As suggested by jules..... Usual Jeopardy rules: someone enters a hint, whose answer takes the form of a question. Whoever guesses the right question can give the next hint, or pass the honor on to someone else. Let's keep the hints relevant to music or musicians, please. The first hint is "Reginald Kenneth Dwight"644 responses total.
who is elton john?
ding!
so ask a question dammit....:)
I'll happily volunteer to give hint #2.
It's happyboy's turn now, what with he got the right answer....er, question. Give him a little while.
he has 24 hours i say..and then we must move on....
does 24 hours sound good for a new question, dan?.....or maybe 48...
Eh, why not? Let's get some momenntum going.
im waiting!
Clue: The artist behind _Trout Mask Replica_, he used to perform with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on occasion in the early to mid 70's.
Who is Captain Beefheart?
I knew it. That was way too easy. Well, Bill, you're up next.
You should have asked for his real name: Don VanVilet
heh...obviously that would have been guessed just as quickly
Actually, his REAL real name was Don Vliet. He added the "Van" because he thought it sounded better. You also could have asked how he got the "Beefheart" moniker.
I'd've asked a more open-ended question: "what's so great about Beefheart?" but I'm not sure anyone could answer it to my satisfaction. I've *tried* to like his music, really I have.. I also know several people, whose musical tastes I (otherwise) respect, who seem to feel he's a genius. I guess I just don't get it..
I'd have to agree with you, Mike. I'd always heard how _Trout Mask Replica_ was such a ground breaking and essential album, so I bought it and tried many times to listen to it, but never really enjoyed it. The Beefheart I enjoy is the stuff he didwith Zappa, like _Bongo Fury_. (drift, drift)
Start with 'Tropical Hot Dog Night' from Shiny Beast (bat chain puller). Don't listen to the words, just get into the groove. Then have fun with the lyrics. They may have been bragging, but the title of this Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach album is aptly titled.
What is "TheGreatest Jazz Concert Ever"?
monteray pop?
Way to go, david. Do you have a copy? I got my vinyl at a record show in Ann Arbor while looking for something else. For the rest of you, this was recorded in May of 1953, when a Toronto, Canada jazz society invited what they considered the five greatest jazzmen of the day to appear together. This is really HOT!!!!! Ok david, you're up!
I used to have a tape of it. When I was living down in the Tampa area, a friend of mine's dad taped me -alot- of stuff from his **very** large vinyl collection. I think Iloaned this tape to someone. I haven't seen it in about 3 years. I really need to find out if s available on CD. This solo Bob Weir album has a cheesy picture of Bob kneeling on one knee, holding an acoustic guitar.
What is Heaven Helpthe Fool?
yep, you got it, raven.....you're up :)
This band from Akron Ohio had their first major label album produced by Brian Eno.
Who is Devo?
Who is Crack The Sky?
Ding Bruin got it... You are up Bruin.
Allright! Here's my clue: Excluding "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, this was the only song (title and artist) to reach #1 on Billboard's Pop Charts a second time after completely dropping off the charts the first time. Good luck.
what is ticket to ride, by the beatles and the carpenters?
Not "Ticket To Ride" by the Beatles, the Carpenters, or anybody else. I may also want to clarify that the song I'm looking for is a re- release of the same recording by the same artist.
What is "The Twist" by Chubby Checker?
layla by eric clapton?
What is "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pict" by Pink Floyd?
<falls down laughing and can't breathe>
What is "Candle In the Wind" by Elton John?
bohemian rhapsody - by queen? i dont think that hit #1 the foirst time, but it was worth a try....
tpryan has the correct response. Chubby Checker's classic "The Twist" reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts in 1960 and 1962. What clue do you have for us now, tpryan?
Which is a pity, since "....grooving with a pict" is definitely the more deserving candidate.
oh oh you heard that on vh1 didnt you?!
They were playing that on vh1? No, I just had it on a mix tape.
category: It's in the lyrics:
It's the line after "Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum".
(Give the line, it would be nice to get title and artist also).
What is "I I smell smell the the blood of an Englishman"?
What is "Look out honey, 'cause here I come." from "Devil With A Blue Dress On"?
What is, "I like honey with my shots of rum."?
What is "I smell smoke in the auditorium"? Charlie Brown, can't remember the artist.
Vince Gueraldi?
hematite got it!
It's from Charlie Brown by the Coasters. Back when Rock and Roll
had fun and funny songs on the radio, and thus in the Top 40.
