Regulation Podcast - Tune Up 5

Episode Date: June 14, 2026

In a special Tune Up where Geoff, Eric, and Gavin are guessing YOUR submitted bands. Nick decided he didn't want to play. This one is jumbo sized. Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to Regulation Tune Up 5. This is a special tune-up. It's the first one where we've had three people guessing. We will see how that goes. Move that Discord screen. You can see it now? You happy with that now? I'm just saying.

The recording can't see it. You're whining about a thing. Only you can see it. Okay, well, that's your problem. You asked you, yes, I know when I was trying to fix it. That's your problem. I'm trying to fix my problem. As a director, that's a great call out.

As a director of your feed, you should definitely be calling that out. My feed looking great, assuming it's use. This is Tuna. This is the show in which community members submit artists and we use Spottle and you guys have 10 guesses to try to figure out who they submitted if they stump you,

they get a unique role in our community discord. You know, we've never done this as a trio thing. I'm really excited to try it with all three of us here. Nick decided he didn't want to play, so we're doing this as a trio and we're going to see how this goes. I'm excited.

I feel like Eric will be providing about 45% of the knowledge. Jeff will provide 50. Oh. Oh, I don't know. It depends on, it depends. on the time frame. Yep.

And I'm gonna guess. You guys want to crack with a first guess? Why don't we guess a shitty metal band from 2006 and see where that lands? What, Gavin, you think you're gonna provide the least amount of help here, but I think,

I think you're gonna get it in one. Why don't you take a guess? Well, it's nine inch nails. Oh, there we go. Nine inch nails. is the first guess. It is wrong. However, it is a male,

male artist or band. Okay. And they debuted within five years of 1989 prior to the. More popular than nine inch nails. So they're above the thousand. And they're popular, not three people, not American, not from America. Ooh, what if it's George Michael?

Or Wham? Let's try George. Let's try George Michael. What have been, 85? Yeah, probably sometime around there. Not American. George Michael is the guess. George Michael is correct.

And you're crazy at this game. What? You're so good at it. You've gotten one off the first guess. You've now gotten one off the second guess. I'm floored. I'm fine. James O'Hara can eat shit because you've got it in two.

Wow. Absolutely crazy And who's going to end up getting a badge Off a crazy second guest James of horror Oh man James Christ He's not going to be a reggae regulation stumper

That was an impressive game That was incredible Beginners luck Wow That was crazy Pick number two Jeff you got it and two Why don't you just take another crack at it

Okay This is our audience. How about, I'm going to say, uh, Randy Newman. What the fuck? What a guess. Hell yeah.

I don't even know if he'll be on here. I don't think he's going to be on this thing. Oh, that's a shame. That's a shame. He's not on it. He didn't make it. And that nice, I'm going to say Phil Collins. There you go.

Let's see. Phil Collins is the guess. Phil Collins is on here. Putting it in. Okay, well, they're British. That's all you got from that. That's a good piece of hell, though. It is.

not rock and female. Do you think it's Spice Girls? Oh, I think that's a great... Now it could also be mixed. Okay, okay. I think Spice Girls... That has a good choice, though. Let's try.

Yeah? You want to do Spice Girls? Okay. Check out the nice. Guess number two, we're just firing them out. Yep. Sapisie girls. Spice Girls. Oh, okay.

Okay. So within five years. 96. And it's not female, so it would be mixed. Not pop. Male and female, not pop. It's got to be rock then, surely. No, it's not rock.

Specifically, they've had rock. That was your first guest that you eliminated. What other types of music have mixed? It's going to be alternative or metal. It's going to be some metal band. Could be anything. British metal band. Maybe not.

Maybe not. So what else could, hip hop maybe. We know it's not solo and we know it's not five. So it could be any number between or more than. Yeah. British. British, late 90s, early 2000s, British. More popular than Phil Collins.

Gavin, how old were you in 1996? I was eight. All right. What were you listening to from eight to 13 in the UK? Probably the cassette that was in my. mom's car still from the 80s. It was a big help band, thanks. Take that.

Did they have girls in the band though, did they? No. Oh, God, no. No. No. We really need to, we need to like narrow down the year, I think, is the hard part. Because I think until we figure out

what that is, it's just going to be a crate, just like stabbing in the dark, but it's hard. You can approach this a lot of ways. You can pick wrong answers, but just provide more info. Like, you don't have to try to hit every box if you want to narrow it down.

You can just throw an artist that doesn't fit anything but a genre type to be like, okay, we know it's this genre. Or maybe you want to pick a different year, like an artist you know would have debuted around whatever. But you kind of already got year. You kind of know what you're looking for in range. Right. Was there a woman in Chumba Wamba?

There was a woman in Chumbawamba. There was a woman in Chumbawamba. You think Chumbawamba is on here, but Randy Newman isn't? Potentially. I'm ready to get knocked down, but get up again. Let's try that. I think that was definitely... No, that's a shame.

Damn it. That was a solid guest, too. Got to get out of the tub. Was Pulp? Was Pulp the early 90s? I feel like Pulp was the early 90s. Like yeah, I think,

yeah, is that, Calvin people? Is that yeah? Yeah, it's got to be before. What the fuck? The thing that's,

hmm, who's British? You know what? I wonder if I'm stuck in the 90s too much and it's going to be something like 2001. You know what I mean? It could be, yeah.

