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MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio (5)

Here's the fifth quiz in this series of questions revolving around songs you might hear on the radio that are about radio itself. Mostly I'll provide the lyrics and you identify the artist. But sometimes vice versa.

A multiple-choice quiz by Billkozy. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Billkozy

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
394,619

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. The Replacements are considered one of the pioneers of alternative rock, and from their album 1985 "Tim" comes their song "Left of the Dial" which refers to which kind of radio stations that were on the left side of the dial in the old radio format? Hint

sports radio

religious preaching radio

news and weather radio

college radio

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who is the alternative rock band from Arizona who recorded the song "Static on the Radio" from their 2004 album "Lines In My Face"? Hint

For Today

The Timelords

Bury Tomorrow

Chronic Future

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who recorded the song "Transistor Radio"?:

"My baby's got a transistor radio
She takes it everywhere we go
She takes it when we go out a-walking
Even to a movie show
Well now, just last night, in the pale moonlight
I asked her for a kiss
But instead of hearing her whisper sweet words of love
All that I could hear was this" Hint

Cypress Hill

Lauryn Hill

Benny Hill

Faith hill

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Question 4 of 10

4. What post-punk rock band from England recorded the song "Radio Heart"?"

"I've been waiting by the radio for someone like you
But the people that are calling in today are few and far between
You were listening
Their words are dull their syllables slow
But every day I have to call into this show
Last week I decided to give it a go
And I caught your ear when I said
"I'm a man who sits at his desk
So I guess I've got nothing to lose at this request
I want a girl who doesn't like to dress to impress
A girl with a radio heart
A girl with a radio heart
We've never met but we've never been apart
A girl with a radio heart" Hint

Radiohead

Talking Heads

The Futureheads

Motorhead

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which two artists both recorded songs called "Turn Up the Radio"? (The songs are completely different from one another, not a cover). Hint

Cher and Automata

Beyonc� and Automatic Slim

Sting and Auto-Pilot

Madonna and Autograph

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Snoop Dog, Baby" by Reel Big Fish goes like this:

"I just couldn't believe it,
When I turned on
The radio, try to run, try to hide,
Try to keep it inside,
They were playin' that song
And I thought about her
Snoop doggy dog, snoop doggy dog"

What genre of music best describes the band Reel Big Fish? Hint

ska punk

musique concr�te

Baltimore club

rockabilly

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Guerilla Radio" earned a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and is from the 1999 album "The Battle of Los Angeles" by what American heavy metal band? Hint

Miami Sound Machine

The Fyling Machine

Tin Machine

Rage Against the Machine

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Question 8 of 10

8. This band has not one but two songs fitting this theme: "Love is on the Radio" and also "One for the Radio." What British band is this? Hint

McFly

Fox

Keaton

Canning

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)" was released in 1985 and became a big hit for this American Italo disco singer. It was produced by the Italian record producer Claudio Cecchetto and reached number five on the Italian Charts and number six on the American Dance chart. Who was this singer? Hint

Brooke Candy

Vanilla Ice

Taffy

Lollipop

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Question 10 of 10

10. After two decades without making an album, the iconic Beach Boys came back strong in 2012 with their album "That's Why God Made the Radio" with the titular hit single. This is the only Beach Boys album that debuted in Billboard's Top Ten.

True

False

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: college radio

The song is about how The Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg was falling in love with a girl in a band who was touring at the same time his band was, and the only way he had any contact with her was on the left side of the radio dial where all the college radio stations were and played her band's song.

"Weary voice that's laughin', on the radio once
We sounded drunk, never made it on
Passin' through and it's late, the station started to fade
Picked another one up in the very next state
On and on and on and on
What side are you on?
On and on and on and on and..."

2. Who is the alternative rock band from Arizona who recorded the song "Static on the Radio" from their 2004 album "Lines In My Face"?

Answer: Chronic Future

"What's that song on the radio
It's been so long since I've heard a song that I want to know
Every word and every note
What's that song on the radio
Tune me in just this once
Tune me in just this once
Cause there's too much
Static on the radio".

The founding members of the band are: vocalist Mike Busse, guitarist Ben Collins, bassist Brandon Lee and drummer Barry Collins.

3. Who recorded the song "Transistor Radio"?: "My baby's got a transistor radio She takes it everywhere we go She takes it when we go out a-walking Even to a movie show Well now, just last night, in the pale moonlight I asked her for a kiss But instead of hearing her whisper sweet words of love All that I could hear was this"

Answer: Benny Hill

British comedian Benny Hill and his producer Tony Hatch released this comic song in 1961, performed by Benny. It's about a man and his continued attempts to get romantic with his girlfriend but is always getting thwarted by her transistor radio. The song actually reached number 24 on the Singles Chart in England.

