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The Go-Go's 8 Trivia Quiz


How well do you know The Go-Go's discography and chronology? Earn your Doctorate in Go-Go Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude.

A multiple-choice quiz by SpyderFuzz. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
SpyderFuzz
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
411,108
Updated
Mar 16 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Author's Note: Here's a hint to which Go-Go had written the lyrics to a song. Jane, Charlotte and Kathy wrote 80% of the lyrics for The Go-Go's. If a question asks which Go-Go wrote a "deep track" on an album, only one of these songwriters will be in the choices. However, if a question asks which Go-Go wrote the lyrics to a signature song for The Go-Go's, all three songwriters may be in the choices.
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which Go-Go solely wrote the lyrics to the song "Living at the Canterbury" on the retrospective album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Who wrote the lyrics to the song "Cool Jerk" on The Go-Go's album "Vacation"? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which Go-Go wrote almost half the lyrics for the album "Vacation"? FunClue: She must have been sealed in her room writing her lips off. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The Go-Go's released the song "Vacation" as a single to promote the album "Vacation." Which song was on the B-side of this single? Another FunClue: The two songs have continuity. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which song on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" does NOT credit any member of The Go-Go's on its lyrics? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The Go-Go's included a booklet of rare photos and personal memos with which of their compilation albums? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Regarding The Go-Go's song title on their album "God Bless the Go-Go's," what is a "Sonic Superslide"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The Go-Go's did NOT record which enumerated song on any album or single? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The Go-Go's released their hit song "We Got the Beat" on which album? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which song by The Go-Go's calls us to dance the Pony and the Watusi? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which Go-Go solely wrote the lyrics to the song "Living at the Canterbury" on the retrospective album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's"?

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane solely wrote "Living at the Canterbury" during The Go-Go's early years as a punk-rock band. Of the 13 never-released songs on the album and its two singles, Jane solely wrote two and co-wrote six, perhaps while living at the Canterbury apartments; therefore, Jane contributed the most by composing 37% of the "new" lyrics on the retrospective album.

In the lyrics, Jane reminisces living at the Canterbury as in a dormitory with roaches; however, "We can do what we want...We can say what we please...We can be who we want...Being poor's okay by me."
2. Who wrote the lyrics to the song "Cool Jerk" on The Go-Go's album "Vacation"?

Answer: Donald Storball

The Go-Go's cover the song "Cool Jerk"; however, Donald Storball wrote the lyrics and The Capitols originally released the song as a single in 1966 and later the same year on their album "Dance The Cool Jerk With The Capitols."

Cool, Cooler, Coolest! The Go-Go's have released three versions of their cover song. In 1982, The Go-Go's released their most recognizable version on the album "Vacation." In 1990, The Go-Go's released a smoother, more harmonious version on their compilation album "Greatest." In 1994, The Go-Go's released their very first cover of this song off their five-song studio-demo from 1979 on the retrospective album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's."
3. Which Go-Go wrote almost half the lyrics for the album "Vacation"? FunClue: She must have been sealed in her room writing her lips off.

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

The FunClue alludes to Jane's song "Our Lips Are Sealed" from their previous album "Beauty and the Beat." Of The Go-Go's 13 original songs on the album "Vacation" and its four singles, Jane solely wrote three and co-wrote six; therefore, Jane contributed the most by composing 45% of the lyrics on the album.
4. The Go-Go's released the song "Vacation" as a single to promote the album "Vacation." Which song was on the B-side of this single? Another FunClue: The two songs have continuity.

Answer: Beatnik Beach

Who wouldn't vacation on a beach?

On 26 Jun 1982, The Go-Go's were the first band in the US to release a single on cassette tape, aka a "cassingle," and this magnetic milestone was "Vacation" backed with "Beatnik Beach" to promote their album "Vacation."

Speaking of B-sides, while with The Textones in 1980, Kathy Valentine originally wrote the lyrics to "Vacation" but not only was her song relegated to the B-side of the single "I Can't Fight It" written by Tom Petty, Kathy's 105-second ditty also shared this B-side with "The Time Is Right."

While with The Go-Go's in 1982, Charlotte and Jane added another 74-second tingle and "Vacation" went from being commingled to being cassingle'd to becoming a worldwide jingle on 11 music charts: #6 US Cash Box Top 100, #8 US Billboard Hot 100, #13 US Billboard Mainstream Rock, #17 US Billboard Dance Club Songs, #18 Sweden Top List, #23 Canada Top Singles RPM, #31 Netherlands Single Top 100, #39 US Cash Box Year-End, #43 Australia Kent Music Report, #76 American Top 40 Year-End and #87 US Billboard Hot 100 Year-End.
5. Which song on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" does NOT credit any member of The Go-Go's on its lyrics?

Answer: Johnny Are You Queer?

