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Date: Sunday, February 12, 2017
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Week 916 of our Stones poll is here and as usual, we will hold 2 Stones polls in this one week. The first poll question is: What is the most underrated song on the Stones Between the Buttons album?.
Week 7 of looking for the most underrated song on each of the Stones studio albums. This week it’s Between the Buttons turn, and just like in last week’s poll with Aftermath, this LP also had 2 versions to it, one released first in the U.K (on January 20, 1967) , and then the U.S. version was released about 2 weeks later. Both versions had 12 songs each, with just a few different songs between the 2. Where the UK album had "Back Street Girl" and "Please Go Home" on it, instead of those 2 songs the U.S version had "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Ruby Tuesday". So overall, we will have 14 songs to choose from when we look for the one song that is the most underrated on the combined U.K. and U.S versions of the album. Wow, this one for me anyway, will be the hardest one to decide on so far, there are just so many underrated songs on here!
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: A Bigger Bang vs Steel Wheels, which album do you like the best?
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The Big Bang Polls return this week, featuring the Stones’ 2005 LP A Bigger Bang. ABB has a 5-7-1 record in this series so far, placing it in 17th place in the standings. It goes up against 1980’s Steel Wheels, which has a 3-8 record and sits just one slot behind ABB in those same standings.
To see the song list for each album, for A Bigger Bang, go here: ABB, and for Steel Wheels, go here: SW.
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 two polls last week, in the first one, the question asked was: What is the most underrated song on the Stones Aftermath album?
The pick for the top song wasn’t close at all, as “I Am Waiting” got the nod in a landslide vote. You can check out the full, final results from this poll, here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 915 poll 1.
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: Dirty Work vs Bridges To Babylon, which album do you like the best?
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Well well well.... something that has never, ever happened at the Stones VS poll took place last week involving the Dirty Work LP. Now no, don't even thing for half a second that DW could have won the battle, you should know better than that. But, DW did score its most votes ever out of all of its other 19 matches, and in this battle against Bridges To Babylon, it also saw its highest percentage total ever, too. It still lose in a landslide, but then again, it still took in 26.8% of the vote, 1.8% higher than its previous high - from 13 years ago when it went up against Undercover, in what was the very first ever Stones album VS battle, back in 2004!
To see that final result from last week’s poll, just click on here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 915, 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, it’s week 556, and just like we do at the Stones poll, we run 2 poll questions a week at this one, too. The first poll’s question will ask this: Which song sung by a guy, sounds the most like a girl singing? We will call this one week poll the "Dude Sounds like a Lady, Poll".
Most of these songs that you will see listed are well known, but some aren’t, and if you don't know of few of them, I would suggest you go to YouTube and have a listen, since this question has nothing to do with which song you know best or like best, but only with which guy sounds the most like a girl while singing, and a quick listen will tell you that. So no, you don't need to know the song well at all (where that usually helps and applies to most songs in polls we run). The first minute you hear a song should give you an idea if a song should be considered or not. In looking over the list, my bet is that 2 or 3 of the most likely unknown songs, that should be in the top 10 the most, may not make it there since they aren't that well know, in part cause they are either very old songs, or just not known that well. That’s why I suggest giving any song you don’t know a quick listen before you vote.
Now yes, we did run a poll question asking for the best falsetto sung in songs about a year ago, but not on all songs sang in falsetto, does the guy singing it sound a like a female, so this question is different, as in several of these songs, the guy isn't even singing in falsetto. Plus again, we are not looking for the most liked song here, only who sounds the most like a girl while singing. You can totally dislike a song and still vote for it if you think the singer sounds female.
There were several other songs that I could had added to this list but didn't, since most of the songs I didn't list, mainly were sang by the same people already listed, and only Nick Gilder got listed twice for this poll, once for a solo song of his, and once for a song he sang in the band Sweeney Todd, since both of these 2 songs are usually noted as 2 of the most female sounding songs ever sung by a guy. Also, I was looking for songs where most if not the entire song sounded female in the vocals, and not just a part of it. Like with Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which has some strong female sounding vocals sung by both Freddie Mercury and drummer Rodger Taylor. But I decided not to list that one, since for about half of that song they sing in totally male sounding voices.
I'll note, that I myself like all of these songs listed, it doesn't matter to me if a guy sounds like a gal or not. IMO, it's how the song grabs you, and all of these grab me in some way. Hell, even Tiny Tim's listed song is enjoyable enough. The interesting thing about Tim was that his actual singing voice wasn't high at all, he sang that way since that was what people wanted to hear. Once in a blue moon he would sing a song in baritone/bass - really, and there's a duet he does - with himself (it's on YouTube, his cover of "I Got You Babe"), where he sings the male part in bass, and the female part in soprano, it's the funniest thing to hear (and there's several different live versions of it), and I suggest you check it out when you are in need of a good laugh. But no, that song isn't listed in our poll this week, and none of these other songs listed are joke songs, these singers were for real, and some of them, if not most of them, unlike Tiny Tim, could only sing in a high tone, period.
To vote in this poll, just click 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, it’s week 10 (already?) of the "Same title, different song" polls. This week's question is: ' Do It Again' by Steely Dan vs 'Do It Again' by The Kinks, which one of these 2 songs with the same title, is better? Two excellent songs indeed; this one just might end up being a close poll, unlike what we have seen in the last few weeks with this question.
