Name That Tune, Game Six

 

Hey everybody. Welcome to the sixth game of Name That Tune at Popdose. Let’s start with the rules:

The Rules (subject to modification in future games):

  • Maximum three guesses between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play.
  • 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.

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, from the 1920s 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 main twenty songs. The second part is guessing the puzzle song (clip 21). This time there’s no acrostic — no real puzzle, in fact — song 21 is just harder (I think) than the others. All the songs share something in common that will quickly become obvious, and the thing they have in common is truer of song 21 than any of the others. In addition, the order of the first twenty songs points toward song 21 (just not in a spelling way this time).

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:
clip 21

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

  • 1. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
    3. Arrested Development - Mr. Wendel
    4. Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
    14.Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
    20. Mary Poppins - I Love To Laugh

    Tough.
  • Tara: Please check rule #1.
    You may pick any of those three and reguess them.
  • Ah, sorry about that. I've never been great with directions :/
  • 10. "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
    14. "Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell
  • 19. They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" - Napoleon XIV
  • 8. The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
  • Scraps
    "Tattooed Love Boys", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Isn't She Lovely", "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It", "Mr. Wendall", "Hungry Like the Wolf", and "I Love to Laugh" are all correct.

    Tara, I've verified your guesses, but as Matthew said, please guess no more than three songs between updates of the list.
  • 17. The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
  • 18. The Beatles - I Am the Walrus
  • 16. James Brown - Cold Sweat
  • 5. is "I Know What Boys Like," The Waitresses.

    20. is "I Love To Laugh" from Mary Poppins—that's Ed Wynn chuckling away.

    15 ...is that from Al Green's cover of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"?
  • (Actually, I just checked - and no, it isn't. And I see that someone beat me to "I Love To Laugh," too. Damn. At least I was first with the Waitresses track...!)
  • 15 - "Tighten Up", Archie Bell & the Drells
  • 2. "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check", Busta Rhymes
  • "The Laughing Gnome". "Woo Hah! Got You All in Check", "Tighten Up", "I Know What Boys Like", "Cold Sweat", and "I Am the Walrus" are all correct.
  • Oh, and "I Know What Boys Like" is of course correct as well.
  • Before a single update, we're down to six songs, plus the puzzle song!

    01 Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
    02 Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah! Got You All in Check
    03 Arrested Development - Mr. Wendall
    04 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
    05 Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like
    06
    07
    08 Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
    09
    10 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
    11
    12
    13
    14 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
    15 Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up
    16 James Brown - Cold Sweat
    17 David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
    18 Beatles - I Am the Walrus
    19 Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!
    20 Ed Wynn and Dick Van Dyke - I Love to Laugh

    21
  • 11. Moonlight Feels Right" - Starbuck
  • "Moonlight Feels Right" is correct.
  • That's what I get for showing up late. The ones I spotted have already been guessed.
  • 21. "The Laughing Policeman" - Charlie Penrose
  • Is 13 "University" by Throwing Muses?

    Probably not, but since everyone else guessed the ones I knew while I was Tai Chi, I'm left with the hard ones as usual.

    Though I could've sworn I heard Fishbone on either 2 or 3 ...
  • Gary takes away the big prize with Charles Penrose's "The Laughing Policeman", a huge 1920s hit that has never entirely vanished in England. Its chorus entirely consists of variations on laughing.

    Good work, Gary!
  • So the order of the songs is the year of release, in reverse chronological order, pointing backward to the 1920s. Very cool, Scraps.

    I love this feature, BTW. I was missing it last Friday!
  • Not "University", and not Fishbone.

    Five songs to go.
  • Thanks! Sorry for the absence last week. And you're right about the song order.
  • D'oh. I actually have to do work at work and I miss the whole thing. But at least 7 sounds very familiar to me...
  • Cryptic Ned
    The only ones I recognized were 1, 5, 8, and 9, and now I see that nobody else recognized 9. It's "Leppo and the Jooves" by the Soft Boys.

    -Cryptic Ned
  • "Leppo and the Jooves" is correct.
  • 01 Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
    02 Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah! Got You All in Check
    03 Arrested Development - Mr. Wendall
    04 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
    05 Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like
    06 SINGLE BY FAMOUS AMERICAN PUNK BAND
    07 SINGLE BY LESS FAMOUS PUNK BAND FROM SAME CITY
    08 Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
    09 Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves
    10 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
    11 Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
    12 FROM INFLUENTIAL ALBUM, KINDA SURPRISED IT'S UNGUESSED
    13 HIT SINGLE BY A GUY WHO HAD A MUCH MORE FAMOUS SINGLE
    14 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
    15 Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up
    16 James Brown - Cold Sweat
    17 David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
    18 Beatles - I Am the Walrus
    19 Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!
    20 Ed Wynn and Dick Van Dyke - I Love to Laugh

    21 Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman
  • Old_Davy
    I think #13 is "Claire" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
  • "Clair" is correct.

    Three to go.
  • MichaelFortes
    #7 sounds to me like "Ha Ha Ha" by Flipper.
  • "Ha Ha Ha" is correct.

    Just two more. I didn't expect them to be the last two.
  • 6. Dead Kennedys - Bleed for Me
  • "Bleed for Me" is correct.

    One more!

    #12 is from the first solo album by one of the most influential figures in modern music.
  • Cryptic Ned
    The clues help now...#6 is "Bleed For Me" by the Dead Kennedys

    The clip makes it sound like the tempo is slower than the song really is.
  • Yeah, that part of the song is where the ferocity cuts out for a more restrained menace.
  • Cryptic Ned
    Oops, someone was clued in by the San Francisconess of Flipper before I was. Sorry.
  • Ah. Got it now....

    12. Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk
  • That's the last one!

    01 Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
    02 Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah! Got You All in Check
    03 Arrested Development - Mr. Wendall
    04 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
    05 Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like
    06 Dead Kennedys - Bleed for Me
    07 Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
    08 Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
    09 Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves
    10 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
    11 Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
    12 Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk
    13 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Clair
    14 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
    15 Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up
    16 James Brown - Cold Sweat
    17 David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
    18 Beatles - I Am the Walrus
    19 Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!
    20 Ed Wynn and Dick Van Dyke - I Love to Laugh

    21 Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman

    Thanks for playing, everybody!
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