“Little Red Rooster” One of the single’s front covers
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Date: Monday, September 19, 2022
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Let’s get this week’s Poll Post rolling along by starting off with the Stones weekly poll, and where we are rating all of the band’s songs. So, it’s week 1,207 of voting and week 98 of rating their songs. This week we head back to the early days of the band, known as the Brian Jones era. The question for this week is: Rate the Stones song “Little Red Rooster” , from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).
“Little Red Rooster” One of the single’s front covers
"Little Red Rooster", a Delta blues tune, was written by Willie Dixon and recorded as a cover song by the Stones on September 2, 1964, then released as a UK single on November 13, 1964. It went all the way to #1 on the UK charts. It was then released in the U.S. on the album The Rolling Stones Now on February 12, 1965, but wasn't allowed to be released in the States as a single because of censorship, as it was banned because of its lyrics "sexual connotations", and also since the song's title was of course a slang term used to describe a male's penis, and a man's penis was considered obscene at the time by the older, hung-up WW2 generation, who were totally in control of things like that back then. But the truth of the matter was, the song wasn't banned at all just two and three years earlier in the U.S. when Howlin' Wolf and Sam Cooke released their versions of this song as singles for themselves here, and both had hits with their takes of the song. Guess the censors just didn’t like the young, long harried Stones, and that’s why they banned the song.
Brian Jones played the lead slide guitar on this number and the members of the band, along with others, all pointed to him as to why the song was a big hit for the band. Up until this time, no white musician in the UK (or most other places) ever played slide guitar before, other than Brian, who played it live often even before this time, including several months earlier when he played slide in the studio on the Stone's first single, the Lennon/McCartney cover song (that the two Fabs wrote for the Stones), "I Wanna Be Your Man", and which was the first big hit for the band, again, thanks to BJ’s slide.
The studio lineup for "Little Red Rooster" was: Mick Jagger - Vocal; Brian Jones - Electric Slide Guitar & Harp; Keith Richards - Acoustic Guitar; Bill Wyman – Bass Guitar; Charlie Watts - Drums. To rate this week’s song, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.
Last week at the Stones poll we voted on and rated this: Rate the Stones song “This Place Is Empty” , from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).
“This Place Is Empty” Keith’s song from A Bigger Bang
Well, perhaps I was wrong last week when I noted that fans liked this one, as it didn’t do that great at all in the voting and only saw a top rating of a 6.
To check out the Stones song's rating standings and see just how low in those standings this one landed, click on this link: Stones Song Ratings & Standings - List Page 5. Or, to see the full, finial vote tally from this poll itself, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,206.
Now let’s take a look at this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 846 of polling, and week 2 of the multi-part poll that asks this: What was the best rock song written about a band member(s) by a fellow or former band member (Part 2 of 3).
Some of the people noted in the songs this week Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett; Christine and John McVie many years ago; Neil Young and Danny Whitten
Part 2 of 3 of this question, along with 24 more songs to consider for this week’s poll. As is often the case with a multi-week poll, not too much needs to be said about Part 2 of such a poll, since all of the rules from week 1 stay the same. We have a bunch of great songs to choose from once again for this week (I myself like the songs listed this week better than the choices listed last week, but I only realized it when I looked over the songs this morning), but anyway, let's vote and move this question along! To cast your vote for Part 2 of this question, and see what songs are listed this week, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll .
Last week at the Rock poll we answered this question: What was the best rock song written about a band member(s) by a fellow or former band member (Part 1 of 3).
The bandmates noted in the three most voted on songs from last week: Mick Jagger w/ Brian Jones; The Beatles around 1970; Michelle Phillips w/ her hubby John, and her lover, the group’s co-lead singer, Denny Doherty
Of the 23 songs voted on last week, 8 out of a possible 10 songs that we voted on ended up qualifying for the final round of this poll (remember, any song making it into the last round must score at least 5% of the vote in its first round to get to that last round, and last week only 8 songs did). Those 8 songs were: Shine a Light - Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger sings goodbye to the Stones founder, Brian Jones, after his death (15.3%); Early 1970 - Ringo Starr - reminiscences nicely about his former Beatle bandmates (13.5%); I Saw Her Again - The Mamas & the Papas - About a love affair in the band, between singer Denny Doherty and singer Michelle Phillips, who was married to the group’s songwriter and guitarist, John Phillips (13.5%); How Do You Sleep - John Lennon writes a reply song to Paul McCartney, after Paul wrote a uncalled for song about him (13.5%); Melissa - Allman Brothers - Recorded in tribute to Duane Allman (11.9%); Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac - Written by Lindsey Buckingham about his breakup with singer, Stevie Nicks (11.5%); Old Red Wine - The Who - Pete Townshend wrote this song for his band's late bassist, John Entwistle (5.1%); Sue Me Sue You Blues - George Harrison - writes a song about the problems he and his former Beatle bandmates were once having (5.1%);
To see the full results from this poll, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 845.
