Mae Mania Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Ocean

If you remembered the next lyric, you should have got it. "Just like the ocean needs the waves." This song is about a guy who is talked about how life is without his girlfriend. When he says "I need you here tonight. Just like the ocean needs the waves," he's saying without her, his life is as dull as a non-moving ocean. Mae's first three full length albums were: "Destination: Beautiful," "Destination: B-Sides," and "The Everglow."

Answer: The Sun and the Moon

This is a beautiful song. It is, in every way, a love song. He sings to a girl about how he basically IS hers, and how she's like the sun and the moon because she's "A light that can reach it all," meaning he feels she has reached out to him. Mae promoted their album "Singularity" by releasing a sampler.

Answer: All Deliberate Speed

Once again, as most songs by "Mae" are, a song from a boy to a girl. He talks about how the city they're living in is "Good for nothing but for feeling down" and how they want to get out of it. It ends with them leaving the town and heading to L.A. The full length "Singularity" album launched on April 14, 2007.

Answer: We're So Far Away

I would guess "The Everglow" is the common answer for people who don't know the song too well, but it is tricky for even people who do know the song well. This time, the guy is almost angry that he has fallen in love with this girl because he moves around so much, but they still feel like a couple. That's what he means when he says "It's so close but we're so far away." "Destination: B-Sides" is actually a compilation album where "Mae" remastered their old songs.

Answer: Summertime

A great song off their album "Destination: Beautiful." This song is about a guy thinking back to all the good times he's had with his girlfriend over the past summer, but is now drifting away from her. He wants to fix that by doing as much stuff as possible with her, expressed as "Jump in and go and we could drive for years." "Destination: B-Sides" also had two songs that appeared nowhere else; "Awakening" and "Tisbury Lane."

Answer: A Day in the Life

The reason this might have been difficult is because this song is only on "The Everglow: Special Edition" album as a bonus track. It's actually a cover a "Beatles" song. Basically, the story is the title. It goes through a day in the life of a man, but around the time of the "Beatles." "Mae"'s first full length album, "Destination: Beautiful," launched in 2003.

Answer: Skyline Drive

Probably one of their quietest songs until about the end of it, where the instruments really pick up. This is another purely love song. It's a guy just telltng his girlfriend he wants to "Keep driving." In other words, he wants to keep their relationship as strong as possible. Their second album, "The Everglow," launched in 2005.

Answer: Embers and Envelopes

This is a really good song with some of my favorite instrumentals I've ever heard. It is about a partially broken up couple that have to send letters to communicate with each. Both are sending letters asking for forgiveness and wondeing if their relationship is still working. Mae has also covered the song "March of the Pigs," originally by Nine Inch Nails.

Answer: Soundtrack for Our Movie

Hopefully, the "Lights, camera, action" led you on the right path and steered you away from "Skyline Drive" because of the "Could I take you for a car ride?" part. This song is about a guy who sees his relationship with his girlfriend as a "movie" that he is creating.

This stands out as he says "I'm directing the scene that has you and me forever." Though many people consider Mae Soft Rock, Emo Rock, or Indie Pop, the band itself likes to consider themselves regular Rock.

Answer: Epilogue

What a proper ending! This isn't REALLY a song, but it does have a little background music. What it really is is the ending of the album of "The Everglow." The album aso has a beginning, called "Prologue." The two songs that appear on the "Singularity" album sampler are "Brink of Disaster" and "Rocket."