4. What post-punk rock band from England recorded the song "Radio Heart"?" "I've been waiting by the radio for someone like you But the people that are calling in today are few and far between You were listening Their words are dull their syllables slow But every day I have to call into this show Last week I decided to give it a go And I caught your ear when I said "I'm a man who sits at his desk So I guess I've got nothing to lose at this request I want a girl who doesn't like to dress to impress A girl with a radio heart A girl with a radio heart We've never met but we've never been apart A girl with a radio heart"

Answer: The Futureheads

So yes, this is a song about a man who calls in to a romantic chat-line and talks with a girl who has a radio for a heart.

5. Which two artists both recorded songs called "Turn Up the Radio"? (The songs are completely different from one another, not a cover).

Answer: Madonna and Autograph

Madonna's is from her 2012 album called MDNA and it goes:

"Turn up the radio
Turn up the radio
Don't ask me where I wanna go
We gotta turn up the radio"

And Autograph's only hit is from their 1984 album "Sign in Please" and it goes like this:

"Turn it up!
Yeah!
I'm working hard, you're working too
We do it every day
For every minute I have to work
I need a minute of play
Day in day out all week long
Things go better with rock
The only time I turn it down
Is when I'm sleepin' it off

Turn up the radio
I need the music, gimme some more
Turn up the radio
I want to feel it got to gimme some more"

6. "Snoop Dog, Baby" by Reel Big Fish goes like this: "I just couldn't believe it, When I turned on The radio, try to run, try to hide, Try to keep it inside, They were playin' that song And I thought about her Snoop doggy dog, snoop doggy dog" What genre of music best describes the band Reel Big Fish?

Answer: ska punk

While the previous question wanted us to "turn the radio up", this question's song is from the album "Turn the Radio Off" released in 1996. The genre the Reel Big Fish works in, called ska punk, is a mixture of those two genres, ska and punk. Ska is similar to reggae in a way--reggae has a slower tempo though, and ska makes a lot of use of horns while reggae doesn't. Punk rock as defined by dictionary.com is "characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics."

7. "Guerilla Radio" earned a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and is from the 1999 album "The Battle of Los Angeles" by what American heavy metal band?

Answer: Rage Against the Machine

Tin Machine, fronted by the legendary David Bowie, would be the only other choice considered Hard Rock but it was Rage Against the Machine that recorded this song. Miami Sound Machine is the lovely Gloria Estefan's band and The Flying Machine recorded the beautiful bubble gum hit "Smile a Little Smile for Me."

"Guerilla Radio" goes like this:

"Contact I highjacked the frequencies
Blockin' the beltway
Move on D.C.
Way past the days of Bombin' M.C.'s
Sound off Mumia guan be free
Who gottem yo check the federal file
All you pen devils know the trial was vile
An army of pigs try to silence my style
Off 'em all out that box
It's my radio dial
Lights out"

8. This band has not one but two songs fitting this theme: "Love is on the Radio" and also "One for the Radio." What British band is this?

Answer: McFly

The band McFly took their name from the character Marty McFly from the Michael J. Fox film "Back to the Future."

Released in 2013, "Love is on the Radio" goes like this:

"Things are looking up, looking up (hey!)
There's magic everywhere you go
Strangers stop to say hello, hello, hello, hello)
So turn it up, turn it up (hey!)
As loud as you can make it go
'Cause love is on the radio"

And "One For the Radio" an ode to their fans goes:

"So here's another song for the radio
And here's another line from the heart
So don't pretend you hate us when we sing our songs
Cause we all look the same in the dark"

Answer: Taffy

Born Katherine Quaye, 1963, in New York, Taffy's song here is about a radio disc jockey whose shift is in the wee hours of the morning.

"I can't wait another day
Without you I'm crazy
In the morning I can't work
In the night I can't sleep
Now my life is in the dark
Deep inside I'm sighing
On my bed I hear a song playing on the radio
And now the radio is my mind's new video
Because your memories are revived there only so
And now the radio is a film of my life's show"

Answer: True

Yes, the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart, and although the group has had albums reach higher then number three on the charts, this is the only one that debuted in the Top Ten on Billboard. Oddly, the Beach Boys 1966 album "Pet Sounds" is regarded as one of the greatest, most influential albums in rock history, but it only reached Number Ten on the charts.

The five-part harmony song "That's Why God Made the Radio" goes like this:

"Tuning in the latest star
From the dashboard of my car
Cruisin' at seven
Push button heaven
Capturing memories from afar
In my car

That's why God made the radio
So tune right in, everywhere you go
He waved His hand, gave us rock 'n roll
The soundtrack of falling in love
That's why God made the radio"

Source: Author Billkozy

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