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Name: Keno
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Subject: Stones genius/SW/SF/Cheesy Songs/Fab lyrics/more..
Date: Sunday, July 30, 2017
Time: 11:02:07 PM
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It’s around that time to kick off our weekly poll post, and as usual we start off talking about the Stones poll, where we enter week 940 of polling, and as we always do, we will vote in 2 poll questions for the week. The first question will ask this: Who was more of a musical genius in the Stones, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, or Keith Richards?
We ask this question a couple of weeks ago at the Beatles polls for their group's two most important members, and this week here we look at the 1960s Stones 3 most important members. But that doesn't mean when you vote to limit your consideration as to who was the truest genius in the band to just the '60s, for the Glimmers you can consider their work up until today. But we are just looking for who was the truest musical genius out of the 3, business skills, acting, nor anything else outside of music counts here, just who was a genius in music overall is what we are looking at with this question.
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 second Stones poll is where we run the Stones album VS matchups, and the week's second poll will ask this: Steel Wheels vs Sticky Fingers, which album do you like the best?
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The Wheels of Steel Polls return to the battle this week featuring the 1989 album Steel Wheels. This LP has been having a hard time at it in this series, with a 3-11 record, and 5 spots from the bottom of the list. SW hasn't gone up against any of the top Stones LPs yet, so this week for the first time it will when it takes on the only undefeated album in these battles, that being 1971's Sticky Fingers, sporting a perfect record of 13-0 and all alone in first place.
To see the song list for each album, for Steel Wheels , click on: SW, and for Sticky Fingers, click here: SF
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 first Stones poll last week we answered this question: Blue and Lonesome vs Emotional Rescue, which album do you like the best?
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The last week of the initial run of the Blues polls and as what seems to be the case with this new Stones album, it wins one week and loses the next, and last week was its turn to win again – and sure enough that’s what it did, and in a very big way I’ll note. To see the final results from this the poll, just click here::Stones Weekly Poll - week 939, poll 1. Plus, I’ll 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 Aftermath, which album do you like the best?
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This poll also saw a landslide result last week. To see the final results, just click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 939, poll 2. Plus, just like at the first poll, I’ll add the results from this poll also to the standings at the Stones VS Page 1.
Now let’s move on to the Classic Rock Poll, we enter poll week 580, 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 this week asks: What was the most cheesy rock/pop song ever released? (Part 2 of 3)
Week 2 of 3 of this question, with 38 new songs (well, old songs, just not the same old songs from Part 1) to choose from. Then after this week, Part 3 will see the top 10 songs chosen from the first 2 parts, go head to head with each other, and then we will see which song gets the top pick. Plus yes, I guess this is one of those polls where you don’t want to see a song that you like a lot, come in first!
To see the songs listed and to vote in Part 2 this poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
At the second Rock poll this week, known better as the Rock VS poll, we will vote on this question: 'I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys' by The Stones vs 'Boys' by the Beatles, which song about boys is better?
Two songs from the early and mid '60s that sounded like maybe they were gay songs? Well the Stones song was about a gay person, and yet while the Beatles cover sounded even gayer than the Stones tune, it actually wasn't a gay song at all.
The Beatles cover song came out first, as the Fabs recorded it in 1963, with Ringo Starr on the lead vocals. They had been covering the songs live for years – even long before Ringo was their drummer, as original drummer Pete Best used to sing it. Then when Ringo joined the band, it turned out that he also used to sing it live regally for the last band he was in, so the Beatles decided to keep playing it and let their new drummer keep singing it. The question was why didn't they just change the lyrics around, which were written for a female to sing, to where it would fit right for a straight male singer to sing and not sound gay, since it wasn't a gay song to begin with? That’s how most songs are handled, but they didn’t do that. But as the Fabs noted, if you just listen to the opening lyrics, it clearly isn't a gay song when you hear what the opening lyrics have to say, since the Beatles did change that part of the lyrics a bit and you clearly hear that they are talking about a straight relationship here.
The original song was sang by a girl group, The Shirelles, and released as a B side single in 1960. It was written by Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell for them to sing.