'Do It Again' by Steely Dan came out first, in 1972 on their debut LP, back when they were actually a real band and not just 2 guys with session players backing them. The song went to #6 on the charts and turned out to be their second biggest hit. If you check out the video in the voting booth, don't be fooled when you see former/brief member of the band, David Palmer, who is shown singing lead. On the studio version, and on most of their songs, Donald Fagen was the lead singer, but he had stage fright in the early days and won’t ever sing live. So Parmer was hired to sing live on their first 2 tours. In the video, the music and singing is dubbed from the studio cut, and not live. But this clip was from the old TV show Midnight Special, and Palmer was actually singing the song in the show that night, while Fagen is shown singing brief backups, but thanks to whoever put this video together, you can't hear him singing backups at all, and as it is, there aren't any old videos from back then showing him singing the lead live anyway to be found, again, since he never did sing the lead live in those days.
'Do It Again' by The Kinks was a later day hit for the band, released in 1984 on their LP Word of Mouth, and sung by Ray Davies, who wrote it. It was one of those songs that grew on a lot of people in time, and became much more popular after time passed by. But as a single in '84, it only reached #41 on the U.S. charts. I do not believe the song was ever released as a single in the U.K. But its cool video, played often on the then new cable TV station MTV, is why I believe the song in time became so well liked.
To make your pick between these 2 songs, 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 rock song written about (or directed towards) politicians? This one was a close poll all week long, and in the end the top 3 songs were: Taxman, by The Beatles (7.9%), Masters of War, by Bob Dylan (7.5%) and Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon (7.4%). I do like how the final order of all of the songs came out, even if the Lennon song was my top pick.
To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 555 Or, to just view the final top ten picks from this poll, they will show up at Top Ten Lists, Page, 11.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: Good Times Bad Times' by Led Zeppelin vs 'Good Times Bad Times' by The Rolling Stones, which one of these 2 songs with the same title is better?
Led Zep kicked the Stones ass in this one… now there’s something you can’t say too often, unless you’re more a Zeppelin fan you may.….. To see the final results, go here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 555. 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 finish this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 309, and this week’s question is: On what post Beatle song did George Harrison shine the brightest on? I have listed the 24 most well-known solo songs that George recorded.
Two of his best written and most known solo songs, weren’t solo songs he recorded for himself, as "It Don't Come Easy", and "Photograph", he gave away to his former Beatle mate Ringo Starr, including the writing credits, too*. He also played on both songs and sang the backing vocals on Ringo's cover of them. But that was the kind of man George was, always looking out for others and not seeming to care or worry about himself and his own solo career. Whereas John Lennon was looked at as the most hippie Beatle and most involved in helping out his fellow man, it was George who really was the true hippie and the one who ended up giving away most of his money to charity. It was he who started and put together the very first benefit rock concert, that being the Concert of Bangla Desh, in 1971, and to this very day, all sales from the excellent star filled triple LP and movie that came from that concert, still goes to charity.
*I should note that Ringo's "Back Off Boogaloo", a song written about Paul McCartney, was also co-written by George (as Starr himself has said), and again, no writing credit was taken by him on this song nor on the other 2 songs noted above (after its release, his name was added to "Photograph", a song that he at first wrote alone, then finished with Ringo). There are boot versions of "Photograph" and IDCW, where the demo cut has George singing alone, but never officially released, so those songs aren't listed in our poll this week.
With that all noted, George's biggest hit solo song that he recorded for himself, was "My Sweet Lord", the first number one single by an ex-Beatle, and even this one was at first given away to another too, to Billy Preston, before he recorded it for himself. Yet he got sued for plagiarism on this song, which IMO, doesn't sound like the song "He's So Fine". But George being George, didn't fight it in court at all, other than to say that he got the idea for the song from the tune "Oh Happy Day", an old traditional song that had no copyright hold on it, and he said that "He's So Fine" wasn't even on his mind when he wrote MSL.
Another hit song that he wrote, "Wah-Wah', was actually written while he was still in the Beatles, and like "Back Off Boogaloo", he wrote it about Paul, after the famous argument the two had and which was caught on film in the movie Let it Be.
Then there was a later day hit for him, written for another former mate, John Lennon, after John was killed, "All Those Years Ago", and on this one, both Paul and Ringo played with him on the song when he recorded it in the studio.
To vote for the Harrison song that you like best, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: On what post Beatle song did Paul McCartney shine the brightest on? Okay, so we now got the top songs that Paul made for the poll we will run in a few weeks when we combine all the results from these polls we are running now about each Beatle. I’ll note that last week one song of Paul’s, took in a landslide number of votes for first, that being “Maybe I'm Amazed’, which was his first solo song and one that many Beatle fans confused for a Beatles song when it first came out.
Anyway, you can check out the final results from last week’s VS poll, here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 308. Or, you can check out the poll’s winner at the following Beatles list page, just click on Beatles Miscellaneous Listings, which is located at the domain’s Lennon Site.
Now when it comes to what songs will be used when we ask this question for all 4 former Beatles, chances are we will see more songs listed recorded by Paul and John than from George and Ringo, since Paul and John had most of the bigger hit solo songs and more songs listed to vote for in these polls. Yes, I could have listed more solo songs for George and Ringo - especially Ringo, who has put out more solo songs than John and George did, but I already know from experience that most of his songs released after 1980 would see little or no votes at all, and I rather not waste space in the polls' data base by listing them. IMO it would be a waste of time to list them.
Okay, so that does it for this week’s poll thread. I had a very long week last week, how ‘bout you? I’m hoping for a much better one this week, as I’ve been fighting off a bad cold for 2 weeks now. Plus I can’t believe that I’m still having problems with my index finger that I badly cut about 6 weeks ago. I finally started to use it again this week and now tonight it’s blown up and is twice the size that it should be where I cut it and this ugly scar has formed. I just heal from everything real slow I guess, but tonight I’m back to typing using just 4 fingers on my right hand, and I hate that!
As usual, a big “thank you” to those of you who vote each and every week!
Keno
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