Subtitled: Week 33 1/3…Or a 3 record set for the price of a single LP
Another Monday, Another Closed Poll.
Week #32’s Poll Tallies: Alice Cooper Poll: 15 Voters / 87 Selections, Alice In Chains Headliner: 20 Voters / 114 Selections & Cheap Trick Supplemental : 13 Voters / 78 Selections.
Cross Voters: 3 Dopers (Spit, WSLer & astorian) voted in all three polls, 6 Dopers voted in two of three polls.
1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]All the Dopers who voted this week.[]13 Newcomers to the 6@6: An Arky ♪ Badtz Maru ♪ brianjedi ♪ craiger ♪ Gravity ♪ hegel ♪ Lilacs ♪ NYR407 ♪ Siemsi ♪ Skeezix ♪ spooje ♪ Swinger ♪ Zoggie ♪[]gex gex: Thanks For the correction on the Nick Cave Results. []WSLer: Your Chicago request is already slated in Week #36 (Middle of the road week) at 5 time champ’s behest. (As far as Cetera goes…Livin’ in the Limelight will have to be squeezed in with CTA).[]spit & WSLer: We’ll cover the Phil Collins in the G’s with Genesis & Peter Gabriel. (As alluded to in weeks 28-31, I put Phil’s solo work in the same shitty category as the Captain & Tenille).[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired demographic group: Socialists. Will these keywords attract the followers of Marx? Karl Marx, George Orwell, Mao, Lenin, Sorel, Castro, Guevara, ACLU, Pacifica [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:
Voting In:
[ul][li]21 Polls: astorian * Labdad *[/li][li]20 Polls: Spit *[/li][li]18 Polls: WSLer * [/li][li]17 Polls: Fish42 * [/li][li]15 Polls: elfkin477 * [/li][li]14 Polls: grendel72 * Hugh Jass * [/li][li]13 Polls: gex gex * Skijumper * [/li][li]12 Polls: Dragon Phoenix * [/li][li]11 Polls: Kevja *[/li][li]10 Polls: dead0man * RealityChuck * Tit Whistle *[/li][li]9 Polls: chief * [/li][li]7 Polls: Dryga_Yes * gallows fodder * Mudshark * Treviathan * [/li][li]6 Polls: ArchiveGuy * capybara * HenrySpencer * Mr. Blue Sky * Narrad * Sassy * thermalribbon [/li][li]5 Polls: 5 time champ * bibliophile * Interrobang!? * Newton meter * panamajack * plnnr * [/li][li]4 Polls: Corbomite * fizgig * John Carter of Mars * K364 * kawliga * Leifsmama * Ludovic * pldennison * scout1222 * tourbot * WavyDavy * [/li][li]3 Polls: Annie-Xmas * chiefhardcrab * cmkeller * essvee * galt (2X Posthumously) * hazel-rah * Legomancer * Minor Irritant * Ol’Gaffer * SisterCoyote * The Clawman * widdershins * [/li][li]2 Polls: Adam P. * angelicate * craiger * easy e * epeepunk * Fenris * gonzoron * Happy Lendervedder * Hastur * hawthorne * HoldenCaulfield * Homebrew * jolemale * Kat * Living Dead Girl * Leechbabe * Lockz * LunaSea * Manduck * Nightime * Nocturne * pepperlandgirl * Second Echo * Skeezix * spooje * Wartime Consigliori * [/li][li]1 Poll: 5-HT * Airbeck * AlbertRose * An Arky * andrew Dupont * andros * arachnidlove * Auction Barn Messiah * auntie em * Bad Hat * Badtz Maru * benlormat * BlackKnight * bouv * brianjedi * bristlesage * bugg * cainxinth * Carine * Cat Fight * Chastain86 * Cherry_Blossom_ * chique * ChristmasEve * Chrome Spot * clairobscur * Coil * da_pope * dinahmoe * Eonwe * Enginerd * Eutychus * even sven * Fibonacci * Fionn * FriarTed * ftg * Futile Gesture * G.B.H. Hornswoggler * Gravity * hajario * hardygrrl * hegel * Helena * Hello Again * horhay_achoa * Hunsecker * IcicleFuzz * IJ Grieve * Jeremy’s Evil Twin * Jonathan Chance * KarlGauss * kunilou * Kyomara * lawoot * Leechboy * Lilacs * LindyHopper * longjohn * lothos2002 * Maeglin * matt_mcl * mattymillhouse * metroshane * minty green * MoodIndigo1 * Mr. Green Fool * MsWhatsit * Mystery Dog * Neidhart * NYR407 * PatrickM * Politzania * Reeder * saoirse * scott evil * Sigmundex * singular1 * Skip on * Siemsi * stankow * stylize * Sunshine * Supernate * Swinger * tavalla * tclouie * The Wrong Girl * ThePyroWeasel * Thunder * TripleAnt * Ukulele Ike * Usram * vibrotronica * vinryk * waits * waterj2 * White Lightning * Zoggie * Zelmph(!) -zorch *[/ul][/li]
4th: Week #32’s Featured Poll Artist Results:
Tabulation Notes: Slightly more turnout than I expected…especially for Alice. As for Craiger not having a clue about his #1 Cheap Trick pick (Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace) not being mentioned by anyone else: get used to it…it happens a lot.
