MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio (6)

Answer: Jana Kramer

Jana Kramer is the country singer in question; the other women listed are heavy metal singers. Jana is also known as an actress having appeared in over a dozen films and playing Alex Dupre on the TV show "One Tree Hill."

A sample of "Don't Touch My Radio":

"You can put your hand on my knee
Lean a little bit closer to me
Whisper in my ear, kiss me on the neck
Run your fingers through my hair
Sing as loud as you want boy, I don't care
Put your hands on the wheel or tell me where to go
But baby here's the deal
Don't touch my radio no"

Answer: ZZ Top

Since there wasn't a limit to their wattage compared to the U.S. limit of 50,000 watts (imposed back in the 20s), these Mexican stations near the border would bleed into the U.S. radio stations and even completely override some of them.

"Do you remember
Back in nineteen sixty-six?
Country Jesus, hillbilly blues,
That's where I learned my licks.
Oh, from coast to coast and line to line
In every county there,
I'm talkin' 'bout that outlaw X
Is cuttin' through the air."

Answer: Indeep

The 1982 hit climbed to number ten on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and number two on the Club Singles chart in the United States. It was easily the biggest hit its small record label (Sound of New York/Becket Records) ever had.

"But I was trapped in love with you and I didn't know what to do
But when I turned on my radio
I found out all I needed to know
Check it out
Last night a D.J. saved my life
Last night a D.J. saved my life from a broken heart
Last night a D.J. saved my life
Last night a D.J. saved my life with a song."

Answer: Incubus

The song comes from their 2001 album "Morning View." Popular singles released from that album include, "Wish You Were Here" and "Nice to Know You." The band formed ten years earlier, in 1991 in California.

Answer: Miley Cyrus

Stacy Glen Jones also drums for the group Life of Dillon, a British musical duo. In addition to being the main songwriter for American Hi-Fi he is also the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. The song "Hi-F- Killer" goes like this:

"I want to turn you on again
Turn you around, and maybe then tune you out
I don't know how to make it real
Whatever you want, it's no big deal
Change my tone

I gotta disappear
Don't want to hear that sound on the radio
Yeah, we could all hum along
'Cause it's the same old song."

Answer: psychobilly

Psychobilly mixes punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. The lyrics often call up science fiction, horror and exploitation films, violence, lurid sexuality, and sometimes taboo subjects. But it's usually performed comedically. Also, psychobilly usually features an upright double bass instead of the electric bass.

Here's a little of that song "Hi-Fi Killer":

"I want to turn you on again
Turn you around, and maybe then tune you out
I don't know how to make it real
Whatever you want, it's no big deal
Change my tone

I gotta disappear
Don't want to hear that sound on the radio
Yeah, we could all hum along
'Cause it's the same old song

I don't know how to make it stop
(Go left to the dial) to really rock
But I'm not sure, yeah
I'll kick it over anyway
It's cool but you're starting to decay
It's in your face"

Answer: Anberlin

Anberlin is no longer together. But back in 2007, when they signed with the Universal Republic record label they released their fourth album "New Surrender" which climbed as high as number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart. Their first single with that label was "Feel Good Drag", which hit number one on the Alternative Songs chart.

Berlin was an American new wave band famous for the song "Take My Breath Away" which won an Oscar for Best Song as featured in the movie "Top Gun." The Dresden Dolls are a music duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Of these four "German city named" bands, only Bonn Appetit is from Germany.

Answer: The lyrics manage to find four rhymes with the discoverer of radioactivity, Henri Becquerel.

No, in fact, the lyrics are factually inaccurate in citing Madame Curie as the discoverer of radioactivity:
"stop Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
stop Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
stop Radioactivity
chain reaction and mutation
contaminated population
Tune in to the melody."

Answer: Nik Kershaw

Nik Kershaw is the British performer who recorded "Radio Musicola." It was his third album and unfortunately was a selling disappointment compared to his first two big hit albums. The album had four singles released including "Radio Musicola" but none of them cracked the top 20.

Answer: The Carpenters

"Yesterday Once More": "When I was young I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along, it made me smile
Those were such happy times and not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well."

Superstar": "Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here, it's just the radio"

"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is actually a song that the Carpenters covered, having been originally recorded by Klaatu. The Carpenter's song begins: "All Hit Radio!
Alright, you're listening to All Hit Radio
And it's 53 degrees at 30 minutes past the hour
And right now on our all request line
I've got Mike Ledgerwood on the phone
Hey, babe, what would you like to hear?
We've been observing your Earth."