Music Quiz: 1987 Albums Picture Click

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1. As soon as i saw 1987, I knew it wasn’t gonna end well. That (or maybe a few years later) may well be the outer reaches of my paying any attention at all to albums. And so, 18/24. The good news is the quiz advised me to “Please don’t let your quiz scores define you as a person.” Best advice I’ve gotten since I was told “don’t look back in anger.”

   • I like 1980s quizzes as they seem like a fair middle ground for everyone. 18 seems OK, just don’t let it define you as a person.

     • No I think my blog has shredded my reputation quite well, thank you very much.

2. SCORE Done much better than I thought I would…most of these came back to me pretty quick.
   24/24
   TIMER
   03:19

   • Max name Max score

3. 23/24. The last bunch were guesses and one of them was wrong. *shrug*

   • I sometimes like playing “guess the genre” with the last few. If you know one’s a hip hop album and the other’s a metal album, it’s normally pretty guessable.

     • I do the same quite often myself

4. Finally a perfect score! Although took my time so had 2:10 left on clock.

5. and by perfect score I mean 24/24! 🙂

   • Great work!

6. 24/24 with 6:08 remaining. Funny how you remember more than you think you do.

   • Feasting on points like Steven Smith (although he calls them runs……)

     • Indeed Graham. If I was as good at quizzes as Mr Smith is at batting…

       • He’s getting a little ridiculous. I think the Black Caps will struggle in Australia – we don’t have the right bowling attack to cause problems.

7. 22/24 with 06:18 remaining.The ones I missed I didn’t recognize from the artwork

   • Good work!

8. 22/24 as I went too fast and accidentally clicked on the one next to the right answer not once…but twice!!!

   • My maths teacher used to tell me that haste makes waste. 22 is still very good!

     • I agree with that statement…I don’t follow it, but I agree with it.

       • The faster you go…. the bigger the mess.

9. 24/24 with 06:16 on the clock. Lot of good albums in there… not a bad year for music

   • Yup, and it generally covers the best-known and best-selling stuff.

10. I knew this would be an easy one for me, since I was working at my third record store in 1987 and knew pretty much every popular album of that era. I’m more proud of the fact that my 53-year-old brain actually remembered them all. My score was 24/24 with 6:45 left on the clock.

    • Unfair advantage! Great work, seems like a very fast time. I guess it would be easier to remember covers in the LP era when they were nice and big.

      • It was a joy to work at record stores during the pre-CD era. I made it a point to browse through all the bins each day, so I was aware of just about every release in every genre. Since I worked at three stores between 1983 & 1988, I watched the transition into CDs, when they were still packaged in long-boxes (mainly because two of those side-by-side took up the same space as a single LP, therefore allowing shops to utilize existing displays). I used to have an entire wall of my apartment, where I lived for nearly 16 years, covered top-to-bottom in CD long-boxes. It was quite the conversation piece.

        • I have a couple of long boxes that were collector items – Pink Floyd’s live Wall and R.E.M.’s Up. I’ve never really seen long boxes in discount racks though.

11. 23 – and I think I have about half of them in the collection. Only one of the Bruces so far, though!

    • I only have one of the Bruces too – imagine it’s the same as yours.

      • Though I do have the other Bruce on a couple of Die Hard DVDs!