Round 1: 24 Didn't get

Nick Lowe (I should have got that), Donny & Marie, Peter Noone

 

Round 2: 21 Didn't get

Brenda Russell, Hurricane Smith, Joan Armatrading, Heatwave

 

 

3 in 10: 3

Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner

 

Decided to catch up with all the celebrity editions (I actually heard the last one live as Greatest Hits Radio was playing in the reception area where I was working but I tried to not pay attention to it to avoid spoilers, mostly successfully thankfully :lol:)

 

Wednesday:

 

Round 1: 6 (missed

Joe Jackson (-3), The Beat (-3), Heaven 17 (-3), 1994 (-3), 'The Man With The Child In His Eyes' (-6), XTC (-3), Give My Regards To Broad Street (-3), Aimee Mann (-6), Elvis Costello (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'Woman', 'Imagine', 'Jealous Guy'

)

 

1 year early for the year. I got the only question that the contestant didn't get :lol:

 

Thursday:

 

Round 1: 18 (missed

Bob Dylan (-6), 1977 (-3), Honor Blackman (-3), Pet Shop Boys (-6), U2 (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'Jailhouse Rock', 'Return To Sender', 'Blue Christmas'

)

 

4 years late for the year.

 

Friday:

 

Round 1: 18 (missed

'Long Train Running' (-3), 'Loco In Acapulco' (-3), Sarah Jane Morris (-3), 'The Laughing Gnome' (-3), 'Uptight (Everything's Alright)' (-6), Siouxsie And The Banshees (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'Jealous Guy', 'More Than This', 'Avalon'

) -

haha at me getting to use 'Jealous Guy' as an answer twice in the same week

 

