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Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, July 15
Date: Monday, July 15, 2019
Time: 4:31:08 AM
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Well my weekly poll loving friends, this morning’s posting of the poll post marks the second latest time for it to appear online (well, I’m pretty sure of that anyway), and with the posting (or should I say “updating”) of the new links to those polls, this marks the latest that has ever been done. So unless you were one of only 4 voters who already knew at midnight eastern time zone, that the new links to the new polls automatically show on the Poll Menu Page as soon as they start up on their own, that was the only place and way to vote in them for the first 3 plus hours that they were up! Only back in 2007, when I was in the hospital fighting for my life against double pneumonia, did the polls start up later (midweek). That week (which I rather forget but never will) at least I had a good excuse for the late start, but this week I don’t, other than my staying up the entire night on Saturday, got in the way of Sunday night’s posting. I got home early enough Sunday night (about 630 pm) and was set to starting working on the polls by 8pm the latest, so the links would be ready to go on time and the poll post would have been up online shortly after that. But I made the mistake after I got back home tonight, of sitting on the living room couch for a couple of minutes to rest my wearily eyes, – and the next thing I know it’s almost 130 am in the morning (Mountain time, and 3 plus hours after the new polls start up)! So yes, I just passed out and I apologize for that, but considering that the Stones Poll enters week 1042 today, I guess that’s not a bad record for being on time each week and this being only the second latest start to the polls that I can recall. Heck, even in the past when I’ve been away on vacation, I still took the time and remembered to get them started up on time!... Oh well, I did stop several years ago the terrible habit of staying up for 2 days straight (while doing no hard drugs like uppers, mind you), but Saturday night did happen and I had somewhere to go early Sunday morning with my neighbor that made sleeping Sunday morning impossible to do. But if I don’t stop babbling here and start writing about the new polls right now, this new Poll Post won’t get online until mid-week, so I better start writing about them now!
For Stones poll week 1,042, this week’s question is: Let it Bleed vs Voodoo Lounge, which album do you like best?
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This week the Bleed Polls return for its very last time, as the host LP, 1969’s Let it Bleed, takes on its 24th and final battle in this series. LIB has done as well in these matchups as any album has, in second place in the album standings with just one loss and a record of 22-1. Its only loss was to the undefeated SF LP (more on SF below). For its final round, it takes on 1994's Voodoo Lounge, and while VL is a well-liked LP, it's had a hard time in these matches, especially against the '60s and '70s LPs, with a losing record of 9-13 (and in 16th place), with one more round to go after this week's match. So there’s not enough rounds left for VL to get to the 500 even marker, and the battle it’s in this week against LIB is almost an impossible task for it to take on. Ok, I know what you voters are thinking - it is an impossible task this week, and maybe that’s so, but we got to still get to and run this round in order to close out the series. So please do vote this week on this question!
To see the songs that appear on Let it Bleed, click here: LIB, and for the songs on Voodoo Lounge, click here: VL. Just remember when looking over the songs on each LP, ignore my ratings for the songs that you will see, as I never wish to influence anybody with what I have down there for each song before anyone votes. You need to decide on your own what LP you feel has the better songs on it.
To vote in this week’s Stones poll, just click on: Stones Weekly Poll.
Looking back at our Stones poll last week, the question was: Sticky Fingers vs December's Children, which album do you like best?
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Now I don't have to tell you which LP won last week, as you already know. Undefeated Sticky Fingers is now at 23-0. It’s got only 1 match left now, against Goats Head Soup, and while GHS is a well-loved LP with a great record in this series, how much of a chance do you think it will have against SF? Anyway, that final match is still a way off in the future, as GHS, whose own series returns in the next 3 weeks, has 2 matches left, and I just might not run the match against SF at that time, as why not let SF's last match be run in its own series last match, since it is the top LP in this series? Plus in doing that I can keep the question going almost to the very end on if SF can end this overall series undefeated or not. So I think I might do just that! Maybe.
To see last week’s final results, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,041. Or, you can check out all of the past final results from all of our Stones Album VS Polls and view the updated, current album standings at the Stones VS Page 1.