We close out this week’s Poll Post as usual with this week’s Beatles Poll, where we enter week 597 of voting along with week 31 of rating the Beatles’ songs. For this week we ask: Rate the Beatles song, “Revolution”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).
“Revolution” Photo taken from the song’s video
"Revolution", a true countercultural ideology song, was written by John Lennon and credited to "Lennon/McCartney". This song had 3 different versions to it, with the slow acoustic take of the number, "Revolution 1" (which we aren't rating this week), being the original version of the song. At first, John wanted that first take, which early on was the only take, released as a single. But Paul McCartney felt it was too slow a number to be a single and suggested to John to speed it up - a lot! So, John took Paul's advice and with that, the song that many call the first true Heavy Metal song, was born, mainly thanks to John's loud acid/fuzz and distorted lead guitar playing. It was the first time a guitar was played in this matter and the way the guitar's feed was fed into the studio's sound board, it's feedback almost destroyed the board! As much as I love John Lennon, and yes, this is early metal indeed, I feel the Kinks with Dave Davies' wild guitar heard on a few early songs, dating back to 1965, were actually the first true metal riffs played and where metal guitar really started. But regardless, this pure acid riff was totally on fire and a cut above all other riffs played before it, for sure. Plus, and I hate to have to point this out once again about the website Wikipedia (and usually it's about the wrong info noted there about the Stones, not the Beatles) but good old Wiki gets it wrong once again, this time claiming that George Harrison plays the co-lead guitar on this song, when everybody and their dog knows that isn't close to being correct! George plays a simple rhythm guitar and nothing more on this number. As Beatle fans and most Classic Rock fans all know, George always played a mellow lead guitar, and he never played acid lead guitar, as it was John who mainly played the lead acid riffs in the Beatles in the last few years that they were around, and John would continue to play acid guitar on several solo songs after the band broke up, too, a guitar style of playing that George was never into.
This new fast version of John's song was just titled "Revolution", while the original’s much slower take, was then retitled and called "Revolution 1", since it came first. Perhaps they should have called the fast take "Revolution 2", as I think that way fans, especially fans years later, won't get confused on which Revolution was being played. The third version of this song, wasn't a song but a sound montage and titled "Revolution 9" (with "9" being a number that John claimed always would come up in his life - among those times were the day he was born, being on the 9th of October, and if you were to go by what the time and date was in England when he died [and where he was born], it would also had been on the 9th [of December]).
"Revolution 1" and "Revolution 9", both made it on to the Beatles White Album. Had the fast take of the song, "Revolution" also been on the LP, then the White Album would have contained 2 metal songs on it, with "Helter Skelter" also on there. But the fast and many felt better "Revolution" was only released as a B side single - to the A single, "Hey Jude" (yes, many felt that the 2 best songs recorded during that LPs sessions were both not released on that great double LP). Many, if not most B side songs that are never released on an album often become forgotten songs in time. But not this one. Plus, while some remember it being a double A side single, no, it never was, and fans who claim it was are mistaken. It was only a B side release, and yet it was so loved once released, that as a B side single it still charted on its own anyway, which of course is very rare indeed and almost never happens, making it all the way to #12 on the U.S. singles chart. In the only two places where it was released as its own A side single, it went to #1 (in Australian and New Zealand). With all that, guess I could note that some hated this song - and not just war hawks, but some even on the left, and others who just had grudges against John and his band (like Jean-Luc Godard, who put down the song, but he was just pissed at the Fabs after they didn't appear in his movie, One Plus One (aka SFTD) with the Stones, as he wanted. The movie’s title was call that because the One plus One would have been about the stones plus the Beatles. But Godard was thinking of something he never had to work with, assuming that he could get the Beatles to do what the Stones was doing at the same time in different studios. Nice idea, but but it was nothing but a dream and it didn’t happen. But hey, that was no reason for him to put this song down. I just guess there’s fools everywhere, and Godard was one of them, for sure. He was the one to fail at this, not John Lennon’s song.
