Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 11
Date: Sunday, March 10, 2024
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 11

Time to get this week’s Poll Post underway for our weekly polls This new week we return to voting in just 2 polls, the usual one poll each for the Stones and Beatles, after running 2 for the Stones last week.

So, for week 1,282 of the Stones Poll, we get back to the usual poll question where we been rating all of the band’s songs, now for 173 weeks! So here’s the song that we’ll rate this week: Rate the Stones song “Anybody Seen My Baby”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest) (Poll 1).

“Anybody Seen My Baby” One of the single’s front covers

Well, I guess I was wrong when I noted a few weeks back that we were mainly down to only rating deep cuts, as far as the Stones songs went. This one is clearly not a deep cut, but a single release from the Bridges To Babylon album in 1997. The song itself was recorded March thru July, 1997.

"Anybody Seen My Baby" had an unusual writing credit to it for a Jagger/Richards song, as it was also credited to k.d. lang and Ben Mink. Neither one of them had anything to do with the recording of this song, but I guess the Glimmer Twins were finally starting to learn that they could no longer take another artist’s material and make it their own without being sued. So, when the Glimmers were told by Keith’s daughter Angela, that the song sounded too much like lang’s song "Constant Craving", they decided to credit her and her song’s cowriter. Smart move, just too bad they didn’t do the same for all of the songs they stole from their former bandmates and others in the past.

One last interesting note about this song and it’s writing, was that "Anybody Seen My Baby?" was reported to have been the title of a song written by Brian Jones just before he left the Stones in early 1969, that he had told the Twins about that March, but his song was rejected by the Glimmers. While I’m not suggesting this was that song – it couldn’t had been (as its demo tape was burned up, along with all of BJ’s belongings, in that mysterious bonfire at his home the day after his death). But perhaps that’s where Mick got the idea for the song’s title from when he wrote the lyrics?

Anyway, this one was a big hit for the band in several places. Back home in the UK, perhaps not as big, missing the top 20 and peaking at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart, yet still, that made the ditty become the band's 38th top 40 hit in England. But again, it was more successful abroad, topping the official chart in Canada, and reaching the top 20 in several European countries, including Top 10 in Belgium, Hungary and Spain. In the U.S., it peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number two on the Adult Alternative Songs chart.

Angelina Jolie starred in the interesting music video made for the song, which is linked to at the voting booth, but just remember, we aren’t rating the video, just the song. Here’s the studio lineup for this tune: Lead and Backing Vocals and Electric Guitar: Mick Jagger; Electric Guitar and Backing Vocal: Keith Richards; Electric Guitar: Ron Wood; Drums: Charlie Watts; with Electric and Acoustic Guitars: Waddy Wachtel; Bass Guitar & Keyboards: Jamie Muhoberac; Saxophone: Joe Sublett; Percussion: Jim Keltner; Keyboards: Don Was; Tambourine, Shaker and Backing Vocal: Blondie Chaplin; Backing Vocal: Bernard Fowler; Rap Sample: Biz Markee.

Okay, to rate this song – just click on the following link to get to the voting page: Stones Weekly Poll.

Time now to look at last week’s voting at the Stones Poll, where we answered 2 questions. Poll 1 asked this: 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

With 41.6% of the vote, “Oh No, Not You Again” saw a top rating of an 8. 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 1,281.

For last week’s second Stones poll, it asked this: Rate the Stones album Hackney Diamonds, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest). (Poll 2)

Hackney Diamonds One of the LPs alterative front covers

It seems when I asked this question in the past for all of their other studio albums by the Stones, the rating this one got last week is in line with the ratings that most fans gave to many of their other LPs, that being, an 8 (this becomes the tenth one out of 27 to see that rating from fans), taking in 40.2% of the first-place votes. To see this album’s rating alongside the other Stones’ fan album ratings, just follow this link: Stones Album Ratings. Or, to view the full, finial results from this poll, just click here: Stone Poll, week 1,281.

