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MetaQuiz: Songs on the Radio About The Radio (8)

Here's the eighth 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. Or sometimes other stuff.

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

Author
Billkozy

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
394,778

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
174

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Question 1 of 10

1. The song ""The Forces of Radio Have Dropped a Viper into the Rhythm Section" is from "Rival Factions", the sixth album by the group Project 86, an American rock band formed in 1996 in California. Though the album only reached number 124 on the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number five on which Billboard chart? Hint

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop

Smooth Jazz

Country Airplay

Top Christian Albums

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Question 2 of 10

2. Okay now here's a bizarre one. Some folks might already know that the band Radiohead took their name from the song "Radio Head" by the band Talking Heads. But did you know that Talking Heads was inspired by a character actor named Stephen Tobolowsky? What iconic role is he known for? Hint

Mr. Hand in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

Serge in "Beverly Hills Cop"

Stifler in "American Pie"

Ned Ryerson in "Groundhog Day"

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Question 3 of 10

3. He won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and won acclaim acting in TV's "The Wire." What singer/songwriter guitarist recorded the song "Satellite Radio" and also launched his own program on SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2007? Hint

John Prine

Steve Earle

Tom Waits

Levon Helm

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Question 4 of 10

4. "You Turn Me On Like a Radio" was this singer's first single from his 1984 country album "Homecoming." It went to number three on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. Hint

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Cockburn

Jack Bruce

Ed Bruce

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Turning Up The Radio" is by one of my favorite bands, from their 2010 album "Death to False Metal":

"What are you playing in my ear?
You got a fix of what it is I want to hear
Coming through the frequencies
And the airwaves." Hint

Wilco

Wham!

Warrant

Weezer

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Question 6 of 10

6. This British Techno/Dance group Re-Flex made just one album, and this was their only hit, coming from a 1983 album by the same title. Hint

The Politics of Dancing

Broken Politics

Teenage Politics

The Politics Of Ecstasy

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Question 7 of 10

7. Not one but two very well known recording artists came up with this potty mouthed song "'(Stuff)' On The Radio." One of the artists won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the other artist was in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million tickets in one day for his Close Encounters Concert Tour. Hint

Amy Winehouse and Pharrell Williams

Nelly Furtado and Robbie Williams

Macy Gray and Hank Williams, Jr.

Lady Gaga and Don Williams

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Question 8 of 10

8. This Spanish-language song by Julio Iglesias's 11th album was released on February 24, 2017. It's title "S�beme La Radio", if translated into English would be the same as songs by which of these recording artists? Hint

Rhianna, Pantera, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Killers

Adele, The Cars, The Modern Lovers, Grateful Dead

Madonna, Autograph, The Romantics, and Die Trying

Bj�rk, REO Speedwagon, KISS, Death Cab for Cutie

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Question 9 of 10

9. The song "Radio Control" was from this superstar's second solo album, "Primitive Cool," on which none other than superstar Jeff Beck played lead guitar. Hint

Roger Daltrey

John Lennon

Mick Jagger

Robert Plant

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Question 10 of 10

10. Of course what quiz series about songs about the radio would be complete without "Video Killed the Radio Star"? All of the following are true about the song EXCEPT for which of these statements? Hint

Inspired by a sci-fi story about an opera singer in a world without sound.

It was the very first music video to air on MTV

It has been covered by Justin Beiber, INXS, Oasis, and Coldplay

The Buggles were not the first band to record the song.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Top Christian Albums

Lead singer Andrew Schwab says the song is about "It's about likening fond memories of an ex to a VCR. Where it's the idea of going back and revisiting old video tapes and putting it in your VCR is great until your realize the tape is corroded and the picture's horrible and that your VCR doesn't work very well mechanically."

"At your heels
Don't you feel
Like a trip
Back to 96?
Insert cassettes, then push eject
You're flashing red
Can't let the past stay in its cave
It rears its head."

Answer: Ned Ryerson in "Groundhog Day"

Ned Ryerson was played by actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who also happened to co-script the Talking Heads movie "True Stories." As he tells it, he used to be able to "read tones" about people--that is, he had a psychic ability to gather information about a person by reading their tones. His girlfriend, Beth Hanley who wrote the "True Stories" script with Tobolowsky and David Byrne, convinced him to tell Byrne about this ability. Tobolowsky summarized: "David has written into 'True Stories' a character that hears tones, and he wrote the song... "Here is a song that I wrote for you, Stephen." And we put it in the thing, and it was "Radio Head."

