Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Sept 20
Date: Monday, September 20, 2021
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Sept 20

We start off this week’s Poll Post for our 4 weekly polls as usual, by talking about the Stones poll, where we are rating all of the songs released by the Stones. So for week 1,155 of voting we’ll ask this question: Rate the Stones song “Just Like I Treat You”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“Just Like I Treat You” from the Blue & Lonesome album

We haven’t rated any songs off of the Stones last LP yet, one of the few Stones studio LPs that we haven’t done that for this series (in fact, it might be the only LP left that we haven't rated a song off of yet, but I didn't check, either). But since in part I wanted to rate more Jagger/Richards songs first, and 90% of the songs rated so far have been written by the Glimmers, that's why we haven't rated too many covers yet. But for what in time will become the longest poll series ever run on the domain for any of the weekly polls, we will also vote on all of the cover songs that the band has covered since 1962, too. So, since it's time for this week to run a Ronnie Wood era song (I know last week was a Ron Wood written song, but he wasn't in the band yet and therefor it was a Mick Taylor era song, even if MT wasn't on the song and Ronnie was), let's do a cover song from that era and the last released LP is of course from that era, and which was an entire album of cover songs. So what to me is one of the best songs off Blue and Lonesome, this Willie Dixon written tune "Just Like I Treat You", is the cover song that we will rate this week.

Now with that said, I'm not gonna lie, and anybody who knows me and my old posts at the old Gas board, I was one who almost never but down any of the Stones new music. I did have some problems with my former favorite Stone, Keith Richards, and never been afraid to state my feelings (as former Gassers know) but again, I never put down any of their new tunes, since I always liked what I head from the Stones, both new and old. Yet while I never was crazy about their last album, I still gave it a good rating. Yet today, the more I hear songs off of it as the years now slowly go by, the less I like the songs today on the LP. While so many hardnosed Stones fans wanted a 100% Blues album from them (including myself), while we finally got one in 2016, it wasn't original material, and even worst, it wasn't made in the same way their other blues songs were made in the past. The songs were just too fast paced for starters, but no, I'm not gonna go on, I'll just end my bitch right now (but if I ever re-rate that one, I'm sure the rating for it will be lower today). But for this song, it's like the other ones on the LP, and it almost doesn't even sound like a Blues song. But never less, it's still a good song overall, but it's no 10, either, IMO. But how about in your opinion? How will you rate this one? Before you vote, here is the lineup for this song: Lead Vocal and Harmonica: Mick Jagger; Guitars: Keith Richards and Ron Wood; Drums: Charlie Watts; Bass: Darryl Jones; Pianos: Chuck Leavell and Matt Clifford.

So, now it’s time to rate this one. To do so, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.

Last week at the Stones poll we answered this questionRate the Stones song “It's Only Rock n Roll (But I Like It)”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“It's Only Rock n Roll (But I Like It)” Mick sticks a pen in his heart

A very busy week at the Stones poll and Ronnie’s cool song scored what I expected it to score for its top rating, that being a solid 10! To see the full final results from this poll, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,154. Or to see the updated song rating standings for this ongoing series, and see where this song landed in the ratings (did it make it into the Top 10?) Well, just click on the following link to find out: Stones Top Picks - Page 3, List Page 5.

Now we’ll move on over to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 795 of voting, and for this one we vote in 2 different Rock Polls for the week. So this week’s first poll will ask this question: What is the Most Gloomy Rock song? (Part 1 of 4).

Gloominess sucks

First, the question isn’t asking for your favorite song here, not at all. It is asking for the song out of the 32 listed this week, that is the gloomiest (note: 95 songs will be voted on overall in the first 3 weeks/parts). So, perhaps you totally dislike a song directly because it's so gloomy, well then if so, that would be a reason to vote for it in this poll!

I'll talk a bit more about what I even mean by "gloomy" in a sec, but first.... It seems that nothing gets the most votes for the Rock Poll than a multi week poll series. Believe it or not, while the Rock Poll still leads the week in total votes cast in most weeks, out of the 4 weekly polls run each week, the other 3 polls have been seeing their best or at least near best vote counts of late, while the main Rock poll has been seeing almost nothing of the sort. Asking for the most underrated member of any one band, while a hot subject in the early days of asking it, well after the biggest bands were done being voted on, the votes just weren't there anymore like they usually are (and that's the only Rock related questions we voted on for the entire summer). So while I love that question/series, it's now over for the summer and last week's question, the first non-underrated band member poll question since late May, was a strong shot in the arm for this poll, and starting with this new 4 week series, I feel it will be an even bigger booster shot for these polls.

