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Music Quiz 11

Welcome to a new round of my music quiz, again with a few easy(?) picture riddles (3 or 4, depending on how fast they’re solved) depicting a song or band name – and I’m planning to have a music quiz regularly every week…

1.) Which song title (from which band) is this?

Musik-Quiz 11.1

Gelöst von David: “Crimson and Clover” von Tommy James and the Shondells. :clap:


2.) Welcher Liedtitel (von wem) wird hier dargestellt?

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Links of the Week (2008/16)

Kurz und bündig:

And a comic by xkcd:

buy techno?

Music Quiz 10

Welcome to a new round of my music quiz, again with a few easy(?) picture riddles (3 or 4, depending on how fast they’re solved) depicting a song or band name – and I’m planning to have a music quiz regularly every week…

1.) Which song title (from which band) is this?

Musik-Quiz 10.1

Gelöst von Julia: Sunday Bloody Sunday von U2. :clap:


2.) Welcher Liedtitel (von wem) wird hier dargestellt?

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Links of the Week (2008/14)

Cuddle song hampers percentages – or something like that…

Not that I wouldn’t like my low-price cellphone provider blau.de (=“blue”), on the contrary – but if you combine and build upon what’s in their latest newsletter I received today, this post’s title may be the result: ;)

Main news item is the price reduction from 9.9 to 9 cents per voice minute and SMS, presented by their two blue sock hand puppets (my translation): “From April 1 on, I pay only 9 cents per minute and SMS in the general tariff.” – “Great, then you save even more, a full 10 percent!

Well, they got it wrong: You save 0.9 cents, that’s 0.9 / 9.9 = 1 / 11 = 0.090909… ≈ 9.1 %. So rather nearly 10 %. :klugscheisser:

Items 2 and 3 in the newsletter are the accessories tip of a UMTS PC card and the WAP tip “Google to go” – and then the ringsound download tip for this unspeakable, unbearable, unfeasible, un–whatever Schnuffel Kuschel-Song (“cuddle song”), number 1 for weeks in the official German single charts. “Get the spring hit on your cellphone”. Aaaaargh!
:blossnicht:

Quote (translated) from Schnuffel: Germany in cuddling fever (laut.de, German) (via 49 Suns)

“Number one for a virtual cuddly toy singing about a carrot. Of course, it can’t get more moronic, but we also thought that about the Crazy Frog. […] The song itself (music & text: Jamba) is a cheap large-hall disco stomper with a text you usually find on fall-asleep CDs babies. But that’s okay, since Jamba is a company that makes money out of bullshit. And it’s legitimate because people buy that bullshit. And Jamba doesn’t claim it were art, let alone music.”