Music Quiz: Guess Em In Fewer Words

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1. Nice job interpolating my name into this post, Graham. I appreciate it. Got another perfect score this week, with 5:31 left on the clock. Although it’s a faster time than yours I’m quite certain it will be surpassed by others. I really enjoyed the format of this quiz. Hopefully there will be others like it.

   Every year I care less & less about the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. There are too many deserving artists who have never even been nominated and too many undeserving artists who have been inducted.

   • I’m not sure if anyone will beat you – I thought that I was reasonably fast.

2. 36/40 with 1:39 left

   • Good work!

     • 🙂 Thanks!

3. 39/40. Took me a while to understand what was going on. I eventually got it but not well enough I’m afraid.

   • 39 is still pretty good!

4. Forgot the Hall of Fame question. I’d go with Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Todd Rundgren, Carole King, Rage and Foo Fighters.

   • I think more from your list will make it than from mine – I think King will make it this year, and Rage and Foo Fighters have good shots.

     • And, like you I think, I am looking at this objectively as a voter, rather than as my favorites per se. King is long overdue as is Warwick.

       • King is in as a songwriter, just feels like her year – she got a bit of attention with Tapestry having its 50th anniversary this year.

         I mostly chose my favourites, although my heart would take King over Jay-Z.

         • See, Jay-Z means nothing to me. But if I were a voter, at some point I would recognize his impact and vote for him. Instead of gnashing my teeth every year hoping that Jethro Tull gets in.

5. 38/40 for me. That was a tough (but fun) one.

   • Good work!

6. I got 40/40 with 5:24 remaining.

   My picks for R&R Hall of Fame would be:
   The Go-Go’s
   Chaka Kahn
   Carole King
   Todd Rundgren
   Tina Turner
   Iron Maiden

   • Perfect score! You beat my time as well, but not quite Rich’s.

     • He appears to be unbeatable.

       • He’s fast but beatable.

7. 38 of 40. accidentally hit the b52s instead of the bangles on the one.
   for R&R HOF, I’d go with
   Kate Bush
   Go Gos
   Foo Fighters
   Tina Turner
   Carol King
   LL Cool J

   • Is this burning an eternal… love shack?

8. 36/40 for me.

   About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, does it really matter? Because my picks would be really my favourites out of the nominees and everyone has different opinions so is it better to have a hall of fame of our own?

   Anyways, my picks would be:
   Kate Bush
   Fela Kuti
   Iron Maiden
   Dionne Warwick
   Todd Rundgren
   Devo

9. 36/40. I got the contemporary ones wrong as usual.

   • Is anyone in the quiz contemporary? Katy Perry released her first album 20 years ago.

     • For me they are. Anyone who released music after 1985 is contemporary!

10. 37/40 with 5:18 left. I skipped a few and was just guessing at the end.

    • Must have been some good guessing!

      • Well probably only guess at the last 5, so I got 2/5 there, missed 3. The rest I knew.

11. Forgot the HoF question: I think the HoF is a joke where the fix is always in, just like any other awards show. Still, if I had to care, I’d say they ought to go with long-time artists who’ve been overlooked forever and who ought to be there before others. So, from that list, Maiden, Devo, New York Dolls. I don’t know when they let rap//new r&b into the Rock And Roll HoF, so LL Cool J, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan’s presence mystify me.

12. 37/40 with 2:27 left.

    As for Hall of Famers… I had a chuckle when I saw Foo Fighters. That whole Hall of Fame thing doesn’t matter at all.

    • I’m not a Foo Fighters fan, but they’ve probably done more than anyone else in the last 25 years to make new classic rock.