The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 13
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 12
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 12
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 11
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 11
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 10
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 10
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 9
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 9
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 8
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 8
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 7
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 7
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 6
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 6
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 5
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 4
What classic album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 4
The ‘Pictionary’ round in my weekly music quiz has proven to be a hit so I’m sharing it here.
My ‘drawers’ have 30 seconds to recreate a classic record, either from seeing the sleeve (as in this one), or by being given the name of a song.
The results are the basis of this simple question.
Day 4
What classic (but low-selling punk) album cover is this?
Answer given tomorrow.
Please don’t answer here but please do click like if you think you know.
Answer to Day 3
I’m sure this image caught your eye as much as it caught mine, as it did my friend, David Reid, who wrote on Twitter that the headline “China sewage pipe baby” would make for a great band name. I agree.
It compelled me to write the following post on my new business’s blog. (Planet Blog).
Back in the day I was a massive indie music fan. Still am, as a matter of fact.
I loved the fact that it was possible for outlandishly named bands to have big “indie” hits and stay in the charts for months at a time.
Some of the names they came up were majestic. Echo and the Bunnymen broke through, despite a fairly ridiculous moniker. So too did pop radicals, Chumbawumba, with their memorable performance at The Brits during which John ‘Two Jabs’ Prescott got a bucketful of water thrown over him.
Polyphonic Spree had a few moments of limelight. And Lynyrd Skynyrd proved that vowels were no essential constituent of success. The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy also had a season in the sun. (A very good one actually with their rather excellent “Television. The drug of the nation.”)
But it’s amid the failed that the real gems emerge.
Would Simple Minds really have made it if they’d held onto their initial name; Johnny and the Self Abusers?
Is it any surprise that little known Atletico Spizz Energy were so little known.
Impotent Sea Snakes? They hardly flourished. Lacking perhaps in the vital fecundity that fertilises the imagination of music journalists. Or maybe they were just rubbish.
I do like Cindy Brady’s Lisp, even if poor old Cindy was the butt of all her school’s jokes. (Was she?)
Another bunch of losers (apart from in the nomenclature stakes) was Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Pilot. That’s ace that is.
How about Nectarine number 9? Or Crispy Ambulance? Or Osric Tentacles? (I own albums by all three.)
But the kings of it all were The Fall, not in itself such an outre name, but check out these album and song titles:
Why?
My point of mentioning all this is that ill-considered verbiage and smart arsed writing (which is essentially what a lot of the above represents) are no recipe for success.
To prove my point The Fall’s biggest hit was “There’s a Ghost in my House” a Holland/Dozier/Holland penned R Dean Taylor cover that peaked at number 30 in the UK singles chart.
Even on the indy charts, their biggest success was a number 2 with “Totally Wired.”
So, remember this. If you find it hard to turn your complex business or technical messaging into compelling, easy to read blog writing, why not give Planet Blog a try?
We can be your Fall guys. (Without the tortuous language.)
Here’s a little something I created this morning for my professional blog writing company www.planetblog.co.
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