MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio -12

Answer: Todd Rundgren

Guess Who also recorded a song about Wolfman Jack, called "Clap For the Wolfman."
Hm? What's that? You want to know who recorded it? I told you.
Yes I did! Guess Who.
No, I'm not playing a game, why would you ask that? Guess Who.
But I did tell you...oh just forget it if you're going to be difficult. Hrmph.

Anyway, incredibly, Todd Rundgren played all the instruments on three of the four sides of this double album!

Answer: country

"Sometimes she runs, sometimes she don't
More than once she's left me on the side of the road
The older she gets the slower we go
But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio
She needs a carburetor, a set of plug wires
She's ridin' me around on four bald tires
The wipers don't work and the horn don't blow
But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio."

The song was Tippin's first Number One hit on the country charts.

Answer: Jethro Tull

"Voice of America
Symbol of the free.
Mine of disinformation
Pleading sympathy.
Down in the cold-war games
Forever naming names.
I'm getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow).
Keep getting pictures
From my radio (free Moscow)."

Answer: The Undertones

"Top Twenty" was written by John Joseph O'Neill for the Undertones 1979 debut album, which was recorded in London's Eden Studios. Mr. O'Neill is also the rhythm guitarist of the band. Other members are lead vocalist Feargal Sharkey, lead guitarist Damian O'Neill, and bassist Michael Bradley.

Answer: R.E.M.

Radio Free Europe is an actual real life radio broadcasting network that is run by the United States government. The station broadcasts to Europe and the Middle East with the aim of promoting democracy and freedom.

Answer: 45

Fitting into that movie soundtrack theme are those songs "Film Noir", "Here's Looking at You Kid" (a line from the classic film "Casablanca"), and "Great Expectations" a classic film adaptation by David Lean of Charles Dickens' sublime novel. "45" is from their 2012 album "Handwritten" and that song peaked at number 11 on the U.S. Alternative Rock Chart.

Answer: Aerosmith

"Jaded" was the first single from that album, and "Just Push Play" was the second. In the British magazine "Classic Rock", Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry stated that this was his least favorite Aerosmith album.

Answer: The Blasters

"She calls toll-free and requests an old song
Something they used to know
She prays to herself that wherever he is
He's listening to the Border Radio."

It was Jimmy McCracklin & His Blues Blasters. So the band just removed the "His Blues" part and called themselves The Blasters.

Answer: Edwin Starr

"While riding home in my car
My happy radio is never too far
I just reach out my hand turn the dial
And I know it will make me smile

Cause this station
(H. A. P. P. Y.)
(We plan to help your day go by)
I said it's a musical natural high
On Station H. A. P. P. Y"

Answer: Longest album title

Most people refer to the tile of the album simply as "The Boy Bands Have Won." But its official title is much longer. Here it is: "The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own.

But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."