Friday Afternoon Game: Can you match the Artist to the Guardian Guide's Description?

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I have long been a fan of the Guardian Guide's terse and sometimes gnomic 3-word descriptions for the live music listings. A fun game for a Friday afternoon: try to match the artist with the description. Some are easy. Some are so (almost laudably) vague as to be devilish. (Or, alternately, quote the funniest, most mystifying, or most pithy short gig listings description of an artist that you've seen, in the Guide, or any other listings.)

***** BANDS *****
Arcade Fire
Demi Lovato
EMA
Glasser
Jenny Hval
Katy Perry
London Grammar
Matmos
One Direction
The Polyphonic Spree
Snoop Dogg
Spoon

**** DESCRIPTIONS *****
All-conquering boyband
Atmospheric Indie Rock
Commercial Pop Diva
Commercial Pop-Rock
Experimental electronica
Experimental electronic singer-songwriter
Experimental Nordic pop
Herbally refreshed rapper
Minimal indie-electronica
Noise-rock singer-songwriter
Quirky college rockers
Robed choral indie

you go PUNCHING yourself in... THE DICK! (Branwell with an N), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link

trick question, they're all already in the right order

arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link

They are in alphabetical order only!

you go PUNCHING yourself in... THE DICK! (Branwell with an N), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link

Guess ILM really is kinda dead.

you go PUNCHING yourself in... THE DICK! (Branwell with an N), Friday, 13 June 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link

"Herbally refreshed rapper"?

Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 13 June 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link

i can only guess the easy ones :(

dyl, Friday, 13 June 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link

the tv guide of (some paper or other) used to have one-sentence descriptions of movies that didn't tell you anything about the film at all. One I remember was
FILM: The Jungle Book. A young boy befriends a wolf.(1967)

TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Friday, 13 June 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link

FILM: The Lion King. The lion is a king. (1994)

cwkiii, Friday, 13 June 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link

I think "herbally refreshed" may be my new favourite genre.

you go PUNCHING yourself in... THE DICK! (Branwell with an N), Friday, 13 June 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link

It makes me think of clueless

TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Friday, 13 June 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link

I have still never seen that.

you go PUNCHING yourself in... THE DICK! (Branwell with an N), Friday, 13 June 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link

Guess ILM really is kinda dead.

Probably would have gotten more responses if it was done as a poll.

o. nate, Friday, 13 June 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link


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