Congratulations to Tony, who scored 20/20 in last week’s Badly Drawn Albums quiz. This week you need to complete the stanzas in Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Margaritaville’. I’m not a particular fan of Mr Buffett, and only scored 18 of a…
It’s an eclectic bunch this week – Puerto Rican superstar rapper Bad Bunny and English art-pop from Rae Morris. There’s also a new vintage release, with Linda Hoover’s 1970 album finally released from the archives. Notably, half of the songs…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965 to 1968…
I had to collate last week’s result a little early last week, but when I made this post Max from PowerPop.Blog was the only contestant to score 100%. This week you need to link the artist to the poorly drawn…
Ringo Starr had the most to lose from The Beatles‘ breakup. John Lennon had already launched a solo career with ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘Cold Turkey’. George Harrison had a stockpile of songs that would form the basis of…
Don McGlashan had already made an impact on the New Zealand music scene before he formed The Mutton Birds. He was the drummer for the punk-influenced band Blam Blam Blam, remembered for fabulously titled songs ‘There Is No Depression in…
Last week we looked at the artists with the most songs in Rolling Stone’s recent Top 500 list. King Clover and EclecticMusicLover both scored 34/35, although King Clover didn’t record a time. This week it’s the companion quiz, with Rolling…
The Y2K bug didn’t hit the way doomsayers predicted. Planes didn’t fall out of the sky and artists continued to make music, both good and bad. Here I pick out ten of my most loathed songs from the first decade…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965 to 1968…
Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who just pipped MusicEnthusiast in last week’s Music in Song Titles quiz. I was even more impressed by 2loud2oldmusic, who solved last week’s bonus question, linking five albums by knowing they were recorded at Electric Lady studios.…
