Lol!
I watch a quiz/game show on the BBC called Pointless in which the object of the game is to score as fewer points as possible by giving more obscure answers. One hundred people are given 100 seconds to name as many things about a particular subject as they can and those that score the fewest are the best answers. Some (in which no person polled has answered) are pointless (IE; score zero) and are worth money to the jackpot amount on offer, or actually are the answers needed to win the jackpot.
In the final round, that days winning contestants get the chance to win the jackpot by providing three potentially pointless answers on a question. Only one of the answers HAS to be pointless, but they get three chances. Following?
Anyway, this was yesterday’s final round question…
As two die-hard Bowie fans (Em and I), this question could NOT have been any more perfect! It was just WHICH Bowie albums we thought would be pointless. As Bowie fans we could name ALL his studio albums in 100 seconds, and then some!
The first one I thought of was Pin Ups (and to my surprise the contestants – two young female uni students – came up with the same answer), but then I started thinking about the more recent albums. Black Tie White Noise, Earthling, Heathen (Heathen was pointless FFS!)…all of which ended up pointless.
And then, I thought of this…
And so did pointless host Alexander Armstrong. Em felt VERY vindicated to see this come up. Lol. I still have a bit of time for this album but Em was so “just as I have always said, utterly pointless!” about it. Lol
By the way, the ladies didn’t get the jackpot. Their answers were Labyrinth (showing you the depth of their knowledge, hence my shock of their Pin Ups answer), Space Oddity and Pin Ups. Labyrinth was (obviously) incorrect, Space Oddity scored 7, and Pin Ups – 1! They actually got so close but, alas, no cigar.
Oh, so *that* was what Em was doing posting your second screenshot on Twitter – I had no idea what that was all about! Well, you know my feelings about Bowie’s “Tonight” since we’ve talked about it before. It’s one of my favorite Bowie albums! And now I have Bowie’s cover of Brian Wilson’s “God Only Knows” going in my head! 🙂
I must admit, one of the first things I thought when it came on was “I have to tell Graham about this”! Lol. To be fair, Heathen was also pointless (and that ties as my favourite with Low), so really, it bears little reflection on the quality of the album. Albums that were also pointless were…Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters – I mean WTF?!!!
Had to blog more about this:
http://gudgin.tumblr.com/post/10479307758/its-official-tonight-is-pointless-antipodean-the