Now let’s move on to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, which enters week 682, and where we vote on 2 different poll questions in one week. At our first poll, the question asks: Rate Badfinger's video of 'Come And Get It'
This week we bring back the Rock video polls, the one video poll series out of the 3 weekly polls that I could run forever, since there are so many bands and so many videos out there – and yet this question for the Rock poll I’ve run the least. I just got too many good questions to ask in this Rock Poll lined up that keeps getting in the way of me asking these video questions. But I’m thinking for the rest of the summer, I’ll stick to asking just these questions only, to make up for that fact.
Badfinger was a Welsh band who wrote most of their songs, but just not this one. “Come And Get It” was their first single and first hit song, and while the Beatles George Harrison was known as their first true producer, bandmate Paul McCartney produced this one - and wrote it too. But there were several other unusual things happening on this song, too. Up until this tune, Pete Ham was the band's lead guitarist and the main lead singer, and this song was the last one that their original bassist, Ron Griffiths, played on, as he left the group shortly after the song was recorded. So while the band's rhythm guitarist (and backing vocalist) Tom Evans (who was the only band member from the UK) would switch to bass, on this song he's the lone guitarist, playing both lead and rhythm guitar, as their new lead guitar player, Joey Molland, who is shown in the video playing the lead, didn't actually join the band until after the song was recorded. For this song, Ham played piano (and then he would move on over to rhythm guitar once Molland joined). Since McCartney felt that Evans was the best singer in the group, he had Evans sing the lead on this song instead of Ham. In most bands such a move could cause problems, but Ham and Evans were best friends and didn't let this get in their band's way.
Chances are you already know the terrible and sad story about this group after this song (and several others of theirs) become a major hit - that is, a Top 10 hit in the U.S. and Top 5 number in the UK (and #1 in New Zealand and a few other places). While they would become true superstars after this was released - sadly, they also became the most tragic rock band ever, too. They got totally ripped off by their greedy manager to where after writing and putting out several hit songs in a short time period - they were all totally broke, as they weren’t getting paid at all, as their manager was ripping them off big time. While a few other bands ran into this same kind of problem, Badfinger got ripped off the most. This would lead to the suicide deaths of first Ham, and then Evans. Today only Molland is still around, after drummer Mike Gibbins died suddenly from a brain aneurysm in 2004.
But getting back to this song and video, after it was released in December of 1969, it then became the opening theme for the 1970 film The Magic Christian. Gosh, they all were so young when this song and video was made (and when they signed that contract that screwed them), with their average age being only 20. But I've looked around a bit yet can't find too much more info about this video to tell you about, other than it was made live in Studio Hamburg (aka "Wandsbek Studios") in Germany shortly after the song was released and just after Molland joined. But this lack of info about this performance doesn't matter much, as we can still rate this live video on how it turned out. To do that and vote in this week’s first Rock poll, just click there: Classic Rock Poll, and when you get to this page, choose “Poll 1” to vote on this question.
For our second Rock poll this week, we have the Rock VS poll, which asks this question: Paul Simon vs Van Morrison. Who of these 2 soft rock performers is the better songwriter?
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My aim when asking these songwriter verses questions (now in week 10), is to match each songwriter up with another songwriter that is similar in their writing styles. This week these 2 are for sure very close in their writing styles and how they handle soft rock songs. They both have been around for a very long time too (Paul Simon started in 1956 and Van Morrison in 1962) and they are still putting out new material to this day.
Van Morrison for the most part is best known for his solo songs. But he actually started out as a sax player in the business back in 1962 when a member of the International Monarchs, who released one LP with Morrison on it blowing sax only. Then after that run, in 1964 he became the lead singer and songwriter in a new band called "Them", and that's where he first became famous. Them had 4 hit songs on their 2 (only) released studio albums, including one of the most ever covered rock songs and maybe the all-time best garage rock song ever, the classic, "Gloria", which Morrison wrote when only 17 years old. The 2 other biggest hits for Them were "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Here Comes the Night". He went solo after the band's second LP in 1965 was released (and Them split up on his leaving), and he would never join up with any another band again. He has released 40 studio albums to date (with the majority of the songs self-penned) along with another 6 live LPs, and 71 singles. As a solo artist, "Brown Eyed Girl" has been his biggest Top 10 hit, with "Moondance" and "Domino" perhaps the next 2 biggest hits (in the U.S. anyway). But he had so many other hit singles besides these 3 as a solo artist that others will say some of those are even better. IMO, this guy is one of the most underrated singers ever. And in this week’s poll, he’s taking on a giant, to say the least.
