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Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, January 24
Date: Monday, January 24, 2022
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, January 24

Welcome to this week's Poll Post where we all vote in 4 new weekly polls per week, starting at midnight Eastern Time each Monday morning, or locally here in Colorado at 10pm Sunday night, Mountain Time (or -6 hours from GMT). I always start off first writing about the Rolling Stones poll, where for this week’s poll we’ll enter week 1,173 of voting and where for the last 64 weeks we’ve been rating the Stones songs. So with that in mind, this week’s question will ask this: Rate the Stones song “Love Is Strong”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“Love Is Strong”, from the Stones LP Voodoo Lounge

"Love Is Strong” was released way back in back in 1994, 28 years ago, yet many fans look at it today as one of the band’s newer Jagger/Richards songs, since so few such penned new numbers from the Glimmer Twins have been releases since this one was. This number was the first single released off of the Voodoo Lounge album, and was (IMO) one of their better singles released in the last 30 years. Yet it didn’t sell well at all in the States, where it barely made it on to the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, landing at only 91 on there. It did much better in the UK, where it reached #14, and it was a hit in Canada and Finland, where it went all the way to #2 in those 2 countries.

One interesting thing about this song. I often have to note that most of the Jagger/Richards songs had the lyrics written by Jagger and the music by Richards, and that covers pretty much most of them from the ‘60s up to the mid ‘70s, when Keith started to write more lyrics. For this song, the entire ditty was written at first by Keith alone (and titled at first as “Love is Strange"), as this was when Mick was too busy to write for the Stones since he was working on and dreaming of having a big solo career, something that never happened, since us Stones fans knew better – that if MJ hit it big as a solo performer – the Stones would have been over with, and since none of us wanted to see that, we all ignored and didn’t buy any of his solo LPs, to where he was stuck staying in the Stones. Yes, us fans had our say in that matter! But getting back to this song’s writing, Mick decided he could do better and changed several lines of the lyrics in this song, which of course pissed off Keith, since Keith never did that to any of MJ’s songs. Mick also added in his harmonica part to the song, too, as that was totally his idea, and at least that was a great move, as his harp is flat out excellent on this one (again, IMO) and it helps makes the song sound real good, indeed.

The following is the lineup for this song: Mick Jagger – Lead Vocals, Harmonica, Maracas; Keith Richards – Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals; Ron Wood - Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals; Charlie Watts – Drums; with Chuck Leavell – Piano and Organ; Darryl Jones – Bass; Bernard Fowler and Ivan Neville – Backing Vocals.

Okay, so it’s time to rate this week’s song. To do that, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.... Also, important to always note, to please remember that we aren’t rating the video for the song here that is linked to at the voting page (we already rated it!), only the song itself is what is being rated here. The video link is included at the voting page only so you can hear the song before you vote.

Last week at the Stones poll we voted on this: Rate the Stones song “Sway”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“Sway”, from the LP Sticky Fingers, released in 1971.

We all knew that this masterpiece of a song would see a 10 rating, and it did, but the only real guess was just how strong of a 10 would it see? That’s always the question for the Stones best songs, since we never know for sure just high of a 10 rating any one great song will get. For this one, it took in 87% of the vote, which means, it for sure made the Top 10, but did it make the Top 5 in the Stones songs rating standings? To find out, well first, to see the full, final results from this poll, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,172. But to see exactly how high up in the Top 10… or Top 5 this song landed in the rating standings, just click on here: Stones Song Ratings & Standings - List Page 5.

Okay, let’s move on over to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 813 of polling, and for the voting at this one we always run 2 different Rock Polls per week. For this week’s first, main poll, we will vote on this: What's the best Classic Rock song that starts off with either a gong(s), bell(s), or a cowbell? (Part 3 of 3)?

A Gong, a Bell, and a Cowbell

Okay, so the best week for any of our multiweek polls is always the last week that the question runs, and where the top picks from the first parts all go up against each other so we can finally pick a winner. That week is now here for this question.

So, in a nutshell, just a reminder, we aren't looking for the best song with a gong, bell or cowbell playing in it. What we are looking for is the best song that starts off with a gong, bell or cowbell. For this final round, we have 20 songs to choose from – coming from the top 10 songs chosen by us voters from Parts 1 and 2.

