Congratulations to all the participants in last week’s music jokes quiz. Tony from Mumbling About… scored the fastest time among all the 24s.
This week you need to identify albums from 1987. The 1980s used to get a rough time from music fans, but there are lots of great records here. I’m not really a fan of INXS, Bruce Willis, or Tiffany, but The Joshua Tree is an all time favourite, and there are great records from Prince, The ‘Mats, Bruce Springsteen, and The Smiths.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Tom007/1987-albums-picture-click
I scored 24/24 in 01:52 – can you beat my time?
As soon as i saw 1987, I knew it wasn’t gonna end well. That (or maybe a few years later) may well be the outer reaches of my paying any attention at all to albums. And so, 18/24. The good news is the quiz advised me to “Please don’t let your quiz scores define you as a person.” Best advice I’ve gotten since I was told “don’t look back in anger.”
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I like 1980s quizzes as they seem like a fair middle ground for everyone. 18 seems OK, just don’t let it define you as a person.
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No I think my blog has shredded my reputation quite well, thank you very much.
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SCORE Done much better than I thought I would…most of these came back to me pretty quick.
24/24
TIMER
03:19
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23/24. The last bunch were guesses and one of them was wrong. *shrug*
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I sometimes like playing “guess the genre” with the last few. If you know one’s a hip hop album and the other’s a metal album, it’s normally pretty guessable.
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I do the same quite often myself
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Finally a perfect score! Although took my time so had 2:10 left on clock.
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and by perfect score I mean 24/24! 🙂
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Great work!
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24/24 with 6:08 remaining. Funny how you remember more than you think you do.
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Feasting on points like Steven Smith (although he calls them runs……)
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Indeed Graham. If I was as good at quizzes as Mr Smith is at batting…
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He’s getting a little ridiculous. I think the Black Caps will struggle in Australia – we don’t have the right bowling attack to cause problems.
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22/24 with 06:18 remaining.The ones I missed I didn’t recognize from the artwork
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Good work!
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22/24 as I went too fast and accidentally clicked on the one next to the right answer not once…but twice!!!
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My maths teacher used to tell me that haste makes waste. 22 is still very good!
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I agree with that statement…I don’t follow it, but I agree with it.
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The faster you go…. the bigger the mess.
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24/24 with 06:16 on the clock. Lot of good albums in there… not a bad year for music
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Yup, and it generally covers the best-known and best-selling stuff.
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I knew this would be an easy one for me, since I was working at my third record store in 1987 and knew pretty much every popular album of that era. I’m more proud of the fact that my 53-year-old brain actually remembered them all. My score was 24/24 with 6:45 left on the clock.
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Unfair advantage! Great work, seems like a very fast time. I guess it would be easier to remember covers in the LP era when they were nice and big.
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It was a joy to work at record stores during the pre-CD era. I made it a point to browse through all the bins each day, so I was aware of just about every release in every genre. Since I worked at three stores between 1983 & 1988, I watched the transition into CDs, when they were still packaged in long-boxes (mainly because two of those side-by-side took up the same space as a single LP, therefore allowing shops to utilize existing displays). I used to have an entire wall of my apartment, where I lived for nearly 16 years, covered top-to-bottom in CD long-boxes. It was quite the conversation piece.
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I have a couple of long boxes that were collector items – Pink Floyd’s live Wall and R.E.M.’s Up. I’ve never really seen long boxes in discount racks though.
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23 – and I think I have about half of them in the collection. Only one of the Bruces so far, though!
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I only have one of the Bruces too – imagine it’s the same as yours.
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Though I do have the other Bruce on a couple of Die Hard DVDs!
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