Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 4
Date: Sunday, March 03, 2024
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 4

Welcome to this week’s Poll Post! For this new week we’ll have 3 polls to vote in, two for the Stones Poll, and one for Beatles poll.

Yep, 2 polls for week 1,281 of the Stones Poll, and in the first one it’s our usual poll where we been rating all of the band’s songs for 172 weeks now! So here’s the song that we’ll rate this time around: Rate the Stones song “Oh No, Not You Again”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest) (Poll 1).

“Oh No, Not You Again” U.S. CD-R acetate

"Oh No, Not You Again" was recorded in May and June of 2005 and then released on the album A Bigger Bang on September 5, 2005. This one was an early favorite song of mine on the album when the LP first came out, and at the time, many fans were thinking that it would be released as a single, since it was so popular. Yet that never happened and as the years went on, it seems to have just faded away, becoming one of those songs that you never hear on the radio anymore. While I still think the overall ABB album is fine to listen to, "Oh No, Not You Again" just doesn't sound as great as it once did to me. Whereas I rated it the third best song on ABB after I first heard the LP - and today while I wouldn't change my ratings too much on most of the songs on ABB – I would for this one, as it's for sure not my third favorite on the album any longer. Since I can still recall that most of Stone’s fans, or at least, most of the Gassers, all loved this song as much as I did (Gasland was still around and going strong back when this came out), and yes, that's a great reason alone to finally get around to rating this tune now, and we can see if this one (like most Stones songs do in time) has grown stronger to all of you fellow Stones fans out there, and if it's just me who lost interest in it. Not that I'm gonna rate this number low, mind you, I still like it, but just not as much as I once did. I guess it just sounds a bit too juvenile to my old ears today.

Ron Wood missed a lot of the sessions for the ABB album and he doesn't play at all on this ditty, either. So, it's just Keith Richards and Mick Jagger handling the guitars on here, with Mick also singing all of the lyrics, too. Here is the limited studio lineup for this number: Vocals and Electric Guitar: Mick Jagger; Electric Guitars: Keith Richards; Drums: Charlie Watts; Bass Guitar: Darryl Jones; and Don Was was the Producer. Okay, to rate this song – just click on the following link to get to the voting page: Stones Weekly Poll. When you get there, pick Poll 1 to vote in this one.

Now time for our second Stones poll which will ask this: Rate the Stones album Hackney Diamonds, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest). (Poll 2)

Hackney Diamonds One of the LPs alterative front covers

Okay, so just like we have done with all of the Stones studio album releases, it’s now time to do the same with their latest release Hackney Diamonds, which came out late last year on October 20, 2023, after being recorded first in March, 2019, February 2020, and then from December 2022 to January 2023. It reached number one in 20 countries, including the UK, becoming the 14th Stones album to top the UK Albums Chart. It saw number three on the U.S. Billboard chart and only number eight on the Canadian Billboard chart. I say only since in Canada, the Stones’ LPs usually do a lot better than they do in most other major countries.

Overall, the album received good reviews from most, including myself (see the post below if you like…but only after you first vote). Okay, to vote on how you feel about this new album, just go here: Stones Weekly Poll. When you get to that page, pick Poll 2 to vote in it.

Time now to look at last week’s voting at the Stones Poll, where we answered this: Rate the Stones song “I Don't Know Why” from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“I Don't Know Why” From the Decca single release in 1975

“I Don't Know Why” did about what I was expecting to see it do, scoring an 8 for its top pick with 35% of the vote. To see where this song’s rating ended up in the song standings, just follow this link: Stones Song Ratings & Standings - List Page 5. Plus… to view the full, finial results from this poll, just click here: Stone Poll, week 1,280.

Now let’s look into this week’s Beatles Poll, where we enter week 670 of voting, and week 104 of rating their songs. Here’s this week’s new question and song to rate: Rate the Beatles song, “I Want You (She's So Heavy)”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“I Want You (She's So Heavy)” from the great Abbey Road LP

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a Blues-Hard Rock song that was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team. The song was the first one recorded for the Abbey Road album (with its very first recording made during the last days of the Get Back/Let it Be sessions), and yet it ended up being one of the last songs to be finished for the LP, too. It was recorded at both EMI and Trident studios in London and its actual recording dates were on 29 January; 22, 24 February; 18, 20 April; 8, 11 August 1969. When the Beatles got together in the studio to mix the song on 20 August 1969, it marked the very last time that all four of the Beatles were together in the studio. It was then released on Abbey Road on 26 September 1969 in the UK, and on October 1, 1969 in North America.