Okay, time to vote in this first Rock poll’s final round. To do that and make your pick, click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote in this poll.

Now let’s take a look at this week’s Rock Video Poll. Here's the new question: Rate Golden Earring's performance video for “Radar Love”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest). Click here for the video

Radar Love from Golden Earring

This hit, one of the better of the many Rock n Roll car driving songs, “Radar Love”, comes from the hard rocking Dutch band Golden Earring, and was released way back in 1973. It went Top 10 in almost every country that it was released in, hitting exactly #10 in the States and #7 in the UK. It hit the #1 spot on the charts in both the Netherlands and Spain. This is one of those song where – while the lead guitar is cool for sure – the drumming is what really kicks this song into high gear, or should we say – overdrive!

If there ever was a question as to what this song is really about, and with so many getting it wrong… the meaning to this one is not as clear as some claim. No question, it’s about a guy who’s so crazy in love with his lady, that he claims no matter where he may be, he knows when she needs him, that's where the “radar love” part comes in. The fact is that he’s driving from a faraway place all night long to get to her, as he noted it was half past 4 in the morning and he’s spinning into a new sunrise (and its not “a nude sunrise” either, as a few lyric sites have it down as, those lyric sites are totally wrong, LOL!). He’s in a real hurry and driving real fast to get back to his baby as quickly as he can, as she’s calling him via their radar love (today, radar love isn’t needed for that, as we have cell phones to cover this while we’re out driving!). But it’s the rest of the song that many claim totally different things as to what the rest of this number is all about. At the useless Wiki site, they insist that the person driving is a truck driver who worked too many hours. While the lyrics tell us that yes, he’s been driving for a long time while trying to get back home; but nowhere in the song does it claims he’s a truck driver. Truckers have their own special road talk - and none of that kind of talk is used in the song. So more than likely he’s not a truck driver. Where did they get that from, anyway? Where he could be a truck driver, he also could be working at the many other jobs that takes one on the road often. There are many such jobs, even more so back in 1973. Another suggestion – or a flat out claim by some (Wiki again) is that he gets killed in a crash (perhaps noted in the lyrics?) yet, some also claim he’s still communicating with his baby now that he’s dead up in Heaven. These folks claim it’s in the lyrics “We've got a wave in the air”. But no, the lyrics there are clear, they flat out note that the “radar love” is what the wave in the air is. But it is interesting as to what the lyrics (BTW, they were written by Barry Hay, the band’s lead singer) to these 2 lines mean: “No more speed, I'm almost there, gotta keep cool, now gotta take care, last car to pass, here I go, and the line of cars go down real slow….. And the radio played that forgotten song, Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong", and the newsman sang his same song, oh one more radar lover gone”, Several sites, including Wiki claim this is where the car crash is told. Just where is that? If anything, the lyrics here talk about finally slowing down his speed since he's almost there and his trip is just about over, and he’s now keeping cool and notes that he must take care. Not the lyrics one might write for the next verse that some claim talks about a car crash caused by careless driving resulting in death. But where does it even say this? It doesn’t, and some just assume that the lyric “the line of cars go down real slow” are talking about a funeral procession. But just listen to the lyrics here, are they going down real slow now since while at this point, he isn’t speeding anymore but he’s still passing them while driving slower? Perhaps? Plus “the newsman” some claim, is reporting about the death of a driver in a crash. But is he? Maybe not. That lyric could mean anything, as many listen to the news on the radio while driving, and on some radio stations, the news is recorded on tape, so one could hear the same exact newscast repeated several times while on a long drive.

BTW, Golden Earring had stayed together with the same band members, all the way up until a few months ago, and only now have broken up, since their lead guitarist today has a fatal illness and is slowly dying... For this video that we will rate, it comes from an overseas TV show from back in the ‘70s, and the band played live when it was filmed. But like so many of these shows that were later made into modern day videos, today for the video we only hear the studio version of the song playing, which has been dubbed in. The lineup for this one was: Barry Hay — Lead Vocals, Percussion, Sound effects; George Kooymans — Lead Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals; Rinus Gerritsen — Bass Guitar, Keyboards; Cesar Zuiderwijk — Drums and Percussion… with (in the studio but not shown in the video) Patricia Paay — Backing Vocals; and Eelco Gelling — Slide Guitar.

