Subtitled: A Squid Eating Dough in a Polyethylene Bag is Fast and Bulbous…Got Me?
Another Monday, Another Closed Poll. Last Week’s Cars Poll Tally: 25 Voters / 142 Selections, which garnered more feedback than Week 30’s Neko Case / New Pornographers Supplemental Poll with: 6 Voters / 26 Selections. Factoid of the Week: Only 1 voter (* Interrobang!?*) voted in both polls.
On To Business:
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]All the Dopers who voted this week. []ftg ♪ metroshane ♪ MoodIndigo1 ♪ Mystery Dog ♪ Thunder ♪ Zelmph(!): Newcomers all to the 6@6. []Corbomite: Thanks again for the kind words. []** 5 time champ**: Psst, if you don’t tell my employers I compile on the clock, I won’t[]Metroshane: I won’t tell your buddy Elliot Easton you could only come up with 5 songs from his bands fairly large catalog5 time champ: Whose Chicago (Transit Authority) poll will run in the M.O.R. poll in Week #36.[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired demographic group: Readers of Underground Newspapers. Will these names attract subscribers of thew underground press? AAPA, About Face, Alternate Society, Ann Arbor Sun, Astral Projection,
Berkeley Monitor, Black Panther, Boston Free Press, Bugle American, The Call, Corpus, Druid Free Press, Eyes Left, Faculty Peace News, Florida Free Press, Grass Roots Forum, Guardian, Guerilla, Gulf Coast Fish Cheer [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 19 Polls: Labdad ♪[/li]
[li]Voting In 18 Polls: astorian ♪ [/li]
[li] In 17 Polls: Spit ♪[/li]
[li] In 15 Polls: WSLer ♪ [/li]
[li] In 14 Polls: grendel72 ♪ [/li]
[li] In 13 Polls: elfkin477 ♪ Fish42 ♪ Hugh Jass ♪ [/li]
[li] In 12 Polls: gex gex. ♪ [/li]
[li] In 11 Polls: Skijumper ♪ [/li]
[li] In 10 Polls: Dragon Phoenix ♪ dead0man ♪ [/li]
[li] In 9 Polls: chief ♪ Kevja ♪ [/li]
[li] In 8 Polls: RealityChuck (1x posthumously) ♪ [/li]
[li] In 7 Polls: Mudshark ♪ Treviathan ♪ [/li]
[li] In 6 Polls: ArchiveGuy ♪ capybara ♪ Dryga_Yes ♪ Mr. Blue Sky ♪ Tit Whistle ♪ [/li]
[li] In 5 Polls: 5 time champ ♪ Interrobang!? ♪ Narrad ♪ Newton meter ♪ plnnr ♪ Sassy ♪ thermalribbon ♪ [/li]
[li] In 4 Polls: bibliophile ♪ Corbomite ♪ gallows fodder ♪ John Carter of Mars ♪ K364 ♪ kawliga ♪ Leifsmama ♪ Ludovic ♪ pldennison ♪ tourbot ♪ WavyDavy ♪ [/li]
[li] In 3 Polls: chiefhardcrab ♪ cmkeller ♪ essvee ♪ galt (2X Posthumously) ♪ hazel-rah ♪ Minor Irritant ♪ panamajack ♪ scout1222 ♪ widdershins ♪ [/li]
[li] In 2 Polls: angelicate ♪ easy e ♪ epeepunk ♪ Fenris ♪ fizgig ♪ gonzoron ♪ Happy Lendervedder ♪ HenrySpencer ♪ HoldenCaulfield ♪ Homebrew ♪ jolemale ♪ Kat ♪ Living Dead Girl ♪ Leechbabe ♪ Legomancer ♪ LunaSea ♪ Manduck ♪ Ol’Gaffer ♪ pepperlandgirl ♪ SisterCoyote ♪ The Clawman ♪ Wartime Consigliori ♪ [/li]
[li] 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 ♪ ftg ♪ Futile Gesture ♪ hajario ♪ hardygrrl ♪ Hastur ♪ hawthorne ♪ Helena ♪ horhay_achoa ♪ IJ Grieve ♪ Jeremy’s Evil Twin ♪ Jonathan Chance ♪ kunilou ♪ Kyomara ♪ lawoot ♪ Leechboy ♪ LindyHopper ♪ Lockz ♪ longjohn ♪ lothos2002 ♪ matt_mcl ♪ mattymillhouse ♪ metroshane ♪ minty green ♪ MoodIndigo1 ♪ Mr. Green Fool ♪ MsWhatsit ♪ Mystery Dog ♪ Neidhart ♪ Nocturne Reeder ♪ PatrickM ♪ Politzania ♪ saoirse ♪ scott evil ♪ Second Echo ♪ Sigmundex ♪ singular1 ♪ Skip on ♪ stankow ♪ stylize ♪ Sunshine ♪ Supernate ♪ tavalla ♪ tclouie ♪ The Wrong Girl ♪ ThePyroWeasel ♪ Thunder ♪ TripleAnt ♪ Ukulele Ike ♪ Usram ♪ vibrotronica ♪ vinryk ♪ waits ♪ waterj2 ♪ White Lightning ♪ -zorch ♪ Zelmph(!) ♪[/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: The Cars § Neko Case / New Pornographers § 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 30 Results:
Tabulation Notes: A lot more Cars votes than I would have guessed. The results, in my opinion, are a little troubling. This is the first instance I can recall where those damned FM radio program directors and demo researchers seem to have their fingers on the pulse of what listeners like. Usually, these polls seem to include a lot of tracks that you rarely if ever hear on the airwaves. The Cars results ran contrary to that rule. All the songs with the most votes are still in heavy rotation and all the runners up have been forgotten in time. 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 Cars Selections:
1ST PLACE
Just What I Needed: With 16 Votes
2ND PLACE
My Best Friend’s Girl (Check out the Alt / Demo version): With 14 Votes
3RD PLACE
Drive ¤ You Might Think: Tied With 11 Votes
4TH PLACE
Good Times Roll (5 voters entitled it Let The…) ¤ You’re All I Got Tonight: Tied With 10 Votes
5TH PLACE
Let’s Go: With 9 Votes
6TH PLACE
Magic ¤ Shake It Up: Tied With 8 Votes
7TH PLACE
Candy-O (1 vote specified w/the Shoo Be Doo Intro): With 7 Votes
8TH PLACE
Moving in Stereo ¤ Since You’re Gone: Tied With 6 Votes
9TH PLACE
Bye Bye Love ¤ Tonight She Comes: Tied With 4 Votes
10TH PLACE
Dangerous Type ¤ Hello Again ¤ Touch And Go: Tied With 3 Votes
11TH PLACE
All Mixed Up: With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Down Boys ¤ Got A Lot On My Head ¤ I’m Not the One ¤ It’s Not the Night ¤ Stay The Night (Ben Orr solo) ¤ The Little Black Egg ¤ Think It Over: All With 1 Vote Each. Some good stuff here! As is now a regular occurrence, my favorite track showed up here.