Because it's going to be. What I like about this game is that we're establishing if you guys don't get it within two, you're hitting a wall. Yeah, yeah. I want good guesses. UK,

later than 96, but not by more than 5. I'm struggling with. Yeah, me too. I would have said like MIA, but it's not a solo artist. No, the thing that I'm really hung up on is that it's not rock and it's not pop,

but it's a mixed group. Like that's crazy. What is, where's Evanescence from? Are they British? Probably not, right? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. that might get us

closer with the year though yeah do evanescence and let's see that's fine we know they're not British but that's okay Evanescence oh it must

it must be 2006 and 2003 it is mixed so it's so it's mixed UK and more popular and more popular mixed UK 2000

this is gonna be something that's on our it's going to be on one of a playlists we made. Yeah. And again, we're not getting rock. The thing with an artist like MIA is I never, I always like second guess it because what if like they have a DJ technically? Yeah.

And they count that. Oh man. What is what the fuck is British? What the fuck is British? Yeah. It's not five people. Also, holy shit, evidence is five people. I didn't, I did not know that.

I thought it was too. Yeah, me too. Like, that's way too many people. Can, what year was cold play, do you think? Cool. 90. You think it was in the 90s?

Damn. I just wanted to poke it, like, getting closer to, like, the year. But you're probably right. The, God, the fucking genre is killing me. It has to be, like, alternative or metal. What about, like, uh, was blocked? Did Block Party? Was that, that's that era, right?

Did they have girls? But I don't think there was a woman in that band. And that probably be like considered rock, I guess. Yeah, yeah, probably. I don't think, I mean, they might be alternative. Did gorillas have a girl in it? No, and girls is just one guy. Oh.

It's a guy from Blarer. I thought it was blur and some other guys. Is it some other guys? I always just think it's him. Like Damien, what's his name and a bunch of other people? I thought there were a couple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As are from New York.

York. Yeah, they're... But it's that... But it's that... It's that time. It is that time, for sure. The arithmetic's way earlier. What about, like,

Snow Patrol, that's around then? Is there other girls in that? The Libertines, was that a girl band? I don't think so. What if it... Is it all the music I don't like?

Fuck, whatever... Oh, and what? Es Club 7 was pop, wasn't it? Yeah. S Club 7? Let's... No, no, no. Hang on. Hang on, hang on.

Hang on. Oh, now, no, that's too late. I was thinking of the Tingtings, because it's two, it's British, it's mixed, but I don't know what it's going to classify as. Dude,

all I can think of is fucking Amy Winehouse. Yeah. Yeah. How many people were in Amy Whitehouse? That's a band, right? The S Club's seven thing is good, except there's seven people and it's pop. And like, I don't think it's gonna, may, I mean,

but it's from around this time. It is. You want to try it? But there's no way they're more, S Club 7 was more popular than Evidence. No, that's true. That's true. Yeah, and I don't think the Ting Ting's are either.

Fuck. I didn't even think about the popularity thing. Damn it. We have to pick something. I know, I know, I know, but we don't. And it's, you got a lot of room still. I know you want to make good guesses, Eric, but you got shots you could fire.

Try to narrow in in your brain of what year was MIA. Like 2002. Oh, wow. Oh, really? 2004. I think so, 2003. Somewhere around when... So it doesn't quite fit what we're looking for.

Close. I don't think so. Close. Is B. No, Bjork's not British. Iceland. She is the whole time. Dork.

Funniest moment is CKY. Dude, it's the British thing is killing me. I know, I know it's going to be some British metal band. But remember, this game thinks Fleetwood Mac is a British band. It's definitely not. It's true. It's not Fleetwood Mac, but that course stuff was that. Things are a little sketchy. Was there, there wasn't a girl in Oasis, was there?

It was just the two brothers? No, unfortunately. And Oasis came out before the year 2000. So I think that that's not going to be, um, it's close, though. I mean,

with the debut, it could be 97, 98, 99. It's just, it's between these two. 97. Oof.

It's 22. We already said spice girls, huh? Yeah. Sure did. Yeah. Second one. How about the kill or,

the killers? The kills. The kills? That wouldn't be popular enough. Yeah, the kills was a guy and a girl Florence in the machine. Is Florence in the machine British? Florence in the machine, let's try them. Is Florence in the machine British?

Who cares? Florence plus the machine. I mean, she herself is Hey, all right. Okay. Four members mixed. More popular. Oh, that hasn't helped me a tool for.

No, uh. Was there an S Club four? More popular. too than Florence and Evanescence. There wasn't a girl in the darkness, was there? No. And also more popular than Florence in the Machine and Evanes. Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, and the other ones.

So we're not even close on the year. I thought Florence in the Machine was way earlier than that. I mean, it's not, you haven't hit green on it yet, but I think you can be pretty definitive in saying it's not pop or rock. No, right. Should we be thinking hip-pop? Yeah, but what is that? Yeah, but name a lot of

a lot of popular British hip hop With four people. With four people. Anybody that comes to mind like Lil Sims, but that would be like 2018. I think Mystique was all women. Don't know what that is.

