The Go-Go's 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane solely wrote "Capture the Light." Of The Go-Go's 11 songs on the album "Talk Show" and its three singles, Jane solely wrote two and co-wrote five; therefore, Jane contributed the most by composing 38% of the lyrics on the album. In addition to Jane's two sole-writing credits, Jane also teamed with brothers Ron and Russell Mael on one song to be the only Go-Go with lyrical credit on three songs.

According to Jane's interview in the documentary "The Go-Go's," "I was really writing a lot because Charlotte was in a lot of trouble with the drugs. There are people that really loved that album, but I can't even listen to it because, to me, I was so miserable during that time, oh, my God" (Ellwood, 2020).

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane and the lead singer of The Specials, Terry Hall, co-wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed." Terry's later band, Fun Boy Three, also recorded a version on their album "Waiting" in 1983 and according to Jane's interview with Songfacts, "They did a really great version of it, also. It was a lot gloomier than The Go-Go's version" (Wiser, 2007).

Answer: True

It's true! The lead singer of The Bangles, Susanna Hoffs, is credited with Charlotte and Jane for the lyrics of "Talking Myself Down" on the album "God Bless the Go-Go's." A new supergroup? The GoBangs...The BanGo's...The Go-Go-Gles?

Answer: We Got the Beat

The Go-Go's rereleased "Cool Jerk" backed with their chart hit "We Got the Beat" as a single.

The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat" ranked on seven music charts in three countries peaking at number two on one chart: Australia, Canada (2) and the United States (4).

The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat" also won multiple awards and certifications:
* RIAA certified as Gold
* Music Canada certified as Gold
* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists as one of "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"
* Billboard ranks number 25 on "Top Pop Singles of 1982"
* ARC Weekly Top 40 ranks number 67 on "Top 100 Pop Songs of the 1980s"

After all its acclamation, "We Got the Beat" also has the distinction of being The Go-Go's most rereleased song at seven times.

Answer: False

According to photographer Mick Haggerty's interview with RockPoP Gallery, "I knew I had to strip the band's heads onto the bodies of the girls [Cypress Gardens water-skiers] I shot in Florida" (Goldstein, 2007).

According to Jane's interview with Songfacts about their first big-budget music-video, "I remember it being a really long day, like a 14-hour day and about eight hours into it, we all were getting really bored and restless, so we started drinking. By the time they shot the scene where we're on the water skis, skiing one-handed and waving and stuff...if you look at us, look in our eyes...we're all like cross-eyed drunk" (Wiser, 2007).

Answer: Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's

The two-disc compilation album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" contains 16 live recordings either at home; the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco; the Hakano Plaza, Tokyo; Palos Verdes High School or the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles. Seven of the recordings were before The Go-Go's had their first record deal. The one-disc version contains seven of the live recordings.

Answer: Dance

Lyric: "Either dance or tell me no." Jane is not asking for a romance, commitment or promise but just a dance or two. If being a good dance team would be too complicated for you, fine, tell me and "then I'll be gone."

If The Go-Go's can't dance with you, then they'll write about dancing with you because The Go-Go's wrote "dance" 21 times in the lyrics of seven songs. "The Way You Dance" contains "dance" 12 times; "We Got the Beat" and "Yes or No" have "dance" twice and "Beatnik Beach," "Fashion Seekers," "The Whole World Lost Its Head" and "Turn To You" have it once.

The Go-Go's also include four specific dances in the lyrics of three songs. "Beatnik Beach" has the Limbo, "Fashion Seekers" contains the Hustle and "We Got the Beat" includes the Pony and Watusi.

Although The Go-Go's didn't write the lyrics, The Go-Go's also cover two songs containing a dance in the lyrics. The Go-Go's cover the song "Cool Jerk" from The Capitols' album "Dance the Cool Jerk with The Capitols" (1966) on the album "Vacation" (1982). The Go-Go's also cover Jessie Mae Robinson's song "Let's Have a Party" on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" (1994) and her lyrics contain, "I've never kissed a goon but I can shake a Chicken in the middle of the room."

Answer: Apartment building

According to Jane and Belinda's interviews on The Howard Stern Show and with The A.V. Club, "It's an apartment building in Hollywood where all the punks lived" (Stern, 1994) "completely filled up with punk rockers. It was like, one of us got in, and all of us moved in. And the other people living in the building with us were people on SSI [Supplemental Security Income]" (Adams, 2011).

Answer: Vacation

The Go-Go's released "Get Up and Go" on the album "Vacation" in 1982 and this single ranked at number 46 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and number 50 on Billboard Hot 100.

The word "go" is so nice, The Go-Go's named themselves twice and wrote it another 94 times in the lyrics of 30 songs. "Get Up and Go" contains "go" the most at 24 times, "Stuck in My Car" at eight times, two songs contain "go" six times, one song five times, one song four times, four songs three times, two songs twice and 12 songs once.

Answer: Throw Me a Curve

The song "Throw Me a Curve" from the album "God Bless the Go-Go's" rails against this social pressure. "Wishing there was less of you?...Are you really sure...How much less is more...Girls are shapely by design...Exactly what you've got...Is so easy to adore."