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Monday, September 25, 2006
As most of you are no doubt aware, my Trolling the Unerground feature comes with a contest. With every entry, I provide a clue to the next entry's topic. The first to figure out who it is wins a copy of the underground reccording that the post is derived from. Usually, it comes off without a hitch. This time, not so much.
The clue to my next entry was :
"This group was the first, and to my knowledge the only, to have albums in the #1 and #2 American chart slots at the same time."
The info I have says very clearly that this band was the first to do so, and even points out specifically that the Beatles had not done such a thing. However, jollykay has provided my with two sources that say the Beatles DID do it, and substantially earlier (insert Popeye- like under-the-breath muttering about wiseacre dames here). As a result, well, I just don't know. I'll tell you this much - the next topic is not The Beatles. (See how I narrowed that down for you?) So, to be fair, I will provide another clue. Here 'tis:
One of this group's original members later worked with a former Beatle.
See, I'm practically HANDING it to you. The Troll is nothing if not magnanimous. Deadline is this Friday.
Posted at 12:48 pm by Joe_the_Troll
 | | | jollykay
September 26, 2006 06:29 AM PDT
i will get right to the googling, after i get at least some work done. (darn work, getting in the way of my googling) | |
| | | Joe the Troll
September 26, 2006 07:00 AM PDT
I swear, some people have the screwiest priorities......... | |
| | | O\' Tim
September 26, 2006 01:55 PM PDT
My research, a veritable trip down memory lane, yields this first guess - The Monkees (with The Monkees and More Of The Monkees), though I can't think of who collaborated with a former Beatle.
My #2 guess would have to be Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Greatest Hits, maybe?), and again I can't thinnk of what collaboration might've existed.
Beyond that the only possibility that comes to mind is Michael Jackson, but I know Joe ain't downloaded any of that!
WAIT - one of the Travelling Wilburys? | |
| | | nat
September 26, 2006 05:32 PM PDT
After a little research, and a jolt of memory potion, how about Guns N Roses, with Use Your Illusion I and II. BUt the Beatle connection??? | |
| | | Joe the Troll
September 26, 2006 06:24 PM PDT
Monkees- nope.
Elton - nope.
Jackson - damn right that's a nope.
Wilburys - nope.
Guns & Roses - nope.
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| | | jollykay
September 27, 2006 12:45 PM PDT
no googling, i am off work with a sore back, googling is only fun if i am doing it in place of working.
guesses:
!. jefferson airplane/starship
2. led zeppelin
3. chicago | |
| | | O' Tim
September 27, 2006 01:53 PM PDT
Dude, methinks we have encountered a second snafu in this contest:
http://tinyurl.com/poj83 | |
| | | nat
September 27, 2006 03:03 PM PDT
And with GNR, too.
Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted at #1 and #2 respectively in 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_n_roses | |
| | | Name
September 27, 2006 04:29 PM PDT
Phil Collins of Genesis has jammed with Paul McCartney. Does jammed with count as worked with or are you looking for an entire album or atleast one song? | |
| | | Kat
September 27, 2006 04:30 PM PDT
ah ya...that last post was me! | |
| | | Kat
September 27, 2006 04:53 PM PDT
Nevermind...I don't think Genesis had even one #1 hit...
and the search continues... | |
| | | Kat
September 27, 2006 05:30 PM PDT
The Bee Gees
with Night Fever and Stayin' Alive from March 18 1978, April 15 1978.
But the Beatles connection I'm still a little unsure of. George Harrison did work on the album ONE but none of the Bee Gees actually played with him on the track. | |
| | | Fez Monkey
September 27, 2006 05:53 PM PDT
This is so freaking easy!
Come on, people. Sheesh. Does the Monkey always have to come in here to save your bacon?
The answer is Dexy's Midnight Runners
No, back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
Ook ook | |
| | | O' Tim
September 27, 2006 09:19 PM PDT
C'mon Eileen, cut us some slack off that fatback! | |
| | | jollykay
September 28, 2006 05:33 AM PDT
ghost of the robot?
i give up. | |
| | | Paula
September 28, 2006 07:40 AM PDT
Peter, Paul & Mary | |
| | | Jeff K
September 28, 2006 10:09 AM PDT
A G 'N' R guess ... and it didn't come from me! | |
| | | Joe the Troll
September 28, 2006 10:33 AM PDT
Wow! I took a day off because I was feeling a little scratchy and sniffly, and look what a flurry of activity I missed! Several points:
1- I'm sorry to say, but the correct answer hasn't been said yet. You still have today!
2- I wish O'Tim were still here, so I could hit him with an ordinary object, something found around the home every day. Whatever I'm standing near. Anyway, I found it odd that the list you linked to only had a year. AT any rate, the question has now, as you've noticed, become a COMBINATION of the two clues.
3- Kat. By "worked with" I mean that something was released for public consumption. Also, the Bee Gees wouldn't count because those were singles, not albums.
I'm guessing, what with all the uncertainty we're seeing in these charts and the info extrapolated from them, that there could be more than one answer that fits the cluess. But only ONE willl be the correct one. I would be surprised, though, if there are two bands that fit both criteria! | |
| | | Paula
September 28, 2006 12:25 PM PDT
Okay. I am really tired of being FORCED to Google this all day and night. (Besides, the Monkees is correct--they had the top two spots in 1967 and Peter Tork worked with George Harrison.) Anyway, I am guessing in bulk as follows:
1. Bob Dylan
2. Tom Petty
3. Roy Orbison
4. Electric Light Orchestra
THERE!
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| | | O' Tim
September 28, 2006 05:10 PM PDT
Ahh, thank you Paula for the Monkees connection.
I already covered the Wilbury connection, though I may not have been specific as all that.
Joe - extraordinary objects work better, but be sure to throw them three feet to the left of where you see me.
And lastly
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE ANSWER?! | |
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