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Name: Keno
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Subject: 3 Stones polls this week! Plus harmony Part 9/+...
Date: Monday, May 21, 2018
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3 Stones polls this week! Plus harmony Part 9/+...

Week 982 of the Stones weekly polls is upon us, and for this week we will run 3 different Stones polls in this one week. The first question will ask this: Rate the Rolling Stones video for “Lady Jane”

This first poll is kind of a redo of the poll we voted on 2 weeks ago, since I needed to correct the mistake I made back then when I asked about one Stones' video - for "I am Waiting", and linked to the video for the "Lady Jane" video. It appears that some of you voted on the LJ vid instead of the stated video, while those who just voted and didn't watch the video, voted on IAW. So to correct all of that, I deleted that poll from 2 weeks ago, and we will re-vote on this again, by asking about the video that I had planned to ask about all along, that being LJ. In reading that post from 2 weeks ago, you can see that I was talking about that song and video, and that was what I thought I had programed at the poll.

Up until the Friday before that poll was to start 2 weeks ago, I was considering going with either IAW or LJ for that week's poll, and that night decide on LJ, since it was time to actually build the new polls that would start that Sunday night. I decided that after watching both videos, since the Ready Steady Go video of IAW has parts to the performance they played that night that is totally out of order (not so much the Stones fault), and for that reason I went with LJ instead, since that one if anything was the total opposite, as that entire video, taken from the Ed Sullivan Show, had close to perfect matching, even if the music wasn't being played live (well it was, but wasn’t being heard on TV, as the recorded music from the record was heard instead).

Both of these 2 songs of course featured Brian Jones on the dulcimer, only difference is that he uses a slide on the dulcimer while playing LJ - as I noted 2 weeks ago here, and using a slide on a dulcimer is very unusual for this instrument. But no slide was used on the song and video that I did link to in the poll, IAW. But it was still easy to get the 2 songs confused, and I noticed that in the few emails I got from those of you who wrote me, you were all confused too, and no one ever even noticed the mistake! So I’m sorry that I confused everybody!... But hey… a mistake is a mistake and it happened, no big deal, and now it’s time to move on. But anyway, because of this misstep, and our Stones poll running out of weeks in which we can make up for a mistake like this, I will run 3 weekly Stones polls this week (a first for these old polls) to cover that, and so there will be 6 weekly polls running on the domain for this week.

But then again... I have 20 more videos that I want to run for this poll question, but I only have 17 weeks of polls left to run (not counting this week) and not all of them are planned out to be video polls. So maybe I'll change things around a bit and instead run 3 Stones polls a week until week 1000 shows up? That is, if the domain's server can handle it all. The server has now messed up on 3 Monday mornings in a row, causing all of the ASP pages to go off line (FYI that’s all of Gasland and the polls pages), in part because Monday mornings are the busiest voting time of the week - along with a larger number of Monday morning lurkers (larger than any other morning) reading posts on the board/domain at the same time, and I guess the server can't handle the heavy demand placed on it. But I got the domain’s host to now refresh the server once every hour on Mondays, so that shouldn’t be a problem this week or anymore. If that is the cure to stop the domain from going down on Monday mornings, great, but I'll only know that for sure come a few hours from now. But if this fix does work, then why not run an extra Stones poll for the next several weeks? So we shall see how this works out come later on this morning. If you see the server crash again later on this morning, more than likely 3 Stones polls a week won’t happen again.

So what rating do you give to this video? To cast your vote in this first poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

The next Stones poll question will ask this: Bridges To Babylon vs Sticky Fingers, which album do you like the best?

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For the next 8 weeks we will see the last 4 albums that haven't hosted a series yet in these matchers, do just that, with each series getting 2 weeks each to be featured. This first one was supposed to be the main first poll this week, but because of my having to run the video poll again, and the Stones polling weeks are running out, well I can't wait a week to get this new series started. So it's the co-main poll this week, and if in the next week if I do decide to run 3 Stones poll a week until the last 4 series of these album VS polls finish up, so be it.

I'll call this new series the "The Babylon Bridge polls", and of course it features the 1997 Stones LP Bridges To Babylon, which somehow is tied with the Stones newest studio album (B&L) with the least number of matches in this series to date, that being 16 of them each. B2B isn't doing too well at all in these matchups, with a record of only 2 wins to 14 losses and way down in 22 place in the standings. Perhaps it’s the only modern day Stones LP that most fans don't seem to like a lot. This week it takes on the one LP everybody seems to love, and our only undefeated album in this series, that being Sticky Fingers, sitting tall at 18-0 (and in first place)! Does anybody think that SF will lose any of the remaining rounds before its last matchup is reached? Well here's a hint for you all, it has taken on all of remaining LPs in the Big 5, and beaten every one of them. But we do still have to run its last 5 matches to officially get that answer for sure. But at this point the real question for SF is, by just how large an landslide win will it see in the last 5 matchups? Can it even beat its all-time record margin win that it saw over DW? Well probably not unless I ran that same question again.

