Another Monday, Another Closed Poll. Thanks to all the Dopers who responded. We’ve gone 20 Weeks, and still chuggin’ along. Last Week’s Bon Jovi Poll Tally: 7 Voters / 39 Selections. Week 19’s Boston Supplemental Poll Tally: 6 Voters / 36 Selections. On to business:
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]Everyone who voted this week…there were some good, mostly predictable, selections.[]cmkeller & Spit: Newcomers to the 6 @ 6.[]Requests for Band Polls: Skijumper’s Bananarama request will be honored in this week’s (#20) supplemental poll thread…Keep an eye on the “Tentative Schedule” below for more details.[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations: This week’s desired demographic: Intellectuals. Will these keywords attract more brainiacs? Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Christian socialism, utopian socialism, Marxism, Fabianism, anarchism, democracy, dictatorships, Puritanism, revolution, independence, Hamiltonian nationalism, Jeffersonian republicanism, Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, laissez-faire, populism, progressivism, legal realism, the New Deal, liberalism, conservatism, civil rights, protest, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Tolstoy, Kate Chopin, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Achebe, Camus, John Irving, and Tom Wolfe.[sub]Warning: Cheap search gimmick employed above[/sub]
3rd: Increase the Hit Count
The Voters, Past & Present List – Designed for those who do vanity searches:
[ul][li]Voting In 12 Polls: astorian.[/li]
[li]Voting In 9 Polls: WSLer.[/li]
[li]Voting In 7 Polls: dead0man.[/li]
[li]Voting In 6 Polls: elfkin477, grendel72 & Mudshark.[/li]
[li]Voting In 5 Polls: chief, gex gex, Labdad, Narrad & Skijumper.[/li]
[li]Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ, Dryga_Yes, Fish42, Hugh Jass, RealityChuck & tourbot (well actually 3 1/6 polls for tour). [/li]
[li]Voting In 3 Polls: Dragon Phoenix, galt (2X Posthumously), K364, Minor Irritant & scout1222. [/li]
[li]Voting In 2 Polls: cmkeller, epeepunk, essvee, Fenris, gonzoron, hazel-rah, Interrobang!?, John Carter of Mars, jolemale, Leifsmama, Living Dead Girl, Leechbabe, Manduck, Newton meter, pepperlandgirl, pldennison, plnnr, thermalribbon, Treviathan,Wartime Consigliori.[/li]
[li]Voting In 1 Poll: 5-HT, Adam P., Airbeck, andrew Dupont, andros, arachnidlove, ArchiveGuy, auntie em, Bad Hat, bibliophile, bouv, bristlesage, bugg, cainxinth, capybara, Chastain86, Cherry_Blossom_, ChristmasEve, Chrome Spot, Corbomite, da_pope, dinahmoe, easy e, Futile Gesture, gallows fodder, hajario, Happy Lendervedder, hardygrrl, hawthorne, HenrySpencer, HoldenCaulfield, horhay_achoa, IJ Grieve, Jeremy’s Evil Twin, Jonathan Chance, Kyomara, lawoot, Leechboy, LindyHopper, Lockz, longjohn, LunaSea, matt_mcl, minty green, Mr. Blue Sky, Mr. Green Fool, MsWhatsit, panamajack, Reeder, saoirse, Sigmundex, SisterCoyote, Skip on, Spit, stankow, Supernate, tavalla, The Wrong Girl, ThePyroWeasel, Tit Whistle, Ukulele Ike, vinryk, waterj2, widdershins & -zorch.[/ul][/li]
4th: Past polls and Results:
The ever-growing scrap-heap of past band polls:
Boston § Bon Jovi § Blur § Belle & Sebastian§ Blue Öyster Cult § Blondie§ Blink 182§ Black Sabbath§ Black Crowes§ Bjork§ B-52’s§ Chuck Berry§ Beastie Boys§ Jeff Beck§ The Band§ Beach Boys§ Beatles§ Animals§ Tori Amos§ Allman Brothers§ AC/DC& Aerosmith polls.