Mystique with a cue? The X-Men? No, no, that would be pop. I was thinking steps. the fuck is but you never know it might mislabel it I don't know what

else it could be other than pop it's just it's it has to be like alternative right I mean I would think so that was the era right what was that band oh wait it's four members

shit yeah yeah oh man four members one two three four of a band had three members you'd need to add a member to get there. Dude, it's killing me to not know. I bet it's killing the audience right now to listen to you.

Yeah. Yeah. This is going to add it down to where it looks like we solved it in like eight seconds. Hell yeah. Thank you, editor. What is British that debuted in like the late 90s, though? Oh, garbage. Oh.

I don't think it was earlier there, wasn't it? I think it was like 97, 98. Yeah, but do you think it'll give it to us for alternative? I don't know. They also sang the 1999 Bond song, so they were definitely well established that. You're right. You're right, you're right, you're right. We've also got to pick something.

We don't have to pick anything, Jeff. We can keep moving it over. We have to pick it. We don't have to do anything, Jeff. Stop trying to force Gavin's hand here. Okay. Is there a woman in Keene? Dude, I have no idea.

He just keeps naming X-Men. Is there an X-Men? I don't know. No. I've just never heard of the band. Four people British. They think there was a man in the sugar babes. What the fuck?

Probably not the Beatles. The shitty Beatles. Yeah, we're just going to have to fling out some wrongs just to get closer with something. Yeah, I think I really need to know the, I need to know the, like, genre. Yeah, you're in a record store right now and you don't know where to look. Yeah. You're just looking all over. You can narrow it down the section.

I find that personally to be helpful when I play the game. So to narrow it down, what are you thinking? What genre do you want to aim at? I want to aim it alternative just for... the time frame, but I also want the year. So like, Jeff, what's a 2000s alternative? Arctic Monkeys. I think that's not quite 2000.

No? Arctic Monkeys? When did they come out? 2006. I would think. I think they were like right around 2001, 2002, but I could be wrong. I hate this game. Gotta be between 98 and 2000.

What is it, 99 to 2002? It could be 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001. I guess, you know what? It can't be. You can actually narrow it down because it's within five years of 96. And also within five years of 2003. So it eliminates 96, it eliminates what, 96, 97 and then 2002, 2003? How many people are?

in the Zootons. What the fuck are you saying? I guess that would be rock. I don't know. It's impossible. I know. I know. The alternative thing is the thing that really

that kills. I think the Zutons killed the X-Men. I've been hearing that. Oh man. I'm just, I'm thinking, I'm just, I'm riffing, I'm thinking out loud, like, blonde redhead.

I'm just going with like, groups with no patrols snow patrol is no women but the year might be right sonic youth that yeah let's start slinging stuff in you know put in snow patrol yeah there's not a woman though they're gonna be wrong but it might guess oh is would that kind of rock probably it is but i bet it counts what about like the them crooked vultz what would that be later That's way later. Sounds like you guys could use just putting in the most alternative alternative band you can think of.

I mean, that would be Nirvana would be the most alternative alternative band. Do you want me to put in Nirvana? No. Fuck no. Do not try to force Gavin's hand, Andrew. I'm just trying to insist. Do not. Do not.

At all. What was the, is Postal Service have a girl in it? It does, but I think that's, I think that's later. Does it have a different number than four or five though? Oh, we know it's four. Jesus. It's impossible. Stupid.

You guys are halfway there, technically. Oh, my God. It doesn't feel like it. It's going to be something I've never heard of. Yeah. The British thing is so fucking hard, dude. Andrew, do you think that we've heard of it? Yeah.

Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, you know what? it is, huh? I do. I hate this game. I hate it. We need the genre. Yeah, we have to have the genre. Yeah, so, uh, what do you, what do we do? Because we need to know if it's metal or we need to know if it's alternative or whatever. Should we just, should we just put in something that we know is alternative and just say, Nirvana, just to get it there? Yeah. Oh, so now we're putting Nirvana in. All right, we're not putting Nirvana in, guys. We're not, we're not putting Nirvana in. We're not, we're not putting your run in.

We're not. Nope. Nope. We're sitting here and we're thinking about it. Well, dude, don't try to force Gavin's hand. That's what I'm saying.

Uh, I mean, I'd... Well, the difference between game one to game two is so funny. We fucking crushed it and then it was just that.

a massive wall for 40 minutes when was the libertines did they have girls is that more than four people feels like it'd be more than four people it's probably four people and it's probably all dudes and is it rock I don't know how anything is classified on this

fucking site I don't fucking know the thing is we're gonna get it might be my favorite thing we record. I'm going to be so mad. When was like Tame Impala or something like that? That was later. That's definitely later. Yeah.

Has to be later. Damn it. I know. We just need to get something in there that can guess at metal and guess at alternative to see if that is where it's supposed to be. I just don't, I've no confidence in putting something in that's like, yes, this is alternative. All right, just pick a hip-hop artist and then we'll knock out rap. Just put, try M-I-A.

Okay. M-I-A. Put M-I-A in. Okay, so we know it's not hip-hop. Okay. So we know that. Not hip-hop. Within five years of 2005, so now you can narrow out the 90s completely. So it's got to be 2000, 2001. Yep. 2002. But I thought it was within five of 96. Yeah. So 2001?

