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The owls are not what they seem
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Sometimes songs appear to be about one thing, but they're really about something else entirely. Or sometimes they seem to be lovely little ditties, while nobody notices their pitch black soul. This quiz is about some of those songs.
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Music Mixture
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
May 12 07
3234 plays
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The Producers
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No, this isn't a quiz on Mel Brooks' great film from 1968 or the horrible 2005 remake. It's about record producers and the artists they worked with.
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Writers, Producers & Record Labels
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Jan 12 07
249 plays
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Punk Rock Quotes VI - Now More Than Ever
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It's about time we had another punk rock quotes quiz. Maybe you'll learn something from it.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Nov 07 04
465 plays
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Japanese Music Extremities
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Though it is impossible to find unifying characteristics in all Japanese rock music, there is a common bond. Just as the Japanese industry is known for taking an idea and perfecting it, the musicians take a genre, perfect it, and make it more extreme.
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Japanese Music
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Dec 28 07
216 plays
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More New Wave / Post Punk Quotes
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Yup, it's time for more quotes from those dark and dayglo eighties. And some late seventies as well. And, yes, it's easier than the first one.
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New Wave
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Oct 02 04
588 plays
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Never Mind The Punk Rock Quotes - part V
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Once more into the breach - what famous punk rock songs do these quotes come from?
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Jun 23 04
498 plays
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Punk Rock Quotes VII - Fun, Filth & Fury!
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More quotes about buildings and food.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Sep 10 07
342 plays
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KLF is gonna rock you!
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A quiz on those subversive chart-toppers also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as the JAMS, the Timelords, the K Foundation, 2K and as the finest purveyors of stadium house; situationist pranksters and very intriguing indeed.
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K
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Aug 04 06
120 plays
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Lost in Translation IV
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Once again lyrics will translated be into Dutch, then be translated into back English, using web based tool. Fun have!
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Which Song Is It
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Jan 08 08
1884 plays
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What a Load of Pants
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Ever since Elvis shook his pelvis around in them, trousers have been omnipresent in rock'n'roll.
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Clothing in Songs
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Aug 21 04
270 plays
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New Wave / Post Punk Quotes
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After numerous punk rock quotes quizzes it's time to move on. The quotes within this quiz all come from songs by bands who were related to the punk rock movement, but got in on the act too late. Mostly late 70s and early 80s.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Sep 01 04
705 plays
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Bring the Hip Hop Quotes!
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In 1989 the hip hop genre went into overdrive and the socalled "Golden Age" started. This quiz contains quotes from various rhyming masterpieces that were created during this five year period. Yeah, boyeee!
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Rap and Hip-Hop
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Aug 01 05
1377 plays
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Groovy Sixties Quotes V - Peace, man.
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V? That's the peace sign, right? Man, that's beautiful, man. Let's get naked and smoke!
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1960s Lyrics
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Nov 29 06
1758 plays
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Groovy Sixties Quotes IV - the easy one, man
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"What's with all these questions, dude? Wait, I know this one ... Nah nah na na revolution ...etc. Right on."
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1960s Lyrics
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Sep 24 05
1572 plays
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Lost in Translation V
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Another one of those. This time I translate a lyric into German, then translate it back into English, using a web based translation tool. Then I present the results to you. Spaß machen, ja?
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Which Song Is It
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Apr 05 08
651 plays
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Lost in Translation II
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Just like in the first quiz in this series I translate some random English lyrics into Portuguese, using a web based translation tool. Then I translate those Portuguese words back into English and you have to figure out what lyrics they used to be.
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Which Song Is It
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Jun 29 06
474 plays
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Lost in Translation III
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For the previous quizzes I translated a piece of a lyric into Portuguese, using a web-based tool, and then presented the results to you. For this third installment I'm gonna go for Dutch instead. Schnell, schnell, Kartoffelkopf!
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Which Song Is It
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Apr 11 07
702 plays
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Songs About Other Bands : #2
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When stooped for subject matter to sing about, bands will often sing about other bands. This is my second quiz about songs with other artists or bands as their subject matter.
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Bands in Songs
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Difficult
15 Q
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hootch
May 06 06
372 plays
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Punk Rock Quotes IV - the easy one
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If you don't know these songs, you're not a punk. So there.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Apr 12 04
1806 plays
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'Greatest Hits' not good enough?
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When bands or artists release 'Best Of' albums, they sometimes opt for something off the chosen path namewise. See if you know how some bands choose to advertise their retirement fund.
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Albums
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Jun 03 08
771 plays
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More Classic Album Covers
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I describe a classic album cover. You guess which one I'm talking about. Right?
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Album Covers
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Mar 15 07
1083 plays
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Rip It Up - New Wave/Post Punk Quotes Part V
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Once again it's singalonga-weltschmerz-time!
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New Wave
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Aug 17 05
312 plays
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More Punk Rock Quotes
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After the immense success of my first Punk Rock Quotes quiz a sequel had to happen! And it's a wee bit easier as well, this one.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Apr 17 03
603 plays
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Lost in translation I
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Hi there. Just for the hell of it I'm going to translate some English lyrics into Portuguese, by using a web based translation tool. Then I'm going to translate those lyrics back to English and present them to you. Yup, start sweating.
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Which Song Is It
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Jun 01 06
861 plays
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What album is that on again? Part II
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In these iPod dominated times one tends to forget that musicians try and create albums as a fully rounded whole. Do you know which songs belong on which album? Do you?
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Albums
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Difficult
10 Q
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hootch
Mar 20 08
498 plays
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Gimme Indie Rock Quotes!
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Indie rock. What exactly is it? Rock on an independent label? Or does it have to do with style, attitude or era? One thing is for sure, there's no exact definition. Anyway, all the following lyrics are by bands who have been accused of being 'indie'.
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Indie
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
May 24 05
441 plays
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Punk Rock Quotes III - The Revenge
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For 10 questions only, Punk's Not Dead. At all.
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Early Punk - Before 1985
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
May 14 03
471 plays
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Monkey See, Monkey Do It All Night Long!
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Musicians seem to have a special relationship with our simian friends. Possibly because they share the same love for body hair and bad table manners. See what you know about musicians and other apes.
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Animals in Songs
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Aug 28 08
348 plays
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New Wave / Post Punk Quotes IV - the easy one
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If you don't know these songs, chances are you've never owned a pair of pointy black shoes in your entire life.
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New Wave
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Average
10 Q
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hootch
Apr 28 05
411 plays
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More Groovy Sixties Quotes, Man
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In part one of this quiz we concentrated on the US. Part two is devoted to the British invasion.
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1960s Music
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Tough
10 Q
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hootch
Dec 20 04
951 plays
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