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Name: Keno
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Subject: Stones slide guitarists/other Rock singers/more...
Date: Monday, December 17, 2018
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Stones slide guitarists/other Rock singers/more...

Let’s get our weekly poll post underway for our 5 weekly polls (better late than never I guess), and as usual I’ll start off talking about the Stones poll, where we enter week 1,012, and where we always run 2 different poll questions each week. For the first poll, here’s what is being asked: Who is or was the best slide guitar player in the Stones

The Stones have had some fine slide guitar players in their band since they started out as a unit back in 1962. Brian Jones was the first one of course, and he wasn't just the first slide player in the Stones, but he was the first slide guitarist in rock music period. Jones started this special sound in the genre that became so very popular in time. Yet while he started it, and played it every so often up until and including on one of the last songs he recorded with the Stones (“No Expectations”), he didn't play slide as often as either Ron Wood or Mick Taylor would in the band later on. Taylor seemed to play slide more than lead, although at the time while in the band he did both, as for the most part, Keith Richards was missing in action often in those days because of his drug problems, so MT filled in for him and played Keith's part a lot, while still adding in his hot slide guitar.

Ronnie to this day still plays a bunch of slide, but not Keith anymore. Keith of course didn't play slide at all early on, and wouldn’t until 1968 when he finally gave it a try, yet for the short time he was playing it from '68 till about '70, damn did he sound real good at it! Mick Jagger will also be listed in this poll, even if his slide playing didn't happen until the last studio album of original songs came out in 2005. Most of us fans had no clue he even played slide, but damn did he sound excellent too when he did give it a try!

BTW, notice how the question is worded, as we are only looking for these guys slide playing for the Stones only, and not how they played slide overall for other bands. So yes, their performances in the Stones is what we are only looking at for this poll, as we want to know who fans feel was the best all time slide player for the Stones.

How will you vote in this one? To cast your vote 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 this: England's Newest Hit Makers vs Undercoverwhich album do you like best?

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This week it's the "England's Oldest Hit Makers Polls" turn to be run again, and for the very last time, too, as yet another Stones album will finish up its run in our Stones Album VS series, with the band's debut LP England's Newest Hit Makers hosting its last round. This will be the third LP to get to the finish line of this very long running series. Its record is a losing one, at 7-15-1, and it sits way down in 19th place in the Stones’ album standings. This week it takes on 1983's Undercover, which is having an even harder time than ENHM. In fact, its record is only at 1-19, in second to last place in the standings, only ahead of DW, the only LP it beat so far.

To see the song list for each album, for England's Newest Hit Makers, click on: ENHM, and for Undercover, click here: UC.

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 Ron Wood as a musician

Ronnie becomes the latest Stone rated a 10 for his top pick, taking in 28.7% of the vote with that score. So Mick Jagger was the only Stone not to see a 10 for his top pick to this question back when we rated him as a singer.

To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Stones Weekly Poll 1 - week 1,011. 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 Ron Wood.

The second Stones poll last week asked this question: Blue and Lonesome vs Dirty Work, which album do you like best?

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Well I guess we can say that DW ended its run in this series by going down in flames - as usual, in yet another poll, but what else is new? B&L won in a landslide - like every other LP before it did when taking on DW. So with this result, DW becomes the only Stones album without a win in any of its matches. Its final record is 0-24, and it has cemented its spot in last place in the album standings. In the next week or two I plan a matchup at the VS poll where a special battle will take place between DW and the Beatles only unwinnable LP from their own album series, that being Yellow Submarine, and we at that time find out which LP is better - or should I say, we will learn which one is the worst of the 2 unloved albums.

To see the final results from this last dirty poll, click on this link: Stones Weekly Poll 2- week 1,011. 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 652, and in this one we also vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. For the first Rock poll, in keeping somewhat with what we been voting on for in the last 3 weeks at this poll, non-singers who in bands got to sing lead once or twice, this time we will look at bands named after artists who never sang lead yet the band was named after them. So, the question reads: Who was the best singer(s) for an artist who didn't sing lead on their own records or had a band named after them & didn't sing lead?

Now the band has to be named after an actual artist who wasn't a lead singer in the band, to make the list. The artists the band was named after didn't need to ever be a band member either to be listed - as long as that person was an actual music artist. Therefore where a band like The Brian Jonestown Massacre is listed (name in part after the Stones Brian Jones, who died long before the band came about), while a band like Jethro Tull - also named after a real person - but one who wasn't a music artist, isn't listed. Now just a note here on this, for those who might not know of the band Paul Revere and the Raiders, that one is listed too, since the group wasn't named after the famous U.S. Patriot of the American Revolution, Paul Revere (who wasn’t a music artist) - but was named after the band's founder, leader, and organist, who had the same name - but whom never sang lead. That band BTW, that did have several hits in the 1960s, and is still around today - even though Revere himself is no longer in it, being that he died several years ago.

Fleetwood Mac leads the list for having the most lead singers of the bands listed, with more than 10 different lead singers, since - and as you already know, this very famous band has had so many different band members and different lineups in all of the years that they been around, with drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVee being the only constant members.

