all, Jethro Tull in its 46 years had 25 official members in it. But they also had several hits and a few interesting concept albums, too.
As I usually do with this poll question, I pick the band’s most well-known songs for us to vote on, and for Tull this includes hits like "A Song For Jeffrey, Aqualung, Cross-Eyed Mary, Hymn 43, Wind-up, Locomotive Breath, Inside, Bourée, Bungle In The Jungle, Teacher, and Thick as a Brick", among the very best known. You can read up some more on Jethro Tull here.
To vote 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: ’I Can't Get Next to You': The Temptations' cover vs Savoy Brown’s cover, which version is better. This is the second week in a row asking a VS poll question about the great Temptations.
"I Can't Get Next to You" was a 1969 song and single written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and recorded by The Temptations. Their cover went all the way to #1 on the charts. It was the group’s second number 1 hit and one of their biggest selling singles for them ever. The song's main lead vocals were sung by Dennis Edwards, but the other 4 Temptations all sang some lead on this multi-lead vocal song.
Savoy Brown’s cover, which came out a couple of years later, sounded much different than the Temptations' cover. The song appeared on their LP Street Corner Talking, and this was a new Savoy Brown, as 3 of their members had just left to form Foghat, leaving lead guitarist Kim Simmonds as the only original member. They brought in a new lead singer, Dave Walker, who would later sing with Fleetwood Mac and Black Sabbath. The album produced one of their best known songs, "Tell Mama", along with this wonderful bluesy cover of "I Can't Get Next to You".
As usual, you can listen to both songs before you vote at the voting page, just remember, we are voting on the music only, not the videos. 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 your favorite song recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
A nice big turnout for this poll, yet very close voting, and in the end just one vote separated first and second places, with “Woodstock” at 8.6% beating out “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” with 8.5%. “Teach Your Children” (8%) came in third. You can check out the full final order of where all the other songs ended up, by clicking on: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 484. You can also check out the Top 10 results from this poll at the old Top Ten lists of Songs, Page 5, along with other artists’ top songs that we voted on in the past when we asked this same question.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked:'Ain't Too Proud To Beg': The Temptations' cover vs Rolling Stones’ cover, which version is better?
I’ve noted in the past that whenever I run a VS poll question that includes either the Beatles or the Stones, this poll sees some of its highest voting totals, and that held true once again for last week with this question. In fact, this VS poll out did the Stones poll for total votes last week, too, something that we rarely see. But would all of that be enough for the Stones to pull off a win against The Temptations well-loved song? Well the final results were very close indeed, to see which version of this song was chosen, just click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 484. 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 this poll post up as usual with the Beatles’ poll, where it’s week 238 and week 7 of rating the Beatle albums. So the new poll question asks: On a scale from zero to ten, how do you rate the album Revolver?
Normally when we do a series of poll questions like this one that we've been voting on here at the Beatles poll, we would take a break after a 6 week run, but this week we enter week 7 of this question about the Beatles albums and at this point I’m thinking of just running through the entire bunch of Beatle studio albums with no break, since in part cause there are only 13 of them, and also since I didn't have anything else ready to vote on for this week, and heck if I just keep going with this question, I don’t have to think up anything new for this poll for another 7 seeks if I do it this way. But also, looking at the poll numbers, everybody seems to like this set of questions, so why not keep it going?
Revolver was the seventh studio album put out by the Beatles. It was released in the UK on August 5, 1966. The North American release 2 days later was the band's 10th on Capitol Records and 12th US album, and it marked the last time Capitol would release an altered UK Beatles album for North American (thank goodness!). As usual, we will only be rating the UK version of the album.
This was the first Beatle album where Paul McCartney, and not John Lennon, wrote most of the songs, with his 6 to John's 5. They both sang lead on 5 songs each, with George Harrison singing lead on the 3 songs he wrote, while Ringo Starr sang lead on the McCartney penned song, “Yellow Submarine".
You can read my old review of this album here if you like, and or view the album’s song list if you wish to see it before you vote.
Okay, to vote and rate Revolver , please use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question On a scale from zero to ten, how do you rate the album Rubber Soul?
Well Rubber Soul scored the best numbers yet for the Beatle albums that we have voted on so far. 89% of the voters either gave it a ‘9” or a “10”, with “10” on its own seeing 57.9% of the first place votes. You can check out the full final results from this poll here: Beatle’s Weekly Poll – week 237. Or, you can check out the top pick at the Beatles Album Page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well it’s funny how when you get older things with your body that were fine one minute, go haywire in the next minute. Sometime during the day yesterday and out of the blue, my right hand started to hurt and by nightfall my fingers on that hand were twice the size they should have been, as my arthritis, which hasn’t bothered my hands in a long time, decided to return and do just that. I had to type out this post tonight using just my left hand only. Lucky for me that I’m ambidextrous, but still, tying with just one hand will still slow down anybody. Whenever this hits me I think about people like Keith and how he must feel trying to play guitar with such a condition. But anyway, I thank all of you who voted in our polls last week; we had a strong turnout indeed! So I hope everybody takes the time to vote again in this week’s polls, too!
Keno
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