Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 1
Date: Monday, April 01, 2024
Time: 12:28:05 AM
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 1

Let’s kick off the Poll Post for this new week. After two weeks in a row of running 3 polls a week, we return to just 2 polls for this week. So, let’s see where we are at; we’re still rating all of the Beatle and Stones songs and for this week, both songs that we’ll rate are short ones, time wise.

So, for week 1,285 of the Stones Poll, we enter week 176 of rating all of the band’s songs. Here’s the song that we’re rating this week: Rate the Stones song “Just Want to See His Face”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest) (Poll 1).

“Just Want to See His Face” From the Exile LP

Yeah, here's yet another Stones song that is another steal for the Jagger/Richards song writing team. While Mick Jagger did ad lib the lyrics as he sung the song in the studio, when I say that Keith Richards had nothing at all to do with this one, well, that's appears to be a fact. Keith wasn't even in the studio when it was recorded during the jam from which the song came from. Yet he was credited for playing the piano in the LP's credits, and with writing it with Jagger. The man who was playing with them that day at Olympic Studios in London, was the dude who wrote the song's music, Bobby Whitlock, and he was very much pissed off at the Glimmer Twins for this steal, and after he found out what went down, after hearing the song for the first time after it was released, he refused to ever listen to the song again, but he did let everybody know the true story as to this being his piece of music, and that it was stolen from him, as he claims to this day, and notes that Keith was outside scoring heroin when they played that jam in the studio, which became "Just Want to See His Face (aka "I Just Want to See His Face").

I usually like gospel songs, and this one is one, yet this is a Stones song that I never cared for at all, other than the last time I rated the LP, when I gave it a half way decent rating (I must have had smoked some good weed that day). If I was to rate it yet again today (weedless, since I no longer smoke), well, I just played it and what I like most about it now is that it's a real short song. But I see many people on YouTube really love this one. Just what am I missing here, besides some good weed? Or any weed? The rating I would give it today would be something like what I first gave it back in '97 when I first rated all the songs the Exile on Mainstreet double LP. Good chance I was also pot free on that day too, as I stopped smoking weed after I sold my business in 1996 - for a good year. Yes, so is that it? Must I be stoned to dig this one? Well, my stoner days are now long over, never to return, so guess I'll just have to skip over this tune whenever I play Exile from now on. But tell you what, if you smoke herb yourself, listen to this one totally straight, then, light up a fat one for me and give it a second listen, and let me know after you rate it in our poll this week, if ganja really does make this one sound better, or not. But crap, I'm forgetting, nobody can post here anymore, other than a few of you, so unless you're one of a handful who can (and who tokes), just feel free to drop me an email and let me know in that way!

Okay, here's the lineup for this ditty: Mick Jagger: Lead Vocal; Charlie Watts: Drums; Mick Taylor: Electric Bass; w/ Jimmy Miller as the Producer and on Percussion (Tom Toms); Bobby Whitlock on Electric Piano (uncredited); Bill Plummer plays the Upright Bass; with the Backing Vocals (recorded in LA) by: Clydie King, Vanetta Fields & Jessy Kirkland. To rate this song – just click on the following link to get to the voting page: Stones Weekly Poll.

Let’s now look at last week’s voting in the 2 polls that we took part in at the Stones Poll, In the first poll we answered this: Rate the Stones song “Flight 505”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest) (Poll 1).

“Flight 505” From the MP3 Download

Well for the sixth time in the last seven weeks, another non 10 rating for the top pick for rating one of their songs. That’s what happens I guess when you are down to mainly deep cuts to vote on. “Flight 505” saw an 8 for its top rating, taking in 33.6% of the votes. To see where this song’s rating ended up in the Stones 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 1,284, Poll 1.

