Friday, March 21st, 2008

Name That Tune, Game Ten

by Scraps

Hey everybody. Get your eardrums (and hammers and stirrups) ready for the tenth brow-bunching week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules are the order of the day! And here they are:

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. We’ve got a bumper crop this week: thirty-four clips to guess. 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 34). No acrostic this time, just a simple puzzle: the first 33 songs taken together are a clue to the identity of the puzzle song.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
    21. clip 21
    22. clip 22
    23. clip 23
    24. clip 24
    25. clip 25
    26. clip 26
    27. clip 27
    28. clip 28
    29. clip 29
    30. clip 30
    31. clip 31
    32. clip 32
    33. clip 33

    And the Puzzle Song:
    clip 34

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

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    • Yes, and yes! "Weak" by Sisters with Voices is correct -- and the puzzle song is indeed "One Beat" by the great, lamented Sleater-Kinney. (All the regular songs in the quiz have titles with one syllable -- one beat.)

      Congratulations, editgrrl, and if you send an email to jefito at popdose dot com, I believe he has a prize for you.

      Thanks everyone for playing!
    • 30. "Weak" by SWV (who wanted to be known as TLC)

      Verbs?
    • editgrrl
      #34/puzzle song: one beat by sleater-kinnet
    • editgrrl
      sorry, that would be sleater-kinney
    • Sorry - meant the puzzle song, not #30.
    • Man, even with the longer sample, I still can't place #30. It sounds like the intro to Weezer's "The Sweater Song", but I know that's not it.
    • Longer clips of the remaining two songs:

      Song 30

      Puzzle Song
    • Generally I'd prefer people not use Google, but work out of their own knowledge, but I suppose this late in the game anything that gets the songs guessed is okay.

      "Night" by Jackie WIlson and "Shout!" by Joey Dee and the Starliters are correct.

      One more regular song -- #30 -- plus the puzzle song. I'll post longer clips of both of those.
    • Shelley002
      Hmm...
      The clues help, I think #13 is Shout, but wondering which cover sent me scurrying for reference material. Which leads me to Joey Dee and the Starliters.
      So that means #3 is Jackie Wilson, more scurrying, one word titles...Night. Wasn't familiar with that one, but has that sweet, hokey 50's into 60's ballad feel. Nice.
      What a moron I must have been before Google was invented. Now I'm only as much of an idiot as I admit to being...
    • "Bent" is correct.
    • FreeAgent
      First time here...thanks for the new clues posted a few mins ago. That would make #14 "Bent" from Matchbox Twenty.
    • #3 - A big hit by one of the singers who helped define soul.

      #13 - A hit cover of a song that remains famous today. It was originally written as a response to a song by the singer of #3.

      #14 - The singer of this song appears elsewhere in this game.

      #30 - One of several hits by a modern vocal group who originally were intended to have a name that was taken by another group in this game.

      #34 - Major indie rock.
    • OFFICIAL UPDATE

      Four left, plus the puzzle song:

      01 Tears for Fears – Shout (brian ibbott)
      02 Usher – Burn (crystal)
      03
      04 Alan Parsons Project – Time (brian ibbott)
      05 Faith Hill - Breathe (eric)
      06 Cowsills – Hair (old davy)
      07 TLC – Creep (matthew bolin)
      08 Cars - Drive (brian ibbott)
      09 Gary Numan – Cars (jerry)
      10 Aretha Franklin – Think (matthew bolin)
      11 Irene Cara – Fame (eric)
      12 Culture Club – Time (eric)
      13
      14
      15 Prince – Cream (eric)
      16 Santana with Rob Thomas – Smooth (old davy)
      17 Bobby Darin - Things (jerry)
      18 Incubus – Drive (jerry)
      19 Radiohead – Creep (jerry)
      20 Frankie Valli – Grease (david medsker)
      21 Jennifer Paige – Crush (marko)
      22 Pink Floyd - Time (michael fortes)
      23 R.E.M. – Stand (old davy)
      24 David Bowie - Fame (old davy)
      25 Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories – Stay (david medsker)
      26 Brick – Dazz (oliver)
      27 Five Man Electrical Band – Signs (marko)
      28 Meredith Brooks – Bitch (matthew bolin)
      29 Carpenters - Sing (jerry)
      30
      31 Edwin Starr – War (marko)
      32 Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (david medsker)
      33 George Michael – Faith (marko)

      34
    • "Time" is correct.

