After an entire year off, it's back!

Yay!

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

Note: These audio clips might not be safe for work, if you don't have headphones.

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. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me.
6. The contest ends on Friday, August 13^th, 12:00pm EST (GMT -4). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
7. I'll give hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get up, Friday AM.
8. The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !

General Hints

• The theme is... well, it should be obvious, after hearing a clip or two, what the theme is.

I'll provide more hints later, if needed.

And the winner of NNT #11 is...

It's a tie:

So congratulations!

Your results:

Feel free to double-check the scores.

After a long hiatus, it's back!

Yay!

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

The theme is:

Great Guitar Riffs

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. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me.
5. The contest ends on Friday, August 14^th, 12:00pm EST (GMT -4). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
6. I'll give hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get up, Friday AM.
7. The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !

General Hints

• The theme is Great Guitar Riffs.
• All of these bands are in the first half of the alphabet (using iTunes sorting).

And so we have come to the close of another Name That Tune.

Turnout was pretty low this time; only two of you dared submit answers. And of those two, one got them all right... eventually. So, congratulations to:

An impressive feat, in my opinion - I did what I could to make the samples as difficult as possible. But Cris got em all anyway. Well done.

Here are the answers:

1. All Together Now
2. Get Back
3. Glad All Over
4. If I Fell
5. I’ll Be On My Way
6. The Inner Light
7. Little Child
8. Long, Long, Long
9. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
10. Mr Moonlight
11. Piggies
12. Savoy Truffle
13. She Said, She Said
14. Sie Liebt Dich
15. Slow Down
16. Tell Me Why
17. The Word
18. Things We Said Today
19. When I Get Home
20. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)

And that's that!

Update: I'm going to extend this a few days.

Oh come on... only two of you are gonna try this one?? I am crushed.

Last week's NTT was a bit too easy. I apologize. And to make it up to you, I've come up with another 20 Beatles songs for you to identify. I hope it's.. challenging.

Yay!

Off we go:
Rules

1. There are twenty song clips below, from twenty different songs, from twenty different artists all from the Beatles.
2. Name the songs
3. You get 1 point for each song you name.
4. Leave your answers in comments.
5. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me. I can see them; you can see them; nobody else can see them.
6. The contest ends on Wednesday, April 1st^th, 8:30pm EST (GMT -5). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
7. I'll give specific hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get to work, Wednesday AM.
8. The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !

General Hints

• All songs were performed by the Beatles.
• The Beatles did not write all of these songs.

Name That Tune #9, #9, #9 is over!

And guess what? You people sure know your Beatles songs. Wow.

Five of you got all 20 of them right:

So, congratulations to all.

The winners get to share this delicious chicken and ham pie:

Pie kindly donated by the Topping Pie Co..
I took a piece for myself.

And, as I said in the comments: I'll do another Beatles N.T.T. next week, but I'll try to make it more challenging.

Stay tuned.

It's that time again! And what a special time it is!

This being NTT #9, today's theme has to be:

The Beatles

Yay!

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

Rules

1. You get 1 point for each song you name.
2. Leave your answers in comments.
3. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me.
4. The contest ends on Friday, March 20th^th, 12:00pm EST (GMT -5). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
5. I'll give hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get to work, Friday AM.
6. The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !

General Hints

• They're all Beatles songs.
• The Beatles did not write all of these songs.

Again we come to the close of another exciting Name That Tune. There were a whole bunch of very high scores this time, and a couple of songs were named correctly by everyone who participated. Clearly, everybody knows their 80's music !

Still, one of you knows 80's music just a little bit better than the rest; and that person is:

And here are the answers and your results:

So, that's that.

Stay tuned for Name That Tune #9, it's going to be a special one.

OK, that last one was tough. Consider it a learning experience for all of us. This one should be a bit less difficult.

The theme this time is...

The 80s

Yay!

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

Rules

1. You get 1 point if you name the song.
2. You get 1 point if you name the artist who performed the song.
3. Leave your answers in comments.
4. Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me.
5. The contest ends on Friday, March 6th^th, 12:00pm EST (GMT -5). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
6. I'll give hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get to work, Friday AM.
7. The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !

General Hints

• They are all from the 80s! Smurf on!
• Except for one which is from the 90s. Smurf on!

Another nearly-exciting Name That Tune has ended.

After the last one, I said this one was going to be harder. And, oh, dear readers and participants, apparently I was right! Heh. But, nonetheless, we do have a winner, and he is...

Congratulations! You win (a picture of) this stunning trophy:

Fabulous!

And here are the answers and point tallies for everyone who participated:

As always, free to double-check your answers vs. my scoring.

And I hope you all realize these scores mean you need run out and buy each of the albums these songs came from, right ? Not only are they all worth having, but there will be a re-test.