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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: OOOH/SG/EOMS/Aftermath/Uncredited musicians/more
Date: Monday, September 05, 2016
Time: 12:55:49 AM
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Well, the last official weekend of summer is here - and more than half over. Is it really Labor Day already? Guess so, and you more than likely have the holiday off if you live in the U.S., but our 5 weekly polls take no holidays off and start up as usual on Sunday nite at 10pm Gasland time (or midnight, Monday morning, Eastern Time - the time our server is on). So we just entered week 893 of the Stones poll, and as usual we will vote on 2 different Stones poll questions. For our first Stones poll, it’s the 6th and final week (for now) 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 Some Girls, which album do you like the best?
vs Out Of Our Heads continues doing well in these VS polls, and after another win last week has a record of 7-2 and remains in 7th place in the standings. This week it takes on a monster, that being the 1976 Some Girls LP, the last great Stones album made and one of the Big 5, that is, when we stretch out the Big 4 to include one extra album, that being SG, and call all of them the Big 5, as SG is looked at as the next and last album in line to the true greatness of the Stones’ best work.
You would be surprised to learn that Some Girls has only a .500 record in the standings, at 4-4. But then you find out that in its first 4 matchups, the LP went up against the Big 4, and lost each time. But since then the album has won 4 in a row. How will it do up against OOOH? Well, we will soon see.
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 Some Girls, go here: SG
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: Exile On Main Street vs Aftermath, which album do you like the best?
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Technically, next up as we revisit the Stones album VS album series, is, well, Out Of Our Heads, but since this LP is in its last week of its initial run, and I don't wish to run 2 poll questions on it in the same week, we're just leap frog over it and head back up to the top of the list where “The Exile Polls” sit. This was the first series run for the Stones album VS polls, (but not the first poll asked in the album VS polls). EOMS is in 6th place with a 10-2 record and has so far won more rounds than any other album. This week it will go up against 1967’s Aftermath, which has a record of 5-1 and is in third place.
To see the song list for each album, for Exile On Main Street , go here: EOMS , and for Aftermath, go here: Aftermath .
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 12x5, which album do you like the best?.
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A landslide took place in this poll last week. To see those results, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 892, 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: Between the Buttons vs Let It Bleed, which album do you like the best?
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Like in the first Stones album VS poll, a landslide (an even bigger landslide), took place last week in this poll, too. Another interesting thing with both polls last week was the vote counts. We have been running 2 Stones polls a week since last May, and for the first time since, both polls recorded the same exact number of votes in the same week (663 votes each)… You can see the final totals from this poll by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 892, 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 533, and as usual we’ll vote in 2 polls in this one too.
I had to come up with a new, completed poll question for this Rock poll in the last minute early Sunday morning when I realized the question I was planning to ask, I had never gotten around to finish putting it together (for some reason I thought I had), and it still wasn't close to being completed and I would need a lot more time to finish working on it (it's a multiple part poll, and will run for several weeks when it is ready - maybe next week??). So I went looking for a poll that was already completed, and buried in the future poll question file that I keep, I found what is now this week's question, and a real good one at that!. So the new and the first question in the Rock Poll this week is: Who was the best of the uncredited or under-credited rock musicians and singers?
Now this is not a poll looking for the best session player - we already asked that question in a poll held back in 2010, and perhaps that's why I never got around to asking this question before, but no, this one isn't the same question, although many of the names you will see listed are or were session players, but not all of them were, some were actual members of a backup band but who were under credited - or in many cases, not credited at all as the musicians who played on these hit songs. So that's the main thing that we are going for with this question, we aren't looking for the best overall session player, just the person who wasn't credited properly and who deserved to be for their outstanding work... Now no, you will not see Brain Jones or Bill Wyman listed in the poll list. While yes, they were under credited while in the Stones, but that was only in song writing credits, which isn't what this poll is looking at; we are only looking at singers and musicians who were totally ignored for their musical contributions to songs, and neither Jones or Wyman were ever ignored or not credited in that matter. I should also note that in time, most of these musicians and or singers were later on credited, but not back when most of their work was being made for others to use.
So which rocker you will you vote for? Just click here to see the poll’s 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, it’s the return of the genre music polls, and the new question is: R&B/Soul/Motown vs Heavy Metal, which music genre do you like more? We will call this new series of questions “The full of Soul, polls”.
Back in February when I first ran a series on different music genres, I featured Heavy Metal music in “The Bang Your Heads, polls”, and yes, the question did well in vote totals, so this time let’s look at the R&B/Soul/Motown genre and match it up this week with, well, why not Heavy Metal? No, these 2 never did get matched up in the other series, so let’s run the question now.
To vote in this VS poll, 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: What is the best anti-drug rock song made by a rocker?.