The accounting department at the 6@6 corporate offices tries to be as accurate as possible & not screw up the results (like they did with the Beatles “A Day in the Life”, Nick Cave’s “The Ship Song” & Sabbath’s “NIB”). If you find any errors please report them.
Here are your Alice Cooper Selections:
1ST PLACE
No More Mr. Nice Guy ¤ School’s Out: Tied With 12 Votes
2ND PLACE
Elected: With 9 Votes
3RD PLACE
I’m Eighteen: With 8 Votes
4TH PLACE
** Only Women Bleed ¤ Welcome to My Nightmare**: Tied With 5 Votes
5TH PLACE
Billion Dollar Babies ¤ Halo of Flies ¤ Poison ¤ You and Me: Tied With 3 Votes
6TH PLACE
Be My Lover ¤ Generation Landslide ¤ How You Gonna See Me Now ¤ Unfinished Sweet: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Ballad of Dwight Frye ¤ Desparado ¤ Devil’s Food ¤ Guttercat vs. the Jets ¤ Hello Hooray ¤ Hey Stoopid ¤ King Herod’s Song ¤ Lost In America ¤ Muscle of Love ¤ My Stars ¤ Refrigerator Heaven ¤ Sex, Death and Money ¤ Sick Things ¤ The Barney Song (From “Something Wilder”) ¤ Under My Wheels ¤ You Drive Me Nervous: All With 1 Vote Each. As is usually the case, some great songs made the runners up results.
5th: Week #32’s Supplemental Poll Artist Results
Here are your Alice In Chains Selections:
1ST PLACE
Would?: With 14 Votes
2ND PLACE
Man in the Box (1 Vote Specified Live): With 13 Votes
3RD PLACE
No Excuses: With 11 Votes
4TH PLACE
Rooster: With 10 Votes
5TH PLACE
Down In a Hole: With 9 Votes
6TH PLACE
Them Bones ¤ Heaven Beside You: Tied With 8 Votes
7TH PLACE
I Stay Away: With 6 Votes
8TH PLACE
Got Me Wrong: With 5 Votes
9TH PLACE
Don’t Follow ¤ We Die Young: Tied With 4 Votes
10TH PLACE
Sea of Sorrow: With 3 Votes
11TH PLACE
Angry Chair ¤ Killer Is Me ¤ Nutshell ¤ Sickman: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
Again ¤ Bleed the Freak ¤ Dam that River ¤ Dirt ¤ Get Born Again ¤ It Ain’t Like That ¤ Junkhead ¤ Over Now ¤ Rotten Apple ¤ Sunshine ¤ Whale & Wasp ¤ What the Hell Have I?: All With 1 Vote Each. Once again…some required listening!
