Subtitled: 6:15 Tuesday night. The keyboard taps under office lights. And I’m sitting counting all these votes. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap. Fire up the iPod, get your CD’s off the shelf or start up your computer’s jukebox program and let’s get to voting.
1st: Last Week (#40’s) Poll Quick Tallies
Previous Week’s Turnout: Lighter than I expected. The fact twenty people voted in Sunshine’s Jim Croce poll is still something I can’t get outta my craw.
[ul][li]Crosby Stills Nash & Young Featured Poll: 21 Voters / 126 Selections, []Neil Young Headliner Poll: 23 Voters / 138 Selections & []**Stills/Manassas, Crosby & Nash Solo Projects ** Supplemental Poll: 3 Voters / 18 Selections []Voted in all 3 polls: (2 Dopers) Hugh Jass & thermalribbon[]Voted in 2 outta 3 polls (Which ain’t bad): (A record 11 Dopers: 42fish § dbygawdcapn § Enginerd § hawthorne § jsgoddess § kevja § Ol’Gaffer § Only Mostly Dead § RealityChuck § Roberta Plant § Rufus Xavier § Ol’Gaffer[/ul][/li]2nd: The Mailbag
Questions, Answers, Issues, Requests & Honorable Mentionsa) Your Comments & Queries:
From jsgoddess: “Have any of the CSN fans heard The Thorns? It’s eerie”
I have. Matthew Sweet and Shawn Mullins. They’re pretty good. Though I hear a little of CSN’s influence in their sound, the harmonies are quite a bit different. As far as ‘Super Groups’ go, they sure are a whole hell of a lot better than Little Village ever was.
From RealityChuck: “You have to understand that, for a long time, I detested Neil Young, mostly because of my college roommate who played him constantly. I really hated his voice. But over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate him a lot"
Ditto. Except in my case, the offending party mixed in a little Pure Prairie League for good measure. Back then, Neil Young was easy to make fun of. I don’t remember the comic, but still remember the line – ‘Just keep me searching for a real voice’.
From thermalribbon & Hugh Jass: “Allright, jeez, Stephen Stills deserves his own poll and I could see how someone could say the Hollies deserve one as well. Manassas is way up there on my all time list” and “I, too, think Stills should have his own poll, but what’r’ya gonna do?
Well, I think the number of respondents (just the 3 of us) sums it up pretty well. As far as the Hollies go, we’ll definitely poll them when we get around to the H bands.
From dbygawdcapn: “I was a snot nosed kid when I first heard (‘When You Dance I Can Really Love’) on the radio and it was a life altering experience for me. I never paid very much attention to music before, but after hearing this song I just knew that music would always be an important aspect of my life from that moment forward. After The Goldrush was the first album I purchased with my own money”
One of the things I love about these polls is reading other people’s liner notes. It’s kinda funny how with some people it’s ‘After the Goldrush’ and with others it’s the ‘We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll’ compilation.
b) Tabulation Notes:
From hawthorne: ‘Helpless (MTV Unplugged Version)’ “I don’t think this is cheating JohnBckWLD”
Nope. Definitely not cheating. Off the top of my head, it’s at least the 2nd Unplugged version to be selected – With Clapton’s MTV Unplugged version being the other.
From jsgoddess: “This is embarrassing. Neil Young is one of those artists that I’ve always intended to learn about and then, well, didn’t…
I’ve done a little research and find, even more embarrassingly, that I do know more Neil Young songs. I just didn’t know that I knew them.
You may ignore these for the survey”
I just had a meeting with the accounting staff at The 6@6 Poll corporate offices. Here’s how they decided to tabulate your votes: They included your first 2 selections (Cinnamon Girl & Heart of Gold) and added todd33rpm’s four honorable mentions (One Of These Days, I Am A Child, On The Beach & Don’t Let It Bring You Down) for a total of six. The press release reads as follows: At the risk of offending the gods and goddesses, the staff at the weekly 6@6 polls have deemed jsgoddess’ amended 4 Neil Young selections null and void because of the fact she “knows” them as opposed to ‘really enjoys them’. To round out her selections to an even half-dozen, we opted to include todd33rpm’s four ‘honorably mentioned’ selections. Through his liner notes, Mr. 33rpm has proven to us his admiration and knowledge of Neil Young’s work is more than just a casual knowledge.
c) Future Poll Requests:
From Only Mostly Dead: “Please somebody second me, I know I’m not the only one on these boards (who wants a Ryan Adams poll).
