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Early New Wave Music Trivia Quiz

Early new wave music was the best part of the late 1970's and the 1980's. Can you tell me which song these lyrics are from?

A multiple-choice quiz by laurensm. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
laurensm

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
187,181

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

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Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 15

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Question 1 of 15

1. Which Yaz song has the following lyrics: "To your credit the thirty faces you created. To your headache to the shape of the 1980's."? Hint

Only You

Goodbye Seventies

Don't Go

Walk Away From Love

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Question 2 of 15

2. Which Tears For Fears song has the following lyrics: "Scratch the ice. Let the telephone ring. Sense of time is a powerful thing."? Hint

Shout

Start Of The Breakdown

Pale Shelter

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which Adam Ant song has the following lyrics: "The devil take your stereo and your record collection! The way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension!"? Hint

Stand And Deliver

Ant Rap

Goody Two Shoes

Strip

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Question 4 of 15

4. Which Police song has the following lyrics: "Limp wrist, tight fist, contact, no twist."? Hint

Roxanne

It's Alright For You

Message In A Bottle

Don't Stand So Close To Me

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Question 5 of 15

5. Which Aztec Camera song has the following lyrics: "I wear a picture of you wearing black and kissing me behind the butler's back."? Hint

The Boy Wonders

Knife

The Birth Of The True

Oblivious

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Question 6 of 15

6. Which Roxy Music song has the following lyrics: "Heart to heart as we hit the floor. Lumbered up limbo down, the locked embrace stumble round."? Hint

Dance Away

Slave To Love

Love Is The Drug

More Than This

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Question 7 of 15

7. Which Devo song has the following lyrics: "You told me people like to suffer, you told me thats the way it is."? Hint

Through Being Cool

Whip It

Jerkin' Me Back And Forth

Girl You Want

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Question 8 of 15

8. Which Depeche Mode song has the following lyrics: "Such a small affair a relapse someone closing like the night club door."? Hint

Somebody

No disco

Any Second Now

Just Can't Get Enough

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Question 9 of 15

9. Which Cars song has the following lyrics: "You get the force fed future. Get the funk after death. Get the wisenheimer brainstorm."? Hint

I'm In Touch With Your World

Moving In Stereo

Shake It Up

Let's Go

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Question 10 of 15

10. Which Blondie song has the following lyrics: "Lead you to the supermarket checkout. Some specials and rat food, get lost in the crowd."? Hint

One Way or Another

Rapture

Dreaming

Atomic

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Question 11 of 15

11. Which Sparks song has the following lyrics: "It's worse than war, it's worse than death. There ain't too many left who..."? Hint

Eaten By The Monster Of Love

I Predict

Cool Places

Sextown U.S.A

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Question 12 of 15

12. Which Blancmange song has the following lyrics: "I'll climb the mountain, reaching for the skies and all too soon I jump the moon and find I'm losing my mind."? Hint

Living On The Ceiling

What's Your Problem

Blind Vision

Don't Tell Me

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Question 13 of 15

13. Which Squeeze song has the following lyrics: "Lazing about the beach all day. At night the crickets creepy."? Hint

Take Me I'm Yours

Is That Love

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

Tempted

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Question 14 of 15

14. Which Tones On Tail song contains the following lyrics: "Swap your dull grey thoughts, for fierce demands you can stand up to."? Hint

Rain

Lions

Twist

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Question 15 of 15

15. Which Talking Heads song contains the following lyrics: "I remember when sittin' in the tub. Pulled out the plug. The water was runnin' out."? Hint

Burning Down The House

Slippery People

Stay up Late

Once In A Lifetime

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Yaz song has the following lyrics: "To your credit the thirty faces you created. To your headache to the shape of the 1980's."?

Answer: Goodbye Seventies

Lead singer Alison Moyet was also known as Alf Moyet. The album this song appeared on is "Upstairs At Eric's". The band known as Yaz in the US went by the name Yazoo in the UK - there were copyright issues in the States.

2. Which Tears For Fears song has the following lyrics: "Scratch the ice. Let the telephone ring. Sense of time is a powerful thing."?

Answer: Start Of The Breakdown

Roland and Curt had gotten their start in a five piece ska band called Graduate, but left due to the bands lack of creativity. The album this song appeared on is "The Hurting."

