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1. "Full moon tonight, everything's all right
Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack
If you want yourself a day man, well I don't mind
You just ditch him when the sun goes down
'Cause the moon shines bright
And everything's all right
When the Wolfman, he creeps into town."
This is "Wolfman Jack" and it's by one of the true geniuses in the world of rock music. What producer/recording artist sang this song for his 1972 album "Something/Anything"?
2. Aaron Tippin recorded "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio" for his 1992 album "Read Between The Lines". What genre of music is this song and album, and singer for that matter?
3. "Tune into messages
From the eastern avenue.
Lock on to the ether
Squeeze the signal through and through.
War of the air-waves
Making scare-waves.
I'm getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow).
Moscow radio."
Taking their name from an actual historic person, what band recorded this song "Radio Free Moscow"?
4. The Undertones recorded the song "Top Twenty" for their eponymously titled 1979 album that also contained their perhaps most famous single, "Teenage Kicks." What was the name of this album?
5. The chorus for this 1983 song "Radio Free Europe" on their album "Murmur" goes:
"Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe"
Who's the band?
6. "Did you hear the fifty-nine sound coming through on grandmother's radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?"
This song, "That '59 Sound" is by the indie rock group The Gaslight Anthem. Lead singer/guitarist Brian Fallon said "I look at our music as a soundtrack and I look at the lyrics like a movie script. And I try and write them so that people are watching the images go by in their head as they're hearing the lyrics. And when I reference another song it's because it's playing during a scene in that movie."
Bearing that in mind, all of these other songs are also songs from that album EXCEPT for which one that is actually their highest charting single?
7. This title song of their 2001 album "Just Push Play" was this band's protest song against radio censorship:
"Just push play
They're gonna bleep it anyway
Just push play."
Who's the band?
8. "One more midnight, her man is still gone
The nights move too slow
She tries to remember the heat of his touch
While listening to the Border Radio."
Band member Dave Alvin wrote this song "Border Radio" for this band that took its name from blues artist Jimmy McCracklin's back-up band.
9. The song "War" ("I said, war, good god, now, what is it good for? / Absolutely, nothing / Say it again, war, what is it good for?") was released in 1970. In 1979, the same artist recorded "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio", a disco song. Who is it?
10. "To A Little Radio / (Words Flew) Right Around The World" is by Chumbawamba, the British band that recorded the worldwide hit "Tubthumping." "To a Little Radio" was for their 2008 album which held what distinction?
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