Virgin Music Ad Game: Find The Band Names
I’m not sure how many people have seen this yet but I thought it was kind of neat. Virgin Music and Ground Zero have created a viral game in order to promote Virgin’s new digital music service. Basically it’s an illustration with 74 band names hidden somewhere in it. If you find even just one you can enter a draw for a bunch of Virgin prizes (only if you live in the U.S. though). Still, even without the prizes, it provides hours of fun. Some examples are a guy with a sledgehammer “smashing pumpkins”, or 20 matchboxes laying on the ground (”matchbox 20″). The official game over at Heavy.com also has a little digital magnifying glass tool to help you out. How many bands can you find? Why not post your answers here, and we’ll see how many we can get.
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Here’s some possibilities I found so far:
Smashing Pumpkins
Posted by Sean on December 2nd, 2005Matchbox 20
The Pixies
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blind Melon
Alice in Chains
The Eagles
Led Zeppelin
Spoon
Queen
Eels
White Zombie
The Gorillaz
The Rolling Stones
this reminds me of the old oasis covers. heh.
Scissor Sisters
Posted by Goon on December 2nd, 2005i’m not sure about that coin, is it a 50 Cent piece, a Nickelback?
Guns N Roses
Dead Kennedys
Madonna
Blur
oh, and I think that guy next to the Queen is supposed to be
Prince
Posted by Goon on December 2nd, 2005ah, this is getting easier now with that magnifying glass:
Korn
Phish
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Whitesnake
Cowboy Junkies
Beach Boys
Garbage
Black Crowes
Radiohead
Iron Maiden
Great White
Lemonheads
Cypress Hill in the back?
Hole
teh Roots
Dinosaur Jr.
Sex Pistols
Yellowman (I’m not sure about that one, never heard of him but amazon has listings for Yellowman)
Eminem
Seal
Black Flag
Cars
The Streets (?)
Talking Heads
The Police
Cornershop
are those guys in white the Manic Street Preachers, The Cult?
i thought the planes were U2, but theres two U’s above one of the stores for U2. the planes are probably B-52s
the doll in the window, New York Dolls?
Posted by Goon on December 2nd, 2005Ratt
Crowded House
Green Day (calendar)
Pavement?
the Killers?
KISS
Deep Purple?
The Postal Service?
Blondie?
those acrobats are getting to me: Twisted Sister? and those women holding hands?
Posted by Goon on December 2nd, 2005Nine Inch Nails
Posted by Alicia on December 2nd, 2005Cake
Pet Shop Boys
Stray Cats
Bee-Gees
White Zombie!
Posted by manicpanda on December 4th, 2005Hope this doesn’t ruin the fun, but here is the full list of answers:
1. Matchbox Twenty
Posted by manicpanda on December 4th, 20052. Alice in Chains
3. The Rolling Stones
4. The Pixies
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Smashing Pumpkins
7. Black Flag
8. Pet Shop Boys
9. Guns n’ Roses
10. Blind Melon
11. Spoon
12. Garbage
13. Blur
14. Hole
15. Crowded House
16. U2
17. Gorillaz
18. Scissor Sisters
19. Phish
20. Queen
21. Cake
22. Skinny Puppy
23. Nine Inch Nails
24. Red Hot Chili Peppers
25. Dead Kennedys
26. White Zombie
27. KISS
28. The Cars
29. Green Day
30. Blondie
31. The Beach Boys
32. The Killers
33. Radiohead
34. Madonna
35. Seal
36. Sex Pistols
37. Cowboy Junkies
38. Bee Gees
39. RATT
40. The Roots
41. Prince
42. The Lemonheads
43. Twisted Sister
44. Iron Maiden
45. Korn
46. Great White
47. Cypress Hill
48. 50 Cent
49. Eminem
50. The Postal Service
51. Jewel
52. Pavement
53. The Police
54. Deep Purple
55. Talking Heads
56. Go-Go’s
57. The Doors
58. Eagles
59. The Carpenters
60. Cornershop
61. Scorpions
62. Black Crowes
63. Pink
64. White Stripes
65. Cranberries
66. Eels
67. Whitesnake
68. B-52s
69. Dinosaur JR
70. Yellowman
71. The Cult
72. 311
73. Jane’s Addiction
74. D12
Are those the right answers?
Posted by quoi on December 4th, 2005Only 69 of those 74 are correct, as reported when they are entered and submitted on teh heavy.com site
Posted by Wolf on December 4th, 2005Very interesting… which ones aren’t correct? I have no idea where 311, Jane’s Addiction or D12 came from.
Also, some food for thought… does Air count??
