Monday

R1: 15 -

Andy Kim -6, 1982 -3, Miami Sound Machine -6, 1910 Fruit Gum Company -6, Split Enz -3

 

R2: 21 -

1994 -3, Shakin Stevens -6, Chairman of the Bored -3, Hazel O'Connor -3, Paul Young -3

 

Well done Jade and Bjork for your full houses on Round 2!

 

Round 1: 30 - didn't get

Pipeline, Ruby Winters

(same as Rollo)

 

Round 2: 39 for me too :cheer:

 

Three in ten: 3 -

London Calling, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Tommy Gun

 

Regarding the

Yazoo

question,

apparently Vince Clarke wrote Only You for Depeche Mode before he left, but the rest of the group weren't keen on recording it, so he kept it for his next venture - that's what led me to guess it was Yazoo's first hit.

what's this about Jade and Bjork beating me on Round 2!!! :o Well done! :D

 

Round 1: 36

 

Round 2: 36

 

3 in 10 was easy enough.

 

So I got the question with the song clip of

Radiohead wrong: sorry to all the fans, the best I could offer was It's Not Creep.

and I cant remember the other one I got wrong but it would have been recent relative to the old stuff I don't usually have a prob with...

Catchup post again (I did both Friday's and Monday's yesterday but didn't get around to posting them in here yet).

 

Friday:

 

Round 1: 27 (missed

1990 (-3), The Three Degrees (-3), Terence Trent D'Arby (-6)

)

Round 2: 15 (missed

Manic Street Preachers (-6), Seal (-3), Olivia Newton-John (-6), Peter, Paul & Mary (-6), 'Emotion' (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'SOS', 'S&M', 'We Found Love'

)

 

3 years late for round 1, managed to get the second year as a lucky guess iirc which makes a change!

 

I actually saw a spoiler of

the Wham! question

from Rollo posting about it in another thread before playing this round but I am pretty certain I'd have got it anyway so have still counted it. Think the only one I missed that I'm kicking myself over here was

Seal featuring on the Jakatta song, didn't think I knew that but was an 'of course' moment as soon as it was revealed

. I made the same wrong guess as the contestant

confusing Olivia Newton-John with Karen Carpenter - it did kind of sound like her!

 

 

~

 

Monday:

 

Round 1: 6 (missed

Sinitta (-3), Andy Kim (-6), 1982 (-3), Heart (-3), Miami Sound Machine (-6), 'Signal Fire' (-3), 1910 Fruitgum Company (-6), 'I Got You' (-3)

)

Round 2: 21 (missed

'Living Next Door To Alice' (-3), 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' (-6), either Chairmen Of The Board song (-3), Hazel O'Connor (-3), 'Now I Know What Made Otis Blue' (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'I Kissed A Girl', 'California Gurls', 'Firework'

)

 

Oops a bit of a mare again on round 1 x

what on Earth kind of name is 1910 Fruitgum Company anyway?

- I was 1 year early for the year but had no clue for most of the rest,

'Set The Fire To The Third Bar' was the only fire related Snow Patrol song that came to mind quickly annoyingly

. At least I'm still yet to get as low as 3 or 0 :kink:

 

Round 2 got off to a bad start too but a lot better in the end although I demand a recount on that first bonus question -

Brian May does in fact have 3 solo top 10 hits and I said 'Rockstar' lol. Although I did assume that probably wasn't going to be correct so I guess 'solo' meant 'as lead artist' in this case

. I got the second bonus (

Shakin' Stevens

) right as a guess to be fair though. And I might have got

the Chairmen Of The Board question if Ken gave me just a little more tarm! (jk I had no idea on that but wanted to make the joke xx)

.

 

~

 

Today:

 

Round 1: 21 (missed

2004 (-3), Siouxsie And The Banshees (-3), 'Pipeline' (-6), 'How 'Bout Us' (-3), Ruby Winters (-3)

)

Round 2: 18 (missed

'Love Hangover' (-3), 1981 (-3), 'Only You' (-6), Jackie Wilson (-3), Daryl Hall & John Oates (-6)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'Should I Stay Or Should I Go', 'Rock The Casbah', 'London Calling'

) - I don't actually time myself properly for these and I did take a little while to think of that last one after rattling off the first two so might have gone slightly over 10 seconds but I'll give myself the benefit of the doubt here x (the previous 2 3 in 10s were both very easy though so no doubt on those)

 

1 year out x2 today grrr :snif: (a year early on round 1 and a year late on round 2).

