Okay, guys. Is this seriously too difficult?
Yeah. maybe it is. In hindsight, I can see how asking you to identify eight snippets of songs played on top of each other could be tricky. Maybe I thought it was a piece of cake because I created the snippets and knew what to listen for. But apparently it was so tough that nobody really gave it a serious listen. And nobody gave it a serious guess as to what the eight songs were.
Which is why I decided to divide the task in half — and ask you all to identify two sets of four snippets of songs played on top of each other yesterday. And I appreciate the answers that you all came up with:
- Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me (Janelle)
- Whitney Houston – The Greatest Love of All (Janelle)
- Eddie Money – I Wanna Go Back (Janelle)
- Steve Perry – Oh Sherry (YankeeBird)
- Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart (B. E. Earl)
- Prince and the Revolution – I would Die 4 U (B. E .Earl)
All good guesses. But only one of the songs above was included in my little snippet collage.
I’ve concluded a few things about this little exercise:
- I’m a smarmy game-show host type of person. Kind of like Alex Trebek when he pretends to know all of the answers because he has the card in his hands. And when he does, he uses that prissy little accent. I feel a bit like Alex Trebek. And I hereby don’t blame you for wanting to beat me up.
- I obviously don’t have a prize worthy of people trying harder at my little games. The economy has hit us all quite hard, apparently. I’m looking around my office, and I suppose I could send the winner a dead cel phone from 2003 if s/he wanted it. But aside from that? Not so much of value…
- Nobody has commented about my inclusion of OGG files for each of these snippets. This is the first time that I’m including OGG as an option for download. Although OGG is an open source music format (unlike the commercial MP3 format), I decided to include it just so I could type the word “OGG.”
So here’s the deal — I’m going to make things very easy for those of you who are curious as to what was on my list of random 80s songs in the first place: I’m going to repost the original 3-second snippet of eight songs:
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… and I’m going to repost yesterday’s addition: two three-second snippets of four songs apiece:
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… and now? I’ll slice each of those in half. FOUR three-second snippets, each consisting of a whopping two songs:
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There. This should make things slightly easier. Attainable, even.
Please, please, please, please, please don’t make me do eight snippets of one song tomorrow. Or sixteen snippets of a half of a song the next day. So far, this experiment has cost me almost 300 kB in valuable disk space on my host, and I only have about 5.8 GB left.
(Besides — converting audio files to OGG can be a real pain.)
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Apparently everybody on the planet is a much better sport than I am! I clicked play, yelled “Oh my FUCKING hell, make it stop!” then decided not to comment.
*whistles*
Props to BE Earl and Jannelle for being patient little buggers!
Hillys last blog post..I’ve Got A Big Voice And I’m Not Losing It…
I hear
The Fixx, One thing Leads to Another
Men Without Hats, Safety Dance
Animotion, Obsession
Anything else you claim is in there is pure fantasy on your part.
Faiqas last blog post..Argumentum Ad Hominem
Ok, if the third one of the last group doesn’t have “don’t you want me” from Human League I totally give up. I’m listening to that clip over and over and then going back to listening to that song on youtube and I know that beat as got to be in that three thingymajig up there. If it’s not… I’m never reading your blog AGAIN!
Ok, that’s a lie.
Janelles last blog post..Annie Lynn
And just so you know, yes this little “game” that you are playing is totally taking over my life. I keep saying, “if only they were a few seconds longer!!!”
Janelles last blog post..Annie Lynn
Yes, the second one up there, at the end you can totally hear, The Fixx- One thing leads to Another.
I can’t take credit for that, Faiqa gave the heads up. But I say it’s in the second one in your group of four.
I’ll be back Mr.Shiny, I’ll be back with more!!
Janelles last blog post..Annie Lynn
I swear the first one sounds like it has “Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland)” by The Who, but that was a 70’s song, right? So that it can’t be that. Right?
Ok, I’m stepping away from the computer.
I admit defeat.
Janelles last blog post..Annie Lynn
Fine fine, I brought my snarky ass back to guess.
1. The GoGo’s – Head over Heels
2. The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
3. Animotion – Obsession
4. Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
These songs overpower the ones they are paired with.
Hillys last blog post..There Will Be A Chance To Chase The Sun Someday…
Can I guess David Bowie? He’s from the 80s right?
See, it’s when you buttheads do stuff like this that I feel like a kid because I wasn’t alive until 1987.
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I’m still going with “Owner of the Lonely Heart” on that second one. Along with “One Thing Leads to Another”.
How about “Obsession” in the third?
That sounds like a bet on a horse race.
B.E. Earls last blog post..Bacon!
Just read Faiqa’s guesses, so I’m thinking we are right with those. Trust in Faiqa, I always say.
B.E. Earls last blog post..Bacon!
#1 includes Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the USA”
#2 includes the Fixx, “One Thing Leads to Another”
#3 includes Animotion, “Obsession,” as well as (I think) Prince, “1999”
#4 includes Men Without Hats, “Safety Dance”
see, what you all don’t know is that when Shiny was about 10, he and I would play a game where we would slowly turn the radio dial across all the frequencies and had to write down the name of every song we heard, thus honing our song-identifying skills for this very moment, and beginning Shiny’s pathological obsession with 80’s music that endures to this day. (At my engagement party, he gave a toast in the form of a Casey Kasem Long Distance Dedication.)
Unless I got them all wrong, in which case never mind.
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Don’t remember the order, but yes! Today I can guess with some intelligence!
One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx
Obsession- Animotion
Safety Dance – Men without Hats
Is Van Halen in there somewhere?! Possibly some Yes?!
That is all I have.
Sybil Laws last blog post..I’m going to tap it, too.
So I didn’t win the million dollars then?
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Looks like I need to trade my “don’t you want me” by Human League for “Obsession” by Animotion.
I hate you Shiny. I really really do… This game is not fun anymore.
Ok, I’m lying again.
Janelles last blog post..Annie Lynn
Oh shit you were serious! Damn.
I can’t add anything except to say that Head over Heels by the Go Gos is correct.
I’m frustrated now…
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