December 2, 20213 yr Author Morning - I'm sure you've all been lying awake at night waiting for the rest of these results - I'll see if I can get them finished before I start work!
December 2, 20213 yr Author Q21 Juice Wrld - Wishing Well #15, 2020 C5i-UnuUKUI This was the only track from this decade in the quiz! It was one of the 3 songs that charted upon the release of his “Legends Never Die” album and had a good chart run and became the biggest selling. It’s a really nice track, though very dark and poignant in its subject matter. This was less well known than I expected, only matching Chumbawumba and Elvis! Correct answers: 7/17 4 points: chrissmith276, Mangø, dandy*, Mack., Riser, LewisGT, StoneDragon
December 2, 20213 yr Author Q22 Massive (Attack) – Unfinished Sympathy #13, 1991 ZWmrfgj0MZI This is a track so brilliant that it has its own thread in the Pre2000s forum, and is thoroughly recommended if you aren’t familiar with it! At the time the band was referred to as “Massive” due to Gulf War sensitivity. Correct answers: 10/17 4 points: chrissmith276, Mangø, dandy*, King Rollo, paulgilb, Doctor Blind, Mack., jimwatts, Danvember, StoneDragon
December 2, 20213 yr Author Q23 Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood #4, 2001 1V_xRb0x9aw And so the 3rd Gorillaz appearance featured their brilliant debut single, which sold more than most #1s that year but unfortunately came up against a monster trio of Westlife, Shaggy and Atomic Kitten relegating it to #4. Like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Song 2” all but one of you knew this but it didn’t quite get that elusive full house! Correct answers: 16/17 4 points: chrissmith276, Dobbo., Mangø, dandy*, King Rollo, paulgilb, Doctor Blind, Mack., Riser, LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, rio309, StoneDragon, PeteFromLeeds
December 2, 20213 yr Author Q24 Daft Punk – Around The World #9, 2005 K0HSD_i2DvA The second single from their debut album “Homework”, I was actually worried that this clip would be completely unguessable as the track has such a long build up and starts with quite a generic sounding beat, so I added a few seconds to the clip. How wrong I was though – this turned out to be one of the most recognised! Correct answers: 15.5/17 4 points: chrissmith276, Dobbo., Mangø, dandy*, King Rollo, paulgilb, Doctor Blind, Mack., LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, rio309, StoneDragon, PeteFromLeeds 2 points (artist only): Riser
December 2, 20213 yr Author Q25 Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game #33, 2011 nMO5Ko_77Hk One of her very most beautiful songs – I thought this would be a nice one to end on. It was originally released in 2007 with “Back to Black” but only became a top 40 hit through i-Tunes cherry picking in the week following her death. Correct answers: 10.5/17 4 points: chrissmith276, Mangø, dandy*, Doctor Blind, Mack., LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, StoneDragon 2 points (artist only): rio309
December 2, 20213 yr Author And so, for most well answered you could in fact have had any of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Song 2” or “Clint Eastwood” which all had 16/17. Most of you chose the first one though nobody picked the other 2. 2 points: chrissmith276, Dobbo., King Rollo, Doctor Blind, Mack., Ansel, LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, rio309, StoneDragon The least well answered was indeed “Sad!” with 5/17. A few of you predicted this. 2 points: chrissmith276, Mangø, Mack., StoneDragon
December 2, 20213 yr Author And so to the themes: Many of you worked out that there was something to do with dead artists going on. Posthumous peaks was guessed by a couple which was close but not true in all cases. A few of you got what I was looking for which was premature deaths. Very specifically it was death of the artist or lead singer of the group under age 50. Otis Redding: 1941-1967 (plane crash aged 26) Elvis Presley: 1935-1977 (at home aged 42) Nirvana / Kurt Cobain: 1967-1994 (suicide aged 27) Tupac Shakur: 1971-1996 (shooting aged 25) Lynyrd Skynyrd / Ronnie Van Zant: 1948-1977 (plane crash with most of his bandmates aged 29) Jimi Hendrix Experience / Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970 (drug related aged 27) XXXTentacion: 1998-2018 (shooting aged 20) Aaliyah: 1979-2001 (plane crash aged 22) Freddie Mercury: 1946-1991 (illness aged 45) John Lennon: 1940-1980 (shooting aged 40) Juice Wrld: 1998-2019 (drug related aged 21) Amy Winehouse: 1983-2011 (alcohol related aged 27) Blimey that was surprisingly sad writing that all out. 3 points for connection: chrissmith 276, Mangø, dandy*, jimwatts, Jade 1 point for death related: King Rollo, paulgilb, LewisGT, StoneDragon Edited December 2, 20213 yr by JulianT