For the second Stones poll run last week, we voted on thisWhat's your least favorite song on the Stones album Hackney Diamonds? (Poll 2)

Hackney Diamonds Picture Disc Check out HERE how the Disc looks when it’s playing on a turntable

Once again, it seems a lot of the least liked songs from the later day Stones albums, comes from songs that Keith Richards sings the lead on. His voice has changed for sure, but I’ve heard some good ones from him in the past few years, too, including his new Lou Reed cover that I dig a lot, wish that one was on here instead. But Keith’s “Tell Me Straight” was picked as the least favorite song on the LP with 47.5% of the vote. Three songs (including this one) saw 99.7% of all the votes, with the top 2 picks, seeing 88.7% of the votes. So, I guess this means that most of us really like most of the song on here.

To see the final poll count totals from this question, just go here: Stone Poll, week 1,284, Poll 2. Plus, I’ll add the results from this poll to the list page where all of the other favorite and least favorite songs from each album are listed, and you can check that out here: “http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/stones_fans_top_picks_1.htm .

For this week’s Beatles Poll, we enter week 674 of voting, and week 108 of rating their songs. Here’s this week’s new question and song to rate: Rate the Beatles song, “I'm So Tired”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“I'm So Tired” From the White Album

"I'm So Tired" was written entirely by an exhausted John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney), three weeks into his stay in Rishikesh, India, with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. As John explained it all, he was for the first time in years off drugs and drink, and was worn out from his daily study of meditation. But how would that of all things wear out somebody? Well, in his case, he was suffering from insomnia thanks to too much studying and listening to too many sermons from Yogi. Plus, while he took this trip with his wife Cynthia, he had just met Yoko Ono before he left and had her on his mind, even if she wasn't his girlfriend yet. So, one night while he couldn’t get to sleep yet again, he wrote this song. John's exact words on this came in an interview, as he noted this: "‘I’m So Tired’ was me, in India again. I couldn’t sleep, I’m meditating all day and couldn’t sleep at night. The story is that. One of my favorite tracks. I just like the sound of it, and I sing it well".

The song was recorded after several takes on 8 October 1968, and then released on 22 November 1968 (in the UK), and on November 25, 1968 (in the U.S.) on The Beatles double LP The White Album, aka The Beatles.There was no question as to who wrote this one, as Paul McCartney even said it in an interview: "‘I’m So Tired’ is very much John’s comment to the world, and it had that very special line, ‘And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get.’ That’s a classic line and it’s so John that there’s no doubt that he wrote it. I think it’s 100 per cent John". About that line, many in America didn't understand what John meant there, as "get" is an English slang word that many of us across the pond never heard before, or knew about. "Get" in England is used as an insult, as in calling somebody an idiot or an asshole. What was the reason why John called Walter Raleigh a "stupid get" in the song? The clue is in the lyrics just before it, as he talks about having another cigarette, which he also was supposed to have quit, but couldn't, and Raleigh was the person who introduced tobacco smoking to all of England. So, John was blaming the dude for his addiction!

The closing words of the song, muttered by John, became a major part of the Paul Is Dead myth in 1969. Even exactly when John says is in question, depending on what book you read. Some claim he said "cranberry sauce", as John was known for saying crazy things like that while recording songs, that would later be edited out (just not this time). But others claim he says “Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur, how about another one?”. Regardless of what he said, it sounded like a hidden message when played backwards that says: “Paul is dead, miss him, miss him, miss him”. When this Paul is dead thing was going on, everybody was having fun with the clues they were finding, yet who thought about playing the vinyl record backwards for a hidden message? I don't know for sure, but when my sister played it backwards on our turntable, we couldn’t make that out at all. Yet several years later, back in my deejay days, for my entire Saturday Night show one night (a 5-hour show), I played all Beatle songs and told Beatle stories, and of course took calls, too. So, somebody called up the station after I talked a bit about the Paul is dead story, and said to me (after I noted the clue about playing the ending of "I'm So Tired" backwards) 'why not play the record backwards on the air and see what we all hear, since your turntables are made to be played backwards". This person knew a bit about the radio business to say that, but yes, this was back in the days of having to cue in 100% of the songs you played, and to do that, with your headphones on, you had to play the first few seconds of the record you were to set up, then play it backwards until the sound was gone, the song would then be queued up and ready to play after you did that. So anyway, when I came back on the air, I told everybody I would do this, and while a DJ never wants to que over on the air (a major deejay no-no, and why you used your headphones to que with), for this I had to do that, using the que feature on the record player (even if this was to be used at the end of the song instead of in the beginning). So, in using the turntable's cuing feature on the air, unbelievable, yes indeed, you could for sure hear what sounded like "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him". I was very surprised when I heard that, as I bet most listening in that night were too, as more than one person called me after that to tell me that was the first time they ever heard this (obviosity, they also had tried on their home turntables and heard only garble and nothing more, as I experienced years earlier.

