Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 29
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019
Time: 11:58:59 PM
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 29

Week 1,031 of the Stones weekly poll is upon us and as usual we will answer 2 different poll questions. The first question reads: Rate the Stones official live video for “Dead Flowers”

This week's Rolling Stones video poll looks at the Stones playing "Dead Flowers" live on a small stage at The Marquee in London, the place where they had their first regular weekly gigs back in 1963, after they first formed. This was filmed in 1971 and features Mick Taylor on lead guitar, and yes, you will miss MT for sure after watching him play in this one. Don't you wish they would bring him on back and become a band of 5 again? Oh well, that ain't gonna ever happen, but Stones fans can dream I guess. Anyway, we did once vote on the video for the alternate version of "Dead Flowers" - and yet while this song has 2 official videos for this number - this one and the one we already voted on, it doesn't have an official video for the original version of it (yep, that's par for the Stones, even if it makes no sense to most of us). But this live take is as close as it comes to the studio take and for me anyway, it does works well enough.

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: Out Of Our Heads vs Exile On Main Street, which album do you like best?

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The "Crazy and Insane Polls!" return this week for its very last appearance - featuring the 1965 LP Out Of Our Heads in it's very last battle and sporting a winning record of 17-6, sitting in the Top 10 of this poll’s VS series standings in 7th place, and although this will be its last match, it's final place in the standings isn't a final thing at all, as a few LPs above and below it will determine where OOOH ends up long after this week's battle is over. Its opponent this week, 1972's Exile on Main Street, enters it's second to last matchup sporting a winning record of 20-2, in third place in the standings and just half a match ahead of Beggars Banquet. I would love to see OOOH pull off an upset here, but I don't expect it, yet this should be a neat battle anyway. When considering the OOOH release, since there was the US and UK releases, go only with the release you know best when considering the question, and don’t combine songs from both versions.

To see the songs that appear on Out Of Our Heads, click here: OOOH, and for the songs on Exile on Main Street, click here: EOMS. Do note that for the first time in years I’m back to linking to the LP at my (this) domain instead of using the Wiki or Stones websites, since at the Wiki site, well as usual, it’s loaded with misinformation as to who is playing what on each song, and until I get over there again to try to deal with cleaning up the insane number of falsehoods, for now I’ll link to my own site’s info. The problem with using my own site, as most of you already know about – is that I rate each song at my site for each album, and I rather not influence anybody with what I have down there for each song before anyone votes. The Stones official site, which I once was proud to say I help built years ago, is in ruins today thanks to the Stones terrible management who took down the album pages that were there for years (and the very pages which I worked on for them), so there’s nothing there to link to anymore! When the pages at the Wiki site get corrected, at that time I’ll start linking back to them again, unless the people running the Stones site restore what they used to have up there, then I’ll link back to them again instead. At the moment, all they are trying to do there is sell tickets to shows that have no dates! Yeah, that makes total sense! Sometimes I think that those in charge of the mismanagement of the band - think that us Stones fans are morons. Well we aren’t, that is, most of us aren’t!

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 question was: Rate the Stones TV performance for “The Last Time”

This one got a higher rating then it deserved I would say, with an “8” being the top pick. You can click the following link to see the full results: Stones Weekly Poll 1 - week 1,030 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: Between the Buttons vs Some Girls, which album do you like best?

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Some Girls lead this poll from the get-to and never once loss it’s lead for the entire week. While it wasn’t a landslide win, BTB really never had a chance, either. Click here to see the final tally: Stones Weekly Poll 2- week 1,030. Or, you can see all of the final results and view the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.

Let’s now talk about this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter poll week 671, and in this one we also vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. At our first poll, the question is this: What is the best Rock song about or set in the springtime?

So yes, we are in the middle of spring right now and about 2 years ago I started to run polls about the 4 seasons (not the group) and we are now down to just spring and fall songs. So this week, before I forget to run this question before summer gets here (like last year), let me do this one this week.

About 5 or 6 of these songs don't say directly what season they are in, like the song "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, but even without that info - you realized what season they are singing about. Simon and Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy" is the same deal, but since they are talking about the new flowers growing, well, that tells you what season it is. A few songs talk about one or more seasons in them, like the Stones' "Break the Spell', but as long as part of the song is about the spring time, it gets listed. What doesn’t get listed are songs where the singer talks about being in the "springtime" of their lives; as I found about 3 or 4 that talk about that, but that's not the "spring" that we are looking for in this poll, even if it is perhaps the best time to be alive in one's life cycle. So anyway, we will have 25 songs to choose from in this poll.

