Bored in Work 995 (1 Viewer)

[pete]

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[seanc]

You've just given me an excellent music round of a pub quiz. 9 seemingly random 80's songs, question 10 is what connects them?

 

[Cormcolash]

They were all featured on the Thumped 'music' forum

 

[pete]

You've just given me an excellent music round of a pub quiz. 9 seemingly random 80's songs, question 10 is what connects them?

the one fact that everyone at a pub quiz should know about buggles would probably give it away

 

[seanc]

the one fact that everyone at a pub quiz should know about buggles would probably give it away

Exactly.The format would be half a point for naming the artist of each song, half a point for naming the title of the song. For one whole point, what's the connection?

I think Buggles would lull them into a false sense of security, and then even the music experts would panic, and then the logically minded ones would get the connection.

It would be very interesting to watch, in an anthropological sort of way.

I've obvs done a lot of Zoom quizzes over the last while, and I often see the same questions come up. But this would be a new one on me.

 

[nuke terrorist]

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someone should have told the presenter not to wear flares.
5 different artists had 2 videos in the first two hours or so (inc. Rod within the first hour).
41 mins in a really crap segment on punk legends.
58:50 a live version of a great NWOBHM headbanger.
I now know what Styx look like.
several artists I never heard of.
inc. some bands that, like Styx, look like really square 30 something dad's formed bands

 

[magicbastarder]

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