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Name: Keno
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Subject: 2 Stones Polls/2 Rock polls/One Fab poll/and a....
Date: Monday, December 18, 2017
Time: 1:47:30 AM
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I’m running very late tonight in getting our weekly poll post underway for our 5 weekly polls, but as usual we’ll start off with the Stones poll, where we enter week 960, and where we always run 2 different polls in the week. So this week’s first question asks this: England's Newest Hit Makers vs The Rolling Stones, Now!, which album do you like the best?
vs The 4th and final week of this poll's initial run as a host. England's Newest Hit Makers will try once again to improve its record, which now stands at 6-9-1, by going up against another ‘60s LP, The Rolling Stones, Now!, which sits in 10th place in the standings with a winning record of 8-6.
To see the song list for each album, for England's Newest Hit Makers, click here: ENHM, and for The Rolling Stones, Now!, click on: TRSN
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 40 weeks of the Stones weekly poll. So this week's question asks: Their Satanic Majesties Request vs Blue and Lonesome, which album do you like the best?
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Sometimes things have bad timings to them. I've noted that the “December Polls” have never run in the month of December before, and thanks to the Stones weekly polls finishing up next September, they never will. Yet for the second year in a row, just 2 weeks before the most joyful holiday of the year, we have the evil sounding “Satanic Polls” turn come up. Oh well, that's how it goes, but truth is, it’s really not an evil poll series at all, even if it sounds “Satanic” thanks to its title. But the 1967 released Stones LP that hosts this series, TSMR, has a record just above .500 at 8-7, good for 13th place in the standings.
This week TSMR goes up against The Stones latest studio album, Blue and Lonesome, released a year ago this month. It has been featured in this Stones album VS series 13 times now in the last half year, by far the most voted on LP for all of 2017, yet this still is only it's 13 overall matchup... still, it is catching up to the other LPs fast enough. B&L hasn’t had the greatest time in these poll’s, with a 5-7 record, placing it down in 17th place.
To see the song list for each album, for Their Satanic Majesties Request, click here: TSMR, and for Blue and Lonesome, click on: B&L
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 A Bigger Bang, which album do you like the best?
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Week 3 of the England's Oldest Hit Makers poll series, and low and behold - a rare tie took place last week in this one. It’s been awhile since any of these Stones album series has seen one (thank goodness). To see the final results from this poll, click onStones Weekly Poll - week 959, 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: Steel Wheels vs Out Of Our Heads, which album do you like the best?
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Out Of Our Heads blew Steel Wheels totally off its axles last week in a landslide victory. To see the poll’s final results, just click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 959, 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 600, 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 The Who's official video for 'Who Are You' (Click here for the video)
“Who Are You” was written by The Who’s main man, guitarist Peter Townshend, and is the title track of The Who's 1978 studio album, which was the last album put out by the original band. The video was filmed with the band playing live in the studio, other than the synthesizer heard throughout the song came from the original version. This video was one of the very last things that Keith Moon did with the band, as he died just 2 months after its filming. The promo film clip, as it was actually called instead of being called a “video”, was actually made for The Kids Are Alright documentary that was being put together at the time.
Now don’t forget, in these video polls we are voting on the entire video, and 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: “Heroin” by The Velvet Underground vs “Sister Morphine” by The Rolling Stones, what song about drug use/addiction is better?
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“Heroin” by The Velvet Underground, was written by Lou Reed and recorded in 1966 and released in the following year. The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll”.
Reed said he first wrote this one for a record company back in 1964 when they asked him to write 10 new songs for them, but this one song they rejected. In early '65 he changed the lyrics around some to the song and at that time made a demo of it, and by then he noted that the newly rewritten lyrics were about the self-destructiveness that he was going thru by that time, thanks to being hooked on the drug himself. Yet the song was looked at more as a pro drug song that really didn't say anything bad about the drug, and if anything turned his fans on to using the drug, which Reed years later acknowledge and said he regretted that, and he actually stopped playing the song live for a while for that very reason. Yet I still have to wonder if Reed’s shooting up live on stage may have led more so to some of his fans shooting up, too?
“Sister Morphine” was released on 1971’s Sticky Fingers album. Marianne Faithfull, who wrote the first part of this song, wrote this about her time in the hospital, after she attempted suicide the day after learning of the death of Brian Jones, and as is the custom of the Glimmer Twins who wrote the song's second half of the number, they didn't credit her at all when the song was release by the band (it’s really sad how often we must note this with these 2 guys). Faithfull actually had recorded and released her version of the song before the Stones take, and on her version she was credited, and she then sued the Glimmers when she wasn't credited on Sticky Fingers. Jagger/Richards lost in court and had to credit her after all was said and done.
The interesting thing about this song was that Faithfull was quoted as saying that besides writing the song about her hospital stay, the tune was more so inspired by Lou's Reed's song "Heroin", the very song it goes up against this week.
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 Queen's official video for “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Click here for the video)
A well liked video indeed, as it becomes only the second Rock video that we have voted on in the Rock poll so far to score a “10” as the top vote. To see the full final results from this poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 599. Or check out the top rating from this one against the other rock videos that we already rated in the past, as I redid the list page that this list is located on: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14. These video ratings are now located on top of page 14 instead of being on the very bottom, and they are now easier to read than before.
In last week’s VS Rock poll, we answered this question: “Eleanor Rigby”' by The Beatles vs “The Loner” by Neil Young, what song about loners is better?
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This one was very close all week long, but the Beatles held on to win in the end by just 5 votes. You can click here to see the results: Rock Poll 2, week 599. 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 in the usual way, with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 353 asking this question: Rate the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour
I have said for years, and over and over again, how the Beatles never put out anything bad, period. But even with that being true, there's always an exception to any rule, and I think the one thing most Beatles fans will say if there was one thing that wasn't that great that the band put out, it was this movie. It was called by some the tour that went nowhere. So let's take a vote on this movie and see if our voters feel if all of that is true or not.
This movie was Paul McCartney's idea. McCartney got the idea for this from the real life adventures of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters' and their 1964 cross-country American tour aboard their bus called "Further". The movie was directed by the Beatles, had no scrip at all, as they just made up things and adlibbed as they went along. MMT was also the shortest of the 5 Beatle movies, clocking in under an hour, at only 52 minutes, making it almost impossible to be shown in any movie theaters since it was so short. It turned up first on TV in the UK on BBC2 in December of 1966, but in America it didn’t get released until 1974 when it was finally shown in a limited number of theaters.
So how do you rate this third 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
Like the Beaters first movie, Help! also scored a “10” for its top rating. To view the final results from this poll, just go there: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 352. 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 that does it for this week’s poll post! With Xmas being on a Monday this year, but with the holiday weekend starting this Friday night, is this Xmas week or is next week? I guess officially its next week, since most places are still open this week, as are the schools around here, at least until this Thursday. Yet it almost feels like the holiday week is this week. So if you are off from work this week, I guess you’re getting an extra week off. I’m actually not off this week, even if I am mainly retired, since my newspaper column, that I still write now but only once a month, is due this week, plus I got to finish Xmas shopping and food shopping (and that’s work!), then I get to do all of the baking tor the family on Xmas Eve, and most of cooking on Xmas Day. Plus since I’m still the town’s official weatherman and there’s snow in the forecast, that means I’ll also keep busier than normal taking care of that this week too, with people traveling here and there and wanting to know if there’s gonna be good or bad weather to travel in this weekend. So if anything, the holiday means extra work for this retiree (a word that really doesn’t apply to me at all for this next week). But anyway, thanks as usual to all of you for taking part in our polls!
Keno
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