December 2, 20213 yr Author Now for the second theme which only 3 of you managed to get. I really like this one! These were the songs covered: Bohemian Rhapsody Digital Love Dirty Harry Hysteria Smells Like Teen Spirit Song 2 Iris 19/2000 Tubthumping I write sins not tragedies Unfinished Sympathy Clint Eastwood Yes Damon Albarn managed to feature in 4 of them but that’s coincidence as far as I know (maybe he likes writing this kind of title though). The theme is that the title features nowhere in the lyrics. OK the “I” of “I write sins not tragedies” does appear but otherwise I believe no part of any of the above titles features. I think this is quite a rare phenomenon – the only recently charting song I can think of which also follows this theme is “Fairytale Of New York” (which arguably might have followed the other theme too given Kirsty MacColl’s untimely death, but that’s by the by). 3 points: Mangø, paulgilb, Doctor Blind
December 2, 20213 yr Author Now unfortunately the only 2 people who managed to get both themes (Mangø and paulgilb) also had put Queen for Question 1, and therefore that this was the common link which indeed it could have been had it been Queen. In fact the common link was Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit chrissmith276 managed to get that for 3 points, though given he missed the 2nd theme I suspect it was more by luck than judgment!
December 2, 20213 yr Disgusted with myself that I didn't recognise 'Unfinished Sympathy' -_- Happy to have got the first connection at least!
December 2, 20213 yr Author And so that leaves the 2 red herrings which were “Die Young” by Ke$ha and “Around the World” by Daft Punk. 4 points: Mangø, paulgilb 2 points (1 red herring): chrissmith276, dandy*, Doctor Blind, Ansel, jimwatts, Jade, StoneDragon
December 2, 20213 yr Well I'm kicking myself for not getting that second theme, but pleased to have somehow got one of the red herrings even if my relation to it was off!
December 2, 20213 yr Author And finally how do the red herrings relate back to the themes? Well the first one’s pretty straightforward (though only if you identified the first theme and #4 of course). Ke$ha is very much alive but “Die Young” is what all the artists covered by Theme A did. As for “Around The World”? Well let’s have a look at the lyrics: Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Yes it’s the opposite of Theme B as instead of the title not appearing in the lyrics, the title is the only lyrics. Very well done to the couple of you who made it to this point! 3 points: Mangø 2 points (red herring B connection only): Paulgilb 1 point (red herring A connection only): chrissmith276, dandy*, Jade, StoneDragon Edited December 2, 20213 yr by JulianT
December 2, 20213 yr Author And finally the scores! 1 chrissmith276 112 2 Mangø 105 3 dandy* 103 4 StoneDragon 100 5 Mack. 99 6 Jade 88 7 jimwatts 87 8 Doctor Blind 81 9 paulgilb 80 10 LewisGT 72 11 Danvember 69 12 Riser 59 13 King Rollo 51 14 Dobbo. 48 15 rio309 47 16 Ansel 32 17 PeteFromLeeds 30 Thanks for playing lovely people! :cheer:
December 2, 20213 yr Author Particular well done to Chris for winning by getting all the tracks and to Mangø in 2nd place who got (almost) all the connections! Edited December 2, 20213 yr by JulianT
December 2, 20213 yr Well played Chris! Several other great scores there too, I'm just happy to keep my run of top 8 finishes going :) Thanks for hosting Julian, enjoyed all those little challenges with the themes as well as the intros!
December 2, 20213 yr Happy with 6th! Congrats to Chris for winning and thank you to Julian for hosting, enjoyed this one a lot ^_^
December 2, 20213 yr Those themes & bonus questions just melted my brain. Kudos to those who worked all that out.
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