The Go-Go's 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Charlotte Caffey

Charlotte solely wrote "Fading Fast." Of The Go-Go's 12 songs on the album "Beauty and the Beat" and its three singles, Charlotte solely wrote three and co-wrote six; therefore, Charlotte contributed the most by composing 49% of the lyrics on the album.

Charlotte's 49% is the highest contribution from one Go-Go on one album. The second-highest is Jane by solely writing three and co-writing six songs on the album "Vacation" for 45% of the lyrics on an album.

Answer: Kathy Valentine

While with The Textones, Kathy exclusively wrote "Can't Stop the World" but released it while with The Go-Go's on the album "Beauty and the Beat." The Textones later recorded a version on their album "Through the Canyon" in 1989.

Answer: Vacation

Gina is the only Go-Go with no lyrical credit on The Go-Go's debut album "Beauty and the Beat." Gina earned her first of nine co-writing credits on The Go-Go's second album "Vacation" by teaming with Jane on the song "It's Everything but Party Time."

Gina's next three credits are on The Go-Go's third album "Talk Show" with Kathy on the songs "Good for Gone" and "You Thought" and with Jane on "I'm with You."

The Go-Go's broke up after "Talk Show" but since reuniting five years later, Gina earned her fifth co-writing credit on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" with Charlotte on the song "Beautiful" and her next three co-writes on the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" with multiple writers on the songs "Automatic Rainy Day," "Sonic Superslide" and "Throw Me a Curve." Gina also co-wrote the song "Club Zero" to promote the documentary film "The Go-Go's" in 2020.

Of The Go-Go's 61 original songs on seven albums and 17 singles, Gina co-wrote nine to earn an inconspicuous 6% of the lyrical credit for The Go-Go's. However, while The Go-Go's were broken up, Gina's band House of Schock released a self-titled album in 1988 and the soundtracks for the movies "Bull Durham" and "The Accused" include three of her songs: "Middle of Nowhere," "Love in Return" and "Walk in My Sleep."

According to Gina's documentary-interview in "The Go-Go's" (2020), "I've written stuff for other people. I had a song covered by Miley Cyrus and then four songs by Selena Gomez, so I felt like, 'Yeah, finally getting what I deserve'" (Ellwood, 2020).

Gina has also written lyrics for Kindred Spirit and Potty Mouth.

Answer: True

It's true! In 1990, The Go-Go's released their refashioned cover of "Cool Jerk" as a single backed with "We Got the Beat" to promote their compilation album "Greatest." Americans were too cool for the makeover but The Go-Go's "Cool Jerk" peaked at number 60 on the UK Singles Chart. Blimey!

Answer: Chris Arredondo (Gina's drum tech)

Gina's drum tech, Chris Arredondo, kept the Beat. When Kathy rejoined the band after four litigious years, this tour was to finally reunite The Go-Go's on stage; however, Gina was still recovering from surgery.

While their Broadway musical "Head Over Heels" was playing in New York, The Go-Go's were touring California with three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. During a show at the Bowl, Belinda praised Chris by vamping a verse of "Cool Jerk," "he saved our ass...and gave us some class."

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

The two-disc compilation album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" contains ten songs from when The Go-Go's were a punk band and recorded either at home, the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco or on their five-song demo in 1979. The one-disc version of this compilation album contains five of these early recordings.

Answer: Cutting implements

Lyric: "It's my decision, my own life...And I don't intend to share...It's not a question of sanity...Or reaction to something said...No desire to be analyzed...For fascination with red." As a punk band in the late 70s, "Blades" is one of The Go-Go's earlier dramatic songs along with "Fun with Ropes," "Screaming," and "Party Pose." According to Wiedlin's interview with Vulture about her lyrics, "A lot of it is about life in Hollywood, and a lot of it is about being a young woman" (Ivie, 2011).

Answer: Hollywood, California

Lyric: "Change the lines that were said before...We're all dreamers; we're all whores...Discarded stars...Like worn out cars...Litter the streets of this town"

"This Town" was released on The Go-Go's debut album "Beauty and the Beat" and according to Caffey's interview with Songfacts, "I have a very strong connection to the first record because that record was written without any kind of pressure, and we were having the time of our lives back in Hollywood in that little punk scene" (Wiser, 2010).

Vulture magazine proposed if Jane could have released another single from the album, "Definitely 'This Town.' I think 'This Town' might be our best song. After all these years, the lyrics are still fantastic and resonant, as is Charlotte's guitar line. It's just a great song" (Ivie, 2021).

Answer: Talk Show

The Go-Go's released "Head Over Heels" to promote the album "Talk Show" in 1984 and this single had ranked on four music charts: #10 US Cash Box Top 100, #11 US Billboard Hot 100, #35 Canadian Singles Chart and #88 US Billboard Hot 100 Year-End.

Answer: The Whole World Lost Its Head

The song "The Whole World Lost Its Head" from the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" contains these muses.

According to Wiedlin's interview with Songfacts, "...we [Kathy Valentine] just started, for fun, writing all these silly lyrics, silly but true and topical. I know we had one line, because I'm such a Star Trek fanatic, about plastic surgeons giving everyone Spock ears...I wish we'd left it in. I still crack up when I think about that line" (Wiser, 2007).

Your analysis seems logical. - Spock.