It was all in good fun kicking around the name Al Capone Banjo for our little Wiki Stump until we actually Googled it, and lo: it turns out Scarface really owned and operated his very own banjo while rotting in Alcatraz, a banjo that haunts Alcatraz to this very day (they don’t tell you this story on the audio tour):
Strangely, although the ghost of Al Capone has never been rumored to haunt, a ghost researcher who was gathering evidence about the haunting of Alcatraz, spoke to a National Park Ranger (the prison is now a National Park site) about something strange that happened in one of the cells. The ranger had no idea who had once been housed there, but he was sure that he had heard spectral banjo music coming from inside of the chamber…..
The cell had once belonged to Al Capone.
So, if you want to know why a plurality of you voted incorrectly for the game’s name, you have only a park ranger gone mad with loneliness to blame. Here are the clues for the last one, as won by “kevin”:
- Beavis and Butt-head
- Bo Diddley
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Cello
- David Fincher
- Disc jockey
- Kurt Cobain
(Kevin, how’d you solve this? “umm i remembered that beavis and butthead with the guys, and with the cello it made me think of the song from armageddon, i thought i had it, so i looked,” he said, in the comments.)
So for round three we present a double-ACB, as part of our relentless struggle to have one of these unsolved long enough to eat a smallish bag of chips. Also, we’re shortening it to 6, to see if that makes it any harder. (Game play explained here in case you still have no idea what the fuck we’re talking about.) To win this round, you have to guess both bands…
- Björk
- Hip hop culture
- List of percussionists
- Athens, Ohio
- Faith No More
- Erykah Badu
- Hardcore punk
- Alternative rock
- List of Steve Albini’s recording projects
- Mike Patton
- Talk:Experimental music
- Noise rock
Faith No More and Mike Patton are just about the only things these two have to do with each other. Got it? Run a link to the answer through SnipURL and post it in the comments. Eventually we will start giving out prizes (or lolcats) to the winners.
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http://snipurl.com/1ig5u
God, what a time-waster, wow.
http://snipurl.com/1ig6u
http://snipurl.com/1ig6s
I coulda done it. Nice, RC. (That’s gotta be right, right?)
I like to see Melt-Banana get some props.
I found a page that shows all connections of as many degrees as you want to faith no more and any other artist.
For a first degree connection just go to:
http://musictrails.com.ar/getBands.php?band=Faith+No+More&step=0&type=0&bandId=1005
or simply go to http://musictrails.com.ar and query for faith no more!
Nice RC! Hope this one was harder than last time. If anyone has any suggestions … e-mail us!
rc, how’d you do it?
Just go to the lists/talk portions, then scan thru until you see a name that seems “Stereogummy,” then clickthru and check it out. Lame, I know, but yeah. The first one I just looked at the list of percussionists and Rahzel was my first pick, and turned out to be it. The second one was a bit harder, but looking at the Talk:Experimental page, there were ony but a few names listed there.
In order to make it harder, I suggest you start using artists that aren’t so easily picked out of lists as “Stereogum/Stereogum-fan”-relevant. Merzbow, Diamanda Galas, Nina Nastasia…. those would’ve been a little less likely choices.
I mean, when you look at a list of a billion names, if there’s only one “Sufjan” listed, it’s pretty easy to guess the name that SG would’ve picked out.
PS Melt Banana have a new album coming out
Damn, RC… you cheated. Bing!
ok, would ‘no more talk/list pages’ make it better?