So anyway, here's the studio lineup for this tune: John Lennon – Lead Vocal, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar; Paul McCartney – Backing Vocal, Bass Guitar, Electric Piano; George Harrison – Electric Guitar; Ringo Starr – Drums; Producer: George Martin. 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, “Getting Better”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest)

“Getting Better” Everybody’s Getting Better! Must be what they’re smoking!

We saw a record vote count for the Beatle poll last week, and this took place with the domain off line for most of Sunday thanks to a server problem. Anyway, you already know that this one saw a 10 for its top rating. To see where in the standings this 10 rating for 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 673.

So that does it for this week’s 2 new polls. I of course thank all of you who voted! Now, I noted here last week (once again) that for this week I would write something positive in my Mumbo Jumbo PP Blog. But it is hard to do so after another week with more bad news and bad things happening (like that bridge collapse in Ballimore.). Well, today was Easter of course, and while I'm not a Christian, like Xmas, my family still celebrates the day, not for the religious part of it, I mean, you can't celebrate a god that you don't believe in, but if Christen kids get chocolate easter bunnies on this day, and peeps, and jelly beans, and get to color eggs and or hunt for them, well, my kids get to do that stuff, too, without having to get up before sunrise to go to Easter Sunday sunrise services. So no, my kids never missed out, and now today, nor would my baby granddaughter. Then like so many others, we as a family have a nice Sunday afternoon dinner. My son-in-law asked me today, if I'm an atheist, then why do I celebrate Easter. Well, my answer to him was “I don't”! But shit, he's been my son-in-law for 17 years now, yet he waits until now to ask me this? He's an agnostic himself, and after they left tonight, I thought, I should have asked him why he always shows up here for Xmas and Easter, since he's a nonbeliever himself. Anyway, I also told him that I also make a holiday out of the winter solstice, and I'm not a Pagan or Wiccan.

So, I guess I still haven't written about anything positive here. Let me think, what good, happy thing took place on the planet last week? Can you think of anything? I mean, the news is just one bad story after another. That bridge coming down, before that, those gunman in Russia killing all those innocent people. Gosh, the last thing I need to do here is to recap everything that went wrong in the last couple of weeks. Something must have gone good, right? One of Trump's criminal trails starts in 2 weeks, that should be interesting, but it won't be shown live, either, so no fun there. Oh well, I give up, maybe next week will bring some better times for us? Sorry that I just wasted all of your time writing about really nothing. Perhaps it's time to once again retire Mumbo Jumble? I've done that twice already. Once from the newspaper where I first wrote it, and then from here. So, I'll just do that, but yes, I've always closed out the Poll Post with a mini blog piece. But this really isn’t a message board anymore. If there's some kind of music news, then cool, I'll talk about that. So no promises for next week, other than Mumbo Jumble is once again retired, like I should be retired full time, too. But a part of me does like part time work, I'm still the town's weatherman, and of course the poll master here. So that's better than being 100% retired. Or is it? I'll figure it out sooner or later, I’m sure.

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, April 1 by Keno on 4/1/2024 12:28:05 AM <-- You Are Here
• Just Want to See His Face is a 5 for me by gomper on 4/28/2024 12:59:36 PM

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