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?
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.
Yeah, Macarena was the one I racked my brains and couldn’t get as well. 14 is the highest so far.
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.
It’s OK, because I don’t even know what cromulent means. And Chrome spellcheck doesn’t recognise it.
It doesn’t appear to be complimentary.
Google wants to change it to corpulent, which isn’t a good sign.
Further research reveals an interesting saga:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean
That’s hilarious!
Simpsons, eh?
Maybe you should use it in your next novel?
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.
My 14 looks humble next to Tony’s 18.
Well, I got 9 of them. I recognised most of the song titles, though.
But, Blind Melon’s on there! C’mon!
I think Blind Melon were probably a stronger album artist than most of the others.
Definitely, yeah – that tune isn’t even their best… and I’m pretty sure they had another that was fairly popular (?).
Is this the Bee Girl tune or was that another?
That’s the one, yeah.
And The Verve
Lots of the Urban Hymns songs got radio play in NZ.
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.
We had Drugs Don’t Work, Sonnet, and Lucky Man. Never heard anything from their other records though.
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.
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.
I’ve always loved The drugs don’t work but never heard it on the radio. Amazing the differences of radio playlists worldwide.
Whoomp… 18/20. Never heard of Tootsee Roll or a Cataloop Flip but this was right up my pub quiz alley!
Wow that’s a tough benchmark score – I don’t know those two names either.
17 – I’m with Tony & I could sing along with Walking in Memphis but the name of the singer escaped me!
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!
You’ll have a little bit of Mary running through your head all night long.
And Monica and …. and ….
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…
I listened to that song recently, which is why I knew it.
17/20. But only because I inexplicably have a lot of 90s compilations in my music library.
And that’s a great score!
Now That’s What I Call Music 12?
Only 12/20. I knew some of the songs I didn’t answer, but couldn’t come up with the artist
12 is a solid score for that quiz – it was tough.
Way to butter up your audience!!
I was feeling bad because I missed your comment the first time.