From 5 time champ: Thanks for remembering Atlanta Rhythm Section. ‘Another Man’s Woman’ is one of my all time favorites.
Well, the solution looks obvious to me; Why don’t you both just second on another’s requests? Tell you what, I’ll pencil-in both poll requests alongside the CDB on a week that I’m quite certain will be a breeze to tabulate. Keep an eye on the tentative schedule.
d) This Week #41’s Poll Requests:
The now guest poster gex gex requested this week’s Chemical Brothers poll. In honor of his (her?) spirit & love of electronic music, the Chemical Brothers will run in this week’s Supplemental poll. Whether or not I’ll be the only person posting to it will remain to be seen.
e) A Few Asides:
If you have any suggestions on making any of the 6@6 threads more readable (or less spam-like), please let me know. I discovered a long time ago the posters to these threads have better musical taste than any FM or satellite radio Program Director on this planet. Hopefully, after the ZZ Top poll, sometime next decade, I plan to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them on the web and in a thread. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & send ‘em out to the top voters who helped keep these threads going.
3rd: Newcomers To The 6 At 6
Your name in lights. Thanks for Voting and Welcome all. The past week’s polls had 6 new respondents to the 6@6.
§ Capt B. Phart (Where the hell were you when we ran the Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band poll?) § Exapno Mapcase § paulberserker § Roberta Plant (I guess you’ll be back for the Led Zeppelin poll) § shimmery § ZeroGyro §
4th: Increase the Hit Count
For Those Voters Who Do Vanity Searches. Voting in the Past 74 Past & Present Polls:
33 Polls:
¤ Labdad ¤
30 Polls:
¤ astorian ¤
29 Polls:
¤ Spit ¤
28 Polls:
¤ 42fish (a k a Fish42) ¤
27 Polls:
¤ Hugh Jass ¤
21 Polls:
** ¤ Kevja ¤ WSLer ¤**
20 Polls:
¤ elfkin477 ¤ RealityChuck ¤ Tit Whistle ¤
19 Polls:
¤ thermalribbon ¤
17 Polls:
¤ Dragon Phoenix ¤ Ol’Gaffer ¤ Skijumper ¤
15 Polls:
¤ gex gex ¤ grendel72 ¤
13 Polls:
¤ ArchiveGuy ¤
12 Polls:
¤ chief ¤
11 Polls:
¤ dead0man ¤ hawthorne ¤ Treviathan ¤
9 Polls:
¤ kawliga ¤ Ludovic ¤
8 Polls:
¤ capybara ¤ craiger ¤ Dryga_Yes ¤ gallows fodder ¤ HenrySpencer ¤ Mr. Blue Sky ¤
7 Polls:
¤ 5 time champ ¤ BurnMeUp ¤ cmkeller ¤ Mudshark ¤ scout1222 ¤
6 Polls:
¤ dbygawdcapn ¤ don’t ask ¤ Interrobang!? ¤ Narrad ¤ panamajack ¤ Sassy ¤
5 Polls:
¤ Annie-Xmas ¤ bibliophile ¤ fizgig ¤ John Carter of Mars ¤ Leifsmama ¤ LunaSea ¤ Newton meter ¤ plnnr ¤ WavyDavy ¤
4 Polls:
¤ Corbomite ¤ da_pope ¤ hazel-rah ¤ HoldenCaufield ¤ jsgoddess ¤ K364 ¤ Legomancer ¤ Nightime ¤ Nocturne ¤ Only Mostly Dead ¤ pldennison ¤ RexDart ¤ The Clawman ¤ tourbot ¤
3 Polls:
¤ angelicate ¤ Ataraxy ¤ chiefhardcrab ¤ easy e ¤ Enginerd ¤ essvee ¤ G.B.H. Hornswoggler ¤ galt ¤ Kepi ¤ Manduck ¤ marinwood ¤ Minor Irritant ¤ Rufus Xavier ¤ SisterCoyote ¤ Sunshine ¤ Wartime Consigliori ¤ widdershins ¤ Young Mr. Grace ¤
