Naming that tune on "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"

I'm watching "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" and thinking how I really couldn't deal with that round where they have to identify a hit based on a "performance" by the other members of the team. Obviously I can't decipher much from the noises that people make. But when they reveal the name of the record I'm not a great deal the wiser. Is there really a region of the universe where people are so familiar with the latest singles by The Coral or the Foo Fighters? Am I alone in my ignorance?

The other night

They hummed the intro to Lay Lady Lay; I still can't get what they were trying to do. Cue lots of bad Dylan impressions. Much laughter. He can't sing, you see. Hysterical.

Actually, it's a show that I usually really enjoy. I sometimes get the intros, but not often.

Lucas Hare | 11 September 2008 - 9:43pm

You're not alone!

I suppose if I listened to music on the radio I might recognise this stuff, but they don't play it on Five Live!

Johan | 11 September 2008 - 10:18pm

It boils down to age and musical taste.

I had Never Mind The Buzzcocks on. I was also listening to a Counting Crows album and reading from a book of poems by George Mackay Brown, so it's fair to say that it didn't have my complete attention.

I was familiar with the Foo Fighters intro, but couldn't identify the band or the song. I remember it now, mainly because in the video Dave Grohl and co play under a bridge, while the people above pelt them with objects of increasing size, beginning with a Gameboy and ending with a clapboard house.

backwards7 | 11 September 2008 - 10:45pm

Backwards, I salute you...

...assuming you weren't being ironic.

Con Coleman | 12 September 2008 - 8:07am

It's my region of the universe

I normally know them. Which I put down to listening to XFM / Virgin (or Absolute as it is now known) in the car occasionally, I'm certainly not a slavish follower of chart music...

Hannah | 12 September 2008 - 7:43am

You are not alone...

but then again I probably wouldn't be able to indentify 'Smoke On The Water', let alone some landfill indie tune.

Patrick Crowther | 12 September 2008 - 7:45am

A pedant writes...

I've normally heard of the vast majority of songs featured in the Intros round, but neither 'Times Like These' nor 'Dreaming of You' are recent singles. They're both from this decade and were fairly big hits though (top 20 if I'm not mistaken).

Now, as for the latest singles by Foo Fighters and The Coral... nope, not a clue.

Joe R | 12 September 2008 - 8:21am

Have to say I got all of em this week.

I wouldn't have thought the Coral count as landfill indie. The odd thing from my point of view is that I loved that song as an album track but had no idea it had been a single.

I'm sure we all got "Groove Is In The Heart"

Simon Moffatt | 12 September 2008 - 11:28am