Music Quiz: Today I Learned

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1. Thanks to mullet, Pesci & Swift I only got 17/20 this week. Oh well, it was still a fun one.

   • You’re in the lead at this point, although I think someone will probably overhaul 17. Mullet, Pesci, Swift is a random assortment of words.

2. 11/20. The things I thought were false were true and vice versa. Who knows what the truth is anymore?

   • We live in a world where people believe that reptoids are planning to take over….

     • Maybe where you live.

3. Only 15/15 this time. The one about Taylor Swift goes to show how blindly loyal – and clueless – fans can be.

   • “Turns out that Taylor Swift fans really will listen to anything she releases. Due to a glitch in the Canadian version of iTunes, a Taylor Swift song titled “Track 3” was released on Tuesday and immediately shot to the top of the charts. But fans who downloaded the song were bummed to realize that they had purchased eight seconds of static noise for $1.29.”

     • I would not have been able to distinguish eight seconds of static noise from most of her output.

   • It seems like a tiny little micro-era that’s long gone, of Itunes downloads affecting the charts.

     • First off, I meant 15/20. Second, now streaming stats dictate the charts.

       • I was assuming 15 out of 20.

4. 16 of 20 – That was alot of fun and now I need to look up the Hendrx Pesci band. I also can’t believe that mullet one – I would have thought that the word is much older

   • It’s amazing how much Hendrix had to play in journeyman bands before he got his breakthrough. He seems like an obvious talent.

     • Agree I saw too where he was in Little Richards band as well as some point.

5. SCORE
   15/20

   I learned some but…BTS and they bring in THAT much money?

   • Even in millions instead of billions it would be impressive.

     • Oh yes that would be…but billions…wow.

6. 16/20 for me, and some of these I still can’t believe are true. Also, a brand new reason to ridicule Smash Mouth? Yes please.

   • That Smash Mouth factoid is pretty tragic. Good score.

7. 15/20 – the ones I got incorrect was Joe Pesci, Eminem, CBGB, Mullet and Smash Mouth.

   Another astonishing musical fact that I know of that could fit in this quiz is the diet of David Bowie during the mid 70s consisting of red peppers, milk and cocaine.

   • Bowie also flirted with fascism at this point, but still managed to make my favourite Bowie album Station to Station.

8. Definitely a fun one but I only achieved 12/20.

   • As long as you learned something!

9. Playing catch up here… 15/20 on this one.