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Collaborations Galore

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Collaborations Galore game quiz
"The music business is a pretty incestuous milieu. Everybody does it with everybody else. Making music that is. I therefor propose some fierce collaborators and you figure out who they haven't played with."

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1. Iggy Pop has played with many musicians, but every now and again one gets through under the radar. Which of the following collaborations never happened?
    Deborah Harry - sang a duet with him.
    Steve Jones - played guitar on several Iggy Pop albums.
    Henry Rollins - guested on an Iggy Pop single.
    Patti Smith - wrote the song 'I'm a Conservative' with him.


2. Beck likes a lot of different musical styles. But what of the following projects didn't actually happen?
    Adam 'MCA' Yauch - collaborated with Beck on a remix for Jon Spencer.
    Aphex Twin - did a remix of a Beck single.
    Calvin Johnson - sang back-up on a Beck album.
    Marianne Faithful - got a bit of help from Beck for one of her albums.


3. Funkmeister George Clinton has done more collaborating than using his nose simply for breathing. But who is in league with Sir Nose d'Voidoffunk and never got his booty thoroughly shaken'? Which of the following is untrue?
    James Brown - got remixed by Clinton on 'Livin' in America'.
    Flavor Flav - rapped on a Clinton album.
    Prince - released one of Clinton's albums.
    Flea - got produced by Clinton.


4. After his time in PiL, bassist Jah Wobble went on to work with several other musical legends. Later he worked for the London Underground, where he had a nervous breakdown through the intercom. So he got into music again. But he never did which of the following?
    He rapped with Afrika Bambaataa.
    He played bass with Primal Scream.
    He used Dolores O'Riordan's vocals.
    He recorded an album with The Edge.


5. The late great Kirsty MacColl is famous for her collaboration with the Pogues on "Fairytale of New York" (1987). But she sang on quite a few more records you know. But which artist did she miss out on?
    Happy Mondays
    Tom Tom Club
    Morrissey
    Elvis Costello


6. The members of the Wu-Tang Clan can be found almost everywhere. At times they are so thinly spread out that their quality standards go out the window and they collaborate with some unlikely 'artists'. But the numerous members of the Wu-Tang never got round to doing one of the following - or maybe they did but forgot about it afterwards:
    Rapped with Mariah Carey.
    Wrote a track for Michael Jackson.
    Reworked a song with Texas.
    Guested on a Puff Diddy remix.


7. Jello Biafra has worked with numerous acts since the Dead Kennedys split up. He worked with Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors, D.O.A., NoMeansNo, with Alien Jourgenson as Lard, with Adrian Borland as the Witch Trials, Ice-T, Coldcut, Sepultura, Pigface, and the No W.T.O. Combo with Kim Thayil, Krist Novoselic and Gina Mainwal. He also recorded an album as Tumor Circus. Which of the following was his band on that one?
    The Melvins
    Flipper
    Butthole Surfers
    Steel Pole Bath Tub


8. In 1992 the very successful German punk band Die Toten Hosen ('the Dead Trousers') released the album "Learning English, Lesson One". For this album they recorded cover versions of all their favourite punkrock hits and asked a lot of the original artists to join them. And a lot of them did as well. But who didn't?
    Joey Ramone, Ramones
    Johnny Thunders, Heartbreakers
    Captain Sensible, the Damned
    Mark E. Smith, the Fall


9. The Icelandic chanteuse Björk changes collaborators for almost every new recording. Which of these cutting edge producers has she not worked with?
    Martin C. Schmidt (Matmos)
    Mark Bell (LFO)
    Graham Massey (808 State)
    Clint Mansell (Mouse on Mars)


10. Former Velvet Underground member John Cale produced quite a few debut albums by seminal bands. Which of the following didn't he work on?
    "The Stooges" - the Stooges
    "Ramones" - Ramones
    "The Modern Lovers" - the Modern Lovers
    "Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)" - Happy Mondays


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Compiled Jun 18 13