To see the song list for each album, for Bridges To Babylon, click here: B2B. For Sticky Fingers, click on: 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.

The Stones normal second poll is where we normally run the Stones album VS matchups each week, and this week as poll 3, the new question is: Between the Buttons vs Black and Blue, which album do you like the best?

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The Buttons Polls returns this week to the regular Stones album VS poll and it will be the third poll run for this week. This series features 1967's Between the Buttons of course, which might not be doing as well as you might have figured it would, with a losing record (yes, a losing one) at 8-9, and in 15th place in the same standings. It takes on Black and Blue this week, yet another Stones album that never has seemed to be too loved by us fans, released in 1976, it also has a losing record in these matches of 3-15 and is just one spot above B2B in the standings, tied for 20th place along with Steel Wheels.

So which LP will you go with this time? To see the song list for each album, for Between the Buttons (U.S), click here: BTB – U.S., or for Between the Buttons UK, click here: BTB – UK (pick only the BTB LP that you know better when comparing this LP to BnB). For Black and Blue, click on: BnB.

To cast your vote in this third Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 3” to vote on this question.

At the first Stones poll last week we answered this question: Rate the Rolling Stones video for “She's So Cold”

Well results wise, we’re back to where the Stones videos do only okay - but nothing great in the polling, either. I still don’t get it, IMO that was an excellent video with no rating lower than a 9 to be had. But no, the top rating my fellow Stones fans (that’s you) gave this video was only an 8.0! What can I say, other than you can see the final results from this poll here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 981, poll 1. Or, you can also check out how all of the other videos that we have rated in the past, by going here: Stones Fans Top Pick Lists - Page 2, under “Video Ratings”.

Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: Their Satanic Majesties Request vs Goats Head Soup, which album do you like the best?

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Well last week I noted here that I felt this was gonna be a good matchup. Well, I was wrong, as it wasn’t, and yet another blowout took place. To see the final results, just click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 981, poll 2. Or, you can see the final results and check out the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.

Over at the Classic Rock Poll this week we enter poll week 622, and we will vote in 2 poll questions in this one week for this one. The first poll’s question this week asks this: Who were the best harmony vocalists singing in a song? (Part 9 of 10)

The last week for us to pick new entries for Part 10, which will be the final round of this fun series, and yes, another doozy of a list to choose one from!

To cast your vote for this week’s Part 9, 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 new question: Punk vs New Wave, which music genre do you like more?

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It's been awhile since we last ran the genre VS poll matches for this poll, and they did well enough the last time I asked the question to give them another round. This time we will be looking at Punk Rock, which started out in the late 1960s and was at its peak in the mid '70s. Although it’s still around today, it isn't anywhere as big as it once was, and it really never was embraced by the masses like say Classic Rock has been, or say Heavy Metal, or even rap (which has been embraced big time, even if my generation mainly hates it, it's still loved by the younger kids and has been for over 30 years now).

Like Metal music, Punk got its start right around the very same time and it also grew out of Psychedelic music, but while both punk and metal both started out as a form of garage rock music, metal rockers just wanted to have fun and play their music as loud as possible, while as punks wanted to do that too, they also made it a lifestyle and political cause, and then they also took the rude, I hate everyone approach towards the establishment (and even to other rockers, which was the genre's only real mistake, as you don't ever bite the hand that feeds you), too.

Of course, good old wikipedia.org, the site we were just talking about here around 2 weeks ago, totally has their info on Punk rock down wrong, and I mean 100% wrong, opening their page on this genre by claiming it started up in the mid-70s, which is totally wrong and off a good 10 years (how can they have that down wrong?). They note that it grew out of the sub rock genres of "proto-punk" in the '60s, but crap, we called it just "punk" in the late '60s and that is what this so called proto-punk was, why place a new word in front of it and make up a false story about it all? The earliest punk rockers were bands like the MC5, the Stooges, and Alice Cooper, who were all out of Detroit city, and many called that city the place where punk started, even if that isn't true, since it really started up in the NYC area (and in the UK, too), but Detroit did have some of the best punk rock bands ever seen come out of it for sure.

By the early '70s most of the Punks cut their long hair short, while some of them grew mohawks, and the true Punk look was born - that along with sticking pins and needles in different parts of their bodies for style (while for the most part of course, the needles sadly went mainly into their arms or between their toes, as the punks were even more big time drug users than the hippies who came before them, and more into the harder drugs, too).

