- Song 41: Dire Straits - Private Investigations. One of my absolute favorite Knopfler tunes. The entire piece is just ripe with the overall mood of a Raymond Chandler novel. Tried to do it live a couple of times, but we never got it right. Or at least right enough that people would stay attentive throughout a lesser known, slow Dire Straits tune from a mostly covers band. Imagine that. The intro recorded here hails more to the "Live: On The Night" version than to the original studio recording, with some added notes, of course.
- Song 42: The Shadows - Apache. How much of a classic is this? This was one of the first songs we rehearsed to have something to play while the singer "rested his voice", for lack of a better term. Whatever - of course I recorded this one using my strat.
- Song 43: .38 Special - Hold On Loosely. Hyooge Southern Rock Classic, but sadly, none of y'all recognized it. Oh well.
- Song 44: Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi. Annoying, yet highly recognizable tune.
- Song 45: Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body. Think Superbowl 2004. Janet Jackson's "Wardrobe malfunction". Remember the song now? One of youse did...
Consequently, the Scores for Quiz 9 are:
- Cathy/Anders (tied at 6/10)
- ...
- Sondre (5/10)
- Pigeon (4/10)
And the Grand Daddy of them all, the Total Score:
- Sondre (63 points)
- Pigeon (52 points)
- Cathy (50 points)
- Anders (47 points)
- Torbjørn (6 points)
It's getting awful close around the middle here.......Congrats to Cathy, Anders and Sondre! Good luck on Quiz 10.
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Since I didn't get this completly right last round:
Who's da man!?*
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...ladies
*Except for Cathy and Sondre...
So, my score this round:
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Yes, great tune. Got this one and the Shadows tune even before listening through the clips the first time. Great recording, but I thing that this song needs a nylon strung guitar to really capture the feel*. I agree with W-meister, this song is all about the mood.
The Shadows - Apache
True instrumental classic.
.38 Special - Hold On Loosely
Never even heard of the band. May I ask how many roof-less barns in the rural parts of Norway this tune are responsible for? Since it is a "classic"
Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
Need a lot of listening before I got this one.
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Well, no Timberlake fan here. No spuerbowl fan either, I just watch it when ZZ Top jave the half time show. Which doesn't happen very often. Anyway, this clip was soooo familiar that I knew I've heard it before. Gave up around midnight yesterday and took a chance on Madonna - Holiday.
*Seems like I give you a new excuse to go guitars shopping for each round of the quiz... ;-)
You did good this time around...
Thanks for the PI props, but it's really hard to do this song justice when you're just slammin' the intro in one take. This is really one of them songs where you need to apply yourself - not to mention use fingerpicking - to get the sound and mood right. Myself, I'm FAR from happy with this particular recording, but it was good enough for the purpose at hand. Underachieving 101.
.38 Special is a great band from the Southern US - I wasn't sure about whether or not y'all would have heard this tune. Apparently not...
...ladies
Btw; How the F*ck did you reach the conclusion that Rock Your Body sounds even remotely like Holiday?
THAT'S what I want to know
Btw; How the F*ck did you reach the conclusion that Rock Your Body sounds even remotely like Holiday?
THAT'S what I want to know
Somehow I got pictures of the beach and summer in my head while hearing it. Thought it was something from the 80's, so I just took a chance on Madonna. I'm not that great on 80's pop music, and that was the one song I could think of with a title that had something to do with summer. Better to just throw out something rather then keeping it open, right?
Oh, and welcome to the odd numbered score club, Sondre. It was getting lonely in here...
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Better to just throw out something rather then keeping it open, right?
U got that right, Ace.
But RE: you not ruling the ruins of 80's pop - stop with the false modesty, Sport
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But RE: you not ruling the ruins of 80's pop - stop with the false modesty, Sport
I'm the King of Pop! Or wait, I think somebody has already snagged that title...
Myself, I'm FAR from happy with this particular recording, but it was good enough for the purpose at hand. Underachieving 101.
Well, it was not nearly as sloppy as the Rainer tune in No. 43...
/end inside joke
;-)
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