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 Stone’s Top 500 albums.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/tk926/artists_top_500_album
I’m generally stronger at album quizzes than song quizzes, and I scored 38/38 with 8:20 remaining. Can you beat my time?
Bonus question, what’s the worst couplet from The 1975’s ‘Part of the Band’? I have a lot of affection for them, but Matty Healy’s lyrical voice is quite unique…
At home, somewhere I don’t like
Eating stuff off of motorbikes
Coming to her lookalikes
I can’t get the language right
Just tell me what’s unladylike
I know some Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas
Sittin’ east on their communista keisters
Writin’ about their ejaculations
“I like my men like I like my coffee
Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won’t offend anybody”
While staining the pages of the nation, oh, yeah
The worst inside of us begets
That feeling on the internet
It’s like someone intended it
(Like advertising cigarettes)
A diamond in the rough begets
The diamond with a scruff you get
Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke?
Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke
Callin’ his ego imagination?
I’ve not picked up that in a thousand four hundred days
And nine hours and sixteen minutes, babe
It’s kind of my daily iteration
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35/38 for me, and the three I missed are in an obvious gray area of my music knowledge. I know all the artists and would probably recognize the album covers, but the titles didn’t ring any bells.
It’s a shame there weren’t pictures then…
As you know, I don’t know albums as well as singles, but managed to score 36/38, and gave up trying to guess the last two with 3:03 remaining.
36 is very credible – good job!
24/38 but I should have known 3 of those I missed. Ran out of time.
Great effort!
🙂
SCORE
38/38
TIMER
02:12
I’m happy…I totally threw out rapper’s names left and right at the end and got it. This is one time my love of a certain small Memphis band paid off. I just looked at the 500 list last week…I don’t agree with some of it but I know it pretty well.
My vote would be The worst inside of us begets
That feeling on the internet…. it seems so forced.
I think that Rolling Stone list is generally pretty good at covering lots of bases. Good job on the perfect score.
A variety yea…I can agree on that part but the placements I didn’t like on some…
I didn’t really know the lyrics before to that The 1975 song but it made me laugh. I don’t know which is the worst couplet, but the best one Is the one about the vaccinista and the barista. It’s funny I think, In a weird kind of way.
The song is only a week old. The lyrics don’t read great on paper but I think they work fine in song.
36/38. But I gave up with 5:30 left cuz I didn’t know those ones about Third Sisters and Wildflowers. I bet ya they’re kind of recent. I always miss those ones.
Neither is very recent! Both acts with their first albums in the 1970s.
Now that I looked to see what they were it’s like Oh, of course. The one album must have been two titles smushed together so I didn’t recognize it . And I just forgot the other one, although a little while later I thought of Judy Collins because she had an album called Wildflowers, But that didn’t really sound right either.
Third/Sister Lovers has a convoluted history – it was issued after the band had broken up. Wildflowers is a solo album, without the usual backing band, but the singles got a lot of play as the artist was riding a second wave of momentum.
I’m not sure If I ever did listen to that album but I listened to Radio City cuz I was hoping that maybe It was a concept album about Radio City Music Hall or something. Lmao!! Because I love Radio City Music Hall cuz it reminds me of my childhood. The Christmas show and everything. But the album wasn’t about that needless to say. ha.
Radio City is one of my favourite albums – great songs with unpredictable arrangements.
After everything I heard about them I was expecting the Big Star albums to be whole entire albums of songs like his old Box Top songs. Like Soul Deep and The Letter and all them ones, but they didn’t sound anything like it.
Yup, it’s amazing how much Chilton changed – his voice is less husky on the later Big Star stuff, it’s usually the other way around (get huskier as you get older).
29/38 for me. Not great, but I’ll take it.
I got 13/38, whch is 34%. Could’ve been worse, so I’m fine with that!
Yup, I think only two artists who debuted in the 21st century, both rappers.
Yeah, rap isn’t my thing. So of course, I wouldn’t know about those artists.
I just looked at that Rolling Stone list and it is just absurd. Well, actually you can’t argue with about half of them but the other half don’t even deserve one, let alone three.
I never travel far, without a little Big Star…. 35/38 before waving the white flag, wouldn’t have guessed the others in a month of Sundays.
As for those lyrics… I think they’re possibly the worst I’ve seen since Walking In Your Footsteps, if not massively worse as these feel like they’re trying to say something but it comes across like pretentious fridge magnet twaddle. At list Sting managed to get some questions in for the mighty brontosaurus that made us all ponder our place in the chain of life….
35 is a good effort.
I think Healy is a bit more tongue-in-cheek than Sumner, which helps his case.