Hey everybody. Welcome to the fourth week of Name That Tune at Popdose. First, I want to thank David for running last week’s superb game. This week’s game can’t possibly be as cool, but it will try.

For those new to the game, here’s how it works: I have uploaded twenty-one very brief song clips. Most of the songs are well known; none of them are obscure, though there are a couple that may be less well known than songs in past games. The clips are drawn from a variety of styles and decades, from the 1960s to the present. It’s likely that you’ll find a few of them instantly recognizable, while a few others you won’t know at all (but other people will).

There are two parts to this game. The first is guessing the songs themselves. The second part is guessing the puzzle song (clip 21). There’s no acrostic this time — the songs don’t spell anything — but the songs do all have something in common that should help with guessing the puzzle song. (And if the puzzle song is guessed early, that ought to help nail down the rest of the songs.)

Some songs may go unguessed the first time round. If songs remain ungessed after a day, I’ll upload longer clips.

The Rules (subject to modification in future games):

Greetings, gamers. Scraps is taking a much-needed break from his editing duties — we’d like to thank the good people at Pleasant Palms Resort and Rehabilitation Center for taking him in on such short notice — and has handed me the reins for this week’s installment, a more accurate title for which would be Spot That Sample.

In 2001 I created my own mix of the Beastie Boys song “Shake Your Rump” using the loop-based remix program Acid. I actually made two versions: an ‘A’ mix and then a version that consisted of all of the other loops I didn’t use in the first mix, which I dismissively dubbed the ‘Dregs’ mix. Over time, I preferred the Dregs mix to the original, and a year later, I took the best bits from the ‘A’ mix and added them to the Dregs mix, in order to build the perfect beast, as it were.

Your mission: name the songs I sampled in the Dregs mix.

There are 25 artists – and I use that term loosely, as one of them is not a musician – sampled throughout this track. Most of them are repeated a couple times throughout the song, though some are used only once. Any bits from the original Beastie Boys track (“It’s the joint,” “Shake your rump-ah,” the explosion) are not counted in the 25 samples. As for the styles of music contained within, well, I pretty much used anything in my CD collection in the area of 105 BPM that had a good beat, riff, or served as a good fill. And you Joel Whitburn disciples can put away your “Billboard” books: only a fifth of the songs in here cracked the Top 40. But if you know your modern rock, you’ll do just fine. Also, two different bits from the non-musician are included, but you only need to list them once.

The same rules apply as in Scraps’ games. Only three guesses per person between updates, so everyone has a chance to play. I’ll frequently recap the progress, listing the correct guesses in the order in which they appear in the song, so you’ll know where to look for other samples. Once all of the songs are revealed, I’ll post a follow-up trivia question in the forum about one of the artists. The first person to answer correctly wins a prize. No, it won’t be a lava lamp.

One last tip: your best bet is to listen to the song through headphones, so you don’t miss the lower-end snippets. Based on how quickly you jackals devoured his last game, I’m expecting this one to last roughly ten minutes. Are you ready, Mr. Burns? Are you set, Mr. Burns? Go, Mr. Burns!

Beastie Boys – Shake Your Rump (David Medsker Dregs Mix)

UPDATE: Here are individual files for the seven remaining samples.

Clip 3
Clip 4
Clip 11
Clip 13
Clip 15
Clip 19
Clip 22

Hey everybody. Welcome to the second week of Name That Tune. This week’s clips have a theme in common, which ought to quickly become evident. Let’s recap how the game works:

I have uploaded twenty-three very brief song clips. Most of the songs are famous; none of them are obscure. They are drawn from a variety of styles and decades, from the 1950s to the present. It’s likely that you’ll find a few of them instantly recognizable, while a few others you won’t know at all (but other people will).

There are two parts to this game. The first is guessing the songs themselves. The second part is guessing the puzzle song (clip 23). The first letter of the artist’s name for songs one through twenty spell a clue to the identity of song 23. (And if song 23 is guessed early, that ought to help nail down the rest of the songs.)

Some songs may go unguessed the first time round. If songs remain ungessed after a day, I’ll upload longer clips.

The Rules (subject to modification in future games):

UPDATE: Longer clips have been added for songs 1, 3, 9, and 13.

Hey folks. This is the first of a planned series of games of Name That Tune. Each of them is also a puzzle. Here’s how this one works:

I have uploaded twenty-one very brief song clips. Most of the songs are famous; none of them are obscure. They are drawn from a variety of styles and decades, from the 1950s to the present. It’s likely that you’ll find a few of them instantly recognizable, while a few others you won’t know at all (but other people will).

There are two parts to this game. The first is guessing the songs themselves. The second part is guessing the puzzle song (clip 21). The first letters of the names of the musicians for songs one through twenty spell a clue to the identity of song 21. (And if song 21 is guessed early, that ought to help nail down the rest of the songs.)

Some songs may go unguessed the first time round. If songs remain unguessed after a day, I’ll upload longer clips.

The Rules (subject to modification in future games):

• Maximum 3 guesses between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. (Updates will be made in the comments, filling in the spaces with the correct guesses so people can see the puzzle coming together.)
• Clip 21 may only be guessed once between updates.
• While I’m not going to be a stickler for spelling and punctuation, you must guess the correct musician and song title to a close approximation.

And here are the song clips:

1. Clip 1
2. Clip 2
3. Clip 3
4. Clip 4
5. Clip 5
6. Clip 6
7. Clip 7
8. Clip 8
9. Clip 9
10. Clip 10
11. Clip 11
12. Clip 12
13. Clip 13
14. Clip 14
15. Clip 15
16. Clip 16
17. Clip 17
18. Clip 18
19. Clip 19
20. Clip 20

And the Big Puzzle Clip:
Clip 21

If you’d prefer to download all the clips at once, we have a zip file and an rar file.

I suggest subscribing to the comments on the post (click on “Track Comments”) to more easily follow the progress of the game. Have fun!