Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who proved something of a sex expert on last week’s quiz. This week your challenge is to identify an album given its first three songs. There’s an eclectic mix of music, from John Williams to Cher.
I scored 20/20 with 26 seconds remaining. Can you beat my time?
In other news, I’m not thrilled about the music choices of my loud new neighbour. Woken at 3am by loud music, my generation would expect something edgy like Cypress Hill or Rage Against the Machine. But my new neighbour plays smooth music, like pop-reggae and sappy R&B, extremely loudly. It’s like listening to The Breeze but with profanity instead of the occasional brilliant song. He’s got the loud car and the chains, but his musical preferences are extremely smooth. What are gangstas coming to?
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37 Comments
100% with 32 seconds left
Great work!
A briefly-frozen cursor threw me off my game at the end so I only got 19/20. although I still had 1:15 left on the clock so I should have taken a deep breath before clicking the last two.
Yeah, Sporcle is a little laggy sometimes.
I got 17/20 with 1:04 left…
Thanks for playing, I’ve been impressed by the scores so far.
I saw the Damn Yankees in there so I had to play.
I had never heard of them actually, I got 20 by knowing the other 19 and leaving that til last.
DY formed in 1990 and by 93 they were finished is pretty much the story but those two records they put out were pretty good for the time.
11/20 ran out of time probably could have guessed more right. So funny about your neighbor. Maybe crank up your own jams to show him what he should be listening to?
I don’t know that he’ll appreciate late-period Scott Walker – it’s pretty weird…
Are you sure it’s him and not his partner??
SCORE
18/20 some guessing but not too much.
I thought this one was tough, but everyone has exceeded my expectations.
A few of mine were educated gueses.
19/20 with 1:18 left. It was a bit hard to make out the wording on some of the album covers I didn’t recognize.
Still a good score – I’ve been impressed by everyone’s efforts.
As usual, I completely sucked. I’m just not good at these games! As to your noisy neighbor, turn up your volume and play some kickass AC/DC or Deep Purple! 🙂
Their speaker is bigger than mine.
Dang it! 🙂
Pop-Reggae? I didn’t even know that was a thing and I hate reggae! I only got 9/20, which is 45%. I had fun, though. Thanks for the quiz!
We have a lot of pop reggae in NZ. I would describe some of Bob Marley’s lighter hits as pop-reggae too, like ‘Waiting in Vain’.
I’m not even a Bob Marley fan, so that makes it even worse!
Bob Marley looks like a genius next to all the NZ imitators, believe you me.
What’s NZ?
I haven’;t played any of these for a while. No wonder. I got 7. Some of those were guesses.
Welcome back!
18/20. I could have got them all but the thing was moving all slow and shit and it made me run out of time. That fucking pisses me off. I knew all of them too!! I hate that stupid fucking thing when it goes all slow like that.
Now you know what it feels like when you’ve got 195 out of 197 world capital cities correct and it freezes up and you’re out of time!
Yeah, the ads make it slow sometimes. You can retry if it’s for technical reasons like that.
20/20 with 47 seconds remaining.
I feel your pain – the neighbours (everybody needs good…) I share a wall seemingly have one CD that they play loud and pretty much on repeat and it’s the Best of UB40. It’s enough to make me feel ill.
Meanwhile on the other side (where they’re a little older than us but not as old as the reggae-loving retirees mentioned above) play music with such heavy bass-lines at such a volume that our entire summer feels soundtracked by a club dj.
I upgraded my speakers recently though so we’ll see how the tables turn when the freeze lifts
I guess the retirees need to play it loud?
Once my old neighbours at our previous house played the same Michael McDonald song on repeat for an hour between 11 and 12 – they had mental health issues though. I feel like these guys are just very very loud.
20/20 with 58 seconds left. Finally I am competitive again.
Great work!
19, it came down to Duran and Damn, and I guessed incorrectly!
Damn unlucky!
Nah, starting over is cheating. Cuz then you could just look up the right answers to the ones you got wrong the first time. That’s just totally wrong as far as I’m concerned.
100% with 32 seconds left
Great work!
A briefly-frozen cursor threw me off my game at the end so I only got 19/20. although I still had 1:15 left on the clock so I should have taken a deep breath before clicking the last two.
Yeah, Sporcle is a little laggy sometimes.
I got 17/20 with 1:04 left…
Thanks for playing, I’ve been impressed by the scores so far.
I saw the Damn Yankees in there so I had to play.
I had never heard of them actually, I got 20 by knowing the other 19 and leaving that til last.
DY formed in 1990 and by 93 they were finished is pretty much the story but those two records they put out were pretty good for the time.
11/20 ran out of time probably could have guessed more right. So funny about your neighbor. Maybe crank up your own jams to show him what he should be listening to?
I don’t know that he’ll appreciate late-period Scott Walker – it’s pretty weird…
Are you sure it’s him and not his partner??
SCORE
18/20 some guessing but not too much.
I thought this one was tough, but everyone has exceeded my expectations.
A few of mine were educated gueses.
19/20 with 1:18 left. It was a bit hard to make out the wording on some of the album covers I didn’t recognize.
Still a good score – I’ve been impressed by everyone’s efforts.
As usual, I completely sucked. I’m just not good at these games! As to your noisy neighbor, turn up your volume and play some kickass AC/DC or Deep Purple! 🙂
Their speaker is bigger than mine.
Dang it! 🙂
Pop-Reggae? I didn’t even know that was a thing and I hate reggae! I only got 9/20, which is 45%. I had fun, though. Thanks for the quiz!
We have a lot of pop reggae in NZ. I would describe some of Bob Marley’s lighter hits as pop-reggae too, like ‘Waiting in Vain’.
I’m not even a Bob Marley fan, so that makes it even worse!
Bob Marley looks like a genius next to all the NZ imitators, believe you me.
What’s NZ?
I haven’;t played any of these for a while. No wonder. I got 7. Some of those were guesses.
Welcome back!
18/20. I could have got them all but the thing was moving all slow and shit and it made me run out of time. That fucking pisses me off. I knew all of them too!! I hate that stupid fucking thing when it goes all slow like that.
Now you know what it feels like when you’ve got 195 out of 197 world capital cities correct and it freezes up and you’re out of time!
Yeah, the ads make it slow sometimes. You can retry if it’s for technical reasons like that.
20/20 with 47 seconds remaining.
I feel your pain – the neighbours (everybody needs good…) I share a wall seemingly have one CD that they play loud and pretty much on repeat and it’s the Best of UB40. It’s enough to make me feel ill.
Meanwhile on the other side (where they’re a little older than us but not as old as the reggae-loving retirees mentioned above) play music with such heavy bass-lines at such a volume that our entire summer feels soundtracked by a club dj.
I upgraded my speakers recently though so we’ll see how the tables turn when the freeze lifts
I guess the retirees need to play it loud?
Once my old neighbours at our previous house played the same Michael McDonald song on repeat for an hour between 11 and 12 – they had mental health issues though. I feel like these guys are just very very loud.
20/20 with 58 seconds left. Finally I am competitive again.
Great work!
19, it came down to Duran and Damn, and I guessed incorrectly!
Damn unlucky!
Nah, starting over is cheating. Cuz then you could just look up the right answers to the ones you got wrong the first time. That’s just totally wrong as far as I’m concerned.