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I don’t know what we will do with our lives now that almost 50 rounds of compilations are done. But we could try linking albums to artists. Even if you don’t know the albums, you should be able to link…

It’s the final quiz in the series. It’s dedicated entirely to Beatles compilations. It’s a weird quiz, with some gimmes like 1 and The Blue Album, but also some tricky ones. Even people who know every Beatles song probably don’t…

Welcome back to the final conventional week of this epic series. There’s a number 50, but it’s dedicated entirely to Beatles’ compilations. Does anyone know why 49 isn’t IL in Roman numerals? I scored 13/20 this week. I struggled…

We’re almost through this epic series. It’s getting a little obscure – I know little of P-Square or Half Japanese. Lots of country artists this week. Can you beat my score of 15/20? Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who top-scored with…

We’re almost at the end of this epic series – just three more to go after this quiz, one of which is dedicated entirely to The Beatles. You probably know the drill by now – link the artist to the…

We’re up to quiz 46 in our greatest hits sequence – congratulations for sticking it out so long. This week’s seemed the easiest for a while – I could guess based on genre conventions. I scored 15/20 but probably…

We’re up to quiz #45 in the series. 45AD was the year the Roman senate consulted about real estate speculation in Rome. Can you score 20/20 in this quiz. I’d be impressed if you can. I scored 11 I got fixated…

Welcome back for more quizzing. We’re up to #44, and the artists are getting ever more obscure. I scored 13 It quickly got difficult after Bert and Ernie. Can you beat me? Congratulations to Deke and Rich Kamerman, who…

We’re up to quiz #43. I found this one tricky with many artists I wasn’t familiar with. Can you tell Samantha Fox from Hilary Duff? I scored 13 I liked Squeeze’s witty album cover though. Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who…

We’re back into the normal rhythm of greatest hits albums. There are a few I haven’t heard of this week. Is anyone into Guano Apes? Or N-Dubz? I scored 16 Can you beat me? Congratulations to Tony, who scored…

There’s a changeup this week after 40 quizzes of the same format. Your challenge is to locate the greatest hits album based on two songs from it. I somehow scored 16/16, with a series of educated guesses. I had…

We’re up to greatest hits quiz 40. According to my maths, we had a five-way tie for first at 14/20 last week – congratulations to all the winners. It’s another tricky one this week. The 1960s male bands (as well…

It’s spring here in New Zealand, which means insanely high winds most of the time. It’s lovely when the winds stop though. This is one of the tougher Greatest Hits quizzes, at least for me. There weren’t many artists I’m…

Welcome to the future (if you’re reading this in the Americas). It’s already 29 August here, and it’s time for some quizzing. We’re up to #37 in this long-running series. This week you need to tell the difference between the…

It’s just another day of quizzing. Can you match 20 disparate artists to their greatest hits? I could do it with 85% efficiency, scoring 17 The overall results were interesting – Adam Lambert is apparently more recognisable than Freddie…

Number 36 in the series, and as we know, the sum of the integers from 1 to 36 is 666. Can you match the artist to the cover of their greatest hits? I find it difficult to believe that Sandi Thom…

We’re up to installment number 35 of Greatest Hits. Can you link these artists to their compilation covers? I scored 18 It would have helped if I’d known Conway Twitty’s gender…. Can you beat me? Congratulations to HeavyMetalOverlord and…

We’re still slogging through greatest hits collections. There were many artists I care deeply about in this edition. The Flaming Lips, Cheap Trick, Bo Diddley, Talk Talk, Tom Waits, Ariana Grande, and the Delfonics are all worthwhile. Despite my…

In the year 33AD, a financial crisis hit Rome. In Greatest Hits XXXIII, you have another selection of 20 increasingly obscure artists to guess. Can you tell The Zombies from The Yardbirds? Connected to The Yardbirds, John Mayall passed…

Welcome back for another week of quizzing. We’re up to round 32 of greatest hits. Can you distinguish between Jimmy Somerville and Blake Shelton? I scored 16 I was confused by sixties star Sandie Shaw, who looked like a…

Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Can you link 20 (increasingly obscure) artists to their greatest hits albums? There seem to be increasing numbers of artists I don’t care about (sorry Gareth Gates) but I scrounged my way…

Good morning (NZ time), and I hope you’re ready for another round of quizzing. Like before, you need to link 20 greatest hits albums with their artists. I scored 14/20 – can you beat me? Apart from Ron Mael’s…

