Music Quiz: 4 Decades of Music Hits VIII

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1. 17/24. I knew every one of those songs but alas, was often off by a decade. Jolene surprised me. The site decided to go smart ass on me and said, “Of all the scores you could have gotten, that was one of them.” No argument there.

   • It’s hard to refute Sporcle’s point…. I think most of Parton’s big songs are from the 1970s?

     • Beats the hell out of me. My knowledge of country music is slightly above nil.

2. 14/25 with 2:25 left

   • Good effort!

     • You’re kind 🙂

3. 20 and I can’t believe I got Metallica wrong, shoot me.

   • I assumed it was from the self titled record but it was much earlier.

     • I made the same assumption. It’s off the 1984 Ride the Lightning album.

4. 24, with 2:44 to go.
   A couple close calls with guessing on a few of the ’60s/’70s but it worked out in the end!

   • I think you’re the only perfect score so far – and fast too.

5. I got 22/24 with 2.59 to spare.

   • Good followup to last week’s success.

6. 20/24 – the artists I got wrong were Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, 4 Non Blondes and Santeria.

   • Santeria is the song by the way. Sublime is the band. I like how you almost got one wrong from each decade.

   • 20/24 for me as well. I missed the Tom Jones one and some others I can’t recall. The 90s tracks were easy, though!

     • Thanks for playing – good first up score!

7. 23/24. Missed it by *that* much.

   • So close!

8. SCORE
   24/24
   TIMER
   02:27 I need to look up Santeria…complete guess

   • Santeria is the song, Sublime is the band by the way. Guessing 1990s if you don’t know it is probably a good strategy.

9. 23/24 and I missed the same one you did. Ironically, I wrote a 4-part series on the Metallica discography in 2013, so I should hang my head in shame for missing a perfect score.

   • James and Lars are very disappointed.

10. 23/24. I got Metallica wrong.

    • Looks like everyone missed Metallica.

11. 19/24 with 2:54 remaining. Picked the wrong option with Metallica, Dusty, U2, Marley, The Kinks. D’oh.

    • Good work. Dusty in Memphis is an amazing record btw.

      • Oh, I know! I have the extended version of it… just couldn’t think of the year!

12. 22/24 so not too bad. 2:24 remaining on the clock, not that it matters since people got 100%.

    • You did well though.

13. 17/24 is not great. I was guessing, half the time. It appears I don’t pay as much attention to decades/years as I thought I did.

    • I have a history degree…

      • Cool! That means you mind works that way naturally, by now. My mind, well, it’s a gibbering monkey clapping cymbals, most of the time… yet I’ll remember weirdly specific things at odd times, but not usually when I need them!

14. 23 of 24 with 2:15 left – missed the Radiohead one. Some were educated guesses.

    • Radiohead have been around since 1985, so….

      • Never been gotten into them

        • It took me a long time – I thought they were depressing and boring for ages.