Mike, indeed, Devil with a Blue Dress (by Mitch Ryder) does
have "fee fee fi fi fo fo fum" in it, but the next line is:
"Look at Molly now, here she comes". In the second part of the song
they do go into "Good Golly, miss Molly". The repeat part uses
"Look out once again, here she comes".". Honorable mention to Mike.
Wendy? you're up.
Oh, ok . I misunderstood the ?
there must be some misunderstanding there must be some kinda mistake
Why, did a Red Wing get a penalty? :-)
(Okay a fairly easy one cause i"m unoriginal) This "Oldie" song was given a "special feature" in the film "10 Things I Hate About You".
What is "I want you to want me" by Cheap Trick?
Letters to Cleo covered a couple classics in that movie... they also did Nick Lowe's "Cruel to be Kind". I don't recall which song was particularly "featured."
Neither is what I was looking for, but I'll give it to Diznave since it was in the movie, and because I can. (I was looking for "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You". incyc.)
Bob Dylan made his record debut as a harmonica player on this artist's 1961 album.
Who is Elvis Presley?
re #57: nope
Harry Belafonte is who?
who is Pete Seeger?
Harry Belafonte it is. Good show, Paul! You're up! :)
The uncharacteristic nature of one musician's movie appearance in Jawbreaker, and another's in Strangeland (but not of a third, in Wayne's World). (For bonus points, name the musicians.) (And yes, "musician" is being used loosely... =} )
Were they members of Twisted Sister?
Who is Wild Man Fisher?
otaking's on the right track... it was Dee Snider in Strangeland. but the others have nothing to do with Twisted Sister
Wild guess: they were appearing as non-musicians?
OK, were they members of Widowmaker?
hrmmmm... ori's closer. but there's a reason I didn't include LL Cool J, Aaliyah, Don Henley, Madonna, etc., who have also appeared in movies and/or TV. Although I should've included Gene Simmons...
Were they appearing in movies after ending their music career (as opposed to doing both like Will Smith)?
What is "appearing in movies as a villain"?
Ooh. I should've thought of that.
Nah. The Jawbreaker role was a bit part, certainly not enough to be villainy at all. And the guy in Jawbreaker is still a recording artist. It has to do with *how* they perform as musicians, and their movie roles provide evidence for why they perform this way.
here's another hint about Jawbreaker: the musician in question got the role primarily because he's engaged to one of the movie's stars
What is "as a romantic interest?"
heh heh =} Looking back, that was a lousy hint. All right, the guy in Wayne's World was Alice Cooper. Think of what ALice Cooper and Dee Snyder have in common, and you propbably have the answer.
What is "needed to revive a flagging career"?
What is: badly in need of a better hair stylist?
I've seen all the movies, but I'm still not getting it.
77> heh heh. =} Gee, I didn't anticipate that the question would be THIS difficult. It was Marilyn Manson in Jawbreaker. So... what do MArilyn Manson, Gene Simmons, Dee Snider, and Alice Cooper have in common as musical performers, that isn't true of LL Cool J, Madonna, or most others? The answer to the original question: The characteristic... can be answered with the question "What is ________________ _____________?", with two dorky lil words. =}
What is a stagename? (That's probably not what you were thinking of, but I know two in that list do not go by their real names.)
What is from Michigan?
I think the problem is that the "most correct" answer in the mind of the questioner isn't necessarily obvious (or even apparent) to others. Those musicians share a number of traits in common that differentiate them from the majority. Consequently there are a large number of potentially correct "questions" to this Jeopardy! "answer".
not true. these artists all share a very obvious feature in their stage persona, that is actually shared by a fairly limited number of musical artists. it's limited enough, in fact, that Alice Cooper accused Marilyn Manson of macking this aspect from his stage show. It isn't genre; it's true of Cooper, but not true of most of his cohort. Of Michigan rappers, it's true of Insane Clown Posse but not of Kid Rock or Eminem. It's true of MarilynManson but not of Trent Reznor. It's true of Twisted Sister and Kiss, and was true as Peter Gabriel as lead singer of Geesis, but not Peter Gabriel as solo artist. It's true of non-musicians like the wrestler Sting, but not of Hulk Hogan or Jesse Ventura. Hopefully all that will make SOMEBODY's light bulb go off.
Heh. Good one.
What is NO MAKEUP?
THANKS GYPSI! =} Yes indeedy, if you want to see how Dee Snider or Marilyn Manson look without their heavy stage make-up, go see the respective films, which actually explain why they wear that much make-up. =} They UGLY. *makes a mental note not to make his trivia questions so hard*
nah, they're more fun if people have to chew on them for a day or so.
Okay... Lemme think of one...
