I was surprised Forget You hadn't come up yet but now I know it was because it was a different version of the song.

 

I chose song 9 as the least answered so I just missed out on the bonus points.

And finally with a meagre 3/20 correct answers:

 

Number 20: Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away

 

 

I heard this in a listen-through of the “Supernature” album earlier this year, from which it was the 4th single, which I guess explains the fairly low chart position for it. I know it’s very far from being one of their best known but it is rather lovely. Also I thought some might recognise the intro as being Goldfrapp-like electronica, but to be fair it is a rather brief intro.

 

4 points:

 

Mangø, dandy*, jimwatts

 

And so the extra points for correctly guessing that this would be the least well answered go to…

 

Nobody.

 

4 of you came close by predicting Black Box Recorder would be the least well answered. 4 also went for Juice Wrld, and otherwise there was quite a wide spread of guesses, but all incorrect.

 

 

Well considering I was apart of that album listenthrough I have egg on my face for not getting it was Goldfrapp lmao. I did think it was some 80s star releasing a song in the past decade or something but left it as wasn't sure!

The full list of answers with their peak and year:

 

1 Juice Wrld - Robbery #39, 2019

2 Little Mix - Hair #35, 2015

3 Lena - Satellite #30, 2010

4 Estelle - 1980 #14, 2004

5 P!nk - Funhouse #29, 2009

6 Steps - Scared Of The Dark #37, 2017

7 Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II #28, 2008 (released in ‘08 though peaked in ‘09)

8 Snow Patrol - Chocolate #24, 2004

9 Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life #20, 2000

10 Glee Cast Featuring Gwyneth Paltrow - Forget You #31, 2011

11 Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell - Beautiful #23, 2003

12 The Cranberries - Linger #14, 1994

13 Aled Jones - Walking In The Air #5, 1985

14 Weezer - Hash Pipe #21, 2001

15 Air - Kelly Watch The Stars #18, 1998

16 Foo Fighters - DOA #25, 2005

17 Kylie Minogue - Dancing #38, 2018

18 Keith Urban And P!nk - One Too Many #40, 2020

19 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 #16, 1996

20 Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away #26, 2006

21 Yazoo - Only You #2, 1982

22 Stereo MCs - Step It Up #12, 1992

23 Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal #8, 1988

24 The Lightning Seeds - Lucky You #15, 1995

25 Chris Isaak - Wicked Game #10, 1990

26 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl? #3, 1983

27 Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing #13, 1993

28 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride #4, 1984

29 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic #1, 1981

30 Cher - Just Like Jesse James #11, 1990 (was meant to be a 1991 #11 hit)

And so to the connection - as there were 5 points available I was happy to give partial credit for anything on the right track.

 

Riser said each song is from a different year, which is true aside from the red herring and the Cher slip up, so I gave 1 point for that.

 

chrissmith276 and dandy* said that each song peaked at a different position, which is also true and slightly closer so I gave 2 points for that.

 

paulgilb said that the last digit of the peak position is the same as the last digit of the song’s year, which is better still so 3 points for that.

 

What I was looking for is that each song’s year is 1980 plus its peak.

 

Congratulations to the following who earned the full 5 points:

Mangø, Bjork, PeteFromLeeds, jimwatts, Rush

I allocated 3 points for identifying the red herring and another 3 for explaining how it relates back to the theme, but in practice people either got all 6 points or nothing here. And the only 3 entrants who got the 6 points were Mangø, Bjork and jimwatts.

 

Clip Number 4 - “1980” by Estelle is the red herring as 1980 plus its peak is 10 away from its year.

 

It relates back to the connection because the song is called “1980”, which was the pivotal year in the connection.

I got the full theme as I was lying in bed on deadline day - I'd realised that the peak always ended in the same digit as the year of release, but the 1980 bit took longer to get to me. If I'd got it a bit earlier I think I'd probably have gotten a few more songs!

Snooker Loopy (#6, 1986) found rotting :kink:

It was quite satisfying to work out the theme, and as mentioned it helped me get several others (including Goldfrapp, I attended the same listenthrough as Roba but wouldn't have remembered the 'Fly Me Away' intro from that alone), using my Top 40 Charts book which clearly marks peaks to look for #26s in 2006, #25s in 2005, etc. Unfortunately it only goes up to 2008 (though I could have skimmed through my Top 75 charts books for the later years if I'd thought of that in time).

 

'1980' was the last song I got, as I noticed the title '1979' for Smashing Pumpkins was very similar to a key part of the theme, so I checked the Estelle intro, and a few pieces fell into place from there.

And finally the order of the songs. 4 people managed to get the 5 points for this - Mangø, Bjork, dandy* and Rush.

 

I gave jimwatts 2 points for saying “age of the lead singer when they first charted this century” as it’s very much on the right lines.

 

In fact the right answer is simpler than that - it’s the date of birth of the lead performer, from most recent to earliest.

 

I appreciate that in some cases it’s not clear who the lead performer is but I don’t think that made too much difference. I believe the members of Steps and Little Mix are all similar ages and the duo known as Air are born 3 months apart.