Posted by Sean on December 4th, 20051. Matchbox 20
Posted by Sez and Rach plus Jesse on December 5th, 20052. blur
3. alice in chains
4. smashing pumpkins
5. scissor sisters
6. rolling stones
7. eagles
8. the eels
9. guns ‘n roses
10. white zombie
11. korn
12. nine inch nails
13. queen
14. jet
15. the gorillaz
16. dead kennedy’s
17. 50 cent
18. manic street preachers
19. white snake
20. radiohead
21. the streets
22. hole
23. garbage
24. U2
25. black flag
26. black crows
27. beach boys
28. crowded house
29. The roots
30. green day
31. red hot chilli peppers
32. seal
33. blondie
34. pink
35. deep purple
36. The police
37. Bee Gees
38. Jane’s Addiction
39. white stripes
40. the pixies
41. the darkness
42. bush
43. jewel
44. the doors
45. iron maiden
46. the spoons
47. led zeppelin
48. blind melon
49. Madonna
50. phish
51. prince
52. yellowman
53. cowboy junkies
54. Cyprus hill
55. cars
56. great white
57. KISS
58. corner shop
Hey Guys i saw this picture yesterday and i ended up getting 67 bands but only 36 of them were on the offical list!! can you believe that!!! i was shocked but i thought the ones i got were pretty good. im me or e-mail me if you want to see what i got my IM is LizzEats Clay and my e-mail is zauberdrachen16@aol.com
Posted by Lizz on December 5th, 2005D-12 is wrong; I have painstakingly entered each and every one of these bands into the official game site, and all 73 are right; you might have to mess with the capitalization (”the killers” didn’t work, but “The Killers” did), and sometimes you need the “the” (like with “The Pixies”) and sometimes you don’t (like with “eagles” instead of “the eagles”).
As for 311, I don’t know where it came from, but it works.
Jane’s Addiction is hanging out with the Cowboy Junkies.
311
Posted by van on December 5th, 200550 Cent
Alice in Chains
B-52s
The Beach Boys
Bee Gees
Black Crowes
Black Flag
Blind Melon
Blondie
Blur
Cake
The Carpenters
The Cars
Cornershop
Cowboy Junkies
Cranberries
Crowded House
The Cult
Cypress Hill
Dead Kennedys
Deep Purple
Dinosaur Jr
The Doors
Eagles
Eels
Eminem
Garbage
Go-Go’s
Gorillaz
Great White
Green Day
Guns n’ Roses
Hole
Iron Maiden
Jane’s Addiction
Jewel
The Killers
Kiss
Korn
Led Zepppelin
The Lemonheads
Madonna
Matchbox Twenty
Nine Inch Nails
Pavement
Pet Shop Boys
Phish
Pink
The Pixies
The Police
The Postal Service
Prince
Queen
Radiohead
Ratt
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Rolling Stones
The Roots
Scissor Sisters
Scorpions
Seal
Sex Pistols
Skinny Puppy
Smashing Pumpkins
Spoon
Talking Heads
Twisted Sister
U2
Whitesnake
White Stripes
White Zombie
Yellowman
D12 works, there are your 74!
Posted by Suma on December 5th, 2005all those bands, the only one I’d never heard of is Yellowman
Posted by Goon on December 5th, 2005What about the offspring? Madonna and child?
Posted by Sureelman on December 5th, 2005Where’s the Skinny Puppy and the Scorpions, I’d like to know!! And for that matter I can’t see any Cake. Am I blind or are people just submitting names. Being in Australia we can’t submit any suggestions so help me out here please.
Posted by Ronnie on December 6th, 2005They are along the left hand side… if you’re not looking at the official game on Heavy.com that area might be cut off. It was cut off on the ad-rag.com link.
Posted by Sean on December 6th, 2005Please someone has to tell me where D-12 and 311 is? Its driving me Crazy!!!¡¡¡¡¡
Posted by DAve on December 8th, 2005Go Go’s? Is that supposed to be those girls running from the rolling stone? Thats a bit of a stretch.
Posted by DAve on December 8th, 20053 -11 part of Guns & Roses, 3 vases and 11 guns…
Posted by Munga on December 9th, 2005i recon the hill in the back ground is not cypress hill but oasis. look up oasis and see if you agree….
Posted by dave on December 13th, 2005I had thought the place in the background could have also been Nirvana
Posted by snowy on December 13th, 2005virgin mary and chils in a shop – jesus and mary chain, its got to be. could those roots be styx? the shadows, gun, girls kissing and the couple on the other side – it could be ac/dc.
