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Name That Tune, Game One

Started by popdose · 1 year ago

Hey folks. This is the first of a planned series of games of Name That Tune. Each of them is also a puzzle. Here’s how this one works:

I have uploaded twenty-one very brief song clips. Most of the songs are famous; none of them are obscure. They are drawn from a [ ... Continue reading »

87 comments

  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    #21 - "The Red Telephone" by Love
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  • Beau

    1 year ago

    I had never heard this song, but upon digging up the lyrics and a sample at AllMusic, I think Gary has nailed it. Along with half the list. Great work.
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  • DavidMedsker

    1 year ago

    Just looked up the lyrics. "We are normal and we want our freedom." Boom shacka lacka lacka lacka. There's your winner.

    Is this on Forever Changes? I need to get that record.
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  • DavidMedsker

    1 year ago

    Normal Freedom Wanters?
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  • drcastrato

    1 year ago

    Wow, this is WAY harder than I thought. I'm gonna guess #4 is Broken Wings by Mr. Mister.
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  • panhandler

    1 year ago

    I concur, with 110% surety. I must suck at music, because I only got this one and #15.
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  • panhandler

    1 year ago

    Definitely "Broken Wings." 110% sure. I only got this and #15. I suck. (and I hope this doesn't double-post.)
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    #6 - "You're No Good" - Linda Rondstat
    #7 - "Hang on Sloopy" - The McCoys
    #12 - "Dance With Me" - Orleans
    #18 - "Tell Him" - The Exciters
    #19 - "Chuck E's in Love" - Rickie Lee Jones
    #20 - "Take Your Mama" - Scissor Sisters
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    All guesses so far are correct except "Hang On Sloopy".

    Gary, there's a maximum of three guesses allowed between updates of the list.
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    Sorry about my overzealousness. I'll calm it down next time.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    No problem.
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  • WHarrisBullzEye

    1 year ago

    6 - 19 are, for whatever reason, hung up in "buffering" mode, but I think #2 might be "Sweet Freedom," by Michael McDonald.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not "Sweet Freedom".
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  • DavidMedsker

    1 year ago

    #2: "Breakin'" Ollie & Jerry
    #15: "Obsession," Animotion

    That big drum bit on #5 is killing me...
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Those are both correct.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    [This comment was a lengthy mistake.]
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  • jasonhare

    1 year ago

    Is #11 "Let It Whip" by Dazz Band?
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  • suretytek

    1 year ago

    #11 is Let it Whip by Dazz Band.

    This is pretty fun, thanks Scraps!

    Edit - drat, Jason beat me to it.
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  • Doug

    1 year ago

    This is way fun.
    #7 is Sherry by The Four Seasons.
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  • Doug

    1 year ago

    This is way fun.
    #7 is Sherry by The Four Seasons.
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  • drcastrato

    1 year ago

    My second guess is: #11 - Dazz Band "Let it Whip" ?
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Let It Whip" and "Sherry" are correct as well. Update to follow.
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  • chmied01

    1 year ago

    I thought for sure that #12 was Mamaloi by the Doobie Brothers, though that would have been a bit obscure. But when I cued up "Dance with me" by the Orleans it definitely has that riff in it about 12 seconds from the end.

    #10 sounds like Easy, by Lionel Ritchie

    Good Luck
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Here's the update:
    <ol>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us) </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Mr. Mister, Broken Wings </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good </li>
    <li>Four Seasons, Sherry </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Dazz Band, Let It Whip </li>
    <li>Orleans, Dance With Me </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Animotion, Obsession </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>Exciters, Tell Him </li>
    <li>Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love </li>
    <li>Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out </li>
    </ol>

    Everyone may make up to three guesses again (and one guess at the puzzle clip).
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Let's try that again, without HTML:

    1.
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3.
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5.
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8.
    9.
    10.
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13.
    14.
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16.
    17.
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not "Easy".
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    10. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - Elton John
    17. "Ball of Confusion" - The Temptations
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  • MichaelWSP

    1 year ago

    First, great idea. Thank you for the hard work necessary in setting this up.

    Secondly, anyone who knew any of these other than 12, 15 and 18. You all scare me. A LOT.



    That would be excellent.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Ball of Confusion" is correct.

    "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is not.
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  • Doug

    1 year ago

    The only other one I know is #10: Easy by The Commodores
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Apparently #10 sounds a good deal like "Easy", but it is not.
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  • swede

    1 year ago

    shine a light, rolling stones for #10?
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not "Shine a Light".
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  • Melz

    1 year ago

    #10 is Goodbye Yellowbrick Road by Elton John

    #1 is I Could Fall In Love by Selena
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is correct! Gary Oxford's guess was close.

    Not "I Could Fall In Love"
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  • didyouevernotice

    1 year ago

    1. I'm So Happy That I Can't Stop Crying - Sting
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  • Melz

    1 year ago

    #8 is Waterfalls by TLC
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not "Waterfalls".

    Not "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying".
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    I'll be away from my computer for a few hours, so here's another update.