2 Polls:
¤ Adam P. ¤ Ass For A Hat ¤ brianjedi ¤ Chastain86 ¤ chique ¤ Eonwe ¤ epeepunk ¤ Fenris ¤ fishbicycle ¤ ftg ¤ gonzoron ¤ gossamer ¤ Gravity ¤ Happy Lendervedder ¤ Hastur ¤ Homebrew ¤ jolemale ¤ JonScribe ¤ Kat ¤ Kyla ¤ lawoot ¤ Leechbabe ¤ Leechboy ¤ Living Dead Girl ¤ Lockz ¤ Mr. Wrong ¤ Mystery Dog ¤ nitroglycerine ¤ NoPretentiousCodename ¤ parmachene ¤ pepperlandgirl ¤ percypercy ¤ rackensack ¤ Roberta Plant ¤ Second Echo ¤ Skeezix ¤ spooje ¤ stylize ¤ The Big Cheese ¤ threeorange ¤ todd33rpm ¤ White Lightning ¤
1 Poll:
¤ 11811 ¤ 5-HT ¤ adam yax ¤ agroof ¤ Airbeck ¤ AlbertRose ¤ An Arky ¤ andrew Dupont ¤ andros ¤ arachnidlove ¤ Auction Barn Messiah ¤ auntie em ¤ Ave Minerva ¤ Bad Hat ¤ Badtz Maru ¤ benlormat ¤ BlackKnight ¤ bouv ¤ brachyrhynchos ¤ bristlesage ¤ bugg ¤ cainxinth ¤ cantara ¤ Caprese ¤ Capt B. Phart ¤ Carine ¤ Cat Fight ¤ Ceejaytee ¤ Cherry_Blossom_ ¤ ChristmasEve ¤ Chrome Spot ¤ clairobscur ¤ Coil ¤ corvidae ¤ dinahmoe ¤ Dragonblink ¤ Dr. Rieux ¤ Duke ¤ Eutychus ¤ even sven ¤ Exapno Mapcase ¤ Fibonacci ¤ fiddlesticks ¤ Fionn ¤ FriarTed ¤ Futile Gesture ¤ gatopescado ¤ hajario ¤ hardygrrl ¤ hegel ¤ Helena ¤ Hello Again ¤ horhay_achoa ¤ Hunsecker ¤ IcicleFuzz ¤ IJ Grieve ¤ Jeremy’s Evil Twin ¤ Jervoise ¤ Jonathan Chance ¤ KarlGauss ¤ kunilou ¤ Kyomara ¤ li’l Dickie Dirtz ¤ Lilacs ¤ LindyHopper ¤ lno ¤ longjohn ¤ lothos2002 ¤ Maeglin ¤ matt_mcl ¤ mattymillhouse ¤ metroshane ¤ minty green ¤ Mirror Image egamI rorriM ¤ mishaa ¤ Monkey Chews ¤ MoodIndigo1 ¤ Moon-Watcher ¤ Motorgirl ¤ Mr. Green Fool ¤ MsWhatsit ¤ NE Texan ¤ Neidhart ¤ Nightwatch Trailer ¤ Nonsuch ¤ NYR407 ¤ PatrickM ¤ paulberserker ¤ percussion ¤ Peter Doubt ¤ Politzania ¤ Reeder ¤ sandalwood ¤ saoirse ¤ Sattua ¤ scott evil ¤shimmery ¤ Siemsi ¤ Sigmundex ¤ singular1 ¤ sirtonyh ¤ Skip on ¤ Snooooopy ¤ stpauler ¤ stankow ¤ Supernate ¤ Swinger ¤ Tangent ¤ tavalla ¤ tclouie ¤ The Wrong Girl ¤ ThePyroWeasel ¤ Thunder ¤ Tikster ¤ TripleAnt ¤ typhoon ¤ Ukulele Ike ¤ Usram ¤ vibrotronica ¤ vinryk ¤ waits ¤ waterj2 ¤ WordMan ¤ Zelmph(!) ¤ ZeroGyro ¤ Zoggie ¤ -zorch ¤
5th: Week #40’s Featured Poll Artist Results:
Here are your Crosby Stills & Nash / Crosby Stills Nash & Young Selections (21 Respondents / 126 Votes):
1ST PLACE: 15 Votes
Suite:Judy Blue Eyes
2ND PLACE: 13 Votes
Ohio (CSNY)
3RD PLACE: 10 Votes
Woodstock (CSNY)
4TH PLACE: 8 Votes
Wooden Ships § Helpless (CSNY)
5TH PLACE: 7 Votes
Helplessly Hoping § Long Time Gone § Southern Cross
6TH PLACE: 6 Votes
Carry On (CSNY) § Teach Your Children (CSNY)
7TH PLACE: 5 Votes
Marrakesh Express
8TH PLACE: 4 Votes
Guinnevere § Almost Cut My Hair (CSNY) § Dark Star § Wasted on the Way
9TH PLACE: 3 Votes
Country Girl Medley: Whiskey Boot Hill/Down Down Down/County Girl (CSNY) § Our House (CSNY) § Cathedral § Just A Song Before I Go
10TH PLACE: 2 Votes
