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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: BJ/Keith/BTB vs SF/Bad Rock singers/more
Date: Monday, November 12, 2018
Time: 1:48:45 AM
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It’s time to get this week’s poll post going, starting off as usual with the Stones Poll, where we enter Week 1007 while running 2 different poll questions. For the first poll, here’s what we are asking: On a scale of zero to 10, rate Brian Jones as a musician.
This week we look at Brain Jones, as it’s his turn to get rated for his work as a musician. No, we aren’t rating him as just a guitarist, since he really was so much more than that, and most of his best music made with the Stones was his playing other instruments besides his guitar, even if he was a very good guitarist, too. Brian could play every instrument that he ever got his hands on, including: Guitar (including slide), bass guitar, upright bass, piano, drums & percussion, violin, sarod, harmonica, organ, marimba, bells, dulcimer, sitar, koto, harpsichord, kazoo, recorder, flute, theremin, trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone (his favorite instrument), mellotron, synthesizer, harp, cello, tamboura, autoharp, oboe… and I know I’m missing a few here, including a few more wind instruments.
But how good overall was he as a musician? Well all of the instruments I noted above he played either on the Stones records, or on his one unofficial solo album that he made for the soundtrack to the movie A Degree of Murder, and while I’m recalling a comment made here lightyears ago, that he never mastered most of the instruments that he played, I say again now, bullshit! Just listen to any of the 25 to 30 different instruments he had played and recorded on the different studio albums he was on and tell me he hadn’t mastered them or that any one instrument doesn’t sound right. Yes, some Indian music experts didn’t like how he played the sitar on “Paint it Black”, to where it sounded like a heavy metal guitar, but rock fans loved it. That was the thing about BJ, he could get any instrument to sound great, and he introduced several instruments to rock music that had never been used in rock until he made it so.
Just how high do you rate Brian as a musician? To rate his playing in this week’s first Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll and click on Poll 1.
For the second Stones Poll this week we ask: Between the Buttons vs Sticky Fingers, which album do you like best?
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It’s the return of "The Buttons Polls", featuring 1967’s Between the Buttons LP! I guess you might say that this week BTB becomes the latest sacrificial lamb for SF? The undefeated first place SF is at 20-0, with just 4 matches to go, including this one. But hey, every Stones studio LP will have to matchup against the great SF before we end this series and this week's it's BTB's turn to try to beat it, or maybe get beat up in trying. BTB does have a winning record of 11-10 and sits in 12th place in the album standings.
To see the song list for each album, for Between the Buttons, click on: BTB – U.S. or BTB - UK , and for Sticky Fingers, click here: SF. Remember, when comparing BTB to SF, just go with the BTB album version that you know best, but don’t combine the two.
To vote in this week’s second Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll and click on Poll 2.
Looking back at our first Stones poll last week, we answered this question: On a scale of zero to 10, rate Keith Richards as a guitarist.
Keith Riffhard scored what I expected him to score for his top pick, that being a 10, with a 29.8% of the vote. To see the full, final results from this poll, click here: Stones Weekly Poll 1 - week 1006. Or, you can also check out the final results at the Stones Fans Top Pick Lists - Page 2, found under the “Individual Stones” section for Keith Richards.
The second Stones poll last week asked this question: Their Satanic Majesties Request vs Let It Bleed, which album do you like best?
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Okay, so you already know which LP won this round. But to see by how much it won by, just click on the next link that you see to view the final results: Stones Weekly Poll 2- week 1006. Or, you can see the final results and see the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.
Now let’s move on to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter poll week 647, and for this one we also vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. For the first Rock poll we have a new question that asks this: Who was/is the worst Rock singer (of the ones listed)?
There is a ton of "worst ever" list polls that I never have run at our polls since I prefer to be asking questions looking at the positive side of things. But the time has come to start looking at the other, darker side of things too, such as overrated talent, so for the next 2 weeks we will do that, then maybe take a break from such questions, only to return and ask some more dark ones after that. But I don't want to spend the next 3 months in a row asking just negative questions, too, so I’ll break them up a bit. We already asked a ton of "Who's the best" questions, so now the other side of the coin should make for some interesting polling.
This week we will just look for the worst sounding lead Rock singer, but not a person who just sang lead once in a while in a band, but actual real lead singers. I came up with 40 singers, enough choices for a 2 to 3 week run poll, yes, but then again, no. We'll just get this over with in one week, and then after that look for the most untalented rocker or band for next week. A few of these people will show up in both weeks, but not all of them, since some of them do have talent other then they can't sing too great.
