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
- You get 1 point if you name the song.
- You get 1 point if you name the artist.
- Therefore, you get two points if you name both.
- Leave your answers in comments.
- Your answers will be hidden from everyone but you and me.
- The contest ends on Friday, August 13th, 12:00pm EST (GMT -4). I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
- I'll give hints for any songs that haven't been named by the time I get up, Friday AM.
- The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !
| Clip | Hints? |
| Song #1 | The bad boys of '87 |
| Song #2 | -- |
| Song #3 | Their drummer was named Roland |
| Song #4 | Made famous by Dr Demento |
| Song #5 | -- |
| Song #6 | -- |
| Song #7 | -- |
| Song #8 | The only bluegrass(-ish) artist on the list |
| Song #9 | -- |
| Song #10 | -- |
| Song #11 | -- |
| Song #12 | Grunge pioneers |
| Song #13 | -- |
| Song #14 | (REM - Stipe) + (_____ - Egyptians) |
| Song #15 | -- |
| Song #16 | -- |
| Song #17 | -- |
| Song #18 | -- |
| Song #19 | -- |
| Song #20 | -- |
| Song #21 | 70s studio slicks |
| Song #22 | -- |
| Song #23 | -- |
| Song #24 | -- |
| Song #25 | -- |
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.
7. Slack Motherfucker, Superchunk
17. Amy Winehouse, Me & Mr. Jones
that’s all I got.
right and right
02 Pretenders Precious
05 Liz Phair Fuck & Run
07 Superchunk Slack motherfucker
09 Green Day – American Idiot
16 Sonic Youth – The Sprawl
17 Amy Winehouse Me & Mr. Jones
23 Stones – Starfucker
25 Pink Floyd – Not Now John
There are several others in there there I *know* I know, but they just aren’t coming to me. I may add more later.
06 Fuck This Town
13 REM Star Me Kitten
15 stones – some girls
18 cowboy junkies just want to see
20 Violent Femmes Add it Up
nice
Two more to chip away at the beast:
11 metallica – Damage, Inc
19 Eliot Smith – I didn’t understand
Adding the artist to 06, robbie fulks. And to clear up “Starfucker”, it was retitled for release as “Star, Star.”
Now I’m going to close this window and unplug my headphones. This stupid contests are hell on compulsive music fans.
point totals:
Joel : 4
MikeJ : 30
NTT? Fuck yeah!
7. Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker
9. Green Day – American Idiot
17. Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr. Jones
20. Violent Femmes – Add it Up
25. Pink Floyd – Not Now John
That’s it for me, on first listen anyway. Some artist guesses:
11. Metallica
15. Rolling Stones
19. Elliot Smith
21. Donald Fagen
22. AC/DC
point totals:
Joel : 4
Cris : 14
MikeJ : 30
Here’s one more:
5. Liz Phair – Fuck and Run
Couple more artist guesses:
10. Wallflowers
23. Stones again.
I’m looking forward to the reveal on this one. MikeJ is the F-bomb master.
three more points for Cris.
Crap. This is fucking hard.
1. Henry Rollins/Black Flag?
2. Pretenders – Precious
3. Ugh…Ministry?
4. ??
5. Liz Phair – Fuck and Run
6. Robbie Fulks – Fuck This Town (I only know this because I was looking through some old Onion AV Club inventories and ran across this song recently)
7. ??
8. ??
9. Green Day – American Idiot
10. Matt Pond PA – Sunlight
11. Metallica – St. Anger
12. ??
13.??
14. ??(damn…)
15. Rolling Stones – Some Girls
16. ??
17. ??
18. Cowboy Junkies – I Just Want To See
19. ??
20. Violent Femmes – Add It Up
21. Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give a Fuck
22. AC/DC – Ain’t No Fun
23. ??
24. Beastie Boys – Hey Fuck You
25. Pink Floyd – Not Now John
I got two days to come up with the rest but not sure how…
point totals:
Joel : 4
Cris : 14
platosearwax : 23
MikeJ : 30