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Name: Keno
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Subject: Stones album covers/Beach Boys/Love Me Do
Date: Sunday, October 09, 2016
Time: 11:46:02 PM
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It’s time to kick off this week’s poll post, and as usual, I always start off with the Stones poll, which enters week 898, and where we vote in 2 different Stones poll questions each week. Two Stones album VS polls will be run this week, but the first question isn’t the normal album VS question, this one asks: It's Only Rock n Roll vs Still Life, which album has the best drawing on its cover?
Back in 2005, I ran a Stones poll question that asked "Which Stones album has the best drawing on its cover?" The It's Only Rock n Roll’s cover won that poll, and I was thinking lately that I should run some VS questions with some of those albums that were listed in that poll and have them go up against each other, one on one. I was going to match up the 2 top picks from that past poll first (Beggars Banquet came in second), but was thinking the better question would be to place it up against the Still Life album cover, which IMO, is their second best album cover as far as a drawing goes. Yet in that first poll, SL came in last! But of course, that doesn't mean anything in this case, since we only asked for the best drawing overall, and not for the second best one, or the third best, etc. So where I might note in the poll results or at the list pages what choices are in the top 10, that is going by the total vote count for votes cast for the favorite pick only, and where that does mean something indeed, it still doesn't mean the choice with the second most votes is the second choice as far as being the second favorite pick overall goes, since that question wasn't asked.
Now when you vote, you can consider both the front and back covers for this question. For the Still Life cover, painted by artist Kazuhide Yamazaki, it helps to enhance just what you are looking at when you put the 2 together. It wasn't until a Gasser here wrote once about the front and back cover for this LP, that I myself finally got it, as I never took a close enough look to see all of that in the drawing. I never could totally understand what I was looking at there on the front of the album, and once I could see what it was by looking at the front and back cover at the same time, I totally appreciate the cover a whole lot more.
For the IORR cover, I loved this one from the very start. Painted by Guy Peellaert, around the same time he put out a book of like drawings of the Stones, Beatles, Elvis, and all of the top rock artists up till that time, called Rock Dreams.
There’s links to the covers of each album in the voting booth to refresh your memory of them. So which one do you like more? 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: Dirty Work vs Emotional Rescue, which album do you like the best?
vs The very Dirty Polls return this week, featuring the Stones 1986 Dirty Work LP. I think you all know by now just how bad this album is doing in this VS series, and when we first voted on this LP in this series years ago, I don't think any of you would have been surprised to learn that in a few years’ time, you would find out that this album, after 17 matchups, would be in dead last place and it hasn't won a single round yet.
For this matchup, DW goes up against another Stones album that isn’t well loved by the band's fans either, 1980's Emotional Rescue, which is 4 spots from the bottom of the standings with a 1-6 record so far.
To see the song list for each album, for Dirty Work, go here: DW, and for Emotional Rescue, go here: ER.
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.
Real nice turnout at the Stones polls last week, and for the third week in a row now, I’’ll note! At the first poll the question we asked was: 'Street Fighting Man' vs 'Blinded By Rainbows', which Stones song is the better anti-war song? .
A somewhat close race, but still, one song was ahead the entire week and won it in the end by a nice margin, and no, it wasn’t the song I voted for. To see which one came out on top, go here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 897 poll 1.You can also check out the final results at the Stones Stones Top Picks Page 2,under “Battle of the Stones Songs”.
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, it asked: Goats Head Soup vs A Bigger Bang, which album do you like the best?
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Once again, I didn’t pick the winner of this poll (I’m real good at that). Did you? To see which LP came out on top, click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 897, 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 538, 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 The Beach Boys?
The Beach Boys formed in California back in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Brian Wilson was the band's main leader and songwriter, but he also suffered from metal problems which often got in his and the band's way. Yet to this day he is still considered one of the most gifted rockers/songwriters around.
This band did have a ton of hits, mainly thanks to Brian, and in our poll we will chose one from out of 30 of them. To do that and see the 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 the question is: R&B/Soul/Motown vs, Reggae , which music genre do you like more?.
This is the 6th and final week of the Full of Soul polls. This time the genre goes up against another very popular form of black music, that being Reggae, a sound that comes to us from out of Jamaica, where it started up in the early 1960s, although it didn’t get the name "Reggie" until the 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals was released, called "Do the Reggay". "Reggay" had been the name of a popular dance in Jamaica at the time, and the song was record with a Reggae beat, and thanks to the song (not the dance), the genre finally had a name shortly after the song’s release.
Which genre do you like better? To make your pick, 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 your favorite song by The Animals?
Did you have a feeling that “The House of the Rising Sun” might win? If so, you were correct, as it came in first, with 23.6% of the vote. Second place went to “We Gotta Get out of This Place” at 18.6%, and finishing third was “Sky Pilot”, with 12.4%.
You can check out the full, final results from this Rock poll by clicking here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 537. You can also check out the final results at the Top Ten Lists, Page, 13.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: R&B/Soul/Motown vs Pop, which music genre do you like more?
Well R&B/Soul/Motown is doing very well in the voting, as you more than likely have realized after 5 weeks of voting. Last week saw the fourth win in 5 tries for the genre.
To see the final results from this VS Rock poll, click here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 537. 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 291, and this week’s new question is: Which version of the Beatles song 'Love Me Do' was best?
"Love Me Do" was of course the Beatles' very first single, released in the UK in 1962.There were 3 versions of this song made. The first one was recorded with original Beatle drummer Pete Best, but it wasn't officially released until Anthology 1 came out in 1995. The next time the Fabs were in the studio, they would do 15 takes of the song, but by this time Best was already let go and Ringo Starr was their new drummer. This version was the first one released - but only in the UK as a single, where it hit #17 on the charts. It was finally released to the rest of the world in 1988 on the Past Masters LP. A week after the Beatles recorded their second take of "Love Me Do", they were asked by their new producer, George Martin, to re-record the tune one more time, but this time Martin used a studio drummer, Andy White, on the track instead of Ringo, who he wasn't impressed enough with yet, to have him playing drums on what was planned to be their first single. Martin had planned to use White instead of Best in the studio before the Beatles fired Best, and after they replaced him with Starr, Martin still wanted to go with White, so on this version Ringo only got to play a tambourine. This version is the best known, being released as a U.S. and worldwide single (in 1964, reaching #1), and the only version released on both their first UK and U.S. albums.
Now I'm sorry that I cannot include audio links to the 3 different version of this song in the voting booth as I usually like to do with this kind of question, since YouTube has 98% of the Beatles music blocked, thanks to copyright laws, that for some stupid reason only affects the Beatles music on YouTube. But I know that most of us Beatle fans know the 3 versions well enough to be able to vote anyway without hearing the songs first. To vote in this week’s Beatles poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: Which Beatles song has the best Harmonica playing in it?
Last week at the Beatles poll we saw, for the third week in a row, a record turnout in votes, with 2 songs getting most of the votes. "Love Me Do", with the harmonica by John Lennon, came out on top with 26.1% of the votes, while "I Should Have
Known Better", with the harp also by Lennon, placed, at 25.5% of the vote. To see the final results, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 290. Or, you can check out the poll’s winner at the following Beatles list page, just click on Favorite Instruments Heard in Beatle Songs, which is located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Well I guess officially it’s a holiday today in the States, yet most don’t seem to be off from work…. unless you work for the government. Even the schools around here are open, so it looks like just another work/school day for most. For the upcoming week, I myself got several busy days planned, not bad for a retired old man… how about you, busy?
As usual, thanks to all of you who voted in our polls!
Keno
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