Polka Power! - "Weird Al" Boils Down the Late 90s Quiz

Answer: Wannabe

"Wannabe" was the Spice Girls' debut single. Recorded in less than an hour, the song topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks. It would go on to be the number one song in 37 countries and in 2014 a study conducted by the University of Amsterdam with more than 12,000 participants chose the song as the most easily recognisable pop song of the previous 60 years.

Answer: Harvey Danger

Recorded in 1996 and written about the Seattle music scene of the early 1990s and its effect on society and pop culture. In 2016 Rolling Stone named the song the 25th best of the 1990s. You may recognise the song as the theme tune to British sitcom "Peep Show."

Answer: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

"Islands in the Stream" was written by the Bee Gees for Marvin Gaye, though it was changed and recorded by Rogers and Parton in 1983. Pras sampled the song on "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" in 1996, featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mưa on the track. The Bee Gees then recorded a version of "Islands in the Stream" in 2001, using the chorus from Pras' "Ghetto Supastar" as the final chorus of the song.
The Pras song was a number one in ten countries and a number two in the UK and Australia.

Answer: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by The Backstreet Boys

The music video takes place in a haunted house where the band are forced to spend the night at after their bus breaks down. Each Backstreet Boy has a dream in which he is a different Universal monster.
In "This Is The End,"Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson, playing themselves, wind up in Heaven, and find it's basically a giant party where you can do what you like. Jay summons the Backstreet Boys, and all of Heaven dances along.
The song is certified Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

Answer: Smash Mouth

"Walkin' on the Sun" was Smash Mouth's debut single. Guitarist Greg Camp said the song was inspired by the Los Angeles Police Department's brutal mistreatment of taxi driver Rodney King.

Answer: Intergalactic & Planetary

"Intergalactic! Planetary! Planetary! Intergalactic!
Intergalactic! Planetary! Planetary! Intergalactic!
Intergalactic! Planetary! Planetary! Intergalactic!"

The song reached number five on the UK singles charts and number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song samples the theme music for the 1984 film "The Toxic Avenger."

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Answer: Tubthumping

Leeds pub and music venue, Fforde Grene, provided inspiration for the song. The pub was known for showcasing bands before they made it big including The Sex Pistols, U2, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Def Leppard and The Rolling Stones. The pub closed in 2004 and is now a supermarket.

In 2005 Chumbawamba recorded an album, available for pre-order, entitled "In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher." The album was available for purchase but would not be distributed until Margaret Thatcher's death. True to their word, the band released the album on the 8th of April, 2013.

Answer: Madonna

It may surprise you to learn that "Ray of Light" was Madge's first song to win a Grammy, though she had been nominated before. In fact, the track nabbed her two, for "Best Dance Recording," and "Best Short Form Music Video."

Answer: Push

Frank Torres, the man on the cover of "Yourself or Someone Like You," the album from which the single was taken from, sued the band in 2005, saying he had never consented to his photo being used for this purpose and that the band had caused him mental anguish.
The other verbs taken from the original "Bop-It."

Answer: Crystal meth addiction

Though it sounds like a typical summer jam, listen to those lyrics and the song, like much of the band's output, is explicitly about crystal meth. Singer/songwriter Stephan Jenkins said of the song "The music that I wrote for it is not intended to be bright and shiny for bright and shiny's sake. It's intended to be what the seductiveness of speed is like, represented in music."

Answer: Marilyn Manson

The music video for the single would win an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography in a Video, though it was also 16th on MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos. In the video, Manson features as an an androgynous figure, coated in white paint with red hair and contact lenses, wandering the streets free until he is captured, studied in a laboratory and then driven to a concert and put on stage.

Answer: Hanson

The song, written and performed by three teenage brothers, was number one in twenty-seven countries, and went platinum in seven.

Answer: Sex and Candy

The single was the band's most successful. It would later feature in Kevin Smith's 2008 film "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

Answer: ...but you can't stay here

The song was specifically written for Semisonic to finish live performances with. Singer/songwriter Dan Wilson was waiting to become a father at the time of writing and subconsciously incorporated birthing imagery into the song, saying it evokes feelings of "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."

Answer: Running with Scissors

"Running with Scissors" is Al's tenth studio album. It went Platinum in the US and pays homage to artists as varied as Don McLean, The Offspring, Puff Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Nine Inch Nails.