Yeah come on @penoid you must have a guess. All mine are wild guesses.
reckon madness was before bryan adams, so 1983.
know for a fact that blue suede shoes came out before little richard had released anything, so 1955
Quizzers
Are
A
Massive
Bunch
Of
Ball
Bags
those last 3 are utterly awful songs
I had in my mind āsongs that you might hear on a provincial radio stationā.
You going to enter?
nine entrants so far
one hour to go
nah Iām shit at remembering years
Half an hour to go. Any more #takers?
Thank you for your entries. The scores have been collated and I can announce a three way tie between @VincentAdultman , @penoid and @NoahVale . Sterling work!
And thanks @wikihock @elthamsmateowen @1101010 @plasticniki @stickboy and @profk for taking part.
do I get a prize for being the only person not to google at least one answer? who the fuck knew what year that steve harley song came out?!
EDIT: no one did.
Answers as follows:
The James one was slightly tricky: it was originally released in 1989 but only reached number 70-something in the charts. It was re-released in 1991 and was one of the top 20 selling singles of that year.
Nobody got that Steve Harley one bang on - closest guesses were two years out. @penoid and @noahvale got five of the ten bang-on.
see above.
so bitter
No one Googled it.
you all cheated.
they were all guesses apart from the ones that i knew for definite. just used basic knowledge of popular music.
DO YOU WANT MY REASONING???
hey ya = lead single from the love below, school disco in 2003
someone like you = 2011 brit awards
as mentioned above, i remember the trivia that āblue suede shoesā came out before little richardās āthe girl canāt help itā in 1956
good times had to have been 1979
knew our house was early ā80s
single ladies = same year as the album came out (2008)
respect = another music fact i knew, also that it was two years after otisā version (in 1965)
knew ācome up and see meā was just before punk/'76
thought sit down was 90s (i was wrong)
thought summer of '69 was mid '80s
My colleague and I listen to Kisstory sometimes in the office, and Iām usually pretty good at guessing the year. I find I can link songs quite closely to times of my life e.g. Iād know that Children by Robert Miles was released some time when I was in 6th form, so thatād be 1996.
(Iām hopeless with the last decade, though).
EDIT: checks yep 1996
Donāt rise to it gb: youāre better than that