Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, May 30
Date: Monday, May 30, 2022
Time: 12:39:50 AM
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, May 30

Let’s kick off the Poll Post for this week’s 3 new polls in the usual matter of talking first about the Stones poll, which enters week 1,191 of voting and week 82 of rating the Stones songs. This week’s question asks this: Rate the Stones song “Yesterday’s Papers”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“Yesterday’s Papers” From the Italian Promo 7" vinyl single record / 45)

So we return to the Brian Jones years this week to rate “Yesterday’s Papers”, which was recorded between August 3 and 11, 1966 and released on Between the Buttons in February of 1967, This song was mainly a Mick Jagger/Brian Jones composition (yet credited to Jagger/Richards). Jagger wrote the lyrics alone, as he wrote most of the 1960s Stones songs’ lyrics in this matter (and this one was one of his earliest outputs of his writing misogyny lyrics, with the song’s lyrics supposedly directed at his ex-girlfriend, Chrissie Shrimpton, who he had just broken up with at the time). Brian Jones wrote most of the song's music (and of course, as usual, wasn't credited) and played the 2 lead instruments heard on the song, the harpsichord and marimbas. Keith Richards, who once again was credited for writing a song he had nothing to do with writing, played the cool distorted fuzz guitar, but it’s mainly only heard briefly in the second part of the song. Near the song's ending, we hear perhaps the only time on a Stones song where both Jones and Bill Wyman traded lead vocals in a one-two punch, while Jagger yields his lead vocals to them to close out the song (although this is mainly heard on the stereo version of the song and not on the shorter mono release of the number).

Perhaps the only problem with this song is that it's too short, as it just barely makes it past the 2-minute mark. But short songs were what record companies wanted back in those days from their artists, since AM radio stations would not play any songs that were close to or over 3 minutes long…. The lineup for this one was: Mick Jagger – Lead Vocal; Brian Jones – Harpsichord, Marimbas, Bells, Percussion, Vocal Sample, Vocal Harmony; Bill Wyman – Bass, Vocal Sample, Vocal Harmony; Keith Richards – Electric Fuzz Guitar, Vocal Harmony; Charlie Watts – Drums. To rate this week’s song, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.

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

“Just Your Fool” From the single’s CDr.

So last week, we saw in the voting and poll results what we always see when we rate a modern day Stones song – and that is, a much lower voter turnout and a much lower rating for the song being rated compared to when we rate songs from the Brian Jones years of the 1960s, or the Mick Taylor years of the early to mid '70s. FYI, 29 Stones songs from the '60s have so far rated a 10, with 13 songs from the '70s also seeing a 10 rating, too, while only one song from the '80s and one song from the '90s have been rated 10s. No songs released this century have seen any 10 ratings, or even 9 ratings for that matte. For the band's 22 lowest rated songs so far (they all rated under an 8, with all receiving between a 2 and 7 rating), we have 2 songs from the '60s, 3 from the '70s, 8 from the '80s, 3 from the '90s (only one LP was released in that decade) and 6 since the '00s came around (with 2 LPs released so far in this century)… Looking at last week's song, "Just Your Fool", well damn, this is a good song, IMO, and it's top vote was a 8 rating, which took in 50.6% of the vote, and it's rating combined with it percentage, makes it the highest rated Stones song from this century for the band.

To see the full, final results from this poll, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,190. Or, to see just where in the rating standings this song landed, just click on here: Stones Song Ratings & Standings - List Page 5.

Okay, let’s now check out this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 830 of polling, and for this week's poll, here's the new question: What is the best rock song about sleeping? .

Rock songs about sleeping

This new poll is almost long enough to be a multi week poll, as it is just 4 choices short of the 40-choice marker, and I'll run multi week polls with that number of choices or more.

One thing I never realized until I put this poll together, was how many songs the Beatles released about sleeping - a total of four of them (plus one sleepy song released by solo John Lennon, to boot). No other artist comes close to that total. But for this poll, as long as a song is about sleeping, it gets listed, and no, the word "sleep", or "sleeping", etc., doesn’t need to be in the title to make the list.

Really, there isn't a lot more to say about this poll's question, so instead of me writing any more on this, let's vote on this one now. Please vote in this week’s Rock poll, to do so, click on here: Classic Rock Poll .