 

 

Jackie Wilson

actually did come to mind but I didn't guess it for some reason oops! Also went for

'Don't Go' instead of 'Only You' whoops

, not kicking myself over anything else, but cool to see a few people getting full houses again today, well done all x

 

 

I will note that the title of the podcast episode today actually contained a couple of spoilers - Gabrielle and Mariah Carey were both in the title despite being answers rather than questions. I think this is the first time I've noticed this being the case, I assumed they generally took care to avoid doing that but either that's not the case or they messed up today. Both questions I knew the answers to anyway but oops!

 

 

also

ew at the answers to question 7 in both rounds (One Direction and Wheatus)

:puke:

Round 1: 36 - didn't get

Rockit

in time, an annoying miss! Just about remembered

Dennis Brown

 

 

Round 2: 33 - one year out after changing my mind from

1991 to 1992

oops, didn't get

Born To Be Alive

 

 

I got 11/12 on the tiebreaker questions - only missed the last one!

Nick Heyward

although I nearly said

Britney Spears for the Victoria Beckham question

 

 

Three in ten: - 3

Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Labelled With Love

 

Almost made it again on R2, got 36, only missed

that one about someone from the 70s I'd never heard before

 

but would have failed the 3 in 10, got 0/3, knew the name but no song titles

Round 1: 39

Round 2: 36, stupidly got the year wrong

 

and then it went severely downhill as I got most of the bonus questions wrong, eh what?!! :o Well done Jim, they were HARD!

 

Plus side I've seen Squeeze in concert twice (they are fab, classy songwriters and talk to the audience and do tracks on request) so 3 in 10 easy.

Round 1: 24 (

Dennis Brown, Olivia Newton-John, Herbie Hancock (such an annoying miss as I really like 'Rockit' but had a mind-blank), The Jam

)

Round 2: 27 (

1991 (two years out), Everything But The Girl, Patrick Hernandez

)

Three-in-Ten: 2

(Up The Junction, Cool For Cats)

 

 

Well done for all the great scores yesterday and today ^_^

 

So many tie-break questions :drama: :lol:

Round 1: 15 (missed

1986 (-3), Dennis Brown (-3), The Beach Boys (-6), 'Country Roads' (-3), 'Rockit' (-3), The Jam (-3)

)

Round 2: 18 (missed

1991 (-3), Odyssey (-3), Everything But The Girl (-6), 'Born To Be Alive' (-3), Aerosmith (-3)

)

Tiebreaks: got 7/12 (missed

'Homburg', Gloworm, 'A Night To Remember' (I said 'Ladies Night' so a quarter right :lol:), 'Bang Bang' (went for '#thatPOWER', though in retrospect would be a little odd if there was a previous hit with that title) and 'Whistle Down The Wind' (I said 'Forever Autumn', mixing up my Heywards and Haywards, not that I know who Nick Heyward even is)

)

3 in 10: 2/3 (

'Up The Junction', 'Cool For Cats'

) - impressed that I got 2 here as this is not an act I am very familiar with, can't say I recognise anything else in their discog

 

1 year early on round 1, third 'one year out' in a row -_- but then 4 years early on round 2 x

 

Nothing else I am kicking myself over today.

Though once again the podcast episode title contained spoilers, this time all 3 were answers rather than questions (Pulp, Sonique and Odyssey) - as it were I didn't know the Odyssey question anyway while the first 2 were easy, so these spoilers so far aren't unduly influencing my scores or anything, but still a bit worried one of them eventually will if this keeps happening!

 

Round 1 : 21 Didn't get

Dennis Brown, Beach Boys, The Jam, Rihanna

 

Round 2 : 36 Didn't get

Gordon Haskell

 

 

3 in 10 : 3

Hourglass, Cool For Cats, Up The Junction

 

 

I got 4 out of 12 on the tie-break questions.

Tuesday

R1: 18 -

Siouxie and the Banshees -3, "Pipeline" -6, "How About Us" -3, "Pyramid Song" -6, Ruby Winters -3

 

R2: 27 -

1981 -3 [guess: 1982], "Only You" -6 [guess "Don't Go"], Jackie Wilson -3 – lucky guess: Diana Ross "Love Hangover"

 

 

3 in 10:

Should I Stay..., Rock the Casbah, London Calling

 

 

Wednesday

R1: 24 -

1986 -3 [guess: 1984], Dennis Brown -3, "Rockit" -3, The Jam -6

 

R2: 24 -

1991 -3 [guess: 1988], Everything But the Girl -6, Aerosmith -6

 

 

Tiebreak:

 

got 8/12: Katie Melua, The Ting Tings, "A Night to Remember", Victoria Beckham, The Libertines, "Stop", Harry Styles, Sting

missed 4/12: "Homberg", Glowworm, "Bang Bang", "Whistle Down the Wind"

 

 

3 in 10:

Up the Junction, Cool for Cats, Labelled With Love

 

Round 1: 36 - didn't get

Soull II Soul

- annoying to miss on that!