Welcome back for #29 in a series that seemingly never ends. Well done to EclecticMusicLover, who top scored with 19 I scored 17/20, which I was happy with. I’d never heard of Letters to Cleo, Baccara, or Katherine Jenkins.…

No one scored more than 19/20 in last week’s quiz. I’m not sure if this week’s task is any easier – I thought it was one of the tougher ones of the series. I scored 15/20 – there were…

You know the drill – 20 more greatest hits albums to identify. Can you match the heroics of Tony, who scored 20/20 with more than 2 minutes remaining in last week’s quiz? I scored 20/20 this week (with 41…

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover who had the only perfect score in last week’s quiz. My performance this week is a little controversial. I was interrupted 3/4 of the way through, forgot to pause, and had to restart. I tried to reconstruct…

Another week, and the artists are just getting more obscure. Can you guess these 20 artists from their greatest hits albums? Somehow, I thrifted my way to 19 I had a slight advantage where there’s a relatively obscure NZ…

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest 20/20 in last week’s quiz. Someone made a ton of these Greatest Hits quizzes. We didn’t start at number 1, but we’re down to #24. This week’s challenge involves distinguishing between a bevy…

Another week, another batch of increasingly obscure artists. This lot’s particularly eclectic, with everything from Reba McEntire to Captain Beefheart. Can you differentiate between Coolio and Shaggy? Or between Snow Patrol and Milli Vanilli? I was surprisingly successful this…

Welcome back for another round of quizzing. It’s a little trickier this week in my opinion. Can you tell the difference between Cascada and Jessica Simpson? I scored 17/20, but I was a little lucky. Can you surpass me?…

You probably know the drill by now – match the artist to the greatest hits album. I found this week’s selection the easiest for a while, scoring 18 Guessing between Mis-Teeq and Eternal felt like a coin toss, though.…

It’s ANZAC Day here in New Zealand, where we remember the Gallipoli campaign, a disastrous attack on a Turkish peninsula during World War 1. It also would have been my dad’s 80th birthday – he was born during World War…

Welcome back for another week of quizzing! This week we have yet another collection of greatest hits albums. I scored 5(!) out of 20. I found all the hard rock acts hard to differentiate. Thin Lizzy and Zappa were…

Noone scored 20 in last week’s quiz – congratulations to Tony, EclecticMusicLover, and Rich Kamerman, who all peaked at 19. There’s more of the same this week – can you identify 20 more greatest hits albums. I found the selection…

It’s that time of the week – identifying more compilations! There are a few compilations in my collection this week. But also some weird, tricky, arty covers that you might find tough even if you know the artist. I…

These greatest hits quizzes are fun, so let’s do another one. Identify the greatest hits based on its cover. IMO this was easier than the last few, with some big-name bands. But I did it when I was tired and…

You probably know the drill by now – link the artist to the greatest hits compilation. We’re down to the fifteenth selection of twenty artists, so it’s getting pretty obscure. I like the collection of artists who don’t usually surface…

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…

Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for yet another round of identifying greatest hits albums. Just like last week, identify the greatest hits album given the artist and title. I scored 17/20 – it was a little…

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. Congratulations to Heavy Metal…

I was a keen buyer of greatest hits records in my teens. With a limited budget, they were bang for your buck, and they suited the CD format of the 1990s – often the LP length of 40 minutes wasn’t…

Welcome back. If you’re in America or the UK, it’s still probably “Pash Wednesday”. This has happened twice since World War 2, when Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day. To honour this, we have a love-titled…

Welcome back to another round of quizzing. Last week, a late-ish entry from Tony, replete with coffee, blitzed the field. This week, you challenge is to fill in the blank of a song title with the photo of a place.…

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…

Last week’s quiz produced a tie between 2loud2oldmusic and Geoff Stephen. This week we’re continuing the theme of less-than-blockbuster hit songs. Your challenge is to identify artists by the their three biggest hits on the Billboard Hot 100 that failed…

Welcome back. Kingclover won last week’s quiz, a tough challenge of 1980s small hits. This week, we’re dealing with more minor hits. Can you match 20 artists with 20 songs for twenty #20 hits? I found it tough –…

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…

Congratulations to Jim, who won for the second consecutive week, narrowly in front of a few other contestants. This week, it’s the sequel. It’s a little easier as there are only thirty answers to deal with. I scored 30/30…