So yeah, 2001. It wouldn't, five of 96 would be 2001. So 2001 or 2000? Yep. Do we want to put in something that is, do we want to put in something that is, what was I listening to in 2000? Is there, do you think it's a new metal band? I did, like, like we were already. I can't think of a British new metal band.

and with male and female members. I can't think of a British new metal band. I mean, Evanescence is the only thing that I think of, right? Like off the rip. From England? No, no, we already tried Evanescence. Uh.

Man. What the fuck? I'm thinking so hard. Andrew, you think we, you think we've heard of this. this. We've heard of this. Damn. How confident are you?

100% confident. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. I mean, they're more popular. They're like top 350 or 338. Wow. So why don't... So why don't we know it? That's a great question.

2000, 2001, British, four members, pretty fucking popular. Let's start thinking festivals. Start thinking who's showing up and playing at Bonaroo, you know? Who's on the reunion tour? Who's having their 25th anniversary this year? Man.

The crickets. By the sounds of it. Fuck, man. Metric, but they were Canadian. And they wouldn't be big enough. Have we said it already? Like, is it guerrillas somehow? His inability to answer is a yes.

Was there a woman in gorillas? Was that asked at me? Andrew didn't know that was to him. That's great. I thought he was talking to you two. That's a great recovery. I would never answer that question either way. If I answered that question,

I feel like that would give you more info than any of the other boxes. Yeah. So I'm not responding to that ever. I don't know how many people are in gorillas. But what genre is guerrillas? Yeah, dude. I don't know.

I mean hip hop, pop, or rock, I would feel like it would. How about like the verve or one of the, is that a... I think that's earlier though. I think that's like late 90s. I don't think it's 2000. Like Ashcroft shit. How about Varuka Salt? Oh, that's way earlier, I think.

Also, it's also, and also I don't think Veruca Salt's going to be in the top 350. Hmm. I don't want this person to have the thing in the Discord. I don't. They're not allowed to have it. We have to find out what this band is. Should we nail in what genre it is? Like, should we put, like, an alternative band to see if it's alternative or a metal band to see if it's metal the way that we just did hip hop?

Sure. What is an alternative band that we want to zero in on, though? Nirvana's pretty alternative. put the gorillas now put gorillas now okay gorillas it's

I don't I don't understand how is guerrillas a mixed band so let me let me explain I was doing research as we were doing it because I knew there would be questions they're considered mixed because of the virtual band members I'm not the recording this game anymore. This sucks. This game doesn't know what the fuck is doing.

I was also surprised that they weren't hip hop, but on the Wikipedia, the leading thing is alternative. God, this game. That's not alternative. Nothing about that. They got the year right, apparently.

Like, I want to say that if you selected that band, that's fine. This isn't on you. This website saying that it's for people with mixed gender outrageous. What Jeff said

Grilla's that it got passed over, I was delighted. And then when I looked at the wiki and saw that they were mixed because of the virtual band members knowing how upset you all would be, I was delighted. I was so happy.

The members. But now we move on to the next round. I'm serious. Four virtual and three non-virtual. This sucks. It also sucks. It also sucks. It's great as that.

This doesn't make any sense. Is Wikipedia wrong or is this Is this next round? Who wants to open the guesses? Sorry to Riley Wigmore for getting shut down on that last one. Yeah, put S Club 7. S Club 7.

S Club 7. Ah, shit. No. What a shock? Let's try, just try Nirvana. Okay. Sure you don't want me to put in S Club 5? Male.

Or male. Oh, before. Or man. Before 89. Less popular. Not. Not rock. Not American.

For the record, you're trying to prevent Jarsan from getting a roll in this guy. I mean, the first person that comes to mind, but I think he would be more popular than 172 would be Elton John. I'm fine with that. Try it. Then we can figure out if it's British. Yeah, I don't think it's a bad guess. That'll... Elton John.

Oh, nice. Okay, so almost British? What is it? Ajacent to the UK? What is almost British? So it's like region, essentially. So if it was America, it was Canada to be yellow type thing. Okay, so what's next to the UK?

Ireland. Island? Who's a solo male singer from Ireland? But newer than 1969. Yeah. And not pop and not rock. Hip hop? From Ireland?

There's no way. What? There's no way it's that dude I did this so all right on, is it? He wouldn't be in here. Who? David McWilliams, the Irish dude from the 70s. I did a so all right on him. I don't know who.

No, it's newer. There's no way. He wouldn't be in there. I don't know who that is. The 3 o'clock Flamingo Street, dude. Oh, I mean, you can start typing his name in and see if it shows up. If David McWilliam shows up, it's him, but it won't be, he won't be there. Okay.

Ah, then who else is Ireland? And from the 80s? Do you think Wales would be yellow? No, Wales is in the UK. Yeah. So it would have to be Ireland. Well, France is pretty close. Do we know anyone from France?

Yeah. personally no Jacques Braille he's from Belgium I think also pretty close what do you say pretty close as well yeah

who's the guy that did is that the guy that did in the Miquita Pa I don't know any of the words you're saying I'm like I'm like along for the right on this one because I'm fucking what the fuck

I think knowing it's near the UK is worse than it just saying yeah yeah Yeah, Jacques Braille, right? That's the guy that did that. He's like the most famous singer in France, but he's Belgian.

Did the guy from the Pogs do anything by himself? Oh, maybe. Yeah, he had solo stuff. Did he? I don't know. I'm just thinking of anyone that's like in the solo male is nuts.