Paul Simon is of course best known for - and perhaps the better half of, Simon & Garfunkel. Not to mean to make it look like I'm dishing on Art Garfunkel here, since I'm not, as his singing is perhaps one or even two steps ahead of Simon's. But Paul wrote all of their songs (well, 99% of them, I think Art wrote 2 of them?). The Duo started out way back in 1956 as Tom & Jerry and then several year later (after breaking up for a while, and with NYC born and raised Paul going solo and living full time in the UK for a couple of years), they reunited, this time using their real names, and well - they exploded, in part thanks to Simon's great songwriting. Three of his many hit songs reached number one while he was in the duo: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water". In 1970 at the height of their popularity, they split up and Simon restarted what would become a very successful solo career, releasing 13 solo albums so far. Of his many solo hit songs, his earliest hits were some of the most special, which included "Mother and Child Reunion", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", and "Kodachrome".
Really, with both of these guys I could go on all day talking about their great song writing skills. But now it's time to perhaps check out all of their songs by following these links: Van here Morrison’s discography, and Paul here: Simon’s discography, or you can just go straight to the voting page.… To cast your 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: Of the most unusual songs made by a Rock band/Artist, which one was the worst?
Well, the final outcome to this question both did and didn’t surprise me just a bit. I was sure that the Beatles “Revolution 9”, which even most Fab fans dislike, would take first, and as of early Sunday morning it was in the lead by at least one vote. But for most of the week it was in third place, behind 2 disco songs, one by Paul McCartney - “Goodnight Tonight”, which would end up finishing third, and a Stones song which would be the top pick at the voting’s close, that being “Too Much Blood” (the long disco version take of the song that came out a full year after the shorter and non-disco original release of this song). But I can’t be too surprised by this result, since I know my fellow Stones fans and how much they hated it when MJ forced disco music crap on our ears back in the ’80s, and yes, we still have a ton of Stones voters taking part in the Rock poll. So no, I’m not too surprise by this, and if you would like to see where the other songs listed in the poll ended up in the voting, just click here: Classic Rock Poll 1, week 681. Or to view the Top 10 finish only, you can do that at this list page: Top Ten Lists, Page, 16.
Looking back at last week’s VS Rock poll, the question asked: George Harrison vs Tom Petty. Which of these 2 former bandmates was the better overall songwriter?
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This one was as close as it could have been without us seeing a tie at the end of the voting. That means one of these superstars won out by just one single vote! Yes indeed, and you can click on the following link to see which one that was: Classic Rock Poll 2, week 681. Or to see the results on the VS list page only, please go here: VS Page 3, List Page 15 and look under the “Songwriters VS Polls”.
We finish up this poll post as usual with the Beatles poll, where we enter week 433, and this week’s question asks: Who was the most important supporting band member (musicians only) working with the Beatles?
Now no, we are not looking for the 5th Beatle here, in part since that means several things. But we are looking for who played the best for them as a session musician. To qualify, a session player had to appear on at least 3 Beatle songs minimum for the band to be listed, or had played live with the band several times.
Now for George Martin, he is of course listed, but only his work playing piano/organ counts here (plus his percussion on 2 or 3 songs can be considered too, although that bit of work isn't listed in the poll cause of space limits), but do not consider his work as the band's producer for this poll. So yes, we are only looking at musicians and what they contributed - instrument wise, or as vocalist on Beatles songs for this poll only.
I went with at least 3 appearances with the band in part since there were a large number of musicians who played on 1 or 2 songs (and just one appearance won't be enough anyway to go with this question), whereas only 20 musicians played on 3 or more songs, and those are who we will choose from for in this week’s poll.
To vote for who you think that person is – or to see the list of 20 if you haven’t made up your mind yet... just click here: Beatles Weekly Poll
In last week’s Beatle poll….the poll question was: 'Revolution 9' vs 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' vs 'What's the New Mary Jane'. Which is the most unusual Beatles song ever recorded?
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“Revolution 9” won this one by a large margin. To see the full results from this poll, just go here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 432. Or to see the final results on the Beatles VS page, click: here and look under “songs” for the results.
So that does it for yet another Poll Post! Again, I’m sorry about the real late start this week, but heck, you got a full week to cast your vote in the 4 polls, so please do so!
I thank all of you for taking part in our polls both this week and last! Do make the best out of this new week – and don’t overwork yourself, it is summer after all and maybe time for a break from your hard work?
Keno
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