Now while "gloomy" could be used for the word "sad", and yes, most sad things are gloomy, this word also means other things, like happenings that are depressing, or frightening, for instance. So there's a bit more to being gloomy than just sad. A sad person has a lot of problems, while a gloomy person has perhaps even more. So, for this series, a person or thing (like a situation) has to be gloomy, and why a song like Elton John's "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" for sure doesn't make this list, but a gloomy song like Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction", which isn't even about a person - but about a situation that people are in, is for sure gloomy. BTW, Elton will have the most songs listed in the next 3 weeks (6), although Bob Dylan also has 6 that he wrote, listed too, but one of them listed was a cover done by The Animals. Now if you combined Beatle and solo Beatles songs, then you could say the Fabs have the gloomiest songs listed, with 8 songs, but solo is solo and not the same thing (so it's actually a 50/50 split for the 2). The Stones usually have a good number of songs listed when we run a multi week poll like this, but for this series they will only have 4 such songs listed (although I could have listed 2 or 3 more from the last LP they put out, but didn't, since in part they were all covers, and most of the time if I list such a song for a poll question like this, I'll go with the original and not the cover. But I usually make an exception or two, too. But the Stones are usually going up against themselves in these polls more often than any other artist does, and for the first time ever for a multi week poll like this one - at least in the first 3 parts anyway, that won’t be the case for the Stones).

Now as usual for a multi week series like this, and for this 4-week series, the last part (4) takes the best songs from the first 3 weeks and places all of the top voted songs up against each other in the final round. So, are you ready to vote in this one? To do so and to vote in this week’s first Rock poll, just click on here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote in this poll.

For this week’s Rock Video polls, we’ll answer this: Rate Neil Young's video for “Harvest Moon” from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“Harvest Moon” Neil Young with his late ex-wife Pegi, whom he wrote this song for

Since this week's sees the arrival of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, I wanted to do a song/video that's about this new season, and this Neil Young song from 1992 is 100% perfect, since while this year’s 2021 Harvest Moon will reach peak illumination on Monday, September 20 while it's still summer, according to NASA, it will appear full from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning. So because of that, it'll light up the sky just hours before the autumn equinox on Wednesday morning, which marks the first official day of fall - and as early as a harvest moon can ever occur in any year. So while here in Colorado where I live, we usually have to harvest our home gardens long before the actual harvest moon appears, this year thanks to record heat, and with almost perfect timing, we should be harvesting our gardens on Monday afternoon, with the temp expected to drop below freezing on Monday night, so if we wait till nightfall, we'll get to do our harvesting on the night before the actual harvest moon takes place. But yes, this song fits in great for this season for most of voters who take part in our polls (unless you live Down Under, and some of you do, where spring begins on this day). Now one last thing on this.... To be correct on what I just noted, I added "NASA" to what I just stated, since it's 100% true.... but.... if you go by the calendar only, then the Harvest Moon only happens in October, and the Corn Moon happens in September..... But again.... the term "harvest moon" comes from and was named by our farmers, and they went by the autumn equinox, like NASA does, so the hell with the calendar, the harvest moon will officially this year happen in September and not in October (believe me on this one... or you can Google it if you like).

Young released his country-rock song "Harvest Moon" back in 1992, and it comes from the album of the same name. It wasn't released as a single in the U.S., but was in his home country of Canada, where it went to #5 on the charts, and in the UK, where it reached #36. Young called the song, which he wrote for his wife of 36 years (they had lived together for 40 years), the late folk singer Pegi Young, as being very important to him and had, using his own words "quasi-religious undertones" to him. In the video filmed at that time, and which we are rating this week, we see Young dancing with Pegi. Rolling Stone in its review of the song, noted that the song "celebrates longevity in relationships and love affairs with a flawless melody backed by a perfect music arrangement". Pretty much every reviewer back when this song was released had something along the same lines to say about this number. Of course, in time this led to ridicule of Neil when he left Pegi in 2014, when she was believed to be already fighting the cancer that would take her life in just five years’ time. Neil refuses to this day to talk to his former bandmate David Crosby over this, since David publicly took Pegi's side when Neil left her, as did others. At the time he left Pegi, Neil had started a relationship with actress Daryl Hannah, whom he would marry in 2018, and she was believed to be the real reason for his leaving Pegi, and not her illness, according to sources that say Neil didn't know of his ex-wife's illness yet when he left her. But the bottom line here is, and this is important, none of us knows for sure what Neal knew about Pegi when he left her, but the fact that he did this should have nothing on how your rate this video. You basically have to go back to 1992 when you rate this one, long before the shit hit the fan, and just rate this video and its song in the usual matter as to how it was made back then and how it comes across, and what it's about. What happened 22 years later should again, have nothing to do with how you rate this video, no matter who's side you might take in the breakup. You must rate it for what it was in '92, and he clearly still loved his ex-late wife back then and still did on the day she passed away, from what he had to say about her after she passed on. Neil isn't the first rocker to write his mate a beautiful song about his love to her and then many years later, divorce his lady (think Billy Joel, or Eric Clapton, or several others where this same thing happened). That's how life goes sometimes, even if none of us care for it, but rock stars are just deep down only humans and all humans do things in their life from time to time that aren’t going to make everybody happy.

