Subtitled: A Dedication to The Bear and The Blind Owl.
Another Monday, Another Closed Poll.
Last Week’s Hello, I’m Johnny Cash Poll Tally: A whopping 30 Voters / 176 Selections, which, obviously garnered more feedback than Week 28’s Cab Calloway Supplemental Poll with: 6 Voters / 36 Selections…In fact, I think the Man in Black got more votes than the Fab Four.
Factoid of the Week: 4 voters left the Honky Tonk and ducked into the Speak Easy last week and voted in both polls.
On To Business:
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]All the Dopers who voted this week. []** Chiefhardcrab ♪ Kat ♪ kunilou ♪ Ol’Gaffer ♪ peepthis ♪ pesch ♪ tclouie ♪ waits**: Newcomers to the 6@6 poll. []Reality Chuck: I’m gonna bend the rules & re-calculate the Bonzo results after I get to listen to Cornology discs 2 & 3 a couple more times.[]Labdad: Whose Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen requested poll will be a supplement in Week #43 to…[]cmkeller’s requested Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) Poll (Nice catch…I inadvertently omitted in the Tentative Schedule). []brianjedi: Who doesn’t vote but whose Alice In Chains poll will run as the new supplemental poll in Week #32 (In my defense, just like AC/DC, even though I like them, I passed them by on purpose back in the A’s because I didn’t think they’d be much of a draw)[]Kat: Remind me about Merle Haggard when we get to the H’s[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired demographic group: Lovers of White Blues. Will these keywords attract bluesfiends? Mojo, Roadhouse, Juke Joint, Back Door Man, Barrel House, Boogie-Woogie, Cold-in-Hand, C.C. Rider, Easy Rider [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 17 Polls: astorian ♪[/li][li]Voting In 16 Polls: Labdad ♪[/li][li]Voting In 14 Polls: Spit ♪ WSLer ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 13 Polls: grendel72 ♪[/li][li]Voting In 12 Polls: elfkin477 ♪ Fish42 ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 11 Polls: gex gex. ♪ Skijumper ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 10 Polls: dead0man ♪ Hugh Jass ♪[/li][li]Voting In 9 Polls: chief ♪ Dragon Phoenix ♪[/li][li]Voting In 8 Polls: RealityChuck (1x posthumously) ♪[/li][li]Voting In 7 Polls: Kevja ♪ Mudshark ♪ Treviathan ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 6 Polls: capybara ♪ Dryga_Yes ♪ Mr. Blue Sky ♪[/li][li]Voting In 5 Polls: ArchiveGuy ♪ Narrad ♪ Newton meter ♪ plnnr ♪ thermalribbon ♪ Tit Whistle ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ ♪ bibliophile ♪ John Carter of Mars ♪ K364 ♪ Leifsmama ♪ pldennison ♪ tourbot ♪ WavyDavy ♪[/li][li]Voting In 3 Polls: essvee ♪ gallows fodder ♪ galt (2X Posthumously) ♪ hazel-rah ♪ Interrobang!? ♪ kawliga ♪ Ludovic ♪ Minor Irritant ♪ Sassy ♪ scout1222 ♪ widdershins ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 2 Polls: angelicate ♪ cmkeller ♪ Corbomite ♪ easy e ♪ epeepunk ♪ Fenris ♪ fizgig ♪ gonzoron ♪ Happy Lendervedder ♪ HenrySpencer ♪ HoldenCaulfield ♪ Homebrew ♪ jolemale ♪ Living Dead Girl ♪ Leechbabe ♪ LunaSea ♪ Manduck ♪ panamajack ♪ pepperlandgirl ♪ SisterCoyote ♪ The Clawman ♪ Wartime Consigliori ♪ [/li][li]Voting In 1 Poll: 5-HT ♪ Adam P. ♪ Airbeck ♪ AlbertRose ♪ andrew Dupont ♪ andros ♪ Annie-Xmas ♪ arachnidlove ♪ Auction Barn Messiah ♪ auntie em ♪ Bad Hat ♪ benlormat ♪ BlackKnight ♪ bouv ♪ bristlesage ♪ bugg ♪ cainxinth ♪ Cat Fight ♪ Chastain86 ♪ Cherry_Blossom_ ♪ chiefhardcrab ♪ chique ♪ ChristmasEve ♪ Chrome Spot ♪ da_pope ♪ dinahmoe ♪ Eonwe ♪ even sven ♪ FriarTed ♪ Futile Gesture ♪ hajario ♪ hardygrrl ♪ Hastur ♪ hawthorne ♪ Helena ♪ horhay_achoa ♪ IJ Grieve ♪ Jeremy’s Evil Twin ♪ Jonathan Chance ♪ Kat ♪ kunilou ♪ Kyomara ♪ lawoot ♪ Leechboy ♪ Legomancer ♪ LindyHopper ♪ Lockz ♪ longjohn ♪ lothos2002 ♪ matt_mcl ♪ mattymillhouse ♪ minty green ♪ Mr. Green Fool ♪ MsWhatsit ♪ Neidhart ♪ Nocturne Reeder ♪ Ol’Gaffer ♪ PatrickM ♪ Politzania ♪ saoirse ♪ scott evil ♪ Second Echo ♪ Sigmundex ♪ singular1 ♪ Skip on ♪ stankow ♪ stylize ♪ Sunshine ♪ Supernate ♪ tavalla ♪ tclouie ♪ The Wrong Girl ♪ ThePyroWeasel ♪ TripleAnt ♪ Ukulele Ike ♪ Usram ♪ vibrotronica ♪ vinryk ♪ waits ♪ waterj2 ♪ White Lightning ♪ -zorch ♪[/ul][/li]
