Another Monday, Another Closed Poll.
Last Week’s Better Than Ezra Poll Tally: 5 Voters / 29 Selections, which as predicted garnered much less feedback than Week 21’s Abba Supplemental Poll with: 20 Voters / 108 Selections. (Different strokes, different folks I always say). Interesting factoid: No one who voted in the Better Than Ezra poll voted in the Abba poll, or vice versa. On to business:
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]Everyone who voted this week. “Aha, it was good hearing from ya!” (Sorry, could resist)[]AlbertRose ‡ Annie-Xmas ‡ Helena ‡ Neidhart ‡ Nocturne ‡ scott evil ‡ Usram: Newcomers to the 6 @ 6.[]elfkin477: For the Ezra poll bump.[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired group: Black Revolutionaries. Will these keywords attract Panthers & the like? Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, Afeni Shakur[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:
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[li]Voting In 13 Polls: astorian[/li]
[li]Voting In 10 Polls: WSLer. [/li]
[li]Voting In 8 Polls: elfkin477 & grendel72 & Skijumper.[/li]
[li]Voting In 7 Polls: dead0man, Mudshark.[/li]
[li]Voting In 6 Polls: Dragon Phoenix, Fish42, gex gex & Labdad. [/li]
[li]Voting In 5 Polls: chief, Dryga_Yes, Hugh Jass & Narrad.[/li]
[li]Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ, K364, Mr. Blue Sky, Newton meter, RealityChuck & tourbot (well actually 3 1/6 polls for tour). [/li]
[li]Voting In 3 Polls: capybara, galt (2X Posthumously), Minor Irritant, pldennison, plnnr, scout1222, Spit, Treviathan & thermalribbon. [/li]
[li]Voting In 2 Polls: ArchiveGuy, cmkeller, epeepunk, essvee, Fenris, gonzoron, Happy Lendervedder, hazel-rah, Interrobang!?, John Carter of Mars, jolemale, Kevja, Leifsmama, Living Dead Girl, Leechbabe, Manduck, panamajack, pepperlandgirl, SisterCoyote, The Clawman, Tit Whistle, Wartime Consigliori.[/li]
[li]Voting In 1 Poll: 5-HT, Adam P., Airbeck, AlbertRose, andrew Dupont, andros, Annie-Xmas, arachnidlove, auntie em, Bad Hat, bibliophile, bouv, bristlesage, bugg, cainxinth, Cat Fight, Chastain86, Cherry_Blossom_, ChristmasEve, Chrome Spot, Corbomite, da_pope, dinahmoe, easy e, Eonwe, Futile Gesture, gallows fodder, hajario, hardygrrl, Hastur, hawthorne, Helena, HenrySpencer, HoldenCaulfield, horhay_achoa, IJ Grieve, Jeremy’s Evil Twin, Jonathan Chance, Kyomara, lawoot, Leechboy, LindyHopper, Lockz, longjohn, lothos2002, Ludovic, LunaSea, matt_mcl, minty green, Mr. Green Fool, MsWhatsit, Neidhart, Nocturne, Reeder, saoirse, scott evil, Sigmundex, singular1, Skip on, stankow, Supernate, tavalla, The Wrong Girl, ThePyroWeasel, Ukulele Ike, Usram, vinryk, waterj2, widdershins & -zorch.[/ul][/li]
4th: Past polls and Results:
The ever-growing scrap-heap of past band polls:
Better Than Ezra § Banarama § David Bowie 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 § Abba& Aerosmith polls.
5th: Week 19 Results:
Here are your Better than Ezra Selections:
1ST PLACE
Good: With 5 Votes
2ND PLACE
In The Blood: With 4 Votes
3RD PLACE
Desperately Wanting: With 3 Votes
4TH PLACE
Misunderstood ¤ WWOZ: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Allison Foley ¤ At The Stars ¤ Closer ¤ Everything in 2s ¤ Hung the Moon ¤ Lifetime ¤ Live Again ¤ Long Lost ¤ One More Murder ¤ Porcelain ¤ Silly Fools ¤ Southern Girl ¤ Strange Funny Way ¤ Under You: With 1 Vote Each…Anyone reading the results are hereby directed to listen to Porcelain as your homework assignment this week.
