Music Quiz: One Hit Wonders of the 1990s
No-one scored full marks last week, but we had three contenders who fell agonisingly close at 17/18. Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, Tony, and Paul!
This week you need to identify the artist behind some 1990s one-hit wonders.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/onehitwonder90
I scored 14/20 – can you beat my score?
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Graham Fyfe is fascinated by pop music, and he may be the only blogger in the world to cover Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande.
I joined you in the 14/20 club this week. So close to getting the Macarena guys. Well, I had the “Los” part but that was as far as I got. Does that mean I actually scored 14-1/3? Probably not. Another fun quiz. Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah, Macarena was the one I racked my brains and couldn’t get as well. 14 is the highest so far.
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So pathetic I won’t even say. The response to my results said, “A perfectly cromulent score.” Interestingly, I knew 13 songs but I did not know who did the majority of them. Shame on me for not getting the ‘Tubthumping’ band. All I can say is you’re never gonna keep me down.
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It’s OK, because I don’t even know what cromulent means. And Chrome spellcheck doesn’t recognise it.
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It doesn’t appear to be complimentary.
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Google wants to change it to corpulent, which isn’t a good sign.
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Further research reveals an interesting saga:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean
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That’s hilarious!
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Simpsons, eh?
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Maybe you should use it in your next novel?
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14/20 is impressive! I’m pretty sure I’d recognize most of the tunes from my school days but I wouldn’t be able to place the artist’s names aside from 2-3 on the list.
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My 14 looks humble next to Tony’s 18.
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Well, I got 9 of them. I recognised most of the song titles, though.
But, Blind Melon’s on there! C’mon!
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I think Blind Melon were probably a stronger album artist than most of the others.
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Definitely, yeah – that tune isn’t even their best… and I’m pretty sure they had another that was fairly popular (?).
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Is this the Bee Girl tune or was that another?
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That’s the one, yeah.
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And The Verve
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Lots of the Urban Hymns songs got radio play in NZ.
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There was definitely more to The Verve than just the one song. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much the only one that got play on commercial radio in North America.
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We had Drugs Don’t Work, Sonnet, and Lucky Man. Never heard anything from their other records though.
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We had Lucky Man and Sonnet on the alternative radio station. But that’s it. I remember seeing the video for Slide away on an alternative music video show.
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Yeah – that’s ludicrous. That’s not even the tune radio here plays most often! It’s usually Lucky Man or Drugs Don’t Work.
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I’ve always loved The drugs don’t work but never heard it on the radio. Amazing the differences of radio playlists worldwide.
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Whoomp… 18/20. Never heard of Tootsee Roll or a Cataloop Flip but this was right up my pub quiz alley!
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Wow that’s a tough benchmark score – I don’t know those two names either.
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17 – I’m with Tony & I could sing along with Walking in Memphis but the name of the singer escaped me!
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OK I knew my time at the top would most likely be short lived, but talk about a fall off the cliff avalanche – 4 of 20 – hey I could hum most of the tunes! But getting the old memory to gear up for songs 30 years ago was just too much today. I’d say I recognized about 7 additional artists and the others – that’s why they were one hit wonders, I guess. And of course now I have I’m Too Sexy, Macarena, and Mambo #5 running through my brain, so thanks for that!
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You’ll have a little bit of Mary running through your head all night long.
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And Monica and …. and ….
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SCORE
9/20
I got the “walking” one in the last few seconds…the guy just popped in my head. I got more than I thought I would. I always liked Lullaby…
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I listened to that song recently, which is why I knew it.
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17/20. But only because I inexplicably have a lot of 90s compilations in my music library.
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And that’s a great score!
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Now That’s What I Call Music 12?
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Only 12/20. I knew some of the songs I didn’t answer, but couldn’t come up with the artist
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12 is a solid score for that quiz – it was tough.
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Way to butter up your audience!!
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I was feeling bad because I missed your comment the first time.
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