To see the songs listed this week about the spring that we will choose from, 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: “(Ain't Nothing But A) House Party” by the J. Geils Band vs “It's My Party”, by Lesley Gore. Which party song is better?

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Now talking a bit more about the springtime, it is a time when many people wake up from their long winter's nap of staying indoors and out of the cold, and to venturing back outside to do thing - including going out to a lot more parties at night. The 2 songs going up against each other for this week are not at all alike, with Lesley Gore's 1963 number 1 hit, “It's My Party”, a very bummer of a song. The song was written by Walter Gold, John Gluck Jr, Herb Weiner, and Seymour Gottlieb, and was the very first hit single for producer Quincy Jones. But yes, it was one downer of a number, about a teenage gal who finds out her boyfriend has dumped her for another at her own birthday party. I guess that would be about as nasty a thing to do to anybody on and at their birthday party, which means the guy (Johnny in the song) must have been a true asshole, to say the least. Because this song was written just before the woman's lib moment started to happen, there's some dated stuff in the song's lyrics here, like that Lesley just had to deal with it since that's how life goes sometimes, where instead, maybe she should have walked up to Johnny and kicked him in the balls! But if you know who the late Lesley Gore was in real life, you already know that she wasn’t really that kind of gal anyway.

The Gore song goes up against a tune released 10 years later (which was a good light year later in the music business at the time) by the J. Geils Band called "(Ain't Nothing But A) House Party". This one is your typical party song indeed. Unlike most of this band's songs, they didn't write this one, instead it was a cover song written by Del Sharh and Joseph Thomas in 1967 (and a UK hit for The Showstoppers), and it opened up their hit LP, Bloodshot, which was known for its red color vinyl album. This LP was their biggest LP at the time, and only Freeze Frame several years later would surpass it in sales. "Give it to Me" was the big hit off the LP, while "House Party" was never released as a single. Yet it was a major hit on the radio, and getting as much radio air play as "Give it to Me" saw - at least on FM stations anyway - and it saw even more airplay than the LPs second single, “Make Up Your Mind", received (funny how that works out sometimes). Peter Wolf was of course the lead singer on the song, as he was the only lead singer in the band until he left the group in the late 1980s.

So which song do you feel was the better one? 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 we’re not rating them - as we are looking at the songs only. 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: What is the best Song about Nature and Environmental problems?

This one turned into a very interesting battle, with more than half of the listed songs being very close in the voting. One vote separated the top 2 songs, with “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)” by Marvin Gaye edging out the win with 6.9% of the vote. In second place was the song I voted for, “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell at 6.8%, and third place went to “Going Up the Country” by Canned Heat at 6.5%. To see the full final results from this cool poll, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 670. Or to see the Top 10 finish only, you can do that at this list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14.

Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question asked: “The Israelites” by Desmond Dekker vs “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin. Which song has harder to understand lyrics?

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Very very close voting in this one, with the Desmond Dekker number hanging on to get the nod in the end. Too see how close this one was, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 670. Or to see the results on the VS list page only, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page 15.

We finish out this poll post with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 422, and we’ll ask this: Which Beatles song has the best close to it?

Two weeks ago we voted on the best opening (or actually, the most "captivating introduction" to a Beatles song), and "Day Tripper" came out on top. For this week we look at the best closing of a Beatles song. Nowhere as many songs will be listed this week, as in part the openings to most songs are usually more interesting, but still we have 22 songs to choose from for this poll. To vote in this Beatle poll, just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 421

In last week’s Fab poll….The poll question asked this: Tie-Breaker Poll: What's your favorite one line lyric from a Beatles song?

Well, after a long time of voting (a total of 5 full weeks), we finally got an answer to this question, and the results weren’t even close! Normally when we have a tiebreaker poll, the results - just like they were in the first 4 rounds, will be very close in the tiebreaker, too, but that wasn't the case at all for this one. Then again, we never had voted in a 4 way tie tiebreaker poll before this week (as far as I can recall anyway), too. Yes, one of the 4 lyric choices that we were choosing from (and all 4 of them were written by John Lennon), won big. Before you look to see what lyric it was, can you guess what it was? It was what I voted for, yet I wasn't expecting such a big win, either. And while it wasn't a true landslide win, it was a larger than normal winning margin for a tie breaker poll, too... So which lyric was it? To find out, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 421, or to see the top results on this Beatles List Page, click: here.

So that closes out this week’s poll post. Last week just got totally away from me, so I’m hoping to catch up on what I wanted to do last week, in this upcoming week. 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

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 29 by Keno on 4/28/2019 11:58:59 PM <-- You Are Here

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