Subtitled: #30…The Poll’s Pearl Anniversary…But this isn’t the Janis Joplin Poll.
Another Tueday, Another Closed Poll. Sorry for the delay…was on an extended golf outing down in VA…I strongly recommend a round at either Kiskiack or StoneHouse if you’re ever in the Williamsburg area.
Last Week’s Canned Heat Poll Tally: 8 Voters / 45 Selections, which garnered more feedback than Week 29’s J J Cale Supplemental Poll with: 7 Voters / 39 Selections.
Factoid of the Week: 4 voters (Hugh Jass, Labdad, Sassy & Spit) voted in both polls.
On To Business:
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]All the Dopers who voted this week. []** ArchiveGuy ♪ John Carter of Mars ♪ Interrobang!? ♪ Corbomite**: Thank you all for the kind words. []Interrobang!?: Regarding your David Byrne Request: I was THINKING of having a separate, combination Gerry Harrison, David Byrne, Tom Tom Club Supplemental poll that runs the same week as the Talking Heads Poll (sometime in the year 2004 at this rate)…If you think that’s a crappy idea and want to do a separate Byrne poll, just say so. []Corbomite: Whose Mungo Jerry Poll request may run in the combination Dave Van Ronk and other assorted Jug Bands poll sometime in the future.[]elfkin 477 & spit: Whose Cars request is the Featured poll of the week. Interrobang!?: Whose Neko Case / New Pornographers request is our Supplemental poll of the week.[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired demographic group: Bean town Residents. Will these keywords attract residents of the Bay State? Bubblah, jimmies, pissah, retahded, shewah, popcahn, flahwiz, Beantown, Bosstown, Ultimate Spinach, Red Sox, “Yankees Suck, Jeter Blows” [sub]Warning: Cheap search gimmick employed above[/sub]
3rd: Increase the Hit Count
Announcement: The “SDMB Musicologist Crown” has changed hands. It took 30 weeks, but Labdad finally surpassed astorian in the number of votes placed. Spit & WSLer are working their way up swiftly and are within range of taking the title.
The Voters, Past & Present List – Designed for those who do vanity searches: [ul][li]Voting In 18 Polls: Labdad ♪[/li]
[li]Voting In 17 Polls: astorian ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 16 Polls: Spit ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 14 Polls: WSLer ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 13 Polls: grendel72 ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 12 Polls: elfkin477 ♪ Fish42 ♪ Hugh Jass ♪[/li]
[li]Voting In 11 Polls: gex gex. ♪ Skijumper ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 10 Polls: Dragon Phoenix ♪ dead0man ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 9 Polls: chief ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 8 Polls: Kevja ♪ RealityChuck (1x posthumously) ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 7 Polls: 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 ♪ Sassy ♪ thermalribbon ♪ Tit Whistle ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ ♪ bibliophile ♪ John Carter of Mars ♪ K364 ♪ kawliga ♪ Leifsmama ♪ pldennison ♪ tourbot ♪ WavyDavy ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 3 Polls: Corbomite ♪ essvee ♪ gallows fodder ♪ galt (2X Posthumously) ♪ hazel-rah ♪ Interrobang!? ♪ Ludovic ♪ Minor Irritant ♪ scout1222 ♪ widdershins ♪ [/li]
[li]Voting In 2 Polls: angelicate ♪ chiefhardcrab ♪ cmkeller ♪ 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_ ♪ 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: Canned Heat § J J Cale § 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 29 Results:
Tabulation Notes: Call it a breeze, a lot of similar votes and not a huge tally. But both polls had a lot more responses than I woulda thunk. 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 Canned Heat Selections:
1ST PLACE
Goin’ Up the Country: With 8 Votes
2ND PLACE
Let’s Work Together ¤ On The Road Again: Tied With 7 Votes
3RD PLACE
Amphetamine Annie: With 6 Votes
4TH PLACE
Rollin’ and Tumblin’: With 4 Votes
5TH PLACE
Bullfrog Blues ¤ Fried Hockey Boogie ¤ Time Was: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Boogie Music ¤ Can I Come Home? (From the “Newer Line-Up”) ¤ I’m Her Man ¤ Long Way from L.A. ¤ Same All Over ¤ Sic ‘Em Pigs ¤ So Long Wrong: All With 1 Vote Each. A lot of great stuff here! As is usually the case, my favorite track, as well as a few I’ve never heard, showed up here.
6th: Week 29’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your J J Cale Selections:
1ST PLACE
Cocaine: With 7 Votes
2ND PLACE
After Midnight: With 6 Votes
3RD PLACE
Call Me The Breeze: With 5 Votes
4TH PLACE
Cajun Moon ¤ Crazy Mama ¤ Magnolia: Tied With 4 Votes
5TH PLACE
Mama Don’t: With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Devil in Disguise ¤ Don’t Cry Sister ¤ I’ll Make Love To You Anytime ¤ Money Talks ¤ Rock And Roll Records ¤ Sensitive Kind ¤ Thirteen Days: 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]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’s 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 (It’s now official: There will NOT be a Phil Collins poll…You’ll have to wait for Genesis).[/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 #30’s Supplemental 6@6 Poll…Neko Case / Maow / Weasles / New Pornographers[/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: Complete Greatest Hits Door To Door Heartbeat City Shake It Up Panorama Candy-O Cars.
This link is provided by CD Now. It’s provided to refresh your Cars “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews). Feel free to post any solo projects material by Ric Ocasek.
10th & Lastly: Week #29’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado…the band who headlined the 3rd concert I ever saw and was abruptly thrown out of…The Cars.
Here are my 6 CARS selections:
- Let’s Go
- Just What I Needed
- My Best Friend’s Girl
- Touch And Go
- Candy-O (With the Mandatory Shoo Be Doo Introduction)
- Got A Lot On My Head
Thanking you all in advance. I’m sure to see at least one of you over at the Neko Case Supplemental poll Have a great week!