The Go-Go's cover the song "Johnny Are You Queer?" however, Bobby and Larson Paine wrote the lyrics and Josie Cotton originally released this song as a single in 1981.

In addition to "Johnny Are You Queer?" The Go-Go's cover three other songs on this compilation album: 1) "Cool Jerk" was written by Donald Storball and the Capitols originally released this song as a single in 1966. 2) "Let's Have a Party" was written by Jessie Mae Robinson and Elvis Presley originally released this song for the film "Loving You" in 1957. 3) "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" was written by George Morton and The Shangri-Las originally released this song as a single in 1964.
6. The Go-Go's included a booklet of rare photos and personal memos with which of their compilation albums?

Answer: Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's

The compilation album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" contains this booklet with members' reflections and anecdotes of their favorite songs.

The booklet also contains a candid photo of The Go-Go's frolicking BEHIND the banner of their PETA Naked Ad campaign from four years earlier in 1990. According to the PETA website in 2020, "The 30-year campaign began in 1990 when rock icons The Go-Go's posed in the buff for a 'We'd Rather Go-Go Naked Than Wear Fur' poster, which they sold at concerts to raise money for PETA."
7. Regarding The Go-Go's song title on their album "God Bless the Go-Go's," what is a "Sonic Superslide"?

Answer: Ride into the future

Lyric: "Ride a sonic superslide into the future."

Women are as powerful as the universe for "We are solar sisters...Here to make you shine [...] Ignite a Revolution...Feel it in the air...You can stop Evolution...Changes everywhere."

Based on your preference for empowerment, you may also like the songs "Can't Stop the World," "Club Zero," "Fading Fast" and "Get Up and Go" from The Inspirational Go-Go's.
8. The Go-Go's did NOT record which enumerated song on any album or single?

Answer: One in a Million

The Go-Go's did not release "One in a Million" on any album or single. Guns N' Roses released "One in a Million" on their album "G 'N' R Lies" in 1988.

FunNumbers! If you add The Go-Go's enumerated songs together, the sum will be 101: 100 + One + Zero = 101. The 101st day of the year is in April. What happened during an April for The Go-Go's? On 1 April 1981, The Go-Go's signed with I.R.S. Records!

If The Go-Go's had covered the song "'39" by Queen from the album "A Night at the Opera" (1975), The Go-Go's enumerated sum would advance to 20 May...Jane's birthday!
9. The Go-Go's released their hit song "We Got the Beat" on which album?

Answer: Beauty and the Beat

The Go-Go's released "We Got the Beat" from the album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981 and this single had ranked on eight music charts: #2 US Billboard Hot 100, #3 Canada Top Singles RPM, #7 US Billboard Mainstream Rock, #25 US Billboard Top Pop Singles Year-End, #29 Australia Kent Music Report, #32 Canada RPM 100 Year-End, #35 US Billboard Dance Club Songs and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs to Shape Rock and Roll.
10. Which song by The Go-Go's calls us to dance the Pony and the Watusi?

Answer: We Got the Beat

Each of the four choices mentions a specific dance in its lyrics, but "We Got the Beat" on the album "Beauty and the Beat" bobs, "Go-go music really makes us dance...Do the Pony puts us in a trance...Do the Watusi just give us a chance...That's when we fall in line."

For our next dance, The Go-Go's will fall in line again to "Limbo down...Hit the ground" during the song "Beatnik Beach" on the album "Vacation," and an earlier song from their punk-rock years "Fashion Seekers" on the retrospective album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" pretentiously poses, "They dance the Hustle in Italian boots."

"Can you do the Cool Jerk," mack daddy? Also on their album "Vacation," The Go-Go's cover the song "Cool Jerk" from The Capitols' album "Dance the Cool Jerk with The Capitols" (1966). Although the Cool Jerk is a dance, its title is derivative of the once popular Jerk and originally was to be named Pimp Jerk because of how pimps, being too "cool" to dance the Jerk in the Detroit nightclubs, would instead lewdly strut and groove to songs specifically written for the Jerk: "Can You Jerk Like Me?" (The Contours), "Come on Do the Jerk" (The Miracles), "Jerk and Twine" (Jackie Ross), "Jerk It" (The Gypsies), "The Big Jerk - Pt. I" (Clyde & The Blue Jays) and "The Jerk" (The Larks).

A fifth song to mention a specific dance but not included as a choice is The Go-Go's cover-song "Let's Have a Party" also on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" fricasseeing, "I've never kissed a goon...But I can shake a Chicken...In the middle of the room."

Although The Go-Go's wrote the word "dance" 15 times in the lyrics of four other songs, none of these songs mention a specific type of dance: "The Way You Dance" has "dance" 12 times and the songs "The Whole World Lost Its Head," "Turn to You" and "Yes or No" have it once.
Source: Author SpyderFuzz

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