Now it’s time to take a look at this week’s Beatles Poll, where we enter week 671 of voting, and week 105 of rating their songs. Here’s this week’s new question and song to rate: Rate the Beatles song, “When I'm Sixty-Four”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“When I'm Sixty-Four” Drawing made in the late '60s. Sadly, only two of them lived to see the age of 64

“When I'm Sixty-Four” was mainly written by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon/McCartney), and recorded on 6, 8, 20, 21 December 1966 and then released in 1967 on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The tune is a love song being sang by a young man to his lover about him wanting to grow old with her. The song is one of the very first songs that Paul ever wrote, written when he was about 14 years old. In 1972, John Lennon said of the song, "Paul wrote it. He was stuck needing a few more words for it, so I wrote the part about 'grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck and Dave' … and he then added “I think I also added in ‘Doing the garden, digging the weeds’”.

The Beatles used it in the early days as a song they could play when the amplifiers broke down or the electricity went off, but they never really planned to record the song. Producer George Martin noted that Paul may have thought of the song when the sessions began for Sgt. Pepper in December 1966, because his father turned 64 earlier that year. Martin was noted to giving the band a big helping hand on this one, as he scored the song for the clarinet trio that was used on it, and they were a major part of the song. Paul had this to say about Martin and this song: “I thought it was a good little tune but it was too vaudevillian, so I had to get some cod lines to take the sting out of it, and put the tongue very firmly in cheek. It’s pretty much my song. I did it in a rooty-tooty variety style… George helped me on a clarinet arrangement. I would specify the sound and I love clarinets so ‘Could we have a clarinet quartet?’ ‘Absolutely.’ I’d give him a fairly good idea of what I wanted and George would score it because I couldn’t do that. He was very helpful to us. Of course, when George Martin was 64 I had to send him a bottle of wine”.

Here’s the studio lineup for the song: Paul McCartney – Lead Vocal, Piano, Bass Guitar: John Lennon – Backing Vocal, Electric Guitar; George Harrison – Backing Vocal; Ringo Starr – Drums, Tubular Bells; with the Clarinets by Robert Burns and Henry MacKenzie, and Bass Clarinet by Frank Reidy.

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, “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

You may recall that last week I noted when talking about the song we rated the week before that yet “another 10 score for the rating given to a Lennon/McCartney song”. Well, ditto for this one, too, this time the 10 rating for “I Want You (She's So Heavy)” saw 41.5% of the 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 670.

So that does it for our polls. I thank all of you who took the time to vote in our polls last week!

For this week’s Mumble Jumbo Poll Post Blog, chances are that you live somewhere that observes Daylight Saving (nothing) Time (DST) and lost an hour of sleep last night. Around the world, besides most of the U.S., Europe, much of Canada and most parts of Australia also implement it, while Russia, Asia and now Mexico, don’t. The twice a year change-over in most of the world is an insane thing to do and saves us nothing, energy wise, as that has been proven over and over again.

I personally hate it for several reasons. One being my volunteer work with the National Weather Service (NWS) as the official weather keeper for my home town, and the NWS has never observed it (since they can’t just skip an hour of time as if it never existed), so in keeping our local records, I and everybody else that works for them are always an hour off from everybody else in our bookkeeping when DST is in effect. But it isn’t just that, as the week after this ridiculous thing takes place, we see the highest death rate caused by heart attacks, another proven fact (in America, anyway).

So yes, this insane practice needs to be stopped (again, at least where I live in Colorado) for several reasons. Back in 1973, Colorado tried a moronic idea to change over to year-round DST, and after just one single year, it was changed back to using both Standard Time and DST after most of the people of the state hated it (note: I did not live in Colorado back then, so I'm going by what I've read. I moved here permanently in '77). Why? Among other things, locals hated it because of having to awake for work in the dark, but even worst, preteen and teen children had to walk to school every morning - in pitch black darkness, which of course is very dangerous. Yet now, here in my home state, they passed a law to stay on DST year-round again (but only when the U.S. government allows it to happen). This of course is insane! I sure as shit don’t wish to live on midwestern time year-round, if I wanted that, I would have moved to the Midwest! So at least here in Colorado, some of us are trying to get that law changed to keep us on standard time year-round - the way it’s supposed to be!

I hope that all of you have a wonderful week ahead and enjoy your extra hour of sunlight at night! But if you got preteen school kids to get off to bed now while the sun is still out, good luck with that, or if you hate getting up for work in the pitch dark thanks to all of this DST crap, well, perhaps it’s time to write your leaders about changing things to what the time is suppose to be in your actual time zone.

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, March 11 by Keno on 3/10/2024 10:06:05 PM <-- You Are Here
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