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Name: Keno
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Subject: One Hit/Big Bang/Bagpipes/FMac/Ringo
Date: Monday, July 04, 2016
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We enter week 884 of the Stones poll tonight as the U.S. holiday weekend is going strong. We, as is now the norm, will be running 2 Stones polls in one week. This week's first Stones poll question is: Rate the Rolling Stones video 'One Hit To the Body'.
Week 4 of rating different videos that the Stones made. This week we look at one of the few good things that came from the Stones much maligned 1986 album, Dirty Work, that being this song, "One Hit To The Body", and it's video.
This was the first Stones single to give Ron Wood a co-writing credit along with Jagger and Richards, but it only reached number 80 in the UK, their poorest charting single at the time. Yet IMO, it was clearly the best original Jagger/Richards song on the entire LP. The song also featured Jimmy Page on lead guitar, although he doesn't appear in the video, which is what we are rating this week. The video shows the band performing the song, although not in the normal way - up on stage, but in a very strange setting, and the Glimmer Twins look like they hate each other in the one spot where they are shown together, it's almost like you can tell the chemistry wasn't too good between them at this point in time, even if they were only acting in this video (or were they?). But I would be lying if I said I didn't dig seeing this video again; after it had been so many years for me since I last saw it.
Remember when voting that it’s the entire video we are voting on here, and not just the song/music. The video will be linked to from the voting booth so you can watch it before you vote. Make sure to take the time to watch the video before you vote, to refresh your memory of it. The link to the video can be found both here in this thread, and also in the question inside the voting booth, and…(this is a repeat from last week…) if you try to click on the question in the poll menu (only), when you click on where the song's title is in the question, you will be sent to YouTube and the video. If you click on anywhere else in the question, that will take you to where you can vote on the question in our voting booth.
So to watch the video and then cast your vote in this first Stones poll question, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
The week's second Stones poll will ask this: A Bigger Bang vs The Rolling Stones, Now!, which album do you like the best?
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Now yes, 1965's The Rolling Stones, Now! has been voted on 3 different times in the last several months of this question, since it was the least voted on Stones album in this series, and that is still the case today, so that's why it's now being heard from more in our polling, as I'm letting it catch up with the other LPs. This will be its fifth go, and it has a nice record at 3-1 in the standings. For A Bigger Bang, it can be found in the middle of the pack of the standings, well just a bit below that, at 4-4-1.
To see the song list for A Bigger Bang , go here: ABB . To see the song list from The Rolling Stones, Now!, go here: RSN. To cast your vote in this second Stones VS poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
Looking back at last week’s first Stones poll we asked: Rate the Rolling Stones video 'Love Is Strong'. The final results show that this video is at best looked at by fans as your average video and nothing more than that. “6” was the top pick, with 19.8% of the vote, second place was a “7” at 19.6%, and in third place was a “5”, at 19.4%. So yes, some very close vote tallies in this poll. To see full, final results, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 883, poll 1. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the Stones Fans Top Pick List Page 2 .
Last week at the Stones VS poll, we asked:Dirty Work vs Aftermath, which album do you like the best?
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Well last week we conducted a very dirty poll, and the LP Dirty Work lost in yet another big, dirty landslide… but this time it was really something to take note of, as we saw the second biggest landslide ever in our polls, with 98.9% of the votes going to Aftermath. The highest poll win ever was also scored against DW when 99.2% voted for Skicky Fingers over DW back in June of 2009, and if you take the top 10 biggest landside losses ever in our polls, DW was on the losing end in every one of them. I think it's safe to say that DW will never, even come close to winning one of these rounds, and today it sits in dead last in the standings, with a zero and 16 record, with just a few more matchups left in the series for this LP.
You can see the full final totals by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 883, poll 2. 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.
At the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 524, and as usual we’ll vote in 2 polls in this one too. The first question in the Rock Poll this week is: What is best rock song with bagpipes in it?
Personally, bagpipes are the one instrument that I never cared too much for, they just never sound right to me. Plus they are almost never used in rock songs, that's for sure. But they have been used a bit, and in time I'm trying to cover every instrument out there when asking this kind of question, and the 4th of July holiday week would be a good week to ask it I figure.
Now notice that I did not word this question as "What song is the best thanks to the bagpipes in it". Usually when I ask such a question, that's what we are looking for, but with bagpipes and rock music, in the 17 songs I could come up with to list, if I worded the question in that matter, I would maybe have only 5 or 6 songs to list, since for the rest listed, you can barely hear the bagpipes in the song, or they are only there for perhaps a minute or less to be heard. So in this case we will go with looking mainly for the best song out of the bunch listed which has at least some bagpipes heard in them, although of course, the bagpipes and their sound in the song still needs to be considered when you vote.
I had 21 songs listed when I first put the song list together, but then found out in a few of these songs there weren’t real bagpipes being played. Slade’s "Run Runaway" was one of the first songs I thought of when I first made up this list, and I was surprised when I learned that what is head in that song is not bagpipes at all, but just guitars sounding like them. I guess the old video of the song, which shows bagpipes being played by a marching band, is what I remember best of it… Now again, there are several songs in the poll list where the bagpipes can barely be heard, so if you dislike bagpipes, perhaps you might want to vote for one of these songs. My guess is there are 2 or 3 songs listed that are the best known on the list to have bagpipes and my guess is they are going to see the most votes, in fact they would make for a great VS poll one day, but first, this question needs to be answered.
