Metric Lyrics Trivia Quiz

Answer: Monster Hospital

"Monster Hospital", of the many songs on the band's "Live It Out" album, became one of the more popular titles. With a more hard rock sound, the band shifts between drawn out verses and a memorable chorus in which Emily Haines repeats her issues with "fighting the war".

The song was the most successful from the album in Canada (it reached #1 on the Singles Chart) though it also appeared on the UK Singles Chart. The "Monster Hospital" music video begins with Emily Haines playing a vinyl record of the single and being pulled into the ground by mysterious hands.

The video soon turns into a horror film where all of the band members are victims. She finally awakens from her dream in the end.

Answer: Gimme Sympathy

One of the more highly-anticipated tracks from the "Fantasies" album, "Gimme Sympathy" was the first single to be released by the band after the release of the CD (though two songs were promotional releases in the preceding months). While the song charted in Canada and received a bit of radio airplay, it never became a mainstream hit. The music video was all done in a single take. Emily Haines prepares for a performance and by the second verse, the band is together performing as a foursome. As the camera swoops around, all four band members switch their positions off-screen making the illusion that all band members are playing different instruments in different outfits all at different times before everything returns to normal.

Answer: Grow Up and Blow Away

While the song was supposed to appear on the band's 2001 album, also called "Grow Up and Blow Away", the CD never materialized until 2007 at which point the album 'rereleased' based on public demand. Nonetheless, the single, which was released as a promo back in 2001, ended up appearing on the "Static Anonymity" EP with "London Halflife" which also ended up on the rereleased album.
"Grow Up and Blow Away" appeared in a commercial for Poloroid cameras in the year of its original release marking the band's first TV appearance.

Answer: Combat Baby

The only official single of the band's first full album, "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?", "Combat Baby" showed up on radio stations in Canada and the UK but never actually charted. Despite this, the upbeat song is a staple from the album (which went Gold in Canada in the years following its release).
The music video for the single features the band performing on a TV station in a world of toys and puppets. Although it's not the band's earliest video, it's the earliest one they have attached to a released single.

Answer: Sick Muse

"Sick Muse" was the fourth single released from the band's fourth album, "Fantasies", and while it never charted it did gain a fair bit of radio airplay. The music video features the band in front of a white wall at various times doing little else than being themselves. Emily Haines wrote on the band's website that the whole idea for the video was quite spontaneous and last-moment as a result of the song's relative popularity overseas.

Answer: Dead Disco

Although "Dead Disco" isn't one of the band's major hits, it became fairly popular in Canada, appearing as a promo single from the "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?" album in 2004. Gaining more radio airplay than "Combat Baby", the song was one of the ones that pushed the album to Gold status in Canada. This song also appeared in the soundtrack for the Palme d'or-nominated film "Clean" which also featured Emily Haines as herself.
The music video for this song sees the band on stage in front of a large screen showing colourfully-artistic city scenes.

Answer: Empty

The longest song on Metric's "Live It Out" album, "Empty" starts off the CD. Half upbeat, half reserved, the song was the fourth single on this album and while it gained the least popularity and radio airtime, it's still one of their more notable songs from this time period.

The music video shows a messy house in which the destroyed items magically fly back into their regular positions. As the mess cleans itself up, the band members are unveiled in their respective rooms and the song closes with everyone resuming their regular activities.

Answer: Help! I'm Alive

Appearing as the first song to show on the tracklist for "Fantasies", the single was released more than four months before the actual CD as a promotional piece. "Help! I'm Alive" was written by Haines on a trip to Argentina as an acoustic piece though the band picked it up as one of the major songs of their long-anticipated fourth album. "Help! I'm Alive" reached #21 on the Canadian charts, #17 on Billboards Top Alternative Chart, and #30 on the Top Rock Chart.

As such, it was the first of Metric's songs to chart in the United States.

Answer: The Twist

An example of Metric's more down-tempo songs from the "Grow Up and Blow Away" CD, "The Twist" is one of the band's lesser-known titles. Though it was never actually released as a single, "The Twist" is still one of the more well-known songs from the band's earlier days.

It appeared on both 'versions' of "Grow Up and Blow Away" and it's one of the very few examples in which other band members sing along with Emily Haines. In this case, both of them sing the chorus together.

Answer: Poster of a Girl

The second single from "Live It Out" and possibly one of the band's more popular songs, "Poster of a Girl" reached #3 on the Canadian charts to become one of their best-received titles. The music video sees Emily Haines in many different roles where she discovers herself as the girl in the poster, performing for people on stage and in the streets.
Because of this song and "Monster Hospital", the "Live It Out" album appeared on a couple of Billboard Charts and went Platinum in Canada.