Music Quiz: Artist by Popular Spotify Songs VI

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1. Ooh, a slightly tougher one this week, but I’m proud of my 18/20 score. I missed the recent multi-Grammy-winning female artist and the group of legumes. No amount of staring at the song titles & album covers was going to help me with those.
   I hope the virus stays contained in your homeland, and you & your loved ones stay safe & healthy.

   • Good work!
     New Zealand’s a good place to be in a pandemic really – we’re a bit more isolated than most places, and almost all of our cases have been people coming back and then getting sick. Officials expect a lot of cases over the next 10 days, then for it to hopefully flatten off.

2. 18/20, missed the rapper. And they threw a classical one in? And I knew it? I like classical but hardly my forte. Well, doesn’t matter. I ain’t winning this contest any time soon.

   • To be fair, that classical composer is a good answer to the question “name a classical composer”. There have been a few 18s so far this week.

     • Heh! Go ahead. Name one classical composer. I dare ya

       • Mozart and Bach are the other most famous ones, I think.

         • And Jeff Lynne!

3. 20/20 with mere seconds to spare.
   We’re not in lockdown yet here in Canada but it may come to that because people are not doing their part to “socially distance”. I think a lot people are getting bored out there. I’ve seen a huge spike in hits to my blog.

   • Only 20 so far this week.
     We had a few days where we were on a lower alert level, and people didn’t really listen – plus everyone went to the shops at once to panic buy. Seems a lot better now that we’re at the highest alert level and it’s a national emergency.
     I’ve generally had a big uptick in visitors this year, and another big uptick at the start of March. I’m assuming some is fundamental growth and some is coronavirus.

4. 18 – need to brush up on my classical composers & numeric classic rock bands!

   • Some projects for shutdown?

     • Not a bad idea!

5. ok 15 of 20 so a bit of a slide this week – I must say the wide genre variety threw me a bit. And a bit of a protest on the classical one – was not thinking of the composer so didnt even try there (of course not a big classical guy so that was probably a lost cause anyway).
   Hope NZ can keep coronavirus under control – 28 day lockdown sounds like way to go if you can pull it off. Over here apparently the virus is going to disappear and a miracle is going to happen by Easter so I guess nothing to worry about – NOT.

   • Classical music always has a weird filing thing where you can file by composer or by artist (which could be the conductor or the orchestra).
     Some people in your country seem pretty convinced coronavirus will die down when it warms up, but it seems to be spreading in Australia in March (although I suspect the heat might slow transmission down a little bit?).

     • Yes there is that hope that it will be a seasonal thing so maybe will start dying down – but right now NYC is starting to approach situation in Italy so question is how bad will it get til it gets warmer. It’s just very frustrating that we don’t have the leadership I feel we need from our leaders at the national level

       • https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1242446477378686976

6. SCORE
   18/20
   The rap stuff I usually miss…I got one of them this time anyway.

   • There are a lot of 18s this week.

     • I can’t seem to move up…when I do it’s back down. I believe I have only one perfect score.

       • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw

7. 20/20 – it’s an easy one this week but Bachman-Turner Overdrive really was the difficult one.

   • I thought the one that started with a number was tricky. I had to squint at the little image to figure it out.

8. 19/20 for me. That one pesky one always shows up.

   • That pesky one.

9. 20/20 here – almost didn’t make it until I remembered a video with a cartoon cat. We’re on lockdown here, thanks to the effect the shutdown has had on the company I work(ed) for I now have more time to dedicate to making sure my son keeps up to date with his school work. Five days in and I think the law should be changed to allow teachers to drink on the job

   • Good work – not many 20s yet. I have two kids at home-school age, which makes things a lot easier, although the refugee girl from down the road likes to ring up for help too, which makes things trickier.

10. 16/20 today. Kicking myself on a couple I should have guessed. Oh well. Now googling Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    • Good work! I like the stuttering on ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’. Are you isolated?

11. B.T.O have some enjoyable singles, “Let It Ride” might be my favorite from them (so far)
    Sounds like NZ isn’t a critical zone. The government closed schools and shut the borders in Denmark, limiting public gathering and encouraging working from home. I still see my family though. Grateful I don’t live in southern Europe(!)
    I’m anticipating a wave of new music about self-isolation. Sludge by Squid taps into that which I heard this morinng.

    • It will certainly give a lot of artists time to write. Also hope it doesn’t kill off too many ageing legends – sounds like John Prine is in critical condition…