The song's video (or its "film promotion" as all videos were called back then) was also well received, and released on September 4, 1968 under the direction of Michael Lindsay-Hogg. In it, the Beatles sang the song live in the video (over the pre-recorded instrumental track from the single version). Where it was John who let out the big scream on the studio take of the song, for the video, it was decided that John won't have time to recover from that scream to sing the opening lyrics to the song after screaming, so for the video - Paul let out the scream instead - and I'll add, his scream a much weaker scream. Other interesting notes to the video were that Paul and George sang the "shoo-bee-doo-wop" backing vocals heard normally only on the slow "Revolution 1" take of the song (and the video shows, IMO, that those backing vocals should have been kept in the studio’s fast version, too) and also, Lennon, as he sang in the lyrics for "Revolution 1" , returned to singing live "But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out - in!", as the Yippie/Punk in him took over for the video take (as he originally had sang that line in the slow take), while the peaceful Hippie in him prevailed when he sang the song in the studio for the second, fast take, when he didn’t sing the line with the word “in” for that version of the song. John later claimed he couldn’t make up his mind on that, and that's why when he recorded the vocals for the fast version, he dropped the word "in', and instead he just stated that using violence wasn't the way to go and it won't help the revolution to succeed. But when it was time to sing the vocals live, he changed his mind yet again and decided that yes, the Yippie pro stand on violence just might be needed to win the revolution, after all.
The lineup for this wild version of the song's fast take was: John Lennon – Lead Vocal, including opening scream (studio/single release), Lead Acid Fuzz Guitar, handclaps; Paul McCartney – Bass Guitar, Organ, opening scream (in the live video take, only....), Backing Vocal, handclaps; George Harrison – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocal, handclaps; Ringo Starr – Drums, handclaps; with Nicky Hopkins on the Electric Piano. To vote in this week's Beatles poll and rate this song, just click on this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.
Last week at the Beatles poll we answered this question: Rate the Beatles song, “Penny Lane”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).
“Penny Lane” The roundabout on Penny Lane, that is noted in the song
This cool song saw a 10 rating for its top spot, taking in a very strong 77% of the vote. To see the full, final results from this poll, just click on here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 596. Plus, you can also check out the results at the Beatle song standings page – did this one make it into the Beatles’ Top 10 in the standings? To find out, you can click on here: The Beatles Song Ratings and Standings page.
Okay, so that will do it for this week’s new polls. I noted last week here in the Poll Post’s close about the raid on my garden by either the local chipmunks, or the ground squirrels and how one group of them destroyed several plants, including 3 of my 5 tomato plants. So this week, well, sometime on Saturday afternoon when I wasn’t home, they carried out a second raid, getting around my line of defense that I had set up to stop them. This time the little bastards went after and stole all of the tomatoes left on one of the 2 surviving plants! So I’m now down to one last plant that has about six tomatoes on them. None of these tomatoes are ripe enough for picking yet, and usually this time of year I got to worry about freezing temps at night and not ground squirrels. Plus, now I know for sure that the chipmunks are innocent and it was the ground squirrels that did the raid and stealing (as I figured), since in the last raid only the smallest tomatoes, along with all of the small cherry tomatoes, were eaten and stolen. But there was no way the tiny chipmunks could carry away this week’s bounty, since all of the tomatoes taken were big ones, each one much larger than any of the chipmunks. It had to be the damn ground squirrels! Plus the little bastards are digging their small but deep holes all over my front and back yards, and that’s of course where they store their stolen loot! Oh well, I guess they got to eat too, and I’m not supposed to eat tomatoes anyway because of a rare stomach ailment that I have. But I hate veggies and they and potatoes are the only 2 veggies that I like to eat (ok, most say tomatoes are really fruit and not a veggie, but come to think about it, I also like corn, too, and my next-door neighbors have some nice big corn stocks growing in their yard, along with some even nicer pot plants, too. But they got a much larger fence around their garden than I got, so their garden should be safe. Plus, squirrels don’t eat corn, or weed (then again, maybe they do, and that’s what makes them so damn hungry!). Anyway, all I got left growing now are the potatoes (the other veggies we had are all finished growing for the season), and them being underground, well they are safe from the cold and any wildlife that would want to eat them.
I do hope all of you have a great week ahead!
Keno
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