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Good luck. :)


1.Name Tubeway Army's debut 7" (1 point) That's Too Bad - Snowy, and give the assumed names used by Gary Numan, Paul Gardner and Jess Lidyard on that release (1 point each). Valerian, Scarlett, Rael - duckpin 3 points

2. A connection between Depeche Mode and Sparks. What is it?Martin Gore of Dep Mode covered 'Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth'. - Ryaneno

Anagram round
Name the artist:

3a. Coax usual vixen Classix Nouveaux - Zoot

3b. Slack goal souffle A Flock Of Seagulls - Zoot

3c. Add fat eggFad Gadget - EC

3d. Renegade MartinTangerine Dream - delmore

3e. Dreadful lossLa Dusseldorf - EC

4. Name the band including John Foxx, Warren Cann and Billy Currie prior to ther Ultravox days. Tiger Lily - Zoot

5. Kraftwerk released their Computer Love single in '81. What was it's peculiarity? It sold poorly, so got flipped over and The Model became the hit. - Zoot

6. Name Soft Cell's debut EP (1 point) Mutant Moments EP - EC, and give the titles of the four tracks (point each) Frustration, L.O.V.E.Feelings, Potential, Metro MRX - duckpin

Lyrics round
Name the songs and artists.

7a. "My situation, it's imagination, there's no excuse, it's instantly a game" Souvenir - OMD - Mere Pseud 2 points

7b. "The map represents you and the tape is your choice"Dep Mode - Photographic -Fritter 2 points

7c. "And they said that in our time we would reap from their legacy" 'Hymn' - Ultravox- duckpin 2 points

7d. "Wir stehen herum, und stellen uns auswir sind schaufensterpuppen"Showroom Dummies (in German) - Kraftwerk - EC 2 points

7e. "Oh, riding through the night, riding through the city, trying to lose your mind"Hero by Neu! - Zoot 2 points


Name the sleeves (some back sleeves included):

8a. Roger Taylor - Fun In Space - EC

8b. Front 242 - Never Stop - Friendly Visitor

8c. Fad Gadget - Incontinent - Friendly Visitor

9. Who originally produced OMD's debut single, Electricity?Martin Hannett - EC

Who are the following better known as?
10a. Gary Webb Gary Numan - Zoot

10b. Dennis Leigh John Foxx - Zoot

10c. Steven Harrington Steve Strange - Zoot

11. Before Phil Oakey joined the ranks, what were the Human League known as?The Future - flexi

12. Human League released a single in the pre-Dare days under another name, and including a female backing singer. Name the song (1 point)I Don't Depend On You - duckpin and assumed band name (1 point) The Men - Mere Pseud.

13. Rockman Dock and LX Dee were better known as who? The Orb - Mere Pseud

14. After disbanding Neu!, Klaus and Thomas Dinger and Hans Lampe formed a new outfit. What was it? La Dusseldorf - Zoot

15. Dusty Springfield, Liza Minelli and Helena Springs all worked with which popular synthpop combo?Pet Shop Boys - Flexi


Final scores
Snowy - 1
Zoot - 10
EC - 7
Flexi - 2
delmore - 1
Friendly Visitor - 2
Mere Pseud - 4
duckpin - 10 :o
Fritter - 2
Ryaneno - 1

1. That's Too Bad

Yep, good start. :applaud:

Its the only one I know, so I will retire whilst I am in the lead

:lol:

And I'm just off to collect the curry

Cherish the moment. :D

You must know more than that though. :unsure:

4. Tiger Lily. :beer:

5. Its B-side, a three-year-old song entitled 'The Model', became the hit.

Nice one. :applaud:

Yes, Computer World only scraped the charts, so they flipped it over and it got to #1. :applaud:

10a. Gary Numan

10b. John Foxx

10c. Stevo of Some Bizzare??

14. La Dusseldorf.

Is there a Neu! lyric higher up, incidentally? I recognise it, but I wouldn't have associated them with synth pop...

15. Yello?

a and b correct, d is wrong.

La Dusseldorf, yes. :applaud:

Might be. :whistle:

Er, no.

is 15. The Pet Shop Boys? Otherwise I'm of little use here... :lol:

1.Name Tubeway Army's debut 7" (1 point) That's Too Bad - Snowy, and give the assumed names used by Gary Numan, Paul Gardner and Jess Lidyard on that release (1 point each).

2. A connection between Depeche Mode and Sparks. What is it?

Anagram round
Name the artist:

3a. Coax usual vixen

3b. Slack goal souffle

3c. Add fat egg

3d. Renegade Martin

3e. Dreadful loss

4. Name the band including John Foxx, Warren Cann and Billy Currie prior to ther Ultravox days. Tiger Lily - Zoot

5. Kraftwerk released their Computer Love single in '81. What was it's peculiarity? It sold poorly, so got flipped over and The Model became the hit. - Zoot

6. Name Soft Cell's debut EP (1 point), and give the titles of the four tracks (point each).
Mutant Moments; Memoribilia err...

Lyrics round
Name the songs and artists.

7a. "My situation, it's imagination, there's no excuse, it's instantly a game"

7b. "The map represents you and the tape is your choice"

7c. "And they said that in our time we would reap from their legacy"

7d. "Wir stehen herum, und stellen uns auswir sind schaufensterpuppen"

7e. "Oh, riding through the night, riding through the city, trying to lose your mind"


Name the sleeves (some back sleeves included):

8a. user posted image

8b. user posted image

8c. user posted image

9. Who originally produced OMD's debut single, Electricity? Martin Hannett

Who are the following better known as?
10a. Gary Webb Gary Numan

10b. Dennis Leigh

10c. Steven Harrington

11. Before Phil Oakey joined the ranks, what were the Human League known as?

12. Human League released a single in the pre-Dare days under another name, and including a female backing singer. Name the song (1 point) and assumed band name (1 point).

13. Rockman Dock and LX Dee were better known as who? The KLF

14. After disbanding Neu!, Klaus and Thomas Dinger and Hans Lampe formed a new outfit. What was it?

15. Dusty Springfield, Liza Minelli and Helena Springs all worked with which popular synthpop combo? Pet Shop Boys

Correct. :applaud:

8a Body Language - Queen.

In that case:

7e. "Hero" by Neu!

3c Fad Gadget

Bloody hell, EC. :angry:


6, for a point.

9, yes

13, no.

:wacko:

No.

3a. is very close to Classix Nouveaux. Can I have it anyway?

Correct. :D

Yes,

Might be my typing. :lol:

Point given .

is 11. The Future?

I love Human League, I should've known all the answers to those questions... sigh...

Yes. :applaud:

Is 7d Showroom Dummies (in German, obviously) by Kraftwerk?

2. Depeche Mode decided to form a band six years after seeing Sparks perform 'This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us' on Top Of The Pops.

Well spotted - thought that'd be left till last. :applaud:

i don't think so. :lol:

See, I'm not totally hopeless in this one...

8a is Roger Taylor's Fun In Space (I did have to Google the title, though...)

Let you off for your honesty. :lol:

Correct. :applaud:

3b. A Flock Of Seagulls :applaud:

Yay!! :applaud:

10c. Steve Strange. :beer:

Phew!

Well done - did you sweat over that one? :lol: