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Name: Keno
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Subject: Ron Wood/B&L/DW/Unusual singers in bands/more
Date: Sunday, December 09, 2018
Time: 11:38:51 PM
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Ron Wood/B&L/DW/Unusual singers in bands/more

Time to talk about our 5 new Rock polls that we will be voting on this week here on the domain, starting off as usual with the weekly Stones poll, where we enter week 1,011, and where we always run 2 different poll questions each week. For the first poll, here’s what is being asked: On a scale of zero to 10, rate Ron Wood as a musician

We continue to move along rating each member of the Stones on a scale of zero to 10 on how good they each are at playing the instrument that they play most often play, and this week we look at the last Stone to rate, Ron Wood.

But Ronnie of course plays several instruments, so this week he becomes the only other Stone besides Brian Jones to have this question asked using the wording “as a musician”, since he has earned it. Although in the Stones he's mainly been the lead guitar player, he's played several different instruments throughout his career and while in another major band that he was once in (the Jeff Beck Group), he wasn't the guitarist at all, but the bass player. Yet even in the Stones he has played more than just lead and slide guitar. For the Stones he's played bass on many songs, steel guitar, sax, and several percussion instruments, plus he also sat behind the drum kit on 2 or 3 songs while filling in for Charlie back when Charlie was having his drug problems and was unable to play during the DW sessions. So no, Ronnie isn’t just a guitar player and we will rate him as an overall musician for that reason.

How will you rate Ronnie? To do that and rate his playing in this week’s first Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll and click on Poll 1.

For the second Stones Poll this week we ask: Blue and Lonesome vs Dirty Work, which album do you like best?

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The Blue Polls return to action this week, featuring the Stones last studio album, Blue and Lonesome. Released 2 years ago this month, B&L received rave reviews and seemed well liked by fans. Yet it has been having a hard go in these album matchups, with a losing record of only 6 wins against 12 losses and way down in the standings in 19th place.

For this week, B&L becomes the very last Stones LP to take on their 1986 effort, Dirty Work. Yes, this round will be the last go-round for DW in this series, and we will see if the only album not to win a single round in the series so far, closes out its run with that dubious distinction. But the truth is, not only has DW lost every round, it's been beat up in every round, too, losing every matchup in a landslide. So does it have any hope of beating out the only Stones album to be 100% a covers LP? That has seemed to play against B&L in its other matches in this series and why I believe it has a losing record. But still, it's going up against DW this week, so how can it lose? Well knowing some voters, they might vote against B&L simply because it’s a covers album, just like they have in the past, regardless how good the songs are. But will enough voters do that to where DW can actually and finally win a round? We shall see. How will you vote on this question?

To see the song list for each album, for Blue and Lonesome, click on: B&L, and for Dirty Work, click here: DW.

To vote in this week’s second Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll and click on Poll 2.

Looking back at our first Stones poll last week, we answered this question: On a scale of zero to 10, rate Bill Wyman as a bassist.

Well make Bill yet another Stone to score a 10 for his top pick, and almost doing as well as Charlie did last week, reaching that mark with 40.5% of the vote (Charlie scored 40.9%). So that’s the third highest rating for a 10, with only Mick Jagger of all of the Stones, to not see that top mark (and of course, he was rated as a singer only and scored an “8” as his top pick).

To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Stones Weekly Poll 1 - week 1,010. Or, you can also check out the final results at the Stones Fans Top Pick Lists - Page 2, found under the “Individual Stones” section for Bill Wyman.

The second Stones poll last week asked this question: Some Girls vs England's Newest Hit Makers, which album do you like best?

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No close voting in this one, as England's Newest Hit Makers loses once again. Okay, I don’t think anybody figured it would do good against Some Girls of all albums, but I’m still surprise just how poorly the debut LP has done in these battles.

To see the final results from this one, click on this link: Stones Weekly Poll 2- week 1,010. Or, you can see all of the final results and see the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.

Let’s now look at this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter poll week 651, and in this one we also vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. For the first Rock poll we ask this question: What is the best Classic Rock Song not sung by a band's normal lead singer(s)? (Part 3 of 3)

Okay, so the final round of this question is here now. 19 songs made the final list for Part 3. I must say, a great job in making picks in the first 2 weeks on our part, as I agree with every choice showing up this week for the final round, and that almost never happens!

To see the list of songs and non-lead singers that you will choose from for this Rock poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

For our second Rock poll, we have the Rock VS poll, which asks this: ”Life in the Fast Lane” by the Eagles vs “Run That Body Down” by Paul Simon, which song about abusing one's body is better?

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This week we return to what I like to call the "normal Rock VS poll”, where I put 2 songs up against each other that have something in common with each other. I haven't done this in ages since I've been running out of good songs to match-up. But every so often a good match pops into my head, as was the case in the last week, where I thought up a few good ones, and felt this question was the best of the bunch.

