So, here are the answers to last week’s quiz:
- Grizzly Bear, “Owner of A Lonely Heart”, by Yes
- Pet Shop Boys, “Where The Streets Have No Name”, by U2
- Travis, “Baby Hit Me One More Time”, Britney Spears (more than one person thought that this was the Fountains of Wayne version)
- t.A.T.u., “How Soon Is Now”, The Smiths (everyone’s favorite Russian fake-lesbian pop tarts)
- Bob Harris/Bill Murray, “More Than This”, Roxy Music
- Paul Anka, “Jump”, Van Halen
- Seal, “Fly Like An Eagle”, The Steve Miller Band
- Cat Power/Chan Marshall, “Wonderwall”, Oasis
- Mosquitos, “A Man Needs A Maid”, Neil Young (no-one even bothered guessing at this one; the closest was “It’s in Portuguese, right?”
- Rachid Taha, “Rock el[the] Casbah”, The Clash
Your two co-winners both scored 25 points out of 30 possible, which, given the difficulty of the quiz, is really quite respectable.
Now wait a second -- the opening verse of Track 2 is clearly from "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You". I think I should get points for that.
By that logic, since the rest of the clip is clearly from "Where The Streets Have No Name", the folks who got it right should then get half-a-point deducted from their score, and that hardly seems fair.
I mean, I think that if the Pet Shop Boys wanted to cover "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", they've have covered the whole song and not just dropped a bit into a different song, no?
that was SO hard.
Oh of course - the "More Than This" cover is the karaoke thing from "Lost in Translation." Damn. I should have gotten that one. That was fun!