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Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 22
Date: Monday, April 22, 2019
Time: 1:04:52 AM
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It’s time to get this week’s 5 weekly polls underway, starting off with the Stones Poll, where we enter week 1,030 and will ask 2 different questions.
The first question reads: Rate the Stones TV performance for “The Last Time”
This widely seen video came from a 1965 Ed Sullivan Show TV show appearance. Although Brian Jones plays that cool lead guitar riff throughout this song, he's barely shown in the video, nor is Bill Wyman, who sings the backing vocal to the song along with Keith Richards. Mick Jagger, Keith and Charlie Watts are the only 3 Stones you see once you get past the 1 minute mark of the song, and that's it until the very ending of the song. So who do we blame for this, the Stones or the staff at The Sullivan Show? More than likely both, since the Stones management should had told the director of the show who was playing the lead guitar on the song, and they sure showed a close-up of Keith when his guitar solo kicked in (which they should have done), but again, BJ and Bill are hardly shown at all. Today, it's the main video shown and used for the song, but perhaps because of this very poor directing work, maybe it shouldn’t be?
There is also something very usual about this video/TV appearance, that being, in this performance - Charlie is actually shown smiling at one point! Unbelievable!
To see the video and then rate it from zero to 10, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll, and when there, then click on Poll 1 to vote on this poll.
For the second Stones Poll this week, the question is: Between the Buttons vs Some Girls, which album do you like best?
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The Buttons Polls return to the Stones' Album VS polls, featuring the 1966 album Between the Buttons. This is the second week of matches in a row for this LP – and also the very last time it sees action in these battles, as it enters its final round (24) of this series. Its record stands at 12-11 and it sits in the middle of in the standings in 13th place. This week BTB will take on the mighty 1976 LP Some Girls, which has a great record of 17-4, sitting tied in 5th place with Goats Head Soup
To see the songs that appear on Between the Buttons, click here: BTB, and for the songs on Some Girls, click here: SG.
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, the Stones video polls returned and we answered this question: Rate the Stones official promo video for “Crazy Mama”
So it looks like we’re back to rating these Stones vids low again. Hell, I really like this video, I gave it a “9”, but most of you voted lower than I, with a “7” being the top pick with 25.1% of the votes. You can click the following link to see the full results: Stones Weekly Poll 1 - week 1,029. Or, check out how all of the videos that we have voted on so far have been rated by clicking here
The second Stones poll last week asked this question: Their Satanic Majesties Request vs Between the Buttons, which album do you like best?
vs Between the Buttons won this round and was ahead the entire week, yet the poll was somewhat close, too. To see how close things were, click here: Stones Weekly Poll 2- week 1,029. Or, you can see all of the final results and view the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.
Now let’s move on down the line and talk about this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter poll week 670, and in this one we also vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. At our first poll, the question asks: What is the best Song about Nature and Environmental problems?
As most of you know, Monday is Earth Day, so there isn't a better week to ask this question! What a mess things have been of late with the environment (and everything else) thanks to the rich moron running things into the ground over in D.C. Now he’s trying to force off shore oil drilling on 99.9% of our coast lines around the entire country other than the one part of Florida where the pig owns land and spends all of his weekends at playing golf… can you believe that? It’s the only spot off limits, and it’s all a true thing he’s trying to force on us.
But rock and folk artists have been writing and singing songs about the problems our planet faces, thanks to people who don’t care about the Earth and who just keep on populating it. So yes, you will see a few folkies listed in this week’s poll; as such folks are Earth friendly for sure.
To view the songs listed about nature and the environment that we will choose from this week, 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 this week, we have the Rock VS poll, which asks this question: “The Israelites” by Desmond Dekker vs “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin. Which song has harder to understand lyrics?
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We asked this question a few years ago and these 2 songs came out on top. So let’s see how they do going one on one only.
“The Israelites” was one of the earliest international reggae hits and Dekker the first Jamaican artist to have a Top 10 hit record in the US with a form and style that was purely Jamaican, and this 1968 number was even a bigger hit in the UK, hitting the #1 slot there, and it was a worldwide hit too, hitting the Top 10 in most other countries. Dekker wrote the song about a poor man working very hard to feed his family, but the lyrics with his heavy Jamaican accent made this one of the hardest songs ever recorded to understand the words to. It goes up this week against a song that some claim is just as hard to understand lyric wise, Zeppelin’s 1970 hit “Immigrant Song”, a tune set many years ago and about The Vikings, who invaded England and Ireland and then settled in Iceland and Normandy, or something close to that.
So which song do you feel has the hardest lyrics to understand? Remember that before you vote, if you check out the videos linked to at the poll page – they are there for listening to the songs only, but you’re not rating them - as we are looking at the songs only.
Which song do you have the hardest time understanding? To cast your 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: Of the following artists not in the Rock 'n Roll Hall Of Fame, who should be in there the most?
Every few years I run this question, and it’s the only question that gets repeated (for the most part) at these polls. I would say that 90% of the top artists listed are the same artists that get listed each time the question is asked, and there was no difference this year looking over the final results. Jethro Tull and The Monkees fished one and two in this poll, after finishing second and third the last time we voted on this question 3 years ago (The Moody Blues came in first that year – but they weren’t listed this year, since they finally made it into the Hall a year or 2 after the question was last asked).
