I racked my brain on namethatband.com
Looking for an excuse to not study, i visited namethatband.com today.
namethatband.com is a site run by Platterpus Records in Kentucky. I've been aware of this contest for a few years because I bought a somewhat rare but sentimentally valuable record (yes, the vinyl kind) from them in 2000 or 2001.
Anyways, today I got an email mentioning that a new contest was ready to go so I gave it a whirl. The site works like this: there are 20 songs, recorded to RealMedia format from Platterpus' current inventory, and you have to identify the artist or band behind the song from a list of all bands/artists in current inventory. Each song is assigned a number of points based on difficulty. It appears that the point range goes from 1 for "anyone should know this one" to 5 for "if you know this it's probably because of one or more of the following: a) you have the record, b) you know the artist or one or more members of the band, or c) you were/are in the band. it has to be one of these because Google ain't gonna help you on this one." This particular contest has 65 possible points. the winner gets, I think, a gift certificate for Platterpus Records.
Well, there were a couple 1's on the list and sure enough I knew 'em. I'm not gonna tell you what they were. But it started to appear that this contest, if anything, demonstrated more my googling abilities than it did my musical acumen. And there were some that Google couldn't help with. Anyway, it was interesting because there were some songs that were just plain obscure. There were some that were songs I knew but not by that artist (one in particular had been covered by at least five artists that I can think of right now). Some of the songs are ones that I don't ever need to hear again, and some were interesting enough to look at buying.
A quick word of advice: the site is set up such that it will not submit your answers unless every one of the songs has an answer next to it. If you mess this up, it will bark at you, and you will hit Back, and all of your answers are gone (at least in firefox).
All in all, a fun, interesting, and instructive exercise.
namethatband.com is a site run by Platterpus Records in Kentucky. I've been aware of this contest for a few years because I bought a somewhat rare but sentimentally valuable record (yes, the vinyl kind) from them in 2000 or 2001.
Anyways, today I got an email mentioning that a new contest was ready to go so I gave it a whirl. The site works like this: there are 20 songs, recorded to RealMedia format from Platterpus' current inventory, and you have to identify the artist or band behind the song from a list of all bands/artists in current inventory. Each song is assigned a number of points based on difficulty. It appears that the point range goes from 1 for "anyone should know this one" to 5 for "if you know this it's probably because of one or more of the following: a) you have the record, b) you know the artist or one or more members of the band, or c) you were/are in the band. it has to be one of these because Google ain't gonna help you on this one." This particular contest has 65 possible points. the winner gets, I think, a gift certificate for Platterpus Records.
Well, there were a couple 1's on the list and sure enough I knew 'em. I'm not gonna tell you what they were. But it started to appear that this contest, if anything, demonstrated more my googling abilities than it did my musical acumen. And there were some that Google couldn't help with. Anyway, it was interesting because there were some songs that were just plain obscure. There were some that were songs I knew but not by that artist (one in particular had been covered by at least five artists that I can think of right now). Some of the songs are ones that I don't ever need to hear again, and some were interesting enough to look at buying.
A quick word of advice: the site is set up such that it will not submit your answers unless every one of the songs has an answer next to it. If you mess this up, it will bark at you, and you will hit Back, and all of your answers are gone (at least in firefox).
All in all, a fun, interesting, and instructive exercise.
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