Anyway, we got 17 choices of bands or solo artists to choose from for the poll this week. To see the poll’s choices, 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: “Hurts so Good” by John Mellencamp vs “Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)” by the Stones, which song about masochists is best?

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With Rock music we often think about how it’s filled with so many sexual songs – and yes indeed, it is, and yes, even the genre’s name “rock n roll” is named in part after a sex act. Yet even with all of that in mind, there are very few rock songs written about the sex act known as S&M, but these 2 songs that we will vote on this week, are.

Like it or not, there are some people who get their rocks off on such sexual stuff, just like all other sexual perversions, but is it fair to call a masochist a pervert? Well I'm no expert on this subject, but I would think so, since the overwhelming majority of people won't have anything to do with such an act or person, nor enjoys the practice themselves, as no, it just isn’t a normal thing that most folks engage in, and that makes it a perversion if only for that reason.

At first for this question, I was gonna pair the Mellencamp song with the Ian Dury song "Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick". Back when the Dury song was a hit, I and others were sure is was an S&M number, but turns out it wasn't, as the rhythm stick noted in the song wasn't about a guy's penis at all, but it was about Dury's walking cane, as he suffered from polio most of his life and he had to use a cane to walk with. So this song wasn’t about that kind of “rhythm stick”, but was only a play on words that sounded dirty. Another song that some took wrong was Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", as some thought it was also about a female masochist, but no, it too had nothing to do with that.

But no question, both of the songs listed this week were about this subject matter. Mellencamp released his song under his stage name, Johnny Cougar - a name he hated and never wanted to use, but a name that he was forced to use by his manager before he made it big. Now this Mellencamp song actually didn't start out as this type of song. He got the title anyway from a girl he knew who had acupuncture treatment done and told him that it "hurt so good". Mellencamp decided to use what the gal said for a song title, and along with his childhood friend, Don Gehman, the 2 wrote the lyrics together in about 15 minutes, and then after that, within seconds, he wrote the chords to the song on guitar. He claims it was the faster song he ever wrote - and a dirty one at that, too. It was then released on his 1982 LP American Fool, and became a big hit single, making it to number 2 on the Billboard charts.

The Stones "Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)" has a double meaning to it, in part talking about how hard it is to love another, but deep down, this is also a S&M song. All one has to do is listen to the words in the dirty lyrics to this song to realize that. Released in 1983 on the Undercover album, the song fit in well on that LP along with songs on there like "It Must Be Hell" and even more so, "Too Much Blood", a true song about a Japanese cannibal who cut up and ate his girlfriend. Hell that one made "Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)" sound almost tame!

Now as I like to do when I match up 2 songs in the VS poll, I include videos 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. This week that is very important to note, even more so, since the Stones video is nothing more than audio while the Mellencamp vid is a true and excellent made video. So just forget what you are viewing if you watch the Mellencamp video, only listen to the song, as nothing more than that counts when you compare it to the Stones song this week.

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 3 of 3)

Well, well, well, a tune sang by Ronnie Wood was chosen, that being the Faces song “Ooh La La”, a song that the band’s normal lead singer, Rod Steward, didn’t like and refused to sing. So that’s why Ronnie sang it instead – and it became one of the group’s biggest hits ever. Guess Steward decided he liked the song after that and finally started to sing it after Ronnie made a hit out of it. But I would say a great choice by our voters picking this one for first place.

To see which other songs got picked for the top ten or to check out the full results from Part 3 of this poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 651. Or, you can visit the Top 10 list page where this list is located on at: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14, and view the results over there instead.

Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question was:”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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It was nice getting back to the more normal type of questions that we answer in this VS poll. The voting for this question was close, and to see which one took first, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 651. Or to see the reults on the list page only, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page, 15.

We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 405 and ask this question: Rate the Beatles live TV performance for “She Loves You”

This week's Beatles' video being rated for the Beatles’ video question, comes from a BBC TV special that was later on referred to as a doc called "The Mersey Sound", which aired back in 1963. The show featured the Liverpool sound by focusing on The Beatles & 2 other unknown bands, The Undertakers & Group One. Of course the Beatles went on to become somewhat famous. But just remember when you rate this clip, that you shouldn't rate it by going by today's video standards, since this program was never meant to be seen but one time, and only in the UK, and nothing was really put into it at all, as it wasn’t made to be a video, since there weren’t any videos back in the early 1960s. This clip just shows the Fabs up on stage singing the song "She Loves You" live, and nothing more than that (other than it also shows some of their female fans, too).

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 video for “Strawberry Fields Forever”

So another Beatles’ video scores another 10 (that now makes 14 out of the 16 that’s been asked so far scoring a 10)! This time this one was so popular that it almost set the all-time record for scoring a 10, taking in 57.7% of the vote, which is the second highest 10 rating score for this Beatles video series – or any other video poll that we have run in the past.

You can click here to view the final result from last week’s Beatles poll: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 404. Plus to view how all 16 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.

So with that, we close up yet another poll post! Hard to believe it’s almost the end of yet another year already, just where oh where does the time go? But I do thank all of you for taking part each week in our 5 weekly polls!

Keno

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