Bandwagonesque

[hirez]

Zipfile here, comments screened (with any luck), should be disturbingly easy if you've a mind to have a crack at the job.

Answers tonight, I think, otherwise you'll be kicking me rather than yourselves.

[ And the scoring thus far... (Updated)]

swisstone - 18
naughtypixie (& juliann. Couples, eh?) - 17
zoo_music_girl - 17
sheepthief - 14
zeocin - 13
_alexander_ - 13
halja - 11
spride - 10
mr_tom - 9
aeia - 7
agent_greige - 7
nils - 7
childeric - 6
naturalbornkaos - 5
mistressmalaise - 3

... Which leads me to believe that there's nothing so familiar as the inside of one's own record collection. Even if mine does seem to lurch from sixties psychedelia to old-skool hiphop and techno via earnest Peelbands and late seventies heavy metal.

... But soft, what lurching beings have lobbed an empty port bottle through yonder window? Verily 'tis the musical 'eavy mob storming into first and third, separated only by the Highgate gestalt.

Comments

[nils.livejournal.com]

6. Joy Division?

11. The Doors - L.A. Woman
12. Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
13. Prince

18. XTC - Making plans for Nigel

20. Nirvana - Come As You Are

!!!

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I recognise about a half of them, and can immediately name about half of those, but what's bothering me is that three of them I'd already picked out for my next quiz.

Re: !!!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There are only a finite amount of good Peelite intros to go around, I fear.

[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

15. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
20. Killing Joke - 80s (Or whatever Nirvana song ripped it off)

I recognise 1 and 5 as well but I couldn't name them.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

I am so shit at these. I recognise the first one, and definitely know the last one. The rest I don't have a clue.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

1) Substitute - The Who
2)
3)
4) Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Open(ed)
5)
6)
7)
8) MARRS - Pump Up the Volume
9)
10) Ummm... Orbital?
11) Golden Earring - Radar Love
12) Money - The Flying Lizards
13) Word up - Cameo
14)
15) Rolling Stones
16)
17) The Specials
18) XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
19)
20) Nirvana - Come as you are

Re: !!!

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Same here. I've done a couple of these lyrics quizzes and this one bugs me the most as there was stuff in there that I do know but can't for the life of me remember what.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

1: The Who - Substitute
2: Robyn Hitchcock?
3:
4:
5:
6:
7: Aphex Twin?
8: NWA - Fuck Tha Police
9:
10: The Orb?
11:
12: A rather squelchy version of "Louie, Louie"
13: Cameo (And they were!)- Word Up
14:
15: Creedence?
16:
17: The Specials?
18: XTC: Making Plans for Nigel
19:
20: Nirvana - Come as You Are

Oh dear. I really should have paid more attention in music class...

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Havent bothered with these before, but thought I'd have a go. I recognise some of the others but couldnt place the artist or title..

12 - Money Thats what I Want - by someone I dont know
13 - Cameo - Word Up
17 - Stranglers - Peaches
18 - XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
20 - Nirvana - Come as You are

[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

Answers from j and I (we're cheating).

1 the who - substitute
2 Can't remember (but I've heard it plenty before)
3 just about every 80's intro rolled into one. :) (it's familiar to J but she can't pick it.)
4 HAH! Didn't I give that to you? Severed heads - dead eyes opened.
5 sounds like ACDC but I can't think which track.
6 J guesses Sex pistols. I've no clue.
7 No clue.
8 MARIS - pump up the volume (j thinks its the extended version)
9 can't pick it (though it's all too familiar)
10 no clue
11 doors - LA woman
12 Flying lizards - Money (that's what I want)
13 cameo - word up
14 sounds like you've been on the 365 project website. I believe it's the 1968 plymouth radio commercial.
15 no clue
16 devo - working in a coal mine
17 no clue
18 no clue
19 no idea... sack of hammers maybe.
20 nirvana - come as you are

bum. so close on a lot of them too.

[ex-halja931.livejournal.com]

1. (No clue, though it does remind me of John Cougar Mellencamp, or whatever he is calling himself these days.)
2. (At first I thought, Johnny Cash, but then something inside of me said no.)
3. (Sounds like some techno version of Down In The Park.)
4. (No clue.)
5. (No clue but I like it!)
6. (Sounds like some old Joy Division tune.)
7. (No clue.)
8. (No clue.)
9. (No clue but I like it!)
10. (No clue.)
11. Sounds like some version of L.A. Woman by The Doors that I've not heard.
12. I Want Money - The Flying Lizards (you could not have been conscious in the 80s without hearing this song)
13. Word Up - Cameo (love that song!)
14. (No clue.)
15. (No clue.)
16. Working In A Coal Mine - Devo (I had this on a 45 rpm single!)
17. (No clue.)
18. (I should know this, it reminds me of The Cars. I've heard the song before, several times in the 80s.)
19. (At first I thought The Young Gods, but then I changed my mind. No clue.)
20. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

[childeric.livejournal.com]

1. The Who - Substitute
5. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
13. is something I dance to all the time, but I can't hear the words. It's a cover, isn't it? Or it has been famously covered. Aargh.
17. Prince Buster, or whatever the guy's name was???
20. Nirvana - Come as you are - though, interestingly, that's also almost exactly the same bass line as Killing Joke's 'Eighties'.

