Welcome to week 8 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge.
Here are the results so far:
| Participant | Week 7 | Total |
| Sheik Yerbouti | 20 | 139 |
| Tony | 19 | 137 |
| jprobichaud | 19 | 135 |
| Rich Kamerman | 19 | 135 |
| Geoff (1001) | 19 | 134 |
| John (2loud2old) | 17 | 132 |
| Max (badfinger20) | 18 | 128 |
| Jim | 16 | 127 |
| Paul | 15 | 119 |
| Chris (moviesandsongs) | 15 | 116 |
| J. | Not yet | 74 |
This week’s quiz is at: https://www.sporcle.com/games/MSUKent/artist-by-popular-spotify-songs-viii
I scored 18/20 (I think this one is genuinely the hardest yet), the average is 58%, what did you score? For the first week since I’ve been posting these there hasn’t been a new one added to the series, so the 17th in the series might be the last.
My misses so far: The Partridge Family, Post Malone, Snoop Dogg, ‘The Kid is Hot Tonite’, ‘Blue Velvet’ (even though I’ve seen the movie).
If you missed the early weeks and want to catch up, you can find the previous quizzes at https://albumreviews.blog/category/sporcle/
In New Zealand there are signs that the Coronavirus might be coming under control – we’re halfway through a 4 week lockdown, and case numbers are coming under control. It looks quite possible that we might have a less stringent phase coming in a couple of weeks where most people can return to work and school (except maybe in hard hit areas).
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19/20. I shocked myself on this one. How come I know who did the ‘Baby Got Back’ artist in addition to the guy who did ‘Blue Velvet?’ Although on the latter I guessed every 50’s guy I could think of. I did not know the artist who covered ‘Teen Spirit.’ But this quiz was all over the map. I even knew who sung ‘You Need to Calm Down’ which has been said to me many times.
I was reading a thread on a music forum yesterday about how a lot of legit artists have covers among their most popular songs. Obviously happening to Victoria as well.
Victoria…??
Victoria Amos…
Ah. OK, I don’t think Tori is short for Victoria. Nickname or stage name or something.
Yeah, I just looked it up. Was trying to refer to her without giving the answer away.
Ah, no worries bro.
19/20 but I kicked myself over the artist who sang ‘Blue Velvet’. I’m wondering if it was all the Canadian artists that stumped you on this one…
I missed a Canadian band – I always assumed from their name that they were European.
Only 17/20 for me this week, with at least one of the missed artists being on the tip of my tongue. Definitely the most challenging quiz in this series so far.
I thought it was tougher, but marks have been pretty high so far. Maybe it’s just not a very cool quiz this week, and that’s why we struggled?
That must be the reason. Haha.
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19/20 I missed the one who covered Nirvana…and I knew it…I can’t believe knew some of the other ones.
Weird how the cover is among her most played – she has plenty of great original songs.
20/20 – I knew the ‘Blue Velvet’ singer from the film itself as I went to check the soundtrack after watching it and thank god I knew ‘Joy of the World’ through that one Friends episode
I just don’t get how anyone knows the Canadian 1980s band that starts with L.
For that band, I knew ‘Working for the Weekend’ from one of the GTA games
17 of 20 for me so actually a bit higher than my 15 average. 🙂 The Blue Velvet one was right on tip of my tongue as was the Novel Young People on a city unit of measurement…. And I got the Canadian 80s band right off the bat – I hated them when I was in high school.
Glad to hear the covid situation is getting better down there – I fear up here its going to be a while although there may be glimmers of hope for flattening the curve.
We were down to 29 new cases today – easily our best yet. Still have another 2 weeks of lockdown, which makes sense, and school might not start up straight away after that.
15/20. I guess there are many who know the tune Blue Velvet but not the artist. Myself included!
Have you seen the movie?
I’ve seen the film a few times, reviewed it here: https://moviesandsongs365.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/film-review-blue-velvet-1986/
I didn’t realise your blog had been going for almost ten years – I knew that you bought it over from blogspot to Wordpress a few years ago.
17 out of 20. Oh well. Not bad and that one was harder.
Good work. I just have no idea about Loverboy.
See, that one was easy for me. I grew up at that time, plus I ranked their albums last year, so right up my alley.
20/20 and I’m in shock at getting the Blue Velvet guy; he can only be in my memory thanks to David Lynch.
Here…well; having queues for 50 mins to get into a supermarket this morning (at least it’s sunny out this time) I saw the headlines on the papers all reading “no end to lockdown in sight”. So we’ll see. I try to avoid the news online and on tv as it’s not good for my mental health, there’s also a tendency for the media to over report at the best of times.
It’s dominating the news, but I guess that makes sense since most people are home and there’s no sport on.
18 – I guessed the wrong Bobby (Rydell!) & I didn’t know any of the songs by the most recent artists. If they’d chosen her 2009-2014 songs, I would have been more familiar
I like her last album – lots of good stuff on it.