Okay then! Welcome all to the first of Blimpy's Big Intros Quizzez!
In the following podbean track there are 15 (fifteen) intros, and 1 (one) outtro.
The first person to name all of them wins a glittering prize!
I've kept it nice and easy, nothing on here is obscure, so I expect full marks all round!
Ready, set, go!!
Damn you, we've got 7 and ballpark bands for 3 others!
ReplyDeleteHa Ha! I knew you wouldn't be able to resist!!!
ReplyDeleteGood going so far!
Great outro..
ReplyDeletenot too keen on the rest, tho'..;-)
Hehe, me and the bloke went "Ugh, jazz..."
ReplyDelete..sounds like we should team up for a pub quiz, then..
ReplyDeleteHa! I got 9 and 2 "know-it-but-dunno-the-title"!!
ReplyDeleteHee hee, I think the collective Spill brain should be able to solve my riddle, so I'm counting you all as one big pub quiz team.
ReplyDeleteOkay Spillers, start posting your answers!
OK here's what I got:
ReplyDeleteBrianstorm
Sloop John B
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??Norah Jones!??
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I Want Candy
I know it but not the name
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Darling Nikki
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Gold Lion
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I know it but not the name
Caper Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Africa!!
Bitches Brew, I may be wrong with the track, but it's definitely from the album
I think I spotted Toto!
ReplyDeleteArctic Monkeys; Brian Storm/Beach Boys: Sloop John B/Extreme: more Than Words/ Blind Melon: NO rain/ Voice of the Beehive: Monsters and Angels (YAY!)/Paul Simon: Me and Julio/Toto: Africa.
ReplyDeleteWe also thought we heard some Soundgarden or L7 alike and something Blur soundtracky. Then we argued about it...
The end of Bitches Brew it was, EJ. I can only add that none of the other 14 have ever touched my cd player.. wasn't one of them Summer Loving, or something like that? Not my specialist topic..
ReplyDeleteAll correct so far, apart from there's no:
ReplyDeleteExtreme
Paul Simon
Norah Jones
Soundgarden
Blur
TracyK- you're on the right track with the L7alike
That is L7, with Pretend We're Dead right?
ReplyDeleteNearly- it's a cover of Pretend We're Dead...
ReplyDeleteCSS!!!
ReplyDeleteCorrect!!! CSS it is!!
ReplyDeleteBollocks...
ReplyDeleteWe did guess it was Bitches Brew too, probably because we both know Miles Davis is 'the important one' of jazz. Leave us in our ignorance, we're doing ok...
Argh, it's CSS doing Pretend That we're Dead...
ReplyDeleteThere's only 4 left.
ReplyDeleteGood going Team Spill!
The one before VotB is driving me nuts and one sounds very like The Game of Love but isn't! How'm I going to sleep???
ReplyDeleteI heard "Hang On, Sloopy" in there somewhere
ReplyDeleteHang on Sloopy is correct!!!
ReplyDeleteejd already correctly identified the one before votb, it's Darling Nikki by the Foo Fighters, a fine cover indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt's not We Will Rock You in there is it? who is that? Queen?
ReplyDeleteAh, I thought it wouldn't be a cover and realised it wasn't Prince. I am officially stupid but at least I can sleep!
ReplyDeleteI think you got it confused with Gold Lion there Steenbeck, the drums sound as bombastic
ReplyDelete@steen - ejaydee got it; it's Gold Lion by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
ReplyDelete@tracyk - night night, at least we don't have to wait up for the RR blog tonight
I'd still like to read DOrian's last column, but it's not up yet!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who'll replace Maddy when she's on holiday?
Sorry, got confused about the numbers of the songs.
ReplyDeleteAnother great column by Dorian, so the 2 I didn't know the titles of was Hang On Sloopy and Pretend We're Dead. That one that sort of sounds like Norah Jones or Extreme does seem familiar though.
ReplyDeleteSloop John B
ReplyDeleteCorinne Bailey Rae?
Summer Lovin'
I want Candy
Toto
Only listened once, I'll have another go
Carole has successfully identified Corinne Bailey Rae (Go Put Your Records On)!!
ReplyDeleteIt's the 4th intro, that has variously been guessed at as either extreme or norah jones.
I'm stunned however that no-one has got intro no. 3 already!
Great game, Blimp - and beautifully executed. Edge taken off it when I could only get three (with a couple of 'ohh, I know that'...). But hell, that's why RR is so compulsive - all those great tunes you wouldn't otherwise have known.
ReplyDeleteAnd talking of great bass lines, the opening to Keep On Running (Spencer Davies Group) is another golden oldie...
It's not Panda Bear, is it? I'm scared to guess I got the last one so far wrong.
ReplyDeleteI meant Take Pills, to mention the name. It's got that trainish sound, anyway...
ReplyDeleteIt's not panda bear, no....
ReplyDeleteIt's the Beta Band
ReplyDeleteCORRECTO MNEMONIC!!!