To see the full final results from this this poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 670. Or to see the Top 10 finish only, and compare result from this question from past years, you can do this at this old list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 7 I should note before I close this pill out, that last week’s this Rock poll set a new all-time record for any weekly poll on the domain for total votes cast, with almost 1900 voters taking part in this question!
Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question asked:“Cats in the Cradle' by Harry Chapin vs 'Teach Your Children' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Which song about raising kids is better?
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Close voting in this one, with the Chapin song ahead for most of the week, but not by much. Did it hang on in the end? Too see if that was the case, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 669. Or to see the results on the VS list page only, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page, 15.
Let’s close out this poll post with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 421, and we’ll ask this one yet again: Tie-Breaker Poll: What's your favorite one line lyric from a Beatles song?
This week we return to what was supposed to be only a 4 part poll that we voted on 4 weeks ago and which ended in a 4 way tie for first place, after a record number of votes were cast in it for a Beatles weekly poll question. So thanks to the ties, for this week and now Part 5 of this question, we run the tiebreaker for this question, and maybe after so many weeks, by this time next week hopefully we will finally have an answer to this question.
But wow, John Lennon held the top 6 spots in the poll that was held the week of March 25, and four of those Lennon lyrics all tied for first place. So we vote on them again this week and see what we come up this time around. To vote in this Beatle poll, just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 421
In last week’s Fab poll….The poll question was one of the better multi week questions ever asked at this poll for this Beatles poll I felt, and we ended up with some interesting results.
The question was: Which Beatles song has the most captivating introduction? (Part 3 of 3) The top we picks were “Day Tripper” (at 8.5%), “I Feel Fine” (7.6%), and “Revolution (fast version)” (at 7.3%).
To view the full results from last week’s Beatles poll, just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 420, or to see the top 10 list from the poll only, go : here.
So that does it as far as telling you about this week's polls. Since Gasland closed, these weekly poll post closes have gotten a lot longer than they used to be - since it's usually the only board post I make per week here now and I just start to ramble on. Anyway, to update you on some old talk from here... As most of you lurkers know, I and others over the years, back when Gasland was still open, would bitch about all of the mistakes and misinformation being made about the Stones and their work over at the Wiki website. Just before I closed down this joint at the beginning of the year, I noted here that I might start editing some pages there and fix some of those mistakes, since I should have a lot of free time with Gasx3 no more, and why bitch about something when I can fix those mistakes myself! So last week I finally started to do that, that is, after about a week or more of first reading up on some of the rules over there (and there's many rules!). I figured I would start out fixing up mistakes listed on the Stones debut album's page, and then move on from there.
Anyway, after working a bit on 3 of the first 4 albums for about 2 hours last week, I returned to the debut LP to add in a bit more work, when I saw that some asshole went and removed all of the work that I had done just 2 hours before! I had noted here weeks ago (you may recall) that something like that could happen over there - but who expected it in the first 2 hours of my cleaning things up - and I'll add, all of the mistakes that I had corrected on that one page, were all done with 100% correct info by me! A guy calling himself Dan did the dirty deed, and I had to wonder at first if maybe he was a former Gasser from years ago - who I banned (one of about maybe just 10 such people in 21 years), since he was being so dam rude towards me for no good reason at all. But then again, maybe he wasn’t a former Gasser. Yet I was told 2 things from this 27 year old kid (after I learned his age, I figured more than likely that he's not a former Gasser, since he's so young, I mean, he was only 6 when I started up my Stones site and the Gas board!). But to cut a long story short, he noted to me that he took down all of my work because he found 2 major mistakes that he claimed I made. But it turns out I didn't make any major mistakes at all, and this guy just wanted to be mean and start a flame war with me at the talk page they have set up for editors. He may only be 27, but he's been editing pages there a very long time and thinks he owns the place, and clearly he doesn't like newbies like me over there. So anyway, I'd been dealing with this bully and not getting much done there, but I noticed tonight that he actually took some advice I gave him - and he fixed three quarters of the problems on 2 of the albums pages in the last day! So now I don't have to do that work - great! I think I might just lay low for a few more days, as perhaps he'll fix some more pages! It isn't like I want to do the work, hell no (you all know why I closed down Gasx3, right?). But I also don't want to see stupid mistakes up there about the Stones showing, too! Like don't tell me or anybody else that Keith Richards plays lead guitar on slide for "Mother's Little Helper", when he didn't even know how to play slide back in those days! BJ of course played all the slide guitar on Stones songs up until '68, 100%, and bedsides, there's no slide on that song that I hear (what is being mistaken for a slide guitar is a drone sound played by BJ, but at the moment I can’t recall which instrument he’s playing there since several instruments can make that sound. So more research is needed). But Brian played the lead guitar on this song - on his 12 string Vox Mando Guitar, even if at least one session book claims it was a sitar that we hear him playing on this tune. Anyway, that Wiki page hasn't been changed yet, but I can't recall in which of the many books I have, where this info is noted so I can cite the source. But little things like this might hold up some work there by me, as citing where you got your info is a big deal there for some. So for the next few days I will take my time in figuring this all out. There’s really no rush on any of this, and the Stones info has been messed up for years now at that site, an extra day or 2 won’t matter.
But anyway, as usual, I thank all of you for voting in our polls this week and last and I hope you all have a great new week!
Keno
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