Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for yet another round of identifying greatest hits albums. As with the last few weeks, identify the greatest hits album given the artist and title.
I scored 15/20 – I got a few answers incorrect in the middle before picking up steam at the end. I thought it was tough, but your mileage may vary.
Can you beat my score?
Congratulations to last week’s joint winners, UK #1s Blog and Heavy Metal Overlord. HMO had the fastest recorded time.
There have been a couple of notable passings this week.
Karl Wallinger, who was part of The Waterboys during their “Big Music” era. He struck out on his own with World Party.
And Eric Carmen, lead singer of The Raspberries. I like how his gritty lead vocal elevates this Dirty Dancing track.
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After a terrible performance last week, I came roaring back with a vengeance today with 20/20 and 2:10 left on the clock. Only needed a couple of educated guesses at the end. I’m sure my time will be beat but I’m pleased with how I did.
Sad news about Eric Carmen and Karl Wallinger. I saw World Party in 1990 but left the show early. The opening act was Jellyfish (supporting their debut album) and they blew me away. By the time WP came on stage, I just couldn’t get into it even though I was a fan. I was probably also exhausted from work and wanted to get home, but I rarely left shows before they ended so in hindsight I regret my decision.
Great score – it was a tough one this week.
Getting Jellyfish as an opener is pretty sweet – they feel maybe more famous than World Party at this point.
10/20. World Party made good music, Karl too young to go. I saw Eric Carmen live once at Grand Valley State U (College back then) after he broke off from The Raspberries. I love(d) his voice.
It’s cool you know World Party – they’re pretty obscure in the scheme of things. Carmen had a great voice – he could do high and pure, or low and raspy.
Graham, I learned about them through a Greenpeace 2-CD set I bought or got as a donation gift many moons ago. Ship of Fools is on one. I loved the song so much I did a little research on Karl.
This one? https://realgroovy.co.nz/product/610836/greenpeace-rainbow-warriors-2cd
The Rainbow Warrior was a protest ship that got blown up by French spies in New Zealand.
My 2 CDs looks different than that. I knew Greenpeace tried to stop whaling, maybe clubbing baby harp seals, and other atrocities, but I had no idea that French spies blew it up 🙁
The French were doing open-air nuclear testing in the Pacific, and Greenpeace were (justifiably) protesting about that.
🙁 So the French weren’t/aren’t all bagels, wine, and tall towers along the Champs Elysee, like in Joni Mitchell songs? How horrible!
Various – Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors (1989)
Only 14/20 for me. A few bands I’ve never heard of, and had no idea what several bands’ greatest hits albums even look like.
RE: your other topic, I’ve had unusual Twitter experiences with both Eric Carmen and the Last Dinner Party. I was a long-time fan of Carmen, beginning with his time as front man for The Raspberries. Several years ago, I was surprised and thrilled to discover one day that he followed me on Twitter, so I happily followed him back. Over time, however, he turned into a major Trumper, and tweeted frequent negative diatribes about Democrats and the Left. As a result I eventually unfollowed him. He later left Twitter altogether.
A few weeks ago, shortly after I posted my Weekly Top 30 on X, in which I tagged The Last Dinner Party whose song “Nothing Matters” was #6 on my list, they followed me on X, then quickly unfollowed me!
Yup, I’ve heard that Carmen was a rare right-wing rocker. There aren’t that many of them – or if there are, they tend to keep it under wraps.
That’s weird about The Last Dinner Party following you, then unfollowing you so quickly.
It was really disappointing that Carmen had become so embittered. And yeah, I was first thrilled, then deflated when The Last Dinner Party did that. They could have at least liked my post, but no…
Carmen was perhaps not atypical for a 74-year-old while male from Cleveland. But a bit frustrating.
Yup, number 14 in the series, so it’s getting obscure. I hadn’t seen a lot of them, and had to puzzle them out by genre conventions etc. I think 14 is a pretty good score.
A tougher one this week, not helped by some sloppy guesses in the early stages. But I rallied round a bit as it went on and got 16/20.
You did very well – 16 was a popular score this week.
16/20 for me as a few of those I had no clue whatsoever.
Good score though, after 14 quizzes they’re kind of delving into obscurity.
Yeah, I guess that is the case.
16/20 – I’m pretty happy with that
Yup – good effort, you beat me.