Album Covers
OK, music-heads. Help out (and help yourself out).
Thanks to
cyanidesgirl, I'm hooked into this damn contest now. XFM (an online radio based in the UK) is doing their "Xmas Cover Quiz", which is basically identifying a shitload of album covers by a little cropped piece of it. With the help of a her and another, I'm up to 47 out of 72...and now I'm stuck. I got all the ones I knew and scoured my own CD collection...alas, so many of them are new "alternative" (man, I hate that term) bands that I don't know. however, I hit up Amazon.com and just dug through the sections for those bands and followed the "people who bought this also bought..." links (amazing how many I found that way). Between that and the help of others...now I'm asking you. Step up to the mic!
You can find the quiz here. Here's the ones I have so far:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
2. Madonna - Like a Prayer
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
4. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. snow patrol - final straw
7. velvet revolver - contraband
8. REM - Around the Sun
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10. pink floyd - wish you were here
11. u2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb
15. AC/DC - Back in Black
19. beastie boys - for the five boroughs
20. jet - get born
21. The Beatles - Revolver
23. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
24. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
28. prodigy - always outnumbered never outgunned
29. the vines - winning days
32. modest mouse - good news for people who love bad news
34. The Rasmus - Dead Letters
35. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
36. keane - hopes and fears
41. tv on the radio - desperate youth blood thirsty babes
42. interpol - turn on the bright lights
43. the hives - tyrannosaurus hives
45. Beck - Midnite Vultures
46. Duran Duran - Rio
47. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
48. The Beatles - Let it Be
52. the strokes - room on fire
53. radiohead - kid a
54. franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
55. Björk - Medulla
57. Blink 182 - Enema of the State
58. red hot chili peppers - mother's milk
59. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
60. The Darkness - Permission To Land
61. green day - american idiot
63. pink floyd - the wall
64. The Clash - The Clash
66. elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
68. prince and the revolution - purple rain
69. David Bowie - The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
70. Velvet Underground - Loaded
71. killers - hot fuss
72. Oasis - Whats the Story Morning Glory
Thanks to
cyanidesgirl, I'm hooked into this damn contest now. XFM (an online radio based in the UK) is doing their "Xmas Cover Quiz", which is basically identifying a shitload of album covers by a little cropped piece of it. With the help of a her and another, I'm up to 47 out of 72...and now I'm stuck. I got all the ones I knew and scoured my own CD collection...alas, so many of them are new "alternative" (man, I hate that term) bands that I don't know. however, I hit up Amazon.com and just dug through the sections for those bands and followed the "people who bought this also bought..." links (amazing how many I found that way). Between that and the help of others...now I'm asking you. Step up to the mic!You can find the quiz here. Here's the ones I have so far:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
2. Madonna - Like a Prayer
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
4. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. snow patrol - final straw
7. velvet revolver - contraband
8. REM - Around the Sun
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10. pink floyd - wish you were here
11. u2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb
15. AC/DC - Back in Black
19. beastie boys - for the five boroughs
20. jet - get born
21. The Beatles - Revolver
23. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
24. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
28. prodigy - always outnumbered never outgunned
29. the vines - winning days
32. modest mouse - good news for people who love bad news
34. The Rasmus - Dead Letters
35. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
36. keane - hopes and fears
41. tv on the radio - desperate youth blood thirsty babes
42. interpol - turn on the bright lights
43. the hives - tyrannosaurus hives
45. Beck - Midnite Vultures
46. Duran Duran - Rio
47. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
48. The Beatles - Let it Be
52. the strokes - room on fire
53. radiohead - kid a
54. franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
55. Björk - Medulla
57. Blink 182 - Enema of the State
58. red hot chili peppers - mother's milk
59. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
60. The Darkness - Permission To Land
61. green day - american idiot
63. pink floyd - the wall
64. The Clash - The Clash
66. elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
68. prince and the revolution - purple rain
69. David Bowie - The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
70. Velvet Underground - Loaded
71. killers - hot fuss
72. Oasis - Whats the Story Morning Glory