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Name: Keno
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Subject: Underrated song per Stones album/Lots more!.....
Date: Monday, January 02, 2017
Time: 2:17:06 AM
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Boy am I running late with the polls tonight (well, this morning), and I’m sorry for being over an hour late in getting the links all up last night for the polls when they started, and being even later than usual with posting this poll post, too. But here I am now, and as we enter the new year and our first polls of 2017, it’s week 910 of our Stones poll, and as usual we will conduct 2 weekly polls for the Stones poll in this one week. The first question will be: What is the most underrated song on the Stones England's Newest Hit Makers album?.
Being that when the first week of April gets here this year, I will be entering the 20th year of running the weekly polls, and as I have noted before, it just becomes harder and harder for me to come up with brand new questions each week after almost 2 decades have passed by. So I was told over and over to just repeat questions from many years ago, which I hate to do, but which I have done maybe 20 times in the past few years. The last time I did that was last February when I asked for the second time, which was the most underrated Stones song. "Winter" was chosen, while back in 2000 when the question was first asked, "Loving Cup" was the pick. But, we asked that question overall in regard to all of their songs, and never asked for the most underrated song per album, which is not really the same thing. So with a shortage of new questions in my mind, and so I don't have to run nothing by Stones album VS questions until week 1000 gets here (even if that question is extremely popular), by asking this new round of questions, well that gives us what, depending on if we cover a few more LPs than just the studio albums, I got at least 25 weeks of new questions right there to ask you voters with this new line of questions alone!
So to get this new series underway, we start off with their first studio album, which was officially released simply as The Rolling Stones, but in the U.S. it had a subtitle and in time the subtitle became the new official title, that being England's Newest Hit Makers. Both the U.S. and U.K, versions of the LP contained 12 songs each, but each version had some different songs included, along with a few of the songs having different versions to them on each album. But the songs were mainly covers on both versions, and both releases were well liked by their new fans.
For this poll, since the UK version is long out of print, we will only go with the U.S. release, since it is looked at today as the true debut LP album released by the band. Now again, what we are looking for here is which song on this LP was the most underrated on it.
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.
This week at the Stones album VS poll we ask: Exile On Main Street vs Emotional Rescue, which album do you like the best?
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At our Stones album poll, we head back up to the beginning of the album VS list for this week's matchup. There we find the very first series ever run, and which we call "The Exile Polls", featuring the double LP Exile On Main Street. EOMS is doing well in these battles, in third place with an 11-2 record. It goes up this week against Emotional Rescue, which isn't doing as well in these album match ups, with a losing record of 2-7, 5 spots from the bottom of the standings.
To see the song list for each album, for Exile On Main Street , go here: EOMS, 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.
At the Stones polls last week, in the first poll, the question asked was: What kind of year was 2016 for the Stones?
Most fans voted for this choice the most: “It was a better than average year for them!”, taking in 44.6% of the votes. You can check out the full, final results from this poll, here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 909 poll 1.
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: 12 x 5 vs The Rolling Stones, Now!, which album do you like the best?
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A close battle last week with this question, with The Rolling Stones, Now! pulling out a win in the end. To see the final results, just click on here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 909, 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.
Over at the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 550, and just like at the Stones poll, we run 2 poll questions a week at this one, too. In the first poll the question is this: What was the best ever sung rock song? (Part 8 of 8)
So finally, Part 8 and the final round of this - should I say - most popular poll question ever asked on this domain (going by the vote count anyway), is here. We have 33 songs that made it into the final round, including 5 songs by the Beatles, with John Lennon singing the lead on 4 of them (well, one is a shared lead) along with another solo song of his making the list, so his name shows up 5 different times in this final round. Then the Stones are next up with 3 songs making the list, all with MJ on lead, and then one more artist who makes the list 3 times, is David Crosby, who shows up singing for both the Byrds and CSNY. We also have another 6 artists with 2 songs each (CSNY, Elton John, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors, Mamas and the Papas). Then there’s another 10 artists who also made it on to this excellent, final list. So yes, it's going to be hard picking the one song sang the best out of these 33 excellent choices that we will chose from. Just remember, don't just pick your favorite song from this list, that isn't what we are asking for, what we want is the song you think is sung the best, period. I know for myself that there's an excellent chance that I won't vote for my favorite song on this list, but as of now I really haven't decided yet which song and singer I will go with when I do vote. Have you decided which song you will go with? To see the list and vote, click on here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
For this week's VS poll, we return to it after taking a rare week off in voting in it last week, and yes, we also return to the series we call the "Same title, different song" polls. So, this week's question is: 'Cocaine' by Eric Clapton vs 'Cocaine' by Jackson Browne, which one of these 2 songs with the same title, is better?
