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Name: Keno
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Subject: TSMR/IORR/SG/Nicky Hopkins/Fire/Ringo
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Time: 11:12:14 PM
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Message ID: 306648
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It’s time to get the weekly poll post underway, and as always, I start it off with the Stones polls, where we enter week 917 of the poll and as usual, we will hold 2 Stones polls in one week. The first poll question is: What is the most underrated song on the Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request album?.
Week 8 of looking for the most underrated song on each of the Stones studio albums. This week it’s Their Satanic Majesties Request turn. TSMR was the Stones second release of 1967, coming out in December of that year and it would be the very last time that the Stones would release more than one studio album of new material in one year. As it is nowadays, we got to wait 10 years for such a release, so we fans were really spoiled back in the ‘60s, indeed!
This LP was released to mix reviews, really the first Stones LP that some didn't like, although hard nose fans dug it, as did the late ‘60s hippies, and in time it did grow on most Stones fans. This LP was a Psychedelic Rock album, and both Brian and Keith disliked it, even though it was Brian who added the most psychedelic elements to it, and who turned the song "2000 Light Years from Home", which Jagger and Richards had at first rejected, into a big hit once he added in his Mellotron and piano to the song. Then his tune "Gomper", which Jagger wrote the brief lyrics to, was another song that he wrote the music to but which he wasn't credited for. Other than Keith's 12 string guitar, and some added percussion played by Charlie, all of the other many instruments heard on this song was Brain playing. It is considered the first modern day New World music song released. So yes, even if BJ wasn’t crazy about this psychedelic album, it was yet another Stones album that he left his mark on in a major way.
Also on TSMR is one of only 2 credited Bill Wyman songs to show up on any of the Stones albums, that being "In Another Land", with both Bill and MJ sharing the lead vocals on this song, with the main lead sung by Bill. The song was supposed to be about an acid trip, and at first was called "Acid in the Grass", which makes me wonder if it really might have been about marijuana instead, since Bill was very fond of weed, while LSD wasn’t something that he was ever into. Funny when you think about it, in the late ‘60s marijuana’s main slang name was “grass”, yet today you hardly hear that used anymore.
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: It's Only Rock 'n Roll vs Some Girls, which album do you like the best?
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The "It's Only a Rock 'n Roll Poll", poll, returns this week, featuring the Stones’ 1974 LP It's Only Rock 'n Roll. IORR is the second most voted on Stones album in this matchup series and sports a winning record of 9-5-1, landing it in 8th place in the standings. This week it goes up against 1978’s Some Girls, which also has a winning record at 6-4 and sits in 11th place in the standings.
With IORR, we Stones fans got to hear what would be the last LP with Mick Taylor in the band, even if we didn’t know it at the time Then 4 years later with SG, we got to hear the best album made with Ron Wood in the band, and some fans (not me) will say that this was their last great LP.
To see the song list for each album, for It's Only Rock 'n Roll, click on: IORR, and for Some Girls, click here: SG.
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, at the first one, the question asked was: What is the most underrated song on the Stones Between the Buttons album?
Boy, talk about a very close poll, this one went down to the wire, with 4 songs having a shot at being picked as most underrated. The song that I would pick as the second most underrated on the LP, “Connection“, was picked as the most underrated song by most of the fans who voted last week, gathering 11.7% of the vote. Tied in second place was the song I still feel is the most underrated, “Miss Amanda Jones”, it tied with a song I don’t think is underrated at all, that being “She Smiled Sweetly”, both falling one vote short of first at 11.6% each. You can check out the full, final results from this poll, here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 916 poll 1.
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: A Bigger Bang vs Steel Wheels, which album do you like the best?
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Of the 5 weekly polls we voted in last week, this was the only one to turn out not to be really that close at all. ABB really kicked ass over SW on this matchup and in doing so moves up in the standings just a bit, as SW falls just a bit. To see the final result from last week’s poll, just click on here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 916, 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.
Let’s head over now to the Classic Rock Poll, where it’s week 557, 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: On what song did Nicky Hopkins shine the brightest?
This week at the Rock poll we give a salute to keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, who was perhaps the greatest piano player in the history of Rock Music (and voted just that here in a Rock poll that we ran in 2007). This is a poll I've wanted to run for several years, and which I just never got around to putting together until about 2 months ago, and in this upcoming week, on Feb 24, it would have been Nicky's 73rd birthday. So a great time to run it, indeed!
Of course Nicky died many years ago, at only age 50, from the poor health he had to endure for his entire life, and which got in his way from joining too many bands that would have loved to have him as a member, since for most of the time, he was too sick to go on the road and tour. Of course he was a main session player for the Stones, John Lennon, and several other major acts. There are just so many songs that Nicky played on, while his keyboard playing helped to make these songs great. For this poll I'll list 50 of them. And since Nicky did play on so many songs for The Stones and solo Lennon, I might just someday run separate polls alone at those 2 polls one day. But no, I didn't list all of the songs he played for them, or other songs that he played for others, just the best known songs are covered in this poll.
