Cover Me, Game Thirty-One

David Medsker April 13, 2009 35

Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep you honest. You must guess both the artist and album cover. In order to keep things simple, live albums, soundtracks and singles compilations will not be used, and with all apologies to our European and Japanese friends, we are going with the covers that appeared in the US record stores…back when we had record stores. Sigh.

The rules are the same as Name That Tune. Each player can make three guesses between updates (“Update” is defined as “The time when I post a comment listing all of the covers that have been guessed correctly”), so everyone will have a chance to contribute. And, just to spice things up, we have a puzzle cover this week, yay! One guess per player of the puzzle between updates, please.

Also there is an acrostic this week. The FIRST letter to each band or artist’s name will spell out a clue as to the puzzle cover’s identity, so there are two parts to the puzzle. One is solving the acrostic, and the other is the identity of the puzzle cover. I am also adding a couple rules for this week’s game: anyone who is a member of the Popdose or Bullz-Eye staffs, along with those who are friends with me on Facebook, are welcome to guess as many covers as they like, but they cannot guess the “puzzle” cover. And once the cover is guessed, then the rest of you will understand why Cover Me is taking a couple of weeks off. But don’t worry, there is already a quiz in queue for the first Wednesday in May. Thank you, good luck, and I’ll see you in May.

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Lastly, the Puzzle Cover

I suggest subscribing to the comments on the post (click on “Track Comments”) to more easily follow the progress of the game. Remember, maximum of three guesses between updates of the list. Have fun!

  • scraps

    15. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    SCRAPS! I can't tell you how happy I am to see you posting again. Devo is correct.

  • Gary Lucy

    20. Ivy 'Apartment Life'

  • Gary Lucy

    5. Lindsey Buckingham 'Out of the Cradle'

  • scraps

    It's hard. But thanks.

  • Gary Lucy

    2. Molly Hatchet 'Flirtin' with Disaster'

  • LuRew

    14 Edgar Winter – They Only Come Out at Night
    23. Evanescence – Fallen

  • kmbone

    9. Bruce Hornsby & the Range, “The Way It Is.”

  • kmbone

    And 10. Eurythmics, “Savage”

  • Jerry

    8. Alicia Keys – The Diary of Alicia Keys
    16. Sting – Dream of the Blue Turtles
    22. Howard Jones – Human's Lib

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    All guesses so far are correct.

  • bv

    6. Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds

  • luffy66

    Honeymoon Suite- The Big Prize

  • luffy66

    #12 that is

  • ozarkmatt

    #7 Zebra 'Zebra'

  • Marko

    3. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Yellow Magic Orchestra

  • http://harpandthistle.blogspot.com RLB

    Acrostic: “AMY ELIZABETH MEDSKER IS HERE.”

    Congrats!

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Izzy, Honeymoon Suite, Zebra and YMO are correct. Time for an UPDATE:

    1.
    2. Molly Hatchet, Flirtin' with Disaster (Gary Lucy)
    3. Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yellow Magic Orchestra (Marko)
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    5. Lindsey Buckingham, Out of the Cradle (Gary Lucy)
    6. Izzy Stradlin, Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds (bv)
    7. Zebra, Zebra (ozarkmatt)
    8. Alicia Keys, The Diary of Alicia Keys (Jerry)
    9. Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Way It Is (kmbone)
    10. Eurythmics, Savage (kmbone)
    11.
    12. Honeymoon Suite, The Big Prize (luffy66)
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    14. Edgar Winter Band, They Only Come Out at Night (LuRew)
    15. Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (scraps)
    16. Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (Jerry)
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    20. Ivy, Apartment Life (Gary Lucy)
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    22. Howard Jones, Human's Lib (Jerry)
    23. Evanescence, Fallen (LuRew)
    24.
    25.

  • Gary Lucy

    4. EN VOGUE Funky Divas… welcome Amy!

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    Congrats from me as well, daddy Medsker!

    I look forward to reading her review of the new Wiggles DVD.

  • http://jbacardi.wordpress.com Johnny Bacardi

    11: Tanita Tikaram, Ancient Heart

  • David_E

    25. England Dan & John Ford Coley – Nights Are Forever

  • TuffGong

    19. Run-DMC – Raising Hell

  • Jerry

    18. Eels – Electro-Shock Blues

    And congratulations!

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Tanita Tikaram, Run DMC, Eels and England Dan (RIP) and John Ford Coley are correct.

  • Eric S.

    Don't know if anybody saw it, but Entertainment Weekly ran their own album cover game last week: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20269417,00.html

    Not nearly as entertaining as “Cover Me”

    I was sure the puzzle cover was “Pop Goes The World” by Men Without Hats, but the mouth is wrong

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    I had the same thought, but when I looked up “Pop Goes the World”, I couldn't match it up to the puzzle picture.

    (Though I suppose I should have been suspicious at the fact that the puzzle picture was much sharper than they usually are.)

  • Pete

    1. Apollo 440 – Gettin' High on Your Own Supply

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Apollo 440 is correct. Time for some CLUES:

    13. Popster that stunned former hipsters with a damn good covers album.
    17. Label-hopping debut by high school friend of the Neptunes
    21. British metal (first wave) band.
    24. Debut album by band whose singer was once married to a babe actress.

  • RoyBatty

    21. Saxon – Crusader

  • http://www.popdose.com jefito

    13 is my girlfriend, Mandy Moore, with “Coverage.”

  • http://www.yarnivore.com/francis Francis

    Is the puzzle cover the Mighty WAH? (^_^)

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Yeah, something like that. :)

    All right, I'm giving away the final two covers.

    17. Kenna – New Sacred Cow
    24. Remy Zero – Remy Zero

    See you in May!

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Yeah, something like that. :)

    All right, I'm giving away the final two covers.

    17. Kenna – New Sacred Cow
    24. Remy Zero – Remy Zero

    See you in May!

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Yeah, something like that. :)

    All right, I'm giving away the final two covers.

    17. Kenna – New Sacred Cow
    24. Remy Zero – Remy Zero

    See you in May!