Congratulations to Kamer Chameleo-Man who scored the fastest perfect score last week.
This week you need to identify solo artists from the tracks on the back of one of their albums.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/bhenderson79/tracks-on-the-back-solo/
There’s a fair chunk of modern pop in there, so it might prove challenging for some listeners. I scored 20/20 with 3:27 remaining – I spent a while entering random names to finish the last one.
As a bonus question, how many of these people can you name and what was the special occasion?
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Let’s see about the photo: CS&N, Carly Simon, Michael McDonald, Ye Old Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, and three others. Judging by the shirt and lineup, was this taken at the “No Nukes” concert in 1979 (or was it ’80?)
Wow – you nailed that quickly! 1979 is correct.
What do I win? 😉
Glory!
My perfect score streak ends this week, as I only got 17/20. I know the three artists I missed but obviously not well enough. As for the photo, in addition to the artists mentioned by adventurepdx, I think I also see John Hall and possibly Janis Ian…or Phoebe Snow(?).
You’re still leading at this point, but there’s only been one other entry. It’s Snow – I had no idea what she looked like, but I’ve seen the caption.
Suckragette City. 14/20. As to that picture, somebody already beat me to the event. (T-shirt was a dead giveaway). Crosby, Stills, Carly Simon, Michael McDonald, Bonnie Raitt, Phoebe Snow, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash. I don’t recognize the mustachioed guys or the T-shirt guy. And where is Bruce?
One of the moustachioed guys is well known and was married to someone else in the photo at the time – he just looks a little bit atypical in that photo.
Ok, so that’s JT up front? I wondered.
Yup, he looks a bit sweaty.
I got 19/20 and gave up with 2:56 left. I would never have guessed the Tori Amos album had I spent another hour! I’ve never followed her or her music, so know next to nothing about her.
That was the least-guessed one overall. I have all her 1990s albums on CD, so I knew that one straight away.
17 of 20 and ran out of time. Did better than I expected. That was a fun one! And I agree with Jim – where’s Bruce in the photo? Didn’t Petty play it too? I remember the movie where he was cracking wise in response to the audience “Bruuucing” says something to the effect “Good thing his name wasn’t Fred” 🙂
Good score but I don’t get the joke!
At Springsteen concerts the audience will all shout “Bruce” but drawing it out so that if you didn’t know better you would think he was being booed. So I think Petty was saying it would sound pretty funny if the crowd was all yelling Fred. Ok maybe it was just me thinking it was funny at the time. 😀
14/20 that one was not easy
Noone’s scored 100% yet.
That makes me feel a little better. There were some easy but not many…that was challenging.
18/20 – I didn’t get the artists that had ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ and ‘All Night Long (All Night)’.
I’m pretty sure the ones you got wrong were different from all the other contestants. The video for If I Could Turn Back Time is pretty iconic – it’s Cher on an aircraft carrier!
I thought “If I could Turn back Time” was Cher, but when I tried it it was a no-go.
Cher worked for me.
Really? Maybe I typed it wrong?
14/20. You can guess the ones I didn’t get.The usual suspects that I know nothing about.
You must have got at least two among: Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Pink, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce?
Ran out of time at 17/20. I can confidently say that I wouldn’t have gotten the remaining 3.
That was a good one.
There were some artists who don’t usually show up on these quizzes, which was good.
19/20…I just couldn’t figure out the 1994 one. No time left.
The other 19/20 missed that one too. No-one has a perfect score yet.
17/20, spent the last 2 minutes just randomly guessing names of pop tarts to see if it’d work for the last three. Ah well.
I struggled with Pink – don’t know her stuff very well.
I actually got that one, but missed three others. Ah well!
18 – I’m pleased with how many of the ‘post-2000’ ones that I got correctly, perhaps I’m not as out of the loop as I thought!
I feel like having small daughters makes me more interested in contemporary pop.
10/20 and ran out of time, and I’m surprised it was that many. I know 7 of those people in the pic.
What’s the occasion?
No Nukes, 1979
18/20 – I’m out of practice. Oddly the 2 I missed were the ‘easiest’ (Frank and Lionel) – I was second guessing myself thinking that was too obvious and maybe someone had similar track names