The Replacements are one of my favourite bands of all time, with their rough and ready bar band sound contrasting with Westerberg’s sensitive insightful lyrics, and creating some terrific college rock. After making one of my favourite trios of albums…
Last week’s unusual quiz format threw a few people, and we had a lot less entries than usual. Congratulations to Geoff and Aaron who were able to figure the format out, correctly guess the first three songs from U2’s The…
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg had a controversial career – he was a modernist who embraced the 12 tone scale, and the Nazis labelled his music as degenerate. There are plenty of famous deaths in 20th century music; Buddy Holly’s plane…
Congratulations to Tony () who scored the sole 100% in last week’s Metallica and Wiggles quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to randomly guess words, figure out what three songs they’re from, and finally guess the album and artist that…
Paul Simon has enjoyed a long, worthwhile solo career since Simon and Garfunkel‘s breakup in 1970. A musical chameleon, he launched his post-duo career with an acoustic record that fitted into the singer-songwriter movement of 1972, then moved into jazz-inflected…
In late 1964, Brian Wilson quit touring with The Beach Boys so that he could focus on composing and arranging their records. His replacement for the first few months, covering his bass and falsetto, was the talented Glen Campbell. Campbell…
Last week’s history quiz produced a wide range of scores, but congratulation to the three players who were all tied on 23/25 – boppin, Jim, and Tony. This week’s quiz requires you to tell Sporcle if a song was recorded…
When I first started this website, almost twenty years ago, I was an obscure part of a community of amateur music review websites. Some only lasted a while, while some like www.markprindle.com gained notoriety. But in hindsight, the best site…
My favourite musical discovery of 2018 has been Nadia Reid. Reid is from Dunedin in the south of New Zealand, and ‘Richard’ is from her second album, 2017’s Preservation. Preservation was runner-up for album of the year in Mojo magazine,…
Congratulations to Rich and Tony who both scored 25/25 in last week’s music video quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the song based on the historical event that it profiles. I scored 19 The first few clues…
