{"id":10237,"date":"2005-05-06T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:08:40","slug":"the-ultimate-music-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/05\/06\/the-ultimate-music-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The ULTIMATE Music Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, well\u2026it seems that family isn&#8217;t quite as time-demanding as I expected, and so I&#8217;m able to turn my attention to [at least] one more post. This is another highly-anticipated music-related quiz, and I expect it to take at least a week for someone to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This quiz was actually conceived during an exchange of emails with Jim, the admittedly obsessive winner of the previous quiz. When I heard the lengths he went to in identifying the mystery album cover, I told him that the next quiz would consist of a scan of the album itself, with the objective being to identify it based solely on an analysis of the grooves in the vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, in thinking further about it, I realized that this was much too easy. What we needed was a <em>real<\/em> challenge\u2026one built around a bit of cultural footnotery. So, I give you &#8220;The ULTIMATE (you know it&#8217;s hard because it&#8217;s in all caps) Music Challenge&#8221;! All you have to do is identify the recording to which the following belongs, the following being a real-life sample of that recording as it resides on the original Eight Track Tape\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/music\/8tracktape.jpg\" alt=\"You do know what an 8 track tape is, don't you?\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, that should do it. I eagerly await your answers. Google help us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a skill that seems to stick with you like riding a bike: the ability to snap a length of tape pulled out of the 8 track cartridge so that it neatly retracts back into the case, ready to once again jam your player at the most inopportune time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: .9em;\">Technorati tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/8+track+tape\">8 Track Tape<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, well\u2026it seems that family isn&#8217;t quite as time-demanding as I expected, and so I&#8217;m able to turn my attention to [at least] one more post. This is another highly-anticipated music-related quiz, and I expect it to take at least a week for someone to solve. This quiz was actually conceived during an exchange of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/05\/06\/the-ultimate-music-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The ULTIMATE Music Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}