Solo male between it's got me in the 70s. Oh, the 80s. Do you think we've heard of this one, Andrew? 100%. Wow! It's not rock and it's not pop.

Did Bono do anything solo? Not that I'm aware of. Me neither. I'm not. I did just learn yesterday that Billy Joel had a heavy metal album. before he was a piano singer Attica or whatever It's like notoriously bad right

It's voted one of the worst albums ever made That's awesome That's so cool We should listen to it apparently Wikipedia has a list of worst albums of all time You can get through That's Wikipedia seems like a place for fact

And that seems like a place where It's pretty fucking crazy Okay So it doesn't have to be It could be France probably in the 70s or 80s. Who was popular solo artist? Solo is the thing that is killing me.

What the fuck? Who's that dude? Can't think of his name. Do I know? I don't know any French singers. I don't know who you, what was the name you were saying before? Jacques Bell.

Do you want to just put that in and see? Well, I don't think it's going to be Jacques Braille because Andrew guarantees you guys have all heard of this person and none of you had heard of him. Yeah, but we might be able to narrow down a country off of it. Okay, try Jacques Braille.

It's J.A. Jacques, yeah. Andrew doesn't know how to spell it, which means it's not the name, and that's fine, but... No, it's not to be a Q? He's not... Yeah, it should be, yeah.

J-A-C-Q, right? No? Yeah. J-A-C-Q, try? Nope, okay, so not Jacques Braille. Okay, so you know what's like that? What else is around the UK? The Isle of Man?

Hmm. Hmm. Would Iceland be close? Where's David Bowie from? England, isn't it? Why, I assumed, but I didn't know if he was technically from... What about Phil Collins? Is he British?

He is. but he's... All the Beatles? After 69. Yeah, but we're talking about solo stuff. That's true. So like, that's why I asked all of the Beatles, because did they do anything solo until the 70s?

Are you saying Liverpool is outside of the UK? I don't know if one of them is like, George is really from Spain. Like, you know what I mean? Oh, he was like born in another... You guys... Up until recently, Gavin, you guys were all in like a whole big year. union over there, so I don't really know how it works up until recently.

I feel like all of their solo work would have been considered rock or pop, though. Yeah, that's true. Oh, how about Kat Stevens? Oh. Is he British? What is he? Yeah, he's British. Well, I don't know what part of what flavor of England he's from, but I know he's British.

That's what I'm saying. Somewhere over there. Yeah. I'm saying. Probably also counts as pop. Yeah. Cat Stevens is pop Or what would you consider folk maybe

Yeah right Who else is British from that time? Peter Frampton, he came alive That would seem like that would be rock That's true It's true And it ain't that And the less popular thing is the other thing

That's getting me Like it's gonna be down on this list Also wanna point out That the most alternative alternative Band of All Time is wrong this dude this thing sucks is Paul Simon like from over there or whatever no

I think he's pretty American all right I wasn't laughing at the guess I was laughing at just saying people's names and saying they're from over there he one of them blokes somewhere over there he one of them blokes or what is he? One of them who's the Edmund Fitzgerald He's Canadian.

Damn it. Would that be considered British adjacent because it's a... Oh, is like Commonwealth? Is it part of the United Kingdom? Should we be thinking if

if the queen's on the money? Oh, fuck. That takes it more complicated. What's that guy's name? Uh... Uh... Garzan. Gordon Lightfoot.

Can you just type it? Don't guess it. Just type it in and see if it's on here. Isn't he a Canadian Scientologist? Is he a Scientologist? That's cool. All right. I don't see Gordon Lightfoot.

That's good to know. Well, it's not him then. No. Narrowing it down. We have to figure out the country. We have to. Should we just guess someone we know is Irish? Yeah, who's Irish?

Oh, cranberries, but they're like a 90s band. Yeah. You could go with you two and see what lands. Go with you too. I know it's not solo, but it's try it. What the fuck is next time? What is near Ireland? Shit.

Within five years of 89, but, but it's above, so it's above five years. of 89 or uh 1980 but not within five yeah so not within 89 which would eliminate 85 and 84 right so it's 1981 two or three and is is it just rock could all of europe be england adjacent that's what it seems possibly yeah who was big in 1983 Not Michael Jackson. Oh, Elvis Costello?

Where's he from over there? He's English, isn't he? Probably. Declim McManus? Yeah. Is that his name? McManus? I think so.

That sounds Scottish. Who the fuck? Who the fuck is European? Duran Duran. That would be British. a bunch of guys and a band that's a bunch of boys

is it a bunch of solo boys no I think they're together they become a band yeah one hit wonder oh one hit wonder is a good that's a really good this is like a Rickroll situation oh what's that guy's name

Rick Astley Rick Astley what's he from Rick Astley was actually from Spain is he just is he just like normal British I think so bummer no it's gonna be like

I was actually born in the aisle of white or whatever it's gonna be like Italy or something isn't it something annoying yeah it's gonna be like Baltimore like

Baltimore like jungle boy what was that one yeah yeah yeah though it's gonna be it's gonna be the fucking bugles this is the hardest game in the world

is it could it possibly be what's his name doing his Jamaican album Tim Curry Tim Curry I don't think Tim Curry's going to be on this list but Andrew can you type in Tim Curry for us real quick Why wouldn't that be okay though?

