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Name: Keno
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Subject: OOOH/LIB/BTB/12x5/AntiDrug songs/CD VS Vinyl/Fabs
Date: Monday, August 29, 2016
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It’s time to get this week’s 5 weekly polls underway, starting off with the Stones Poll, where we enter week 892 of polling, and as usual we will vote on 2 different Stones poll questions. For our first Stones poll, it’s the fifth week of the Crazy and Insane polls, featuring the Stones Out Of Our Heads LP. The new question will be this: Out Of Our Heads vs 12x5, which album do you like the best?
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To see the song list for Out Of Our Heads, for both the U.S. and UK versions, go here: OOOH
To see the song list for 12x5, go here: 12x5
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: Between the Buttons vs Let It Bleed, which album do you like the best?
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In our second Stones poll, the "Buttons Polls" returns, featuring the 1967 release, Between the Buttons. The Buttons Polls was the first new album VS series of 2016, starting up last March and running for 6 weeks. In the standings, BTB has 5 wins verses 4 loses, putting it in 12th place, so it’s right smack in the middle of pack. This week it goes up against one of the Big 4, that being 1969's Let It Bleed, which is doing very well in those same standings, in second place, with a record of 8 and 1. So yes, a matchup of 2 '60s LPs in both of our Stones polls this week, although in this one, 2 very different ‘60s albums indeed, as with BTB, the early Stones were in their prime, with Brain Jones playing at least 9 different instruments on this LP and helping to define the Stones sound of that time, a sound that not too many other rock bands had. Well, the Beatles were into the same sound at this time, as they were also using the same kind of unusual instruments which were usually not heard at the time in Rock music, but where the Beatles used session musicians to play them, the Stones used Brian..... Then with LIB, this LP was full of change, as the Stones were saying goodbye to Brian while bringing in Mick Taylor; the 2 appear on 2 tracks each. This LP was Keith Richards’ best Stones album, period (well, most of us fans feel that way, anyway). Keith played all of the guitars on this one, other than on the 2 songs where MT showed up. This LP also featured for the first time, Keith singing the lead vocals all alone on one track, "Your Got the Silver", and that track was also the second to last track that Brain played on (playing the autoharp).
To see the song list for each album, for Between the Buttons, go here: BTB, and for Let It Bleed, go here: LIB.
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 A Bigger Bang, which album do you like the best?.
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A somewhat close final vote in this one, but a clear winner was chosen too, and not the one that I voted for, either. To see which LP came out on top, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 891, 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 Their Satanic Majesties Request vs Voodoo Lounge, which album do you like the best?
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The results from this poll were very close for the entire week, and this time the album I voted for actually won, but by only 4 votes! You can see the final totals from this poll by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 891, poll 2. I’ll also add the results from this poll to the Stones VS Page 1 too, this is the same link noted above for the first poll.
At the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 532, 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 the best anti-drug rock song made by a rocker?
When it comes to questions about drugs and or rockers who are (or were) drug users, we seem to usually vote in polls that some might say sound more pro-drug than anti-drug in these polls, but that's only because drugs and rock 'n roll do go together, and if you take most drug songs, they seem to shine a more positive light on drug usage than the ones that don't. But this week we will look at rock songs that are anti-drug songs. No, there isn’t anywhere as many rock songs out there that shine a negative light on drugs compared to the ones that seem to glorify drug use or drug users, but I was able to come up with 21 that do. Now a few of these songs are only part anti-drug (like the Stones' "Heartbreaker"), while some are anti-drug songs that never quite say that are (like John Prine's "Sam Stone", which is also an anti-war and pro-vet song that most might not realize on first listen, too), but if you know what these songs are really about, then you know what the message is that is being sent out there. Now we also got some songs listed that are flat out anti-drug in their message and these songs flat out state it (like Steppenwolf's haunting tune "The Pusher"). Plus yes, there are other songs that some might think are anti-drug, that for the most part are clearly about drug usage, but aren't true anti-drug songs, and such songs are not list. I saw on a anti-drug song list that the Stones’ "Mother's Little Helper" was on, and had to chuckle, since while that song is about female pill poppers, and it even warns that these women just might overdose if they don't watch how many pills they take at once, the song is still not anti-drug at all (or prodrug for that matter), it's clearly just about people who take pills legally. There are a lot of such songs just like MLH that talk about drug use, but we already covered songs like that in this poll in the distant past.
