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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: BTB vs Aftermath/LIB vs Help!/H of F/DW vs YS
Date: Monday, May 09, 2016
Time: 12:43:06 AM
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For the first time ever in our weekly polls, 3 of the 4 questions in one week will involve VS polls with both the Beatles and Stones. We start off of course with the Stones weekly poll, where it's week 876 of this poll, and this week’s question is: Between the Buttons vs Aftermath, which album do you like the best?
vs Week 7 of the "Buttons polls", featuring the 1967 Stones LP Between the Buttons. This is the first time we’ve run this poll series for more than 6 weeks at a time, not sure how much longer I’ll run this one, but as I noted last week, I want to get as many of these matchups done before we run out of polling weeks in a couple of years. But anyway, this week BTB takes on Aftermath, an album that could be looked at as being similar to BTB. These albums were released just a year apart (Aftermath first, in 1966), with both LPs are full of original material, and once again has Brian Jones leading the way as the main musician in the band on both albums, playing many different, and some unusual instruments that you didn’t usually hear in rock music at the time.
Aftermath is noted as the first Stones album comprised entirely of Jagger/Richards songs, even if that's not really true, since the best song on the LP had its music written by Bill Wyman and Jones, with the lyrics by Mick Jagger, with Keith Richards getting credited for being the cowriter when he had actually had no hand in writing the music or lyrics used in the song. Wyman and Jones weren’t credited for their work, and with other songs on the LP also composed (music wise) by Jones, including "Lady Jane", and "Under My Thumb", while "Going Home" was clearly an entire group effort, but again, only the Glimmer Twins were credited for these songs.
To see the song list for Between the Buttons, go here: Between the Buttons . To see the song list fromAftermath, go here: Aftermath. To cast your vote in this Buttons poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll.
Last week at the Stones poll we asked:Between the Buttons vs A Bigger Bang, which album do you like the best?.
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A close poll, with BTB rebounding from 2 weeks ago with a win in this one. To see by how much (or by how little), check out the final result here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 875. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the Stones VS Page 1, where at the top of the page you can check out the updated standings on how each album has done in these long running VS polls. This week you’ll see that BTB ties BB and TSMR in the standings.
Now let’s move on over to the Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 516, and as usual, we’ll vote in 2 polls in this one. The first question in the Rock Poll this week asks: Of the following artists not in the Rock 'n Roll Hall Of Fame, who should be in there the most?
This is week 2 of polling in regard to the Rock Hall. This week we look at those artists they haven’t gotten in yet, but many feel should have been in a long time ago. This is a yearly question, and when we asked this a year ago, our number 1 pick, Deep Purple, and number 3 pick, Chicago, did both finally get in this year, along with picks number 23 (Steve Miller), and barely a pick at number 56 (Cheap Trick). But gosh, there are so many other great acts still not in yet, while they let in subpar acts like N.W.A. Anyway, this is one reason we vote on this question once a year, since we fans seem to know better than those fools on the Rock Hall nominating committee who put up the nominees each year that get voted on, and who usually have at least some record executives hanging out of their pockets, which explains why groups like Blondie and others get in when they have no business being in, while truly great bands (listed in our poll) never get in. But I will say that for other than one pick last year, they did a much better job this time around in listening to the fans as to who finally got in.
For the most part, out of the 69 artists listed in this year's poll, this is the same list we have voted on in the last few years, minus the few who finally got in, plus for this go-round, I added in 4 bands that we never voted on before, that for the most part should have been on there in the past and whom I just missed.
So which band not in the Rock Hall today, should be in there? To see the poll list and vote, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
For this week’s Rock VS poll, the new question is: Dirty Work by the Stones vs Yellow Submarine by the Beatles, which of these 2 fan maligned albums is better?
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I always wanted to do a Stones' albums vs Beatles' albums poll series, but just never got around to it. Then last Monday, in a reply to last week's poll thread, I made a joke about placing The Beatles' Let It Be LP up against the Stones' Dirty Work, since LIB needed an easy win for once, after having a hard time going up against all the other Beatles albums (so far), other than Yellow Submarine, which it won against in a landslide. YS is of course the Beatles DW as far as unliked albums by these 2 groups go. Although most hard-nosed fans of both bands would never say that they dislike any of the bands albums, these 2 are the ones that most would say they like the least and play least. At our 2 On-going polls that cover this subject matter, at the Stones poll, 36.5% of the fans pick DW as most unliked, with the second place spot 28.4% behind DW in the voting. At the Beatles poll, YS is the top pick when this same question is asked there, with 30% of the votes and 21.1% ahead of the second place pick. So yes, these are really the only 2 albums put out by both bands that fans never cared for.
Now I don't feel I have to talk about either album in detail for this poll; you all know why fans aren't crazy about them, so I won't. However, to refresh your memory, if you would like to see the song list for each one, for DW go here, and for YS, go here.
So, which album do you like better? Just click on Classic Rock Poll to vote, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
In last week’s first Rock poll, we asked: Of the artists just inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame for 2016, which one shouldn't have gotten in?
In a total blowout landslide, the rap group N.W.A. was the group that most didn’t want in. You can see the full, final results from tis poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 515.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked:”Piece of My Heart”: cover by Erma Franklin vs Janis Joplin’s cover, which version is better? Another landslide pick was seen in this poll, too. To see the final results, just click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 515. 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 finish this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 269, while we enter week 7 of voting on the Let it Be album in the “Beatles albums VS Beatles albums polls”. So this week’s question is: Let It Be vs Help! , which album do you like the best?
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This week LIB goes up against the 1965 Beatle release of Help!, which came of course from the Beatle movie of the same name. We will only look at the UK release of this LP, since it's what the band actually put together and not the inferior US release, which they had no say in. with side 2 containing only 3 songs actually played by the Beatles.
Now before you vote, to see the song list for Let it Be , go here: Let it Be . To see the song list for Help! , go here: Help! . Then to cast your vote in this week’s poll, use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: Let It Be vs Rubber Soul, which album do you like the best?
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Let It Be, is still having a hard time in these one on one polls (at 1-6 now after last week). To see the final results from last week’s matchup, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 268. Or, you can check out the results at the The Beatles' Studio Albums page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well, that does it for this week’s poll post. I tell ya, for a mainly retired guy, I sure was busy last week! I do hope things will slow down for me some this week, but I got to deal with a broken garage door that won’t open at all, and now a broken washing machine that leaks water on the floor when it spins. So dealing with this should be a headache, one way or another, just hope not too expensive a headache, but I got a feeling they will be just that! Well, I’ll try to have a good week regardless, and I hope you do too! Thanks to all of you who vote each week in our polls!
Keno
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