You think it would go to Jamaica? All right so no Tim Curry Not Tim Curry said to check man I feel like we've named some really solid options male singer not British but near it is like disgusting like what the fuck

and Andrew and Andrew thinks we know who this person is 100% 100% I would describe this submission is diabolical wow really yeah because it's so easy

The guerrillo's one, I think, is accidentally diabolical. This is just what I saw it. I went, oh, that's just straight up diabolical. Is it solo, but somehow two people? I don't know what that means. Like a conjoined twin situation? No. As far as I'm aware, they're not a conjoined twin.

We got to keep thinking in terms of the one-hit wonder. stuff, I think. I think you're right for that. You gotta think of way less popular people, though. Or like, is it a bad person? Is that why it's diabolical? Is it the guy who don't know their ethics? Or like Gary Glitter? That would have been around the time frame of that dude, right? I'm not, I didn't mean diabolical in a moral sense. Okay, thank you. Yeah, there should be a seventh box that just says canceled? Yes or no?

Okay, I'm going to start riffing on one hit, 80s, one hit wonders that are solo guys that I can think of. Taco putting on the Ritz. Oh, that's a good one. Falco Amadeus. I thought Falco was a band. Is it? I thought Falco was his name like Star Fox.

You might be right. Can we try Taco putting on the Ritz? Can we just try Taco? He's not going to be on here. Taco, okay. Bummer. Who is the simply irresistible guy? Oh, that's, yeah, what's his, uh, Robert Palmer?

Robert Palmer. Try Robert Palmer. But he's definitely British, right? He was English. Well, and he's also not on this list. In Toronto, every arrival is a statement, and nothing says it better than this. Cadillac Optic was the number one selling luxury EV in Canada for 2025. Find your rhythm across a seamless 33-inch display and an immersive 19 speaker AKG

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Total Registrations for calendar year 2025 for the Cadillac definition of luxury. Jesus Christ. What the fuck is next to... Gavin, what else is next to England? I was thinking of Robert Plum. He... Did he have solo stuff in the...

He has... I don't think so. What do you see? The honey drippers. Hmm. He's also pretty British, I think, right? Not rock and not pop is, like, insane. Like, what is this?

British. British, like, British, like, soul. British solo 80s. But not British. Maybe, like, a song from a movie. Where was Howard Jones from? Oh. Yeah, but I don't know if Andrew knows who Howard Jones is.

where's herbie hancock from this is the worst game in the world gorillas what if it's like a theme what if it's like a theme to a television show or something

do you know what I mean like the like the what's the believe it or not that yeah like one of it's something like that and that's why it's diabolical because you know it because you know the TV show or it's going to be like Billy Joel and it's going to be like, yeah, it turns out

America is adjacent to England if you back far enough out of the map. Well, we know it won't do that because of Nirvana. Yeah, the rock band Nirvana. This is, this is crazy. From the early 80s. Andrew, who do you think it is? Gorillus.

Early 80s. Can you try Falco? Can you just type it in, see if it shows up? I don't think you will. Oh, did you? Damn it. Yep. Falco.

European male solo. Where is the guy that, when did Electric Avenue come out? Oh, Eddie thingy. What's his what? What's his name? Is it Eddie? Can you type in Eddie? Can you just, okay, let's say.

Okay, I don't think that. No, Eddie. It's not Fergie. Wait, did I say Furky or Fergill? Triggergit. Furgy. Oh, I wish it's Fergul. I couldn't see the dot on the eye.

What if it's, what if it's, what if it's, what if it's, what if it's, what if it's, somebody like Ozzy Osbourne? Oh! Type in Ozzie, type in Ozzie, type in Ozzie, type in Ozzie right now.

But he's from bloody Boat. I know, but that doesn't mean anything. That doesn't mean anything. You want to put it in? Yes. Yeah. Well, it's most famous brummy.

Well, we know it's more popular than Ozzy Osbourne. Yes. And it's not metal. And it's also not rock and it's also not pop. What? We're not going to get this one, are we? It's also not music. It's going to be like Chuck Mangione or something like that.

Yeah, right. It's something stupid. Some fucking popular 82, sats. saxophone artist that I've never, that I guess technically I've heard of. The most popular saxon. Can you just type in Baltimore, but don't submit it? Yeah, of course. I just want to see if it shows up.

Was that one guy? I don't know. Okay, it doesn't show up. It's okay. It's not, it's not, it's like, it's Italian. You just want to guess something Italian? I'm trying to guess something to stop fucking England, Gavin. It's always so we know it's close not.

and it's close to the fucking UK. I'm trying to get off an island. So we know it's 82 or 83. Yes. So what was fucking big? I was seven. What was I listening to when I was seven? Anything French, Belgian.

I was listening to a lot of Juice Newton when I was seven. Did you just make that up? No, I really, I was really into. Play with the queen of hearts. I want it. Really smart. That's all. And, uh,

is there a Dutch singer? Yeah. Just trying to think of what's around. Is Wang Chung more than one guy? Wang Chung just one dude. Is his name? Is that just like maybe his name? Like his name is Wang Chung?

