Songs About Months Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Decemberists

The Decemberists could have been in this quiz three times. They also have a "June Hymn" and a song called "July July." Plus their name has a month in it. Plus April is mentioned in "January Hymn." However, I choose "January Hymn" for this quiz, being unable to find any other songs about January by bands I've heard of.

"January Hymn" is on "The King is Dead," the Decemberists' first album to chart at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top 200. It's a ballad about a man who's wishing spring would come, as he shovels snow off of his driveway.

Answer: The Foo Fighters

"February Stars" is on "The Colour and the Shape," the Foo Fighters' first album is a full band and not as a Dave Grohl solo project. "The Colour and the Shape" is popular because it has three of the Foo Fighters' most popular songs: "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," and "Everlong."

Answer: Frightened Rabbit

Looking for songs about the month of March is very tricky. There are many songs with the word "March" in the title, but 99% of them have nothing to do with the month. One great song that does mention the month was made by a folk-rock band from Scotland known as Frightened Rabbit.

Frightened Rabbit started off as a solo project by singer/guitarist Scott Hutchinson. Then they became a full band. They put out their first album in 2006. "Late March Death March" is on their fourth album, "Pedestrian Verse," which came out in 2013.

Answer: Sublime

"April 29, 1992" was named after the date of the Los Angeles riots. According to the song's lyrics, there were also riots in many other cities including Miami, Chicago, and Kansas City. Also according to the song's lyrics, the band were among the rioters. The riots are believed to have been sparked by the police's beating of a construction worker named Rodney King. According to the song's lyrics, the riots weren't about that. People had long been growing tired of cops abusing their power and beating people unnecessarily, and the Rodney King beating was merely the last straw.

Despite the title, Bradley Nowell sang "April 26, 1992" instead of "29." According to the band, Bradley made a mistake while he was singing, but the take was strong enough that they kept it anyway.

Answer: Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire are an indie rock band from Canada. Their 2010 album "Suburbs" won a Grammy for Album of the Year. One song on that album was "Month of May."

Answer: The Smashing Pumpkins

"Bye June" is a song on the first thing the Smashing Pumpkins ever put out, an EP called "Lull," which came out in 1991. This could be interpreted as a song about a man leaving a place of happiness (a sunny month like June) and heading for a place of darkness (the moon, which is only out when it's dark outside).

This song and EP turned out to be the beginning of a career in which the Smashing Pumpkins would become famous for their gloomy songs.

Answer: Soundgarden

"4th of July" is on Soundgarden's most popular album with Chris Cornell, "Superunknown." Superunknown" has been certified five times platinum in the United States and is believed to have sold nearly ten million copies worldwide. "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked this album number nine on their list of the 50 greatest grunge albums of all-time.

Answer: Bon Jovi

The title of the song refers to the date and time of the death of Bon Jovi's tour manager's daughter's death. Six-year-old Katherine Korzilius was riding with her mother and brother on their way home. They dropped her off at their mailbox so she could get some mail. When she didn't come home for an hour, her family drove to find her. They didn't find her anywhere in the direct route she normally took from the mailbox to her house, so they searched the whole neighborhood and eventually found her dead body. The police eventually concluded that she was murdered. At the time this quiz was written, her murderer still wasn't caught and was unknown.

Bon Jovi commemorated this with a catchy but sad song on their 1997 album "Destination Anywhere."

Answer: Green Day

"Wake me up When September Ends" is a popular song on Green Day's Grammy-winning 2004 concept album "American Idiot." The song has nothing to do with the album's concept, which is about a boy named St. Jimmy running away from home, meeting a girl who's never named, but then breaking up with her and coming back home. "Wake me up When September Ends" is a song about a true event, the death of singer Billie Joe Armstrong's father. He died when Billie Joe was just a child. He died on the first day of September. Billy Joe guessed that it would take him about a month to get over it. The song's title is something Billie Joe said to his mom when he learned about his father's death.

"Wake me up When September Ends" was a top 20 hit in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia. The single has sold over a million copies worldwide.

Answer: Broken Bells

Broken Bells were an indie rock band from California. They put out their self-titled debut album in 2010. This album charted in the top 20 in Canada, Australia, and Denmark, and finished at number 126 on the Billboard Hot 100 End-year chart. "October" was on this album.

Answer: Guns N' Roses

"November Rain" made it to number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and at the time it was the longest song in history to make it to the top ten on that chart. It's on Guns N' Roses third album, "Use Your Illusion," which has been certified seven times platinum by RIAA. Although Gun N' Roses have a reputation for doing loud fast hard rock songs, "November Rain" is a ballad with an orchestra in the background. The song starts off slow, but towards the end the song gets faster with singer Axl Rose repeating "Don't ya think that you need somebody? Don't ya think that you need someone? Everybody needs somebody. You're not the only one. You're not the only one."

The song is about unrequited love.

Answer: Linkin Park

"My December" is a B-side for Linkin Park's debut album "Hybrid Theory." "Hybrid Theory" has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, making it the best selling debut album since Guns N' Roses "Appetite For Destruction" 15 years earlier, so it's understandable that some great songs recorded for the album didn't make the final cut.

The song appears on Japanese version of the album, which has three bonus songs.

Answer: Weezer

"December" appears on Weezer's fourth album "Maladroit." "Maladroit" came out in 2002, has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and has been certified gold by RIAA.

Answer: Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb was one of the founding members of The Bee Gees, one of the most popular singles bands in history. This song charted at number 45 in the UK and in the top 20 in New Zealand, Denmark, and Germany.

Answer: Jethro Tull

"Stuck in the August Rain" is on Jethro Tull's tenth album, "Roots to Branches," which came out in 1995. The flute on this song makes it very beautiful. Jethro Tull have sold over 60 million albums worldwide.