Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Jan 25
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2021
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Jan 25

We kick off the poll post tonight for our 4 weekly polls as usual talking about the Stones poll, which enters week 1,121, and where we continue to rate their songs. For this week we ask: Rate the Rolling Stones release of the song “Angie”, from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

Angie,A side single

"Angie" was a major hit song for the Stones back when it was released in 1973 on the Goat's Head Soup album, as it was the lead single from the LP, going all the way to #1 in the U.S. (and also in another 10 major countries), and to #5 in the UK. It was a song that made a lot of new Stones fans, since it was so mellow and called a different kind of a song for the band to put out, something I never understood, since, the truth was, the Stones had put out many such songs in the past (think "Ruby Tuesday" for starters). But while the song did bring in new fans, many hardnosed Stones fans who only wanted to hear hard rock from this group, hated this song because it was too mellow, so such fans would put it down. I was not one of them, even if I dig hard rock a lot, I've always also was a sucker for a soft ballad, too.

The biggest thing with this song when first released, was the talk of just who was it about. Early on fans were told and many believed it was written about Angie Bowie (David's first wife), as she flat out stated this (her and Mick Jagger did have a long running affair). But it wasn't about her, and as it was, Keith Richards, who wrote all of the music to the song, also wrote half of the lyrics (MJ wrote the other half), and it was he, not Jagger, who came up with the name "Angie" for the tune. As Keith noted in his bio, the song wasn't about anybody real, it was just a made-up song and story. Some claimed it was about his baby daughter who had the same name, which to me always seemed ridiculous, since his child was just a baby and the story was clearly about an adult woman who a guy was breaking up with. Keith finally noted that it had nothing to do with his child, in fact, he noted that his daughter wasn't even born yet when he started working on the song. If anything, his kid might have been named after the song’s title, but the bottom line is the song was just made up, other than years later, MJ did note that some of the lyrics that he wrote were about his breakup with Marianne Faithfull.

There were 2 different videos made by the Stones for this song, and I've linked to one of them at the voting page, but just remember, the video, if you watch it, has nothing to do with how you rate this tune. We are rating the song only, and the video link is only provided so you can hear the song before you cast your vote. I’m not even sure which video I linked to, other than it was one of the 2 official vids that the band made for the number.

To rate this tune, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll to cast your vote (and view the video).

Last week at the Stones poll we answered this question: Rate the Rolling Stones release of the song “Luxury”, from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

Front sleeve from the live 1975 boot “Luxury in Toronto”, which featured the song “Luxury” in both its title and package

No ten score for this one’s top slot (too bad, it was good enough for such a rating), as its top pick was a 9, with 25% of the vote. You can check out the full results from last week’s poll, here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,120. Or, to see the results to this poll at the Stones newest List Page, you can visit this new page here: Stones Top Picks, List Page 3., list page 5, it includes a song standing rating list where you can check out where all of the songs rated so far have landed in the standings.

Now let’s move on over to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 761 of voting, and for this one, as usual, we vote in 2 different Rock Polls each week.

This week’s first question asks: Of the 2 drummer Rock bands, which one had the best drum sound?

The Allman Brothers Bandwas one band well known for their 2 drummer lineup, both while playing live and while recording songs in the studio

This will be the first of 2 weeks of polling asking questions about drummers.... For this week, we are looking at bands that had 2 drummers playing at the same time. But I do mean 2 drummers - not a band like, say, Santana, that always had a drummer plus a percussion player. That's not the same thing and not what we are looking at in this poll. A band had to have 2 actual drummers playing behind a drum kit - at the very same time.

Several of the bands noted on our list of 36 bands, only had 2 drummers playing together for only a short time, but as long as they had at least one studio album featuring 2 drummers on it, or if they were bands or solo artists who only used 2 drummers while playing live, up on stage, well they also make the list.

To vote in this week’s first Rock Poll question, just click on here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote in this poll.

For our second Rock Poll of the week, we have the Rock Video poll, and this week we ask: Rate The Kinks' video for “All Day and All of the Night” (Click here for the video)

Ray, left, Dave, in the middle, along with their younger sister back when they were just boys

What you will see in this 1965 video is the early birth of heavy metal music, or at the least, heavy metal guitar playing. Nobody was playing guitar in this way (not even Jimmy Page, who in ‘65 was a teenage session player, and whom even played a bit with the Kinks around that time. He learned heavy metal guitar from being at the Kinks sessions), not until Dave Davies did so on this song, and also on their other big hit single from this time, "You Really Got Me".

"All Day and All of the Night" was written by Dave's older brother Ray, who was of course the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Released as a single, this song reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart, and #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1965.... The Doors' 1968 hit song, "Hello, I Love You", was clearly a rip-off of this song and the Doors had to pay Ray all of the royalties from that song that they made in the UK, after losing a court case. The unfunny thing is that Dave felt he should have gotten part writing credit on this tune, since he wrote the guitar riff and solo to this song - and for most of their songs that were credited to his brother only. This was where the long running war between the brothers started, according to Dave, although if you hear Ray's part of the story, the 2 always, even as little boys, never got along with each other and always were fighting as soon as Dave was old enough to raise his fists to Ray, whom Dave said teased and bullied him constantly as a boy. True blood brothers indeed!

