Congratulations to everyone who participated in last week’s badly drawn 1970s hits quiz. Especially to Eclectic Music Lover, who just edged Rich Kamerman for first place. Also, thanks for reading my daughters’ book.
This week you need to sort a bunch of old/dead white guys into their bands. I was happy to see that the quiz includes a musician who commented on this blog a couple of years back.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/spotoneout/whos-in-the-band
I scored 36/36 with 3:45 remaining. Can you beat my time?
Thanks to a zealously posting Facebook friend, I’ve become vaguely fascinated by the top 2000 song countdown of New Zealand mainstream rock radio station The Rock. It seems like a very singular list to me for a big countdown – https://www.therock.net.nz/home/music/the-rock-2000.html. You’d expect a rock station to play Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters, and Queen. But there’s also some stuff that’s totally left-field – Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Simple Man’ at #3 and a bunch of New Zealand stuff. I guess if you’re a radio station, you can ram your unique blend of stuff down peoples’ throats and they might grow to like it eventually.
This is their pick for #4 song of all time. I can’t tell good nu-metal from bad nu-metal….
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Ballroom Blitz – 100% with 3:24 remaining. Mike Love visited your site??? The great, beloved Love?
Mr Hayward did! You’re leading the scores so far.
Yeah, I knew that. And – yay! That’s my era. I await the slaughter by Tony and/or Rich.
It’s unusual for Rich not to be on quickly. EclecticMusicLover is generally strong on anything mainstream too.
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36/36
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03:17
I keep forgetting Walsh was in the bird band… he was slumming it.
Yes, I enjoy certain facets of the Eagles for sure, but I’d rather have more Walsh albums from the 1970s. They could have hired a better drummer instead – they had plenty of guitar power with Don Felder already.
I do like Felder and Walsh…the two I don’t like is obvious…not saying they were not talented…funny I like Henley’s solo albums better than the Eagles.
Those two meanies have an amazing vocal blend – when they turn up on other stuff, like Warren Zevon’s The French Inhaler, they sound incredible.
Oh yes…no disputing their talent…I give them that. Henley has a great singing voice in particular.
In his book…Felder said something that I totally agree on. He said they would polish a song so much that the life would be out of the finished product.
I knew that one but there were 10 others I didn’t know 🙁
The one that gave me trouble was The Moody Blues…it was a process of elimination. I knew Lodge, Ray Thomas, and Justin Hayward but I guessed on the rest.
I have too much useless trivia in my small brain lol.
I only knew Hayward of MB. It’s fun to juggle trivia don’t you think? I enjoy it, and I’m glad WP is a place where trivia buffs loiter 🙂
I like these trivia games…as long as they don’t venture too far in the 2000s…that is where I’m useless.
p.s. AFter reading Keith’s book, I should have remembered Ian Stewart was in the band 🙁
He was out before the first album I think – he’s a pretty obscure pick in some ways.
Wikipedia: In early May 1963, the band’s manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, said Stewart should no longer be onstage, that six members were too many for a popular group and that the older, burly, and square-jawed Stewart did not fit the image.
He said Stewart could stay as road manager and play piano on recordings. Stewart accepted this demotion. Richards said: “[Stu] might have realized that in the way it was going to have to be marketed, he would be out of sync, but that he could still be a vital part. I’d probably have said, ‘Well, fuck you’, but he said ‘OK, I’ll just drive you around.’
That takes a big heart, but Stu had one of the largest hearts around.”
Aha! I remember reading about him and knew he was eventually edged out of the band, but the details were fuzzy. Thanks for the refresh, Jim!
That’s fairly accurate, too. I’ve read a ton about the Stones.
So far I’ve only read Keith’s book and bits and pieces here and there.
I read Oldham’s biography but it was years ago and I don’t remember much.
That almost got me also…but yes he was a member before the manager booted him out.
Denny Laine is always a bit of a disconnect – obviously more famous for his tenure in Wings.
Yuck. Full marks on Rolling Stones, most of the Beach Boys, big names on the others, two big Eagles, and a partridge in a pear tree. 19/36.
A Partridge? I don’t remember seeing XTC in the quiz.
I got 34 . The Jeff Lynne one confused me .
I think the quiz was designed so it went from a band with 8 members to a band with 1 member. Lynne is the only ELO guy I can name apart from Bev Bevan. I guess Roy Wood was in there for the early albums too.
I didn’t notice that ELO came up as one of the clues. I kept waiting for it to pop up but I guess I missed it so I didn’t know where he fit in. Or if he was just a trick question.I guess I wasn’t paying attention very well.
I definitely saw it. You might have double clicked or something?
26/36 with :45 left
Thanks for playing!
🙂
32 of 36 – I don’t know any members of the Moody Blues so that was all guessing. Plus a few other misses.
Moody Blues are interesting as they all write and sing lead (or recite poetry in the drummer’s case) – unusual for a self-contained band.
I was pretty happy with my 23/36. I don’t really know most of those bands.
It was a pretty classic-rock oriented quiz.
re: radio station countdown, in the States at least when I was growing up, it always came down to either Freebird or Stairway to Heaven vying for 1 and 2 – very boring after a while.
I got 32/36 with 2:42 remaining.
Great work!
100% with 3:28 remaining.
Ooh, I think you’re in the lead thus far.
This one was in the ol’ buggers’ wheelhouse. 🥸
100% w/ 2:18 left – don’t really know any members from the Eagles or the Doors. Guessed them really.
Good guessing. I guess most of the Eagles are rural and the Doors are more urban, so you can vaguely tell by the names.
Doesn’t matter how I did, it won’t win!!
Sounds like you need to bone up on your classic rock band members!
Just a little…okay…a lot.
33/36 – my old / dead white guy knowledge doesn’t extend to The Moody Blues and guess work will only get you so far.
The countdown is an interesting one – though in my opinion the difference between good or bad nu-metal is the same as whether it’s better to stand in cat or dog shit, but then that might be my grumpy old bastard side coming through. I’ve noticed that social media has changed some of these lists – I’ve noticed fan groups getting together to push certain songs and sway votes on similar countdowns and wonder if such a thing had an influence here.
Odd to see Dave Dobbyn and Th’ Dudes on there – I’ve been listening to him this week after reading an article on New Zealand’s approach to ‘hold music’ though I much prefer The Mutton Birds’ Anchor Me even if it didn’t crack the top 1000
I don’t really like nu-metal, but I don’t want to rule out the possibility that there’s some good nu-metal somewhere.
I guess fan groups probably applies here. Dave Dobbyn’s ‘Welcome Home’ is down a bit further and it’s a weird inclusion, since it’s kind of past his prime and pretty mellow. Anchor Me is a terrific song – I went through their catalogue last year, they have a couple of really good albums, but never made it overseas.
All correct. I left The Moody Blues to the end however. All the others I knew.
The Moody Blues are probably the most obscure band on here. I still think To Our Childrens Childrens Children is one of the best records of its era though.
29/36 with 2:19 to go. I was just guessing with lesser-know-to-me bands, by the end.
Good work anyway.
Ha thanks!
30 – 24/36 were known, 6/12 complete guesses.
I did a better job of guessing members of the ‘moody blues’ than I would have anticipated!
Even with my trackpad limitations slowing me down I got 36/36 with 3:41 left on the clock, just shy of our illustrious host.
Good work, I like illustrious.