Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Nov 30
Date: Monday, November 30, 2020
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Nov 30

So, it’s that time of this brand new week where I talk about the 4 weekly polls that we all will vote in this week, and as usual I’ll start off talking first about the Stones Poll, which enters week 1,113 of voting and we’ll look into this question: Rate the Rolling Stones release of the song “Hold Back”, from the Dirty Work album.

Stones’ song “Hold Back” , as shown on the Dirty Work back cover

First, talk about a Stones song that’s almost impossible to find a good picture to use with it! The above shot is about the best I could find on the Net (1 of only 2 choices that would even work). Main reason being is that this song is about as deep an album cut that you can get as far as any of their songs go. So why even go with such a song that many fans may not even know? Well first, if you are a hard-nosed Stones fan you do know this song, and most of our Stones’ fan poll voters are such fans. Now yes, we also have many Rock fans who vote in our Stones polls too, and they more than likely won’t know the song at all. But heck, that’s why I always leave a music link to the song so they and you can all hear the tune (over and over if one likes) before rating the number. But my main reason for choosing this one for this week, was what we talked about here last week, about if we go in the order of rating the songs as we were on, well there’s no question that almost all of their singles (other than maybe their newer ones) , are all gonna get 10s and really, what’s the use in asking the question, since we won’t really learn anything from such an answer. Then again, since we also rate by going by the total percentage of the vote each song scores, why yes, we would still learn something even if 99% of their singles did score a 10; as we would learn just how strong a 10 the rating was. But let’s face it, such voting isn’t gonna be as fun with that happening week in and week out. Everybody needs a bit for variation, and by voting this week, and also in coming weeks for both well loved song and deep cuts, this will change the question around a bit to where it will be more interesting to vote in.

So yes, this week I’m having us vote on a song from the band’s weakest and most (really, the only) unloved Stones studio album, and at that, a song that is to me, the worst song on that album. But just because I don’t care for it, doesn’t mean others feel the same way, and this is why I ask these questions in the first place. Let’s see how everybody else besides myself feels about this one. Heck, I saw at least one comment in the YouTube comments for this song where one fan states this was the best song on the album. Of course, we are talking about DW here, but still, even us hard-nosed Stones fans know that a handful of their fellow fans really do like the LP (remember our old Gassy friend Maxluger?). Guess I should note (since I stated here how I felt about this song) that while I rate it the lowest song on DW, no, it isn’t my most unliked or even my lowest rated Stones song. IMO they made a handful of worst songs.

Now again, please remember when you go to vote, that if you visit the link to the song listed at the voting page, that we are not rating videos here, so forget what you are seeing when viewing the film clip, and just rate the song only (not that there’s too much to this vid up at YouTube anyway), but I still need to say this regardless, since if you dislike the video because it’s lacking, well so what, we aren’t rating videos here, and none of that matters, only the song itself does. The video link is only there so you can hear the song before you rate the tune. So, to rate this one, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.

Last week at the Stones poll we answered this question: Rate the Rolling Stones single release 'You Better Move On', from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest)

Stones’ “You Better Move On” , single

This song did so much better than I expected it to do. A 10 was its top pick, with 32.1% of the vote. To see the full results from this poll, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,112. Or, to see the results to this poll at the Stones List Page, just visit this page: Stones Top Picks, List Page 2, the result will be at the very bottom of the page under “Miscellaneous Stones’ Lists”. In time when we have more results from this question, this series will have its own slot listed on the page, but for now this is where the results will be placed for the time being.

Let’s now move on over to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 753 of voting, and for this one, we vote in 2 different Rock Polls each week. For this week’s first Rock poll, we ask this: Who is the most underrated songwriter in Rock music, ever? (part 1 of 3)

This week, we look at the underrated songwriters

For starters, by "songwriter" we mean any combo of the following: one who writes either just lyrics, or just music, or a person who writes both lyrics and music. Some of the artists that you see listed only wrote songs and or music once in a while, so that's why they are listed (since perhaps you might feel they should have written a lot more?), while others listed wrote a lot of songs - but seemed to be under looked for what they wrote. Since I came up with 54 such writers, that means the poll will run for 3 weeks, with the first 2 weeks of us picking the finalists and then voting for those who make the cut in the final week, or the final part if you prefer. You know, the way we always vote in multi week polls!

