Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Poll Post Wrap-up for the Weekly Polls
Date: Monday, May 06, 2024
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Poll Post Wrap-up for the Weekly Polls

So, in this first Poll Wrap-up, I’m gonna go over the Weekly Polls that we voted in for the last 2 decades plus. The second Poll Wrap-up will be for the Ongoing Polls, to be posted later.

At the Stones Poll, we rated 183 songs in 179 weeks of polling; while at the Beatles Poll, we rated 111 songs in the same number of weeks. Then over at the Rock Poll, which ended back at the close of the week of February 27, 2023 (other than one special poll was run for the week of November 13, 2023), well, we didn’t rate songs there, I just usually asked multi week poll questions, and that poll was the most popular of the 3 main weekly polls.

The Stones Poll ended with 1,288 total weeks of polling, or 24 years, 8 months and 16 days. Hey, that’s a damn long time! Just think back that far in your life to where you were that long ago, back in 1999; to what you were doing, and think of just how much younger you were then. Holy shit, right? Bill Clinton was the U.S. president, and 9-11 hadn’t happened yet.

The Beatles Poll ended with 677 weeks of voting, while the Rock Poll saw a total of 876 weeks of voting.

I also ran other weekly polls on the domain, like the VS Poll, the Video Ratings Polls and the Stones VS Album Polls.

Let me start with the Stones Album matchups (Note: I never got around to include Hackney Diamonds in these polls) …. I loved these polls; they were exciting to watch unfold! They saw 298 rounds; with Stick Fingers ending up on top of the standings with a perfect score of 24-0-0. To see the standings for this mini-poll series and all the finial results from each poll, please go here: http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/stones_vs_list.htm

Now for the Video Polls. These polls were a lot of fun to run, too! One set each ran on the Stones Poll, the Beatles Poll and also on the Rock Polls. Each poll had their own separate standings and list pages.

For the Stones Video Polls, 75 of these polls were run, with “Bluesberry Jam”, a 1972 TV video, taking first place by a giant margin with 78.9% of the vote, with second place finisher “I Wanna Be Your Man”, a Top of the Pops TV video, seeing 47.7%, If you would like to see the standings for this one – along with the videos links included so you can watch them, go here: http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/stones_fans_top_picks_2.htm “Bluesberry Jam” is worth the visit!

One last note while I’m showing that page link, just below the video standings, are the results of yet another Stones Mini Poll series, something I never asked at the Beatles or Rock Polls, which was very interesting, too, and it was called The Top Ratings for the Stones Album Covers Polls. Sticky Fingers and its Andy Warhol cover designed beat out Let It Bleed for the top spot in that one!

Now for the Beatles Video Polls. 49 Fab videos were rated. “Get Back”, from the remastered Let it Be movie, took first place there, with a whooping 97.8% score! To view the standings for this one, go here: http://www.keno.org/john_lennon/beatles_movies.htm . Also note on the Top of this page are some poll results from the Fab’s different movies that should interest you.

For the Rock Videos, 121 videos were voted on. At the top of the list standings was Janis Joplin's live cover of "Ball and Chain", taking in 84.4% of the votes. If you never seen this one before, it’s as good as the Stones Jam Video is that I note above, so do check it out! The link to see the standings and videos is here: http://www.keno.org/classic_rock/top_ten_lists_12.htm. Please note, that any solo Stones or Beatles videos are of course listed here, since they aren’t band videos. Also note for all of the videos links shown on all of the pages – some of these videos will no longer be active, since these polls were run long ago. But all you have to do in most cases, is just look for a new link in YouTube’s search box (or whatever music site I linked to) and you should find them elsewhere.

I should note that at both the Stones and Beatles Polls, the last polls run were the Song Rating Polls. There were 179 songs rated at the Stones poll and 111 at the Beatles Poll. While overall the Stones Poll saw larger turnout of voters, the Beatles Poll saw a higher percentage of songs with a 10 rating, with only 9 out of 111 rated not receiving a 10; all of the Lennon/McCartney songs were rated 10s. To see the final standings for the Stones Song Ratings, go here: http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/stones_fans_song_ratings.htm ; for the Beatles, go here: http://www.keno.org/john_lennon/beatles_song_ratings.htm .

Let’s see, next, The Rock VS Poll. There were 364 of these polls run, which captured mainly songs going up against each other on the first list page, then songs and a few albums on the second page, and on the third page, a bit of everything, from Genre Vs other Genre’s polling, Sequel Songs VS Polls, Songwriters VS Polls, and even The Stones VS The Beatles VS Polls, plus others. Instead of linking to the 3 list pages, I’ll just link to the Rock Home Page – here http://www.keno.org/Rockhomepage.html ; just go down to where you see the TOP TEN LISTS, where you can choose any of the 3 VS pages listed.

For the Stones VS Pages, I already noted the first page up above for the LP matchups. Then on the second page, we got a bunch of different topics that are listed, 56 of them were voted on…. including band members going up against each other, Battle of the Stones Videos (not ratings), Battle of the Stones Songs (again, non-rating questions), and other things. You can view this page here: http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/stones_vs_list_2.htm.

Then finally, the Beatles VS Page, with 28 matchups voted on, including polls like Fabs VS Solo Fabs and Beatle VS Songs! Check it out here: http://www.keno.org/john_lennon/beatles_vs_page.htm...

Now, a bonus series to note that was very popular and run on the Rock Poll that asked this: “Pick The Most Underrated Members from each Rock band”. We ran 68 of these polls for 68 different bands, yet another interesting, unofficial poll series. Check out who we picked for each band, here: http://www.keno.org/classic_rock/top_ten_lists_18.htm, the list is located on the very top of the page.

