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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Stones VS/Queen/N. Young and the Fabs
Date: Sunday, December 10, 2017
Time: 11:14:08 PM
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Stones VS/Queen/N. Young and the Fabs

It’s time to get this week’s 5 weekly polls underway, starting off with the Stones Poll, where we enter week 959 of the poll, and as usual we will run 2 Stones polls in this one week. The first poll question asks this: England's Newest Hit Makers vs A Bigger Bang, which album do you like the best?

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Week 3 of the England's Oldest Hit Makers Poll in the Stones VS series. England's Newest Hit Makers, after last week's battle, now has improved its record just a bit, to 6-9 and moves up into 18th place. This week it takes on 2005's A Bigger Bang, which now sits exactly one spot below ENHM (after that LPs win last week), at 7-11-1.

To see the song list for each album, for England's Newest Hit Makers, click here: ENHM, and for A Bigger Bang, click on: ABB

To cast your vote in this first VS 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 normally run the Stones album VS matchups, and we will continue to do so this week as we try to get every Stones LP matched up against each other in the remaining 42 weeks of the Stones weekly poll. So this week's question asks: Steel Wheels vs Out Of Our Heads, which album do you like the best?

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The Wheels of Steel Polls steer their wheels into another album battle this week, and here we have another album, this time Steel Wheels, that has seen hard times in these matchers, with a very weak record of just 3-11, sitting two spots from the very bottom of the album pile. It goes up in this round against the mid ‘60's Out Of Our Heads, the only album this week of the four that has a winning record, at 11-4, good for a Top 10 spot in 7th place.

To see the song list for each album, for Steel Wheels, click here: SW, and for Out Of Our Heads, click on: OOOH

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: England's Newest Hit Makers vs vs Emotional Rescue, which album do you like the best?

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Week 2 of the England's Oldest Hit Makers poll series, and as I noted above, the host LP took a win in a somewhat close battle. To see the full final results from this poll, click onStones Weekly Poll - week 958, 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 Sticky Fingers, which album do you like the best?

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I don’t think I have to tell a soul which LP won, and as it was, it won in the second biggest landslide tally that I can recall in these album VS polls. To see the poll’s major landslide results, just click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 958, poll 2. Plus, just like at the first poll, I’ll add the results from this poll to the same standings at the Stones VS Page 1 that I just noted above, 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 poll week 599, and just like as we do at the Stones poll, we vote in 2 poll questions a week in this one too. The first poll’s question this week asks this: Rate Queen's official video for “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Click here for the video)

This masterpiece song was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1975. I recall reading that back when the song for "Bohemian Rhapsody" was made, that the technology for what the band wanted to do wasn't around yet, so it took forever for the band to put this one together in the very way that they wanted it done.

There's several different layers to this song that covers several different music genres in it, including but not limited to a ballad part, to hard rock, and even a bit of opera in it, too! It reached #1 on the charts and stayed there for 9 weeks after its release, and then yes, later it went to #1 again in the UK for 5 more weeks after Mercury died in 1991 and became the third highest selling song in the UK ever. If that wasn’t enough, in the U.S., it also returned to the charts years after its release in 1992 and went all the way to #2, thanks to the movie Wayne's World, after it was used in that flick.

The video to this song has been noted as the one that launched the MTV age, even if MTV was still several years from happening, because its success showed how important it was to produce such a promo video for a single, and after this one every single put out after it - by every major artist, would all have videos made, up to this very day. Also note that this one was the first rock promo film to actually no longer be called that, and instead it was called a "rock music video", the very first film clip ever called that, and after it came out, all such promos were instead now called "music videos".

Unlike the song itself, which took months to make and is listed as the most expensive song to ever be recorded, the video only took four hours to make. This happened on November 10, 1975, and it was released just a week later.

Now don’t forget, in these video polls we are voting on the entire video, not just the song. The video is linked to from the voting booth, so you can and should watch it before you vote, to help to refresh your memory of it. The link to the video can also be found here in this thread (above).

To cast your rating in this poll, 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 new question: “Eleanor Rigby”' by The Beatles vs “The Loner” by Neil Young, what song about loners is better?

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For "Eleanor Rigby", released in 1966, this one was mainly written while the band was in the studio. But it's a song that nobody knows for sure who wrote most of it, other than Paul McCartney brought the tune into the studio one day with the first verse that he had already written. But he had nothing else written out for it and asked his mates for a hand with the rest of the lyrics.