4th: Past polls and Results:
After the ZZ Top poll, sometime this decade, the plan is to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them in a few threads. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & mail ‘em out to the voters who helped keep these threads going. The scrap-heap of past polls continues to grow: Johnny Cash § Cab Calloway § Dave Clark Five § Bonzo Dog Band§ Cake§ Beck (Hanson) § Jimmy Buffett § Jeff Buckley § The Byrds § Buffalo Springfield § Bush § Kate Bush § Jackson Browne § James Brown § 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 28 Results:
Tabulation Notes: Not too bad. Johnny Cash got 5X the number of votes I though he would. I’m typing this while WFUV is playing a live cover version of Eric Clapton doin “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and I must admit I’m feeling a little sick in the stomach at the moment. And what’s this? No one voted for my favorite Cash song, San Quentin? I’m stunned. The accounting department at the 6@6 corporate offices tried to be careful to not screw up the results…like they did with the Beatles “Day in The Life / A Day in the Life”…if you find any errors please report them.
Here are your Johnny Cash Selections:
1ST PLACE
Folsom Prison Blues: With 22 Votes
2ND PLACE
Ring Of Fire: With 21 Votes
3RD PLACE
I Walk The Line: With 19 Votes
4TH PLACE
A Boy Named Sue: With 8 Votes
5TH PLACE
Orange Blossom Special: With 7 Votes
6TH PLACE
Sunday Morning Coming Down: With 6 Votes
7TH PLACE
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky ¤ Jackson ¤ Man In Black: Tied With 5 Votes
8TH PLACE
Big River ¤ Cocaine Blues ¤ Tennessee Flattop Box: Tied With 4 Votes
9TH PLACE
Daddy Sang Bass ¤ Delia’s Gone ¤ Drive On ¤ Five Feet High and Rising ¤ Get Rhythm ¤ I’ve Been Everywhere: Tied With 3 Votes
10TH PLACE
25 Minutes to Go ¤ Cry Cry Cry ¤ Don’t Take Your Guns to Town ¤ Hey, Porter ¤ I Still Miss Someone ¤ Long Black Veil ¤ One Piece At A Time ¤ Peace in the Valley ¤ Rusty Cage ¤ The Wanderer (w/U2): Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
As Long As I Live ¤ Ballad of a Teenage Queen ¤ City of New Orleans ¤ Come In Stranger ¤ Girl From the North Country (w/Bob Dylan) ¤ Give My Love to Rose ¤ Guess Things Happen That Way ¤ Highwayman ¤ I Got Stripes ¤ It Ain’t Me, Babe ¤ Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea ¤ Let the Train Blow The Whistle ¤ Lorena ¤ Mercy Seat ¤ Orleans Parish Prison ¤ Personal Jesus ¤ San Quentin ¤ Solitary Man ¤ The Ballad of Ira Hayes ¤ The Devil Comes Back To Georgia (w/Mark O’Connor) ¤ The One On The Right Is On The Left ¤ Three Feet High And Rising ¤ Wanted Man ¤ Were You There… ¤ Wreck of the Old '97: All With 1 Vote Each. A lot of great tracks here! We all seem to be Without Love for Without Love (Johnny’s collaboration with Nick Lowe)
6th: Week 28’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Cab Calloway Selections:
1ST PLACE
Minnie The Moocher: With 6 Votes
2ND PLACE
St. James Infirmary: With 5 Votes
3RD PLACE
** Are You All Reet? (2 Votes for “You All Reet?”) ¤ Reefer Man**: Tied With 4 Votes
4TH PLACE
Everybody Eats When They Come to My House: With 3 Votes
5TH PLACE
Boo-Wah Boo-Wah ¤ Kickin’ the Gong Around: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
(Hep!-Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive ¤ Harlem Camp Meeting ¤ Hep Cat’s Love Song ¤ Hep to the Jive ¤ Jive ¤ Keep That Hi-De-Hi In Your Soul ¤ Nobody’s Sweetheart ¤ St. Louis Blues ¤ Stormy Weather ¤ Tarzan of Harlem: All With 1 Vote Each. A lot of titles are very similar. I hope the tally is acceptable to all who voted.