6th: Week 30’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Neko Case / New Pornographers Selections:
1ST PLACE
Deep Red Bells ¤ I Wish I Was the Moon: Tied With 3 Votes
2ND PLACE
Furnace Room Lullaby ¤ Twist the Knife: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Blacklisted ¤ Bowling Green ¤ Favorite ¤ Ghost Writing ¤ Honky Tonk Hiccups ¤ Letter from an Occupant (New Pornographers) ¤ Make Your Bed ¤ Misfire ¤ Mood to Burn Bridges ¤ No Need to Cry ¤ Stinging Velvet ¤ Thanks A Lot ¤ Things That Scare Me ¤ Thrice All American ¤ Whip the Blankets: All With 1 Vote Each. Make your CD purchase choices accordingly.
7th: Newly Revamped Tentative Schedule & Disclaimers
In an attempt to wrap these polls up before (God forbid) I turn 40 and due to the large quantity or requested polls, there will now be 3 polls per week:
[ol][li]A Featured Poll: Which will have the main band poll and results from all the previous week’s polls. Color Code: Blue[/li][li]A Headliner Poll: A band whose genre / style compliments the Featured poll artist and is alphabetically consistent or an offshoot band poll from the featured artist. Color Code: Red[/li][li]A Supplemental Poll: When necessary. Usually a “minor” band who isn’t all that popular or influential but nonetheless was requested. Hopefully I can match up styles and genres as well as the alphabet will allow, or, at a minimum, get close on a generational / time period level. Color Code: Green[/ol] [/li]Based on requests and the like:
[ul][li]This Week features: Captain Beefheart with a Nick Cave headliner poll and a Leonard Cohen supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #32 features: Alice Cooper as per chief with brianjedi’s Alice In Chains headliner poll & Tit Whistles’s Cheap Trick supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #33 features: The Clash with an Elvis Costello headliner poll & a Collective Soul supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #34 features: Cream with a Eric Clapton headliner poll & a Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Jack Bruce / Graham Bond Organization supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #35 features: Concrete Blond with a Cowboy Junkies headliner poll & Skijumper’s Cocteau Twins supplemental poll.[/li][li] Week #36 features: Cheryl Crow as per elfkin477 & Treviathan with 5 time champ’s Chicago headliner poll and Sunshine’s Jim Croce supplemental poll. (Subtitled the M.O.R. week)[/li][li]Week #37 features: Cracker with Tit Whistle’s Camper Van Beethoven headliner poll.[/li][li]Week #38 features: Creed with Treviathan’s Counting Crows headliner poll & a Crowded House supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #39 features: Creedence Clearwater Revival with a John Fogerty headliner poll & Labdad’s Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #40 features: CSN(&Y) as per cmkeller with a Neil Young headliner poll and a Stills / Manassas, Crosby / Nash & Other offshoot projects supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #41 features: The Cure with a Cult headliner poll & gex gex’s Chemical Brothers supplemental poll.[/ul][/li]A little re-organization, added a few offshoots and saved a month in the process. 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 by the end of January 2003.
8th: Week #31’s Headliner Poll (In another, as yet unknown, thread)
I can’t provide a link to it because the featured poll and results get posted first. 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 #31’s Headliner 6@6 Poll…Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds[/ol][/li]
9th: Week #31’s Supplemental Poll
(Same story as the Headliner Poll)
The Week #31’s Supplemental 6@6 Poll…Leonard Cohen
10th: Week #31’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: Dust Sucker Mirror Man Sessions Grow Fins-Rarities 1965-82 Dust Blows Forward-Anthology Safe As Milk Mirror Man Bongo Fury Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot Trout Mask Replica Strictly Personal Safe As Milk. This link is provided by CD Now. It’s provided to refresh your Beefheart “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews).
Lastly: Week #31’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado…the man who brought you Antenna Jimmy Semens, Rocket Morton & Zoot Horn Rollo: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
Here are my 6 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART selections:
- Lick My Decals Off Baby
- Old Fart At Play
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Abba Zabba
- The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)
- Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
Thanking you all in advance. The question I’m dying to know: Will anyone at all vote this week in any of the 3 polls. Is obscurity in the eye of the beholder? I hope to see someone at the Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen polls. Have a great week!