"Baby your mind is a radio
Got a receiver inside my head
Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength
Lemme tell you what it says

[Chorus:]
Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound...of a brand-new world"

Answer: Steve Earle

"Is there anybody out there? One-two-three on the satellite radio?
Big daddy on the air, are you listenin' to me? On the satellite radio
At the galaxy's end where the stars burn bright are you tunin' in and turnin' on?
Is there anybody listenin' to earth tonight on the satellite radio?"

Steve Earle's show is called "The Steve Earle Show: Hard Core Troubadour Radio" on Outlaw Country, SIRIUS channel 63. It's a one-hour show with Steve Earle's personal music selections and special guest interviews.

4. "You Turn Me On Like a Radio" was this singer's first single from his 1984 country album "Homecoming." It went to number three on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart.

Answer: Ed Bruce

Written by Bob McDill and Jim Weatherly, Ed Bruce recorded the song:
"You turn me on like a radio then baby then you play me soft and low
You know how to make the music flow deep in my soul
Baby you know just how to keep the signal strong you got me tuned in all night long
Whenever you want oh you turn me on like a radio."

5. "Turning Up The Radio" is by one of my favorite bands, from their 2010 album "Death to False Metal": "What are you playing in my ear? You got a fix of what it is I want to hear Coming through the frequencies And the airwaves."

Answer: Weezer

Weezer is the power pop group that recorded this song led by frontman Rivers Cuomo. According to the album review by critic Michael Roffman at consequenceofsound.net: the song is "a dynamite track that recalls Thin Lizzy. It's catchy and will likely swim in your playlist for awhile."

"Listen as I start my jam
Tuning into the stations on the stereo
Don't you dare touch that dial
Because I got style
(For miles and miles)
Everybody clap your hands
Grooving to the way I roll with my rock band
You know we're gonna turn back time to the 80s."

6. This British Techno/Dance group Re-Flex made just one album, and this was their only hit, coming from a 1983 album by the same title.

Answer: The Politics of Dancing

"The Politics of Dancing" went to number 28 in the UK Singles Chart and number 24 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart:

"We got the message
I heard it on the airwaves
The politicians
Are now DJs
The broadcast was spreading
Station to station
Like an infection
Across the nation
Though you know you can't stop it
When they start to play
You're gonna get out the way."

"Teenage Politics" was by MxPx, "Broken Politics" was by Neneh Cherry, "The Politics Of Ecstasy" was by Nevermore.

Answer: Nelly Furtado and Robbie Williams

Subtitled "Remember the Days)" Nelly Furtado's song featured the lyrics
"You liked me 'til you heard my [um...stuff] on the radio
Well I hate to say but pop ain't going solo."

And Robbie Williams' different song with the same title goes like this:
"Twisted little hurricane
I am a believer
If I take you home again
I will never leave you
Cause this ain't my first rodeo
We can make a video
Pumping on your stereo
To the [um...song?] that's on the radio.

Answer: Madonna, Autograph, The Romantics, and Die Trying

"Turn on the Radio" would be the English translation of "S�beme La Radio." Enrique Iglesias did actually record an English-language remix of the song, hiring Sean Paul and Matt Terry, the "X Factor" winner in 2016, to help out.

9. The song "Radio Control" was from this superstar's second solo album, "Primitive Cool," on which none other than superstar Jeff Beck played lead guitar.

Answer: Mick Jagger

Written by Jagger, "Radio Control" was for the album "Primitive Cool", which was recorded in late 1986 and during February through May 1987. They recorded in Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, the Netherlands and Right Track Studios, in New York City.

"I eat scandal for my breakfast
I spit gossip late at night
I'm not one for fancy speeches
But they're sucking me like leeches
Feel my body's
Under radio control."

Answer: It has been covered by Justin Beiber, INXS, Oasis, and Coldplay

No, those recording artists did not cover this song but the following people did record versions: Radiohead, The Violent Femmes, The Pixies, and The Presidents of the United States of America.
It was indeed the first video played by the fledgling MTV, but you guys knew that already I bet. But here's a fun addendum to that bit of trivia: What was the second video ever played on MTV? The second video played on MTV was "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar.
The song was written back in 1978 by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley and was first recorded by Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club. Thomas Dolby played keyboards on that record. The Buggles, featuring the song's writers Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, recorded it afterward, in 1979.
As Trevor Horn explains, he had read that science fiction story "The Sound-Sweep" about the opera singer rendered obsolete, and the concept of an era passing by ignited the idea for the song.

Source: Author Billkozy

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