‘Heads Roll Off’ has one of my favourite openings – a Church-like organ fills the room, before a chugging guitar and thick Scottish accent delivers a memorable opening line; “Jesus is just a Spanish boy’s name….to anybody that doesn’t have…
Congratulations to Rich, Tony, and 2loud2old, who all scored 25/28 in last week’s 7 to 1 female artist quiz. We’ve been dabbling in pop recently, so this quiz is more classic rock oriented. Name the album, given the albums before…
Piero Scarrufi has run an internet site since the 1980s, covering not only music, but travel, film, politics, and pretty much everything else. He’s a fascinating character, and he’s created an alternative canon of challenging albums from outside the mainstream…
Making and reading lists is one of the Great Pursuits of music geekdom, and I’ve certainly indulged from time to time. But while I generally limit myself to finite, single artist lists, a list written by Bill Wyman (but not…
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. …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
After success with Th’ Dudes and DD Smash, Dave Dobbyn’s reputation took a hit with his involvement in the Queen Street riot. He rehabilitated his reputation with this classic song from an animated movie. Dave Dobbyn Every country has a…