3. Which Adam Ant song has the following lyrics: "The devil take your stereo and your record collection! The way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension!"?

Answer: Stand And Deliver

Adam and his Ants were at first considered to be unfashionable by the British press. By the time the USA saw Adam on MTV he was a fashion icon. "Stand and Deliver" is on the "Prince Charming" album.

4. Which Police song has the following lyrics: "Limp wrist, tight fist, contact, no twist."?

Answer: It's Alright For You

Drummer Stewart Copeland came up with the name The Police because "it gave them free publicity in every country in the world." The album this song appears on is "Reggatta de Blanc."

5. Which Aztec Camera song has the following lyrics: "I wear a picture of you wearing black and kissing me behind the butler's back."?

Answer: The Birth Of The True

Lead singer Roddy Frame writes and arranges all of Aztec Camera's music. Impressive considering he was only a teenager when he started in the band. This song appears on the "Knife" album.

6. Which Roxy Music song has the following lyrics: "Heart to heart as we hit the floor. Lumbered up limbo down, the locked embrace stumble round."?

Answer: Love Is The Drug

Roxy Music have been around since the 1970's. Lead singer Bryan Ferry has carried the glam music scene well into the 1980's with such great songs like "Slave To Love" and "More Than This". This song appears on the "Siren" album.

7. Which Devo song has the following lyrics: "You told me people like to suffer, you told me thats the way it is."?

Answer: Jerkin' Me Back And Forth

Devo came about from the theory later dubbed "De-evolution". This theory states that "mankind, rather than progressing was actually going backwards". "Jerkin' Me Back And Forth" is on the "New Traditionalists" album.

8. Which Depeche Mode song has the following lyrics: "Such a small affair a relapse someone closing like the night club door."?

Answer: Any Second Now

This song is also played as an instrumental on the B-side to "Just Can't Get Enough". "Any Second Now" appears on the "Speak And Spell" album.

9. Which Cars song has the following lyrics: "You get the force fed future. Get the funk after death. Get the wisenheimer brainstorm."?

Answer: I'm In Touch With Your World

Lead singer Ric Ocasek had a background in beat poetry which he combined with "a timeless AM-radio spirit" to form The Cars. This song appears on the album "The Cars".

10. Which Blondie song has the following lyrics: "Lead you to the supermarket checkout. Some specials and rat food, get lost in the crowd."?

Answer: One Way or Another

"One Way or Another" originated from a surf piece created in a portable studio Debbie had bought in Japan. The original song had "started out with a spaghetti western guitar". This song appears on the "Parallel Lines" album.

11. Which Sparks song has the following lyrics: "It's worse than war, it's worse than death. There ain't too many left who..."?

Answer: Eaten By The Monster Of Love

Sparks started in the early 1970's by the Mael brothers whose strange mix of big band, marching tunes, and hoe down made them one of the oddest bands to come out of the New Wave scene. This song appears on the "Angst In My Pants" album.

12. Which Blancmange song has the following lyrics: "I'll climb the mountain, reaching for the skies and all too soon I jump the moon and find I'm losing my mind."?

Answer: Don't Tell Me

The duo known as Blancmange were known for bringing together unrelated sounds and images to graft their unique style. In their early career they toured with bands like Depeche Mode. This song appears on the album "Mange Tout."

13. Which Squeeze song has the following lyrics: "Lazing about the beach all day. At night the crickets creepy."?

Answer: Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

Tilbrook and Difford had written over 1,000 original songs as of the late 1980's. The album on which this song appears is "Argybargy" which when translated means "violent jocular chaos".

14. Which Tones On Tail song contains the following lyrics: "Swap your dull grey thoughts, for fierce demands you can stand up to."?

Answer: Go

The main idea of Tones On Tail was "to be spontaneous and otherworldly." They "wanted to sound like a band from Venus or Mars". This song appears as the B-side for the song Lions" from the album "Pop".

15. Which Talking Heads song contains the following lyrics: "I remember when sittin' in the tub. Pulled out the plug. The water was runnin' out."?

Answer: Slippery People

When the Talking Heads started they were considered "art rock" by many reviewers. This was fitting because all three original members had met at art school. This song appears originally on the album "Speaking In Tongues", but is also on the better known "Stop Making Sense" album.

Source: Author laurensm

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