6th: Week #32’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Cheap Trick Selections:
1ST PLACE
Surrender: With 13 Votes
2ND PLACE
I Want You To Want Me: With 9 Votes
3RD PLACE
Dream Police: With 7 Votes
4TH PLACE
Ain’t That A Shame ¤ C’mon, C’mon ¤ Don’t Be Cruel: Tied With 4 Votes
5TH PLACE
Oh Caroline ¤ She’s Tight: Tied With 3 Votes
6TH PLACE
Gonna Raise Hell ¤ If You Want My Love ¤ Just Got Back ¤ The Flame ¤ Tonight It’s You ¤ Auf Wiedersehen: Tied With 2 Votes
RUNNERS UP
** Big Eyes ¤ Born to Raise Hell (From Rock and Rule) ¤ California Man ¤ Downed ¤ Elo Kiddies ¤ Hard To Tell ¤ Hello There ¤ He’s a Whore ¤ High Rollers ¤ Hot Love ¤ Let Go ¤ On Top of the World ¤ Southern Girls ¤ Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace ¤ Standing on the Edge ¤ That 70’s Song ¤ Way of the World ¤ You Say Jump**: All With 1 Vote Each. Check out (or re-check) some of these nuggets!
7th: Tentative Schedule & Disclaimers
To wrap these polls up ASAP, there will usually be 3 polls per week:
[ol][li]Featured Poll: With results from all the previous weeks’ polls.[/li]Color Code: Blue
[li]A Headliner Poll: Complimenting the Featured artist.[/li]Color Code: Red
[li]A Supplemental Poll: When necessary.[/li]Color Code: Green[/ol]Based on requests and the like:
[li]This Week: The Clash / Elvis Costello & Collective Soul. [/li][li]Week #34: Cream / Eric Clapton & Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Jack Bruce / Graham Bond Organization. []Week #35: Concrete Blond / Cowboy Junkies & The Cocteau Twins (for Skijumper).[/li][li] Week #36: Cheryl Crow (for elfkin477 & Treviathan) / Chicago (for 5 time champ) & Jim Croce (for Sunshine).[/li][li]Week #37: Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven (for Tit Whistle).[/li][li]Week #38: Creed /Counting Crows (for Treviathan) & Crowded House.[/li][li]Week #39: Creedence Clearwater Revival / John Fogerty & Commander Cody (for Labdad).[/li][li]Week #40: CSN(&Y) (for cmkeller) / Neil Young & Stills / Manassas, Crosby / Nash & Others. []Week #41: The Cure / The Cult & The Chemical Brothers (for gex gex).[/list][/li]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 #33’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 #33’s Headliner 6@6 Poll…Elvis Costello[/ol][/li]9th: Week #33’s Supplemental Poll
(Same story as the Headliner Poll)
The Week #33’s Supplemental 6@6 Poll…Collective Soul
10th: Week #33’s Featured Poll Artist’s Discography
If your memory of the featured artist isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to their truncated discography (usually) with 30 second previews of some of the tracks when you drill down through the albums: Cut The Crap Combat Rock Sandinista! London Calling Clash Give 'em Enough Rope.
To make narrowing it down to just 6 selections that much more of a harrowing experience, not only do you have the whole Clash discography to choose from, but you also have:
B.A.D (Big Audio {Dynamite} <II>): Globe No. 10 Upping Street This Is Big Audio Dynamite
And, for the die-hards…
Joe Strummer (& The Mescaleros): Global A Go-Go Rock Art & The X-Ray Style
To contend with
Discographies are provided by CD Now. If Martin C. Strong ever gets into web publishing, we’ll switch to his site as a source. The links are provided to refresh your Clash “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews). You May include Cover Versions. If you specify Live version, it will be noted, but tallied together with the studio version of the same title.
Lastly: Week #32’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado:** The Clash**.
Here are my 6 CLASH / B.A.D selections:
- Rush (By B A D II) In hindsight, someone shoulda requested a BAD poll
- White Riot From their punk roots
- Train In Vain I think the single was subtitled Stand By Me
- London Calling My apologies to London’s Burning…not enough room
- The Magnificent Seven From Sandinista! Signifies the change in style, the change in decade & the beginning of the end
- Brand New Cadillac Let’s see if this brilliant cover version goes, once again, unmentioned
Now that was rough. Left so many on the cutting room floor here I’m wading knee deep in track titles. To make it that much more excruciating, Now I gotta go tear my hair out over in the Elvis Costello poll.
Thanking you all in advance. I hope to see some of you at the Elvis Costello and Collective Soul polls. Have a great week!