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I got inspired today with the all the talk of our fav bands. I've taken 100 new wave songs, sampled the first few key seconds of each and compiled them into a single mp3 file. Anyone interested in playing Name That Tune?! [:D]

If so, right-click to download both the mp3 and text file of the track numbers. Theres a 2 second gap between each sample. That tab-delimited file also has the start times for each sample so you won't get lost or can come back to a song. Fill out the name of the song and the band next to each track number and submit back to me as text, Excel, or Word: myirwin@comcast.ne (but put a "t" at the end of "net).

Let's say one point for each correct name and band - 200 points possible. If there's interest, I'll give this one week from Sunday the 17th then post top 5 that are the truly knowledgable among us! There are no ridiculously obscure tracks and I've attempted avoid geographical bias with Euro, East & West Coast, and down-under favs - it should be fun for all but still somewhat challenging. I'll post results afterwards.

What's at stake? How about the awed admiration of your compadres? Not enough? Okay, how about either all 100 full tracks on multiple audio CD-Rs or a data DVD of all 4 gigs of new wave stuff in my iPod right now (but not the iPod itself!).

Please reply back to this thread if interested so this can stay bumped and current. Cheers!

http://home.comcast.net/~myirwin/NameThatTune.mp3

http://home.comcast.net/~myirwin/NameTh ... linded.txt

Bueller? Bueller?

Hey, I only got a couple of responses. Am I totally misreading the interest in this? I thought it'd be a lot of fun with REAL music instead of the usual lists upon lists. Come on. Let me know if anyone's interested.

Cheers, Mike

I'm working on it. I got about 50-60 my first pass.

i am also working on it. i'm up to 50. some of those clips tantalizingly drive me bonkers !

LOL, that's the idea!...to be so familiar yet so fiendishly beyond grasp. Alright, I'm glad someone's gettin' on it. I'll be bitterly disappointed if folks like Hensoneno, Ollie Stench, Dave etc - who seem to know songs that only like 10 people could ever

I am trying to keep up with the songs! Some tunes are driving me crazy, I know them but can't think of the name. I am going to try again....

Pretty cool, myirwin...I got 47 definites with 6 maybes on my first run-through.

Would love to know if what seems obvious to me is a mystery to someeone else, and visa versa. Would gladly bow to someone who knows them all right out of the gate; I only

Very very cool.

I have vague ideas and definites and just plain "what the hell is that" on all of them.

Im definitely interested in the contents of the ipod...This is going to take a while to perfect....

Well, THE FIRST RESULTS ARE IN and "bpdp3" is our standard bearer. He came in with a very respectable 104 out of a possible 200 with 2 wrong answers and 46 no-answers. He showed an amazing breadth of knowledge from punk to synth-pop with no emphasis on an

Well, our fearless leader (MikeP) has made his presence known and is now our new standard bearer! He's put up a wopping 152 points with 5 wrong songs and 1 wrong band. If there was ever any doubt, Mike knows his sh!t.

BUT WAIT! That still leaves almos

I gladly pass on the 'standard bearer' torch - - I figured for sure Mike P or one of you with over 100 posts would have this down cold. I guess I don't feel so bad now about all my misses!!

For those of you still attempting it, all I can say is th

Feel badly? Heck no. In fact, you got 7 songs and artists that MikeP missed, so it's not a matter of everyone getting the easy ones. It's just what you happen to have absorbed in your youth - the non-overlap is going to be the most interesting part of thi

DAILY UPDATE: "iposse", a younger list member - or so he says - has come in with a very respectable 93 total. The interesting thing however is that he got 6 bands that nobody else got at all - I find that to be pretty damned interesting! Still 10 songs co

OK I haven't been here in over a week, downloading now, don't post any answers until i get back to you, i'll make time to do it tomorrow (saturday).

We have a runner-up...so far. SwampThing has turned in a 117 with a whopping 23 misses - but all of them good guesses, for each of which I can totally see the rationale.

Remember that should Miss New Wave be unable to fulfill her duties, the runner-up