Name That Tune, Game Eleven

Scraps March 28, 2008 70

Hey everybody. Welcome to the eleventh hair-pulling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. You know what I like at the start of a game? A set of clear rules.

The Rules (subject to modification in future games):

  • MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An update of the list is when I post the entire list of correct guesses.
  • The Puzzle clip 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.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. The clips are drawn from a variety of styles and decades. 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). Once again, we’re doing an acrostic game: The first letter of the name of the artist of the first 20 songs spells out a clue to the identity of the puzzle song. (And of course, 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 unguessed after a day, I’ll upload longer clips.And here are the 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 Puzzle Song:
    The Puzzle Song

    I suggest subscribing to the comments on the post (click on “Track Comments”) to more easily follow the progress of the game. Have fun! And one more time — because we continue to have some trouble with this — MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES BETWEEN OFFICIAL UPDATES OF THE LIST (which will be labeled “Official Update”). Thanks!

    • http://playitandbedamned.blogspot.com Rob

      Is “All the Young Dudes” by Mott the Hoople the puzzle song? Just a hunch. And probably a bad one.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      Not the Orb, and not Mott the Hoople.

    • JonCummings

      #2 is absolutely, positively Nervous Norvous, “Transfusion.”

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      “Transfusion” it is.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      Since the C in the puzzle seems to be leading people astray, I will volunteer that it is an initial, but does not stand for City.

    • JonCummings

      On #11, when you say “lead track,” do you mean the first track on the CD, or the first single released from it?

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      First track. Sorry for the confusion.

    • JonCummings

      Kim Carnes? Karen Carpenter? Keith Carradine?

    • Old_Davy

      Kelly Clarkson?

    • JonCummings

      #11– Orbital, The Girl with the Sun in Her Head ?????

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      “The Girl with the Sun in Her Head” is correct.

      All that's left is the puzzle song.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      So, does the acrostic help anyone at all here? If not, I'll post a longer clip sometime tomorrow, probably noonish.

      01 U U2, New Year's Day (old davy)
      02 N Nervous Norvus, Transfusion (jon cummings)
      03 P Pet Shop Boys, It's a Sin (matthew bolin)
      04 L Linda Ronstadt, It's So Easy (old davy)
      05 U Undertones, Teenage Kicks (michael fortes)
      06 G Ginuwine, Differences (drcastrato)
      07 G Grass Roots, Let's Live for Today (drcastrato)
      08 E Elton John, I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (michael fortes)
      09 D Dionne Farris, I Know (eric)
      10 B Bill Conti, Gonna Fly Now (old davy)
      11 O Orbital, The Girl with the Sun in Her Head (jon cummings)
      12 O Ohio Express, Yummy Yummy Yummy (michael fortes)
      13 S Specials, A Message to You Rudy (michael fortes)
      14 T Third Eye Blind, How's It Going to Be (matthew bolin)
      15 F Foreigner, Cold as Ice (old davy)
      16 R Redbone, The Witch Queen of New Orleans (volley)
      17 O OutKast, Spread (matthew bolin)
      18 M Motels, Only the Lonely (eric)
      19 K Kraftwerk, Europe Endless (matthew bolin)
      20 C Cake, Short Skirt, Long Jacket (eric)

      21 the puzzle song

    • http://mostlymodernmedia.wordpress.com Beau

      Take me down to the Kraftwerk City, where the grass is functionally synthesized …

    • JonCummings

      Wild guess on the Puzzle song: I'm going for “KC” meaning Kurt Cobain, so a song from Nirvana Unplugged. Is it the Meat Puppets' “Lake of Fire”?

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      YES, it is “Lake of Fire” by the Meat Puppets! Nicely done!

      I believe if you drop a note to Jefito at popdose dot com, he will have a prize for you.

      Thanks everybody for playing!

    • http://www.drcastrato.blogspot.com drcastrato

      wow. so i was on the right track after all, thinking it might be E.C. – eric clapton, uplugged. right idea, wrong artist. good work everyone, and thanks for the wonderful game, scraps.

    • Old_Davy

      I think it would be very interesting if Scraps told us which clips he thought would be the easy ones and which would be the hard ones to guess while setting up the game.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      Just saw this. I'm actually trying to make all of them about equivalently hard, making shorter clips or clips from hard-to-guess parts of the song for more famous songs, and making more obvious clips for more obscure songs, etc. Most of the time when I've had some idea that clips are particularly easy or hard, I've been wrong.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      Just saw this. I'm actually trying to make all of them about equivalently hard, making shorter clips or clips from hard-to-guess parts of the song for more famous songs, and making more obvious clips for more obscure songs, etc. Most of the time when I've had some idea that clips are particularly easy or hard, I've been wrong.

    • http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/ Scraps

      Just saw this. I'm actually trying to make all of them about equivalently hard, making shorter clips or clips from hard-to-guess parts of the song for more famous songs, and making more obvious clips for more obscure songs, etc. Most of the time when I've had some idea that clips are particularly easy or hard, I've been wrong.