Quiz answers

[daibhidc]

Since it doesn't look like anyone else is going to have a go, here are the answers.

The winner was speakr2customrs, who recognised all the Runrig stuff and a few others and scores 10 1/2. In second place is sabremeister, who got all three From The Discworld tracks and scores 3. Third place is curiouswombat, with 1 point for getting "Both Sides The Tweed", and cat63, and silly_swordsman both get half a point for recognising "A Wizard's Staff", but not naming any of the people involved.

As you may have realised, most of them were folky. I was surprised no-one recognised the main exception, Mitch Benn, since I think most of my friends-list have the right sense of humour for him. (The randomiser also picked up a few They Might Be Giants songs, but in every case, the opening line was the title, and nothing else.)

While it seems most of you don't share my taste in music, I hope you're intrigued enough to have a listen to them if you get an opportunity 8-).

Apart from the Fairport Convention one, all the artists who only appear once came from a Celtic Connections CD that came free with the Glasgow Herald.



1. "These Ghoulish Things", Mitch Benn
2. "Matty Groves", Fairport Convention
speakr2customrs
3. "This Ain't Your Country Any More", Mitch Benn
4. "Open Fields", Dougie MacLean
5. "A Wizard's Staff", Dave Greenslade (comp), Heather Wood (lyr), Tim Whitnall (singer).
cat63, sabremeister, speakr2customrs and silly_swordsman all got the title. sabremeister also got the composer.
6. "The Calling", Mary Chapin Carpenter
7. "The Bad Mother", Steeleye Span
speakr2customrs
8. "The Devil's Paintbrush Road", The Wailin' Jennys
9. "Jack Hall", Steeleye Span
10 "Our Earth Was Once Green", Runrig
speakr2customrs
11."The Shades Of Ankh-Morpork", Dave Greenslade (comp), Tim Whitnall (singer)
sabremeister got song and Greenslade again.
12. "Over The Hill", John Martyn
13. "Always The Winner", Runrig
speakr2customrs
14. "Right Now, Baby", Mitch Benn
15. "Never Mind The Song (Look At The Stage Set)", Mitch Benn
16. "Both Sides The Tweed", Dick Gaughan
curiouswombat got this one.
17. "Doctor Who Girl", Mitch Benn
18. "Ontario", Eddi Reader
19. "Not Look Down", Dougie MacLean
20. "Chi mi'n Geamhradh", Runrig
speakr2customrs again
21. "Strathmore", Dougie MacLean
22. "Healer in your Heart", Runrig
speakr2customrs
23. "Dance Against The Thunder", Dougie MacLean
24. "Flower of the West", Runrig
speakr2customrs again
25. "Into the Flames", Dougie MacLean
26. "Ikea", Mitch Benn
27. "Protect and Survive", Runrig
28. "Rocket to the Moon", Runrig
Both got by speakr2customrs
29. "Waving at the Poor", Mitch Benn
30. "Hearthammer", Runrig
speakr2customrs of course.
31. "Too Much Money", Mitch Benn
32. "Great A'Tuin", Dave Greenslade (comp), Tony Robinson (speech)
sabremeister guessed it was either this or "Moving Pictures" (which is actually called "Holy Wood Dreams").


The two I dropped because I wasn't sure I'd got the lyrics right were "Holy Wood Dreams" (which was just plain nasty of me, it's an instrumental with sound effects and the "lyrics" in question are actually the chatter of a party halfway through) and "Setal" by Daby Touré. ("Setal" is from the Celtic Connections CD, which doesn't have sleeve notes, and it's in French!)

Comments

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Ubggre. I didn't know you'd gone back and redone it, or I'd have got Matty Groves and Jack Hall. I have got a best of Runrig CD, but I can't say I know it well.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I can honestly say I've never heard any of those songs, including "A Wizard's Staff, which I got by deduction rather than knowledge.

It seems that my musical knowledge has a big folk-shaped hole in it, which I need to do something about.