Now I know for this week answers, that I didn't list all of the bad singers out there, especially the most current singers of today - or even from the last 15 years or so (with a few exceptions), since this is mainly a classic rock site. There are also a few singers listed that some will say "why are they listed on here?". Well, while around 80% of this list I came up with on my own, the rest isn't from me. I looked online to see who's names came up most often on other such similar lists, so for example, while I find Bruce Springsteen's singing okay, I know that there's plenty out there who can't stand his singing at all. But no, Mick Jagger isn’t listed (and he rarely came up on other similar lists for that matter), yet there are still a few who can't stand his singing, too. But I could see that a lot more online users can't stand Springsteen's singing over Jagger's, so while a few say MJ can't sing, more say that about Bruce.
FYI, on a side note, the worst all time ever singer noted on a few lists I found, was not from Rock music, but an opera singer who sang years before rock music came about. Her name was Florence Foster Jenkins. If you don't care about your hearing and want a sample of how bad she sounded, try this link here... But I warn you, she not only sounds terrible, but you ears might refuse to ever allow you to listen to anybody singing again after hearing this garbage, as she sounds that bad!
To see the list of choices you will have to choose from for this first Rock poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
For our second Rock poll, we have the Rock VS poll, which asks: Glam vs Heavy Metal, which music genre do you like more?
Now this matchup should be a very interesting one to vote on, since if there are 2 rock subgenres around that are close to each other in sound, it's these 2. Yes, Glam is just a bit more mellow than Metal, but both classic Metal and Glam started out at the same time and both at that time didn't really have too much of a difference to them - especially in the look, as early metal bands were all Hair Metal bands back then and they looked like Glam bands. Yet only a few years later Metal would expand of course and see several of its own subgenres take shape, while for the most part Glam just faded away. If you were in a Glam band say in 1972, by 1982 if your band was still around, it more than likely was now looked at as a Heavy Metal band. I mean, even somebody like the Glam Punk rocker Iggy Pop - who was really never a Metal singer, was looked at as one by the 1980s, once Glam was over with.
But which sound do you prefer? To vote in this week’s second Rock poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 2” to vote on this question.
Looking back at last week’s 2 Rock polls, the first question asked: What is your favorite recording with "Susan" or some variation thereof in the title?
Now that was a fun poll to run. The top song pick by most of you was “Wake up Little Susie” by the Everly Brothers, taking in 10.1% of the vote. Placing was “Suzie Q” by Creedence Clearwater Revival at 9.9%, and I was surprised to see the Stones’ Bill Wyman song “Downtown Suzie” take third place, at 9.8%. To see the full results from this first poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 646. To see the Top 10 list from this poll only, go here: Top Ten Lists, Page, 14.
Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question was: Glam vs Hip-Hop/Rap, which music genre do you like more?
Nope, this outcome wasn’t close at all, as Glam beat up the rappers big time.
To see the full, final results from this second Rock poll, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 646. Or to see how the other genre matchups have gone along with this one, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page, 15. They are all listed on the top part of the page.
We finish this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 400 of voting. Yes, 400 weeks is a nice round even number - or another way of saying we have had 7.7 years of new weekly polling at this Beatles poll. But that's still 607 weeks short of how long the Stones weekly poll has been running for. But anyway, this week's question is: Please Please Me vs Help!, which album do you like the best?
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Week 3 of the “Pleasing Polls”, featuring the Beatles first LP, Please Please Me. With this week, we now have just 2 weeks to go to complete this long running Beatles album VS poll series. For this second to last matchup, PPM will go up against the soundtrack to the Beatles (second) movie of the same name, Help!.
To see the song list for each album, for Please Please Me, click on: PPM, and for Help!, click here: Help!.
To vote in this poll, please go here: Beatles Weekly Poll.
In last week's Beatles poll we asked: Please Please Me vs Rubber Soul, which album do you like the best?
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Well, 2 weeks in a row we see a Beatles album poll where the final results aren’t close at all! But that once again isn’t good news for PPM, as it lost this time in a landslide. You can click here to see the final result: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 399. Plus the results will also show up on the The Beatles' Albums Page over at the Lennon site.
Well that will do it for this week’s poll post. It’s cold and snowy at my house tonight, be it a very light, fluffy snow is falling with the temps in the mid-teens (F), and you don’t see heavy snow fall when it’s that cold. So just a preview perhaps of what the upcoming winter will have in store for us in this neck of the woods?
As usual, I thank all of you for voting here in our polls each week, and I hope all of you have a great week ahead!
Keno
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