Name That Tune!

There are twenty song clips below, from twenty different songs. Name the song and the artist.

Rules

1. You get 1 point if you name the song.
2. You get 1 point if you name the artist.
3. Leave your answers in comments.
4. If you've never commented here before, you'll be in moderation until I free you. Don't worry, I'll get to it.
5. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but me.
6. The contest ends on Friday, November 9^th, 11:00AM my time - east coast US. I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
7. Hints for any song which hasn't been identified yet will be provided, Thursday PM.

OK? Go!

It's over!

And the winner, with an impressive 58 out of 60 points is...

And he wins: accolades, congratulations and salutations!

Full results, and answers.

El yay!

Here we go again!

You know how it goes: there are twenty song clips below, from twenty different songs, from twenty different artists. Name the song and the artist. But this time, there's more! In addition to the 20 song clips, there are 20 album cover clips: match the song to the album cover for another point!

The theme: songs from albums with great album covers, mostly classic rock.

Rules

1. You get 1 point if you name the song.
2. You get 1 point if you name the artist.
3. You get 1 point if you match the song to its album cover.
4. Therefore, three points are available for each.
5. Leave your answers in comments.
6. If you've never commented here before, you'll be in moderation until I free you. Don't worry, I'll get to it.
7. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but me.
8. The contest ends on Friday, May 18^th, 11:00AM my time - east coast US. I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
9. Hints for any song which hasn't been identified yet will be provided, Thursday AM.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20

OK? Go!

Another one has ended.

And the winner is...

And he wins: the admiration of his peers!

Congratulations!

Here are the results and answers:

I do like how everyone who got the Frank Black / Beefheart connection got a different one than what I was using. Though my connection makes the Beefheart / Robyn Hitchcock connection a little easier.

So, I guess we'll take a break from these for a while.

OK. it's over.

Update: Extended to the end of the week.

It's back.

The theme this time is : The Rock Cycle - redux.

The name-that-tune part is the same as always: you get one point for identifying the song, and another point for identifying the artist. But, the theme adds a new twist.

The "rock" part is easy - though it's not all "rock", and I've gone about as obscure as I dare go, this time. The "Cycle" part is a bit more involved.
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Get your brains ready.

Here is the wrap-up for NTT #21! Take it away, MikeJ!
(Crap. This was supposed to be scheduled for noon...sorry!)

The winner, as usual, Platosearwax! His prize, a ruby! Or a picture of Ruby Beach, where I went last week.

Norwad supermen are our betters.

It appears many people figured out that no matter how many albums you have when 50 of them are Frank Sinatra, he's going to show up in my NTT. It might not happen next time.
Cleek was the first to spot Galaxie 500. Many of the people who got Victoria Justice apologized or had some excuse. Pre teen daughters is your best bet here. I was actually surprised how many people got Negative Creep with no lyrics, just a howl. Good job!

Cleek came up with Iggy Pop (not a soda) in the extended time.
Shock and awe = Massive Attack
Huge Celebrities = Big Star

Over all, it did seem to be tougher than many have been. I tried to include lyrics for pointers, and the two that went completely unidentified even with hints were instrumental clips. A winning score of 33 out of 40 is doubly impressive with the degree of difficulty.

Here we go again!

You know how it goes: there are twenty song clips below, from twenty different songs, from twenty different artists. Name the song and the artist.

The theme, according to MikeJ who put this together, is: "Kind of a Halloween theme, but monster mash is not one of the twenty."

Rules

1. You get 1 point if you name the song.
2. You get 1 point if you name the artist.
3. Therefore, you get two points if you name both.
4. Leave your answers in comments.
5. If you've never commented here before, you'll be in moderation until I free you. Don't worry, I'll get to it.
6. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but MikeJ.
7. The contest ends on Monday, October 24^th Tuesday, October 25^th, 12:00pm 8:00AM my time - east coast US. I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
8. Perhaps MikeJ will provide hints... ?

General Hints

• Every song refers to the theme in the title.

Name That Tune #20 is over!

This was a tough one, apparently. The later songs, from 2001 onward, gave most of you a bit of trouble - as expected, honestly. For those later years, I had a hard time finding things I thought people might know, without leaving the confines of my own iTunes collection (which was the second, unstated, theme). Usually, I'll make clips from Amazon or iTunes preview, if I know I want to use a song, but don't have a copy of the song handy. This time, though, I stuck with what I already have, and the pickings were relatively slim for recent years.

Now for the good stuff:

The winner, with a total of 48 points (plus a tie-breaking bonus for ID'ing a song that I had to remove because of screw-up with the date) is:

Congratulations, you have won this months Pulitzer Prize^* for meritorious achievement in the field of song clip identification!

Sweet.

And a hat-tip to MikeJ for the tie, but without the bonus.

Here are the results and the answers. As always, feel free to double-check my scoring.

Whew.

* - No, not really. Property of the Pulitzer Foundation or whatever, etc..