6th: Week 19’s Supplemental Poll Results
Tabulation Notes: Annie-Xmas & Newton meter: You could have included tracks from the show, “Chess.” They would’ve counted. I didn’t include Annie’s 2nd set of 6 votes in the final tally. Side note to capybara: The Edelweiss I lamely referred to in the supplemental Abba Poll was actually “Bring Me Edelweiss”, by Edelweiss from 1988, on the German; Original Sound/GIG label.
1ST PLACE
S O S: With 13 Votes
2ND PLACE
Take A Chance On Me: With 11 Votes
3RD PLACE
Dancing Queen ¤ Fernando: Tied With 9 Votes
4TH PLACE
Waterloo: With 8 Votes
5TH PLACE
Knowing Me, Knowing You: With 7 Votes
6TH PLACE
The Winner Takes It All: With 6 Votes
7TH PLACE
Does Your Mother Know: With 4 Votes
8TH PLACE
Mamma Mia ¤ The Name of the Game: Tied With 3 Votes
9TH PLACE
Angel Eyes ¤ Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) ¤ I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ¤ I Know There’s Something Going On (Frida solo) ¤ Lay All Your Love on Me ¤ Money, Money, Money ¤ One Of Us ¤ Super Trouper ¤ Thank You For The Music ¤ The Day Before You Came ¤ The Way Old Friends Do: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Bang-a-Boomerang ¤ Cassandra ¤ Chiquitita ¤ Eagle ¤ I Am the City ¤ King Kong Song ¤ Kisses of Fire ¤ Our Last Summer ¤ Summer Night City ¤ Tank om uder jarden ung (phonetic spelling I assume) ¤ Voulez Vous ¤ When I Kissed The Teacher: With 1 Vote Each.
7th: Disclaimers & Tentative Schedule
Based on requests and the like: [ul][li](The Bush) Week #23 will feature: Bush with a Kate Bush supplemental poll. Followed by…[](The retro folk-rock) Week #24 featuring: The Byrds (with Hugh Jass’es requested) Buffalo Springfield supplemental…Then it’s off to sail the C’s.[/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. Note to elfkin there will be a BHS poll if someone asks for one, technically no one has as yet.[/li]
8th: Week #22’s Supplemental Poll (In another, as yet unknown thread)
I can’t provide a link to it because the featured poll and results get posted 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]Part 2 of the Brown(e) Week poll: Jackson Browne Talk about your bad segues! It will be interesting to see who garners more support, the supplemental artist or the featured artist listed below.[/li]
9th: Week #22’s Featured Poll Artist’s 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: Super Bad Soul Machine Original Funk Soul Brother Next Step Members Edition It’s A Man’s Man’s World 20th Century Masters Best Of Volume 2 Live At The Apollo Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag Ballads Soul Jubilee Best Of-Millennium I’m Back Make It Funky The Big Payback Living In America Turn It Loose Sex Machine Love Power Peace Star Time I’m Real In The Jungle Groove Gravity Roots Of A Revolution Hell Payback Black Caesar Get On The Good Foot Revolution Of The Mind Hot Pants Say It Loud I’m Black & I’m Proud Think Try Me Please Please Please. You get the gist.
10th & Lastly: Week #21’s Featured Poll Artist
[Eddie Murphy’s “What Is Allen Watching”] Q: Why Free James Brown? Why not Nelson Mendella?" A: "We worry about our people, let the Italians take care of their own”[/Eddie Murphy’s “What Is Allen Watching”] Without further ado, the Godfather of Soul, the man with some of the best song titles in the world (parenthetical multi-part titles aside), the man who needs no further introduction … James Brown.
Here are my 6 JAMES BROWN picks:
- Please, Please, Please
- Make It Funky, Part 1
- Cold Sweat, Part 1
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Part 1
- I Got You (I Feel Good)
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag, Part 1
Thanking you all in advance. Have a great week