5th: Week 19 Results:
Here are your Bon Jovi Selections:
1ST PLACE
Livin’ On A Prayer: With 7 Votes
2ND PLACE
You Give Love A Bad Name: With 6 Votes
3RD PLACE
Runaway ¤ Wanted Dead Or Alive: Tied With 4 Votes
4TH PLACE
Bad Medicine ¤ Keep the Faith ¤ Never Say Goodbye: Tied With 3 Votes
5TH PLACE
Bed Of Roses ¤ Blaze of Glory: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Born To Be My Baby ¤ Edge Of A Broken Heart ¤ I’d Die For You ¤ In And Out Of Love ¤ Living In Sin: With 1 Vote Each…If you like some of Bon Jovi’s works, I suggest you give 1 or 2 some of these selections another listen to.
6th: Week 19’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Boston Selections:
1ST PLACE
More Than A Feeling: With 6 Votes
2ND PLACE
Don’t Look Back: With 5 Votes
3RD PLACE
Peace Of Mind: With 4 Votes
4TH PLACE
Amanda ¤ Foreplay / Long Time ¤ Rock And Roll Band ¤ Smokin’ (The non-Mary Hart ET version): Tied With 3 Votes
5TH PLACE
Hitch A Ride: With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
A Man I’ll Never Be ¤ Cool the Engines ¤ Feelin’ Satisfied ¤ Hollyann ¤ Party ¤ Something About You ¤ We’re Ready: With 1 Vote Each. I guess these are the tracks that could be considered the last nails in the coffin of arena rock.
7th: Disclaimers & Tentative Schedule
Based on requests and the like: [ul][li](The Brown{e}) Week #21 will feature: James Brown with a Jackson Browne supplemental poll. [](The Bush) Week #22 will feature: Bush with a Kate Bush supplemental poll. Followed by…[](The retro folk-rock) Week #23 featuring: The Byrds (with Huge’s) Buffalo Springfield supplemental…FINALLY, the end of the B polls.[/ul] Poll requests: This is a democracy, so once again; if you feel I’ve alphabetically passed over a band, speak up. If I don’t hear to the contrary, we’ll be passing by bands like: The Blues Brothers, The Breeders, Brinsley Schwartz, Jimmy Buffet, Butthole Surfers and The Buzzcocks…just to name a few.[/li]
8th: Week #19’s Supplemental Poll (In another, as yet unknown thread)
I can’t post a link to it because the featured poll and results get posed first. There will however be a link back to this thread in the supplemental poll but you can still access it one of 3 ways: [ol][li]Click the link on my signature[]Access it through the Café Society page[]Bog down the server and do a search on:[/ol]Skijumper’s’s requested band poll: Bananarama.[/li]
9th: Week #19’s Featured Poll Artist Discography(Reader’s Digest Version)
If your memory of the featured artist isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to our featured their discography with 30 second cuts of some of their tracks when you drill down through the albums: Heathen I Dig Everything All Saints ‘hours…’ David Bowie Earthling Outside Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust Never Let Me Down Tonight Let’s Dance Christiane F. Scary Monsters Lodger Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Low Heroes Station To Station Young Americans Diamond Dogs Pin Ups Aladdin Sane Hunky Dory Man Who Sold The World Space Oddity.
10th & Lastly: Week #19’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado, the Androgynous Glam Master, The Chameleon, Ziggy, The Thin White Duke. A trailblazer in the Glitter Movement, the multi-talented musician, song-writer, entertainer & actor, not to mention the 18th “B” band…David Bowie. Feel free to post any Tin Machine or pop duets.
Here are my 6 BOWIE picks:
This was almost as difficult as picking 6 Sabbath and BÖC tracks
6. TVC 15: (Just a catchy piece of music)
5. The Jean Genie: (Couldn’t pick just 1 off Aladdin Sane)
4. Hang On To Yourself: (You try truncating Ziggy Stardust down to 1 track)
3. Ashes To Ashes: (The 1st video I ever saw…Going into 7th grade; Summer ’79, way before MTV, at a NYC Stereo convention show…it just blew me away)
2. Golden Years: (I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years…)
- Panic In Detroit: (One of my Top 10 Songs of all time)
Thanking you all in advance. Have a great week.