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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, June 24
Date: Sunday, June 23, 2019
Time: 11:20:58 PM
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Welcome to this week’s Poll Post where we talk about our 4 new weekly polls that start up at midnight each Monday morning. I’ll start off here as usual talking about this week’s Stones poll, as poll week 1,039 comes around, and this week’s Stones album VS Album question is:Emotional Rescue vs Black and Blue, which album do you like best?
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For this week, both albums taking part in the battle will see their very last round of action in this long running series. For this matchup we bring back for the last time, "The Very Emotional Polls" featuring 1980's Emotional Rescue. ER sits in fourth to last place in the standings with a record of just 3 wins and 20 losses. While it can't finish any lower than where it sits at now, it could still rise after this week’s match if it wins, as it would tie the LP just above it in the standings, which just so happens to be the LP that it goes up against this week, that being 1976's Black and Blue, which at the moment has a record of 4-19. So while neither of these 2 LPs are that much loved by Stones fans, this one will be an interesting matchup since there's something on the line here in the poll that will (or can) effect the current and almost final standings.
To see the songs that appear on Emotional Rescue , click here: ER , and for the songs on Black and Blue, click here: B&B. Just remember when looking over the songs on each LP, ignore my ratings for the songs that you will see, as I never wish to influence anybody with what I have down there for each song before anyone votes. You need to decide on your own what LP you feel has the better songs on it.
To vote in this week’s Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll.
Looking back at our Stones poll last week, the question was: Tattoo You vs Goats Head Soup, which album do you like best?
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Close, oh so close this one was all week long! Goats Head Soup managed to hold on to the lead which it retook from Tattoo You sometime on Thursday afternoon, to win out by just a couple of votes! Just click on the following link to see the full results: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,038. Or, you can check out all of the past final results from all of our Stones Album VS Polls and view the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.
Okay, now let’s move on to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, which enters week 679, and here we vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. At our first poll, the question asks: What was the most unusual song made by a Rock band or Artrist?
By this question we mean, "unusual" for the band that made the song, and not necessity an unusual song had it been recorded by another group or artist perhaps. Also note that we are not looking for the best or the worst songs listed here (depending on poll numbers after this poll ends, we could ask next week for the worst of the bunch, since most of these songs aren’t that good). But for this week we are only looking at the most unusual song for the artist who recorded and released these numbers.
So yes, all of the songs listed for this week's poll you never would have expected to come from the bands or artist who recorded them. To me, only 9 of these 24 songs are really good tunes, one other is okay at best ("Rip Off", a punk-rock song by T-Rex), but I would say that the rest aren't even good (so I don’t see me asking for the best from this bunch in the future, but just maybe there will be a Part 2 next week where we will vote for the worst song out of these). But none of that matters this week anyway, since we are voting for the most unusual song here, and it doesn't matter if they are good or bad songs; we’re just looking for the most unusual tune for any of the bands or artists listed, regardless if you like the sound or not (I'll be voting for a song I don't care for myself).
Sometimes making a song that's totally a different sound for any artist can and you might think should be a good thing. I guess at least once in a while that is the case. But since liking a song don't matter either way for this poll, the few I really dig here (but again, I not voting for) are: The 2 songs listed by the Alice Cooper Band (not by solo Alice) are both pure 10s, "Desperado" was a outlaw country song recorded by this hard rock band, while "Sun Arise" is a New Ageish sing-a-long - and I don't care for New Age music... but I love this insane cover that comes from the Land Down Under!... Then we got Janis Joplin singing and recording a song for the very last time, just 2 days before her death, and right after she had recorded "Mercedes Benz" minutes before. This time she sings the Roy Rogers song "Happy Trails" of all numbers - and holy shit is all I can say! Only Janis can take a cowboy number and make it sound like one of her own songs! She recorded this for John Lennon's upcoming birthday, as a present to him, and if you never heard this one before, head on over to YouTube, because you gotta hear it if you like JJ (but I'm not linking to it since that would be unfair to the other 25 songs listed in this week's poll... but heck, and FYI, every one of the 26 songs listed this week are up at YouTube, too, so you can listen to any one of them that you don't know over there)... The next good tune up is Elton John's "Crocodile Rock". You all know this one, a 1950s sounding rockabilly and doo-wop number all rolled into one and written and recorded years after that kind of music was being made.... Then we have The Electric Light Orchestra's "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle" - The only Heavy Metal like music they ever made (okay, their cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" was close, too) thanks to that wonderful lead acid guitar riff played on this one by guest guitarist Mac Bolen of T-Rex fame..... "Coconut" by Harry Nilsson is Nilsson doing Calypso music. Some might say it's really Reggae music, but no, just listen to the sound, it's Nilsson doing Calypso for sure! Excellent indeed, but lemme get this straight... to relieve your belly ache, you put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em bot' up... and then you'll feel better!?...Okay… "The Crunge" by Led Zeppelin - Funk music by this metal band? Yes, they can play other kinds of music pretty good I see, indeed!.... "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) by The Doors - This was Jim Morrison, so maybe it isn't really too unusual for him, as everything the man did was unusual it seemed…. One last interesting one is "Stand By Your Man" by the late rockers Lemmy and Wendy O. Williams (it’s their photo up on top), covering Tammy Wynette's country song while playing punk-metal music and the 2 of them singing and turning this number into a trash-punk-scream metal song! Unlike many who hate this, I love it, and only my buddy Zack's scream metal cover of the Stones "Angie" is better for a song like this, where a famous slow ballad is turned into a screaming metal song! So anyway, there are only 9 great songs from a list of 26 (and yes, there's another 16 songs listed in the poll that I didn't talk about here). But this kinda makes you realize that rock artists maybe don't need to ever make unusual songs that aren't in their genre and instead - maybe they should just stick to what they know and play best?... But hell, I think this one will make for a great Rock poll question, too, so let's now vote! To do so, just click there: 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: Elton John (music)/Bernie Taupin (lyrics). Of these songwriting partners, who's writing is more important to their songs?
