Congratulations to Tony (https://mumblingabout.com/), who narrowly defeated Murphy’s Law in last week’s Aphoristic Album Reviews Part 2 music quiz.
After an epic 50 question last week, this week’s quiz is a little shorter. There are 10 different shots of David Bowie throughout his career – your task is to match the image to the year.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Nacchi/david-bowie-through-the-years
I scored 9/10 – I found it gets tough in the middle years (the golden years?). Can you beat me in your knowledge of Bowie’s Sound and Vision? Let me know your score!
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You beat me I got 8 of 10.
8 is pretty solid – good job.
10/10! I guess it helped that I explored his albums this summer, so still fresh in the mind.
You’re the only 10 so far, good work.
5/10. Pretty lousy, just some random guessing in there.
Are you a fan? You tend to go for roots stuff, but he is pretty universally loved classic rock m.
Bowie? Oh, yeah, I absoutely loved his stuff. Great artist. I just couldn’t nail down his look versus the era, especially not in under two minutes.
Do you have a favourite Bowie guitarist? He had so many good ones – I’d probably pump for Fripp or Ronson.
I’d go with Ronson. I liked his style.
BTW, speaking of ‘roots stuff,’ stay tuned.
I got 6/10. I am horrible with timelines.
Thanks for sharing!
7/10 – I didn’t miss any until I hit the 1990’s
Yeah, that’s where I had trouble too.
9/10 for me too. I got stumped between ’93 & ’99 but the others were obvious to me. Considering my multi-part Bowie series in 2011-2012 was the most visited of anything I’ve written, and also my favorite revisited catalog, I really should have gotten 100% this week.
I think that’s where I had issues to – easy to spot the aged ones, and the early ones are easy to link to an album.
This will be easy… Oh… Ok, let’s not tell our score.
I almost think one for each year of the 1970s would have been easier.
OK so I binned because I played on a phone and didn’t realise if I scrolled there were more than four pictures for longer than I’m proud to admit. Yikes
Phone’s always an impediment I find.
8 for me – a couple of tricky ones in there.
Solid score J.!
9/10. ’99 was a queen bitch.
To quote last week’s other feature artist on this site “last year was a son of a bitch” (but I think he was talking about Trump).
9/10 for me, the later years were the struggle – not much difference between ’09 and ’15
I found the middle trickier – he definitely aged a bit by ’15.
6/10, I like to believe this is because of Bowies timeless character rather than any inadequacy of memory on my part.
Thanks for playing!
10/10 with 1:40 left on the clock! I have spent pretty much every day of the past several years listening to him, talking about him, and looking at the big framed picture of him on my wall though…
Great score – this quiz has thrown up a few different winners than usual, which is nice.
7-10. Helped that it was in chrono order so can go from younger to older pics to help
Yes – good score!
Love Bowie – but apparently I didn’t keep track of his post-Labyrinth looks!
6/10
His pants were never as tight again….