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Name: Keno
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Subject: B&L/Aftermath/VL/U/JPage/LZ/Underplayed Fabs
Date: Monday, June 26, 2017
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We kick off the poll post as usual with the Stones weekly poll, where it’s week 935 and this week, as usual, we will ask and answer 2 poll questions. The first question asks: Blue and Lonesome vs Aftermath, which album do you like the best?
vs or Week 4 of the Blue Polls, which features the Stones newest studio album, Blue and Lonesome. This week the new LP takes on Aftermath. This 1966 LP seems to be one of the fans most liked ‘60s LPs, with the Stones all over the place on this one, or at least BJ was, as he played more than 10 different instruments on the album alone. In the Stones VS standings, Aftermath is tied for 10th place, with a 7-5 record.
To see the song list for each album, for Blue and Lonesome, click on: B&L, and for Aftermath - US, click here: Aftermath . Since Aftermath had 2 versions to it, with the UK one just slightly different, just go with either one you know best when you compare these 2 LPs.
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. So the week's second poll asks: Voodoo Lounge vs Undercover, which album do you like the best?
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The "I Put a Voodoo Spell on you Polls" return this week, featuring the Stones’ 1994 studio release, Voodoo Lounge. VL sports a 6-7 record in this series, placing it in a tie for 15th place. It faces the 1983 release of Undercover, which is in second to last place in the standings, with just one win against 11 loses.
To see the song list for each album, for Voodoo Lounge, click on: VL, and for Undercover, click here: Undercover.
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 Tattoo You, which album do you like the best?
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Now if you may recall, last week I requested for every Stones fan who regularly reads this poll post - yet who never or rarely ever votes in the poll, to please do so last week so we could finally get both Stones polls past the 1,000 vote count marker, since they are now the only polls on the domain not to reach that number yet. Well I guess I can say we tried and came as close as we could, with both polls missing the mark by less than 10 votes each! So close yet so far away indeed! Perhaps this week we can beat that number, but everybody needs to keep voting for us to get there. So yes, let’s try it again this week I say!
Result wise, in the first poll the Blue polls saw a somewhat close battle, but IMO, in the end the better of the 2 LPs lost to what I call (as does many other fans, but not all) the Stones most overrated album. To see the final results, just click here::Stones Weekly Poll - week 934, 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.
Looking back at last week’s second Stones poll, the question was: A Bigger Bang vs December's Children, which album do you like the best?
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This one was very close for the entire week. To see which LP came pit on top, click here:Stones Weekly Poll - week 934, 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.
Let’s move on now to the Classic Rock Poll, where we enter poll week 575, 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 is a brand new one this week, as we ask this: On what song as a session man did Jimmy Page shine the brightest on?
Our rock poll this week will go from looking at front men in the last few weeks, to looking at session men for the next few weeks, as we bring back a series that we started up in January of this year. I don’t have to say too much about Mr. Page, known best as the guitarist for Led Zeppelin, and before that, the lead guitarist for the Yardbirds, where he actually started out as their bass player. But before all that, he was one of the most sort after session guitarists in rock music, and he played on many top 10 hit songs for many different rock and pop artists starting in 1960.
So that’s the side of Jimmy Page we will look at in this week’s poll, the stuff he played on before playing in those 2 super groups that made him a superstar (and a few he played on after, too). To vote in this poll, 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, Jimmy’s second super group comes up, as we ask this question: Led Zeppelin's 'The Crunge' (actual title) vs 'The Bridge' (title some fans call it), which song title is better?
I asked a series of questions like this earlier in the year, and now for the next 2 or 3 weeks, I have a few new ones to ask. Fans don't ever get to name songs, nor the albums they are on, but regardless, they do sometimes call them by other names that stick, even if nothing ever changes officially. The Beatles White Album is probably the best example of this, but even with that one, where nobody calls it by its given name, officially that LP is still named "The Beatles". But normally this seems to happen most often with song titles, and not with album names. With this week's song, fans gave 'The Crunge' its alterative title because of what is sung at the end of the song, that, and because nowhere is "the crunge" sang in the song's lyrics.
This song has a different rhythm than your average Zeppelin song has, as this number is not heavy metal at all, but a funk tune that you would expect more from James Brown than Led Zep. But towards the song's ending, singer Robert Plant starts to ad lib, and keeps singing/asking over and over, lyrics like: "Oh, will ya excuse me, I'm just trying to find the bridge, has anybody seen the bridge?". But no, he's not looking for the kind of bridge that provides one passage over a body of water; he's rapping away about a musical bridge here, as this song, unlike most other songs, has no bridge to it at all. Then at the very end of the song, somebody, in spoken words, closes out the tune, as the music finishes abruptly, and asks: "Where's that confounded bridge?". Hence, fans started to call the song "the Bridge".