In last week's voting, we answered this question: Of the artists just announced to be inductees into the Rock Hall of Fame for 2022, which one shouldn't have gotten in? .

The Rock Hall of Fame’s 2022 inductees The above photo shows all who got in this year

Well, the one rapper to get in this year was a runaway top choice, as in a landslide, we picked Eminem as the one artist who never should have been chosen to be in the Rock Hall, with 82.7% of the vote. To see where the rest of this year’s inductees landed in the poll’s final vote... just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 829.

As usual we wrap up this Poll Post with this week’s Beatles Poll, where we enter week 581 of voting and the 15th week of rating the Beatle songs. The question we will answer this week is: Rate the Beatles song, “Please Please Me”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“ Please Please Me” The front sleeve of the U.S. single. For whatever reason, I hated this photo of the Fabs when my older sister brought home the single in ‘64, and I still dislike it even today.

"Please Please Me" was released by the Beatles in January of 1963 in the UK as the band's second single, and as their first single released here in the States. It was originally a John Lennon only composition (but recredited to "McCartney-Lennon" upon it's recording by the band, and then to "Lennon/McCartney" *). When released in the UK, it reached #1 on the New Musical Express and Melody Maker charts. However, it only reached #2 on the Record Retailer chart, which in time evolved into the UK's official Singles Chart. Because of this, it was not included on the Beatles' number ones compilation album, 1. But if you consider that Record Retailer wasn’t the official UK Singles Chart at the time, well, it sure as shit should have been looked at as a #1 and been included on that LP!... In the U.S., the single went nowhere, since nobody here knew who the Beatles were yet and it received no airplay on the radio at all. But when the song was re-released in the U.S. on January 3, 1964, it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

* Note: "Please Please Me" was also released on the UK album Please Please Me in March of 1963, and at the time, all of the 8 original Beatle songs on there were credited to "McCartney–Lennon", even though Lennon wrote 5 of the songs while McCartney only wrote 3. It was Lennon's idea to list Paul’s name first, to help motivate his bandmate to write more songs in the future. But in the early years, John still would write most of the songs for the band's LPs and by the second album release, the songwriting credit was changed to "Lennon/McCartney" and soon after that, even the songs on Please Please Me were re-credited to "Lennon/McCartney", too, since it would be a few years for Paul to catch up to John in writing as many hit songs as John wrote early on.

The lineup for this song was: John Lennon – Lead Vocal, Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica; Paul McCartney – Bass, Harmony Vocals; George Harrison – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals; Ringo Starr – Drums. To vote in this week's poll and rate this number, just click on this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

Last week at the Beatles poll we answered this question: Rate the Beatles song, “All Together Now”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“All Together Now” There are several single front covers for the song, but I’m not sure if this is one of them or not

In last week's Beatle song rating poll, well, do I really have to tell you what the top rating was? Yep, another 10, but if there ever was a Rock band that deserved a 10-rating week in and week out for their songs, it was the great Beatles. If you recall weeks, really months ago, before I decided to start having all of us rate Beatle songs, I didn’t at first wish to ever run such a question here since I knew this would happen with their songs. My feelings were that it would be a waste of time to run such a question that we already knew what the answer to it was. But I was wrong on that, since while most of their songs will rate a 10, they don’t rate the same 10 each week. In fact, in the polls we voted in so far, every 10 result has seen a different percentage, and right there, yes, that does tell us something when we look at this in the Beatles rating standings, it tells us a lot (I figured that out after we were rating the Stones songs for a while, as lots of their songs see many 10 ratings, too). So, I'm happy that I did start to run these Beatle rating questions after all!

To see the full, final results from this poll, just click on here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 580. Or, you can also check out the results at The Beatles Song Ratings and Standings page, located at the domain’s Lennon Site.

Oh well, I guess because I wrote so much earlier today in the post below this one (well yesterday, as it’s past midnight now), I didn’t write as much as I usually do in a normal Poll Post. But with us no longer voting in 4 polls a week anymore, well that has something to do with me writing less here, too.

I do hope you all have a great week ahead, and since in the US of A, tomorrow is a major holiday, most in America has Monday off, so try to get outside and enjoy your extra day away from work... unless of course you live outside of the States and have to go to work on Monday.... if so, have a great day at work, anyway!

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, May 30 by Keno on 5/30/2022 12:39:50 AM <-- You Are Here
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