ReplyDeletetis indeed Dry The Rain by The Beta Band - I thought that would be the first to go!
Blimpy, I hope you're pleased with yourself, ruining my perfectly good evening. I began by confidently writing down the numbers 1 to 15 on a sheet of paper, then pressed play, sat back and prepared to dazzle everyone with my astounding knowledge of popular music.
ReplyDeleteTwo minutes later, with the words 'Sloop John B' staring up at me from an otherwise blank sheet of paper, I found myself feeling a little foolish!
And then, to make things even worse, out of all the 'I-know-that-one-but-can't-quite-think-what-it-is-right-now-I'm-sure-it'll-come-to-me-in-a-minute' tracks that you so ingeniously put together, the one that I was most certain that I absolutely definitely knew (no.3) turns out to be a track that I've never heard in my life!
So thank you Blimpy - thank you very much...
Well, I think I'd have got Hang On Sloopy, but I'd already read it in an email...Time for bed, I think, and I'm away for the weekend so have a lovely time at the social, you carousers, and pat Dorian on the back from me.
ReplyDeleteHey ToffeeBoy,
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say that I'm ever so sorry for ruining your evening, but the indie snob in me is loving every minute of being in the driver's seat.
Of course, the only way to redress the balance is to make me suffer at the hands of an intros quiz that I have to take part in.
Bring it on!!
i think i've just realised that intro number 8, the only intro that no-one has got yet, is maybe the obscure one out of the fifteen tunes, because it's a cover - an the intro sounds noting like the original.
ReplyDeleteDid you put that together in Garageband?
ReplyDeletehi steen, yes, yes i did. you can drag and drop straight from itunes to the timeline in gband, and then it's a simple case of using the apple-t shortcut to chop the intros off the rest of the tune!
ReplyDeleteyou have to do one! please!!
re number 8, clue: a non alcoholic drink.
ReplyDelete"a non alcoholic drink beloved of journalists" would be a better all round clue to the song and band.
ReplyDeleteThis is completely cheating and probably wrong, but some googlage revealed that the editors covered Orange Crush. Which is the only drink I can think of w/out alcohol in my current state.
ReplyDeleteEhm Blimpy. Coming late to this but once we've guessed them all... Could you post their songs in their entirety? Gagging to hear them cos they are really good intros. Bar one... :O)
ReplyDeleteit was indeed editors doing orange crush (can be heard on hype machine)
ReplyDeletethat means they're all guessed!
well done everyone!
the prize is me posting them in their entirety , as req'd by FP!
jolly good show all round, who's going to do th enext intros quiz then?
If I can find some equivalent software for my PC, I'll do one. It will probably take a combined effort though, I doubt anyone would guess all the tracks, but I'll try to put something in for everyone. And one that no-one will get, of course.. heh heh..
ReplyDeleteNilpferd, if you find equivalent software for a pc, I'd love to know how you get on.
ReplyDelete@nilp/mne - have you tried Audacity? it's free, and i think gf uses it.
ReplyDeletei've not tried it myself, cos i have a mac- but i think it's a good 'un.
Actually I became so frustrated with Audacity that I sent them a nasty email telling them what I thought of it: don't ask, I've blocked it totally, I have no memory but it was very frustrating, I think it was related to their 'help' menu. But there's thousands wot love it so it might just be me.
ReplyDeleteInstead I use Sound Studio, a Mac piece of software that's wonderful! Like having an intuitive recording/editing/mixing studio in your living room, I use it a lot. It's not free but it's very reasonable and there's a free download test you can get.
Re. the above 'quiz', when I was in the RAF we had a short training film about aircraft recognition, there was a bit about fighter pilots having only instants to recognise and react to other planes. In the film they were told that they'd have 1/5th of a second to identify a series of enemy and allied fighters, everyone said "Impossible". The instructor flashed the image of Marilyn Monroe with her dress over her head for 1/5th second and there was 100% correct identification. So they proceeded with the aircraft recognition.
Which prompted me yesterday to scroll through my iTunes file to check for cuts where I could post less than 1 second, there's lots, but my taste doesn't exactly match this group, I didn't know a single one of the above. I've got a couple of other things going just now but I might try it.
ps: Does this qualify as the record breaking comment and if so wot's my prize!
hi goneF, yes, i think it is the record breaking comment (and a very interesting comment too); the prize is dinner at mine tonight, in about 3 hours time I'm going to be throwing some roquefort on a cow's ass and cracking open a gran reserva - see you about 7ish, North East Fife?
ReplyDeleteFP: try this link for the quiz tracks:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=27855
there's a download file button on the right - can you tell me if it works, please?
Morning Blimpster - I copy/pasted the link into my browser but the page wouldn't open. Anyone else manage?
ReplyDeleteHi FP. Bugger, I'll try a different file hosting site. BRB.
ReplyDeleteI went to the Wiki site but the download file icon doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteoh pants, I'll try and podbean them later on this evening then. sorry everyone.
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