Subject: Poll Results
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:04:33 -0500 (EST)
From: HOWGAIN@aol.com
Hi,
Here are the results and a few quick notes. When asking for multiple
responses I gave 3 points for 1st choice, 2pts. for 2nd choice and 1 for 3rd
etc. If pollsters only listed one choice instead of 3, I gave them 3 points
(as it would have been their 1st choice had they listed 3). I know that's
confusing, try not to think about it. I only listed the point totals when I
thought it was important, otherwise I used my cute little symbols. I hope you
all enjoy the results, thanks again.
($) = Huge Winner (nothing else was even close)
(!) = Big Winner (at least double the number of votes of anything else in
that catogory).
(*) = Squeeker (won by a nose)
FAVORITE STUDIO ALBUM
1. Squeezing Out Sparks (!) 28pts
2. Howling Wind/Mona Lisa's Sister 13pts
3. Heat Treatment/Struck By Lightning 12pts
Honerable Mention: Stick to Me
LEAST FAVORITE STUDIO ALBUM
1. Another Grey Area 22pts
2. Steady Nerves 18pts
3. The Real Macaw 13pts
Dis-Honerable Mention: The Up Escalator, 12 Haunted Episodes
FAVORITE ALBUM TRACK
1. You Can't Be Too Strong
2. Local Girls
3. Thunder and Rain
4. Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions/Nobody Hurts You
5. Pourin' It all Out
LEAST FAVORITE ALBUM TRACK
1. Big Fat Zero
2. (Too Late) The Smart Bomb/Milk Train
3. Long Stem Rose
4. The Heat in Harlem
5. Black Lincoln Continental
FAVORITE LIVE ALBUM
1. The Last Rock-n-Roll Tour 18pts.
2. Live Alone Discovering Japan 12pts.
HM: Live At The Marble Arch, Live in NY
LEAST FAVORITE LIVE ALBUM
1. The Parkerilla 12pts
2. Live on the Test 10pts
FAVORITE NON-LP TRACK
1. Mercury Poisoning ($)
2. I Want You Back (Alive)
HM: Gonna Use it Now
LEAST FAVORITE NON-LP TRACK
1. Bricks and Mortar/Women in Charge
2. Substitute
FAVORITE BOOTLEG
1. Blue Highways
2. Energetic
FAVORITE COVER ART
1. Squeezing Out Sparks/The Mona Lisa's Sister
2. Heat Treatment, The Up Escalator, Struck By Lightning, Live Alone in
America
BEST PERFORMANCE PERSONALLY ATTENDED
As I said in an earlier post, getting the same response twice, was not
expected with this question. I will address it further in a future post to
the list. Until then I broke it down by year:
1. 1979 with the Rumour (5 people listed concerts from Boston, Long Island,
Hartford, Stolkholm and Brisbane)
2. 1996 (1 solo in NJ and 3 with the Figgs in SF, Seattle and NY)
HOWLING WIND
Favorite:
1. Don't Ask Me Questions (*)
2. Howlin Wind
HM: Between You & Me
Least:
1. Lady Doctor ($)
DHM: Not if it Pleases Me, Silly Thing, Don't Ask Me Questions
HEAT TREATMENT
Fave:
1. Fools Gold (*)
2. Pourin' it All Out
HM: That's What They All Say
Least:
1. Help Me Shake It (!)
2. Something You're Going Through
STICK TO ME
Fave
1.Stick to Me
2. Thunder & Rain
HM: Soul on Ice, Watch the Moon Come Down
Least
1. The Heat in Harlem (!)
2. Clear Head
DHM: The Raid
SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
Fave:
1. Local Girls (*)
2. Discovering Japan, You Can't Be Too Strong, Passion is No Ordinary Word
HM: Apparently just about everything else!!!
Least:
1. Waiting for the UFO's (!)
2. Saturday Night is Dead
THE UP ESCALATOR
Fave:
1. Stupefaction
2. Empty Lives
HM: Love Without Greed
Least:
1. Paralyzed, Manuevers, The Beating of Another Heart, Jolie Jolie.
2. Endless Night
ANOTHER GREY AREA
Fave:
1. Temporary Beauty ($)
2. Another Grey Area, No More Excuses
HM: Can't Waste a Minute
Least:
1. Big Fat Zero
2. Thankless Task
THE REAL MACAW
Fave:
1. Life Gets Better (*)
2. Glass Jaw
HM: Can't Take Love For Granted
Least:
1. (Too Late) The Smart Bomb ($)
2. Last Couple on the Dance Floor
STEADY NERVES
Fave:
1. Mighty Rivers/Wake Up Next To You
2. Take Everything
HM: Break Them Down
Least:
1. Black Lincoln Continental/The Weekends Too Short
2. When You Do That To Me
THE MONA LISA'S SISTER
Fave:
1. Get Started Start a Fire
2. Back in Time
HM: Don't Let it Break You Down, OK Heironymus, I Don't Know
Least:
1. Cupid
2. The Girl Isn't Ready
HUMAN SOUL
Fave:
1. My Love's Strong (!)
2. Big Man on Paper, You Got The World Right Where You Want It
Least:
1. Sugar Gives You Energy (*)
2. Call Me Your Doctor, Soultime
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Fave:
1. The Kid With The Butterfly Net (*)
2. Brand New Book, The Sun is Gonna Shine again
Least:
1. Children and Dogs (!)
2. When I was King
BURNING QUESTIONS
Fave:
1. Long Stem Rose(*)
2. Here it Comes Again
HM: Love is a Burning Question, Short Memories
Least:
1. Long Stem Rose/Oasis
12 HAUNTED EPISODES
Fave:
1. Disney's America (*)
2. Force of Nature
Least:
1. Loverman (*)
2. Pollinate
DHM: Honest Work
ACID BUBBLEGUM
Fave:
1. Sharpening Axes/Impenetrable/Obsessed with Aretha
Least:
1. Milk Train (!)
2. Bubblegum Cancer, Get Over it and Move On
GP CONCERTS'
Most Attended: Shapnet 15-20
Other Loonies: Howgain 15, Roxanne Penczak 12, Wild Bill 12.
GP WAS AT HIS BEST IN:
1979 According to most respondents, however; always, keeps getting better and
better, at every stage and 1998 were close second.
Thanks,
Danny