    1.
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3.
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5.
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8.
    9.
    10. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13.
    14.
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16.
    17. Temptations, Ball of Confusion
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out

    I'll check in before going to sleep. If there are songs remaining unguessed by morning, I'll post longer clips (probably by noon).
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  • Beau

    1 year ago

    First attempt before reading any updates:

    1. "Key Largo," Bertie Higgins
    2. Something by the Jets
    3. no idea
    4. "Broken Wings," Mr. Mister
    5. no idea
    6. "You're No Good," Carly Simon
    7. no idea
    8. no idea
    9. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," James Brown
    10. "Everything I Do, I Do It For You," Bryan Adams
    11. "Cruel to be Kind," Nick Lowe
    12. no idea
    13. no idea
    14. are you kidding me?
    15. "Stand Back," Stevie Nicks
    16. what?
    17. The People's Court
    18. that song in all the ads
    19. "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye
    20. no idea
    21. huh?
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  • Beau

    1 year ago

    Oh dear -- I misunderstood the instructions. Sorry about that.

    I was only sure of #4 and #6 (though I see I got confused on the artist name for #6). The other guesses are basically jokes. At most, one of those is correct.
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  • Beau

    1 year ago

    So now that I've read everything, I'll submit two actual guesses. And I'll emphasize that they're GUESSES.

    1. "Key Largo," Bertie Higgins
    9. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," James Brown

    Can't believe I missed Animotion and the Dazz Band.

    Is it possible to delete my two previous comments?
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  • Neel Mehta

    1 year ago

    #4 sounds like both...

    Cruisin' by Smokey Robinson AND
    Show Me Love by Robyn

    ... but is probably neither.
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  • Neel Mehta

    1 year ago

    Sorry, meant #8. This way I can be twice as wrong.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Well, "Show Me Love" is right!
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  • MC_Snocap

    1 year ago

    Samplers Delight!

    #9 = Lesley Gore, "It's My Party"?
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  • MC_Snocap

    1 year ago

    Aw, if #8 is Robyn, "L" can't be next. Sorry.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    You're right: It's not Leslie Gore ( or any version of "It's My Party").
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  • Jeremy1Esq

    1 year ago

    16 is Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature?
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  • Jeremy1Esq

    1 year ago

    5 is If you leave by OMD?
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  • Jeremy1Esq

    1 year ago

    2 is Crush on You by the Jets?
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not "Crush", "If You Leave", or "Hip Hip Hooray", but one of those guesses is close.
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  • DavidMedsker

    1 year ago

    I'm convinced that #5 is an Aerosmith song. You can hear it in the drums. Is it "Cryin'"?

    All I know is the word "Freedom" is staring me dead in the face when I look at the letters of the artists. In fact, the clue looks like "Formal Freedom" something or other. And I swear #14 is an *NSync song. I've searched up and down but I haven't found it yet. But it's some boy pop song, that I know. Curse you, Scraps.
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  • MichaelFortes

    1 year ago

    #5 sounds like "Angry Chair" by Alice In Chains.
    #8 sounds like "Creep" by TLC.
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  • Eli

    1 year ago

    14 is definitely "Bye Bye Bye", N'Sync.

    Um, almost definitely?

    (It was my girlfriend who knew it! I swear!)
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Angry Chair" is correct (so not "Cryin'").

    "Show Me Love" is correct (so not "Creep")/

    Not "Bye Bye Bye".

    Six songs left (plus the puzzle song):

    1.
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3.
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5. Alice in Chains, Angry Chair
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8. Robyn, Show Me Love
    9.
    10. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13.
    14.
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16.
    17. Temptations, Ball of Confusion
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out
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  • DavidMedsker

    1 year ago

    #16: Naughty by Nature, "Feel Me Flow"
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  • Bastard

    1 year ago

    The last poster must be right - #5 is Angry Chair by Alice in Chains.
    I didn't see #14 as gotten yet - so my guess is "I Wanna Be Bad" by Willa Ford.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Feel Me Flow" and "I Wanna Be Bad" are correct! Only four songs left (plus the puzzle song):

    1.
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3.
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5. Alice in Chains, Angry Chair
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8. Robyn, Show Me Love
    9.
    10. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13.
    14. Willa Ford, I Wanna Be Bad
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16. Naughty by Nature, Feel Me Flow
    17. Temptations, Ball of Confusion
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out

    I'm going to make longer clips for the remaining four.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Longer clips have been uploaded for the four remaining songs:

    1 - longer clip 1

    3 - longer clip 3

    9 - longer clip 9

    13 - longer clip 13
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  • MichaelFortes

    1 year ago

    OK, #3 sounds like "Brand New Key" by Melanie.
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    #3 - "England Swings" by Roger Miller
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "England Swings" is correct.

