Congratulations to Tony, who scored the fastest 19/20 in last week’s quiz.
This week, it’s more of the same – twenty albums to identify from their first three songs. I appreciate the eclecticism, spanning from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Drake.
Graham Fyfe is probably the only music blogger to appreciate Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande. Aphoristic Album Reviews features reviews and blog posts across a growing spectrum of popular music.
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17/20 I was lucky I got that.
Good ?
11/20 Happy Birthday Irving!
Good work!
Thanks, Graham!
Did you see the Punk Panther trying to get hold of you on another xomment?
For the 3rd week, I got 19/20, this time with 2:54 remaining.
I think it was my third consecutive 18 so you’re consistently % better than me.
19/20, 3:07.
Great effort.
11/20..
Thanks for playing!
8 I knew. Forget the rest.
I’m very surprised to say 20/20 with 3:25 left on the clock – quite a few I knew, some were careful guesswork
18/20. It fucking pisses me off cuz I would have got 20/20 but I hit Missy Elliott instead of Blink-182 by mistake. I hate when that happens.
Good work though – I didn’t know the Blink 182 so I either guessed it or missed it.
Great work!
19/20 with 3:38 left, but not the best as Tony got ’em all.
Good work though.
I can’t seem to get a perfect score in this series of quizzes. 18/20 for me.
I’ve had a long string of 18s.
I got 8/20 with 2:27 left, which is honestly not as bad as I thought it would be. Thanks for the quiz!
Good work!
Thanks so much!
Msjadeli, I tried to put a comment on your fine-looking blog (about Jethro Tull), but for some reason it wouldn’t accept it 🙁
Sometimes the spam filter catches the first one, and you need to wait for the owner to spot itm
Sorry Punk Panther, like Graham said it is probably in my spam box which I rarely ever check. Will go look now
I don’t understand how you can get 19 out of 20. Like some of these guys got 19, but if you get one wrong don’t you necessarily have to get another one wrong?? Cuz you already wasted the correct answer so there’s another one that has to get a wrong answer too. Or maybe only if it’s the last two. Cuz that’s what I did. There was only Missy Elliott and Blink-182 left, and since I got the one wrong the only thing left to choose from was a wrong answer. I don’t get it. I never ever got 19.
Getting a wrong answer only makes you miss one thing. I think on this type of quiz, if you get the second to last question wrong, the last is a gimme.
I don’t understand how they can get 19 out of 20. Period.
I keep getting 18s, so I clearly don’t know the secret.
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17/20 I was lucky I got that.
Good ?
11/20 Happy Birthday Irving!
Good work!
Thanks, Graham!
Did you see the Punk Panther trying to get hold of you on another xomment?
For the 3rd week, I got 19/20, this time with 2:54 remaining.
I think it was my third consecutive 18 so you’re consistently % better than me.
19/20, 3:07.
Great effort.
11/20..
Thanks for playing!
8 I knew. Forget the rest.
I’m very surprised to say 20/20 with 3:25 left on the clock – quite a few I knew, some were careful guesswork
18/20. It fucking pisses me off cuz I would have got 20/20 but I hit Missy Elliott instead of Blink-182 by mistake. I hate when that happens.
Good work though – I didn’t know the Blink 182 so I either guessed it or missed it.
Great work!
19/20 with 3:38 left, but not the best as Tony got ’em all.
Good work though.
I can’t seem to get a perfect score in this series of quizzes. 18/20 for me.
I’ve had a long string of 18s.
I got 8/20 with 2:27 left, which is honestly not as bad as I thought it would be. Thanks for the quiz!
Good work!
Thanks so much!
Msjadeli, I tried to put a comment on your fine-looking blog (about Jethro Tull), but for some reason it wouldn’t accept it 🙁
Sometimes the spam filter catches the first one, and you need to wait for the owner to spot itm
Sorry Punk Panther, like Graham said it is probably in my spam box which I rarely ever check. Will go look now
I don’t understand how you can get 19 out of 20. Like some of these guys got 19, but if you get one wrong don’t you necessarily have to get another one wrong?? Cuz you already wasted the correct answer so there’s another one that has to get a wrong answer too. Or maybe only if it’s the last two. Cuz that’s what I did. There was only Missy Elliott and Blink-182 left, and since I got the one wrong the only thing left to choose from was a wrong answer. I don’t get it. I never ever got 19.
Getting a wrong answer only makes you miss one thing. I think on this type of quiz, if you get the second to last question wrong, the last is a gimme.
I don’t understand how they can get 19 out of 20. Period.
I keep getting 18s, so I clearly don’t know the secret.