Anyone else hear this? A fun idea I hadn’t heard before: the next challenge is to check the Billboard Pop Charts, stringing together up to 7 song titles into a coherent story. This sounds like total Doper material - I stink at this stuff, but enjoy watching great puzzle minds wrap their brains around stuff like this.
Oy. Reported to move to Cafe Society.
Anybody got a handy link to the Billboard Chart?
This one is extremelyh laborious to scroll down through.
You can go to the above link, Edit, Select All, Copy, Paste to notebook, but you get a list of alternating titles and artists. Which ar sometimes hard to tell apart.
Here’s my fist effort:
(99) If I Told You
(86) How Not To
(1) Work
(36) Slide
(35) Down
(23) Closer
(5) Something Just Like This
They don’t have the Puzzle or the example Shortz offered on the Puzzler page, just a link to the 7-minute bit from this morning where it is explained: http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle
The example was along the lines of “the night the lights went out in Georgia I was leaving on a jet plane…”
Yesterday, I saw her standing there. The night before, she said she said “Love Me, do, Honey pie! I’m happy just to dance with you.”
I’m so tired. I will drive my car across the universe, for no one.
Cuts like a knife,
over and over.
Reach out, I’ll be there
(pieces of me).
These arms of mine,
my ding-a-ling,
we are never ever getting back together.
Off to Cafe Society
Not just titles, but entire songs (by the same artist) that tell a story.
“Young Girl”
“Don’t Give In to Him”
“Lady Willpower”
“This Girl is a Woman Now.”
“Woman, Woman”
“Over You.”
He did say Wikipedia had a list. I had to do some digging but I think I found the page he meant. I’m posting from my phone so I hope this works.
There is a section on that page for the Hot 100 era and then a link for each year.
Bump Bump Bump.
Shake it off, foolish honey!
I believe the monster, it’s only make believe.
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Whoomp! There it is!