The lineup for this tune was: Neil Young – Lead Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards; Ben Keith – Pedal Steel Guitar; Spooner Oldham – Piano; Tim Drummond – Bass, Broom; Kenny Buttrey – Drums; Linda Ronstadt – Backing Vocals. To vote in our Rock Video Poll, 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: What is your favorite song about a misfit?.

It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all” kinda of person! ….or sheep!

Very close voting for the top 11 songs in this poll, with “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull taking first place with 5.8% of the vote. The second-place finisher, “Old Hippie” by The Bellamy Brothers, also saw 5.8% of the vote, but received one less vote. The thing about this great little song is that’s it’s mainly a country song, but since The Bellamy Brothers are considered country-rock and soft rock, so they qualify to be listed (BTW, on a side note… if you live in a U.S. state where marijuana is legal, you many have seen in the stores the brand of weed called “"Old Hippie Stash"… Yes, that strain is named after the song, and the company that sells it is owned by the Bellamy Brothers.). In third place was the true misfit David Crosby written song, “Almost Cut My Hair” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with 5.7% of the vote. To see this poll’s full, final results, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 794, Poll 1. Or, to see the results for this poll on the rock list pages, click on: Top 10 List Page, Page 16, and you will see this listing at bottom of the page. However, this list page 16 is getting way too large size wise, so I have to make a new list page, and this poll’s results will likely be moved to that new page once I put together the new page (either this week or next week). So do note that.

In last week’s Rock Video poll, I asked and you voted on this: Rate The Edgar Winter Group's video for “Frankenstein” (Click 'here' for the video), from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“Frankenstein” Edgar Winter played 3 different instruments on this song, even when he played it live; above he’s shown playing 2 of them in the video

Well, well, well….. Something that never happened before took place with the final results from this poll…. Not only did this “Frankenstein” video score a 10 for its top rating (not that we should be surprised by that), but it was its percentage of the 10 voted that was never seen before (other than when we rate Beatle videos). What happened was it’s 10 rating took in 83.9% of the vote, and never before did a non-Beatle video ever score anywhere near that high a percentage for a 10 rating. The highest rating ever seen by a non-Beatle vid before last week was by solo Beatle John Lennon, who’s video for “Imagine" saw 69.2%. So what this “Frankenstein” video just received for it’s 10 score totally blows away that old record. Since you might be wondering, the all-time highest video score on this domain when looking at all the video scores combined (since the Beatles and Stones videos have their own, separate standings) was by the Fabs when “Get Back” (the new vid of it from the remastered Let it Be/Get Back movie), had its 10 score reach an insane reading of 97.8% of the vote! 3 other Beatle videos have also scored higher than the “Frankenstein” vid, so overall it’s the fifth highest video ever scored, which still isn’t bad at all.

You can look over the results from this Rock Video poll by clicking on the following link: Classic Rock Video Poll, week 794. Or, to see the results on the Rock Video list page, just click on here: Rock Videos List Page, List Page 12, and when you get there, the results are located on the very top of the page. You can also check out the standing for the Beatles and Stones video polls on this page, too. But Stones fans beware, for whatever the reason, and one that I don’t get, the Stones videos never have rated as high as either the Rock and Beatles videos rate.

Time to close out this Poll Post like it always closes out, talking about the Beatles Poll, where this week we enter week 546 of voting, and we are answering questions right now about The Beatles videos here, too. This week’s video poll question asks us to: Rate The Beatles' video for “Blue Jay Way” from zero to 10 (Click here for the video)

“ Blue Jay Way” The actual house that George rented out on Blue Jay Way

As we come closer to finishing up rating the Beatles videos (next week might be the last week, not sure, depending on what I can find [if any] when I look for some more). This week we look at "Blue Jay Way", a song that George Harrison wrote one night while waiting too long on some friends to stop by for a visit at a home he was renting, as these friends were running 2 hours late. George was in California for an extended visit and was renting out this pad located on a street called "Blue Jay Way", up in the Hollywood Hills. It really was a dark and foggy night in LA, as noted in the song by George, and that lead to one of the visitors, Derek Taylor, from finding where this home exactly was. George wrote 90% of the song by the time Taylor and his wife finally showed up, so it was time well spent, considering he was half asleep when he wrote it, as he and his wife Patti had only gotten into LA themselves that afternoon from the UK and were suffering from jet lag.