God, I've done miserably badly at this.

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Wow, I shouldn't do these things on a Sunday morning. I recognised about half of them, but I've always been crap at Name That Tune.

The only one I know for absolute certain is that #17 is "Gangsters" by the Specials.

#20 seems to be a trick question. I'm pretty certain it's "Come As You Are" by Nirvana but then again, it could be interchangeable just as easy with "Eighties" by Killing Joke...

I think #6 is "Interzone" by Joy Division.

#1 is *really* bugging me.

Gosh, I'm really not very good at this.

[metallikat.livejournal.com]

Um.. hradly knew any. And I bet some of these are wrong.

1- Substitutes - The Who
5- Humanoid - Stakker
7- Pump up the Volume - MARRS
12- Money - dunno who it's by!
13 - Word Up - Cameo
15 - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
18 - Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
20 - Comes as you Are - Nirvana

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

1. The Who, 'Substitute'
2. Indubitably The Fall - I'm guessing 'Pay Your Rates'
3.
4. That's Charles Gray! God knows what song it's off.
5. I think that's Led Zep, though it could be Purple.
6. Joy Division? Sound like Hooky's bass at the end.
7.
8. James Brown? No, don't be silly, Tony.
9. Billy Bragg, '(Go Motoring on the) A13'
10. Bugger, ought to know that. Orbital?
11. The Doors, 'L.A. Woman'
12. The Flying Lizards, 'Money'
13. Another I feel I ought to know. Is it Prince?
14. 'Baccaruda', by????
15. Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'
16.
17. Clearly it's not 'Gangsters' by the Specials, though it's stealing from them.
18. XTC, 'Making Plans for Nigel'
19. 'Telstar', by, by .... arse! No, The Tornados!
20. Nirvana, 'Come As You Are'

Dismal

[spride.livejournal.com]

I only got four. Ish.

1 - Who, "Substitute"
5 - AC/DC, "Whole lotta Rosie"
6 - Joy Division...agh, it's on the tip of my tongue...
12 - Flying Lizards, "Money"
18 - XTC, "Making Plans for Nigel"
21 - Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

The others are naggingly familiar but bear testimony to too much alcohol abuse and management.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

5. ACDC - Whole Lotta Rosie
6. Joy Division - Incubation
11. Doors - LA Woman
12. Flying Lizards - I want money
13. Cameo - Word Up
15. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
17. The Specials? I'm not sure I've ever known what this was, I only ever hear it mixed in with other ska/two tone in clubs.
18. XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
20. Nirvana - Come as you are

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

1 The Who - Substitute
2 ought to know, but don't
3 ought to know, but don't
4 Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Open =:-p
5 argh! I know this! I have it! bugger...
6 Joy Division - Incubation
7 no idea
8 Missy Elliot, but I'm getting confused by KLF / Utah Saints
9 no idea
10 Prodigy - Charly
11 no idea
12 Flying Lizards - Money
13 Prince? I've heard it, but...
14 "Well it ain't Barracuda man, but I think we've got a hit record" (I know the lyrics, but have no idea who or what it is)
15 no idea
16 Devo - Working Down a Coalmine
17 Specials - Gangsters
18 XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
19 JHR sampling a sack of spanners in a washing machine unaware that there are giant mutant radio-active ants coming up behind him
20 I ought to know this, I think I have it...

[ex-halja931.livejournal.com]

Wow. How did I earn 11 points?!

How do you assign points and when do we get to learn of the answers?

Curious, I am.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

One point per band or song.

About now.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not the only one that thought Prince then!

well here wer mine anyway.. if you want to give me a score, thogh i guess i could give myself one :)

[twicezero.livejournal.com]

1 substitute - the who
3
4
5
6 joy division - gotta be off unknown pleasures?
7
8
9
10 Lfo LFO
11
12 money - but who did it? gah!
13 Falco - word up
14
15
16
17 specials - gansters
18 XTC - plans for nigel
19
20 nivana - come as you are

Re: well here wer mine anyway.. if you want to give me a score, thogh i guess i could give myself on

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I make that an oblong thirteen.

(Incubation was on the 'free' flexi that came with the early copies of the Transmission 12", IIRC. And I think on Substance-JD, the yellow one and Heart & Soul. Nothing like flogging a dead singer is there, Mr Wilson?)

Of course saddo completist JD fanboys will buy them anyway...

Re: well here wer mine anyway.. if you want to give me a score, thogh i guess i could give myself on

[twicezero.livejournal.com]

I guess i must have it twice, at least, though they don't seem to get an outing like Closer does...