Some very nice lead guitar work on this one by John, while Paul's bass guitar is outstanding, as is Billy Preston's organ playing. George Harrison had this to say about John and his song: "It's very heavy. John plays lead guitar and sings the same as he plays. It's really basically a bit like a blues. The riff that he sings and plays is really a very basic blues-type thing. But again, it's very original sort of John-type song".

The studio lineup for this one was: John Lennon – Lead and Harmony Vocals, Lead Guitar, Wind sound made from playing a Synthesizer; Paul McCartney – Harmony Vocal, Bass Guitar; George Harrison – Harmony Vocal, Rhythm Guitar; Ringo Starr – Drums, Congas; with Billy Preston on Organ; and the Producers being: George Martin (main), with Glyn Johns and Chris Thomas lending a hand.

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

Looking at last week’s Beatles poll results. The question asked was: Rate the Beatles song, “Lovely Rita”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“Lovely Rita” No, that’s not Rita, Paul McCartney just made the name up, but yes, that’s a real meter maid!

Another week and yet another 10 score for the rating given to a Lennon/McCartney song, this time seeing 65.2% of the first-place votes. To see where in the standings this song landed, click on the following link: The Beatles Song Ratings and Standings Page . Or, to take a look at the full, finial poll numbers, just go here: Beatles Poll, week 669.

That will do it for the 3 new polls we are voting on this week. I thank all of you who took the time to vote in our polls last week!

For this week’s PP blog, I been feeling of late, like perhaps I’m starting to get too old to really write anything too good anymore, as writing these days doesn’t come to me as easy as it used to. I’ve been a writer really my entire life, even when I had other jobs, I wrote on the side PT. But now as an old man, I’m losing my swagger for writing some. Well, I sometimes feel like I’m losing it a lot. There was a part of me that didn’t even want to review the Stones new LP, and reviewing albums was always something I enjoyed doing, something I looked forward to. Hell, the first time I ever wrote for a newspaper, was for my high school newspaper, writing album reviews. I flat out hated my high school and had almost nothing to do with any extracurricular actives there, other than even in my teens, I liked to write, and did that - the one thing at school I enjoyed doing, and a teacher or two would tell me I was good at it and maybe that should be the path in life for me to take. But I liked music more and wanted to be a deejay (which would become another job one day for me, too).

But it was funny, since my dad in his early days, wrote songs for a living, since he also liked writing and music, too, and so early on he made money as a songwriter. But no big hits, and once his playboy days were over and he was ready to settle down and started having kids, well, he became a very successful social worker, and never wrote another song again. I recall asking my dad when I was a boy, just how many songs did he write. My dad was a modest guy and just told me he didn’t really know, that he never counted or kept numbers on that. Then after he passed away, my youngest sister was helping my mom sort out his old stuff, including an old Army trunk he had. Inside the trunk they found over 300 songs, mainly love songs, that dad had written.

Weird, writing song lyrics was the only kind of writing that I felt I wasn’t any good at. Of course, it’s a totally different kind of writing style then say writing for a newspaper, or writing a book, or writing a blog online. To each his own I guess, even in how one might write. But from those handwritten songs that my mom and sister found that dad wrote, included the one song his children, grandkids, nieces and nephews all loved the most, called “The Bungalow Song", a children’s song that many moons ago appeared in some children’s books. But he had told me when I was in my late teens, something he never told my mom or sisters, that the song was, for around the time it was originally written, considered a raunchy song with different lyrics to it; a somewhat dirty song about a love shack (and not at all about a little girl’s playhouse)! In time I did tell my youngest sister, and I was glad I did, as in that bundle of songs, she saw “The Bungalow Song" in there with these other songs before my mom noticed it, and took a look at it and yes, the original lyrics were a bit on the dirty side! Perhaps it's not so bad going by today’s standards, but still, it was better that mom didn’t find out about it, since that was what dad wanted. She knew that dad had dated many women before she met him, but didn’t know the true extent of that until years later, and never knew about how this kid’s song’s lyrics were at first written (and written for one of the women, a night club singer, who he dated before he met my mom). Anyway, I had placed the song’s clean lyrics up on my old home page site shortly after he passed away, but it was interesting to finally see how the song’s simple lyrics were changed from the first set of lyrics it once had. You can check out the clean lyrics if you like, here: The Bungalow Song”.

Funny, this wasn’t what I planned on writing when I first started to write this blog ending tonight. My oldest daughter had called me just as I was getting started on the blog part of the Poll Post, and I told her almost exactly what I ended up writing here to start off the blog. I noted to her that I just had no clue what to finish up the Poll Post with and she suggested that I just start to write whatever came to me. That isn’t the way I ever write, but damn, it worked here, this time anyway, I guess!

I hope that all of you have a wonderful week ahead!

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 4 by Keno on 3/3/2024 10:16:10 PM <-- You Are Here
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