Posted by finbad on December 15th, 2005I was looking at this in a maths lesson earlier and we thought the root things were ‘the vines’ or something similar, but I’ve never heard of them
Posted by laura on December 15th, 2005The roots are The Roots.
Posted by Sean on December 15th, 2005The virgin Mary is Madonna.
Girls kissing are KISS I believe.
i haven’t seen this one anywhere else, and maybe it’s my nostalga speaking, but when i see those TVs in the window, i see the news. and when i think the news, i think the guy on the lower right looks strikingly similar to huey lewis. then again, it could be my heart of rock n’ roll wishing for recognition…
Posted by petephillips on December 15th, 2005wait– no– it’s me
Posted by petephillips on December 15th, 2005Postman leaning on the box: ELBOW?
Posted by woldisney on December 15th, 2005D12 and Scorpions have me stumped. I’m looking everywhere for a dirty dozen (on the fruitstand or in the apartment window(?) but the jury is still out. A lot of the others are kind of weak and there are some good yet incorrect answers for some things. Examples: Small Faces/Lemonheads and (Ph)ish/Fish or the Mary Jane Girls/The Go-Gos Just depends on how vague you want to be.
Seen but not heard (images not acknowledged by the contest)…
75 The Subway (or else what is that black iron railing?)
76 The Shadows
77 Part Chimp
78 Plant and Page (if that Prince is really a page)
79 The Super Pineapples
80 The Pastels (vertical color bands near the Cult)
81 The Streets
82 Traffic
Okay now it’s a stretch. Then again, 311 is a HUGE stretch.
Posted by gamester on December 15th, 2005the guys smashing pumpkins…
Posted by woldisney on December 16th, 2005on his left arm there’s a YELLOW BAND
there’re Scorpions close to a Cake on the left botton, bellow pet shop boys.
Posted by AnNA on December 19th, 2005there are Television down U2. Am I right??
Posted by adilson on December 20th, 2005There are 71 movie names hidden here. Can you find them?
Posted by Bionic_chalupa on December 21st, 2005http://users.adelphia.net/~bionic_chalupa/Movies Brain Teaser-smaller size.jpg
can you see the three beetles by the rolling stones?
Posted by Steve on December 22nd, 2005There are no beetles…..tosser…….
Posted by You're mad dude...... on December 23rd, 2005i dont get the skinny puppy. i was thinking little bow wow.
Posted by nigel on December 27th, 2005seriously, where is D-12? And how come Bush doesn’t count- then what’s that thing behind the lamp post over by the “Go-Go’s” (I agree with Dave) and the Rolling Stones?
Posted by margolious on December 30th, 2005As the calender is August 2006 thinking futureheads
Posted by jimmy on January 15th, 2006311…In the background, the building almost in the center has six narrow windows. Look…311.
D12 has me stumped. There are 12 slices of smashed pumpkin and one or two vaguely resemble a “D”.
Posted by Ken on March 27th, 2006Trapt. look at the people in the building
Posted by jamison on December 1st, 2006tatu: the two girls kissing
look at the small pouches under the corn on the crates.
The Cranberries. zoom in and you can read it
Posted by jamison on December 1st, 20065 heads on TV under UU: Talking Heads
Posted by Razdim on December 6th, 2006I AGREE WITH JAMISON ON TATU WITH THE TWO GIRLS KISSING. TATU DOES CONSISTS OF TWO LESBIANS.
Posted by Nichole on December 6th, 2006anyone know all the answers? 75 right?
Posted by Brooke on June 5th, 2007i already knew all of them before the comp was out i am ninja you guys all suck if you insult me i will crawl through the internet lines and tear out your spine and whip you with it before tearing out your scrodum/vagin to feed to my pet killa the maggon
Posted by two bit tobi on June 28th, 2007What happened to an earlier version that had the pet shop boys, cake and scorpion on the right? this photo looks cropped.
Posted by Jesse moen on August 22nd, 2007in case anyone is still trying to find them:
D12 — door number of the television shop, right next to Beegees, above the head of Cowboy Junkies
311 — on the far right, next to Spoon and above Blur, the address on the door (it might be cropped off some pictures)
Posted by danny on October 25th, 2007The coin isn’t 50ct it’s The Ramones sign
Posted by masterfru on March 15th, 2008I’m agree with Masterfru
Posted by Concharey on March 27th, 2008THE OFFICIAL ANSWER ON A PICTURE :
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9409/21220051135282yn.jpg
Posted by MeatShake on June 6th, 2008I am very happy that I found this site.
Posted by marble doctor on March 23rd, 2009The calender got to be Green Day.
Posted by masterhead on March 25th, 2009is it just me or is there 3 non blondes running towards the screen…….don’t wanna throw a spanner in he works
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