Thanks to everyone who participated in the quiz, either here or via fb.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Here are the 20 albums.
*
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
Led Zeppelin – Presence
This Mortal Coil – This Mortal Coil
The Clash – The Clash
White Stripes – Elephant
Crowded House – Temple of Low Men
*
Osibisa – Osibisa
Little Feat – Hoy-Hoy!
Yes – Relayer
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are you Experienced
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
*
Laurie Anderson – Big Science
Michelle Shocked – Captain Swing
Patti Smith – Horses
Leonard Cohen – The Best of Leonard Cohen
Carole King – Tapestry
Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties!!
*
Comments welcome…
Whether lamenting missed opportunities, skiting about your score, or letting me know if you’d like another quiz in May.
Another quiz please! I wasn’t sure about Presence, and I missed Relayer for some reason, so I think I ended up with 14.
LikeLiked by 1 person
A most respectable score, Graham. Fine effort.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Another one would be great.
Sadly, I didn’t recognise several albums that I actually own!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Context is all. I’ll secretly reveal to you, Anne, that in a quiz my friend Ryland knocked up in response to this one, I did not pick Sgt Pepper. (Don’t tell anyone or my cred will be in tatters).
LikeLike
[…] (Answers in a separate post, here) […]
LikeLike
Annoyed I didn’t get Relayer!
LikeLiked by 1 person
What’s a music quiz without a dash or two of frustration, eh Scott? 😉
LikeLike
Next time you might want to obfuscate the image names. I’d have known only 3 or 4 without using those as big Google hints. 👺
LikeLiked by 1 person
I didn’t realise they were visible!
LikeLike
I’m all for another quiz despite struggling at even putting names to the covers of albums I own. A few of the answers surprised me, covers that look familiar (Mortal Coil, Michelle Shocked) and that I was expecting to be something that I own and turned out to be something completely different.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sounds like you found some amusement in that, Yahooey, and that is a capital thing! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I echo the others, Bruce: big yes to another quiz despite a dismal performance. I only had seven, and for just two of those could I even name the album (Tapestry and Horses)….
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll try to grade the next one a little more carefully, JDB. Though having said that, I tend to get ridiculously caught up in miniature themes that only a very few (small bow in your direction) appear to notice!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Decent start, rough middle, and a solid finish would be the story of my quiz results.
And I practically insist you host another one in May, Bruce – thanks again for assembling the April version!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I did better than usual, 30% yea! It’s tough to recognize album covers, when you’ve mostly got downloads, but please do another quiz – – and it’s very interesting to see what artists can do with a one foot square canvas, or the fold-outs. Right after you posted this, I got a come-on for a yearly fund-raiser – -the art coop in Rochester, NY sells 6″X6″ canvases, and the creator isn’t identified until after you’ve bought it. So some are by well-known visual artists, but many are by random celebrities, politicians, college kids, etc. sometimes musicians like Philip Glass, and same idea, it’s interesting to see what’s done with that size.
LikeLiked by 1 person
What an interesting art project. Part artistic challenge, part fundraiser, part lucky dip!
Your comment on downloads is apposite, Robert. They reduce the offering to just the music… and compressed music at that! Which kind of makes Vinyl Connection an anachronism. Not far wrong, perhaps!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Since I left high school, vinyl records have just continued to make an amazing comeback, pretty cool for a century-old technology!
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is, isn’t it? And as you implied in your original comment, I think the 12″ x 12″ canvas is definitely part of the charm.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for picking that Tapestry cover as your “featured image.”
LikeLiked by 2 people
What an amazing collection of songs, there isn’t one on there that isn’t excellent.
LikeLiked by 2 people
And just for you and Bill, over at Vinyl Connection…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yup a lucky 13 for me Bruce. I’m really cross I missed the Osibisa and Michelle Shocked ones.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ah. Do you know Osibisa’s debut, Joe? I’m not sure whether you’d like it or not, but could imagine there might be a well-played copy somewhere in your folks house. Kind of pioneered world music before that was a thing.
LikeLiked by 1 person
My parents have it and used to play it quite a bit, so I know it via osmosis (Osibmosis?). I always liked the LP cover.
LikeLiked by 1 person
An early Roger Dean cover. He did their second LP too.
LikeLike