The Go-Go's 4 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane solely wrote "Fun with Ropes." Is this song about macramé, handcrafts, Scout badges? According to Jane's interview with The A.V. Club, "'Fun with Ropes' is all about bondage and a super-funny song that was still loved. Belinda still loves to sing that song, which I adore about her" (Adams, 2011).

Of the 13 never-released songs on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" and its two singles, Jane solely wrote two and co-wrote six; therefore, Jane contributed the most by composing 37% of the "new" lyrics on the retrospective album.

Answer: Jane Wiedlin

Jane exclusively wrote "Forget That Day." 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 teamed with two outside writers on one song to be the only Go-Go with lyrical credit on three songs.

Answer: Blades

Margot co-wrote "Blades" with Jane and Belinda and it's her only lyrical credit during her two years and ten months with The Go-Go's. "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" contains a rehearsal of "Blades" with Margot from Jan 1980 but eleven months later, Margot and the band had to go-go their separate ways.

Answer: Speeding

Don't get caught "Speeding" while driving to a Go-Go's show! The Go-Go's released "Get Up and Go" backed with "Speeding" as a single from the album "Vacation"; however, "Speeding" was not recorded on the album.

Ten days after the album was released, "Speeding" was included on the soundtrack of the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" on 13 Aug 1982. Scene: As Mike Damone (ticket scalper and all-round sleaze) leaves his apartment and sees "PRICK" graffitied on the side of his AMC Gremlin, "Speeding" begins to play.

Twelve years after the album was released, The Go-Go's finally tracked "Speeding" by including it on their retrospective album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" in 1994.

Did you know Gina Schock was caught speeding? According to the video on Facebook, Gina and Jane provide live commentary as Gina got a ticket for speeding during their drive to Palm Springs in May 2012 ("Gina Gets a Speeding Ticket," Facebook, uploaded by Go-Go's).

Answer: Vicki Peterson of The Bangles

Vicki Peterson not only stood for Charlotte throughout the 18 shows of this tour but also the ten shows of The Go-Go's Acoustic Christmas Tour in 1994.

After The Bangles broke up in 1989, Vicki became a member of the Continental Drifters, The Psycho Sisters and the Action Skulls and also contributed her talents to Belinda Carlisle, Giant Sand, Hoodoo Gurus, John Doe and Tom Petty. Before standing in for Charlotte on this tour, Vicki sang harmony on Belinda's album "Real" in 1993.

What a week! Beginning on any Monday and ending on the following Sunday, the most shows The Go-Go's performed during this seven-day interval is eight. Since 1978, The Go-Go's only accomplished this twice and both times were with Vicki: eight shows during 21-27 November 1994 and eight shows during 12-18 December 1994.

Charlotte had a girl.

Answer: Greatest

The Go-Go's released their first compilation album "Greatest" on 5 Oct 1990 and it was their first album since they disbanded on 10 May 1985.

The Go-Go's next two albums were also compilation albums with "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" released on 18 Oct 1994 and "VH1 Behind the Music" on 23 May 2000. "Hellogg's Punk Tarts" is an unofficial release of The Go-Go's performing at the Whiskey a Go Go on 4 Oct 1978 with originalists Elissa Bello (drums), Margot Olavarria (bass) and newcomer Charlotte Caffey (guitar). Unofficial means bootleg.

Answer: Shapely girls

The Go-Go's bless body positivity in the song "Throw Me a Curve" with "I'd rather be a pin-up girl...Than zero size...Throw me a curve it looks so fine" and "Girls are shapely by design...Exactly what you've got...Is so easy to adore."

Speaking of blessings, Belinda was a shapely pin-up girl in the August 2001 issue of "Playboy" magazine.

In 1977, AC/DC storied us with "Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six...You could say she's got it all" in the song "Whole Lotta Rosie." Also in 1977, the Commodores constructed, "Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-six oh what a winning hand" in "Brick House" and in 1978, Queen treasured, "Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round" in "Fat Bottomed Girls." In 1980, just as The Go-Go's adore your curves, the Talking Heads astronomically theorized "The world moves on a woman's hips" in "The Great Curve."

These are professional songwriters; they know what they're saying!

Answer: Lover loves another lover

Lyrics: "And though now I know you love some other one [...] I knew I'd lost my heart."

According to Jane's interview with Songfacts, "I was having a romance with this Euro-guy...another dramatic, tumultuous, everything-has-to-be-high-drama kind of relationship...that song was written about the town of Lyon in France. And I kind of remember being on a tower with him and birds were flying around us and it was raining...it was all very 'Wuthering Heights'" (Wiser, 2007).

Answer: Beauty and the Beat

The Go-Go's released "Our Lips Are Sealed" on their debut album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981 and this song ranked on 18 music charts in seven countries during two years and peaked at number two on the Australian Kent Music Report: Australia (2), Canada (3), France, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States (6) and the Internet (3).

The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed" also won multiple awards and certifications:
* Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) certified as Gold
* Billboard ranked number 63 on Top Pop Singles of 1982
* Life magazine selected to represent 1981 on 40 Years of Rock and Roll celebration
* Rolling Stone ranked number 7 on 200 Best Songs of The 1980s
* Rolling Stone ranked number 32 on 100 Greatest Debut Singles of All Time
* Rolling Stone and MTV ranked number 57 on 100 Greatest Pop Songs
* Rolling Stone ranked number 61 on 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time
* Rolling Stone ranked number 477 on 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
* VH1 ranked number 25 on 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s
* VH1 ranked number 43 on 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years

Answer: This Town

The song "This Town" on the album "Beauty and the Beat" romanticizes how life is a "kick" in West Hollywood. According to Charlotte's interview with Songfacts, "I had a guitar part, Jane wrote all the lyrics and it just came together in a really cool way. We were really proud of ourselves" (Wiser, 2010).

In addition to Hollywood, the globetrotting Go-Go's also visit London in the song "London Boys" and wrote six eponyms or nicknames of other places 21 times in the lyrics of six songs: "bikini" (Bikini Atoll) in the song "The Whole World Lost Its Head," "Canterbury" (Canterbury, Kent, England) in "Living At The Canterbury," "champagne" (region in France) in "Party Pose," "cologne" (Cologne, Germany) and "Pontiac" (Michigan) in "Skidmarks on My Heart" and "La La Land" (Los Angeles) in the song "La La Land."