NAME THAT TUNE Game - Guitar Goodness - Results

[Jim2]

Otters, you just don't get it. I don't care about
todays music. I don't want to listen to the radio.
I grew up having to listen to music that my parents
wanted to listen to, big band and polka.

Your opinion of me not being a music fan is wrong.

[quote][i]Originally posted by Otters Walk Among Us[/i]
<br>Sorry, Jim, but I must take offense here. If you haven't heard anything good since 1990, it's due to your lack of initiative to search it out. There's tons of good music out there, from almost any year you can name, you just won't hear it on commercial stereo.

You've fallen into the same trap as lots of people your age. The music was good when you were younger, and it's all crap now.

All I can suggest to you is that you find any issue of The Big Takeover, published about twice a year, and read the hundreds of reviews therein. If you can't find something in there that seems appealing, then you really aren't a music fan.



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...and I haven't felt so alive, in years.

[Frau_Blucher]

[b]NTT Guitar Goodness Final Results![/b]

Okay, so I prolly made this one way too hard...but some folks still ROCKED on it and only one song was unguessed. The average managed to Creep (heh) just over [b]51%[/b]. Kudos to the winners who, as always, have our never-ending admiration as New Wave Gods! Okay, perhaps I overstate...but they know their shit! Answers posted below and a few choice cuts linked as well.

The Winners:
1st Place - 79% - Otters - Freaking impressive! The old guard's still got it!
2nd Place - 74% - iposse - A roaring comeback from the Irvine Posse - where ya been?!
3rd Place - 71% - Cubby - As if this is a surprise. Always there, always!
Honorable Mentions to MikeP and Brock for even getting to 52%. Man the vets were ALL out for this one, even Schwenko...and a great newb addition in WendyM.[;)] Thanks to those who played, but still a disappointing turnout given all the new faces around here and all the cool obscure sharing going on lately.

Time - Year - Artist - Name - % Answered
0:00 - 1976 - Tuff Darts - <a href="http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=67A663050EDAF985">Head Over Heels</a> - 0% (a couple of Flaming Groovies guesses - similar vein I guess)
0:14 - 1977 - Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - 45% (I would have thought higher)
0:29 - 1978 - The Cars - Moving In Stereo - 91% (almost perfect...but for Schwenko, how?![:0])
0:42 - 1979 - Gang of Four - Damaged Goods - 59%
0:58 - 1980 - Joy Division - Dead Souls - 77% (pretty impressive showing actually)
1:16 - 1981 - Human Sexual Response - <a href="http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=5A8592917604C17A">Pound</a> - 18% (The Boston Otter to the rescue - a great track))
1:33 - 1982 - X - The Hungry Wolf - 50% (just fiddy? were they so overlooked out east?)
1:43 - 1983 - The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away - 95% (guess everyone saw Valley Girl)
1:55 - 1984 - Echo & The Bunnymen - My Kingdom - 45% (a great great deep album cut imho)
2:14 - 1985 - The Armory Show - <a href="http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=696A00DB2091E5A7">Castles in Spain</a> - 36% (maybe the BEST song of the bunch - crunchy or what?!)
2:38 - 1986 - The Chameleons - <a href="http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E08FED7E768FB26C">Tears (album version)</a> - 45% (a cool, more acoustic version of the great single)
2:54 - 1987 - The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!! - 91%
3:05 - 1988 - Morrissey - Suedehead - 91% (some Smiths guesses but they were already done)
3:21 - 1989 - The Replacements - I'll Be You - 91%
3:34 - 1990 - The Church - Metropolis - 73%
3:55 - 1991 - Blur - There's No Other Way - 45%
4:10 - 1992 - Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic - 82%
4:28 - 1993 - Radiohead - Creep - 91% (it really was a 90s epic for the outsider in all of us)
4:39 - 1994 - Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain - 36% (a much too overlooked 90s great)
4:58 - 1995 - Oasis - Acquiesce - 14%
5:23 - 1996 - Beck - The New Pollution - 82%
5:44 - 1997 - Toad the Wet Sprocket - Come Down - 5% (woulda been 0 without WendyM)
5:59 - 1998 - Garbage - When I Grow Up - 73% (her Chrissie Hynde inspired vocals served her well)
6:23 - 1999 - Collective Soul - Heavy - 18%
6:41 - 2000 - Coldplay - Shiver - 45%
7:01 - 2001 - New Order - 60 Miles An Hour - 45%
7:25 - 2002 - The Epoxies - Need More Time - 9% (nice pull by MikeP!)
7:44 - 2003 - The Strokes - Reptilia - 59%
8:04 - 2004 - The Walkmen - The Rat - 27% (as big a rocker of a song as you will find today)
8:26 - 2005 - Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On - 9% (Otters to the rescue again - a truly creative track)
8:44 - 2006 - Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - 27% (I figured the hype alone would get some answers)


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[Otters Walk Among Us]

I'd like to thank Lady OWAU for pushing me over the top on this one. I was doing the quiz with her in the room and she got the Dinosaur Jr. snippet instantly. I couldn't do any better than "hmmmm, sounds familiar."

She did make an icky face for The Armoury Show snippet, though, so she isn't perfect. But I'll keep her anyway.

[iposse]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Otters Walk Among Us[/i]
<br>I'd like to thank Lady OWAU for pushing me over the top on this one.
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Noooooo.......

[egg-roger]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[b]NTT Guitar Goodness Final Results![/b]

Thanks to those who played, but still a disappointing turnout
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Blir - I hang my head in shame for missing this. Forgive me, bro.

Gotta agree w/ you on the Armoury Show track!

[wendy m]

Thanks for doing it and thanks for including The Replacements and The Walkmen!

[KYYX4ever]

Sorry that I missed it. I was swamped this week grading 10-page Research Papers. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
However, seeing the results, I would have done horribly. I see [i]maybe[/i] 18 points that I would've gotten [:0]

[WolverineSyr]

Sorry, I passed on it too - but I was embarrassed to submit a response with only ONE entry!

I love the NTTs though - even if I suck at them. It gives me an opportunity to hear some things I probably wouldn't have a chance, otherwise.
[:I]

[brock]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[b]NTT Guitar Goodness Final Results![/b]

Honorable Mentions to MikeP and Brock for even getting to 52%. [/quote]I'm not worthy!!

The only other time my name was mentioned in the same sentence with MikeP was when someone said, "That Brock, he's no MikeP."[:D]

[LovePlusOne]

Haha...not that it means a damn, but I can't believe I didn't even see this contest, and the worst part is I actually would have fared well. [V]