Can you identify 20 artists by their third album? I identified them all in 1:03, although I had to resort to genre-based guessing for the last few. Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who just pipped Max and jprobichaud for last…
On New Year’s Eve 1974, Mick Fleetwood invited guitarist Lindsey Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham insisted that his girlfriend Stevie Nicks was part of the package, and Fleetwood Mac’s tenth and most successful line-up was formed. The line-up of…
Warren Zevon emerged later than most of his LA singer-songwriter contemporaries. His work was often dark and nasty, like film noir in song. Zevon was born in Chicago – his father worked as a bookie for the notorious Los Angeles…
Every New Zealand #1 single… 2 Golden by Huntrix Topped the NZ chart for 8 (non-consecutive) weeks from 18 July 2025. KPop Demon Hunters The three pop stars/demon slayers of fictional KPop band Huntrix were the biggest pop-culture phenomenon of…
Can you identify 12 albums by their final track? I identified them all in 31 seconds – can you beat my time? Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who finished the 1970 end-of-year chart quiz faster than Max. RIP to Midnight Oil’s…
During ten anarchic years, The Replacements recorded a ton of wonderful songs, self-sabotaged their career, and never achieved the mass success they promised. The Replacements started as part of the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s, but they were…
It’s 2026 now, but I’m still working through some 2025 releases. New music reviews might be an overstatement here – Eddie Chacon released Lay Low last January, while Oklou’s had a baby since releasing Choke Enough. Eddie Chacon Lay Low…
The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up. The sequel covers the rest of the world since the first volume only chronicled the USA. Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969 emerged in 2001.…
Last week we looked at 1990. This week, can you name all the year-end hot 25 singles of 1970? I certainly couldn’t – just like the last two weeks, I scored precisely 17 Congratulations to NostalgicItalian, who scored a…
Lists are always subjective, but songs are particularly so – there are way more to choose from. It’s also way easier to burn out on songs – twenty years ago I would have likely chosen popular tracks like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’…
