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Name: Keno
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Subject: SG/ER/SW/GHS/Derek & the Domions/BeatlesVS/more...
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2017
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Time for the poll post…. We start off this week’s post (as usual) with the 2 Stones polls that are run on the domain each week, and tonight we enter week 922 of polling. The first question will ask this: Some Girls vs Emotional Rescue, which album do you like the best?.
vs Week 4 of the Some Girls VS poll, and for now, the last week of its initial run. Up to now, the first run of any LP always lasted 6 weeks, but heck, the host album this time has been voted on a bit more than most of the other albums, and now that we are deep into these matchups, for the remaining 7 Stones albums not to host a round yet, no need to go with more than 4 weeks at a time, other than when we get to the new LP Blue & Lonesome, which hasn't had any matchups yet, so when we get to that one, I'll run it for at least 6 weeks, so it can catch up to the others before we hit week 1,000, when these weekly polls will be all finished and they will then live on in the poll archives and list pages, which so many enjoy looking back on.
But anyway, this week SG takes on 1980's Emotional Rescue, our least voted on Stones LP (not counting B&L), with a not that great record of 2-8, placing it in fifth to last place in the VS standings..
To see the song list for each album, for Some Girls, click on: SG, and for Emotional Rescue, click here: ER.
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 regular Stones album VS poll, where each week we bring back an older series to do battle once again, we will ask this: Steel Wheels vs Goats Head Soup, which album do you like the best?
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For our regular Stones album VS poll of the week, "The Wheels of Steel" Polls return to the fray, featuring 1989's Steel Wheels. Like ER, it isn't doing too much better in these rounds, with a 3-9 record and just one spot up from ER in the standings. It takes on this week 1973's Goats Head Soup. GHS is doing well in these one on one battles, sporting a 8-3 record, which is good for a tie for 4th place in the standings.
To see the song list for each album, for Steel Wheels, click on: SW , and for Goats Head Soup, click here: GHS.
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, the first one asked this question: Some Girls vs Aftermath which album do you like the best?.
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Finally, and for the first time in a few weeks, last week our first VS poll saw a very close race take place. To see which album came out on top, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 921 poll 1. 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
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: Undercover vs Beggars Banquet, which album do you like the best?
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This one wasn’t close at all. To see which LP won in the 4th biggest landslide win these VS polls have ever seen, just click on here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 921, poll 2. Plus just like with the SG VS polls, I’ll add the results from this poll to the standings at the Stones VS Page 1, where again, 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 562, and just like as 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: Who was the most underrated member of Derek and the Domions?
We continue with the rock series where we ask for the most underrated member of each rock band, and this week we vote on the short lived band Derek and the Dominos.
Derek and the Dominos were formed in early 1970 by guitarist/singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist/singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, but they only lasted for a bit longer than a year. They only officially put out one studio album (Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs) along with one live LP. But the truth of the matter was that Clapton's first solo album, recorded just before the Dominos LP was made, could also be looked at as a Derek and the Dominos LP, as they were the band who played on that one, too.
The band came about after all of them were playing together in Delaney & Bonnie and Friends - and this is where part of the band's name came from - "Derek", since in that band Clapton was called at first "Del", and later on "Derek", as a joke.
In the very beginning, multi-instrumentalist Dave Mason also played with Derek and the Domions, even appearing with them at their first show, but he had other commitments to fulfill and was never an official member, nor did he record anything in the studio with them.
By the time the new band came to the U.S. to record their first album, Clapton's close friend, guitarist Duane Allman, unofficially joined them and played on all but 2 songs for the new LP. He also played with them on a couple of live dates in late '70, too. Clapton wanted him in the band officially and asked him to permanently join, but Allman didn't want to leave his other band, The Allman Brothers, behind.
Yet before the summer of 1971 arrived, the band was already no more, and a second planned studio album never came to be. As it was, Allman was killed that year in a motorcycle accident.
Radle would continue to play with Clapton after the breakup, including appearing with him at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in late summer of '71. But sadly he would die young, from a kidney infection in 1980.