 

Anyway this is what I used:

 

1 Jarad Higgins 02/12/1998

2 Perrie Edwards 10/07/1993

3 Lena Mayer-Landrut 23/05/1991

4 Estelle Swaray 18/01/1980

5 Alecia Hart 08/09/1979

6 Claire Richards 17/08/1977

7 Chris Martin 02/03/1977

8 Gary Lightbody 15/06/1976

9 Sarah Nixey 21/12/1973

10 Gwyneth Paltrow 27/09/1972

11 Calvin Broadus Jr. 20/10/1971

12 Dolores O'Riordan 06/09/1971

13 Aled Jones 28/12/1970

14 Rivers Cuomo 13/06/1970

15 Nicolas Godin 25/12/1969

16 Dave Grohl 14/01/1969

17 Kylie Minogue 28/05/1968

18 Keith Urban 26/10/1967

19 Billy Corgan 17/03/1967

20 Alison Goldfrapp 13/05/1966

21 Alison Moyet 18/06/1961

22 Rob Birch 11/06/1961

23 Michael Jackson 29/08/1958

24 Ian Broudie 04/08/1958

25 Chris Isaak 26/06/1956

26 Annie Lennox 25/12/1954

27 Neil Tennant 10/07/1954

28 Matthew Wilder 24/01/1953

29 Gordon Sumner 02/10/1951

30 Cherilyn Sarkisin 20/05/1946

Edited November 25, 20231 yr by JulianT

Ah wouldn't have gotten that! I did wonder whether it was the most recent song to the oldest but knew that didn't quite fit, but it was sort-of similar in the end.

And the scoreboard before I try and get some sleep as it’s 2:30am in Hong Kong!

 

Thanks so much everyone for taking part and being such good sports - I know it was a pretty challenging one, and congratulations Mangø.

 

The top 3 all got 26 or 27 of the 30 clips, which is very impressive and if they’d teamed up they’d have got them all!

 

1 Mangø 126

2 jimwatts 123

3 dandy* 113

4 Bjork 105

5 chrissmith276 104

6 = Dalekturret32 80

Rush 80

8 paulgilb 73

9 Roba. 72

10 Danvember 69

11 LewisGT 62

12 Sarah 57

13 Riser 55

14 uptempo_owww! 53

15 King Rollo 52

16 rio309 46

17 PeteFromLeeds 40

18 = Ansel 26

~1^∞ 26

20 conorw 24

I'll take top 10 :cheer: thanks for running Julian ^_^

Argh, so close and yet so far, but I'm delighted to finish second after recognising so few clips on the first couple of listens. Congratulations Mango!

 

Thank you Julian for a well-constructed quiz, and for completing the hosting over two continents! Enjoy your time away ^_^

Had a go at this post-deadline (sorry that I didn't manage to submit in time </3) and based on 1 listen I would've got Glee Cast but missed some obvious indie hag ones lol 💀

Well done Mango. I should have put more effort into researching the facts about the songs I knew to work out the links between them.

 

Thanks Julian for putting the quiz together.

 

Watch out everyone for my quiz which starts on Monday.

Congrats Mango - amazing music knowledge there! And thanks for hosting Julian ^_^

Here's the updated leaderboard - Mango's win only extending his lead here!

 

:winner: 1 - Mango - 216pts

2 - jimwatts - 205pts

3 - LewisGT - 197pts

4 - JulianT - 186.2pts

5 - Ansel - 184pts

6 - Bjork - 164pts

7 - chrissmith276 - 162pts

8 - ~1^∞ - 147pts

9 - Riser - 138pts

10 - PeteFromLeeds - 134.6pts

11 - Y'all Starlight - 131.4pts

12 - dandy* - 126pts

13 - Dobbo - 120pts

14 - King Rollo - 113pts

15 - Jade - 108pts

16 - !!! - 107pts

17 - baddaDan - 98pts

18 - paulgilb - 95pts

19 - rio309 - 86pts

20 - Sarah - 81pts

21 - I Am Kenough - 68pts

22 - Rush - 66pts

=22 - DalekTurret32 - 66pts

24 - Roba - 56pts

25 - Chez Wombat - 49pts

26 - Cow P - 38pts

27 - conorw - 34pts

28 - LiamSime - 29pts

29 - uhsting - 26pts

30 - RyanFM - 24pts

31 - Dan1781 - 22pts

32 - Math! - 20pts

33 - PedroNL25 - 18pts

34 - uptempo_owww! - 17pts

=34 - RabbitFurCoat - 17pts

36 - Maestro - 16pts

37 - xajnipi - 14pts

38 - Mack - 13pts

39 - Hadji - 11pts

40 - Jahq - 10pts

=40 - Klaus - 10pts

42 - ConArtistTim - 9pts

43 - EliKillz - 7pts

44 - roboplop - 6pts

=44 - Brett-Butler - 6pts

46 - Anita Hanjaab - 4pts

47 - Addy! - 3pts

48 - elliotsmith - 1pts

 

Another reminder that this month's quiz, Blankety Blank, is currently ongoing in The Lounge!

I was very lucky with my guess for 1980 as being the red herring then as it wasn’t for the correct reason :o

Thanks for hosting, Julian, and congratulations Mangø!

Well done to the top few in that - it was definitely on the difficult side for my level of knowledge, but a lot of fun, thank you for hosting Julian