'I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys' was recorded in 1965, with the lyrics written by Andrew Loog Oldham, and the music by Keith Richards, but it wasn't released until 1975 on the compilation album Metamorphosis. The song was written about songwriter and producer Bob Crewe - who wrote most of the 4 Seasons hit songs, plus several others hits for a few other groups, too, and who at the time was still very much in the closet, as most gays in the U.S. were up until the mid '60s. Crewe would at the time date girls to cover-up the fact that he was gay, and he very much didn't like having to do that, as he would have rather been with his boyfriends instead, and Oldham just took off with that after Crew said something to him about hating to be in the closet. The song was first released in 1965 by a band called The Toggery Five, but the lyrics to their cover was changed around a bit by Oldham so the song won't sound gay (the main line changed to "I'd rather be out with the boys"). The Stones version, recorded in the same year, only featured 2 of the Stones, as the band had no plans to ever release it themselves, it was just put together to be shopped around for other artists to use. It featured Jagger on vocals, Richards on guitar, along with John McLaughlin also on guitar, Joe Moretti on bass, and Andy White on the drums.
As usual, there will be links to both songs at the voting booth if you need to hear them before you vote. Once you’re ready to vote in this 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 first Rock poll, we asked: What was the most cheesy rock/pop song ever released? (Part 1 of 3)
We were looking to go with the top 10 cheesiest songs picked this week to go on to the final round, but a 4 way tie for the final spot makes that total number 11 songs. They are: Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express (7.2%), Disco Duck - Rick Dees (6.9%), (You're) Having My Baby - Paul Anka (6.1%), Y.M.C.A. – The Village People (6.1%), MacArthur Park – Richard Harris (6%), I Want Candy - Aaron Carter (5.8%), The Mouse - Soupy Sales (5.8%), I Think I Love You – David Cassidy/The Partridge Family (5.7%), Just A Gigolo – David Lee Roth (5.7%), The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) - Alvin and the Chipmunks (5.7%), and Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart (5.7%).
To see the full final results, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 579.
In last week’s VS Rock poll, we answered this question: ’You're Breakin' My Heart' by Harry Nilsson vs 'All About You' by the Stones, which nasty song about a former lover, is better? I guess a lot of Stones fans still do vote in the rock polls even if I claim that lots of the voters are not hardnosed fans and our voters come from elsewhere to vote in our Rock polls each week. But considering that this poll was pretty much tied all week long, and for the first 2 days the Stones were ahead, shows lots of Stones fans at least did vote early in our Rock polls. I say that also because the Keith Richards song is a deep cut and many don’t know it, and I personally don’t care for it, which I bet means other Stones fans don’t either. But it did very well last week against a song that IMO has vocals that are well sung and so much better than how the Stones number is sung.
So which song ended up first by just 3 votes? To find out and see the poll’s final results, just click here: Rock Poll 2, week 579 You can also check out the final results at the VS Classic poll results page 2, at the Classic Rock site, by clicking here: VS Page 2, List Page 10.
Now it’s time to close out this poll post with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 333, and the question is: What's your favorite lyrics from a Beatles song? (Part 2 of 4)
Part 2 of this question, and it will be run in the same exact way last week's Part 1 was run, and there will be another 34 song lyrics this week to choose from. To vote in Part 2 of this poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we asked: What's your favorite lyrics from a Beatles song? (Part 1 of 4)
Of the top 8 song lyrics picked last week to move on to the final round - well because of a tie there are nine of them, but 8 of the 9 were Lennon lyrics, wow! This was also the first time the Beatles poll went over the 1100 marker in total votes. So a popular question I see, but I'm not at all surprised, since it was a popular question a few years back when I asked it at the Stones poll. I gotta wonder why it took me so long to run it here, other than it takes a long time to put such a poll together. Plus yes, it would make for a great Rock poll question, too, but hell, if the Stones and Beatles poll run 4 weeks each and they are just 2 bands, how many weeks - or months, would the Rock poll go on for with such a question? To say the least it would take me a ton of time to just put such a poll together. So that's something to think about. But I was also thinking of running such a poll for Dylan soon, too, since he has written some of the best lyrics, so perhaps instead I should just go that route, and also just ask this question at the rock poll one week at a time for other artists instead? Time will tell on that and what I end up doing. But it's something to think about if nothing else!
Anyway, to see the top 8 (well 9) lyrics chosen that will be voted on again in Part 4, just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 332.
Well, that does it for another poll post. Hard to believe August is here in one more day! The summer is just racing by…. along with our lives I guess…. Thanks to all of you for voting in our polls each week!
Keno
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