Recognize Discographies from Approximate Colour Schemes! (an ILM cover game)

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Is that last one Roxy Music?

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:12 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YEs! The pics given for Avalon looked just like the cover too.

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Open: 8, 9, 12, 17, 18, 21, 22 (ie the last one by jaymc).

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha Avalon antlers, excellent.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/disco1.jpg

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Hmmm that last album of four with a coloured blob on white... is 22 Kanye??

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Yep!

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

oh it totally is xpost!

Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

24.
http://s4.tinypic.com/w6zddt.jpg

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Number 9 again, including the missing ones. Have swapped #5 but in all honesty none of the options for 5 much look like the cover.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/3060844959_5dea34842d.jpg?v=0

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Beautiful South?

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link

No, first album is from 1979 and the last album is from 2001.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

gawd this #9 is bugging the FUCK out of me! I soooo know those abstract blobs....

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Or blobby hearts...

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link

#5 (the garish blobs) of that sequence is from 1984.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I might be thinking of Dylan (1973) for that one:

http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/media/blogs/rth/dylan1973.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link

The Cure?

2for25, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

#9 = U2??

Jeff Wright, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

9 = Human League

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

25.
http://s4.tinypic.com/2zrg8k5.jpg

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link

xpost
OMMFG! You're right! How the fuck did you figure that out?!?!??

Bands/artists I was thinking of (before I saw 1979): Mouse on Mars, Saint Etienne, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Cheap Trick, and, um, Supertramp (number four reminded me of ...Famous Last Words...).

http://images.madmoizelle.com/fiches/photos/M/famous-last-words_supertramp_080724092744.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Hey, I thought Supertramp too for a second!

26.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/disco2.jpg

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

MGD neon signs were also results for pictures 2, 4, and 7.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link

27 = Fugazi?

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Fugazi xp

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

: )

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

What's weird is that there's an album cover that looks a lot like the 4th image in the Fugazi set. Something that's not In on the Kill Taker, I mean. This is going to drive me crazy.

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry, been away. kingkongvsgodzilla is right, 9 is the Human League and the horrible blobby one was 1984's Hysteria.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Human_League_Hysteria.jpg/200px-Human_League_Hysteria.jpg

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link

28:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/clcv03.jpg

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link

I dunno, but that picture of the white jack o' lantern is dope.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link

29.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/3061873028_40cc827069.jpg?v=0

Hopefully a little more straightforward than my last attempt.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, fugazi was right

Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

13 songs is a big help on that one

Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

#29 is Portishead?

2for25, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Yes, knew it would be a little easier.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link

MGD showed up for Roxy Music's Manifesto too. When I saw that the first time, I had to come back here to check that someone else hadn't already posted those.

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

And this is one of the rare "Guessing" threads I'm getting into. Usually an entire thread of "Beatles? No. Stones? No. Is it the Who? No." gets a little boring.

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

26. Captain Beefheart?

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Probably not, but I couldn't get past that monkey head.

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Not Captain Beefheart.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link

#24. Gotta be the B. Jaxx amirite

The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Indeed.

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link

http://static01.visualsearchlab.com/alamy/photos.square/2D/70/A03MB1.jpg

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Smashing Pumpkins?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Was gonna guess Pumpkins too.

emil.y, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Siamese Dream one uncanny, gave it away completely

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link


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