It better not be like David Hasselhoff or some He's American though, isn't he? Don't you think? Yeah, but who was big in Germany. Yeah. You know, and then you're going to find out, oh, he's technically he was born in Dusseldorf

but he moved to America when he was one day. That's what I was saying earlier with you too. Yeah. And it's like, Is Hasselhoff more popular than Osborne? No, and it would have been earlier. It would have been later than 83. It's just, I'm just trying to think along those lines,

you know? 83, 83. 83. It really was very Michael Jacksony back then. Yeah. Stevie Wonder was still big. Tina Turner was big.

Madonna was getting big. What about Billy Idol? Is he just straight up British? Or is he like a different flavor? Billy Idol. Yeah. Do you think he did like around that? I like that.

What do you think he's like 70s though? No. Well, Generation X was. but his solo career, I think, would have been the 80s. I don't know. The go-goes, the Bengals, Bananarama, Debbie Gibson, aha. Wasn't a banana-rama, just two women?

Banana. I'm just throwing out... I'm throwing out... I'm throwing out bands because... What about sting? Interesting. Stings European? Yeah, I think so. I don't know.

Is he Bruns? British? He's definitely from the UK. But what part of the UK? I don't think it matters in this. What about Rod Stewart? Yeah, he's English. He also would have been earlier than that's true. That's true. I was thinking of a blonde singer guys. I don't think you guys are going to get this. Wow. But we know it. Yeah, you 100% you all know it. It's got to be somebody big.

You don't put anybody in this system, right? You have to find them already here. This is like a top 1,000 or something. So they've got to be there. Yeah. So somebody who's, I mean, they're more popular than Ozzy Osbourne, for Christ's sake. We should be able to figure it out.

I feel thick of shit every time I play this. It's tough. what about like what about uh i know he's from like minneapolis but like prince do we think we can put that or do you think he's gonna put pop you think that's pop i'm trying to narrow down what would prince be other than pop yeah i don't know like soul maybe or something i guess and i don't know man did queen start out as like one guy and then it's but it's actually now it's like four guys

you know what i mean oh i don't know well freddie that's just straight up british again though Yeah. And we're sure it's none of the Beatles. None of the Beatles are magically from somewhere else. Things looking pretty good for Jarzan. God damn it, Jarzan. What the fuck? I feel like it's got to be something that we have mentioned or referenced at some point in the history of our podcasts.

Hmm. Do you want to put David Bowie and just see, or do you think that's, that's going to be early? That's not going to be it. That's way too early. That's way too early. I think we should fling out a genre. But what? We just put,

we put Nirvana and it's rock. Rock, pop, and metal. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, eliminating genres doesn't really mean anything because their idea of a genre is pretty skewed. Boy George.

Oh, put it. Oh. Okay. Gavin's against it. Oh, no boy George. So. Oh, that's weird. What genre is Moby?

Electronic, I guess. Electronic. Oh. No, it's not Duff Punk because it's solo. Also, in 1980. That's a good point. I was just happy to think of someone French. Yeah.

You could knock at the region, potentially. Yeah. Dude, we're trying. I don't, like, I don't know. I don't know what other... It's somebody we know. Yeah. And it's a dude.

And he's not British, but he's British adjacent. But I don't trust that that doesn't mean Australia. Yeah, right. Well, Andrew said region. Uh-huh. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

I've learned not to trust what anybody says when it comes to this game. It's all a trick. So see, I'm showing it. Yeah. I guess it doesn't. Close. Yellow close. Maybe.

Here we go. Nationality. Same continent is what this means. So all of Europe. Well, narrows it down. How does it down to? Who was popular in Europe in 1982? Papa.

Michael Jackson. I think the question is, who is popular in 1982? now. Like who started in 82 that is still popular. Oh. The popularity doesn't reflect the year

in which the album occurred. I think it's current popularity. So they could have been dog shit for decades. Yeah. Could have been. Who was dog shit for decades? Dude, I'm European is like such a tough one.

What the fuck? I just keep thinking to shit like Spando Ballet. I just keep thinking of bands. Yeah, me too. I'm really, I'm having a hard time. That's England, though, in it? It's going to be a band.

Oh, it's going to suck. And we're sure it's not one of the Beatles. What the fuck is the genre? Could it be like, like Bob Marley? Put it. I don't care. Put it.

Not they're going to be the same continent. Yeah, who cares? Bob Marley and the Whalers? Go for it. It ain't reggae. It ain't reggae. Okay. What?

And not Jamaica. Also, Bob Marley, 164. Wow. Wow. Good for him. Don't take another genre guess, maybe? No, it's not pop. It's not rock.

It's not metal. It's not reggae. Could be rap. In 1982 in England? In 1982 in England. Ninety-two in England. Oh, God. Is Lionel Richie from somewhere over there?

Eric, you want to guess Lionel Richie? I don't want to guess anything. I hate this one. Could it be Morrissey? He would still be in the Smiths in 82 or 83, though, I think. Yeah. And he's British. He's very British.

How do we quit? We just have to get through like the rest of these guesses. You can just shoot through guesses. Yeah, we just have to shoot through guesses. I'm going to be so mad with whatever it's going to be. It's going to suck. And just know that when you wear this badge, you wear it pathetically. I see it.

I see it. Ooh, I put in a tricky band. Ooh, I put a tricky band. It's recording over an hour long. We were going to record like four pieces of supplemental today. We ended recording one because of this one user. So stupid. Dude, I don't, I don't know.

