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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Stones hidden tracks/LIB/B2B/Paul Simon/Fabs
Date: Sunday, September 18, 2016
Time: 10:53:47 PM
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Week 895 of the Stones poll is here, and as usual, we will vote on 2 different Stones poll questions. For our first Stones poll, the new question will be this: 'Cosmic Christmas' vs 'Key to the Highway', which of the only 2 hidden tracks released on a Stones LP, is better?
Yep, these 2 cuts are the only hidden tracks to ever appear on any of the Stones LPs. "Cosmic Christmas" came first, in 1967 on TSMR, and like the LP, this number is psychedelic, in fact, even more so than the album is. Bill Wyman is the only Stone on this one, playing the mellotron, and yes, it's very far out and spacey, as any Stones number has as ever been. "Key to the Highway" is a short piano solo, and wasn't meant to be on the Dirty Work album, but after the album sessions were finished, original Stone Ian Stu Stewart, who played some piano on the album, died of a heart attack, and the band added in this hidden track as a honor to him. He is the only one playing on this track, and like "Cosmic Christmas", which only runs for 40 seconds, we only get 33 seconds of KTTH to listen to.
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 features the return of the Bleed Polls, and asks this: Let It Bleed vs Bridges To Babylon, which album do you like the best?
vs Very strange, when I went to look to see which album Let It Bleed might go up against this week, I realized that LIB hadn’t gone up against any album made after 1976's Some Girls. Strange indeed, since the last 3 studio LPs have all been voted on quite a bunch, yet never against this 1969 masterpiece….Yes, LIB is doing very well in these Stones album matchups, in second place to the undefeated Sticky Fingers, at 9-1, and it's only loss was to SF.
Out of the only 8 remaining Stones LPs not to host a VS series yet, Bridges To Babylon has been voted on the most, and this will be its tenth matchup. But B2B isn’t doing so great in the standings, at only 1-8, in second to last place.
To see the song list for each album, for Let It Bleed , go here: LIB, and for Bridges To Babylon , go here: B2B.
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.
Before I write about the results from last week's 2 Stones polls, please let me talk about all the polls and their results last week first…. All of the 5 polls saw near record votes cast for their respected polls. At the 2 Stones polls, the first poll ended up with 684 votes, tying the third highest total for this poll, while the Stones Album Poll saw the second highest vote total for the Stones poll with 686 votes, just 2 short of the record - damn, just missed it!... At the Beatles poll we saw the 5th highest vote total, at 670 votes cast; at the main Rock poll we saw the fifth highest vote total at 766 votes, and at the Rock VS poll 670 votes was cast for the third best total ever there…. This is beginning to be almost a regular thing at our polls now, so perhaps I shouldn’t waste space noting it? But it's a big deal to me anyhow, since it took so many years to get to this pace, which I do hope continues. I mean, after 894 weeks at the Stones poll alone, it is a big deal for it to finally happen now.
Looking back at last week’s first Stones poll we asked: Do you plan to buy the new Stones mono box set, titled: The Rolling Stones in Mono? .
Going by our poll results, perhaps the Stones management shouldn’t print too many of these box sets, as a very large number of fans have no plans to buy this package. I’m sure it isn’t that Stones fans aren’t interested in something new, they just don’t wish to pay such high prices for anything mono. I mean, if we have the songs already in stereo, why would we want them in mono only, other than I’m sure that collector’s will like this. I bet if they cut the price in half, more might buy it.
To see the final landslide results from this poll, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 894 poll 1.
Last week at the Stones VS poll, we asked: Sticky Fingers vs Tattoo You, which album do you like the best?
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Tattoo You didn’t really have a chance in this one, as SF started to beat it up from the start and then for the entire week. You can check out the final (and once again) landslide results by clicking here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 894, poll 2. 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.
At the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 535, and as usual we’ll vote in 2 polls in this one too. The first question this week is: What is your favorite song by solo Paul Simon?
