Music Quiz: Find the Band Member VII

Congratulations to occasional contestant Heavy Metal Overlord, who scored the fastest time in last week’s Find The Band Member quiz.

Due to poor advanced planning on my part, we’re now up to Find the Band Member VII. We started at VI, and worked backwards – now there are a couple at the end to finish up.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/MSUKent/find-the-band-member-vii

I think the earlier ones are generally easier – I scored 20/24 this time around. I was pleased to see Andy Partridge included though.

In other news, my wife and I have been watching the Netflix series This Is Pop (incidentally, named after a song by Andy Partridge). It’s been interesting as largely it’s about areas of music I don’t know much about – like the first episode was about BoyzIIMen. Here are some interesting things I learned over the first few episodes:

  • producer and engineer Ken Scott, who started his career working with The Beatles, was interviewed about Auto-tune. One of the attractions of Auto-tune is that it saves a lot of time capturing the perfect vocal on recording sessions. Lennon and McCartney were both excellent singers who could usually get a good take quickly, but the best vocalist Scott worked with was David Bowie, who nailed 95% of his vocals in one take.
  • Brandi Carlile’s first three concerts were all Tanya Tucker. Carlile is an articulate interview too.
  • On the Sweden episode, about how Sweden became a stealth pop superpower, it was pointed out that Sweden was able to success because most people in Sweden are fluent in English.

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  1. I only got 18. I didn’t know that they were called the Silver Platters on The Brady Bunch. I’ve seen it a million times but I didn’t know that’s what they were called. I remember the name of their big song though, It’s a Sunshine Day.

      • Did you know that the Brady Bunch actually had a whole album, and they did a Carole King song on it? I never heard the album but the song they did is a great one called Sweet Sweetheart that’s on Carole King’s Writer album. She sings it with Merry Clayton. I’m not really anxious to hear The Brady Bunch version though. I’m sure it’s dreadful. Or maybe it’s fucking fantastic, who knows?, and I could have put it on that list of Best Carole King Cover Songs a couple weeks ago. LMAO!!!

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