Yay, an inbuilt advantage round 1, like mine today for 3 in 10 - talk about easiest 3 songs ever! :lol:

Pet Shop Boys?

 

It's an INSET day today, so I was able to hear it. I only got 21 in the first round, but 33 in the second.

 

Missed yesterdays but well done all 1 I came in halfway through round 1 today and did badly! Round 2 also not great.

 

Re easiest 3 in 10, not pet shop boys, it was abba. Is there anyone that couldnt name 3 abba songs? :lol: id say a basic qualification for going on popmaster is the ability to name 3 songs by abba, if you cant do that youre on the wrong quiz! :lol:

Missed yesterdays but well done all 1 I came in halfway through round 1 today and did badly! Round 2 also not great.

 

Re easiest 3 in 10, not pet shop boys, it was abba. Is there anyone that couldnt name 3 abba songs? :lol: id say a basic qualification for going on popmaster is the ability to name 3 songs by abba, if you cant do that youre on the wrong quiz! :lol:

That is unbelievably easy! I'll go for Raspberry Beret, Strawberry Switchblade and Chocolate Blancmange :lol:

I've been playing the last 3/4 days and today I got my highest (a score of 33)

but for me it totally depends if there's 70s questions, very unlikely to get those unless it'a an ABBA question

 

the final question also depends on how recent the act, like yesterday I could tell you 15 but today just 1.

That is unbelievably easy! I'll go for Raspberry Beret, Strawberry Switchblade and Chocolate Blancmange :lol:

 

tasty! You forgot Orange Juice, Watermelon Sugar and Moby Grape.... :lol:

Listening to old episodes I'm amazed how most people fail at very recent stuff

You'd think everybody could name 3

Dua Lipa

songs!!!

It's sheer panic! The titles get stuck in between brain neurons on the way out unless it's something old and familiar. Like struggling to find a word that you know but just wont come, or the name of that bloke who plays Rocket raccoon and duetted with gaga, you know, him, Bradley Walsh. Cooper! I mean Cooper. :lol:

guess there's part of that, but at also a bit of lack of knowledge x recent music

like there was a guy now (I was listening to an old show) that didn't know who had a #1 with

Perfect

in 2017? I mean they know all those obscure 70s singers and they don't know

Ed Sheeran

?

guess there's part of that, but at also a bit of lack of knowledge x recent music

like there was a guy now (I was listening to an old show) that didn't know who had a #1 with

Perfect

in 2017? I mean they know all those obscure 70s singers and they don't know

Ed Sheeran

?

 

It's down to the way the memory works as you get older, I'm afraid! (Pretty sure Radio 2 playlisted that track). Something to look forward to! :lol: I can remember records I heard once or twice from decades ago because young brains are like lightning and firing on all cylinders in your teen years and 20's especially, and what you learn stays with you all your life, but I struggle to remember some titles and artists on records that topped my charts 5 or 10 years ago when put on the spot. I'm fine for a couple of years, and then unless I refresh my memory they fade a bit cos I have lost so many brain cells on a daily basis that I can't possibly compete with younger people! I once used the same bank cashpoint code for years, and one day I forgot it and it never returned. That memory cell went belly up that day and I had to go to the bank to re-set it. This one has lasted 10 years. So far so good! :lol:

 

That said, said popstar ballads tend to merge together a bit in my head his poppier ones are more memorable - though I did get that one so yay me! :lol:

I'm the same. If I look at a singles chart from the 70s, I can still remember the chorus of most of the ones I haven't heard since that time.

 

I could also tell you the result of every FA Cup Final from the 70s. I wouldn't be able to remember the result of any FA Cup Final from the last ten years even though I watched them all.

Friday

 

Round 1: 24

 

Eels (-6), House of Love (-6), Human League (-3)

- boo at the "house music" theme having nothing to do with actual house music :lol:

 

Round 2: 33

 

Sparks (-3), Heat Wave (-3)

 

Round 1: 21 (didn't get:

1995 - one year out, Georgie Fame, Hazel O'Connor, Barry Blue

)

Round 2: 30 (didn't get:

Manfred Mann, New Kids On The Block

)

Three-in-Ten: 3

(Why, No More I Love You's, Little Bird)

 

 

The

Manfred Mann

miss was slightly annoying as I've come across the artist/title combination recently when browsing through charts from that decade, ah well!

 

Happy to have pulled the

Jack Peñate

answer out of the bag, was anticipating

Just Jack

when the year was mentioned.

today a bit better, Round 1: got the year wrong, Round 2: forgot

Cover Girl

title and had no idea who was singing

Jack Penate

Prob would have done better with the song title, oops!

 

Got the 3 in 10 though :dance:

Round 1: 18

 

Kiss - Crazy Nights (-3), 1995 (guessed 1996) (-3), Georgie Fame (-6), Hazel O'Connor (-3), Barry Blue (-6)

 

Round 2: 24

 

Manfred Mann (-6), John Cougar (-6), NKOTB - Cover Girl (-3)

 

There were some tough questions today.

 

Round 1 : 21 Didn't get

Year, Amy Winehouse, Georgie Fame, Barry Blue

 

Round 2 : 18 Didn't get

Year, John Cougar, Blue, Jack Pinate, New Kids On The Block

 

 

 

I should have got John Cougar but couldn't remember his name

 

did 18 and 21, missed all the 60-70-early 80s questions, which were a lot today

 

the final 3 questions was easy, I managed to name 9 :D

Round 1: 21 (didn't get:

The Style Council, Kiri Te Kanawam, The Stranglers, Tom Tom Club - I only know 'Genius of Love' by them

)

Round 2: 24 (didn't get:

Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Ultravox - 'Hymn' is an annoying miss

)

Three-in-Ten: 3

(Sherry, December 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Beggin')

 

 

Only realised today that top 75 hits will suffice for three-in-ten and that it's not limited to top 40 :lol:

Round 1 : 30 Didn't get

The year, The Stranglers

 

Round 2 : 21 Didn't get

Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, Temptations

 

 

Jade, I think you'd like

Wordy Rappinghood by The Tom Tom Club

It's quite quirky.

Round 1: 21

 

Style Council (-6), World In Union (-3), Stranglers (-3), Tom Tom Club (-6)

 

 

Round 2: 15

 

Blowin in the Wind (-6), Don't Leave Me This Way (-6), Kate Bush (-3), Temptations (-6), Ultravox (-3)

 

I didn't get

Kiri Te Kanawa

and I was expecting nobody to get it - but Rollo did! well done! :)