Stephen RoyleWhat links the following songs?
Granny Takes A Trip - The Move
French Kiss - Lil Louis
Summer Smash - Denim
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
#FridayMusicQuiz
Twee pop legends Heavenly have reformed and will tour later this year. One of the members (who was also previously in Talulah Ghosh) is an academic at a UK Uni. Can you name the person, the institution and the field of specialism?
Twee pop legends Heavenly have reformed and will tour later this year. One of the members (who was also previously in Talulah Ghosh) is an academic at a UK Uni. Can you name the person, the institution and the field of specialism?
Sally LowellTodays #FridayMusicQuiz* : which early Smiths song emerged as a result of Johnny Marr trying to sound like Joni Mitchell?
*Well not really a quiz**, more an example of the sort of thing you might learn from listening to Johnny noodling about on his guitars while reminiscing about songwriting. An enjoyable listen for music nerds.
**But if you guess right you still get an emoji prize
EP.51 - JOHNNY MARR — ADAM BUXTON
Adam talks to guitar genius and co-founder of The Smiths, Johnny Marr about music and life in and out of one of the most influential bands of all time! Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing. Music & jingles by Adam Buxton See acast.c
It's Friday Music Quiz - Trivia Edition
Some call it a lack of originality, others say it reflects a post-modern conformity aesthetic…. which prog rocker's first four solo albums have exactly the same title and use the same typeface in the top left corner of the album cover?
I've been reading John and Paul by Ian Leslie, so here is a Lennon-McCartney themed #FridayMusicQuiz
What links:
* Bungalow Bill
* Two of Us
* Jealous Guy
Ian Leslie has a very touching theory related to this link, which I will recount if anyone gets the right answer.
A few weeks ago @albums posted a record by SPC ECO, which sounds like a collaboration between two restriction enzymes.
Friday challenge: name another band or artist whose name might have been inspired by reading the NEB catalogue
Travelling to Sheffield, preparing slides for my talk tomorrow- this will include my tribute to John Gurdon, so I'm reading through some of his beautiful papers.
Ectopic #FridayMusicQuiz: what early 80s UK chart hit starts playing in my head when I look at the annotation on this figure?
Friday #Music Quiz:
What links the following songs?
Bikini Kill - R.I.P.
Neil Young - Sleeps with Angels
Foo Fighters - My Hero
R.E.M. - Let Me In
#FridayMusicQuiz time (I forgot to post this last week).
What links these songs:
Steely Dan - Showbiz Kids
Metallica - Whiplash
Big Star - O My Soul
Super Furry Animals - Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)
Reply with the link or with another song that has the same link.
Sorry, if I've previously asked this one. I should keep track…
Friday Music-flavour* Quiz, Manchester edition.
*Does not contain any actual music
As you know, all records released on Factory Records were given a catalogue number with prefix FAC. But this system wasn't limited only to records. To what three items do these three FAC numbers refer?
1) FAC51
2) FAC501
3) FAC191
Double points for implausible guesses.