This is gonna be a short and sweet game recap. Not much to report – this was a rough night for us three players (Kim, myself and Mike), we dropped to second place in the leaderboard standings and missed both final questions.

I did some house cleaning this morning, so I don’t have my paper notes from the game. I just have some vague memories and some screen captures!

Truth be told, waiting almost a week to do a game recap is not something easy for me to do! Because Sporcle Events only does one set of music quiz questions per week, I like to wait until all of the games are done for the week to do the game recap. This means the game is no longer fresh in my mind, my notes may already be in the recycle bin, and sometimes the screenshots aren’t even on my phone anymore.

Let’s see what I can remember! We didn’t know the B side for the Beatles song “Love Me Do,” which share its name with a rom-com starring Gerard Butler and Hillary Swank.

These two actors are not the first people I think about when it comes to rom-coms! 300, Million Dollar Baby, maybe!

I talked to my former Beatlemaniac mother about this question, it turns out that she actually owned the “Love Me Do” single when she was a kid! No, she did not remember which song was on the B-side either.

Upon doing some poking around about this song, I learned that “Love me Do” was the Beatles’ first single. It hit #1 in the UK fairly quickly, and eventually also hit #1 in the States. Maybe the Ed Sullivan show had something to do with that? I didn’t do any more digging to find out if I was right about that.

Maybe we were just collectively afflicted by a severe case of the dumbs that night or were understaffed, but I thought that the music quiz questions last week were tougher than usual.

We were all about knowing the name of the song “9 to 5” and some other facts about it, but we were all shrugs when we had the category of “reggaeton.” Is that a reggae themed town where everyone has unwashed dreads and says “mon” with fake Caribbean accents? Am I having mid 1990s college flashbacks when that was kind of a fashion trend for some students (usually very, very white ones)? Cultural appropriation?

I knew a musician guy from my CMU days who affected a Jamaican accent, wore dreads and went by the nickname “Cool Breeze.” What wasn’t so cool was that he was from Ohio!

But he and his band paid my boyfriend at the time to do album art for them, so we “rolled” with it!

Here are a couple of screen shots from the game:

I’ll try to come up with a better system for doing music quiz game recaps!  Maybe set game notes aside!

More importantly, I hope that we do a bit better in next week’s game and have a bit more help!

As always, Go Pods, Sparty On, and stay classy, Daddy Yankee! Whomever you are 😂