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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: B&L/ABB/DC/TY/Frontmen/Underplayed Fabs/more
Date: Monday, June 19, 2017
Time: 1:03:07 AM
Remote Address: 66.36.115.94
Message ID: 309209
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B&L/ABB/DC/TY/Frontmen/Underplayed Fabs/more

Week 934 of our Stones poll is here and this week, as usual, we will ask 2 poll questions. The first question asks: Blue and Lonesome vs Tattoo You, which album do you like the best?

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Week 3 of the Blue Polls, which features the Stones newest studio album, Blue and Lonesome.

I have a request for every Stones fan this week who regularly reads this poll post yet never or rarely ever votes in the poll. Could I get you to please vote this week in both Stones polls? I ask this since the Stones poll is now the only weekly poll out of the weekly polls I run on the domain each week, that hasn’t yet seen the 1,000 vote mark in one week (for each single poll that is), yet they were the reason these polls were first started up and have been run more times than any other weekly poll, and by a long shot. Week 934 of this poll only means the poll has been running for 934 consecutive weeks, and I'm proud of that streak, but of course, we have been running 2 polls a week for several years now, and a total of 2,054 polls have been conducted on the domain to date, since poll 1 was held back on April 7, 1999. Only 176 people took part in the first poll, so yes, it's been a slow but steady growth of votes there. Yet although we have averaged over 900 votes each in both polls there for the last few weeks, and it's still the second most voted on poll on the domain each week on average, it's the only one left now that hasn't seen 1,000 votes in a single week yet.

So we got more than one great reason to vote this week, and the Blue polls are turning into the most voted on Stones VS series ever! This week the new LP takes on the 1981 release of Tattoo You, a LP of mainly songs recorded in the 1970s and which were forgotten until '81. Its record in the standings is 6-5-1, placing it right in the middle of the pack, in 12th place.

To see the song list for each album, for Blue and Lonesome, click on: B&L, and for Tattoo You, click here: TY.

To cast your vote in this first Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

The second Stones poll is where we normally run the Stones album VS matchups, and we are still doing that while the first poll also hosts a new series for it. Now, if for any reason you don’t know the new LP well enough to vote in the first question, there should be no excuse to not vote in this week's second poll which asks: A Bigger Bang vs December's Children, which album do you like the best?

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Yes, the Big Bang Polls return this week, featuring the studio album released before B&L, be it several years before, in 2005, that being A Bigger Bang. This underrated LP has a 6-9-1 record in past matchups, placing it in 18th place. So it looks to gain some ground this week and rise up a bit, but to do that it will need to beat out the Stones third album release of 1965 (yes, 3 new studio's LPs in one year alone - those were the days indeed!), that being December's Children. DC sports a record of 5-7, placing it just above ABB in the standings. So this will be a battle for 18th place I guess, although it wasn't planned that way.

To see the song list for each album, for A Bigger Bang , click on: ABB, and for December's Children , click here: DC.

To cast your vote in this second Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.

The first Stones poll last week asked: Blue and Lonesome vs England's Newest Hit Makers, which album do you like the best?.

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This poll wasn’t as close as I was thinking it would be, with ENHM winning out by 8.6% of the vote. To see the final results, just click here::Stones Weekly Poll - week 933, poll 1. Plus, I’ll add the results from this poll to the standings at the Stones VS Page 1, where at the top of the page you can check out the updated standings on how each album has done in these long running VS polls. Note that these standings for our matchups now show the winning percentage for each LP, too. That tells us a bit more to the standings this way. Only thing to decide was how to show the percentage, since in sports standings, which our standings are based on, they would show a record of say, 13-2 as ".867". But I'm showing it as "86.7%", in part since this isn't sport standings; it's our albums standings, and I prefer how it looks this way better. But what do you think? Should I change it, or just leave it as is? To be honest, I’m not sure what is the proper way to really show it.

Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: Dirty Work vs The Rolling Stones, Now, which album do you like the best?

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Okay, so I don’t have to tell you which LP won in a landslide, right? But to see just how big the landslide was, click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 933, poll 2. Plus, just like at the first poll, I’ll add the results from this poll also to the standings at the Stones VS Page 1.

This week at the Classic Rock Poll, we enter week 574, and just like as we do at the Stones poll, we run 2 poll questions a week at this one, too. The first poll’s question will ask this: Who was/is the best frontman/frontwoman in rock? (Part 4 or 4)

Week 4, and this last round will feature the frontmen and women who got the most votes in weeks 1 thru 3. So there are a total of 24 rockers to choose from on the list for Part 4. Who will you go with?

To vote in this poll and see the finial list, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.

At the second Rock poll this week, known better as the Rock VS poll, we ask this question: 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me': Original by Warren Zevon vs the cover by Linda Ronstadt, which version is better?

This ditty was written by Warren Zevon back in 1976 and he released it on his self-titled solo album in the same year. The rock song was written about his friend, singer Jackson Browne, as a joke, and Browne produced the song and entire album for him.

