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MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio -12

Here's the 12th quiz in this series of questions revolving around songs you might hear on the radio that are about radio itself. Mostly I'll provide the lyrics and you identify the artist. Sometimes you'll have to name the song. Or sometimes other stuff.

A multiple-choice quiz by Billkozy. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Billkozy

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
395,289

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
171

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Question 1 of 10

1. "Full moon tonight, everything's all right
Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack
If you want yourself a day man, well I don't mind
You just ditch him when the sun goes down
'Cause the moon shines bright
And everything's all right
When the Wolfman, he creeps into town."

This is "Wolfman Jack" and it's by one of the true geniuses in the world of rock music. What producer/recording artist sang this song for his 1972 album "Something/Anything"? Hint

Trent Reznor

Tex Ritter

Thomas Rhett

Todd Rundgren

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Question 2 of 10

2. Aaron Tippin recorded "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio" for his 1992 album "Read Between The Lines". What genre of music is this song and album, and singer for that matter? Hint

heavy metal

country

reggae

ska

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Question 3 of 10

3. "Tune into messages
From the eastern avenue.
Lock on to the ether
Squeeze the signal through and through.
War of the air-waves
Making scare-waves.
I'm getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow).
Moscow radio."

Taking their name from an actual historic person, what band recorded this song "Radio Free Moscow"? Hint

Molly Hatchet

Franz Ferdinand

Jethro Tull

Tesla

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Question 4 of 10

4. The Undertones recorded the song "Top Twenty" for their eponymously titled 1979 album that also contained their perhaps most famous single, "Teenage Kicks." What was the name of this album? Hint

Hypnotised

Positive Touch

The Sin of Pride

The Undertones

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Question 5 of 10

5. The chorus for this 1983 song "Radio Free Europe" on their album "Murmur" goes:
"Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe"

Who's the band?
Hint

R.E.M.

INXS

REO Speedwagon

UB 40

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Did you hear the fifty-nine sound coming through on grandmother's radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?"

This song, "That '59 Sound" is by the indie rock group The Gaslight Anthem. Lead singer/guitarist Brian Fallon said "I look at our music as a soundtrack and I look at the lyrics like a movie script. And I try and write them so that people are watching the images go by in their head as they're hearing the lyrics. And when I reference another song it's because it's playing during a scene in that movie."

Bearing that in mind, all of these other songs are also songs from that album EXCEPT for which one that is actually their highest charting single? Hint

Film Noir

Here's Looking at You Kid

Great Expectations

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Question 7 of 10

7. This title song of their 2001 album "Just Push Play" was this band's protest song against radio censorship:
"Just push play
They're gonna bleep it anyway
Just push play."

Who's the band? Hint

Air Supply

Aerosmith

The Smiths

Smithereens

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Question 8 of 10

8. "One more midnight, her man is still gone
The nights move too slow
She tries to remember the heat of his touch
While listening to the Border Radio."

Band member Dave Alvin wrote this song "Border Radio" for this band that took its name from blues artist Jimmy McCracklin's back-up band. Hint

Big Audio Dynamite

Supernova

The Volcanos

The Blasters

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Question 9 of 10

9. The song "War" ("I said, war, good god, now, what is it good for? / Absolutely, nothing / Say it again, war, what is it good for?") was released in 1970. In 1979, the same artist recorded "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio", a disco song. Who is it? Hint

Mazzy Star

Ringo Starr

Edwin Starr

Stars on 45

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Question 10 of 10

10. "To A Little Radio / (Words Flew) Right Around The World" is by Chumbawamba, the British band that recorded the worldwide hit "Tubthumping." "To a Little Radio" was for their 2008 album which held what distinction? Hint

Longest running time for a one-record album

Each song (25 of them) is in a different language

Worst selling album with a Top 40 single

Longest album title

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Full moon tonight, everything's all right Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack If you want yourself a day man, well I don't mind You just ditch him when the sun goes down 'Cause the moon shines bright And everything's all right When the Wolfman, he creeps into town." This is "Wolfman Jack" and it's by one of the true geniuses in the world of rock music. What producer/recording artist sang this song for his 1972 album "Something/Anything"?

Answer: Todd Rundgren

Guess Who also recorded a song about Wolfman Jack, called "Clap For the Wolfman."
Hm? What's that? You want to know who recorded it? I told you.
Yes I did! Guess Who.
No, I'm not playing a game, why would you ask that? Guess Who.
But I did tell you...oh just forget it if you're going to be difficult. Hrmph.

