{"id":1451,"date":"2007-01-05T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2015-02-21T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T03:08:00","slug":"covered-in-music-quizz-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/05\/covered-in-music-quizz-the-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Covered in Music Quiz: the Results !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look what I found, while cleaning up and putting the place back into shape for 2007: last year’s Music Quizz<\/a> long<\/em> due results !<\/p>\n

Overall, all of them were found, which goes to show they weren’t that hard, though not one person had them all, so perhaps they weren’t that easy…<\/p>\n

And so it went:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I was made for loving you<\/h3>\n

Originally sung by Kiss<\/a> (big hair, yay !):
\n\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

turned into an electroclash underground hit by Queen of Japan<\/a>:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Je t’aime, moi non plus<\/h3>\n

Ultimate 60’s make-out song, by Serge Gainsbourg<\/a> with wife Jane Birkin providing the orgasmic background (the original take featured Brigitte Bardot’s, who refused to let it be released):
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

covered, appropriately enough, by French electro wizz-girl Miss Kittin and Sven V\u00e4th<\/a>:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Strings of Life<\/h3>\n

Probably my favourite dance track of all times, Derrick May<\/a>‘s seminal house anthem:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer3.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

covered by the Williams Fairey Brass Band<\/a>:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample3.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

I wanna be your dog<\/h3>\n

Originally sung by Mr. Pop and his Stooges<\/a> friends:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer4.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

This song has been covered so many times it was hard to make a choice… Though in the end, how could one resist Futon<\/a>‘s electro version, sung in Thai & Japanese?
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample4.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Radio Activity<\/h3>\n

Kudos to anybody who’d recognize Kraftwerk’s brand of German proto-electro:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

… in Se\u00f1or Coconut’s awesomely cheeky Latin beat version thereof:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Stranger in Moscow<\/h3>\n

I’m not particularly crazy for the original Michael Jackson song (actually, I am not crazy for any of his stuff not produced by Quincy Jones):
\n[Update 07\/11\/09: track offline to save my bandwidth, until the MJ fan hordes calm down…]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

but Transformer di Roboter<\/a>‘s sampling the Mac startup sound<\/a> in their version was just too cool to pass (full mp3 on their site<\/a>):
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample6.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

La Chanson de Pr\u00e9vert<\/h3>\n

Yep, this is another Gainsbourg, from yet another of his countless musical genre experimentations (if you are wondering why so many think he’s a genius: this<\/a> is why):
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Strangely enough, and despite straying dangerously close to bubblegum J-pop or cheesy French accordion territories, I kinda like Kaho Minami’s version. The track was released as part of on an entire album of Japanese covers of Gainsbourg’s songs<\/a>.
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Things that dreams are made of<\/h3>\n

I actually mentioned<\/a> this Human League track on this blog once in the past:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/Things_That_Dreams_orig_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

I have really fond memories of brilliant San Francisco boat parties spent dancing like a madman on its cooler-than-pure-grade-colombian-blow instrumental version:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/Things_That_Dreams_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Cars<\/h3>\n

More Best-of-the-80’s tracks? Fine. If you’d listened at least a couple times to Gary Numan’s Cars<\/i>:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer9.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

then cool Belgian eletro-rock band Vive la F\u00eate<\/a>‘s Jalouse<\/i> should have sounded awfully familiar to your ear:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample9.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Voodoo Ray<\/h3>\n

There are two types of people in the world: those who, upon hearing A guy called Gerald<\/a>‘s infectious anthemic bleeping, start wiggle their arms rhythmically with a stupid grin on their face… and those who wonder aloud how this could be considered music in the first place… Pick your camp:
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/answer10.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

once again the Williams Fairey Acid Brass Band (they did an entire album of those. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard KLF’s What time is Love<\/i> played by an authentic British brass band):
\nhttp:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/blog\/quiz\/sample10.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

And now for the winner of an invaluable cup of coffee in the Parisian establishment of his choice:<\/h3>\n

Mr. Labosonic<\/a>, hailing from Paris, whose pathological music nerdiness makes me feel better about my own, every time we meet, grabbed first place with close to 90% of all tracks (covers and<\/em> originals)… Followed, I think by Ria<\/a> and Lisbei<\/a>, who each managed somewhere in the vicinity of 50%…
\nI posted the answers I got by mail in the comment area of the original post<\/a> (a few others were received by other means and shall unfortunately be lost for the ages).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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