Lennon said that he "wrote a good half of the lyrics or more", while Paul said it was 80% he and 20% John. There are other stories that both George and Ringo also came up with a with line to the song each. So who actually wrote most of the song seems to be disputed. My guess is that it was more a 50/50 split between Lennon and McCartney and John clearly wasn't happy that when it was first released, that it was noted as a McCartney number only. Sounds like this one just might have been an entire band effort after all.

"The Loner" was written in 1968 by Neil Young and was his first solo single release. The song was actually first released on his solo debut album in November 1968, but the single was an edited version of what was on his LP and it wasn't released until three months later, in the new year.

The number was written while he was still a member of the Buffalo Springfield (and recorded with former Springfield members Jim Messina on bass and George Grantham on drums). The big question after it became a big hit, was, who was it written about? Many felt it was in part about his fellow bandmate Stephen Stills (who covered the song on his 1976 solo album Illegal Stills), while others claim it was written about Neil himself and his dislike of being in bands, as he prefers to play alone.

To vote on this question for the better of the 2 songs here, just click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.

Looking back at last week’s first Rock poll, we asked: Rate the AC/DC official video for their song “'Highway to Hell' (Click here for the video)

It was a close call between a “9” and a “8” for which number would be picked and by one single vote “9” was chosen. So it’s clearly a well-liked video indeed. To see the full final results from this poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 598. For now the final result are showing up on this list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14 This week I will set up a new page for these results, just like I have for the Stones and Beatles videos. I gotta finally get to it this week, as Page 14 is running out of room where I have the results listed.

In last week’s VS Rock poll, we answered this question: Paul McCartney vs Mick Jagger, who is the better lead singer?

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Close, steady voting in this one, and Jagger hung on to win the poll by just 9 votes. You can click here to see the results: Rock Poll 2, week 598. 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. .

We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 352 and ask this question: Rate the Beatles movie Help!

Help! is a 1965 British musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, and starring the Beatles. Unlike the first Beatles movie, A Hard's Day Night, this one actually had a plot to it, with the group coming up against an evil cult that wants to kill Ringo because of a ring that he has stuck on his finger…. Okay, it might have been a silly plot, but a plot it was, and like their first movie - that really had none at all, this one at least had a story to follow in it.

The Beatles noted that the film was shot in a "haze of weed (marijuana) ", especially the one part of the movie that was filmed in the Alps where they all were especially more stoned than usual. More than likely this was because they were getting stoned at a very high elevation up in the mountains, and it is a fact that the high one experiences while at such places, is more intense when being at a mile or higher up in the atmosphere (above 5,280 feet), than at sea level. Those of us who live in such areas know this well enough, thanks to the lack of oxygen in the air to breath at these high levels.

But anyway, the bottom line was the movie, after its release, was yet another major success for the band. The Beatles just couldn’t fail at anything they did at this point!

So how do you rate this second Beatle movie? To vote in this poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.

In last week's Beatles poll we asked: Rate the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night

This movie was well loved by the band’s fans, and if you were around back in the day you don’t really need a poll to tell you this. I recall it playing in several movie houses and all of them sold out each showing, so you would have to wait on very long lines for a few hours just to see one of the showings if you went to see it in the first 2 weeks or so of its release. Of course, everybody wanted to see it asap, hence the long lines and sellouts.

To view the final results from this poll, just go there: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 351. Or, you can check out the final results at the: Beatles Video and Movie page, which is located at the domain’s Lennon Site.

Well another new week and another poll post finished. So I guess in the last few weeks as Colorado sees near record high temps and little to no snow, the rest of the country is getting snow, even in the deep south where it almost never snows! Talk about things being mixed up! This is only the second time where I live in the 15 years I’ve been in this town, that there’s no snowpack on the ground this late into the season. We usually see that start up in mid-November, but the ground is bare and very dry here, with only 9 hours of snow falling in the last 71 days (and no other precip, either), with zero snow/precip in the last full month alone, with another week of sunny skies and warm temps forecasted for us. Yesterday I was able to dry our wash to dry outside on the line again, and I have never been able to do that before in December, or even in November. That’s the way this fall’s been here, but it’s nice to save some money by not having to turn on my dryer, or use a lot of heat so far this season, even if everybody here would rather to see snow. But hell, it’s snowing in Alabama and Mississippi, and I guess a blizzard at manny’s house, as I saw the highlights to that football game played there today in what looked like a foot of snow coming down. Yet it was a warm 45F here and over 60 degrees in Denver for their football game. Crazy weather indeed!

Thanks to all of you for voting in our polls!

Keno

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