Music Quiz: Bands by First and Last Album

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1. 11/15 ran out of time

   • Thanks for playing!

     • My pleasure 🙂

2. 12/15. The ones I didn’t get I just did not recognize. As to Kate Bush, I was just reading the other day that that song has become popular as it was apparently used in ‘Stranger Things.’ But it’s always gotten a lot FM play back in the day.

   • I’ve never heard Bush on the radio except Wuthering Heights’. Running Up That Hill makes sense as a radio hit – it’s about as normal as she gets.

     • Yeah, the opposite here. Wuthering Heights did nothing but we all loved ‘Hill.’ The one she did with Peter Gabriel was popular too. She is by no means a household name over here.

       • Wuthering Heights was the first self-penned number one hit from a female artist in the UK, and she did it while she was still a teenager. Have you heard about Wuthering Heights Day where people wear red dresses and reenact the music video?

         • Thankfully. No.

3. 15 with 3:34 remaining – so I think I had a slightly faster internet connection than you, otherwise it looks like a tie to me!

   • I was pretty slow out of the blocks when I did it – wasn’t very focused.

4. Actually no, you’re in the lead. Graham doesn’t count himself and neither of us got 15.

5. That was fun but very easy. 15/15 with 3:43 remaining. I’m out of town this week for a half-vacation/half-family-related trip, so I guess not having work on my mind kept my brain fairly sharp.

   • You’re in the lead – I do agree it’s an easy one though.

6. Dang, this was very hard! I only got 5/15 and gave up at 2:53 lol. This was still fun, though.

   • Thanks for playing!

     • No problem! Thanks for the quiz!

7. I gave up after guessing 11 out of 15.

   • Good work!

8. 14/15 for me. No joy in the one I missed.

   • I figured that one might be tough for some people. They’re pretty well known in New Zealand though – I bought all their records 25 years ago.

     • Nice.

       • Also, I like how their best-known song is an answer to Captain and Tenille’s ‘Love Will Keep Us Together?’

9. 15 / 15 with 3:42 remaining, that was a fun one. Always thought Hounds of Love was just a brilliant album – one side pop perfection, the other an ethereal concept album (And Dream of Sheep is a favourite) so happy to see it enjoying a renaissance and reaching a new generation of fans

   • Yeah, I hope people are listening to her other songs too. Certainly had an uptick of views of Kate Bush content on my site.

10. 15/15 with 03:51 remaining! I guess I did well this time around.

    • Ooh, you have the fastest time this week.

      • Awesome! I guess I knew this week’s artists quite well. There are some weeks when I don’t know half of them!

        • It was pretty album-oriented this week.

    • Oops, actually a later entry was even faster.

      • Oh well, I will settle for the podium then! =P

11. 15/15 w/ 4:03 left – Quite easy for me.

    Happy that Kate Bush is getting more popular than ever. Want to see Stranger Things to use XTC so they get the same treatment.

    • I don’t think anything with Partridge singing will have mass appeal so would have to be a Moulding song I reckon.

    • And fastest time!

12. 15/15 with 3:36 remaining and not a lucky guess at all this time.

    • Great work – you beat my time, although there are a few other faster scores than both of us.

13. 14/15 …DF…I don’t know much about them. JD I knew just enough to know who it was.

    • DP, right?

      • Yes! sorry

14. 14/15 It wasn’t working very good today cuz it was real slow and even after you got the right answer it took like a whole minute for the next album to come up, so I started all over and it was working a little better. But I still would have gotten one wrong because I always forget who did that album with the picture of the burning monk. A lot of times I don’t recognize an album if it’s a band that I hate. And I HATE Rage Against the Machine.

    • I like RATM a lot one song at a time, but I can’t handle full albums by them.