Indigo Girls Trivia

1. From which song does the album title "Despite our Differences" come?

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: I Believe in Love

"I Believe in Love" is a typical Emily ballad about the redemptive power of love. "I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love."

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: Land of Canaan

"Land of Canaan" was first seen in 1985 on a six song independent release called "Indigo Girls". It was also put on their independent release of "Strange Fire" in 1987. Both are out of print, so on October 3, 2004, "Land of Canaan" was put on the Epic Records release of "Strange Fire". The style of the song changed and it was put twice on their hit album, "Indigo Girls" (February 28, 1989). And just one more time, a live version was put on "1200 curfews" in October of 1995. "Go" was first seen on September 28, 1999 on "Come on Now Social". It was also re-released on October 3, 2000 on a compilaton album, "Retrospective". "Dairy Queen" is a great song on "All That We Let In" (February 17, 2004). "Get Out the Map" first came out on April 29. 1997 on "Shaming of the Sun". It was also re-released on "Retrospective".

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: 1995

The CD is a great mix of live songs, studio versions and awesome remakes. It was recorded between April 18, 1993 and May 27, 1995 with a release date of October 24, 1995.

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Galileo & Galileo Galilei

Galileo, of course, was the astronomer whose wide-ranging discoveries were the foundations of much of today's science. His arguments that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system, which contradicted Biblical teachings, led to his trial by the Inquisition in 1633. He actually was not executed- a common misconception. Instead, he lived the next 8 years under house arrest, before dying at the age of 77. "Galileo" first appeared on the album "Rites of Passage."

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Amy witnessing older children setting cats on fire

Some of the lyrics of the song are: I remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of Dead Man's Hill this is what I know of shame forever Amy's father sung background vocals with her on this song.

From Quiz Fractured Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Closer to Fine

"There's more than one answer to these questions." From the 1989 self titled album.

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: The death of Amy's cat

Both of the Indigo Girls are vegetarians and are sensitive to animal issues.

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: "Dirt and Dead Ends" and "They Won't Have Me"

As a resident of rural Georgia as well as an activist for indigenous peoples, Amy feels an obligation to defend rural lifestyles and protect wild lands. Both songs capture this passion. In "Dirt and Dead Ends," Amy sings: "It's been you and me on this frontier trying not to be suburban pioneers. Fightin' off the pavers and the associations, and the covenants against the trailers." In "They Won't Have Me" she questions "Who's gonna keep the farmland from the sub-division man?"

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: Gerard McHugh

The recording of this song is not in front of an audience. It was recorded in a dressing room in Santa Monica, California on May 27, 1995.

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Caribou

"Point Hope, F.O.I.A." mentions an experiment, kept secret for many years, in which the US government buried nuclear waste near Point Hope in order to see how it spread into the ecosystem. It was absorbed by lichen, then by the caribou that fed on the lichen. The lyrics state, "I hear the lichen bought it, now it's running through the caribou."

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Galileo

The song is amusing (as well as a musing!), in a wry sense, as Emily tries to explain her fear of flying by theorizing that one past life must have ended in an airplane crash, and hopes that the world cannot end in nuclear war because she hasn't "gotten it right" yet.

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: Amy picked the word out of a dictionary because it sounded 'cool'

Several songs and albums also have the same origin- for example, "Swamp Ophelia" was named after a flower they saw on a trip to Florida.

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: Strong women

This song describes the power of strong women, and the rediscovery of the feminine power of change- "Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress, Relegated by the Vatican, But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again" I normally prefer Amy's songs to Emily's, but the songs of hers that I like, I like very much! This toe-tapping, anti-Bush, pro-feminist paean is one of her best, and has even inspired a "Pendulum Swinger" dance at IG concerts!

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: History of Us

This solo by Emily was seen with "Land of Canaan" on their 1985 independent release. It was re-released on "Indigo Girls". "Fare Thee Well" is another solo of hers that is on the album, "Swamp Ophelia" (May 10, 1994). "Leaving" is from "Retrospective", one of only two new songs that were on this 2000 album. "Gone Again" is from 1999, on "Come on Now Social".

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: New Hampshire and Vermont

"I left my anger in a river running Highway 5. New Hampshire, Vermont..." Written by Amy Ray, this song came out in 1992 on the album "Rites of Passage".

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Shed Your Skin

The lyrics of "Shed Your Skin," by Amy Ray on the album "Shaming of the Sun," describe the rituals of snake worshippers, who feel that their faith will protect them from the bites of serpents: "I'm speaking in tongues handling you and I got religion now look at it the days grow longer as we grow stronger so shed your skin baby let it rip"

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Meridel Le Sueur

Iowan Meridel Le Seur's parents were socialists in turn-of-the-century America. She wrote detailed accounts of injustices in the US- bread lines, unemployment, government indifference. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She was also an author of historical books for children. She died in 1996 at the age of 96. "Go" is on the album "Come On Now Social." Her lyrics in the song are: "The truth is I was afraid I felt inferior I felt I excelled in competing with others and I knew instantly that these people were not competing at all, that they were acting in a strange, powerful trance of movement together and I was filled with longing to act with them and with the fear that I could not"

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Cedar Tree

She visited a farmstead from the 1800s and noted the cedar trees planted there. Friends told her that each one was for a departed wife.

From Quiz Fractured Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Language or the Kiss

"I don't know if it was real or in a dream lately waking up I'm not sure where I've been." From the 1994 album "Swamp Ophelia".

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: Closer to Fine

It's a song about believing in oneself.

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: All the Way

"All the Way" contains imagery about a truck crash. The theme has surfaced in songs such as "Watershed" ("Twisted guard rails on the highway, broken glass on the cement...) "Galileo ("And then I think about my fear of motion, which I never could explain, some other fool across the ocean years ago must have crashed his little airplane...") and "All That We Let In" " when all that guards us is a single centerline..."

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: 1 2 3

"1 2 3" is track number five on the popular "Nomads Indians Saints". "Hope Alone" is on "Become You". "Strange Fire" is from, well..."Strange Fire". A live version appeared on 1200 Curfews, and the studio version is the first track on "Retrospective". "Everything in its Own Time" was released on "Shaming of the Sun".

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: Tangled Up in Blue

They also did "All Along the Watchtower", but it was on another live album titled "Back on the Bus Y'All", from 1991.

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Foxes

This song, from "Become You," details the breakup of a relationship along with the everyday events that mirror it. "A family of foxes came to my yard and dug in so I looked in a book to see what this could possibly mean yeah 'cause there's fate in the breeze signs in the trees and possible tragic events when forces collide with the damage strewn wide and holes blasted straight through the fence"

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Frank Stanford

Stanford, born in Mississippi, was a fellow Southerner. The lyrics "one could send you down the river" refer to the fact that he was adopted. He wrote poetry filled with darkness and angst. In 1978, he committed suicide by shooting himself three times in the heart. "Three Hits" is from the album "Rites of Passage."

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: All That We Let In

Some lyrics: Emily sings: I pass the cemetery, walk my dog down there I read the names in stone and I say a silent prayer when I get home you're cooking supper on the stove and the greatest gift of life is to know love And then Amy chimes in with: Well I don't know where it all begins and I don't know where it all will end We're better off for all that we let in

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: A flower

However, exactly what flower it was is a matter of conjecture- probably they misheard "psammophilia."

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: Little Perennials

In a radio interview, Amy explained that the song was titled "Little Perennials" because she has relatives that, like seedlings, just keep popping up everywhere!

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