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The Music Thread Strikes Back

Jolemai said:
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75 artists, 15-20 year old picture. Any guesses?

  1. Led zeppelin
  2. Smashing Pumpkins
  3. Guns n Roses
  4. B52s
  5. The Eagles
  6. Pet Shop Boys
  7. Alice in Chains
  8. Black Flag
  9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
  10. Scissor Sisters
  11. Garbage
  12. Gorillaz
  13. Rolling Stones
  14. Beach Boys
  15. U2
  16. Radiohead
  17. The Police
  18. Thompson Twins
  19. The Scorpions
  20. 50 Cent
  21. Whitesnake
  22. Hole
  23. Sex Pistols
  24. Matchbox 20
  25. Dead Kennedys
  26. Blind Melon
  27. Lemonheads
  28. KISS
  29. Blondie
  30. Nine Inch Nails
  31. Queen
  32. Deep Purple
  33. Cornershop
  34. The Cars
  35. Pavement
  36. Television
  37. Big Spoon
  38. Blur
  39. The Rifles
  40. The Black Crows
  41. Eels
  42. Dinosaur Junior
  43. Seal
  44. Rush
  45. Pixies
  46. White Zombie
  47. Elastica
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Updated!
 
Not my quiz, nicked from a blog, answers coming in a couple days. Have fun.

1.Which hit single was named after a painting of a cigarette packet by the band’s singer?

2.What links the following pairs of bands – Bucks Fizz and Gene Loves Jezebel ; Erasure and Ride ; Duran Duran and Queen ; The Clash and Foreigner ?

3.Which band proved they were more than a hurried fashion by gaining the record for the most UK chart singles without a no 1?

4.The writer of which big hit has recently insisted that it has been misinterpreted and was really about “black guys hanging out together for sports, gambling or whatever”, and has threatened future legal action against media that persists in misinterpreting?

5. Released in 1999, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic was the last album released under what “name”?

6.Which hit single lamenting the decline of radio as a result of the rise of visual media was ironically promoted with reputedly the most expensive promo video ever made at the time?

7.What do the following albums have in common : The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society ; Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – Strictly Personal ; The Who – Who’s Next ; Lou Reed – Berlin; The Clash – Combat Rock ; Bon Jovi – New Jersey ?

8.Which band reputedly got the idea for their name from a dismissive comment about their chances of success by Keith Moon and John Entwhistle?

9.What do the following have in common: Alice Cooper 1968 – 74; Toyah – 1977- 83 ; Sade – 1982 til present ?

10.The Kids From Fame and ABC in 1982 became the only two chart acts ever to do what?

11.What artists originally described their sound as Tesco Disco before accidentally coining a more enduring genre label?

12. What do the following songs have in common : Nik Kershaw – The Riddle ; Phil Collins – Sussudio ; Blur – Song 2?

13.Who in the early 80s was “The New Partnership – That’s opening doors all over the world” from “Sheffield – Edinburgh – London”?

14.Many of which punk band’s lyrics were written by a Daily Express journalist?

15.Which 80s artist did philosopher Jaques Derrida apparently commend as being “part of the same project of undoing and unsettling” as himself?

16. Sticking with philosophers, which rock band attracted controversy after writing a prog epic influenced by philosopher Ayn Rand?

17. What has been attached to Rod Stewart , Elton John, Marc Almond and Britney Spears among others? (No need to go into detail with this one)

18.What became arguably Brian Eno’s most famous piece of music despite being twice it’s original intended length?

19.Which band opened their to date only Glastonbury performance with a Julian Temple directed film of themselves dressed as bears shooting fox hunters? And why?

20.While on the subject of Glastonbury, which frontman claimed his band were banned from Glastonbury in the 1980s after being questioned about their political views by a committee ; appeared in 1992 but openly insulted Michael Eavis onstage for putting them below James on the bill ; opened their final appearance in 2015 by sarcastically claiming they were “so glad to be here” and calling the soundman a “c**t”.
 
Some guesses

4.YMCA
5. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
8. Led Zeppelin
12. All placeholder made up titles which were kept permanently.
 
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19 - metallica because the glasto crowd didnt want then headlining as James Hetfield is a keen hunter
 
2 is band members with the same name. Andy Bell in Erasure and Ride, Roger Taylor in Queen and Duran Duran

Is 14 Cockney Rejects? I know Bushell was their manager.

17 urban myths? I think we all know the Marc Almond one and the phrasing of the question suggests it's along those lines
 
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Some good answers above gents. Here they are in full.
  1. Virginia plain - Roxy Music
  2. Each pair of bands contain members who share a name. Jay Aston, Andy Bell, Roger Taylor, Mick Jones.
  3. Depeche Mode
  4. YMCA
  5. Prince and his squiggle thing
  6. Radio Gaga - Queen
  7. The were all single albums that were originally meant to be double albums.
  8. Led Zepp
  9. Name of the band (as well as the singer) during that period
  10. For one week in 1982 they were both no 1 in the UK albums charts simultaneously having sold the exact same amounts in chart return shops.
  11. Throbbing Gristle who then set up the Industrial Records label with the slogan “Industrial music for industrial people”
  12. They use placeholder song titles that were never changed.
  13. Heaven 17
  14. Stiff Little Fingers. Their manager Gordon Ogilvie wrote many of the lyrics and was a reporter for the rag.
  15. Scritti Politti - they'd released a song named after Derrida and a magazine arranged a meet up.
  16. Rush with the track 2112.
  17. Stomach pump urban myth
  18. The Microsoft 95 Start Up Sound
  19. Metallica
  20. Mark E Smith. The Fall were not invited during the 80s as the event was for CND and he had said he favoured deterrence.
 
2112 being controversial surprises me! It is a no-holds barred absolute banger and the best thing Rush ever recorded though!
 
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