Whitlock and Clapton didn't play together again for almost 30 years after the band broke up, finally getting back together to play live in 2000. But perhaps Gordon's story is the most tragic, as the much sort after drummer, who played on countless hit songs since the early '60s, was convicted of killing his mother in 1984 and has been in prison ever since. Gordon at the time had undiagnosed schizophrenia, and some fellow musicians who played with him, would talk about his strange behavior at times in the studio, as he often heard voices that were only in his head that were driving him crazy. He live several years with his common-law wife, singer Rita Coolidge, who coauthored the piano piece he wrote and played on the song "Laya", which was of course a giant hit from the band’s studio album, thanks in part to that piano solo. But one day, those voices in his head that he kept hearing, told him to beat up Coolidge, and only for that reason he did, resulting in her leaving him. Those same voices would tell him soon after to also kill his mother, which he did. Many years later (around 2000) at a parole hearing, he insisted that he couldn't and would never hurt his mother and that she was still alive. His parole was denied after the hearing.
So anyway, that’s a short summary of the members in Derek and the Dominos. I think that almost all Classic Rock fans know about them well enough, but you can read up more online about them too if you like before you vote. But if you’re ready to vote right now, and I bet most of you are, 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 Rock poll we ask this: 'Under Pressure' by Queen and David Bowie vs 'Ice Ice Baby' by Vanilla Ice, which song is better?
I wasn't sure if I was ever going to run this question or not. It's been sitting in my future poll file for a few years now, since as you and I know, Vanilla Ice is no Classic Rocker. He’s a hip-hop rapping artist, with his only connection to classic rock being that he stole the music from the Queen/Bowie song. But right there you got his connection to the music that we vote on each week, so this poll question will be conducted after all.
The Ice man at first didn't credit Queen or Bowie for many years for taking their composition without permission, with him insisting that his bass and piano lines were not the same as what is heard in the other song. But nobody was buying that story, as it clearly was a case of plagiarism. He finally, many years later while under pressure (pun intended), did co-credit them and pay them back royalties for the song’s music.
The 1982 song "Under Pressure” was mainly written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury, taken from another unreleased song that was written by Queen's drummer Roger Taylor, called "Feel Like". So that song would become "Under Pressure", with new lyrics added in.
Bowie was visiting with Queen in the studio one day when he heard a very early take of the song and he then came up with the song's famous bass line, after hearing Queen's bassist John Deacon playing something similar to it. Bowie would then join up with Queen singing the co-lead on the song, and with the tune then being released by both Queen and Bowie on their new albums.
So which song do you like better? 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: Who was the most underrated member of The Small Faces/Faces?
In close polling for 4 of the former band members, keyboardist Ian McLagan came out on top by just 2 votes over my pick, Ronnie Lane. To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 561 Or, to just view last week’s top pick along with the other past chosen most underrated musicians from the other bands already voted on, just click here for our newest list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14
In last week’s VS Rock poll, we asked: 'Hey Hey What Can I Do' by Led Zeppelin vs 'Roxanne' by The Police, which song about a guy in love with a prostitute, better A very close battle in this one last week. To see which song was picked, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 561 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.
Now let’s head on over to the Beatles poll, where it’s week 315, and this week’s question is: The White Album (aka The Beatles) vs Magical Mystery Tour, which album do you like the best?
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We bring back the Beatles album VS poll this week. Unlike at the Stones album series where we also do this, for this one I run each Beatles album’s series all at once, since there's only 13 official Beatle studio albums. 14 if we count the U.S. Hey Jude LP, but I'm not counting any of the U.S. released albums including the HJ release, even if it is different from the other ones and actually was a stand-alone album with no connection to the UK albums. But HJ was more of a compilation album of songs that had never appeared on any studio albums before, and an LP not actually put together by the band, so that's why we are not including it in the matchups.
Both of these 2 albums this week sport a 2 win, one loss record in these matchups. To see the song list for each album, for The White Album, click on: TWA, and for Magical Mystery Tour, click here: MMT.
To vote in this poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: Which Beatles' song title best describes you? “I Feel Fine” is the way most Beatle fans feel today, which is a good thing of course, taking in 6.2% of the vote in some very close voting. You can check out the full results from this question here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 314.
So another week and another poll thread comes to a close. How was the first week of spring for you? Here in Colorado, where spring had sprung several weeks early this year, we got to see a bunch of snow, around a foot or so in back to back storms, with 2 more storms on the way in the next few days. Yet the temps been staying on the mild side anyway, and just barely cold enough for the snow to stick, then it warms up after the storm is over, so it still don’t feel cold even with the snow on the ground..
As I like to note at the close of this post, regardless of which polls you vote in, be it only one - or all five each week, I thank you for taking a part in the voting process!
Keno
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