Anyway, incredibly, Todd Rundgren played all the instruments on three of the four sides of this double album!

2. Aaron Tippin recorded "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio" for his 1992 album "Read Between The Lines". What genre of music is this song and album, and singer for that matter?

Answer: country

"Sometimes she runs, sometimes she don't
More than once she's left me on the side of the road
The older she gets the slower we go
But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio
She needs a carburetor, a set of plug wires
She's ridin' me around on four bald tires
The wipers don't work and the horn don't blow
But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio."

The song was Tippin's first Number One hit on the country charts.

3. "Tune into messages From the eastern avenue. Lock on to the ether Squeeze the signal through and through. War of the air-waves Making scare-waves. I'm getting pictures From my radio (free Moscow). Moscow radio." Taking their name from an actual historic person, what band recorded this song "Radio Free Moscow"?

Answer: Jethro Tull

"Voice of America
Symbol of the free.
Mine of disinformation
Pleading sympathy.
Down in the cold-war games
Forever naming names.
I'm getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow).
Keep getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow)."

4. The Undertones recorded the song "Top Twenty" for their eponymously titled 1979 album that also contained their perhaps most famous single, "Teenage Kicks." What was the name of this album?

Answer: The Undertones

"Top Twenty" was written by John Joseph O'Neill for the Undertones 1979 debut album, which was recorded in London's Eden Studios. Mr. O'Neill is also the rhythm guitarist of the band. Other members are lead vocalist Feargal Sharkey, lead guitarist Damian O'Neill, and bassist Michael Bradley.

5. The chorus for this 1983 song "Radio Free Europe" on their album "Murmur" goes: "Straight off the boat, where to go? Calling on in transit, calling on in transit Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe" Who's the band?

Answer: R.E.M.

Radio Free Europe is an actual real life radio broadcasting network that is run by the United States government. The station broadcasts to Europe and the Middle East with the aim of promoting democracy and freedom.

6. "Did you hear the fifty-nine sound coming through on grandmother's radio? Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls? Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over? Did you hear your favorite song one last time?" This song, "That '59 Sound" is by the indie rock group The Gaslight Anthem. Lead singer/guitarist Brian Fallon said "I look at our music as a soundtrack and I look at the lyrics like a movie script. And I try and write them so that people are watching the images go by in their head as they're hearing the lyrics. And when I reference another song it's because it's playing during a scene in that movie." Bearing that in mind, all of these other songs are also songs from that album EXCEPT for which one that is actually their highest charting single?

Answer: 45

Fitting into that movie soundtrack theme are those songs "Film Noir", "Here's Looking at You Kid" (a line from the classic film "Casablanca"), and "Great Expectations" a classic film adaptation by David Lean of Charles Dickens' sublime novel. "45" is from their 2012 album "Handwritten" and that song peaked at number 11 on the U.S. Alternative Rock Chart.

7. This title song of their 2001 album "Just Push Play" was this band's protest song against radio censorship: "Just push play They're gonna bleep it anyway Just push play." Who's the band?

Answer: Aerosmith

"Jaded" was the first single from that album, and "Just Push Play" was the second. In the British magazine "Classic Rock", Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry stated that this was his least favorite Aerosmith album.

8. "One more midnight, her man is still gone The nights move too slow She tries to remember the heat of his touch While listening to the Border Radio." Band member Dave Alvin wrote this song "Border Radio" for this band that took its name from blues artist Jimmy McCracklin's back-up band.

Answer: The Blasters

"She calls toll-free and requests an old song
Something they used to know
She prays to herself that wherever he is
He's listening to the Border Radio."

It was Jimmy McCracklin & His Blues Blasters. So the band just removed the "His Blues" part and called themselves The Blasters.

Answer: Edwin Starr

"While riding home in my car
My happy radio is never too far
I just reach out my hand turn the dial
And I know it will make me smile

Cause this station
(H. A. P. P. Y.)
(We plan to help your day go by)
I said it's a musical natural high
On Station H. A. P. P. Y"

Answer: Longest album title

Most people refer to the tile of the album simply as "The Boy Bands Have Won." But its official title is much longer. Here it is: "The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own.

But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."

Source: Author Billkozy

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