On a side note, fans argue as to who is asking the question at the end of the song. I have heard totally different stories as to who it is. Many Zep fans insist it's Plant. But it sure as shit don't sound like his high pitched English voice, in fact it sounds to me like an American accent speaking. Was it Plant just disguising his voice? I don't think so, since the voice heard just sounds too deep for him, or for it to be Jimmy Page for that matter. Some have suggested it's either John Paul Jones, or John Bonham speaking there. My guess is that it's one of 'em, using an American accent.
But which song title do you like better? To vote, just click on Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
In last week’s first Rock poll, we asked: Who was/is the best frontman/frontwoman in rock? (Part 4 or 4)
I had a feeling us Stones fans knew that MJ was going to win this one, and not because many Stones fans from this site would vote for him, but because Jagger is clearly the greatest frontman in rock and roll and many non Stones fans also voted for him. Anyway, he did land in the number one top spot by almost 5% of the vote over second place pick John Lennon, who I bet most fans figured would end up second.
To see where the other front man and woman finished in the voting last week, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 574 Or, to just view the poll’s top 10 picks, just click here for: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14
In last week’s VS Rock poll, we asked this'Poor Poor Pitiful Me': Original by Warren Zevon vs the cover by Linda Ronstadt, which version is better?
This one wasn’t that close. Linda Ronstadt has, or at least had before she got Parkinson's disease, one of the sweetest voices in Rock music, and she took this rock song and turned it into a great country tune with amazing results. To see the poll’s final results, just click here: Rock Poll 2, week 574 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.
Time to close out this poll post, and as usual I do so with the Beatles poll, where it’s week 328. This week’s question asks this: Which one of the following Beatles songs would you like to hear more of on the radio? (Part 3 of 3)
This is the final week of asking this question. Going with the top 10 songs picked from the first 2 weeks and thanks to a 3 way tie for 10th place last week, that gives us 22 songs to choose from for this week in the final round. 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 2 of 3)
For the second week in a row, the Beatle polls saw well over 1,000 votes cast. So this was an important question, and I wish radio MDs would pay attention to this kind of poll results. Really, this is a rare case where we don’t even have to wait for this final part to be voted on as to us already learning that all of these 22 songs listed this week, which are the top picks from the first 2 weeks, should be looked at as being played more on the radio as it is.
You can check out the full final results from Part 2, here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 327.
Well that does it for this week's poll post. Summertime as usual, is doing it’s best to kill me. Yesterday, after a totally extra busy day doing chores all day out of town, I got home in the summer heat late in the day, feeling my age and also feeling half dead. So I sat down on the living room couch as the sun was about to set for just a minute or 2 – and I pasted out from exhaustion. That isn’t something I do too often. So I awoke about 4 hours later to a dark house, just after midnight, wondering where my grandson was and did he maybe come home while I was sleeping and I didn’t hear him? So I got up in the pitch dark heading for his room to see if he was in there. I think all of us knows our homes well enough to where we can all walk around in the dark with no lights on and get around fine enough, and I’ve done that a million times myself before. But I had forgotten that the 2 foot tall plastic box fan was on the floor directly in my pathway, and in the dark and with my 2 bare feet, I walked directly into it. I never realized just how cheap they make these things today and I went right thru the entire fan with my feet breaking thru and coming out the opposite end as I tried to not fall over the damn thing as this was all happening. But as this was taking place the pain was excruciating as it felt like my feet and toes were being cut into pieces, and in a way they were. Now the fan wasn’t on or I’m sure I would have lost several toes, but had it been on the accident never would have happened, since I would had heard the damn thing running and never would have walked into it in the first place. But directly after the accident I limped into the bathroom where our first aid kit is as I was bleeding real bad, and was in great pain, to say the least. Once I got the bleeding under control I had a major mess of blood to clean up (you ever have to clean up blood on a carpet?). Anyway, I was still in some pain most of today, but at least tonight that’s gone, but I have big time swelling and still have major discomfort on both feet, and mainly on the underside of my feet and toes are where the deepest cuts are. I guess Tuesday’s planned hike in the mountains with friends won’t happen now, as I can only walk on the side of my feet at the moment. But those damn fans, there’s no way that should happen even if you do walk into them. I had no clue one could get so hurt from a fan that wasn’t even running! Plus now with summer here, we got no fan in the house, as that was the only one we had. Nobody in this town has air conditioning, since they aren’t needed here, but a fan is needed on some days. So last week was the first week of summer; I got a feeling it’s gonna be another very long one for me indeed!
I thank all of you who took part in the voting last week! I hope everybody has a great week ahead and do watch out for those damn, deadly fans, if you got one in your home!
Keno
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