So now it’s time to vote on this week’s 27 choices that are listed for this first poll. You can make your pick and vote, here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

For our second Rock poll for the week, we have the Rock Video poll, and the question will ask this: Rate The Allman Brothers Band's Video for the song “Whipping Post” (Click here for the video)

Duane Allman playing guitar on “Whipping Post” live, at the Fillmore East in 1970

This week we will rate a true classic if there ever was one, with the original Allman Brothers Band (of the 6, Jai Johanny Johanson is the only brother still with us today) playing their song “Whipping Post” live at the Fillmore East in NYC back on the night of September 23, 1970. While I was lucky to see them play there, no, it wasn’t this show (but heck, they played the Fillmore East so many times that they were looked at as the house band!), nor is this performance the great one that came from the live LP Live at the Fillmore East. But still, I think you’ll dig this one just the same…. Or maybe not? Well, we aren’t comparing performances here by any means, just check out the clip and then rate it as high or low as you feel it should be rated.

To rate in this week’s Rock video poll, just click on this link: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.

Last week in the first Rock Poll we answered this question: What was the best cello heard in a rock song?

Last week we voted on cellos only, hope you didn’t confuse it with a double bass!

Well I very much enjoyed the last couple of weeks and our voting on what one might call unusual instruments heard in Rock music. The top pick last week in our “cello poll” ended up, in close voting, to be the Stones’ “Moonlight Mile”, with the cello played by Paul Buckmaster, taking in just 4.4% of the vote (yes, the votes were just that tight!) - to second place finishers The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”, with the cellos played by Derek Simpson and Stephen Lansberry. There were a few ties in this one, even if the top 6 did get settled with no ties before the poll ended. But the other interesting thing wasn’t just the close vote totals - heck we see that often enough with our polls, but which artists made the Top 10. Because of a tie for the last slot, 11 performances made the cut, but what we almost never see, was that those 11 spots were held by just 4 bands – with the Stones showing up 4 times alone, with the Electric Light Orchestra and the Beatles both making the list with 3 songs each. The artist with one lone song was Kansas.

So a very interesting poll to look over the final results for. To do that, just click on the following link, here: Classic Rock Poll, week 752, Poll 1. Plus, I’ll also place the poll’s result at the Rock Top 10 list page 16, you can check out this page by clicking on this link: Rock Top 10 list, 16. The list can be found on the very bottom of the page.

Last week for our Rock Video poll, we asked this: Rate The Monkees' Video for “Last Train To Clarksville” (Click here for the video)

“Last Train To Clarksville” The video comes from the Monkees TV show

Yes, say what you will about this group, but they did turn into a real band and this video was cool, and it got the rating it deserved, a 10, with 33% of the vote. You can click on the following link to see the full final results from this poll: Classic Rock Poll, week 752, Video Poll. Or, to see the final results from this and the updated standings at the Video standings list page, just go here: Video Standings list page. The standings can be found at the very top of the page.

As usual, we close out this week’s Poll Post with the Beatles Poll. This week’s question for poll week 504, asks this: Rate The Beatles' live performance Video for their song “Nowhere Man” (Click here for the video)

“Nowhere Man” live in concert

This one was rarely seen in the past, not until the release of The Beatles Anthology LPs. It starts off with a very short round-table interview with George, Paul & Ringo about this song and how some songs back in the ‘60s were just hard or impossible to perform live, because of how they were made in the studio, and while such songs today can be played live, back in the old rock ‘n roll days of the 1960s that wasn’t the case… After the talk, the music from the live show gets underway…. Now yes, we are doing a lot of rating in our polls this week, but this does restart our Beatles Video polls too, which is a lot of fun to run, just as all of our video polls seem to be.

To vote in this week’s Beatle video poll, just click on this following link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

Looking back at last week’s Beatles poll, we voted on this question: Rate the artwork for the front cover of the Beatles EP Yesterday

Yesterday EP cover

The top rating for this one was 8, with spots 9 and 10 also doing well in the vote. To see this poll’s full results, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 503Or to view the Beatles List Page that this one will show up on, click here: Beatles Album Covers List Page .

So another Poll Post is in the books, or should I say, online? I hope all of my fellow turkey eaters last week had a great holiday. There was only 4 of us here, but the food turned out great and I enjoyed the conversations we all had, including ribbing my grandson in front of his girlfriend, by telling her some great stories about him from a few years back.

Okay, so I thank all of you for voting in our polls, and have a great week ahead!

Keno

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