Congratulations to 2loud2oldmusic, who pipped Tony by less than 10 seconds for the fastest time in the First 3 Songs quiz.
This week’s quiz is more time-consuming than most – I recommend setting a few minutes aside for it if you want to play.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/manonthemoon/albumconceptquiz
I scored 38/40. I struggled with Eminem in the 1990s and Coldplay in the 2010s.
In other news, as I noted back in 2018, I’ve spent the last 4.5 years working part-time and acting as the primary caregiver for my two children. A couple of months ago I lost my part-time job (because the company closed down, not because I was fired for ineptitude!). I was offered a full-time role this week – it might have helped that one of the interviewers was a Scott Walker fan. I’m unsure how much this will slow down this website’s output since I’ll be sitting on a computer doing similar-ish work for 37.5 hours each week, but we’ll see. I’m sure quizzes will keep going since they’re easy to post, but other content like New Music Reviews and listicles can be quite time-consuming.
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33/40 for me. Good luck with the new job.
Solid score, thank you!
25/40, Not that it matters but I should have one more. It wouldn’t accept one of my Guns “N Roses responses. No clue on Coldplay and strangely enough, “I’m a complete and total idiot” wasn’t a choice for Kanye West.
lol on Kanye!
I held back. But it would be easy to unleash.
I got one of the 1991 pair of albums accepted as my GNR answer.
Oh, yeah. Best of luck with the job. You may find that you can still blog but maybe more spaced out.
Yeah, I’ll see how it goes. I will have some train commuting time where I might get some stuff done.
There you go.
24/40. I would have had one on Eminem but forgot “LP”. No clue on a few of them. Congratulations on being hired full-time. Hoping that’s what you wanted. Glad you will keep doing the quiz.
Quizzes are very quick to do, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
It’s weird going to work after 4.5 years of working part-time from home and 20 years in the same place. Funnily, I’m working at the college I went to in my late teens/early twenties, so it will be pretty familiar.
37/40 Had no idea of the names of any albums by Pink Floyd from the 60s, nor Red Hot Chili Peppers from the 80s. And couldn’t remember the name of the Elton John album from the 80s in my own collection!
I did the same with one of the REM albums, and I have all of them 🙁 I got the hi-fi part but couldn’t remember the rest.
It’s much easier to type their 1998 album.
Still a good effort. 1960s Pink Floyd is pretty interesting, the first album with Syd Barrett has some great songs, then they somehow managed to be very successful in the UK with some really weird stuff between 1968-1970.
Good luck with the new gig, Graham.
Thank you!
39 – had no memory of any of Sir Reginald Kenneth Dwight’s 80s album titles. Congrats on the new full time position, you never know when it might pay off being a Scott Walker fan!
Great score! I’ve never really ventured into Elton John’s 1980s albums, but obviously some great songs in there like ‘I’m Still Standing’ and ‘Empty Garden’.
17/40 but in my defence I was on my phone and didn’t see that there was a whole other screen’s worth of questions, whoops
You could have another try if you wanted? If you don’t feel like you saw too many answers at the end?
Congrats on the new gig. I stopped around 24 as I don’t know any Kanye or several of the artist actual album titles.
Thanks for playing! Have a great Christmas.
You do the same!
39/40 with 1:43 left. I thought it was gonna be so hard but it was fucking easy. The only one I missed was Kanye cuz I couldn’t think of anything except those college ones. And I almost missed Queen believe it or not cuz I couldn’t think of an 80s album, then at the last minute I thought of one. Coldplay took a long time too.
Great score.
Somebody else got 39 too though. So I could only have a tie. And maybe there will still be somebody who gets 40.
SCORE
38/40…. the E rapper I just happened to remember 1 so I lucked out on that one. The funny thing is I got KW right! I think I remember one of the titles from your site.
Merry Christmas Graham to you and your family
Good work! Hope you had a good Christmas too.