I don't know. Put Lionel Richie. Just put it because it's solo and I want to get, I want to get closer to a genre. I feel like he'd be. I don't. 82 male solo, not R&B. What other genre? is there?

Metal, reggae, rock, pop, R&B, European. Is there any European country? What the fuck? Jazz? 1983 specifically.

Solo. I bought Quiet Riot Metal Health that year, I think. The first album I ever bought. What the fuck? The genre has me so fucking stumped. I think you guys could get genre and country and still not get it. Wow.

Oh, God. How's Ricky Martin? Not that old. New addition, that'd be the best thing. What the fuck? What? I don't know what other genre to go with. From 1982.

Sounds like it wouldn't. matter if we knew it. I was Enrique Inglaseous. Not quite. Oh. I can't think of any foreign singers. I'm pretty stumped. Is Adam Ant one guy or that's a band, right?

I thought it was one dude. Do you want to throw in the towel? No. Dude, I... you try I know Dexy Midnight Runner is like a band and they're also not gonna be on this fucking list

Jeff I got nothing dude yeah I'm right there with you man we tried we tried boy George and it wasn't him I think we might just have to throw in the towel I don't know I don't know where else to go with this I just don't like the idea of that no I don't like the idea of it either

who's big in Greece mama mea What the fuck? Who could this be? And we know who they are, yeah, Andrew? Like, that is like... 100%. Wow.

It's going to be a tricksy one. This game is a real day ruiner. Absolutely. I just remembered that from last time. Yep. Yeah, it's just pushing a bad mood for the rest of the day. God damn it. You felt really good after George Michael was crazy.

It can swing both ways. George Michael was a fucking, might as well have been a lifetime ago at this point. Is it going to be something like, I said boy George, but it's culture club. I know that's not the case. No, it's going to be, it's going to be someone that. It's going to be someone that we think is American. And it's like, oh, it actually turns out that they were born in that. That's what it's going to be.

Like, that's, it sucks, but that's what it's going to be. We're going to be, oh, yeah, they're actually from Spain. It's going to be something like that. It's going to be really frustrating. It's going to really suck. It's going to be the thing. where the game is pedantic and we're arguing against like

something that is so lamely, technically correct but not culturally correct in any way so that we were set up from failure from the start so there was no way we were ever going to be able to get this wrong that it was designed to fail. That's why I said if you're the one who picked this one,

you wear that badge. Just know there's shame. There's shame on that badge. Like giving somebody a puzzle without five pieces or the picture. Yeah. I'm going get as far as you can Dude, I'm I'm so stumped on this, I don't know

I don't know If you guys want to throw out a couple of guesses And see what we can come up with And tap out Because I just got nothing here I mean I just can't think of anybody Any every person that come Everything that comes to mind

Is a band of some kind Yeah, me too Especially from the thousands of bands But solo artists that are not American or British It's nobody's coming to mind Yeah And I have a feeling that when we hear it, we're going to go, oh, they're American. Yeah.

So what show? Is that like a list of people who everyone thinks is American? List of people who everyone thinks is American. My favorite wiki page. Be a useful page right now. Just, I don't know. Type in Brian Eno. Who cares?

Brian? He's not going to be on here. Yeah. Nope, he's not on here. Don't try BB? No, don't try BB. Yeah, I really don't know. I mean, just...

Is Roxy Music a guy? He doesn't know if we know Roxy Music. Dude, I don't even know what to guess. Yeah, just type the letter A and then pick the first thing that responds five times so we can get out of this.

Are I got a Grande? I don't care. Keep going. But try here at a Grande again. Yeah, keep going. Uh, one more. You're almost there. And Riff is on this list.

Can you pick it? It's not on this list. Okay. Let's do a boogie with the hoodie. Oh my God. That sucks. That's a bad, it's a bad pick. Yeah, that's a bad pick.

It's a bad pick. I thought Jeff was maybe going to get there when you started talking about TV show themes. And I was like, oh, that is maybe the only way. You could have put a gun to my head and said if you get, and a billion dollars in a suitcase next to me and said, you can have that billion dollars if you answer this correctly. Otherwise, I'm going to put a bullet through your brain. And I wouldn't have gotten there. Bad. That's actually a great stuff.

That's terrible. It's a, yeah. That's why I said it's diabolical. Where it was shame. Because you know, everyone knows Hans Zimmer here, like 100%. I mean, but you picked this. But you're never. Yeah, well, I went, somebody submitted it.

So I give them credit. You thought we'll go ahead with that one. Well, because I didn't think you guys would spend 50 minutes on the gorillas. I thought Hans Zimmer would be the one that stumps you for a bit and then you'd get back to some easier ones. We typically do four or five. We're going to end it here because of how long gorillas and Hans Zimmer was. I don't understand. The video is only 18 minutes long.

What are you talking about? Thank you so much for making the submissions. Make sure check Patreon patreon.com slash the Regulation Pod guys, great, great episode

I know this is incredibly frustrating but next time you'll get to next time George Michael was incredible that was such a good moment

Hans Zimmer get real how many Hans Zimmer songs do you have in your Spotify playlist right now Hey just hey Andrew off the rip

what's your favorite Han Zimmer song The one that goes Bong that one's real good I'm technically that's mine too so all right

Bye. Bye. Wow, Bruce Willis was born in Germany.