I’m on holiday, so I’m drafting this up slightly early. Congratulations to Jim, Music Enthusiast, who scored full marks with the fastest time in last week’s quiz. This week your challenge is to insert a popular phrase into a pair…

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…

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…

Congratulations to Tony, who joined me on 18/20 in last week’s Album Covers III quiz. This week your challenge is to identify the correctly spelled band names. As a web editor, looking for spelling mistakes is my job, so…

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…

Welcome back for another music quiz. Last week Heavy Metal Overlord was the most adept at telling the difference between Dulux paint colours and progressive rock bands. This week’s task should prove a little easier – can you match the…

Congratulations to Tony, the fastest contestant to score 24/24 in last week’s 1990s quiz. This week, your challenge is distinguishing between progressive rock bands and… Dulux paint colours. I like a lot of prog rock, especially the 1970s giants…

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? …

Welcome back for another music quiz. Last week’s results were tight – lots of people clocked in around 2:50, but KingClover and Max tied for the fastest time. This week, your challenge is to fill in the missing adjectives in…

Welcome back to this week’s quiz. I had to prepare this post in advance as I’m on holiday, so at the time of writing it wasn’t clear who won last week. This week, your challenge is to link song titles…

Another week, another quiz. The defender of the crown this week is JB Robichaud from , who scored 27/28 in last week’s albums by decade quiz. This week your challenge is to link songs to badly drawn renderings of the…

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…

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,…

Welcome back to this week’s music quiz. It was a tough quiz last week, but Max from powerpop.blog and Rich Kamerman tiee with 18 This week, we have a sorting gallery of classic rock albums for your pleasure. Sorting gallery…

Congratulations to 2loud2old and Tony, who both scored 20/20 in last week’s greatest hits VII quiz. It is with an air of inevitability that we move on to greatest hits VIII. Can you identify the 20 bands responsible for these…

We’re up to number 7 in our series. Can you identify the greatest hits by its cover? Congratulations to 2loud2oldmusic and EclecticMusicLover, who tied last week on 18. This week’s challenge was a lot tougher, at least for me: …

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…

We had two 19/20 entries in last week’s quiz – 2loud2oldmusic had the fastest recorded time. This week your challenge is, again, to identify an eclectic bunch of greatest hits. This set runs the gamut from The Carpenters to Nelly.…

Congratulations to Max, who won last week’s Great Hits Albums IV quiz. I also forgot to announce a winner the previous week – apologies to Tony, who won comfortably. Just like the previous two weeks, you’re invited to join regular…

Just like the previous two weeks, you’re invited to join regular readers in identifying which artist a greatest hits collection belongs to. Even if you don’t know the compilation in question, you can figure some out based on iconography and…

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…

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…

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…

Congratulations to James Kalyn, who scored 18/18 in less than a minute in last week’s Hard to Google Bands quiz Just like last week, your challenge is to identify a band from two of its popular songs. All of these…

Tony last week’s last Last Last Last quiz lasted less than one minute, making him the last from last place. In other words, the winner. This week you need to identify a band from two of its popular songs. All…

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,…

Welcome back! Last week, quite a few people managed to score 21/21 in the Last Last Last #3 quiz, but Rich Kamerman was fastest. It’s more of the same this week, with Last Last Last #2. Your challenge is to…

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…

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…

Congratulations to Tony, who scored 20/20 in last week’s quiz. This week’s quiz perhaps requires a bit less musical expertise than usual – some of it’s more general knowledge. It’s in a Jeopardy-style format. I scored 30/30 with 2:53…

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.…

Congratulations to Tony, who just pipped EclecticMusicLover in last week’s First Three Songs #10 quiz, both scoring 19 It’s another tough one this week, although maybe slightly easier and more oriented toward guitar rock. Just like last week, I’ve only…

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored a perfect 20/20 in last week’s quiz. I found this week’s quiz tough – it’s the last one in the series, and they may have been running out of recognisable acts. I’ve only heard six…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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. …

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…

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 –…

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…

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.…

Noone scored 100% in last week’s Dead Before 30 quiz, but congratulations to everyone who scored 21. Both Avicii and Pigpen proved challenging. This week, your challenge is to complete song titles with secondary colours. I scored 14/15 –…

Congratulations to Tony, who scored a highly credible 23/24 in last week’s Albums with Title Tracks Removed quiz. This week your challenge is to identify 22 rock and pop musicians who died prematurely. I scored 22/24 – I was…