Music Quiz: 7 to 1 Female Artists
Congratulations to Tony (), who headed off Rich and Chris for the highest score in a tough duets quiz last week. This week’s quiz looks at female solo artists. Match the top 5 hit song to the female artist. …
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Graham Fyfe has been writing this website since his late teens. Now in his forties, he's been obsessively listening to albums for years. He works as a web editor and plays the piano.
Under Attack by ABBA
It’s been an interesting month for 1970s band reunions – first we had Fleetwood Mac drop Lindsey Buckingham, effectively becoming Fleetwood House and a Heartbreaker. And now ABBA have announced their first new music for 35 years, along with a…
Music Quiz: Duets
Congratulations to Boppins and Tony, who scored the only 15/15s in last week’s quiz. This week’s quiz concerns duets. Pick the pair of artists responsible for each song at I’m not a big fan of all of the featured songs,…
Ofakombolo by Jupiter & Okwess
My wife and I are away on our tenth wedding anniversary holiday this weekend. I wanted to post a song befitting the landmark, but I struggled to find anything appropriate. Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ten Years Gone ‘ has always felt autumnal…
Music Quiz: Aircraft on Album Covers
We had lots of full scores in last week’s relatively easy quiz – congrats to Rich, Tony, jprobichaud, Chris, J., Bruce, introgroove, Geoff, and 2loud2oldmusic, who all scored 20/20 last week. This week’s quiz requires you to identify album covers…
Slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn and Herbs
Every New Zealand #1 single… Slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn and Herbs Topped the NZ chart from 5 October 1986 for 8 weeks. 10 Every country has a musical act that’s part of the national identity, yet obscure internationally.…
Music Quiz: Complete the Band Name with a Picture
Congratulations to Tony () who scored 19/20 in last week’s quiz. This week’s is a bit easier – it requires you to complete the band name by clicking on a picture. I scored 20/20, and I think there’ll be…
Rockism and Poptimism: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Carly Rae Jepsen
I’ve been recently reading about Rockism and Poptimism, two different schools of music criticism. It’s been interesting for me, both to understand my own personal biases and the biases behind other people’s music writing. The term Rockism was coined in…
I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) by Los Lobos
The most interesting news story to emerge from New Zealand this weekend was an attempted monkey burglary at Wellington Zoo. Thieves broke into the squirrel monkey enclosure with bolt cutters, but were fought off by the small primates. Despite only…
Music Quiz: First Line of Songs
I think last week’s Beatles quiz had a record number of entirely correct entries – well done Chris, introgroove, Geoff, Rich, Jim, and Bruce who all scored 100%. I for one found this week’s quiz a lot tougher – it’s…
