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Name: Keno
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Subject: Out of our Heads/Black n Blue/Yardbirds/more
Date: Monday, August 01, 2016
Time: 12:28:39 AM
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Well, week 888 of the Stones poll is upon is, and as usual we will vote on 2 different Stones poll questions. This week we return to a new and original round of the Stones album vs album series. The series that many years ago, metamorphosed into what became the weekly VS Rock polls. This week’s brand new match-up series, will run for the usual 6 weeks, will be titled "The crazy and insane polls" and will feature the only Stones album that can live up to that title, that being the 1965 LP Out Of Our Heads. So here's the question: Out Of Our Heads vs Bridges To Babylon, which album do you like the best?
vs Of the entire original studio released Stones albums out there, Out Of Our Heads has been voted on the least in this poll series, in part since it hasn’t had its own series up until now. It’s only been voted on 4 times, and has a 3-1 record, so it makes total sense to have the next new series feature this LP. Now no, you don't have to be crazy and out of your head to love this album, but if you are a head, well you more than likely love this album. The U.S. version of OOOH featured 2 of the band’s biggest hits of the ‘60s, “The Last Time”, and “(I can't get no) Satisfaction”, while “Play with Fire” was another big hit, too. Unlike the Beatles US LPs, which were poorer versions of their UK counterparts, and which we ignore when we vote in the Beatles polls for their albums, in the case with the Stones U.S. albums, their U.S. LPs were as good or better than the UK LPs, and for OOOH, I feel that it’s much better than its UK release. So for the Stones polls I just say vote and rate their albums going by whatever version you know better. To see the song list for Out Of Our Heads, both the U.S. and UK versions, go here: OOOH (BYW, the cover shown above is the U.S. cover).
OOOH will go up against the Stones’ 1997 Bridges To Babylon this week, which was the 21st British and 23rd American studio album release by the band. This one seemed to be all over the place, in part because it had so many different producers who were looking for different sounds. The 2 biggest hits off of this LP were “Saint of Me", and “Anybody Seen My Baby”. This album is not doing too well in this series so far, with a very weak record of 1-7, tying it for second to last place in the standings. Let’s see if it can improve this week. To see the song list for Bridges To Babylon, go here: B2B
To cast your vote in this first Stones poll, 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: Black and Blue vs Some Girls, which album do you like the best?
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This second Stones poll always features the return of the older series of the Stones VS album series, the ones we started up years ago and never finished. I had noted I might not run it while running a new VS album series, like what I’m running this week, but with this second poll receiving more votes than the main poll question each week since I started it up over 2 months ago, how can I stop running it during the 6 weeks the new one runs? Well for now I won't, let’s see how both do after this week is finished and then I can decide if both should run at the same time or not.
So anyway, this week in this VS series, we will return to the matchup called “the Black 'n Blue Polls”, featuring the 1976 LP Black and Blue.This LP was almost looked at as a EP, with just 8 songs on it, and it really consisted of songs put together when the Stones were auditioning for a replacement for Mick Taylor,. So while it’s the first LP with Ron Wood as a member, he only shows up on 2 songs, while other guest guitarists fill in on the other songs. “Memory Motel” is looked as the best song on this one by most fans. In the album standings for this LP, BNB is down there some, in 18th place with a 2-5 record.
BNB will go up against Some Girls this week, which is just above BNB in the same standings, with a 3-4 record. SG came out just after BNB in 1978, and I’m surprised it isn’t doing better in this series of questions. There were 10 songs on the original released, then in 2011, 12 bonus songs were added to the album, and those bonus songs were/are fantastic – but – do not considered any of these extra songs when voting in this poll, as we only are going with what was released in 1978.
To see the song list for each album, for Black and Blue, go here: BNB, and for Some Girls, go here: SG.
To cast your vote in this second Stones 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 original video of "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
First, to clear up something I wrote above about an hour before the close of this poll (and I’m too lazy to rewrite it now), for the very first time since the 2 Stones polls have been running (since last May), this first poll actually beat out the album poll in total votes - by just 3 votes, so there’s one streak that comes to an end.
As far as the results went, this video is very popular indeed, with a “10” taking in the most votes, at 25.5%, making it the second most popular Stones video so far in the video standings (yes, if you haven’t checked it out yet, we now have standings for this too, and you can see them in the link below that closes out this poll’s results). Second place was an “8” with 24.5% of the vote, and third was a “6”, at 23.8%.
To see the full, final results from this poll, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 887, poll 1. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the standings at the Stones Fans Top Pick List Page 2 , under “Video Ratings”.
Last week at the Stones VS poll, we asked: December's Children vs Emotional Rescue , which album do you like the best?
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December's Children had a very easy time last week, taking in a landslide win over Emotional Rescue . You can see the final totals from this poll by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 887, 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.