A year later pop-rock singer Linda Ronstadt turned the song into a country tune, in part thanks to Browne suggesting that she cover it, and it became a Top 25 single for her on both the Rock and Country charts. Yet singer Terri Clark would have an even bigger country hit with the song years later, reaching the Country Top 5 chart in 1996. But we will only look at the 2 most known versions of the song here.

Which version of this song do you like better? To make your choice and vote, just click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question, and yes, as usual, you will be able to hear both songs using the links provided in the voting booth, before you vote.

In last week’s first Rock poll, we asked: Who was/is the best frontman/frontwoman in rock? (Part 3 or 4)

The rockers picked from last week and who are now showing up again in the final round are: Jim Morrison of The Doors (9.8%), Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin (7.8%), Paul McCartney of the Beatles (4.5%), Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone (4.5%), Steve Marriott of the Small Faces, and of Humble Pie (4.3%), Eric Burton of The Animals, and of War (4.2%), Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band (4.2%), Michael Jackson of The Jackson Five (4.1%), Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd (4.1%), and Sammy Hagar of Montrose, and of Van Halen (4.1%). I find the Sammy Hagar pick very interesting, since Van Halen’s other and better known frontman, David Lee Roth, didn’t get a single vote 2 weeks ago when we asked the same question in Part 2 and he was listed, and Hager wasn’t as well known back in the early days when he fronted Montrose. You would think his work in Van Halen is what got him the votes, yet David, got none at all.

To see where the other rockers not listed finished in the voting last week, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 573

In last week’s VS Rock poll, we asked this: 'Spirit in the Sky' by Norman Greenbaum vs 'My Sweet Lord' by George Harrison, which religious rock song is better?

This one was close indeed, and the song I voted for of course came in second. To see the final results, just click here: Rock Poll 2, week 573 You can also check out the final results at the VS Classic poll results page 2, at the Classic Rock site, by clicking here: VS Page 2, List Page 10.

We close out this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 327, and this week’s question asks this: Which one of the following Beatles songs would you like to hear more of on the radio? (Part 2 of 3)

Week 2 asking this question, looking at Beatle songs that I (at least) don't hear a lot on the radio. So which one listed do you hear the least that you would like to hear more often? To vote in this poll, go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.

In last week's Beatles poll we answered this question: Which one of the following Beatles songs would you like to hear more of on the radio? (Part 1 of 3)

I noted last week that at this Beatles poll, if I ask a question that fans look at as being negative towards the Fabs, we see a fallout in less votes cast, which was the case 2 weeks ago (not that I felt the question was negative towards the Beatles, but I guess some fans did). Well I guess everybody liked this new 3 part question a lot more, as a record voter turnout occurred last week for the Beatles poll, and the 1,000 vote marker was surpassed! I got to say I was surprised this was to happen in this poll last week, as the Beatles poll had never done better than a high of 906 votes before. But with the Rock poll now averaging more than 1,000 votes a week, the Beatles poll is seeing a bunch of new voters’ crossing over to vote in the Beatles poll, too, more so than voters who take part in both the Rock and Stones poll.

Getting back to the final results of the Beatles poll last week, the 10 songs that will live on to see Part 3 are: Hey Bulldog (6.3%), Girl (5.7%), Don't Let Me Down (5.6%), Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (5.5%), For You Blue (5.5%, and my pick last week!), Do You Want to Know a Secret (5.4%), Helter Skelter (5.4%), All I've Got to Do (5.2%), I Will ( 5.2%) and I Me Mine (5.1%).

You can check out the full final results here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 326.

I'm greatly pleased to see this poll hit the 1,000 vote marker too, but again, without the Stones poll there would had been no other polls here to vote in, or even this message board for that matter, since the polls were thought up first by me, Gasland only came to mind second back in 1998 when I was putting this domain together. So it would really mean a lot to me to see the Stones poll finally get to that special mark, and we only got 64 weeks left to do it! But hey, there's no question we're going to do it, just when is the question.... like maybe this week??.

Well that does it for this week's poll post. Summer is here for sure where I live…. it is getting very hot here in Colorado – and I wish that I could hibernate until the cooler fall weather gets here! We saw upper 80s everyday this last week and low 90s look likely here for this this upcoming week (yuck!), while the leftover snow from the past winter on our tallest mountain peaks is melting away like crazy! But I know I shouldn’t complain, guess I could be elsewhere where's it worst. It's a lot hotter to the west of there in the desert southwest, and of course in the south, creeping up the east coast towards NYC, where they (or you) also got the highest summertime humidity on Earth to deal with. I fled that area where I grew up for that very reason! But hey, it's a great place to visit.... in mid to late September, anyway!

I thank all of you who took part in the voting last week!... especially at the Beatles poll where we broke that record! Hope you all have a great week a head – and try to keep as cool as possible!

Keno

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