I don't have any info on this film clip that we will rate, other than it came from the live Shiding TV show. I read where somebody noted in the YT comments that the Kinks were the first punk band. No, they weren't. They were really more so the first metal like band, but they weren’t punk. For starters, no punk bands could play music as well as the Kinks played, other than perhaps the band Alice Cooper, which was also more a metal band then a punk band, and yes, those guys played just as well as the Kinks played. Plus, metal of course came way before punk happened, and punk came from metal. But okay, I guess the Kinks had a small bit of punk in them, but so did the Stones, and nobody ever called the Stones a punk band (even with Keith Richards and Brian Jones being 2 true punk rockers), and the Stones came just before the Kinks.

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

Last week in the first Rock Poll we asked this question: Of the hit songs that artists wish they never wrote, which one is the best?

Brass In Pocket. Chrissie: ‘Why did I ever allow the release of this stupid song and why does everybody love it so much?’

“(I Can’t get No) Satisfaction” barely beat out the Beatles “Let it Be” (by just 2 votes), for the top pick in this poll. For the second week in a row, not enough songs got enough votes to make it into the Top 10, so for this week’s choices, that slot will just have 8 songs listed (still a bit better than the 5 songs that made that list from last week’s picks).

You can check out the full, final results from this poll by clicking on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 760, Poll 1. Or, to see the Top …. 8 results from this poll at the list page, just click on here)

Last week at our Rock Video poll, we asked this: Rate the Electric Light Orchestra's video for “10538 Overture” (Click here for the video)

From 1972’s “10538 Overture” video, ELO w/ Roy Wood on cello and Jeff Lynne on guitar

I wasn’t at all surprised that the top rating for this one was a “10”, taking in 33.2% of the vote. You can click on the following link to see the final results from this one: Classic Rock Poll, week 759, Video Poll. Or, to see where in the updated Video standings this one lands, just go here: Rock Video Standings list page. The standings can be found at the very top of the page.

We close out our Poll Post with the Beatles Poll, and this week’s question for poll week 512 asks this: Rate The Beatles' early studio take/video for “Get Back” (from the remastered Let it Be movie) (Click here for the video)

“Get Back”, from the soon to be released movie of the same name

This new clip is taken from the soon to be released, re-edited, and now retitled Beatle movie Get Back, which was of course was titled Let it Be when it was first released back in 1972. The old movie/doc showed the Beatles in a negative light, and showed why they were soon to be parting ways. But many inside the group felt that wasn't the entire picture, and from what I have seen online so far in previews to this remade film, it appears that's true, as we see one happy group of Fabs recording songs while having a good time together; clips that were never shown in the original movie. This new release, which was supposed to happen last November, has been held up, and is promised to be out soon, according to director Peter Jackson, who has taken on this project. He claims the pandemic has held up its release. Gosh, if anything, you would think that COVID19 should have sped up its release, since so many are stuck in their homes and this would be a great time to sell a DVD – one which 99.9% of all Beatle fans will want to see. But there's gonna be a ton of never-before-seen footage in this new addition of this film, including what we are voting on in this week's Beatles' poll. I just hope this clip isn't taken down again before we finish up voting on it, since it was up several weeks ago and removed. As a retired businessman who specialized in business promo's, I just don’t get why they are taking the clip down! Allowing this to be shown online will do nothing but get even more Beatle fans to buy the entire product when it does come out. But I will say to all of you - vote early on this one and don't wait until late in the week to vote, like so many of you do, as this cut might not be up on YT by week's end! (and I hope I’m wrong)

Now, what we have here is not the live take, taken from the rooftop concert of "Get Back", which was shown in the original movie (and I assume, will still be in the new take of the film... it better be!). That live take is excellent as it, and I would still love to have us rate it one day, but it's been offline forever now it seems. But what we have here is a preview clip from the new film, and it's an early take of "Get Back" that they were working on, but it's not the final cut of the song, either. Still, it sounds just as good, just a bit different, and you can tell that John had that great acid guitar riff down already at this point of the recording. The lineup for this song, both for this take and the final cut, was: Paul McCartney – lead vocal, bass guitar; John Lennon – lead guitar, harmony vocal; George Harrison – rhythm guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; Billy Preston – keyboards.

To vote in this week’s Beatles 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 Beatles' Video for 'Help!' (Official Video 2)

“Help!”, from TV’s Big Night Out

As I noted last week, this song fits in real good right now for so many people, and it scored a 10 rating in last week’s polling. To view this poll’s full, final results, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 511. Or you can look at the Beatles’ Video standings both over at the regular Rock Video page (see the link at the Rock Video poll results above) or at the Beatles own video and movie page, here: Beatles Movie and Video Ratings and Standings list page.

So that will do it for this week’s Poll Post! Boy, what a difference a week makes in America, as just having Trump gone has seemed to lifted everybody’s sprites big time! It’s nice to have somebody sane in the White House after 4 years of terror and lies from the fascist pig who finally is now gone! America is on the mend, indeed!

I hope all of you have a great week ahead!

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Jan 25 by Keno on 1/24/2021 11:18:00 PM <-- You Are Here

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