"Run That Body Down" by Paul Simon came off of Paul's first self-titled solo album that he made after he broke up with Art Garfunkel (most forget that his first solo LP was made before S&G’s first LP ever happened). This one was released in 1972. A song that many can relate to - you go to the doctor because something is ailing you and then you are told it's your lifestyle that is the main cause to your health woes. This one is a typical Paul Simon number, very mellow and sung in a oh so cool matter, with his guitar being the main instrument playing on the track.

"Life in the Fast Lane" by the Eagles, released in 1976 on Hotel California is perhaps the better known song of the 2 this week. A big hit, it started out as a guitar riff by Joe Walsh, one he would play to warm up by. The lyrics were mainly written by Glenn Frey, with some help from Don Henley - who sang the lead vocals on it. Frey got the title from his drug dealer, whom he was with while the guy was driving a sports car over 100 mph on a California freeway, and freaking out Frey, who told him to “slow down”, and the dealer just said back to him "Oh come on, we're living life in the fast lane!" and kept on speeding along. So Frey started to write the song from that - but he had no music written yet. So while in the studio shortly after, he heard Walsh's guitar riff and realized it would be perfect for his newly written song.

Now as I like to do when I match up 2 songs in the VS poll, I include a video of the songs so you can hear them before you vote - but I always like to remind everybody that we are not rating the video at all, but just the song itself, since the song is the only thing that matters in this kind of poll question. But just like the people who control the Beatles music and video collections, the Eagles are the very same way, that is, they don't allow their original material to be shown on YouTube (at least the people controlling the Beatles material are slowly starting to change this). So while I can usually find a song somewhere else on the net, for "Life in the Fast Lane", no dice at all, other than there is one live take of it (by the Eagles anyway) on YouTube that I linked to. But if you click on the link to the song that you see in the voting booth, we are still going with the studio version of this song for the poll and not this live take. But I guess linking to the live version is better than nothing, as it will if nothing more - remind you of the original.

So which song do you like better? To vote in this week’s second Rock poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.

Looking back at last week’s 2 Rock polls, the first question asked: What is the best Classic Rock Song not sung by a band's normal lead singer(s)? (Part 2 of 3)

10 songs from here qualified for Part 3 last week. To see which ones they are and to check out the full results from Part 2 of this poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 650.

Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question was: : Glam vs R&B/Soul/Motown, which music genre do you like more?

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The last week of running this Glam poll question. To see which genre took first, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 650. Or to see how the other genre matchups have done along with this one, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page, 15. They are all listed on the top part of the page.

We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 404 and ask this question: Rate the Beatles video for “Strawberry Fields Forever”

The Beatles released this John Lennon written song in early 1967 as a double A-side single with "Penny Lane". John wrote it about an actual place, a children's foster home where he would sometimes play himself as a boy, which was real close to the home where he grew up in Liverpool with his aunt. He had to think that he was lucky that he wasn’t living in the children's home himself, since he was abandoned by his parents at such a young age.

The video, or what back then was called a “promotional film clip”, was made in January of 1967 and produced by the Beatles themselves and directed by Peter Goldmann. In the film, Lennon was for the very first time, shown wearing what would become his trademark, that being his round "granny" glasses. Up to that time, not only did most fans not realize that John was actually badly nearsighted, but nobody ever wore such eyeglasses. After fans saw that look, almost all of those who had to wear glasses (and all glasses up to this time only had thick frames) – stopped wearing such frames and most got wire frames like what John was wearing. Yep, another new look started by John. Also in this video, John’s long hair was cut much shorter (thanks to a movie he was making), and he and the other Beatles all had facial hair for the first time ever. Once again, and if you were around back then, you know that almost nobody had facial hair in early 1967, as 99% of all men were clean shaven (a left over look from the 1950s). But after this video was released, most young men seemed to soon grow mustaches themselves (to the disgust of the older WW2 generation, who just seemed to hate not only long hair on men and boys, but facial hair on men, too).

So yes, this film did make a large impression indeed on Beatle fans, not only because the music was great, but because of what fans were seeing at the time. The 4 Fabs looked totally different than what fans were used to seeing.

Now for this video, and unlike what I just noted above about the Rock poll video, yes - we are totally rating this Beatle video along with the song’s music. So yes, we do rate the video itself for this kind of question. It’s a video poll after all, unlike what the Rock poll question is about.

To take part in the voting in this week’s Beatle poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.

In last week's Beatles poll we asked: Rate the Beatles TV performance for “All You Need Is Love”

Yep, once again the top vote for a Beatles’ video scores another 10 (that now makes 13 out of the 15 that’s been asked so far scoring a 10)! This time this one took in 47.9% of the vote, which is the third highest 10 rating for this Beatles video series.

You can click here to view the final result from last week’s Beatles poll: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 403. Plus to view how all 15 videos that we voted on so far have done, just click on here for: The Beatles Videos and Movies Page, located over at the Lennon site.

Okay, so that finishes up yet another poll post. As usual, I’m thankful that so many of you vote each week in these polls, which in turn make up the domain’s different list pages that are a popular read for so many who stop by to pay a visit here.

Keno

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