7th: Disclaimers & Tentative Schedule
Based on requests and the like: [ul][li]Week #30 will feature: The Cars as per elfkin 477’s & spit’s request with Interrobang!?’s requested Neko Case / New Pornographers supplemental poll. []Avante Garde Week #31 will feature: Captain Beefheart with a Nick Cave supplemental poll. [/li][li]Alice Week #32 will feature: Alice Cooper as per Chief’s request with * brianjedi’s requested Alice In Chains poll. [/li][li]Week #33 will feature: Cheap Trick as per Tit Whistles’s request [/li][li]Week #34 will feature: The Clash with a Collective Soul supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #35 will feature: Eric Clapton with a Tom Cochrane supplemental poll. []Week #36 will feature: Concrete Blond with a Cowboy Junkies supplemental poll. []Week #37 will feature: Elvis Costello with Skijumper’s requested Cocteau Twins supplemental poll.[] Week #38 will feature: Counting Crows as per Treviathan’s request with elfkin477’s & Treviathan’s requested Cheryl Crow supplemental poll.[]Week #39 will feature: Cream with a Creedence Clearwater Revival supplemental poll.[]Week #40 will feature: Cracker with a Camper Beethoven supplemental poll at Tit Whistle’s insistence.[]Week #41 will feature: Creed with a Crowded House supplemental poll.[]Week #42 will (maybe) feature: Crystal Method with gex gex’s requested Chemical Brothers. [/li][li]Week #43 will feature CSN(&Y) at cmkeller’s request with Labdad once again being the sole voter in his Commander Cody supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #44 will feature The Cure with a Cult supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #45 will feature Jim Croce as per Sunshine’s request with room open for a requested supplemental poll (I still refuse to mention the MOR drummer by name in hopes that no one will ask).[/ul]If you feel I’ve alphabetically passed over a band, speak up. If I don’t hear to the contrary, we’ll be in the D’s in about 3 months. [/li]
8th: Week #29’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: The Week #29’s Supplemental 6@6 Poll…J.J. Cale[/ol][/li]
9th: Week #29’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 the discography (usually) with 30 second previews of some of the tracks when you drill down through the albums: Don’t Forget To Boogie Vintage Heat Cookbook Their Greatest Hits Very Best Of Canned Heat Live At Topanga Corral Historical Figures And Ancient Heads Far Out Turning Up The Heat Straight Ahead 1967-76-Boogie House Tapes Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat Ties That Bind Gamblin Woman Hooker 'N Heat Internal Combustion Human Condition New Age Living The Blues.
This link is provided by CD Now. It’s provided to refresh your Canned Heat “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews). Feel free to post any collaborations with the late, great John Lee Hooker.
10th & Lastly: Week #29’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado…the under-rated, under-played Canned Heat.
Here are my 6 CANNED HEAT selections:
- Let’s Work Together One of their better covers
- Fried Hockey Boogie Mix the most famous blues riff (ala Boom Boom or La Grange) with Dance to the Music and this is the result
- Amphetamine Annie Speed Kiils
- Going Up The Country A great re-working of Henry Thomas’ 1928 blues classic Bulldoze Blues
- On The Road Again It gives me a chill when I hear it
- Sic ‘Em Pigs If you’re big, strong & stupid we want you. Please call 626-9180, remedial courses are available for the culturally deprived.
Damn, that was a hard one too.
Thanking you all in advance. Hope to see some of you over at the J J Cale Supplemental poll Have a great week!