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, we enter week 11 of the "Same title, different song" polls. This week's question is: 'Fire' by Jimi Hendrix vs 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, which one of these 2 songs with the same title, is better?
“Fire” by Jimi Hendrix was recorded in 1967, and showed up in the U.S. on the LP Are You Experienced, but it wasn't released until '69 in the UK as a single - with a different title, that being "Let Me Light Your Fire". The fire that Hendrix sings about in this song is the sex drive and desirer in people. The song was made with his band, the Experience and it was produced by Chas Chandler. It turned out to be one of his best known songs in time.
“Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, was a very popular 1968 psychedelic rock song that went to number 1 in the UK and number 2 in the U.S. and was also a Top 10 hit in all of the other countries where it was released. The song was written by singer Arthur Brown and it features future Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood on bass guitar; it was co-produced by Pete Townshend and was considered a very far-out song back in its day. Some say this song is a good example of one of the very first ever death metal songs, and that it is also a good example of the earliest of Goth music, too. Well maybe, but those 2 subgenres were still many years away from happening, and when this song came out it was only meant to be another psychedelic rock number, and it for sure was a dandy.
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: Which song sung by a guy, sounds the most like a girl singing? Well I see that this was a poplar question indeed, as this one week only "Dude Sounds like a Lady, Poll" saw a record number of votes cast at our Rock poll last week. Plus some very close voting in this one, with 13 of the 35 listed songs getting the most votes. “Hot Child in the City”, sung by Nick Gilder took first place by 2 votes and 6.4% of the vote. A good pick, even if it wasn’t my first or second choice, while my second choice was what actually took second place, that being “Bread and Butter” by The Newbeats with lead vocals by Larry Henley (6.3%). Third went to Boy George singing “Do You Really What to Hurt Me” with Culture Club (6.1%) while “Jackie Blue” by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and sung by Larry Lee, IMO was another one that maybe should had come in ahead of the Boy George song, instead it was in 4th place with one less vote and 6% of the vote.
To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 556 Or, to just view the final top ten picks from this poll, they will show up at our brand new list page (yep, it’s that time when the old page we’ve been using gets a little too long in length, and in KBs, too). So just click here for this new page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14.
In last week’s Rock VS poll, we asked: ‘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?
Another very close poll for the entire week that looked like it might end in a tie. But the Steely Dan song won this battle in the last few hours that it ran. The lead was changing hands at the close of each day, on a few days they were tied, and 2 votes was the biggest lead any one song had at any time (at least whenever I checked the results),
To see the final results of this poll, go here: Classic Rock VS Poll, week 556. 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 off the poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 310, and this week’s question is: On what post Beatle song did Ringo Starr shine the brightest on?
This is our last week looking at each solo Beatle and asking for their best songs as solo artists. Then next week I'll combine all of the top songs chosen and ask for the best one out of them.
Ringo has released a large number of solo songs and albums, and has played far more live tours than any of the other 3 former Beatles, be it in part that John and George have been gone for a long time now.
But many Beatle fans were thinking that Ringo just might fade away after the Beatles broke up, yet that wasn't the case at all, in part thanks to former Fab George who helped him out a lot in his early solo days. The 2 were close friends indeed. John was also there a lot for him too, and even Paul helped him out on a solo song or 2. Solo Ringo did indeed end up with some true hit songs, more than George had, but his 3 biggest singles were all written by either just George, or the 2 of them together after George had at first started writing them and then gave the songs away to him.
When Ringo first started out solo, it looked like he just might become a country star, and he was mainly recording country music, and his second LP Beaucoups of Blues was a country album only. But in time that won't be the case, as he returned to rock music and never played any country music again, for the most part.
To vote for the Ringo 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 George Harrison shine the brightest on? I should had run this poll question this week instead of last week, as it's George's birthday this week (he would had been 74), but I didn't realize that 2 weeks ago when I put it together. “My Sweet Lord” was the most voted on song, which I don’t think surprises anyone, but you can check out what other songs did well in the voting, here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 309. 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.
Okay, so that does it for this week’s poll thread. Monday is a US holiday, so are you getting a day off from work? The holiday is called “President’s Day” in half of the US, but where I live and for the other half of the country it’s still called “Washington’s Birthday”. I prefer “Washington’s Birthday” myself, as way too many past US presidents were assholes (along with the current nut who’s in the White House), and we sure as shit don’t need to honor at least some of them.
As usual, a big “thank you” to those of you who vote each and every week!
Keno
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