You know the drill – 20 more greatest hits albums to identify. Can you match the heroics of Tony, who scored 20/20 with more than 2 minutes remaining in last week’s quiz?
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Rogerisonthehunt/greatest-hits-albums-xxvii-picture-click
I scored 20/20 this week (with 41 seconds remaining). It was a diverse bunch, which made it easier. There were also personal favourites like Nilsson, Procol Harum, the Undertones, and Amy Grant.
I just discovered an album’s worth of outtakes from Steely Dan’s troubled 1980 album Gaucho. They sound great – it could have been an excellent double album. Here’s ‘The Bear’.
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Yet another 19/20 for me. In a world with Tony, that won’t be enough. Yep, that “Gaucho” outtakes album is pretty cool.
Turns out it was enough to tie! Is there an officially released version out there, or do you have a bootleg?
I have a bootleg. I’m pretty sure it was never officially released.
16/20. I hope they do turn the outtakes into a
Gaucho double album. The selection you chose from outtakes is excellent.
It often feels like sacrilege to touch the original, but it would be nice to have a 2CD version with a proper bonus disc. It would be cool to rework the album though – it’s their most uneven from their original run for my money.
19/20 for me. Had no idea who the 5,6,7,8’s were, and guessed wrong.
I also had no idea who the 5,6,7,8s were, but got my 50/50 guess right at the end.
14/20. Not bad considering I was only really familiar with about 50% of the artists.
We’ve gone through 540 artists at this point (although I guess there may have been a few doubleups)?
17/20 for me this time. Are they getting harder…?
I found that one with a bunch of hard rock bands really hard, but I think they’ve plateaued a bit. The first ones were easier, but I don’t know if they’ve really got harder recently?
19/20 today, just a pale non caffeinated shadow of my former heroics
Only 5% worse than usual…..
Started off well but all went wrong at the end with some overly hasty guesses! 17/20
Good score though!
15/20…thanks these are always fun!
Good job, thanks for playing.
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17/20 much easier this week! Most of the names I’ve heard of… C.C…. he seems to be really remembered now but back then…he had a few hits but I never thought people would still remember him as well.
I really like Cross’s hits from his first album, kind of peak yacht rock.
Thats the way I looked at his music…yacht rock. Sailing is the one I remember the most. I just never expected it to last this long.
I like the Michael McDonald backing vocals on Ride Like The Wind.