Artist of the Week – Quiz #37
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Artists of the week (so far): Brian Eno, U2, Stevie Wonder, Everything But The Girl, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, CSNY, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, Cream, James Taylor, The Eagles, The B-52s, LL Cool J, The Dictators, Judas Priest, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Christina Aguilera, Jane’s Addiction, The Doors, The Beta Band, Talking Heads, Bee Gees, Megadeth, The Ramones, Guns n’ Roses, The Libertines, B.B. King
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My thanks to all who have participated in the “Artist of the Week” quizzes so far.
Congrats to all those who correctly identified B.B. King last week.
The results after 36 weeks:
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Ready for Quiz #37?
Hey ho, let’s go!
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Quiz Rules/Format
(feel free to skip to the quiz if you know the rules already)
Your Task: Name the mystery Artist, ideally with as few clues as possible.
Correctly guess the artist on the first clue? 500 points.
After scrolling down to the second clue? 400 points.
Still don’t know after the fifth clue? 0 points, but a crisp high-five for participating.
I’ll use google translate to put the correct answer at the bottom in Arabic (if you read Arabic, that’s fantastic, but no cheating by reading ahead!) and you can translate it back to the language of your choice to confirm your answer.
In the comments, please enter your POINTS earned (not the artist name) and I’ll keep track of the running totals in a spreadsheet.
In addition to eternal bragging rights, the winner at the end of the year may even get something as prestigious as a digital certificate.
Here goes!
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Artist of the Week #37
Record POINTS Earned (Not Artist Name) in the comments
(scroll down for additional clues)
For:
500 points……………….. Although this difficult-to-categorize American solo artist is typically known mononymously, the last name of his stage name is Hansen.
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400 points………………..Instead of releasing an album containing his new recordings, in 2012, this artist released 20 new songs as a book of sheet music named Song Reader.
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300 points…………………He has 3 albums on the 1001 list: Odelay, Sea Change, and Guero
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200 points………………….He appeared in the 2017 film The Circle, as himself
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100 points………………..The artist is B_____
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Answer: الى الخلف
(Please post your points earned in the comments section)
Thanks for playing!
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Verbalize the Positive
In the google translation from Arabic back to English, pretend the ‘a’ is an ‘e’ – the attempted direct translation of his stage name resulted in ‘rivulet!’
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My brain only allowed me 400 this week because the 500 clue threw me towards that other thing (was it a band?) who sang an earworm pop song. Shame on my brain! Especially since I knew the 500 answer immediately after I scrolled to 400. Gah.
Those pesky brains – still a nice score!
Is this your first quiz where you didn’t get 500, Aaron?
I think he might have gotten less than full points in the Christina Aguilera week as well – but not many other weeks!
Not a loser baby cos I got 500
Not a loser at all – nice score!
300 better than 200 but, well.
So technically the days of 200 are still in the past!
500. Boom!
Boom indeed, nice work Zack!
300.
Well played Danica!
100. I’m ashamed I didn’t get it earlier.
Not to worry Amrita – 100’s still on the board!
Better than getting zero at least! I quite like today’s artist, hence the disappointment.
I quite like today’s artist too! I find he’s got a bit of Bowie’s ability to always sound different, yet somehow always sound unmistakably like himself
That is true! I never made that comparison before. But, it fits. I just think he’s cool. Like he won a Grammy in recent years, and almost got Kanye-d. Kanye was about to storm the stage but backed out in the last moment, and he actually asked him to come up!
That’s a nice way of handling that situation!
500
I think that’s a few weeks @ 500 in a row Kid Slender, nice work!
It’s either 500 or zero – I like to think I’m an all or nothing kinda guy.
And the last few weeks, you’ve been all!
500. Y-odelay-ee-oo!
Exemplary celebration Bruce – I wish I’d thought of it!
Woohoo! 500 for me! 👊
Stellar work Sarca!
500! Yas! I am on a roll!
You’re on a very nice 500 streak J, keep it up!
300 for me.
Nice!
500 for me as well. People used to see his single-moniker in my store and ask if he was the son of a famous guitar player. Nope, different surnames!
Nice work on this week’s single-moniker artist Mike!
500!
Stellar JP!
Zero this week. I got if after reading Mike’s comment. Sometimes I feel smart and other times I don’t.
Not to worry Kevin, I anticipate you’ll bounce right back next week!
I look forward to it!
500. Just saw this artist (SO GOOD) and a friend whose last name is Hansen made a joke about that
And the joke paid off nicely here!
300… a good result for me as I know nothing about this artist. Other than that he’s pish!
I trust ‘pish’ is like how kids say ‘sick’ in Canada when they mean ‘cool’ – otherwise, why I never!
That’s right. He’s totally pish!
500!
You’ve got 2 turntables & a microphone (and 500 points)!
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers, I got 500.
With 500 points, no need to throw any troubles to the dying embers, Jordan!
500, one of my favourite artists.
A fine score & a fine choice to be among your favourites Geoff!
British punk rock starts here. Dave Vanian (the lead singer) was also a forefather of goth. They’re owed a lot.
500 to me, I get bored after Odelay I’m afraid.
A fine score, though I’d say mutations is his finest hour!
I sold that one for a packet last year. The less I like an LP the better condition it’s in, it’s the ones I really like that are the most lived in.
Definitely 500 – I knew all these bits.
Well done Jay!
300 this week
Well done!
300! Odelay… brings back memories
A fine album!