Cover Me, Game Thirty-Three

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.

There is no acrostic this week, but there is a flagrant violation of one of the rules listed above. Good luck!

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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!

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  • Songs from Cool World is actually No. 9, which also violates the rules, right?
  • Ah - well that makes it googly-simple. "Splendor." (I was convinced that was a punk's 'do - alas.)
  • Splendor it is, and a mighty fine soundtrack it is at that.

    Thanks everyone, and I'll see you next week.
  • Here's your clue for the puzzle cover:

    It is, as far as I know, the only soundtrack that Astralwerks has ever released.
  • Threesome is correct. Excess Baggage is incorrect.

    I actually can't tell you anything about the movie for the puzzle cover, but the second I saw the track listing, I bought it. A unique compilation, to be sure.
  • John Q.
    And the puzzle is "Excess Baggage"?
  • John Q.
    24 is the Josh Charles classic "Threesome".
  • Benny & Joon is correct. All right, NOW there's one main cover and the puzzle cover, both of which were released in the '90s.
  • Pete
    11. Benny & Joon (great movie, btw)
  • Go is correct. One more and the puzzle to go...
  • Pete
    17 is "Go".
  • Top Gun, Breakfast Club, Twister, The Crow and The Big Chill are correct, and I'm frankly shocked that no one has gotten #17 yet.
  • DrNecessitor
    10. - the Big Chill
  • Thierry
    13. The Crow
  • Antti
    3. Top Gun
    16. Breakfast Club
    22. Twister
  • Wow, that was quick. Seven correct answers in 12 minutes. Time for an UPDATE:

    1. Soundtrack, The Commitments (PaoloBassotti)
    2. Soundtrack, Garden State (kmbone)
    3.
    4. Soundtrack, Pretty in Pink (arensb)
    5. Soundtrack, The Bodyguard (antti)
    6. Soundtrack, Grease (Jefferson)
    7. Soundtrack, The Craft (Jack)
    8. Soundtrack, So I Married an Axe Murderer (RLB)
    9. Soundtrack, Cool World (arensb)
    10.
    11.
    12. Soundtrack, Clueless (antti)
    13.
    14. Soundtrack, Until the End of the World (kmbone)
    15. Soundtrack, Trainspotting (PaoloBassotti)
    16.
    17.
    18. Soundtrack, Heavy Metal (Jerry)
    19. Soundtrack, Run Lola Run (arensb)
    20. Soundtrack, Pulp Fiction (Jack)
    21. Soundtrack, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Jerry)
    22.
    23. Soundtrack, Good Will Hunting (Jerry)
    24.
    25. Soundtrack, Reality Bites (antti)
    Puzzle:
  • So the acrostic so far is SS_SSSSSS__S_SS__SSSS_S_S.

    I'm drawing a blank.
  • It's Whitesnake, duh.
  • jack
    20. Pulp Fiction
  • 1. The Commitments
  • jack
    7. The Craft
  • 15. Trainspotting
  • 8. might be So I Married an Axe Murderer? Loved that one.
  • kmbone
    And #2 is Garden State.
  • kmbone
    Is #14 the "Until the End of the World" soundtrack?
  • Grease, Clueless, The Bodyguard and Reality Bites are correct.
  • Antti
    5. The Bodyguard
    12. Clueless
    25. Reality Bites
  • Jefferson
    6. Grease
  • My wife loves Run Lola Run, and she had no idea what that cover was. Nicely done, arensb.

    All guesses so far are correct.
  • Seeing how I have both the DVD and the soundtrack album, I'm surprised I only recognized it after Pretty in Pink and Coolworld, neither of which I've seen.

    And I'm kicking myself for not recognizing the Canadian helicopter on #21, or the 80s hair in #18.
  • 19. Soundtrack to Lola Rennt, aka Run Lola Run.
  • Jerry
    18. Heavy Metal - Soundtrack
  • Jerry
    21. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Sountrack
  • Jerry
    23. Good Will Hunting soundtrack - Various artists
  • 5. Songs from Cool World.
  • I meant 9, not 5. Argh. Bad fingers! Bad, bad fingers!
  • 4. "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack, which violates the rules.
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