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Music Quiz: Greatest Hits XIV

Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for yet another round of identifying greatest hits albums. As with the last few weeks, identify the greatest hits album given the artist and title. I scored 15/20 – I got…

Music Quiz: Greatest Hits XI

Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for another round of identifying greatest hits albums. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the greatest hits album by artist, given the artist and title. I scored 19/20 –…

Music Quiz: Musician by Real Name

Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who won easily with 29 This week’s challenge is relatively straightforward – it will probably end up as a speed test. You need to name music stars by their real…

Music Quiz: Famous Drummers

Rush Retrospective 2

Congratulations to Geoff Stephen, who took Canada to a glorious win in last week’s Bands that should play together II quiz. Your challenge this week is to name some famous drummers. I scored 23 I did it late at…

Music Quiz: Songs in Common

Crowded House 1986 Album

It’s time for another quiz. Both John and Tony managed 15/15 in last week’s tough “A” album quiz. Tony recorded the faster time. In this week’s challenge, you can try to figure out what The O’Jays, Rihanna, Elton John, and…

‘A Bands’ Album Match

Congratulations to last week’s contestants. It looks like the fastest time came from Jamie from The Music In My Ears This week your challenge is to link albums to bands starting with A. I’m not intimately acquainted with the…

Music Quiz: Album Covers III

Welcome back to another week of quizzing. Tony just pipped James Kalyn for bragging rights in last week’s 2000s adjectives quiz. This week your challenge is to name the album when given its cover. It features a fun mix of…

Music Quiz: Adjectives in 90s Songs

NostalgicItalian finished a few seconds ahead of EclecticMusicLover in last week’s music quiz, demonstrating fast recall at 1980s song titles. Perhaps predictably, today we have a 1990s quiz. Can you fill in the blank adjectives in these 1990s songs? …

Music Quiz: 7 to 1 Albums by Decade

Congratulations to Pierce from ThePress, who seems to have scored the fastest time in last week’s quiz. This week, your challenge is to categorise albums by their decade of release. I thought there was one marginal inclusion – an album…

Music Quiz: Albums by Genre

Welcome back to this week’s music quiz. Congratulations to everyone who scored 28/28 last week. It looks like Rich Kamerman scored the fastest time! This week your challenge is to sort albums into genres. Even if you don’t know them,…

Music Quiz: Greatest Hits Albums VI

Things are getting predictable on Aphoristic Album Reviews this week, as we move onto the sixth installment of greatest hits albums picture clicking. It’s another eclectic bunch of artists, from The Animals to Snoop Dogg. There were no 20/20s last…

Music Quiz: Greatest Hits Albums #2

The Police Greatest Hits

There were a bunch of 20/20 scores in last week’s Greatest Hits Albums quiz, but Tony had the fastest reported score. Just like last week, you’re invited to join regular readers in identifying which artist a greatest hits collection belongs…

Music Quiz: Greatest Hits Albums #1

Congratulations to the Punk Panther and to Rich Kamerman, who both scored 20/20 in last week’s Classic Rock Cover Match quiz. This week, you’re invited to join regular readers in identifying which artist a greatest hits collection belongs to. Even…

Music Quiz: Album Cover Match Classic Rock

Neil Young and Crazy Horse Reactor

There were plenty of healthy scores in last week’s hard-to-Google band quiz – noone’s score could be described as “paltry”, “meagre”, or “meager”. EclecticMusicLover and Tony both scored 17 This week’s quiz is surprisingly tough. The median score is only…

Music Quiz: Last Last Last #1

Well done to Tony, who just pipped EclecticMusicLover for the best score in last week’s music quiz. Last week’s quiz was Last Last Last #2, so let’s keep working our way back to the first in the series. As before,…

Music Quiz: Last Last Last

Last week’s debut album quiz proved a little tough – Tony snuck through with a 19 This week your challenge is to identify an artist by a portmanteau of the last words of three of their songs. Whoever made it…

Music Quiz: Pick the Debut Album

Congratulations to Rich from KamerTunesBlog, who scored the only 30/30 in last week’s quiz. This week, your challenge is to correctly identify the title of a debut album when given three choices for each artist. As a hint, the self-titled…

Music by First Three Songs V

Congratulations to Tony, who scored the fastest 19/20 in last week’s quiz. This week, it’s more of the same – twenty albums to identify from their first three songs. I appreciate the eclecticism, spanning from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Drake.…

Music Quiz: First 3 Songs #9

Geoff Stephen won last week’s First 3 Songs VIII quiz, narrowly beating out EclecticMusicLover. This week’s challenge is the same format, linking the first three songs to their album. I scored 20/20, although it was hard work. I assume…