      Update to follow.
    • MichaelFortes
      #22 is "Time" by Pink Floyd.
    • Damn hangover. You go all modern on me this week and my pounding skull helps me miss the whole thing. I knew a record number this week - and of course, none of the ones that haven't been guessed. Nice one this week Scraps!
    • Not "How Will I Know".
    • "Sing" is correct.
    • joesr723
      #30 How Will I Know by Whitney Houston ?
    • Eric
      29. Sing - The Carpenters
    • "Things" and "Fame" are correct.

      "Run" is incorrect.
    • Is #24 "Run" by Collective Soul?
    • Jerry
      17. Things - Bobby Darin
    • Old_Davy
      Ok, then is #24 Fame by David Bowie?
    • Whoops, thanks for the note about number 8. Brian's correct guess of "Drive" by the Cars will be reflected in the next update.

      "Breathe" is correct.

      "Photograph" is incorrect.
    • Eric
      BTW, you left out #8 from the official update. Brian Ibbott got that one.
    • Eric
      5. Breathe - Faith Hill
    • Old_Davy
      24. Photograph - Ringo Starr
    • OFFICIAL UPDATE:

      Eleven songs remain unguessed, plus the puzzle song. You all are mowing them down.

      01 Tears for Fears – Shout (brian ibbott)
      02 Usher – Burn (crystal)
      03
      04 Alan Parsons Project – Time (brian ibbott)
      05
      06 Cowsills – Hair (old davy)
      07 TLC – Creep (matthew bolin)
      08
      09 Gary Numan – Cars (jerry)
      10 Aretha Franklin – Think (matthew bolin)
      11 Irene Cara – Fame (eric)
      12 Culture Club – Time (eric)
      13
      14
      15 Prince – Cream (eric)
      16 Santana with Rob Thomas – Smooth (old davy)
      17
      18 Incubus – Drive (jerry)
      19 Radiohead – Creep (jerry)
      20 Frankie Valli – Grease (david medsker)
      21 Jennifer Paige – Crush (marko)
      22
      23 R.E.M. – Stand (old davy)
      24
      25 Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories – Stay (david medsker)
      26 Brick – Dazz (oliver)
      27 Five Man Electrical Band – Signs (marko)
      28 Meredith Brooks – Bitch (matthew bolin)
      29
      30
      31 Edwin Starr – War (marko)
      32 Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (david medsker)
      33 George Michael – Faith (marko)

      34
    • "Dazz" is correct.

      Update to follow.
    • oliver
      26. Dazz by Brick
    • Dreams, Creep, Think, Bitch, Burn, Grease, and Stay are all correct.
    • 25. "Stay," Lisa Loeb
    • 20: Grease, Frankie Valli
    • Crystal
      2. Usher "Burn"
    • 7. Creep - TLC
      10. Think - Aretha Franklin
      28. Bitch - Meredith Brooks
    • 32. Dreams, Fleetwood Mac
    • WHarrisBullzEye
      Had to rub it in, didn't you?
    • Yes. Yes I did.
    • "Gypsy" is incorrect.
    • WHarrisBullzEye
      Well, someone had to the break the accuracy streak. It might as well have been me.
    • Eric
      If it's any consolation, I think you were on the right track.
    • Old_Davy
      Or to paraphrase Dr. John, "Right vein, wrong arm".
    • Except "single word titles" isn't exactly what they all have in common.
    • WHarrisBullzEye
      32. Fleetwood Mac, "Gypsy"
    • All the guesses so far have been correct.
    • Marko, no more than three guesses per player between updates of the list, please.
    • Marko
      12 Time - Culture Club
      21 Crush - Jennifer Paige
      27 Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
      31 War - Edwin Starr
      33 Faith - George Michael
    • Eric
      11. Fame - Irena Cara
      12. Time - Culture Club
      15. Cream - Prince
    • Old_Davy
      23. Stand - REM
    • Old_Davy
      16. Smooth - Santana and Rob Thomas
    • Old_Davy
      6. Hair - The Cowsills
    • Jerry
      9. Cars - Gary Numan
      18. Drive - Incubus
      19. Creep - Radiohead
    • #1 Shout - Tears For Fears
      #4 Time - Alan Parsons Project
      #8 Drive - The Cars

      All single-word titles?
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