    "Brand New Key" is not.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    I'm going to be gone for a couple hours. Here's how it looks:

    1.
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3. Roger Miller, England Swings
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5. Alice in Chains, Angry Chair
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8. Robyn, Show Me Love
    9.
    10. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13.
    14. Willa Ford, I Wanna Be Bad
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16. Naughty by Nature, Feel Me Flow
    17. Temptations, Ball of Confusion
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out

    plus the puzzle song still remains.
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  • ripper

    1 year ago

    I have no Idea what the remaining songs are. However the clue should read, "normal freedom wanters". So I'm wondering, is the mystery song by Slave?
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  • ripper

    1 year ago

    I have no idea what the remaining songs are. However, the clue will read, "normal freedom wanters". Is the mystery song by Slave?
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  • Bastard No. 1

    1 year ago

    God, I hate you for this. And by "Hate" I mean LOVE!!! This is awesome. But I swear that song #1 has been on the tip of my tongue for hours now - I kept going back to Richard Marx and well, Richard Marx wrote #1 for *NSync - "This I Promise You"

    Don't even ask how a grown man knows this, or how a grown man without children pulled this off his CD rack to listen to it. I won't tell ya.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Indeed it is "This I Promise You".
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  • Beau

    1 year ago

    NORMAL FRIED ON WANTERS?
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    I like "NORMAL FRIED ON WANTERS", but no, that is not the clue.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    NORMAL FREEDOM WANTERS is indeed the clue for clip 21.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Song 9 was a number one pop and r&b hit, by far the biggest hit of its performer's career. The song was written, though, by a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, responsible for many hits, who can be heard playing piano on this clip.

    Song 13 was not a hit single, but is a well known song from a famous album often cited as a proto-punk album. It has been covered by David Bowie, John Cale, and Television Personalities, and features prominently in a cult movie.
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    #9 - "Mother-in-Law" by Ernie K-Doe
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Mother-in-Law" is correct (and the songwriter/pianist is Allen Toussaint).

    One to go -- plus the puzzle song.
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    #13 - "Pablo Picasso" by the Modern Lovers

    no frickin' clue on #21
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    "Pablo Picasso" it is.

    Looks like I'm going to have to make a longer clip of the puzzle song. Hang on--
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    A longer clip for the Puzzle Song:

    Puzzle Song

    The clue is NORMAL FREEDOM WANTERS.
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  • Bastard No. 1

    1 year ago

    Even with the longer clip and the clue - the puzzle clip is ridiculously difficult. Still have no clue.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Ach.

    The clue is a reference to a lyric within the song, well known to fans.

    If the clip reminds unguessed by 12:30 PM tomorrow -- 48 hours after the game started -- I'll post a considerably longer clip and a more explicit clue.

    I'm not sure how many people are following at this point, but I remain -- perhaps misguidedly -- confident that there are people reading this site who know the song.
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  • ShalimarBojangles

    1 year ago

    Well, I'll be hornswaggled.

    The clue looks like it'll read "Normal Freedom Wanters", but the only song that makes me think of is "We Are Normal" by the Bonzo Dog Band, and Clip 21 certainly doesn't sound like that.

    I be stumped, yo.
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Not Slave.
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  • Gavin

    1 year ago

    1. General Public, Tenderness
    13. Modern Lovers, Pablo Picasso
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  • Gavin

    1 year ago

    #21--The Eagles, "Take It to the Limit"?
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  • Scraps

    1 year ago

    Ding ding ding!

    Gary has it: "The Red Telephone" from the great FOREVER CHANGES by Love. "We're All Normal and We Want Our Freedom" was used as the title for the tribute album to Love in 1995.

    the final results:

    1. 'N Sync, This I Promise You
    2. Ollie & Jerry, Breakin' (There's No Stopping Us)
    3. Roger Miller, England Swings
    4. Mr. Mister, Broken Wings
    5. Alice in Chains, Angry Chair
    6. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
    7. Four Seasons, Sherry
    8. Robyn, Show Me Love
    9. Ernie K-Doe, Mother-in-Law
    10. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    11. Dazz Band, Let It Whip
    12. Orleans, Dance With Me
    13. Modern Lovers, Pablo Picasso
    14. Willa Ford, I Wanna Be Bad
    15. Animotion, Obsession
    16. Naughty by Nature, Feel Me Flow
    17. Temptations, Ball of Confusion
    18. Exciters, Tell Him
    19. Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love
    20. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama Out

    and the puzzle song:
    21. Love, The Red Telephone

    Congratulations, Gary, and thank you for playing, everybody! The game will be back with a new puzzle next Friday at 12:30 PM.
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  • Gary Oxford

    1 year ago

    Thank you. I'd like to thank Sergey Brin and Larry Page for Google, the AllMusic guide for their David Bowie and John Cale discographies, and all the other fine players who knew songs I would have never gotten in eleventy kajillion years. And most of all, thanks to Scraps, for all the effort in putting together such a fun game.
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  • jefito

    1 year ago

    Way to go, Gary! Head to our Contact Page and drop me a line with your address -- we've got a prize for you.
    reply
  • Bastard No. 1

    1 year ago

    My knowledge of Willa Ford and NSync got you a prize, Gary - at least I'm happy the sh*t in my brain is being put to some good use! :)
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