We return this week to asking for the best songs by different rock artists, and this week we look at Paul Simon. Paul is one of the few great rock giants out there, and perhaps one of the most underappreciated. Really he is, but why? Perhaps it’s because he isn't 100% a rock n roller and more a folk-rocker? Still, he was one of the first 1960s folk-rockers and one of the best early all around song writers, and also one of the best acoustic guitar players out there, too…. He made his fame with Art Garfunkel of course, and Art had perhaps a better singing voice than Paul did (if you dig high singing voices, that is), but 99% of the songs they sang together were written by Paul alone. As a solo artist, Paul as had some big hits too, and his solo music is what we will look at in this poll. Do note that back in 2009 we did run a poll asking for the best Simon and Garfunkel songs (in the week of October 26, 2009, and "The Sounds of Silence", was chosen). So that's why the Paul Simon written songs sung by Simon and Garfunkel will not be listed in this new poll. But there will be 3 songs out of the 38 listed that you might think are Simon and Garfunkel songs, and these 3 actually are both. "My Little Town" is one of them, and yes, this was released as a Simon and Garfunkel single, recorded as a reunion song for the 2. But the same version of the song was also released at the same time as a solo Simon song on his then new solo LP Still Crazy After All These Years. Then we also have the song "Red Rubber Ball", which Paul wrote and which Simon and Garfunkel sang live every so often, however, forget about that, we are only considering the #2 hit single recorded by The Cyrkle (released in 1966), it's the only song listed in the poll that Paul doesn't perform on, but look again at the poll question and you will understand why it's listed. Last but not least is his 1965 solo song "I Am a Rock", which was first released on his first solo album, and which was in the next year recorded by Simon and Garfunkel on their second LP, and their version became a big hit… but what is listed in the poll is the first version of the song only. If you don't know the solo take, it's up on YouTube, but it pretty much sounds like the Simon and Garfunkel version, without Garfunkel singing with him on there.
To vote in this poll and see the 38 songs that are listed, go 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, it’s the third week of “The full of Soul, polls”, and the question is: R&B/Soul/Motown vs Hip-Hop/Rap, which music genre do you like more?.
Some people like to call R&B/Soul/Motown, and today's Hip-Hop/Rap, "black music". Of course, the sound is for everybody to enjoy, and like in the '60s and early '70s where us older rock fans of all different colors loved R&B/Soul/Motown, today all, or at least most kids of all color love Hip-Hop/Rap. Still, most of these 2 sub-genres were/are performed by black people, which is why it is known as "black music”, and a match-up of old black music vs new black music will now take place this week in our rock VS poll.
Which subgenre would you rather listen to? 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: Which rock band was the best backing band of all time?.
Damn were the results to this one very close indeed, right to the very end of voting. The top pick was The E Street Band, taking in 6% of the vote, with Booker T & The MGs, which lead in the poll for most of the week, placing at 5.9% (one vote shy of first place), while third place went to Crazy Horse (5.7%).
You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 534. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: R&B/Soul/Motown vs Punk, which music genre do you like more?
Just like in the week before at this poll, we saw a landslide result for the host genre. To see the final results from this VS Rock poll, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 534. 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 288, and this week’s brand new question is: What was the best Beatle song that featured just one Beatle on the recording?
Last week's Beatle poll got me thinking of asking this question, after I noted in the poll post that on the John Lennon written song "Good Night", that it was one of only 8 Beatle songs that only features one Beatle on the released recorded version of the song. John actually hated whenever this took place, even if he was responsible for 2 of those 8 songs. It was reported that John became very upset with Paul in the studio after Paul took a song the 2 of them wrote, "Mother Nature's Son" (the music was written by Paul alone), and recorded it alone without the rest of the band. Ringo and George were both also upset over Paul doing this, too. Paul had done the very same thing on 3 other songs before this one, and then would do it again on one more song later.
Lennon in protest, ended up playing his song "Julia", recorded for the White Album, alone, because of Paul's playing without the band on three songs that were already recorded for that same album. There would be a total of 5 songs found on that double LP that featured only one Beatle playing - and they are 5 of the 8 songs listed in this week’s poll.
On a side note to you Gassers before you vote, do you know of any Stones songs that only feature one Stone in it? This question would make for a great Stones poll too, if I could get some help in making up a list. It just so happens by coincidence, that the 2 songs that we are featuring this week at the Stones poll both only feature one Stone, Bill on "Cosmic Christmas" vs Stu on "Key to the Highway", but are there others? Well Mick J sings alone without the rest of the band on a few songs on the LP Metamorphosis, but there's a reason we don't talk much about this LP, since those very songs aren't really Stones songs at all, and were never meant to be released on a Stones album, not until Allen Klein' got his money hungry hands on them. But would - or should we even count those songs in such a poll, since the Stones didn't want them released in the first place, and Metamorphosis isn't an original studio album. Something to think of….
To vote in the Beatles poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: 'Good Night' vs 'Golden Slumbers', which Beatle song is a better lullaby?
Very very close voting in this one, and I’ll bet Paul’s singing over Ringo was why his song won this poll question in the end, since Lennon’s song is clearly a better written lullaby, IMO, even if I enjoy hearing Paul singing his song over Ringo’s singing, not that Ringo did a poor job at all in singing that song, he just can’t sing as well as Paul. But singing isn’t what we were looking at in this question, it was the written lyrics that mattered. To see the final results, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 287. Or, you can check out the poll’s winner at the Beatles VS list page, just click on this page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well that does it for yet another week’s poll post. Thanks to all of you for voting in near record numbers last week! Have a safe and happy upcoming week!
Keno
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