As you might have guessed by just listening to the song’s music, that George wrote this song - not on the guitar, but on organ. In fact, there aren't any guitars even played on this ditty. Now, if you seen this interesting 1967 Beatle vid before, then you know that George in this video plays the floor. It is amazing what kind of wonderful sounds he got from his floor. I was so inspired by this, that I decided to try playing the floor myself, only problem is that most of the floors in my home are carpeted, so I get too much of a muted sound when I try to play it. But anyway, on the actual record, the lineup was: George Harrison – Lead and Backing Vocals, Organ; John Lennon – Organ, Backing Vocal; Paul McCartney – Bass, Backing Vocal; Ringo Starr – Drums, Tambourine; Unnamed session musician – Cello. Yep, the 2 organs are the main instruments, along with the cello, that we hear on here.

To cast your vote in this poll, just click on the following link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

Looking back at last week’s Beatles poll, we asked: Rate The Beatles' video for “This Boy” from zero to 10 (Click here for the video)

“This Boy” from The Beatles video

Like all Fab videos before this one, we have now rated 41 of them and only 4 didn’t score 10s, as this one scored a 10, too, with 89.4% of the first-place votes (the fifth highest video score for the Beatle Video poll)? So, it did even better than normal for these polls, and better, then what I figured to see. To see the full, final results of this Beatle poll, just click on: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 545. To see just the standings of the Beatles/John Lennon Videos and Movies list page, just go here: Beatles/John Lennon Videos and Movies, and look under the “Video Ratings” standings.

That does it for this week’s Poll Post… It was a terrible week for my family last week, as my oldest daughter (and former Gasser) Jackie, suffered a heart attack last Monday. She's doing a lot better tonight and should be out of the hospital perhaps tomorrow (we hope), but the cancer fighting drugs that she's been taking for years now are believed to have been the cause, as that's one of the side effects from them after long time use. We always knew this could happen and now it has. So I'm not even sure what they will do with her cancer treatment after this. But what really got me angry, was thanks to COVID and all of the fools who refuse to get vaccinated and in turn are 90% of the new cases today and the people who are keeping this pandemic going - and the only ones dying from it (not counting kids under 12 who can’t get the shot yet)... But, if you take the belief that they are the only ones paying the price if they do get sick and perhaps even die, well their actions (actually non-actions) still affect those of us who got vaccinated and have so far stayed healthy, since sometimes there’s a non-COVID reason to be hospitalized. Jackie was vaccinated too, everybody in my family over 12 has been, and we live in a blue state where COVID isn't even out of control, like it is in the red states. But even with that, it's still overwhelming our hospitals here, and none of the hospitals in this area (there's only 2, with both an hour away, one to the north and one south) could take care of her since they were filled with no beds, and the only hospital that could help was in the town of Durango, Co, which is over 4 hours away from here (it's near where we used to live years ago in Telluride). So she had to be airlifted to that location (which of course adds to the medical costs). Her old man, Rocky, had to drive over there as she was in the air, and me and my grandson left Monday night to also be there with her. While we were 45 minutes into our trip, Rocky called us and tells us to turn around, since he found out the hospital was only allowing one visitor per patient per every 24 hours, thanks again to COVID. Lucky that we found that out before we drove 4 hours one way for nothing. I was later told by my sister back in NY, that over there they aren't allowing any visitors at all in their hospitals because of COVID. I am so sick of this damn virus, and those who refuse to get vaccinated who later on get so sick that they need to be hospitalized, since they are fucking up everybody else who are innocent and keeping this thing going, and take up needed beds for other sicknesses. COVID would be over by now with if everybody used their brains, but not all Americans do, that’s clear. So now I'm the gloomy one, thanks to all of this BS! To see one of your kids being ill is bad enough, but not being able to be there with them when they are sick just makes things even worst, especially when these others won’t be in the hospital if they only had used their heads and not made this political. Total fools that are!

But since I can’t end this Poll Posts on a angry note, I do hope everybody has a great week ahead and I hope all of you have done your part to stop this red virus!

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Sept 20 by Keno on 9/20/2021 12:51:03 AM <-- You Are Here
• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, Sept 20 by gomper on 9/20/2021 9:52:42 PM

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