Name That Song
Sample 1
Elton John Rocket Man
Because Yoda sensed in him much fear
And Qui-Gon said, ___ ____ ____
___ _____ ___ _____ _____ _____ ____
I still will teach this boy
And Qui-Gon said, "Now listen here"
Just stick it in your pointy ear
This artist/band has the first and most ever appearances on the cover of the Rolling Stones magazine.
The Beatles/John Lennon
This iconic plastic allows micrometer-precision when pressed, allowing the direct storage of two analogue waveforms offset by 90 degrees.
Vinyl
Paul McCartny was paid this ammount to perform in the 2012 London Olympics
£1.00
Sample 2
David Bowie Life on Mars
This is Ground Control
to Major Tom
You've really made the grade And the papers want to know ____ _____ ____ _____
Now it's time to leave the capsule
if you dare
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
This decade is widely considered the start of Rock'n'Roll
1950's
This medium transmits analogue data by encoding the signal as a Fourier series over a carrier frequency.
FM (radio)
This name was given after Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens were part of the same plane crash
The Day the Music Died
Sample 3
Weird Al White and Nerdy
I got a freaky old lady name a Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I got my ____ ____ _____ ______
Drivin' my limousine
I got my poor old gray-haired daddy
This band was kicked out of their own party for the release of one of their albums. The reason - they tried to start a food fight.
Nirvana
This analogue effect often was created with physical springs or suspended metal plates being carefully placed around a recording studio or concert hall.
Reverb
This morbid club consists of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and many others.
the 27 club
Sample 4
Ozzy Osbourne Mamma I'm Coming Home
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around
You're gonna hear ____ ____
Solid ____ ___ _____
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound
This instrument preceded the role of guitar in early rock
Saxophone
This medium was the first mass-produced digital recording medium, allowing for consumers to read or write their music at home
This track was the first video played on MTV in 1981
Video Killed the Radio Star
Sample 5
Stevie Nicks Landslide
The light in the window is a crack in the sky
A stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye
A levee of tears to learn ___ _____ ___ ______ _____
A levee of tears to learn she'll never be coming back
Freddie Mercury's original name
Farrokh Bulsara
What are the two conflicting line-level recording standard values?
+4dBu/-10dBv
This band performed a free concert for over 1.6 million people in the last days of the Soviet Union, considered by some to be one of the defining events leading to its downfall.
Metallica