Results: Music Questions (Are They Random?; Yes, but You'd Get No More Points if They Weren't!)
Published on 11/29/2025
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1.
1.
Whose 1971 US top 40 pop hit sharing the same title, "Superstar," do you like best?
The Carpenters
18%
310 votes
Murray Head and The Trinidad Singers (from the concept album/rock era Jesus Christ Superstar)
6%
99 votes
The Temptations (theirs is subtitled "Remember How You Got Where You Are")
19%
320 votes
At least two tie
9%
159 votes
All three tie
7%
123 votes
None/Haven't heard all three to properly answer
41%
689 votes
2.
2.
It's been common practice in dancehall reggae for there to be albums released of multiple singers and toasters (reggae's antecedent or analog to rappers in hip-hop) performing over the same riddim, or backing track. Would you like to see, or hear, the same practice applied to hip-hop albums wherein may rappers would rhyme over the same musical accompaniment?
Yes
13%
228 votes
Undecided
22%
367 votes
No
15%
259 votes
Not invested enough in hip-hop and/or reggae enough to have an informed opinion.
50%
846 votes
3.
3.
In which format was your first purchase of recorded music?
Wax cylinder
3%
45 votes
Shellac (the substance used to produce more 78 rpm records before the adoption of...)
5%
81 votes
Vinyl
52%
877 votes
Tape (be it reel-to-reel, cassette, 4-track, 8-track, etc.?.)
9%
157 votes
Compact disc
7%
124 votes
Digital download
3%
51 votes
Another format I may mention in a comment.
2%
39 votes
I've never purchased recorded music.
19%
326 votes
4.
4.
I don't hear this from people much nowadays, (I also may not talk to people about music as I once did?), but one fairly common reply to "What kind of music do you like?" had been "I like everything EXCEPT..." If you were asked the same question and were allowed only one "except" exception among those I've head from people I've asked or can imagine others saying, which of the following would be your exception?
Country
13%
221 votes
Jazz
5%
79 votes
Classical
10%
165 votes
Disco (and the club-oriented genres that have followed it?)
3%
56 votes
New age/Contemporary instrumental
1%
23 votes
Folk
2%
36 votes
Metal
7%
123 votes
Hip-hop (more often referenced as "rap" in my experience)
11%
184 votes
Punk (as in that from the 1970's and onward)
2%
42 votes
Bluegrass
2%
26 votes
Polka (encompassing waltzes, laendlers, schottisches and, obereks played by the same bands on the same instruments as polkas)
2%
42 votes
Praise & worship
4%
70 votes
Ska
1%
18 votes
Reggae
2%
26 votes
Industrial/power electronic/noise
3%
44 votes
Blues
2%
28 votes
Not applicable, as I can think of examples of all the above i like.
30%
517 votes
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