To watch the video and vote in this 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 voted on this: What's the best Classic Rock song that starts off with either a gong(s), bell(s), or a cowbell? (Part 2 of 3)?

and

The Top 2 songs from last week’s voting

The Top 10 songs that made it into the final round from Part 2 are: Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones (cowbell) (19.9%), Time - Pink Floyd (bells) (19.8%), Mother - John Lennon (bell) (19.7%), Ding Dong, Ding Dong - George Harrison (bells w/ other sounds)(8.5%), We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad (cowbell) (5.9%), Its So Easy - Linda Rondstadt (cowbell w/guitars) (5.9%), Black Betty - Ram Jam (gong) (3.6%), Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela (cowbell) (3.6%), Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin (cowbell w/guitar) (2.4%), Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (bell) (2.4%). To see this poll’s full, final results, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 811, Poll 1.

In last week’s Rock Video poll I asked, and we all voted on this: Rate Free's live performance video for “All Right Now”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest). Click here for the video

Free and one of their single sleeves for “All Right Now”

Free’s greatest song ever made was treated in that way in our poll for its video, too, as it not only scored a 10 for its top rating, it took in 69.4% of the vote, making it the third highest 10 rating ever seen at our video poll with that percentage. Only The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein", at 83.9%, and John Lennon's "Mind Games" at 69.8%, scored higher. It also broke up Lennon’s holding of the spots 2 thru 4 in the same video standings. As much as I love John Lennon and his 3 videos and the songs that were listed in those spots, I can totally understand why this Free song and its video did so well.

You can check out the full results from this video poll by clicking on the following link: Classic Rock Video Poll, week 812. Or, check out the results on the Rock Video list page, where you can see the full video standings. Just click on the following link to get there: Top Ratings for Rock Videos Page.

Time now to look at this week’s Beatles Poll, where we enter week 564 of voting. The question this week asks: Which artist made the best cover of the Beatles song “Come Together”?

“Come Together” by the Beatles

Well, after the last month plus of running the 5-part multi-week Beatles poll on other artists covering the Beatle songs, the turnout was just so grand, I decided to keep a part of the question going and see if using the same idea works out in getting most of the voters returning for more of the same. It was either do that or start up rating the Beatles songs, which I’m not totally ready to do yet. So, with that noted, I’ll ask the above question about the songs that were covered the most by other artists, that is, if we see a good voter turnout for this week’s test poll. But let me now talk about the actual poll question….

“Come Together”, the opening song on the masterpiece and perhaps greatest Rock LP ever made, Abbey Road, was released in October of 1969, and it also was released as part of the double A sided single along with the song “Something”. It was of course written by John Lennon. He wrote it for the Yippie/hippie psychologist Dr. Timothy Leary, who was an early advocate of LSD usage, and whom Lennon admired. Leary intended to run for Governor of California in the following year's election and asked Lennon to write him a campaign song based on the campaign's slogan, "Come Together – Join the Party!" Years later in the late ’80s, George Harrison stated in an interview that he wrote two lines of the song, returning the favor from two years earlier when John helped him out when he was writing the song “Piggies”. The “clutching folks and knifes…” lyrics in “Piggies” came from John in that song, but I have no clue what lines George wrote for John in “Come Together”.

So, for this poll, we will not look at this Beatles original tune – but at the covers made of the song by other artists. A total of seven such artists are listed in this week’s poll and you should pick whichever cover song that you like the most.

A few side notes for this poll… Of course, there will be links to each song at the voting page, however, one of them, for the Def Leppard cover, I could only find a one-minute short recording of it online when they played it as a part of a medley, live. While the band played this song a few times live, they never recorded it in the studio, which I guess is why it’s hard to find a full version online of it. Yet you can still get the feel for how they handled the song by listening to the short clip…. For the rest of the artists listed, the full versions are heard. Plus, for Ike and Tina Turner’s cover of this, it is most definitely Tina and Ike together, even if YouTube has it down as only being Tina alone. She wasn’t solo here, and the lead guitar we hear is played by Ike.