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: Who lead Fleetwood Mac best: Peter Green vs Bob Welch vs C. McVie/Buckingham/Nicks?
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Notice, this question isn’t asking for the best version of the band, or the most popular one, or even for the best frontman up on stage, but it is asking for who lead the band best. I had to word the question in the way you see it so it would fit as a VS poll, and then the question still had some problems, since Christie McVie also had a big say in the direction of the group once Peter Green left, when the new frontman for the group was Bob Welch (around 1970 or so). She has been already chosen as the most underrated member of Fleetwood Mac in a poll we held in the past, but that isn’t what this question is getting at today, and I felt I had to list her along with Buckingham and Nicks, since the 3 are really equals in the band, although I guess I could have listed the Bob Welsh choice as "C. McVie/Welch", but I do think Welch carried the band more in those days and it was he who really kept the group going up until the time he left. It was a crime when the stupid Rock n Roll Hall of Fame didn't include him as an inductee when the group was entered, perhaps the biggest and worst snub ever to a band member from the inferior nominating committee at the Rock Hall.
To vote on this VS question, just 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: Of the rock songs where the title isn't in the lyrics, which title works best for the song? (Part 4 of 4) . “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Stones was the number 1 pick, receiving 6.5% of the vote in some very close voting! The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” placed with 6%, and third place went to the Stones with “Let it Bleed”, with 5.6% of the vote.
Again, voting was very close, with a 6 way tie for 6th place (which in turn rounded out the top 10…. with another 7 song titles just missing out on that top 10. Plus we saw a record vote last week in this poll... As is becoming the norm for our polls, each week one of them seems to hit a record high in vote totals, even if I don't point it out every week here. But last week in this Rock poll, we saw the biggest vote count ever for any poll since back when the polls started up in early 1999, with 840 votes cast. That magic number of 1,000 votes in one week in one poll is now just a bit closer to reaching... but will we ever get there? Well, at this rate we should, at least for the Rock poll anyway, and as long as I can keep coming up with good questions, I guess. It's not as likely to be seen at the other polls, in part since the Stones poll only has 116 weeks left to it. But if you are wondering what the most votes are for each poll in one week, well for the Rock poll it's now, as I just noted, 840 votes; the Rock VS poll record is 643 votes; for the Beatles poll it's 707 votes; and for the Stones poll, which now has 2 polls running each week and by far is our longest running weekly poll, it's 684 votes. You’d think the Stones poll would have a higher total, and it actually does when it comes to an average weekly vote total, it's usually second to the Rock poll each week, but where the Rock and Beatles polls have their big weeks every so often; the Stones poll only usually sees the usual, average amount of poll votes each week. No, the numbers there aren't down for this one poll, but we just can't seem to top 700 votes in a week with it, either. So with only a couple of years left of voting in this poll, who knows what will happen as far as seeing 1,000 votes in a week, but yes, since 2 polls are now running each week, that is double the number of weekly Stones polls to come, and 2 years is a bit of time, too. But the bottom line is that Stones internet fans aren't big poll voters, either, so maybe we will and maybe we won’t see that high mark in the Stones poll.
You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 523. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked: Steve Marriott's Small Faces vs Rod Stewart's Faces, which version of the band was best?
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This one was very close to the end. To see which version of the band was chosen, just click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 523. 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 poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 277, and this week’s new question is: What was your favorite nickname/pseudonym for Richard Starkey?
The last week of the "Everybody knew her as Nancy polls", and this week we look at the nicknames used for Ringo, who only had 10 such names, but the main name we know him by is actually his nickname (his real, legal name is Richard Starkey). I almost was going to ask the question as: "Besides ‘Ringo Starr’, what is your favorite nickname/pseudonym for Richard Starkey?", since my guess is almost everybody will pick "Ringo Starr", since that's really the only name we know him by, it almost doesn't seem like a nickname at all. Being that I have the same deal in my life with my nickname, I bet that he even looks at 'Ringo Starr" as being his real name.
But he did have a few other nicknames and I guess a few people do call him "Richie" every so often, or at least in the days of the Beatles a few did. To see the list of names he has and to cast your vote in this week’s poll, please use this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: What was your favorite nickname/pseudonym for George Harrison?
Very close voting with this question last week, unlike when we asked for the top nicknames for John and Paul, in fact, and in part since George had so many nicknames, that we actually had a true top 10 list for this poll, so do check out the finial totals for this one, since at the listing page only the top pick will be shown. To see that final tally of votes, you can go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 276. Or, you can check out the results at the The Beatles' Beatles Miscellaneous Listings page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well if you live in the U.S., the big 4th of July holiday is here! This is always a fun holiday with a lot of outdoor partying, but this year where I live the mosquitoes just might ruin the day. The mosquito season here is short, usually they only bug our town for about 4 or 5 weeks, and they usually get here around June 1 and often are gone in time for the holiday on July 4. But they were 2 weeks late this year getting there, and they are at their peak right now, just in time to ruin the holiday, as this year being outside unprotected means you will be eaten alive!
I thank all of you as usual for voting in all 5 of our weekly polls and I hope all of you have a Happy Holiday week!.
Keno
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