Music Quiz: First 3 Songs VIII

I think boppinsblog won last week’s challenge, although it’s hard to compare it with kingclover’s “pretty fast”. This week you need to identify an album by its first three songs. It’s an eclectic bunch, from John Denver to The…

Music Quiz: Live Albums

Johnny Cash Folsom Prison

Congratulations to James, from KeepsMeAlive, who scored the fastest time in last week’s 5 Letter Words in 1990s Songs quiz This week your challenge is to match the live album to the artist. I got down to a 50/50…

Music Quiz: Bands Spelling Test

Jim, music enthusiast, won last week’s quiz, blitzing the hall of fame backing bands quiz in exactly one minute. This week you need to identify the correct spelling of some notable bands. The Fyfes have always been strong spellers,…

Music Quiz: Hall of Fame And Bands

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band Live in New York City

EclecticMusicLover dominated last week’s quiz, with the only 20/20 score. This week, your challenge is to link the hall of fame acts with their backing bands. I think it’s pretty straightforward, so that it’s somewhat of a speed challenge. …

Music Quiz: Who Sang Which?

Radiohead Pablo Honey

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored 21/22 in last week’s band hometowns quiz. This week, your challenge is to differentiate between two similarly named songs. It was a good quiz, with a broad range of artists and eras. I scored…

Music Quiz: Hometowns of Musicians

There were a lot of strong entries in last week’s British or American quiz. But JP Robichaud emerged supreme, blitzing the quiz in less than a minute and realising that Whitesnake were British. This week’s challenge is also geographical –…

Music Quiz: British or American Bands

Iron Maiden Powerslave

Most contestants performed impressively in last week’s synonyms and antonyms quiz. The fastest time came from keepsmealive’s James Kalyn, who solved it in less than minute. This week your challenge is to guess whether the listed bands are from the…

Music Quiz: Synonym or Antonym

Welcome to this week’s music quiz. Success in last week’s secondary colours quiz was primarily determined by contestants’ familiarity with Gogol Bordello. Here’s ‘Start Wearing Purple’, a song that many of us missed. Congratulations to the contestants who scored 15.…

Music Quiz: Homophoney Hits

Last week we looked at singer name definitions. Congratulations to Tony, who scored the fastest time, although Msjadeli managed a very fast time on her second run through. This week we’re looking at Homophoney Hits, where song titles are replaced…

Music Quiz: Trivia Clicking

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest 28/28 in last week’s Paul quiz, more than three minutes ahead of Max. This week you need to link bands with trivia. It’s interesting, but for someone whose head is stuffed full of…

Music Quiz: Hits by Pauls

Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years

Tony managed a very strong 49/50 in last week’s tough rock sub-genres quiz, an excellent effort. This week’s quiz is shorter, but I found it challenging. You need to identify hits by seven artists named Paul. I scored 24/28…

Music Quiz: Rock Sub-Genres

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest time in last week’s golfing quiz. This week’s quiz is longer and more challenging. With 50 questions, you may wish to preload on some coffee first. I scored 47/50 with 5:24 remaining.…

Music Quiz: Musicians Golfing

Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who dominated last week’s Bands that Became Other Bands quiz – he scored 25, 16% ahead of four contestants tied on 21 This week’s challenge is a little more straightforward, I believe. You need to identify…

Music Quiz: Chart Toppers in the 1980s

Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who identified some obscure acts and scored 20/20 in last week’s quiz. This week’s challenge involves identifying acts who enjoyed a Billboard #1 single in the 1980s. Note that you don’t get disqualified for clicking a…

Music Quiz: Band or Song? V

The White Stripes De Stijl

Congratulations to Tony, who scored the fastest competitor time in last week’s AI-Generated 1970s Song Quiz. This week, you are presented with four names – one is the name of the band and three are songs by that band. You…

Music Quiz: Song Titles!

Congratulations to Music Enthusiast Jim, who scored the fastest time in last week’s Parentheses quiz. Last week it was parentheses, this week it’s exclamation marks! It’s pretty eclectic, with everything from Louis Armstrong to Bruno Mars. I had to…

Music Quiz: Songs with Parentheses

Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who scored the fastest time in last week’s quiz, narrowly beating Max. This week, regular reader KingClover has supplied a quiz for our enjoyment. You need to match the parts of song titles, including parentheses. …

Music Quiz: 1970s Bands by Member

Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans

Congratulations to KingClover, who scored the only 10/10 in last week’s quiz. A lot of contestants, including myself, didn’t recognise Motown’s Mary Wells. This week there’s a list of members from 30 well-known 1970s bands that you need to identify.…