To see the full list of those 7 who covered this song, and also to cast your vote, just click on this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

Looking back at last week’s Beatles poll, we closed out the most voted on Beatle poll question ever asked at our Beatle poll. Now yes, the fact that we never asked a 5-week question at this Fab poll before, has something to do with that, but not all, as I’ll explain in just a bit. But first, the question asked was: What was the best cover song ever made of a Beatle song (Part 5 of 5)?

Joe Cocker and Ray Charles. The top 2 picks in the end from this multiweek question came from the Beatle songs that they covered

Well, I do believe that even your dog knew what song would be picked first, that being Joe Cocker’s take of “With a Little Help From My Friends”. But after that one, I believe that most of us weren’t too sure what the other top songs might be. Yet perhaps not, as the top 3 songs did bring in twice as many votes as the rest of the song did. I was also very pleased to see that Ray Charles’ cover of “Yesterday” came in second, as it has always been my favorite Beatle cover. Talk about singing a song with feeling! I wasn’t sure until this poll ran if others liked it as much as I did, and now I see that the answer is yes. Yet in third place landed yet another favorite Beatle cover of mine, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ cover of “I Need You”, which is also wonderful, indeed! But after those spots were settled early on, the rest of the songs were all very close in the voting - in fact, way too close! I’ve noted here over and over again how much I hate seeing ties, and ever since we started to see many more voters showing up each week to vote, the ties haven’t been anywhere as bad, as more voters usually mean less ties. But that sure wasn’t the case for this poll last week, as the last spot in the Top 10 alone saw a 6 way tie for 10th! I can’t recall the last time we saw that big a tie – and yet, we saw a record turnout at this poll last week, too, as the Beatle poll becomes only the second of our 4 weekly polls to break the 2,500 marker for total votes in one week. Nope, the Stones poll, which is still usually our second most voted on poll each week, has never seen that mark, in fact, last week it also saw a record turnout, finally breaking the 2,300 marker. Whereas the Beatles poll’s highest turnout before last week poll was 2,301 votes, and that was only reached just 3 weeks ago in the first week of the year when Part 3 of this same question was asked. So yes, you can say that with its 2,558 votes last week, that it totally demolished its old record. Now of course, the most voted on poll for us is always the main rock Poll question, which last week saw 2,752 votes cast for its question – yet that’s not even a Top 5 voting total for that poll. A poll total of 2,500 votes for that poll won’t even break the top 20 for Rock poll #1. But hay, while that might not be a lot of votes if you look at the big websites, well, for this site its big enough! But hey, I get excited with the vote totals I see here each week anyway!... and I thank all of you for your votes each week! I had to wonder after I closed down Gasland a few years ago, if the polls might die out. Well, other than a short lived downturn in votes at the Stones poll, all 4 polls are doing great -even better today than they were doing when Gasx3 was still around!

To see the full, final results from this poll, just click on here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 563.. Or, you can also check out the results at the Beatles Covers List Page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.

So that will do it for this week’s Poll Post! I do want to pass on my condolences to our friend manny, as his team, the Bills lost one of the most interesting footballs games I’ve seen in years, thanks to the totally unfair overtime rules that the stupid NFL still use to this day in overtime! When you have the 2 greatest QBs playing the game today going up against each other, and with both of them playing perhaps their best games ever today, how sad that a stupid coin flip settled this game – since that’s what it came to, as if the Bills had won the OT coin flip instead, they would have won the game instead. But not allowing one team to play any offense in OT simply because they lost the coinflip in OT and the other team scored a touchdown on their first procession, while playing against a defense that was totally drained (both Ds were), is just totally unfair….. and this was a playoff game yet, mind you! How can you not give the other team a change to also play offence once too? Why not give both teams an equal chance to score? This is a perfect example as to why the NFL and their stupid rules, totally sucks! While my own favorite teams sucked this past season (thank goodness they fired their head coach, so its now, wait till next year…. Yet again!), the Bills have always been a favorite team of mine, too, while on the other hand, I flat out hate Kansas City!.... the NFL team that is, not the city in Kansas. But damn, they do have the best QB in the NFL, lucky dogs!

Well, I hope all of you have a great week ahead!

Keno

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