Description: I will post a link to a zipped-file containing 5 song-clips of 2-10 seconds in length. Of the 5 songs there will almost always be 1-60s era, 1-70s era, 1-80s era and 1-90s/00s (era) song. The 5th song will be either 50s-era, an instrumental or a theme song.
Point scale: 0.5 pts. -> title correct, interpreter incorrect 1 pt. -> title correct, interpreter correct 1 pt. -> If you are the only one who got at least the title right. 2 pts. -> If you are the only one who got title and interpeter right and all other guesses are totally incorrect.
Batch Bonus: 0.5 pts. -> all titles correct 1 pt. -> all titles and all interpreters correct
Winner is the player, who has the most points after Round 100.
I'm willing to extend this an additional 8 hours if anyone else is interested in playing. So far 3 persons have guessed, making for little competition all around....
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
1. Booker T. & the MG's: "Green Onions" (Nim, Omega, TSN) 2. The Four Tops: "Reach Out I'll Be There" (Cartmaniac, Nim, TSN) 3. Lenny Kravitz: "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" {Cartmaniac} 4. Bob Marley & the Wailers: "I Shot the Sheriff" (Nim, TSN) 5. Paul Simon: "You Can Call Me Al" (Cartmaniac, Nim, Phoenix)
[ May 29, 2003, 12:26 PM: Message edited by: Futurama Guy ]
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Collective Soul: "Why, Part II" {TSN} Everly Brothers ('58): "Bird Dog" - Los Bravos: "Black Is Black" {TSN} Roy Orbison ('89): "You Got It" - Thin Lizzy: "The Boys Are Back in Town" {Nim}
16 J. Geils Band - "Centerfold" {TSN} 17 Status Quo - "Pictures of Matchstick Men" 18 Elvis Presley - "Little Sister" 19 Frankie Valli - "Grease" 20 Russell Watson: "Faith of Heart/Enterprise Theme" (TSN, Spike)
{} = 2 pts () = 1 pt
Batch 5 For whatever reason the .zip isn't working...
[ June 02, 2003, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Futurama Guy ]
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
21. Pat Benatar - "Heartbreaker" - N/A 22. Donovan - "Hurdy Gurdy Man" - N/A 23. Led Zeppelin - "Hey Hey What Can I Do" - N/A 24. Vertical Horizons - "Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)" - N/A 25. Theme from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - (TSN, Spike, Phoenix)
I promise this one is easier
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, that explains why I recognized almost all of those. I don't know why I couldn't come up w/ the names, though.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
There is no happy medium....
Its either all or nothing with you people....
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
31) The Doors - "Light My Fire" - (TSN, The Tom) 32) Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F/Beverly Hills Cop Theme" - /TSN\ (Phoenix, Spike, The Tom) 33) Bill Haley And His Comets - "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" - {The Tom} 34) Stampeders - "Sweet City Woman" - {TSN} 35) Three Doors Down - "Kryptonite" - (TSN, The Tom)
() = 1 point /\ = 1.5 points {} = 2 points
..and once again, 26-30 & 36-40 are (still) corrupted again (hell if I know why), so I'm skipping them for now, so on to: http://www2.gvsu.edu/~albaitia/41-45.zip for Batch 7...
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
What? Would you prefer nursery rhymes?
41.) 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" - {Spike} 42.) Supertramp - "The Logical Song" - 43.) Weezer - "Hash Pipe" - 44.) (Paul McCartney &) Wings - "Listen to What the Man Said" - 45.) Eddie Cochran - "Summertime Blues" -
Does it help that I would have gotten three of them if I had ever listened to them?
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
They are all rather common songs you hear on the radio...can't say half of what Spike was playing ever made it across the pond.
[ June 09, 2003, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Futurama Guy ]
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
46) REM - "Bang and Blame" - 47) Ludwig van Beethoven - "Bagatelle in A Minor, F�r Elise" - (Spike, TSN) [The_Tom] 48) Nena - "99 Luftballoons" - {The_Tom} 49) George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag" - {The_Tom} 50) Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Good Lovin'" -
Okay...uploading takes waaay too long to do on a 56k so I came to my old univerisity (where i seem to still have the webspace I am using) and I can transfer the songs from disk to the webfolder directly without uploading anything.
The problem is that everytime I take stuff from my computer to the disk to the schools computer a proportionally large number of the zip files are corrupted....
Anyway I think we are only halfway through the game, I dont have the answers to the last one up yet...though I do recall that it did have a certain 'sci-fi' theme to it.
I will post the answers to the last one when I get home.
[Edit] I do know that these were right...
29. Smash Mouth - "Walkin' on the Sun" {TSN} 30. Golden Earring - "Twilight Zone" (TSN, Cartmaniac)
Batch 12 is a mismatch of songs salvaged from 2 of the corrupted zips I had:
26) David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust" - 27) Shocking Blue - "Venus" - 28) John Williams - Theme From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" - 29) Smashmouth - "Walking On The Sun" - {TSN} 30) Golden Earring - "Twilight Zone" - (TSN, Cartmaniac)
36) Shakira - "Wherever, Whenever" - 37) Nancy Sinatra - "These Boots Are Made For Walking" - {Spike} 38) Frank Sinatra - Theme From "New York New York" - 39) Annie Lennox - "Walking on Broken Glass" - 40) BJ Thomas - "Hooked On A Feeling" - {TSN}
Okay, well, if I'm the only one playing now, I think it's about time to stop...
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
You're not, but you are the only one who gets these Simons right, apparently...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I don't think Simon would ever listen to something mainstream enough to have topped the charts.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Hey! I have recognized most, if not all, of these titles once the answers have been given, though I haven't been playing along.
Horrifyingly elitest statement for which anyone should feel justified in punching me in the face:
I wouldn't be caught dead with the majority of them in my MP3 folder, is all.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
This, by no means is any indication of my mp3 collection. Personally, my collection is 60s music, with some 70s spillover (about 6000 mp3s, largely of old [local] Michigan/Chicago/Ohio bands). Perhaps not much better by your opinions, but I don't care, I'm a 60s child at heart.
Anyway, I was trying to diversify the songs a little because a fair number of Spikes songs were things I've never really heard on this side of the pond, as the radio is my primary source of auditary-knowledge. Knowing I could have easily done the same thing, I tried to post something mainstream in hopes of it being something midstream. Oh well.
Anywho, I declare this game a flop and might as well call it off.
The last selection was:
Alice Cooper - "Poison" Climax Blues Band - "Couldn't Get It Right" Roy Orbison - "Pretty Woman" - {Spike} Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge" Gary Glitter - "Rock & Roll, Part II" (aka the "Hey" song you heard at sporting events performed by the kiddie pr0n culprit)