MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio (4)

Answer: New Found Glory

Referencing non-invasive treatment of tumors as a symbol for coping with life's adversities, the band explains, "There are certain things in life that are extremely hard to get over. No matter how hard or long you go trying to forget, it's always there somewhere in your mind.

Some things can be so heavy they torment and enter every thought making you feel semi-insane. If our thoughts were like tumors we could have them removed."

Answer: Electric Light Orchestra

Producer and frontman Jeff Lynne enjoyed a lot of creativity in his music making with this wonderful band. For example he often employed playing some music track backwards, and in this song he plays a track of a Mozart symphony backwards at the beginning and end of the song.

The song is from their 1971 debut album "The Electric Light Orchestra" which in the United States was called "No Answer."

Answer: New Female Artist of the Year

"Pilot of the airwaves
Here is my request
You don't have to play it
But I hope you'll do your best
I've been listening to your show
On the radio
And you seem like a friend to me
Or a record of your choice
I don't mind, I'd be happy just to hear your voice
Saying this is for the girl
Who didn't sign her name
Yes, she needs a dedication just the same."

This was the final song played on Radio Caroline (an unlicensed offshore British radio station) when it closed forever on Bonfire Night, November 5, 1990.

Answer: Not Thinking Straight

Lyrics to the British recording artist's song include:
"On the radio
In Hollywood
On the TV shows
For the greater good
He said, "think about the children, think about the children.
You wanted me to write a hit record for the radio
Are you never gonna get it?
The kids already know..."

Answer: Wall of Voodoo

Stan Ridgway, lead vocalist of Wall of Voodoo, sang this song and explained the history behind the song to Songfacts.com: "We used to go to rehearsals in my old '67 Mustang. And I used to get on the AM radio there on the console and try to find a Mexican radio station that was wafting in from the border over at Tijuana.

This was like 1980, '81 or something. So when I would find one, I would say, 'Oh, hey look you guys, I'm on a Mexican radio.' And so, 'Okay, I'm on one. I'm on a Mexican radio.' And that was the germ of what started to develop, and then it just kind of developed, and a lot of planets were aligning at that point culturally. MTV was getting going and what they called the 'new music' was making some headway into people's ears. Radio still was not playing it, but when MTV became as popular as it did, radio had to play it. And it was right about that time where the door to American culture - or actually straight radio culture - kind of opened up just a little bit, and a few people got their feet in."

Answer: electronic

Metronomy was formed in England in 1999 and consists of the members Joseph Mount (vocals, keyboards and guitar), Oscar Cash (saxophone, backing vocals, guitars and keyboards), Anna Prior (drums and vocals) and Gbenga Adelekan (bass guitar and vocals). "Radio Ladio" is a 2007 release of theirs from the album "Nights Out."

Answer: Sweden

"Liberation Frequency" comes from their 1998 album "The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts":

"We want the airwaves back, we want the airwaves back
We want transmission for the people by the people
What frequency are you getting
Is it noise or sweet sweet music
On what frequency will liberation be."

Answer: Pop is Dead

"Pop is Dead" was released May 10, 1993. Songwriter Thom Yorke told Melody Maker in an interview that the song "is a kind of epitaph for 1992. Hence the lines, 'Pop is dead, died an ugly death by back catalogue'."

"And radio have salmonella,
And now you know you gotta die.
It left this message for us.
So what, pop is dead, it's no great loss
So many face lifts, it's face flew off."

Answer: Howling Bells

Songwriter and frontwoman Juanita Stein told the British music website NME (New Musical Express) about the origin of the song: They had been making demos for their second album at a place in Melbourne.... "and the radio kept freaking out and changing stations all the time. You'd put it on one radio station and it'd start flicking to another one.

But it came to mean more than that - the radio taking on a technological perspective."

Answer: drummer Roger Taylor

"I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio
You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh, you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly (Radio)."

Lady Gaga loves Queen and took her stage name from this song!