Déjà Vu (CSNY)
RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each
4 + 20 (CSNY) § Find the Cost of Freedom (CSNY) § In My Dreams § Daylight Again § Might As Well Have a Good Time
6th: Week #40’s Headliner Poll Artist Results
Here are your Neil Young (& Crazy Horse) Selections (23 Respondents / 138 Votes):
1ST PLACE: 10 Votes
The Needle and the Damage Done
2ND PLACE: 8 Votes
Heart of Gold
3RD PLACE: 7 Votes
After The Goldrush § Like A Hurricane
4TH PLACE: 6 Votes
Down By The River (With Crazy Horse) § Rockin In the Free World
5TH PLACE: 4 Votes
Cinnamon Girl (With Crazy Horse) § Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) (Live) (With Crazy Horse) § Only Love Can Break Your Heart § Powderfinger (With Crazy Horse) § Sugar Mountain (Live) (With Crazy Horse)
6TH PLACE: 3 Votes
Cortez the Killer § Cowgirl in the Sand (With Crazy Horse) § Harvest Moon § Helpless (MTV Unplugged) § Old Man § Southern Man § When You Dance You (I - 1979) Can Really Love
7TH PLACE: 2 Votes
Ambulance Blues § Barstool Blues (With Crazy Horse) § Downtown § Kinda Fonda Wanda § Mr. Soul (From Trans) § On the Beach § Tonight’s The Night (Part 1) § Walk On
RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each
Alabama § Broken Arrow § Captain Kennedy § Change Your Mind § Computer Age (Live) § Country Home § Don’t Let It Bring You Down § Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (With Crazy Horse) § Expecting to Fly § Harvest § I Am A Child § I’m The Ocean § Love is a Rose § My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)/Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) (Live Segue) (With Crazy Horse) § No More § The Old Laughing Lady § One Of These Days § Pardon My Heart (With Crazy Horse) § Philadelphia (Soundtrack) § Pocahontas (With Crazy Horse) § Saddle Up the Palomino § Sample and Hold (Live) § See the Sky About to Rain § Shots § Silver and Gold § Southern Pacific § Star Of Bethlehem § Ten Men Workin’ § Big Time § Thrasher (With Crazy Horse) § Tired Eyes § Touch the Night § Trans Am § Unknown Legend § Words (Between The Lines Of Age) § Wrecking Ball
7th: Week #40’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Steven Stills/Manassas, David Crosby, Crosby & Nash, Stills-Young Band Selections (3 Respondents / 18 Votes):
1ST PLACE: 2 Votes
It Doesn’t Matter (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Love The One Your With (Steven Stills)
RUNNERS UP: 1 Vote Each
As I Come of Age (Steven Stills) § Colorado (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Compass (David Crosby) § Cowboy Movie (David Crosby) § Fallen Eagle (Steven Stills & Manassas) § How Far (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Immigration Man (Crosby & Nash) § Johnny’s Garden (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Long May You Run (Stills-Young Band) § Move Around (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Rock And Roll Crazies / Cuban Bluegrass (Steven Stills & Manassas) § So Begins the Task (Steven Stills & Manassas) § Southbound Train (Crosby & Nash) § Tamalpais High {At About 3} (David Crosby)