I don't know either of those songs well though.

 

 

Round 2: 30 - didn't get

Wilson Pickett, Godley & Creme

 

 

Scenes at Ken declaring a winner before realising it was a tie :lol: I got 2/4 on the tiebreakers - didn't get

Phil Everly despite that song being in Gezza's thread yesterday oops,

also one of the first two which I can't remember now - Edit: the

Eurovision 1970

question.

 

Three in ten: 3 -

Celebration, Get Down On It, Joanna

 

Edited March 2, 20232 yr by jimwatts

Round 1: 15 (

The Who, 1974 (3 years out), Nick Heyward, Soul II Soul - annoying miss, John Miles, Billy Fury

)

Round 2: 21 (

Wilson Pickett, Godley & Creme, Shania Twain, Dollar

)

Three-in-Ten: 2

(Celebration, Cherish)

 

 

Not my best day :nocheer: thought R2 would be for me when the bonus category was announced but that didn't quite work out, only knowing 1/3!

Round 1 : 24 Didn't get

Soul Asylum, The Who, the year, Soul II Soul

 

Round 2 : 15 Didn't get

Wilson Pickett, the year, Pussycat Dolls, Party For Two, Dollar, Time To Say Goodbye

 

 

Not a good day but I did get 3 out of 4 on the tie-break questions.

 

3 in 10 : 3

Cherish, Ladies Night, Tonight

 

 

 

not the bestest day, so many oldies questions

got 21 and 27

none in the tie-break, the questions were crazy difficult

and 0/3 in the final

Round 1: 18 (missed

'Runaway Train' (-3), The Who (-6), Soul II Soul (-3), either John Miles song (-3), Billy Fury (-6)

)

Round 2: 18 (missed

Wilson Pickett (-6), 2002 (-3), Godley & Creme (-3), 'Party For Two' (-3), 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' (-6)

)

Tiebreaks: got 1/4 (missed

Mary Hopkin, Phil Everly (I know Gezza posted about this very recently in the 80s sales thread but the name didn't stick in the memory oops!) and 'It Might As Well Rain Until September'

)

3 in 10: 2/3 (

'Ladies Night', 'Get Down On It'

) - as with yesterday, not an act I am super knowledgeable about so impressed enough that I got 2.

Can I count 'Ladies Night' twice since they were also credited on the Atomic Kitten version? x

 

 

Two days with tiebreaks in a row! Not doing quite as well on today's, I did manage to educated-guess the first one (

'The Tide Is High'

) though.

 

One year late on the second year -

can't be often that I nail a 70s year but miss a 00s one

.

 

 

I managed to get Nick Heyward purely because of that same song being a tiebreak answer yesterday :lol: also Siouxsie And The Banshees was a guess, suppose she has a fairly recognisable voice. And I made the same incorrect guess as the contestant naming Billy Preston instead of Wilson Pickett

.

Round 1: 27 - didn't get

Brother Louie, the Scott Fitzgerald duet, Instant Replay

 

 

Round 2: 24 - didn't get

Expresso Bongo, Amazulu, Twiggy

 

 

Three in ten: 3 -

Is There Something I Should Know, The Reflex, Save A Prayer

 

Ken's last show on Radio 2!

 

Round 1: 27 (didn't get:

Modern Talking, Scott Fitzgerald/Yvonne Keeley, Dan Hartman/Yell (I remember hearing the latter on 1990 TOTP but couldn't get it)

)

Round 2: 21 (didn't get:

Cliff Richard, Amazulu, Robert Plant, Twiggy

)

Three-in-Ten: 3

(Is There Something I Should Know?, Hungry Like The Wolf, The Reflex)

 

 

A movie question in round 2 :nocheer: robbed of instrumentals x

 

36 in both rounds, and a full set of 3 in 10.

 

Just in case Ken pops onto Buzzjack (you never know!), a huge thank you for being an upbeat, reliable music enthusiast with such a positive attitude, charm and Eurovision supporter to boot for many decades, a mainstay of so many people's lives to improve their day and inject some fun. Total star, Ken!

 

...and what a great choice to end on - The End (medley) - The Beatles