I was wondering beforehand how well an anti-drug poll would do before I ran this question. Well the answer was "very well" indeed, as we saw the 7th highest weekly vote total ever in the Rock poll (or any other poll) last week, and only the 14th time we surpassed the 700 mark in a poll - all of those times were in the Rock poll - other than once it was passed in the Beatles poll. (I should note that in the Rock poll that we have been above the 800 vote count three different times, too.). Hard to believe that after all of these years of running the Stones poll, that we still haven't seen the 700 mark yet there (in just one poll that is, we now see an average of around 1300 votes a week in the 2 different weekly Stones polls run there, but that's different, I'm talking about totals for just 1 poll only here). Maybe I should, one week in the future, have a get-out-the vote campaign at the Stones poll to see if we can reach that number in one week? I mean, we are averaging over 600 votes a week this year for each Stones poll, yet we’ve never seen 700 votes in one week, that’s weird!
Getting back to the results of last week’s Rock poll, I was somewhat surprised over the choice of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" being picked as the most anti-drug song, as I only listed it as it was, in the last minute when I put the song list together several weeks ago. A great song indeed, but IMO, only borderline an anti-drug song, while to me anyway, it’s more a song about going cold turkey while trying to get off of H, that’s what the song is mainly about. Still, no question, it is indirectly anti-drug and what was chosen last week to this question by just 2 votes. "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf, a very much anti-drug song, came in second, while "Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young, which I had a feeling might win, finished in third place. You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 532. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: Vinyl records vs CDs, which do you like better to listen to your music with?
Talking about weekly vote totals in our polls again, in this Rock VS poll, which in most weeks sees the least number of vote totals out of our 5 weekly polls, we saw a record high vote count last week of 671 votes cast. (Just for the record, I’ll note the other record high votes… The highest number of votes in the Stones poll is 684, at the Beatles poll it's 707, and at the Rock poll it's 840).
Anyway, the final result from this VS question was a lot closer than I expected it to be. Do that many of you really like vinyl that much? To see the final results from this VS Rock poll, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 532. 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 talking about the Beatles poll, where it’s week 286, and this week’s new question is: What is your least favorite song on the Beatles LP Hey Jude
The last week of asking this series of questions of the least favorite Beatle song per album, and this week we look at the compilation studio LP Hey Jude. This LP contained 10 songs, both A and B side singles, that were never on any studio albums. A great idea, but why didn’t they make this a double album and cover all of the songs that would apply?
To see the songs that were listed on this LP, please use this link: Hey Jude. 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 Let It Be?
Now I know I have talked about the vote totals in this post a bunch above, and as I have noted in the past here... that Beatle fans clearly didn't care for this series of questions, as overall the vote count was down big time each week whenever we asked this question (with 2 exceptions), including last week, where for the second week in a row we barely got past the 600 vote marker, something we been doing in all of our weekly polls since last April. As has also been the case in most of these least favorite songs per Beatle LP questions (other than for the Yellow Submarine album), one single song stuck out in the voting, and last week that one song was "Maggie Mae", taking in just over 87% of the votes.
To check out the full, final results from this poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 285. Or, you can check out the results at the Beatles list page for "Songs per LP" , located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
So that does it for this week's poll post, and now a note or 2 about Gasland..... I just found out late last week that the form to registrar with here for a new password, hadn’t been working for some time, and I didn't notice it until somebody wrote me. So I fixed it on Friday and it's working again, but, if you signed up to post here in the last month and never heard back from me, well, I never got your info. So I’m very sorry about that and please do resign up again, thanks.
Also, I just renewed the rent on the special server we use for the board, for another year, and for the second year in a row without a fundraiser needed to help pay for it. That doesn't mean I don't still accept donations to help run this joint, Gasx3 is no money maker, that's for sure, and any help is still appreciated. I haven't really asked directly for any help this year (other than the small, “Help Gasland” link on top of the board)... nor received any. If that holds, it would be the first time since '03 that has happened, back in the day when I also never asked for any help, since money was plenty for me up to around that time.
Thing is, things have died down so much here at Gasx3 that perhaps today a stand-alone server is no longer needed? The stand-alone server has only been needed for the domain because of Gasland. But with fewer posters today, that means less traffic and pages being created in the database, so maybe this expensive server really isn’t needed any longer? Well, page views per post here aren't down at all! You lurkers just keep on visiting this joint every single day. We are still a well-read forum, no question about it, but we just don't have half the posts to read anymore, and in turn that means, again, fewer pages to be created and opened. The rest of this Stones site, along with the domain’s other websites, are all at record levels for page-views, just the Land of Gas has less posters today. But anyway, for the next year I'll keep this same server and see what happens. There's more than enough revenue coming in from the Colorado Cam site that I run, to pay for the entire domain alone, as it is, and yet that site takes up the least amount of resources on the server compared to all of the other sites! Funny how that works! But again, it isn't like Gasland isn't being read anymore, we just don't have a lot of posters anymore resulting in less pages to read. But we also have no more flame posts anymore, too, and I like the place a lot more minus the flames. But yes, like you I miss most of the people who no longer post, wish some of them (like you) would reappear again, I know that so many of you former posters still read the board today.
Well enjoy your Labor Day holiday if you’re in the U.S. and of course, there’s still really about 3 weeks to summer on the calendar, even if it officially ends tomorrow with it being Labor Day. I thank all of you for voting in our polls! Yes, the polls are doing great and bringing in record votes each week!
Keno
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