Now, some more links to check out include: Beatles List Pages: http://www.keno.org/john_lennon/beatles_lists.htm, ; the Rock’s list page is noted about under Rock Home Page link, and the Stones List Page can also be viewed on the Stones Home Page here,

Now for the finial bit of this wrap-up, let’s look at the Top 10 poll voting number totals*. You will notice with the Stones and Fab Polls, all but one of the Top 10 spots were voted on this year, in 2024. Yep, we were on a roll to the very end! You will also notice just how popular the Rock Poll was, even after being shut down a full year earlier than the Stones and Fab Polls, as its number 10 listed song had more votes cast then both of the top polls total vote for both the Stones and Beatles Polls, and by a few hundred votes cast!

So, I’ll list the Top 10 voted on polls for the Stones, Beatles and Rock Polls. I’ll start with the Stones Poll, and all of these listed, turned out to be Rating Polls, other than the first and last spots, since we were setting poll voter turnout records each week for the last year or so, and the rating polls were almost all that were being run by this time. Here we go: (1) 3,029 votes cast, voted on week of 3/18/24, the poll asked for your favorite song on Hackney Diamonds; (2) 3,026 votes, week of 3/18/24, ‘rate “Cool, Calm & Collected”’; (3) 3,024 votes, week of 4/15/24, ‘rate “I Go Wild”’; (4) 3,022, week of 4/22/24, ‘rate “Doncha Bother Me”’; (5) 3,011 week of 3/25/24, ‘rate “Flight 505”’; (6) 2,996 week of 4/1/24, ‘rate “Just Want to See His Face”’;(7) 2,907, week of 3/4/24. ‘rate “Oh No Not You Again”’; (8) 2,905, week of 3/4/24, “rate the album Hackney Diamonds”; (9) 2,904 week of 4/8/24, ‘rate “Blinded by Rainbows”’; and 2,902, week of 3/25/24, “your least favorite song on Hackney Diamonds”.

For the Fabs Poll: (1) 3,031 votes cast, voted on week of 3/25/24, rate “Getting Better”; (2) 3,025 week of 4/1/24, rate “I'm so Tired”; (3) 2,925 week of 4/8/24, rate “She's Leaving Home”; (4) 3,017 week of 4/22/24, rate “Old Brown Shoe”; (5) 2,909 week of 3/4/24, rate “I Want You (She's So Heavy”; (6) 2,704 week of 2/19/24, rate “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”; (7) 2,625 week of 8/15/22, rate “Nowhere Man”; (8) 2,618 week of 1/29/24, rate “Rocky Raccoon”; (9) 2,608 week of 2/12/24, rate “I Will” and (10) 2, 596, week of 2/5/24, rate “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”/

For the Rock Poll, which closed down after the week of 2/27/23, the first poll noted was the highest total for votes counted ever for a weekly poll, when 4,065 voted on the week of 2/27/23, with the question asking for “the saddest song about being unhappy? (Part 4 of 4)”. Here is spot 2 thru10: (2) 3,431 votes cast, week of 2/20/23, “saddest song about being unhappy (Part 3 of 4)”; (3) 3,328, week of 12/12/22, “best rock song by a band or artist sung by somebody other than the normal lead singer (Part 3 of 3)”; (4) 3,319, week of 1/30/23, “greatest all-time intro to a Rock Song? (Part 3 of 3)”; (5) 3,316; week of 5/16/22, “greatest long running Rock Song (at least 10 minutes long), ever (Part 4 of 4)”; (6) 3,315 week of 10/24/22, “the first true Heavy Metal sounding song? (Part 3 of 3)”; (7) 3,314 week of 12/5/22, “best rock song by a band or artist sung by somebody other than the normal lead singer (Part 2 of 3)”; (8) 3,308, week of 2/13/23, “saddest song about being unhappy? (Part 2 of 4)”; (9) 3,304, week of 11/21/22, “best rock song which has lyrics in it that repeats over and over again, either 'nah nah nah...' or 'no no no...'; and (10) 3,302 week of 10/3/22, “of altered lyrics found in rock songs, forced on the artist due to censorship, what song was ruined the most by this action”; tied with 3,302 votes, week of 11/14/22, “Best Rock Song about Outlaws or Criminals (Part 3 of 3)”.

*For the rest of the weekly polls, I’ll just list the Top 3 votes cast:

For the Rock Videos Poll: (1) 2,304 votes cast, week of 2/21/22, “rate Pink Floyd's fan video for 'Comfortably Numb'” and (2) 2,302 votes cast, week of 1/17/22, “rate the Free video for 'All Right Now'” and for the week of 12/6/21, 2,291 votes cast for “rate Joe Cocker's live video for 'With a Little Help from My Friends'”. Please not that the video polls for the Stones and Beatles had their vote total listed in their weekly polls totals, as is the case for them with their VS polls.

Finally, for the Rock VS Polls, the Top 3 voted on polls were: (1) 2,112 votes, voted on 8/30/21, “’Monterey' by The Animals vs 'Woodstock' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Which of these 2 songs about music fests, were better”; (2) 2,051, week of 8/23/21, “'Father & Son' by Cat Stevens vs 'Forever Young' by Rod Stewart, which song about fatherly advice to a son is better”; and (3) 2,048, week of 9/6/21, “Everly Brothers VS Manfred Mann: Who's cover of the song 'Pretty Flamingo' is the better take”.

So, that does it for this wrap-up of the Weekly Polls. Hope I didn’t leave out anything; this took a long time to compile. Next up, a Wrap-up of the On-Going Polls. I’m thinking by Friday this one will be done, so let’s say that this Wednesday will be the last day to be able to vote on them – or any polls on the domain. In the meanwhile, have a good week and thanks for reading this!

Keno

• Poll Post Wrap-up for the Weekly Polls by Keno on 5/6/2024 4:29:28 PM <-- You Are Here

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