Pop music quiz round 2

Ok, same rules as before. I’ve knocked up a new audio file containing the opening snippets of 20 songs (mp3 | 676k), some mere milliseconds in length. The songs are all sorts of genre’s and aren’t organised in alphabetical order this time.

Now you guess the songs.

UPDATE: Here’s the answers people:

  1. Mamma Mia – Abba
  2. Let It Be – Beatles
  3. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
  4. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
  5. Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
  6. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
  7. Lose Yourself – Eminem
  8. Original Sin – INXS
  9. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
  10. Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
  11. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
  12. The Ship Song – Nick Cave
  13. You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
  14. Kick it – Peaches
  15. Paranoid Android – Radiohead
  16. Jumpin Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
  17. Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
  18. Smooth Operator – Sade
  19. Caught by the Fuzz – Supergrass
  20. Three Girl Rhumba – Wire

The only two that weren’t guess correctly were Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison and Original Sin by INXS. Otherwise fab guessing by Maxine, Fluffy, Ray, Clem, Ruth and our winner Tuppence. Bravo!

19 Comments

  1. I can’t believe I have let this ditract from the task that is the reason I am still sitting here at my desk at 8.30 on Friday night……..
    And then I could only get 10! But I’m not gonna hide my shame:
    Mamma Mia – Abba
    Ben Folds – Golden Slumbers (or it could be an actual beatles song I fear)
    Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t fear the Reaper
    Saturday Night – Elton John
    Kim Wilde – Kids in America
    Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough (I’m just not sure how I felt as I typed that line….)
    Paul Simon – Call me Al (title?)
    Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash (Do you like music??!!)
    Terrence Trent Darby – Sign Your Name
    OK – fill in the gaps and shame me!

  2. OK, I agree with Maxine re Mamma Mia, Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough, You Can Call Me Al, and various others (just realised that I’m not going to list them all).
    I’m sure I heard ‘Heard it Through the Grapevine’…
    and a bit of Nick Cave, ‘Ships’…
    Possibly ‘Let It Be’?
    And there’s a bit that could potentially be ‘Sign Your Name’ or ‘Smooth Operator’… I’m leaning towards the latter.
    It’s difficult, I’m not at home with my vast music collection to compare and contrast!!!
    How do you do these, Boud? I want a go.

  3. Daniel this is a brilliant way of allowing me to pretend I have something worthwhile to do on a Friday night at home.
    1. Mamma Mia – Abba
    2. Imagine – The Beatles
    3. ?
    4. ?
    5. ?
    6. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
    7. Saturday Night – Elton John
    8. ?
    9. Don’t Change – INXS
    10. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
    11. ?
    12. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
    13. ?
    14. Call me Al – Paul Simon
    15. Rip it up – Peaches (feat. Iggy Pop)
    16. ?
    17. Jumpin Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
    18. ?
    19. Terrence Trent Darby – Sign Your Name
    20. Connection – Elastica
    Not sure about the song divisions but getting Elastica bent my brain and it now hurts pretty badly. If it’s not Elastica its that song that came out about 2 years ago which sounds exactly like it. Help much?

  4. Yeah, that last one is so Elastica.
    And did I hear a bit of ‘Caught By the Fuzz’?
    Man, I need to get out more.

  5. durrr…
    google proper research shows that Wire’s “Three Girl Rhumba” (1993) came out well before Elastica’s “Connection” (1995).

  6. … and the Peaches track is called Kick It, not Rip it Up.
    I am just making shit up now.

  7. Nice Idea. I’ll add mine in:
    3. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
    4. Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
    8. Lose Yourself – Eminem
    13. The Ship Song – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    16. Paranoid Android – Radiohead

  8. Did better this time…
    1. Mama Mia -ABBA
    2. Let It Be – Beatles
    3. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
    4. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
    5. Boys Don’t Cry – Cure
    9. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
    11. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Crazy Michael Jackson
    12. Ship Song – Nick Cave
    15. Paranoid Android – Radiohead
    18. Smooth Operator – Sade
    19. Caught By The Fuzz – Supergrass
    There are more, but… too tired.

  9. Going for the definitive collaborative effort now …
    1. Mamma Mia – Abba
    2. Let It Be – Beatles
    3. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
    4. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
    5.
    6. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
    7. Saturday Night – Elton John
    8. Lose Yourself – Eminem
    9. Kick – INXS
    10. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
    11.
    12. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
    13. The Ship Song – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    14. Call me Al – Paul Simon
    15. Kick it – Peaches (feat. Iggy Pop)
    16. Paranoid Android – Radiohead
    17. Jumpin Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
    18. Sign Your Name – Terrence Trent D’arby
    19.
    20. Connection – Elastica

  10. OK –
    1. Mamma Mia – Abba
    2. Let It Be – Beatles
    3. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
    4. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
    5. No idea
    6. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
    7. Saturday Night – Elton John
    8. Lose Yourself – Eminem
    9. No idea – don’t think it’s ‘Kick’, though, Fluffy
    10. Kids in America – Kim Wilde
    11. Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
    12. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
    13. The Ship Song – Nick Cave
    14. You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
    15. Kick it – Peaches
    16. Paranoid Android – Radiohead
    17. Jumpin Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
    18. Smooth Operator – Sade
    19. Caught by the Fuzz – Supergrass
    20. Connection – Elastica
    That really is all I know. I’m giving up now.
    I so deserve a kiss, Boud.

  12. Okay, here’s what I got without cheating and looking at the other answers…
    ABBA – Mamma Mia
    The Beatles – Let It Be
    Black Sabbath – Paranoid
    The Sunnyboys – Alone With You
    ?
    Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
    ?
    ?
    ?
    Marvin Gaye – Heard It Through The Grapevine
    Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
    ?
    Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
    Peaches & Iggy Pop – Kick It
    ?
    Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
    The Box Topps – The Letter
    Sade – Smooth Operator
    ?
    Wire – The Car Song

  13. Oh, and when I said Wire, I could also mean Klonhertz’s ‘Three Girl Rhumba’.

  14. You guys are too effing clever. I think between everyone all 20 have been guessed.
    Number 20 was a curly one, it’s Three Girl Rhuma by Wire. Elastica nicked the main riff for Connection, a courtcase ensued in which Elastica settled out of court. The song was recently covered by Klonhertz. Bit of trivia for you.
    I’ll post the full answers later.

  15. Not related but I keep finding your photos in music magazines! Glanced through Hot Press today and an entire spread of photos from SXSW looked all too familiar. Sure enough, “Photography Daniel Boud”.
    Nice 🙂

  16. Ah yes zosia, you’ve discovered my Hot Press photos. Was pretty stoked to see so many in print.

  17. The winner of this quiz, with 17/20 is declared to be…. Tuppence! Mwa xx
    🙂

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