May 212011
How many of the following album cover ‘dos can you identify? Full credit will be given for naming the person and album, but we’ll give partial credit where due! This quiz is divided across 2 sections.
Part 1:
Hair, Pt. 1
More hair pieces…after the jump!
Part 2:
Hair, Pt. 2
2. Ron Flynt (20/20) -20/20
3, Chris Isaak – Chris Isaak
7. Robert Palmer – Sneaking Sally Through THe Alley
13. Sting – Outlandos d’Amour
14. Graham Parker – Squeezing Out The Sparks
15. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
16. Tom Petty – Long After Dark
Wow, if petesecrutz nailed a 20/20 guy AND knew his name I’m impressed! Thinking about it, I can see that cover. His Kate Bush call may also be spot on. I was thinking it was the Simply Red guy. Damn, you people are smart!
#10 is Aimee Mann from a Til Tuesday album cover, right?
8. Paul Collins – The Beat
1. Matt Johnson from The The album Mind Bond
6. Tegan Quin from the Tegan and Sara album Sainthood
Mind Bomb not bond
17. Julian Cope from Saint Julian
#4 is from the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls album cover – Mick Jagger’s face with a wig.
12 – Bjork from “Post”
11 – Danny Elfman!
5 – Mr. Royale knows his Bauhaus: Peter Murphy on the cover of “Deep.”
Awesome call, if right! I thought it was Iggy Pop on Lust for Life, but then I remembered there’s not so much writing around his head.
9 & 17 remaining. I’m stumped.
I would have bet your house that #1 was Roland Gift
100% right!
Yes! I thought someone would call Billy Idol for that one.
Yep! I never noticed the details on the overhead marquee there until I cropped it.
Good call! I thought that might me tough due to the low res and poor context.
Excellent! I think the Elfman one is a painting of a photo that’s on the back cover.
You have correctly corrected the Mind Bomb. Buy you have half credit so far on #6!
Tonyola is correct! And good call for picking the right Stone from among the many wigged possibilities on that cover.
Já, það er hún!
The townspeople are cleaning up! OK, at 9:30PM here on the west coast, #9 remains in play, and Cliff only has half the answer for #6. Congratulations to Petesecrutz for running nearly half the table on the first post; I will give one bonus credit for pedantically correcting two of Petesecrutz’ essentially correct answers, and I don’t mean the capitalization typo.
That’s who I thought. too.
#13 – The Police, not just Sting…
Same here.
I was a big Oingo Boingo fan and they liked those painted album covers.
What about #17? I’m sure I’ve seen it – 80’s hair metal or country rock?
You are correct, but the question asks for the person, and that is Sting. I was thinking about a couple of the album titles….
Gosh, it could have been Sinead O’Connor joining Matt on “Kingdom of Rain.”
Cliff correctly identified #17 as Julian Cope on Saint Julian. I was lucky enough to see a show at the Berkeley Greek Theater where he opened for Andy Summers and headliner Siouxsie and the Banshees. What a lineup!
So did you go to shows by all of these artists?
That #9 is a stumper. It looks like Paul Weller but clearly not Jam or Style Council material.
I tried to use high-powered computing technology to see what was in the corner of #9, but it appears to be some new-wave version of the Ozzy runes from “Speak of the Devil,” which I couldn’t decode.
How I wish! I count 7 of these people I’ve seen live in person.
#6 — Upon further review it looks like I got the sisters mixed up, therefore I change my answer to Sara instead of Tegan. If anyone really cares, Sara has the thinner face and the nasally voice. Tegan is more round in the face and sings like she has walnuts in her cheeks. I like them though.
Correct! You now have the correct Quin twin.
OK, I will provide a clue or two for #9.
This album cover features an artist who has been a major subject of discussion on RTH. The photo/scan is not high fidelity, so in terms of color accuracy, I would describe the hair color here as strawberry blonde.
I’ll tell you one thing: don’t go googling “Strawberry Blonde Male Rock Star”…Oooph!
Too frickin funny !!!
http://officeforward.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/funny-photo-the-ramones.jpeg
Could #9 be Dave Edmunds?
No, but … cool, I just found a YouTube video of Edmunds performing with this person on something I didn’t know Edmunds was involved with!
Chez Royale is guessing Bryan Adams.
Interesting guess! So I searched youtube for Dave Edmunds and Bryan Adams and there is a hit for the pairing, but neither is correct.
Next hints, a trio: One of the other bandmembers on this album cover was featured in a past RTH “who is it?” where Chez Royale scored a pertinent hit. Mr. Mod mentioned a specific song from this album recently.
Gary Tibbs from Code Blue, etc.?
Is #9 Brian Setzer? Edmunds produced them, but I don’t remember them being talked about much here at RTH.
By ‘them’ I mean the Stray Cats.
Good efforts, but no.
At the time of this very well-known and enormously successful album (their third), this band was a trio:
– Person who is an all-time rock A-lister.
– Person from previous “who is it?” thread, obscure to the world but well-known, at least by name, to most townspeople.
– Person whose hair is the question here.
Linda!!!!! Band on the Run!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have a winner!
Bonus with Dave Edmunds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4cJUJ3ub0
You may be right. Even if not, AWESOME!
The pedantically correction of my answers.
Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley
Squeezing Out Sparks
Nice! Exactly right.
trigmo, Mad Props! for that brilliantly executed and managed game!
I would love to take credit for finally getting this, as that hair was an object of obsession in our household all weekend. Mr. Royale apparently logged in to me after spending several more moments this morning trying to figure this out. Kudos to Mr. Royale for his tenacity and visual memory…I married a true rock nerd.
Thanks, that was fun!
The answers are graphically depicted here and listed below:
https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/answers.jpg
1 – Matt Johnson (The The) – Mind Bomb
(cliff sovinsanity)
2 – Ron Flynt (20/20) – 20/20
(petesecrutz)
3 – Chris Isaak – Chris Isaak
(petesecrutz)
4 – Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones) – Some Girls
(tonyola)
5 – Peter Murphy – Deep
(ladymisskirroyale)
6 – Sara Quin (Tegan and Sara) – Sainthood
(cliff sovinsanity)
7 – Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
(petesecrutz)
8 – Paul Collins (The Beat) – The Beat
(petesecrutz)
9 – Linda McCartney (Wings) – Band on the Run
(ladymisskirroyale)
10 – Aimee Mann (Til Tuesday) – Voices Carry
(Mr. Moderator)
11 – Danny Elfman – So-Lo
(ladymisskirroyale)
12 – Björk – Post
(ladymisskirroyale)
13 – Sting (The Police) – Outlandos d’Amour
(petesecrutz)
14 – Graham Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks
(petesecrutz)
15 – Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
(petesecrutz)
16 – Tom Petty – Long After Dark
(petesecrutz)
17 – Julian Cope – Saint Julian
(cliff sovinsanity)