Now for this week of our songwriters’ poll, we will answer the question in yet another way to look at our songwriters. In this case, almost all of Elton John's hit songs were Elton John/Bernie Taupin compositions, but of course, 100% of the music was written by Elton while 98% of the lyrics were written by Bernie. The 2 were a match made in heaven for sure, but whose writing was more important overall for these 2 and the reason they made it so big? Now yes, I realize Elton's singing had a lot to do with his success and their songs being hits. But you got to totally remove that fact from this poll when you vote, since the only thing that matters this week is their writing ability.
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 Rock Song about being lazy?
Well I see everybody liked this one, as we saw the second highest Rock poll voters ever last week answering this question! For the most part things were close; with the top song picked being “Sunny Afternoon” by The Kinks, taking in 4.3% of the votes. Second best lazy song went to Otis Redding’s “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay” at 4.2%, and in third with 4.1% of the vote was “Day Dream” by The Lovin' Spoonful.
To see where the other songs listed in the poll ended up in the voting, click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 678. Or to see the Top 10 finish only, you can do that at our newest list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 16.
Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question asked: Neil Young vs Stephen Stills, who was the better songwriter of the two?
Well this one wasn’t close at all. I figured Neil would win, but it was a true landslide of a win. To see by how much of a landslide, click here: Classic Rock Poll 2, week 678. Or to see the results on the VS list page only, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page 15 and look under the “Songwriters VS Polls”.
Let’s close up this poll post now in the usual way, with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 430, and here is this week’s question: Pick your least favorite song to close a Beatles UK studio album
I already know beforehand which song is gonna be chosen - and in a landslide, and without naming that song, it's too bad, since it really is one of the 2 best songs on side 2 of the LP that it's on, yes, it's really good music .... but it's not the Beatles and how do you put a non-Beatle and non-rock songs on an entire side of a Beatles LP? For that reason only I'll vote for this closing song too, which is an orchestral piece that was written by George Martin and based on Paul McCartney's song and title cut of the LP... The 41-piece George Martin Orchestra played on this one and the orchestra was conducted by Martin himself.
The rest of the closing songs on the other 12 LPs are Beatle songs. As I noted last week, even if you like all the songs listed in the poll, you can still vote for a song that you like, in this case you just vote for the song listed out of the 13 that you like least, or vote for any songs that just doesn’t fit on the album, etc.. To see the list and vote... just click on: Beatles Weekly Poll
In last week’s Fab poll….the poll question was: Pick your least favorite song to open a Beatles UK studio album
Whereas at the Rock poll last week we saw the second highest vote totals ever for our polls, at this one – and clearly because I asked a negative question, and Beatle fans don’t like such questions, we almost for the first time in over 3 years didn’t reach 1,000 voters at one of our polls. With only 10 minutes to go till the poll ended, we were 2 votes short of one thousand… but 3 people voted in those last 10 minutes to put the poll over the magic number. I just hope that don’t repeat again this week!
Anyway, “Yellow Submarine” was chosen the least favorite song to open an album – that song being from the album of the same name, yet the song wasn’t even named after the LP! It had been released first 2 years earlier on the Revolver album. But heck, I love that song, I just don’t get why most Beatle fans don’t love that one too.
To see the full results from this poll, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 428. Or to see the top results on the Beatles Opening and Closing songs page, click: here.
So that’s it for this week’s Poll Post! I noted here last week at the close of this post, how the weather here has been on the cool side of late, and now in the last week it was more like late winter, with our mountains just above town seeing snow and the temps here going below freezing for the last 2 nights. So before it got dark tonight, I had to go out to my veggie garden and cover all of the plants so they don’t freeze overnight and die. That’s always a pain in the ass to have to do, but it usually only happens at the end of the growing season, not at the end of June when the plants are so young and more vulnerable to the cold. But I myself hate hot summer weather – and I’ll take this early summer cold wave over hot temps any day! Most of us living here are the same way, we do like the winter time and doing winter time things, even in the summer… heck, we still got one last ski resort still open in Colorado and it got lots of skiers still skiing there. They are hoping to keep it going till at least the 4 of July holiday weekend. Last I heard they still had a base of 50 inches, so they might even last pass that date with the snow they got last night. Oh yes, every summer should be cool like this! It hasn’t even hit 80 degrees here yet, and I’m still wearing sweaters and long pants!
I thank all of you for taking part in our polls for both this week and last, and I hope you all have a nice week ahead and enjoy this just started summer, even if it’s hot where you live! Hard to believe that most humans like that hot sticky weather, but yuck is all I can say!
Keno
PS... I'm adding this in at 1:20am, since I only just got this email in from an old Stones friend and it's Stones related:
Peter Whitehead Dies at 82
Peter Whitehead, the British filmmaker whose movies included early footage of the Rolling Stones and made Charlie Is My Darling about them in 1966, has passed away.
You can read more on him here: Peter Whitehead, Swinging-’60s Filmmaker, Is Dead
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