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Date: Sunday, August 07, 2016
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Time to get week 889 of the Stones poll started up, and as usual we will vote on 2 different Stones poll questions. For our first Stones poll, it’s week 2 of the Crazy and Insane polls, featuring the Stones Out Of Our Heads LP. The new question is: Out Of Our Heads vs Sticky Fingers, which album do you like the best?
vs This week OOOH takes on a giant, that being the 1971 masterpiece Sticky Fingers. I don’t think I have to say too much about this album, other than to let you know that it stands in first place in this series' standings, undefeated at 8-0. OOOH is doing very well itself, at 4-1, but can it beat out the mighty SF? It's up to us Stones fans to determine that, so let's vote on this and see what happens.
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).
To see the song list for Sticky Fingers , go here: SF
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: Undercover vs Goats Head Soup, which album do you like the best?
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This week in our Stones’ album VS series, we will return to the matchup called “The Undercover Polls”, featuring the 1983 LP Undercover. Its title cut is the best song out of the 10 on this LP. When I opened up my review of this album way back in 1998, I did so with this sentence: “Not a great album, but not a bad one either.” I stand by that all these years later. Yet in these album matchups, the LP isn’t doing too good at all, it’s in third to last place, with a 1-7 record.
The Stones’ very mellow 1973 release, Goats Head Soup, is looked at as their most underrated LP. It contains 10 solid songs, with only one, the album closer, a true hard rocker. In our standings, GHS sits in the middle of the pack at 5-3.
To see the song list for each album, for Undercover, go here: Undercover , and for Goats Head Soup , go here: GHS.
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: Out Of Our Heads vs Bridges To Babylon, which album do you like the best?.
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Out Of Our Heads won in a blowout. To see the full, final results from this poll, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 888, poll 1. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the standings at 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
Last week at the Stones VS poll, we asked: Black and Blue vs Some Girls , which album do you like the best?
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Another Stones poll matchup, and another blowout result, but the host album wasn’t on the winner’s end this time. You can see the final totals from this poll by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 888, poll 2. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the Stones VS Page 1, the same link noted above for the first poll..
At the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 529, 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 Chicago's original lineup?
We are now in the overall 28th week of this series of questions and this week we look at the band Chicago, formed back in 1967 as "The Chicago Transit Authority", until the real Chicago Transit Authority sued the band over the name, so they shorten their name to just "Chicago". We will cover only the original members of the band when asking this question, and the interesting thing about this group, is that out of the original lineup, consisting of the 7 guys who formed it, that being Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Peter Cetera, and Terry Kath, as to this day, 4 of them are still in the band, 49 years later, with Kath dying in 1978, Cetera leaving in '85, and Seraphine fired in '90. So they have very much been a band that sticks together, and are one of the few bands around to this day that, if you got see them live, you really are seeing the true band from yesteryear.
Other than Parazaider, who I believe is credited for writing one song (at least up until the late '80s anyway), the rest of the members all were songwriters to different degrees, with Lamm the main songwriter. All of the band members shared in singing the lead vocals (again, other than Parazaider), with Lamb, Kath, and Cetera singing the lead most often. So a very talented group of men here to choose from.
You can read up some more on Chicago here: Chicago.
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: ’Dedicated to the One I Love': the Shirelles' cover vs The Mamas and the Papas’s cover, which version is better?
The Shirelles' cover of "Dedicated to the One I Love", which was written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass, was first recorded and released by the Shirelles back in 1959, where it charted and was a minor hit, reaching #83. Then in '61, the singing group’s debut LP Tonight's the Night was released, and with this song on the album, they decided to re-released it as a single again, and this time, this very same song became a major hit, making it all the way to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the R&B charts.
"Dedicated to the One I Love" was also a hit for the Mamas and the Papas in 1967, when their cover went to #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. It was the first song (of only 2 that I can think of) by the Mamas and the Papas, which featured Michelle Phillips on lead vocals instead of Mama Cass or Denny Doherty. Michelle normally sang the backing and vocal harmonies (same as was the case with her husband Papa John). But on this song, the truth is, she only sings the lead in the very beginning, and again one more time as the song proceeds on. For the rest of the song, as normal, it's Mama Cass singing the lead over the group harmonies, with Doherty singing the lead when the male only vocals are sang.
Both songs can be heard before you vote, as usual, in the voting booth. 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 the Yardbirds classic lineup.
Once again, another blowout landslide in another of the weekly poll’s result, and that hasn’t been the normal case for when we ask this question in this poll series, but it sure was last week, and lead singer Keith Relf was that pick.
You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 528. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: 'The First Cut Is the Deepest': Cat Stevens' original vs Rod Stewart’s cover, which version is better?
I noted here last week that we had several weeks of landslide results in a row at this VS poll, and maybe I needed to think up better questions to end that. Guess last week’s question did the trick, since out of our 5 weekly polls last week, only this one saw a close result. To see who was on the winning end, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 528. 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 282, and this week’s new question is: What is your least favorite song on the Beatles LP The White Album(aka The Beatles)
Released by the Fabs in 1968, it was the band's 9th release. We got 30 songs to choose from on this double LP, but that doesn't really make the picking any easier, since this was one of the best ever released double albums in rock history. Of these 30 songs, only one was actually written together by Lennon and McCartney (“Birthday”) with 13 written by Lennon, another 11 more by McCartney, 4 by Harrison, and one by Starr. Lennon and McCartney played many different instruments on this album, including both of them playing many of the brass parts heard in the songs, and also including McCartney playing the drums on 4 songs, while Lennon was the drummer on 3 more songs, and he was one of 3 drummers used (along with McCartney and Harrison) on "Back in the U.S.S.R.", a song Starr wasn't there for, after he quit the band the day before it was recorded.
To see the songs from this LP, please use this link: White Album . 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 Magical Mystery Tour
As I noted already, every poll run last week other than the rock VS poll, saw landslide results, including this one. That of course isn’t normal, but yes, it did take place anyway. For Magical Mystery Tour , and as I noted last week that for weeks now, when we asked this question, the least favorite song chosen was a George Harrison number, and it happened once again last week, with “Blue Jay Way“ the least favorite song on the LP, seeing 75.7% of the vote. It’s not that George’s work isn’t liked of course; it’s just simply that he’s up against Lennon/McCartney written songs each week and they were the 2 best songwriters ever in rock music history after all.
To check out the full, final results, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 281. Or, you can check out the results at the Beatles list page for "Songs per LP" , located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well, we had a wonderful summer week here in Colorado, with nice temps in the 70s all week (even only in the upper 50s on one day). Yeah, we had a ton of rain to go with that, especially for a normally dry Colorado, but we still saw the sun every day, too. If the entire summer could always be like this, I won’t mind summer at all!
I thank all of you who vote in all of our polls each week, your votes are what make our list pages happen!
Keno
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