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1. "Don't Touch My Radio" is a song based on this country singer's aversion to people touching her car radio ("I don't like it when people touch my radio in a car, so I'm like, 'You can touch the wheel, you can do this, but don't touch my radio.'"). From her 2015 album "Thirty One", who sang this song?
2. "Heard It On The X" is about the Mexican border radio stations (which all had an "X" in their call letters) that had no restrictions on the wattage they could transmit. From their 1975 album "Fandango", who recorded this song?
3. One-hit wonder "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" lyrically describes a woman bored at home, heartsick about her lover, but who is saved by a disc jockey playing a great song. Do you remember the group?
4. "Will I make it back to shore?
Or drift into the unknown
Further down the river
I'm building an antenna
Transmissions will..."
This is from the song "Aqueous Transmission" by what American rock band?
5. The group American Hi-Fi formed in Boston in 1998 and their song "Hi-Fi Killer" appears on their eponymously named debut album "American Hi-Fi." Most of the group's songs including this one are written by founding member Stacy Jones who also serves as the musical director and drummer for what artist who was MTV's "Artist of the Year" in 2013, and one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2008 and 2014?
6. "Pirate Radio" by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper. Mojo Nixon was an 80s college radio cult favorite with "motor-mouthed redneck" persona singing satirical songs. His style was a fusion or rockabilly and punk rock which has come to be referred to by what genre?
7. "Side by side we face each other
Standing here alone together
Your code ill break,
You made your last mistake
Called out cold war
Remnants now on the floor
This is Russian radio here
Calling you to come back home
This is Russian radio here
Run while you still can."
These lyrics are from the song "Cold War Transmission" by which alternative rock band formed in 2002 in Florida?
8. Speaking of German bands, Kraftwerk (remember them?) formed in 1970 in Düsseldorf by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Their fifth studio album was called "Radio-Activity." Which of the following statements is NOT true about that album's title track, "Radioactivity"?
9. From the album "Radio Musicola" comes the title track, "Radio Musicola":
"black vinyl man with black plasticised imagination
more fodder for the new lost generation
I got a question to send you to the nearest closet
why can't you let us do it like JONI does it
there you go again, giving it your very best
trying so hard to make it sound like all thee rest
and as your factory sanctifies your wooden soul
you gave us T.V. dinners, now it's T.V. rock 'n' roll
we're growing up
we're growing up
to radio musicola."
What British singer-songwriter released this record in 1986?
10. Here's a group with not one, not two, but three songs about the radio that you'd hear on the radio. And not minor songs either but all three were huge: "Yesterday Once More", "Superstar", and and "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft." Who's the group?
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