So which song you will you vote for? Just click here to see the song list: 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: Vinyl records vs CDs, which do you like better to listen to your music with?
For the second week in a row, a very simple VS question that should take you seconds to answer. Music fans can debate this question all they want to, but there is no correct answer to it, other than to the ears of the debater. To my own ears - which were damaged right around the time that CDs came out, I can't tell the difference, but no, there's no choice to cover that, so when we vote on this, if you can't decide which sounds best to you, then you can also consider which format is more convenient to use, etc. but overall, the most important and main consideration will be which one sounds the best to you.
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 stoned out rocker? .
Some very close voting on this one, just the way I like it! Poor Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the one picked. Now if you had to pick the one most damaged rocker thanks to drugs, it for sure would have been Syd, in his case, thanks to LSD, and overall, a pretty good pick for this question too, taking in 6.4% of the votes. My pick, and the choice I was thinking would win, Keith Richards, came in second, at 6.1%, while the third place pick was another person who I felt might finish first, that being Jim Morrison of the Doors, at 5.8%.You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 531. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
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In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: Stereo recordings vs mono recordings, which sound do you like better when you listen to music?
I can’t say I was surprised by the outcome to this one, with stereo being chosen in a landslide (87.6%), yet, I was thinking even more would vote for stereo than did, and I'm surprise at how many people would rather hear their music played in mono sound. I just don’t get it, why? Anyway, I think the soon to be released Stones box set (which got me to think up this question in the first place), will not be too much in demand…. although we will be voting directly about that soon to be released set in 2 weeks’ time (at the Stones poll) to find out just how many fans do plan to get it. To see the final results from this poll, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 531. 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 each week talking about the Beatles poll, where it’s week 285, and this week’s new question is: What is your least favorite song on the Beatles LP Let It Be
Well, we are almost through with this series of questions, just 2 weeks to go. This week's it the 1970 release Let It Be that we will pick a song from. I and many other Beatle fans look at LIB as the most underrated Beatle album out there. Recorded in 1968, with most of the sessions being caught on film for the movie of the same name. This one almost was never released, thanks to infighting amongst the band, and it ended up coming out after the last recorded Beatle album, Abbey Road was released, and released after the band broke up, and instead of being titled "Get Back", as the band was trying to get back to their old ways of recording songs, the LP ended up with the title that we all know it by today, and yes, it was a fitting name, considering that the Beatles were all finished and needed to let things be.
To see the songs that were listed on this LP, please use this link: LIB. 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 Abbey Road?
How come I had a feeling that we would see a drop off in the vote count with this question about the greatest Beatle album ever made? Well, we did see just that, and as I have noted in the past, Beatle fans - unlike Stones fans, seem to have a hard time answering such a question about any of the Fabs LPs, and especially this one. It was looking like we might not even pass the 600 vote mark with this question as late as last night, something that hasn't happened in any of our polls since last April. But sometime during late Sunday afternoon we did surpass that number.
There was one song on this LP that took in 92.2% of the vote, and the thing is, it is a very good song, sung, and even written by Ringo Starr, that being "Don't Pass Me By". That's by far the highest total of votes cast for the least liked Beatle song per LP to date, yet I would bet if this song showed up on several of the other Beatle albums, it would not even be picked. It's just very hard for this one song to go up against the other great songs on AR…. To check out the full, final results from this poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 284. Or, you can check out the results at the Beatles list page for "Songs per LP" , located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well that does it for this week’s poll post. Here in Colorado we continue to see a good amount of rain, along with snow falling in our mountains even below the tree line (which is around 10,800 feet on average around here) for the last 2 weeks now. This is so far the 5th wettest August ever on record for our town, seeing 3.31 inches of rain so far, with 3 days to go. Then tonight I get an email from our fellow Gasser JivingSisterJan, who, as most of you know, lives down in southern Louisiana, where all of that flooding is taking place. At her house they got 26 inches of rain in just 3 days! Holy shit! We normally see a bit under 8 inches of rain a year here (I’m not counting snow of course), that’s it, so they got in 3 days what we see in 3 and a half years here! I’m just happy that her house didn’t flood. Gosh, sitting on the side of a mountain like my town does, if we saw that amount of rain in 3 days here, in fact, if we saw just half of that here, our entire town would be totally gone, along with most of the people here washed away and drowned. I do hope for her and her kin that things dry out there ASAP!
I thank all of you who vote each week in our polls!
Keno
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