Welcome back for another week of quizzing. I thought we’d take a break from album sorting. Your challenge this week is to name the albums, musical terms, artists, and other ephemera starting with D. I scored 16/20, although I…
As a music reviewer, 2025 started quickly. Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny dropped a wide-reaching album in 2025’s first week. Canadian sophisti-pop act The Weather Station released Humanhood in mid-January. Meanwhile, I’m still catching up with 2024, hence the smooth…
According to Gary Barlow, Leona Lewis was probably fifty times better than any other contestant Simon Cowell ever had. Leona Lewis Leona Lewis was born in London. She attended BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, the same school as…
Can you identify the albums starting with K? As before I had to make this one myself. There aren’t as many albums beginning with K, so there are fewer questions than usual. I’m ineligible to enter this week. Congratulations…
Robyn Hitchcock started his recording career as the frontman for the Cambridge band The Soft Boys. Kimberley Rew joined on lead guitar. Rew wrote ‘Walking on Sunshine’ for his next band, Katrina and the Waves – one of the biggest hits…
Hurray! The Rattles Are Coming! But I’m unsure why the compilers chose this Rattles’ song for Nuggets II. Credits 4 IT’S MY FAULT – The Rattles (Germany)(Achim Reichel) PERSONNEL/ACHIM REICHEL: vocals, guitar * HERMAN “RUGY” RUGENSTEIN: guitar, vocals * HERBERT…
It’s Waitangi Day, our national public holiday, here in New Zealand. It’s particularly fraught this year, as the far right question our nation’s founding document. Unfortunately, today’s quiz is completely unrelated to such happenings. Can you identify the albums starting…
I’m assuming that nobody cares about 2024 releases in February 2025. But there are still records in my pile that I didn’t get to last year. It’s not a reflection on their quality – these records were all released toward…
Miraculously, two of the most talented vocalists and songwriters in the history of popular music ended up in the same band. John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in 1957 when McCartney joined Lennon’s skiffle band The Quarrymen. They enlisted lead…
Welcome back for another thrilling quizzing session. Can you identify the albums starting with I? Unfortunately, the person who made the original series stopped at G, so again I had to make this one myself. Apologies if some of the…