8th: Tentative Schedule & Disclaimers
Featured / Headliner / Supplemental Poll. Based on requests and the like:
[ul][li]This Week #41: The Cure ¦ The Cult ¦ The Chemical Brothers (for gex gex) & The Church (for hawthorne)[]Fish Week #42: Ray Charles ¦ Sam Cooke ¦ Marshall Crenshaw (All for 42fish)[]Week #43: The Damned ¦ The Buzzcocks ¦ Black Flag / Henry Rollins[]Week #44: The Doors ¦ Bo Diddley ¦ Willie Dixon[]Week #45: Dead Kennedys / Jello Biafra ¦ Butthole Surfers ¦ D.O.A.[]Week #46: Miles Davis ¦ John Coltrane ¦ Dave Brubeck & Louis Armstrong []Week #47: Bob Dylan ¦ Donovan ¦ Joan Baez[]Week #48: Depeche Mode ¦ Echo & The Bunnymen ¦ Everclear[]Week #49: Charlie Daniels Band ¦ Atlanta Rhythm Section (for 5 time champ) ¦ Ryan Adams (for Only Mostly Dead)[]Week #50: The Eagles ¦ Don Henley/Glen Frey Solo ¦ Joe Walsh[]Week #51: Emerson Lake & Palmer ¦ Electric Light Orchestra ¦ Dave Edmunds[/ul]9th: This Week #41’s Headliner Poll[/li]I can’t provide a link to it because the featured poll and results get posted first. Access it one of 3 ways: (1)Click the link on my signature. (2)Access it through the Café Society page. (3)Bog down the server and do a search on: The 6@6 Headliner Poll… The Cult / Southern Death Cult. The Headliner Poll also includes links to all the past polls.
10th: Week #41’s Supplemental Poll
Find it the same way you find the Featured & Headliner Polls. The 6@6 Supplemental 6@6 Poll…gex gex’s Chemical Brothers poll. As a regular feature, The Supplemental Poll also includes The “Straight Dope Message (Bill)Board" Top Vote Getters List (So Far). Check it out and see if “Watching the Detectives” will be knocked out of the coveted top position. (I have a feeling it’ll take a while. It will either be Dylan, Van Morrison or Steely Dan if I had to fathom a guess)
11th: Week #41’s Additional ‘Aussie’ Poll
Find it the same way you find the Featured, Headliner & Supplemental Polls. The 6@6 Additional 6@6 Poll…hawthorne’s The Church poll is running this week as a bonus feature. The Additional Poll runs whenever scheduling allows and as an added feature, includes the SDMB Poll Results Chestnut Tracks (those which received 3 or 4 votes in past polls). The next time there will be an Additional poll is during Jazz Week #46.
**Lastly: Week #41’s Featured Artist Poll **
All you have to do is list your six favorite tracks from this week’s featured artist. If you’d like to add your own liner notes or opinions, please go right ahead – I, for one, love reading them. If you specify a live version, it will be noted, but tallied with the studio version. Cover versions are acceptable. Please try to be as accurate as possible when naming your favorite tracks.
Without further ado…The Cure.