Over at the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 528, and as usual we’ll vote in 2 polls in this one too. The first question in the Rock Poll this week is: Who was the most underrated member of the Yardbirds classic lineup
The Yardbirds formed in London back in 1963, and for this poll we will only look at the classic lineup, which lasted until the band disbanded in 1968. The band was known best perhaps for bringing us 3 of rock’s best lead guitarists ever, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck (The 1966 version of the band is shown in the photo above). Yet the core of the group was singer and harp player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith, and rhythm guitarist and later on bassist Chris Dreja. The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from Relf, McCarty and Samwell-Smith.
The band seemed to have a hard time holding on to lead guitar players. Top Topham was there in the very beginning and the first lead guitarist for the band, but he was also only 16 years old at the time and his parents didn’t like the idea of their son playing clubs late at night, 6 nights a week, and after 6 months, they made him quit the band, even though he was making more money than his old man was making. He was replaced by Eric Clapton, who would last a year, and would then be replaced by Jeff Beck. Jimmy Page would join the band first as their bass player, replacing Samwell-Smith in mid-1966, with Page then replacing Beck a couple of months after that, with Dreja then switching to bass guitar.
The group broke up in 1968, with Page forming “The New Yardbird”, who shortly after became Led Zeppelin. Meanwhile, Relf, and McCarty went on to form the popular band Renaissance. Relf, who was a Brian Jones look alike, and like Jones played several different instruments, would, like Jones, also die young (at 32) and under unusual conditions, being electrocuted in the basement of his home, while playing his improperly grounded guitar.
You can read up some more on The Yardbirds here: The Yardbirds .
So which member of this group do you feel was most underrated? Just click here to vote: 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: 'The First Cut Is the Deepest': Cat Stevens' original vs Rod Stewart’s cover, which version is better?
Week 2 of looking at Rod Stewart covers, not that I planned it to be that way, but it turned into that. Cat Stevens wrote this cool song and made his first recording of it back in 1965, but it wasn't released until 1967, when it appeared on his second LP New Masters. It was a minor hit for him at that time, but would become an even a bigger hit for several other artists in time.
Rod Stewart's cover was a big hit in the UK, where it spent 4 weeks at #1 on the UK singles charts in 1977. It also did well in the U.S., reaching #26. His cover of this song also appears on his 1976 album A Night on the Town.
Sheryl Crow would also have a number 1 hit with her cover of this song in 2003, and we may or may not vote on her cover in time. Her version, which is excellent, really falls far outside of the classic rock period of time, so let me think it over if it should be voted on here one day in the future or not. But if it is, it would go up against whichever version comes out on top this week.
Both songs can be heard before you vote, as usual, in the voting booth. A very young and clean shaven Cat Stevens can be seen in his version, but just remember, we are not voting on the videos, just the songs, the vids are there just so you can hear the songs before you vote… 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: Who was the most underrated member of Alice Cooper?.
Once again in this poll, we saw close voting, this time between 4 of the 5 band members, with chief songwriter and rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce being chosen in the end with 25.1% of the vote.
You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 527. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s VS poll, we asked: 'It's All Over Now': Rolling Stones’ cover vs Rod Stewart’s cover, which version is better?
For the third week in a row in our VS poll, we saw yet another landside win (maybe I need to think up better questions?). To see who was on the winning end of the landslide, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 527. 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 wrap up this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 281, and this week’s new question is: What is your least favorite song on the Beatles LP Magical Mystery Tour
Magical Mystery Tour was only released as a studio album in the U.S. in late 1967. In the UK it came out as only an EP, so this is the only Beatles album, where when we look at it in our polls, we go with the U.S. version instead. Side 1 was from the film soundtrack, while side 2 was filled with singles released in 1967.
There are 11 great songs on this LP, but which song will you pick in this poll as your least favorite? Remember, we are not looking for the worst song here, since the Beatles didn’t ever have a worst song on any of their albums, just one or 2 that weren’t loved as much as the others.
To see the songs from this LP, please use this link: Magical Mystery Tour . To vote in the poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: What is your least favorite song on the Beatles LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
For Sgt. Pepper's , and like what seems to happen every week when we ask this question, the least favorite song chosen was a George Harrison number, “Within You Without You”, this time in a major landslide, seeing 86.8% of the vote.
To check out the full, final results, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 280. Or, you can check out the results at the Beatles list page for "Songs per LP" , located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well another week of 2016 has come and gone and here we are on Monday and yet another brand new week to live and experience. I’m going through the summertime blues for sure, but it’s supposed to cool off here this week, and that should help to lift my spirits a bit. I’m one of the few people who have the opposite effects from the seasonal blues, where most suffer in the winter months and feel lethargic; I feel that way in the summer, yet I feel at my best each winter. Actually, I’m not alone, I’ve read up on this and there are actually millions like me out there in the world, but still, we’re in the minority.
Thanks to all of you who vote in our polls every week, and take good care of yourselves!
Keno
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