Both songs are about the same thing, the powerful and addicting drug called “cocaine”, a drug that was very popular back in the 1977 when both songs came out.
Eric Clapton's cover of the first song titled "Cocaine", was written and recorded in 1976 by singer-songwriter J. J. Cale. But it was Clapton's cover version released the next year (on his LP Slowhand) that made it a hit. Clapton, a former heroin addict, claims today that this song is anti-drug and anti-cocaine, but please, give us all a break, who's he kidding stating that? This song I'm sure got more people to try the drug than to stop using it.
Jackson Browne's song of the same title was half a cover of the very old 1905 song "Cocaine Blues" (aka "Coco Blues", aka "Take a Whiff on Me"). Gary Davis was credited with writing it, although he told a story that he learned the song when he was just a 10 year old boy in 1905 from a friend; but he was the one that made it popular years later. Browne added in some of his own lyrics to the song, and his take of it sounds more like a country rock number, thanks’ to David Lindley's very spacy fiddle playing, which was the main instrument to the song, and which was put together and recorded in a hotel room one nite while the 2 of them were on tour, back in the summer of 1977.
To make your pick and 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 only Rock poll, we asked: What is the best party song about New Year's Eve? . Well won’t you know it, but we ended up with a tie for first place with this one between “1999” by Prince, and “New Year's Day” by U2, so I guess you can figure out what tiebreaking poll question I’ll ask in 51 weeks for the next New Year’s Eve week poll (that is, if I remember!).
To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 549. I should note that we had an excellent turnout for this New Year’s week poll, really, for all of the polls!
We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 303, and this week’s new question is: Yellow Submarine vs Beatles for Sale, which album do you like the best?
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After a one week break in this line of album questions for the holiday week, we return to what will be the last 4 weeks of this Beatles album VS poll where we been featuring the LP Yellow Submarine. YS is now taking on the oldest and most pop Beatle albums, but it's not doing any better so far, and is still without a win, with only 4 matchups left to go. This week it takes on Beatles for Sale, which was released in the U.K. in 1964. The LP hit the number one spot in the U.K. for 11 weeks, while spending 46 weeks in the Top 20. If you lived in the U.S., you didn't know this album too well since it wasn’t released here until the late 1980s on CD, and instead you knew the U.S. release, Beatles '65, which featured 8 songs from Beatles for Sale.
To see the songs on Yellow Submarine before you vote, go here: YS, and for Beatles for Sale, click here: BFS
To vote in this week’s Beatles poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: Who was the best looking member of the Beatles?
Our throwaway question for New Year’s week, but it seemed to be a popular question anyway, even if you aren’t surprised by who got chosen… You can see who that was, here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 302.
So that’s it for this week’s poll post, and another year of asking poll questions at the domain. I hope all of you had a great holiday season, and officially, at least here in the U. S., it’s still on until Monday is over with, since the holiday fell on a Sunday. Heck, the school’s here are closed for winter break for another week, so I guess I’m stuck listening to rap music during the day this week. Either that or I can run away from home for a week, I guess, or maybe find my old ear plugs…..
I thank everybody who voted last week, we had record votes for any holiday week, and I guess even Xmas and New Years’ week isn’t a slow week anymore, too!
Keno
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