Now some will argue that Punk and New Wave were the same thing. Well, they weren't really at all, other than NW grew out of the Punk moment. In NYC during the mid-1970s, where I lived at the time, and back when and where NW got started, the 2 were separate anyway, and it stayed that way when by the late '70s when they were both were at their peaks. NYC was a place that had a lot of Punks and New Age people around, and the 2 were totally different for sure. Yes, they were still close cousins’ back then, especially look wise, but not really music wise, other than both sub genres were known for having mainly very poor playing bands. But more so that applied to New Wave bands, as just about every NW band played their music poorly it seemed, where as some punk bands could play well enough, too. One of the reasons New Wave died out was because of these poor playing bands that tried to copy Punk, and poor playing copycats never really last in the music business, other than maybe in rap and hip-hop - where for whatever reason it has.

So there was a true difference between the 2, New Wave came about from Avant-Garde rock music, disco, some mod, and definitely electronic music, and it was influenced by artists like the Velvet Underground and Yoko Ono.

Synthesizers and regular organs seem to be a main instrument in New Wave, along with poor guitar players. Some say that the Velvet Underground was the first NW band, but of course they were never such a band, but while they were 100% an Avant-Garde band with some Punk and hippie leanings mixed in, the short lived subgenre of NW did evolved from around that band regardless.

The biggest NW bands never were that big either, while one was actually very good, that being the Talking Heads (who were flat out great!). Other NW bands were Blondie (who flat out sucked), the New York Dolls (who were all pretty boys - who also sucked), along with a few others like the Boomtown Rats (who were okay at best). Some claim that the Cars were such a band, but come on, no, they weren't, as they were playing Classic Rock music all along, we just didn't called it "Classic Rock" yet, and since there wasn't a name yet for that genre, some placed that label on them since they didn't know what else to call this odd kind of band that played new but old sounding music that would slowly take over the music world like no other rock genre since (actually, Classic Rock has a true starting date back to the late ‘60s, yet the word wasn't coined until the very late '80s, even if the music had been around for 20 years when it was finally named).

By around 1984 or so, NW music was all but dead, with the poorest of the NW bands - groups like Duran Duran and Devo, all trying to hang on and find a new subgenre to join up with (the start of synthpop was their answer), while Punk around this time seemed to be dying out too (but again, never totally went away, either). But while in their heyday of the mid '70s, these 2 subgenres were where a lot of our rock music and style was coming from at the time.

So which genre did you dig more? To cast your vote, 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 answered Part 8 of this question: Who were the best harmony vocalists singing in a song? (Part 8 of 10)

Well for the second week in a row, there were no ties again and just 3 songs were selected for round 10. The 3 that did make the cut were: “Bohemian Rhapsody” - Vocal Harmonies by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor (on the Queen song, at 6%), “California Dreamin’” - Harmonies by Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, and John & Michelle Phillips (on The Mamas and the Papas song, at 5.8%), and “Woodstock” - Vocal Harmonies by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Gram Nash & Neil Young (on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song at 5.5%).

To see the full, final results from last week’s first poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 621.

In last week’s VS Rock poll, we answered this question: “The House of the Rising Sun”: The Animals cover vs Frijid Pink's cover. Which version is better?

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This one wasn’t as close as I thought it would be and as seems to always be the case with me, the song I voted for came in second. Which one was that? Just click here to find out: Rock Poll 2, week 621. You can also check out the final results at the VS Classic poll results page at the Classic Rock site, by clicking here: VS poll page 3, list page 15.

We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 375 of polling, and ask this new question: Revolver vs Beatles For Sale, which album do you like the best?”

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So this week we continue with the Beatles Album VS polls, in week 3 of the “The Revolving Polls”, featuring the Beatles’ Revolver album. This week Revolver goes up against 1964’s Beatles for Sale. A very stupid title for a great album. This LP isn’t doing so well so far in these matches go, with only a 2-4 record. But hell, it’s gone up against the biggest Beatles LPs so far, so what do you expect?

To see the song list for each album, for Revolver, click here: Revolver LP. For Beatles For Sale, click on: BFS.

To vote in this Revolving series, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.

In last week's Beatles poll we asked: Revolver vs Help!, which album do you like the best?”

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Close, but still, one LP lead for the entire week and never once gave up its lead. So did undefeated Revolver keep its perfect record and go to 8-0? Well, to see the poll results, just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 374. Or, you can check out the final results at: The Beatles Albums Page, which is located at the domain’s Lennon Site.

So yet another poll post for another new week is finished. Here in this neck of Colorado the school summer break season just started up while it snowed just a bit up high in our mountains today. Summer brakes always adds to confusion to me since I’ve been retired, as my grandson’s schooling is the only thing that keeps me in tune to a normal work week now, and with him being home all week now, well, I’m gonna get my weekdays all mixed up until late August when school starts back up for him.

I thank all of you for voting in this week and last week’s polls!

Keno

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