 

~~~

 

Back to the regular rounds then...

 

Round 1: 21 (missed

Nick Lowe (-3), any Donny & Marie Osmond song (-6), 1973 (-3), 'No Jacket Required' (-6)

)

Round 2: 18 (missed

Brenda Russell (-3), Hurricane Smith (-6), 'Love And Affection' (-3), 'Gangsters Of The Groove' (-6), 'Go Wild In The Country' (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'Careless Whisper', 'As', 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'

)

 

7 years late for the first year. Not a bad start to the year by my standards, I was impressed I recalled

Peter Noone and Tracey Ullman

although gutted I couldn't quite remember

Brenda Russell - I put down Belinda Carlisle but I knew that was wrong, I can see why I confused their names though

.

Round 1: 26 -

got Marty Wilde but not Ricky, didn’t get Leo Sayer, The Gap Band (mind blanked and guessed Funkadelic)

 

 

Round 2: 35 -

got Honor Blackman but not Patrick McNee

(both unusual scores today!)

 

Three in Ten: 3 -

Relax, Two Tribes, The Power Of Love

 

Round 1: 36 (didn't get:

U2

) - aww so close

Round 2: 24 (didn't get:

1984 (one year out), Limmie & Family Cookin', Honor Blackman/Patrick Macnee (I remember this from TOTP but had a mind-blank on the artists, Linx)

)

Three-in-Ten: 3

(Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love)

 

Round 1: 33 Didn't get

Ringo Starr, the year

 

Round 2: 24 Didn't get

Magic, Toni Braxton, Lynx, Kelly Jones

 

 

3 in 10: 3

Rage Hard, Watching The Wildlife, Welcome To The Pleasuredome

 

Round 1: 15 (missed

Sister Sledge (-6), 'Angel Of Harlem' (-3), Marty & Ricky (-6), Leo Sayer (-3), 2000 (-3), 'Baby Jane' (-3)

)

Round 2: 23 (missed

1984 (-3), 'You Can Do Magic' (-3), Patrick Macnee & Honor Blackman (-4 - I misremembered Patrick's first name as Peter but giving myself 2 points), Toni Braxton (-3), any Linx song (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'The Power Of Love', 'Relax', 'Two Tribes'

)

 

2 years late for the first year, 1 year early for the second. Pretty happy with this for myself again,

happy I managed to remember The Gap Band just in time, plus an educated guess at Saturday Night Fever, and although I didn't quite get it right I was glad I almost remembered the artists behind 'Kinky Boots' albeit only because that song was in a question in one of the celebrity rounds last week as well! I think I should have got 'Angel Of Harlem' too (I guessed New Orleans, knew it was some American city but wrong one) and maybe also 'Baby Jane'

.

 

Surprised to see Rollo not going with the same 3 songs as everyone else for the 3 in 10 :kink:

 

Polyhex seems to have been down all day which is a little annoying as I do use it to double check spellings of the answers I've missed + fact checking my 3 in 10s when necessary! Hope it'll be back soon.

Polyhex is updating its chart runs!

It doesn't normally go down for a whole day while doing that :P

Does it not? I haven’t seen it down for that before

Round 1: 30 - didn't get

The Fortunes, The Buzzcocks

 

 

Round 2: 27 - didn't get

The Stranglers, Nik Kershaw, Secret Affair

 

 

Three In Ten: 2 -

Walk On By, Heartbreaker

 

Round 1: 27 (didn't get:

Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Fortunes, The Buzzcocks

)

Round 2: 27 (didn't get:

The Stranglers, Nik Kershaw

)

Three-in-Ten: 1

(Walk On By)

- also named

Don't Make Me Over

and

That's What Friends Are For

but neither were hits here apparently

Surprised to see Rollo not going with the same 3 songs as everyone else for the 3 in 10 :kink:

I was being cocky by avoiding their three number 1s.

 

Round 1: 24 Didn't get

Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Fortunes, The Buzzcocks, M People

 

Round 2: 21 Didn't get

The Mavericks, The Stranglers, the year, Freed From Desire, Affair

 

 

3 in 10: 2

Walk On By, Heartbreaker

 

Round 1: 12 (missed

Fun Boy Three (-3), Gladys Knight & The Pips (-3), 'You've Got Your Troubles' (-6), either Blancmange song (-3), Buzzcocks (-3), 'No Doubt About It' (-6), 'How Can I Love You More' (-3)

)

Round 2: 21 (missed

The Mavericks (-3), 'Something Better Change' (-3), Nik Kershaw (-6), either Depeche Mode song (-3), Secret Affair (-3)

)

3 in 10: 1/3 (

'Walk On By'

) - I thought there'd be some obvious ones I missed but after looking it up I don't really recognise any others

apart from 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' which I forgot she had a version of

so eh x

 

Today I learnt

'The One And Only' was written by Nik Kershaw

! Hooray for a rare day of getting both years right as well :cheer:

 

(and Polyhex is back now, phew)

Round 1: 30 - didn't get

The Shangri-Las, Ronnie Lane

 

 

Round 2: 24 - didn't get the first two bonuses and

The Move

 

 

Three In Ten: 2 -

Can't Get Used To Losing You, Mirror In The Bathroom

 

Round 1: 21 (didn't get:

The Nolans, Space, The Shangri-Las, Ronnie Lane

)

Round 2: 24 (didn't get:

Scott Fitzgerald/Yvonne Keeley, Des'ree, The Move

)

Three-in-Ten: 0 :ph34r:

 

Scott Mills plays that

Michael McDonald/James Ingram duet

on his show a fair amount, had never heard it until last year

Round 1: 24 Didn't get

The year, Space, Shangri Las, Ronnie Laine

 

Round 2: 27 Didn't get

If I Had Words (I thought it was If I Had You so Ken might have given me 2 points), Des'ree

 

 

3 in 10: 2

Mirror In The Bathroom, Can't Get Used To Losing You

 

Round 1: 12 (missed

1993 (-3), 'Walking On The Moon' (-3), The Nolans (-6), Space (-3), 'The Living Years' (-3), 'Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)' (-6), Ronnie Lane (-3)

)

Round 2: 15 (missed

James Ingram (-6), Kate Bush (-3), 'If I Had Words' (-6), Des'ree (-6), The Move (-3)

)

3 in 10: 0/3 - nope

 

2 years late for the first year. Did ok with the normal questions on round 2 but no idea on any of the bonuses today aside from

'Echo Beach'

:wub:

 

 

'The Living Years' was a brain fart, I put down 'Holding Back The Years' oops, sorry Mike + The Mechanics for confusing you with Simply Red!

 

Round 1: 27 (didn't get:

Joe South, New Musik, The Lightning Seeds (annoying miss)

)

Round 2: 21 (didn't get:

Madness (OOPS forgot 'Our House', said 'House of Fun' even though it didn't sound quite right :lol:), 1989 (one year out), Paul Young, Aretha Franklin

)

Three-in-Ten: 3

(All Around The World, Change, People Hold On)

 

Round 1: 27 Didn't get

Joe South, The Charlatans

 

Round 2: 30 Didn't get

Manfred Mann, Aretha Franklin

 

 

3 in 10: 1

All Around The World

 

Round 1: 33 - didn't get

Joe South

 

 

Round 2: 27 - didn't get

Manfred Mann, Paul Young

 

 

Tiebreaker: 1/2 - didn't get

The Goons

 

 

Three In Ten: 3 -

All Around The World, So Natural, In All The Right Places