Welcome to week 4 of the Music Decades Challenge. Of the contestants who’ve completed all 3 challenges so far, the leaders in average score are:
| Badfinger | 56% |
| Paul | 62% |
| J | 62% |
| Bruce | 68% |
| jprobichaud | 74% |
| Rich K | 78% |
| 2loud2oldmusic | 79% |
| Jim S | 79% |
| Angie | 93% |
| Tony | 97% |
If you missed a week or two, and want to catch up, you can find the previous weeks’ quizzes at https://albumreviews.blog/category/sporcle/
This week’s challenge is set in the 1970s – you need to name some acts from their unsuccessful singles.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/yippeeyappee/70s_hits_n
I scored 44/60, which was a decent way ahead of the Sporcle average, but I’m sure my score will be overhauled. If you want more 1970s quiz action, head over to Vinyl Connection’s album covers quiz.
Although the ’70’s are a decade I recall (to the extent that I do at all) with some fondness, alas my personal road to perdition continues. 50/60. I have never in my life heard of the following songs: Bus Rider, School, Strutter, The Six-Teens, Beautiful Noise, The Stake, Rasputin, Gonna Raise Hell. I knew Airport but not the band and Nice Legs, Shame About Her Face is a great if totally sexist title. I got Bye Bye Love at the last minute once I got the stupid ’50s song out of my head. Sometimes I randomly guessed bands and that worked. See the man with stage fright, indeed.
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You don’t know Rasputin? Lucky! I couldn’t remember the band for Airport either.
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Those Russians!
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31/60, or 52% This one was hard. Once I saw the band names I was like oh, but I didn’t know a lot of those songs.
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Guessing famous 1970s bands was probably a good strategy for this quiz – lesser known songs by famous bands.
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I’m slightly disappointed with my performance this week considering the ’70s was my formative decade. I “only” got 52/60. All 52 came very easily and then I was completely stumped. In looking at the ones I missed, I should have gotten 2 others. Bring on the ’80s. Those were my high school & college years so I should be primed for that quiz.
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52 is a really good score – my 44 was a long way ahead of the Sporcle average. 1980s is still two weeks away – 1990s next week.
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32 for me. I found that one very difficult, as there were a lot of songs that I had never heard of even when I was pretty familiar with the artist.
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SCORE
59/60
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TIMER
This was more in my wheelhouse… The 2000’s brought me way down….
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Boom!
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That should bring that 56 up… There was one I didn’t know…I’m not going to mention it in case someone tomorrow will take it…I’m going to look it up now.
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Impressive!
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Thanks! If it goes past the 1980s I’m in trouble lol.
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Was counting on this one and did manage to make up some ground: 56.
A couple were totally perplexing and a couple more were frantic typing in the last two minutes to see if anything stuck!
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Great effort – 56 is a great score!
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Bye Bye Love?
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It’s going to have to tide me over some lean decades. 😉
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bad week for me. It looks like i will be dropping down the list. 29/60.
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You were doing very well, so hopefully you’re still in the running.
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48 this week. Some I knew but then I started getting desperate and just threw band and artist names from the era in and got a surprising amount from that
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Glad you didn’t score too high, for the sake of the competition. I think that quiz would have been better if you couldn’t just guess randomly – I got a couple doing that too.
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40 of 60. Got a bunch of them then resorted to trying to remember random groups that were big in the 70s and get a number that way. Nailed one in the last 3 seconds.
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Good effort! i was just thinking about you as have been reading up about Steve Van Zandt for tomorrow’s article (which doesn’t actually mention Steve Van Zandt, but he’s certainly connected).
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Ok well now I’m intrigued. Will look forward to it. Does it have to do with an album that was released today?
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Nope, I haven’t kept up with Springsteen very well – although I hear his latest is his best in quite a while. The links a bit more oblique – I profiled a 1980 album that inspired Van Zandt, specifically the closing track.
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Looking forward to reading it!
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35/60. Maybe I should’ve left it alone…
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But you’re up on the scoreboard for the coming week, which is good.
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