How well do ye know your .. eh ... my onions!?

They say there are as many ways to judge a person as there are to skin a cat. Par exemple - by the content of their character; by the company they keep; by what others say about them; by the clothes that they wear; by the car that they drive; by the books they do read; by the gargle they do imbibe - that sort of thingammy! One great judgement barometer, or maybe that should be coolometer, when I was growing up anyway, was by the type of bands a person listened to and, in particular, by the level of weirdness of the albums in the said person's collection. Thinking about that yesterday, I decided I would mood-board up a montage of my own records - so as to put my theory to the test while giving you all a little bit of an inkling into the musical measure of me.

I got cracking, cutting and pasting old pix and images to beat and, after ten minutes, bore the band! So I changed tack and got the notion of blanking out the crucial parts of the sleeves I'd selected - like the names of the bands and the titles of the albums - the grand idea being to spice things up a tad and obscure the obvious a bit! And by doing this I managed to change the nature of the project completely, turning the montage from a personal personality test into ... yippee ... an album quiz for y'all!

Nice one indeed, Cyril, even if I do say so myself!

So why not take a few minutes and see how far you get using the scale of: 0 - meaning 'sharing no musical taste whatsoever with me'  to 54 - meaning 'actually, you are me, or at least an exact clone of me!' So, eh ... let that yardstick be your guide ... and let the games commence!

Annnd ... to make it interesting - why not have a gander and tell me, in the comments, how many you got - you can submit a list if you want, and if you are the brainiest or the cloniest, then a cool, crisp pint of Tuborg could be flowing your way courtesy of ... ah, by now I think you know what I mean! Anyway, I'll post up the answers in a couple of days.

More soon ...

Name that tune! 



(Answers below - Click on 'Click here to read on')

Answers: 

1. Aja- Steely Dan; 2. Blur - Blur; 3. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan; 4. - Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons; 5. Graceland - Paul Simon; 6. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie; 7. Remain in Light - Talking Heads; 8. Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris; 9. Drums and Wires - XTC; 10. Armed Forces - Elvis Costello and The Attractions; 11. The Band - The Band; 12 Setting Sons - The Jam; 13. Word Up! - Cameo; 14. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian; 15. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols; 16. Mutations - Beck; 17. The Clash - The Clash; 18. Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico; 19. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison; 20. Fear of Music - Talking Heads; 21. Love Bites - The Buzzcocks; 22. Three of a Perfect Pair - King Crimson; 23. New York Dolls - New York Dolls; 24. Horses - Patti Smith; 25. The Specials - The Specials; 26. This is the Sea - The Waterboys; 27. Screamadelica - Primal Scream; 28. Pet Sounds - The Beachboys; 29. Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers; 30. Roxy Music - Roxy Music; 31. Transformer - Lou Reed; 32. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths; 33. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers; 34. This is it - The Strokes; 35. Peter Gabriel (3) - Peter Gabriel; 36. Searching for the Young Soul Rebels ­­- Dexys Midnight Runners; 37. London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins; 38. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy; 39. Cop Killer - Bodycount; 40. Marquee Moon - Television; 41. Power in the Darkness - Tom Robinson Band; 42. OK Computer - Radiohead; 43. Hypnotised - The Undertones; 44. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout; 45. Mind Bomb - The The; 46. The Lamb Lies Down of Broadway - Genesis; 47. Rum, Sodomy & the Lash - The Pogues; 48. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey; 49. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses; 50. Suede - Suede; 51. Café Bleu - The Style Council; 52. Tin Drum - Japan; 53. No. 10, Upping Street - Big Audio Dynamite; 54. Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers