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Music Quiz: Album by Shopping Receipt

Last week’s Album by Shopping Receipt IV was a toughie, but a couple of contestants made it to 23/24 – good work Tony and Sheik Yerbouti.

I’m not necessarily planning on doing every quiz in the series, but I wanted to do one more.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/st3volution/album-by-shopping-receipt

I scored 21/25. It was pretty noticeable that almost everything I missed was from around 2005 or 2006- obviously a blind spot for me.

In other news, traffic to this site is down significantly over the past week, and I think one person is to blame. That’s clearly only the tip of the iceberg of the awfulness that he’s perpetrated this week – I’ll let Randy Newman take it from here:

39 Comments

  1. 11/25 but should have been 2 more because I put a dash in and one I know I typed but didn’t record it or some other glitch. Ran out of time. That video makes dipsh*t look too human.

  2. 13/25. I wasn’t expecting much once I saw it go into rap. But there were a couple of rockers I missed, too. And.. the Editors? As to traffic being down, well, I find blogging and visiting sites takes my mind off of that situation. I check the news about every five minutes waiting for the takeover of Kyiv.

    • Yes, The Editors seems like an obscure pet favourite that the author slipped in.

      Our news in NZ has been dominated by the parliament protesters getting arrested. It was about time…..

        • New Zealand’s been feeling a bit insular lately – so much news taken up with the protest and the rising Omicron case numbers that we haven’t heard much about Ukraine. Weirdly, the conspiracy theorists seem to want to downplay Ukraine to fit their crazy narrative.

          • heh heh, I know. The right doesn’t know if they should be on Russia’s side just because they hate Joe Biden, and the left doesn’t know if they should be on Russia’s side just because they hate America, and their default position is to always take the side that’s against the United States. Plus, they still have a lot of sentiment left over for the Soviet Union. Nobody knows which theory to believe anymore. lol

          • I kind of view the conspiracy theorists as outside the traditional left/right narrative, but I guess they’re over on the far right.

          • What are you talking about? I’m on the far left, but don’t take Russia’s side, nor do I have a shred of sentiment for the Soviet Union, which Reagan correctly named the Evil Empire.

          • Are you kidding? Check out CNN and join the world. When Putin invades a country without provocation and then talks about nukes, that supercedes everything.

          • I’m serious. There has been coverage of course, but the headline story is usually about the protests or rising Covid numbers (we controlled the previous two waves really well, but Omicron is making its way through now), or about protesters getting Covid.

          • ‘Are you kidding’ may not have translated well. Maybe it’s an American idiom? It’s not really a question as such, just another way of expressing surprise, like saying ‘Really?”

          • I just needed to talk about my annoyance at NZ news. Although the day they cleared the protest out was pretty exciting.

  3. 22/25 – the ones I didn’t get had the songs ‘The Power of Equality’, ‘Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors’ and ‘Eddie’s Gun’. Visiting these blogs and doing the quizzes allows me to be occupied while here in Australia, it has been torrential rain and other places around me are flooding pretty badly.

    • I think I missed all those too. There hasn’t been much coverage of the floods in NZ either – I mainly know about because I have a couple of Facebook friends in Brisbane.

    • Great score! I get most of my traffic from Google hitting older articles, so it’s been pretty noticeable.

  4. I batted a 23 today – it would’ve been 24 if The Only Living Boy in New York hadn’t been ‘New Cross’ and I could correctly spell the name of the chap that isn’t Paul Simon.

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