Music Quiz: Hide Your X,Y, and Z albums

There might be one final outtakes quiz, but we’ve reached the end of the alphabet. There aren’t many famous X,Y, and Z albums – even with all three, I think it’s one of the tougher quizzes in the series.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/grahama/hide-your-xyz-albums

I’m obviously ineligible to compete.

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest time in last week’s quiz.

I realised I only knew one song by the late Lou Christie – so here’s another one:

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14 Comments

  1. A paltry 7/15 for me this week, as I knew only two albums, by The Police and Al Stewart. I remember that Lou Christie song. A weird video of him lip-syncing the song in a wrecking yard, and wow, he had a hairy chest!

    • But you scored more than 50%, so good work. I’m surprised Aretha Franklin is among the least guessed – I thought ‘Rock Steady’ was an acknowledged classic.

  2. Slinging in my lot at 14/15. I own / adore more than half of these so was off to a caffeine-fuelled flyer once I saw the spread of covers.

  3. Score
    9/15…guessing upon guessing… I knew that song but didn’t know it was Lou Christie.

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