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<For those of you that don't read minds, that's the Jeoprady theme.
do^ doO dov doO do^ doO do- do^ doO do^ doO d!'dovdovdovdovdo- do^ doO dov doO do^ doO do- d!' d!-d!-dov doV doV dum <bum BUM>
hrrrrm... this doesn't sound quite right, butit's close enough: C E C A C E C C E C E C G F# F E D# D C E C A C E C G F# F E D# D C Low C Low E =}
Reminds me of the "hum that tune" puzzle from the Enigma conf.
i liked the way i did it considering it was 3 am or something.
yours was better because it was original. I'm just being a pain. =}
why thank you kind sir.
This popular band was known as The Beans before taking their new (and highly popular) name.
Who is Black Sabbath?
Um, no. =)
who is blink 182? *pokes gypsi for a hint*
The band was most popular during the late 70s and 80s. The lead singer had a hit song on the "Running Scared" soundtrack.
What is Steely Dan?
Nope. 'Nother clue. The band's new name is an object (like "The Beans"). They changed to "The _______" during the late 70s.
Who is The B52s? (I doubt it, but at least it fits the clues, well, except about Running Scared, but I can't find ST info on that)
oh, I found it ... Who are The Doobie Brothers? =}
Nope... don't know if I said this. The lead singer of The ____ had the song on the "Running Scared" soundtrack.
bad hint, then. Michael McDonald is the only one credited as having a "hit" on the Running Scared soundtrack, other than Patti LABelle, New Edition, and Kim Wilde. And the only band he was involved with in the late 70s/early 80s was The Doobie Brothers.
okie, more digging, still think it's a misleading hint... (gods, it's SO hard to get info on STs) Who are The Tubes?
Who are The Fools? (Their video for the Roy Orbison cover "Running Scared" was in heavy rotation on MTV shortly after they went on the air in August 1981.)
Who is The Clash?
i forgot the question, im sorry, i havent been paying enough attention to this item at all.... i love the clash though
Brighn has it. Fee Waybill did the song "Running Scared".
wow fee waybill did a song on the st elmos fire soundtrack that i like.
Good questio, Gypsi... er, clue rather. Annabella got the singing role originally slated for this singer, who may have felt like he'd been dogged, but went to much higher fame when he joined the club
Who is Frank Sinatra?
no... by singing role, btw, I should clarify: it was one of those "put together" groups (like The Monkees and Spice Girls), and this singer was initially hired, then fired, as lead singer, replaced by Annabella
Who is Boy George?
*pout* and I had my next clue ready, which was: Both the original group and the singer's new grop had hits that were questions... anyway, yeah, Boy George was the first singer hired to sing for Bow Wow Wow. raven's got it =}
This female singer reveresed the usual trend and had a far more successful solo career in the late 90 than her career as a vocalist and singer with an east coast band in the mid 80s through mid 90s.
Who is Kristen Hersh?
(Knowing Raven's taste in music, I think that's right, but for what it's worth....) Who is Dar Williams?
(there's a "usual trend"?) For shits and giggles... Who is Aimee Mann? =}
<p.s I *adore* Kristen Hersch>
Yep otaking got it, it's Kristen Hersh. I'm glad to see she has so many fans on Grex.
Thanks for the inspiration, btw, to download "your Ghost" last night off Napster. Someone stole my Hips and Markers cd a long time ago, and I've really missed having that song in my life. I think last night, you were driving circles, arround me. La la la. :set drift off
Kristin Hersh is touring with Vic Chesnutt, btw... I just found out today and my squeals of delight were truly comical. Tour dates are at throwingmusic.com - they're playing at the Ark. We now return you to your regularly scheduled etc. etc.
Kristin Hersh performed before the Brendan Perry concert in November (B. Perry is from Dead Can Dance). She's wonderful. =)
i love dead can dance. american dream takes me far away from this world. heh and im listening to the drawing circles song with kristen hersh and rem right now.
julie get me kristen hersh tickets and I will be your slave forever.
"New Test Leper," by REM.
Re #129: Me too. Me too. I'll have a new answer shortly
I appear to be the only perspon on Grex who's heard of Throwing Muses and had no freakin' clue who Kristen Hersh was until I did a websearch and found it she was ex of Throwing Muses.
Oh, this isn't the "now playing" item, is it? Oops.
Brighn, all you had to do was ask, silly. :) ,
OK. Here's the answer. This actress was the musical talent behind an AI singer.
I don't suppose it would be against the rules to let us know what an "AI singer" is, would it?
Anti-Intonation... Alanis Morrisette and Natalie Imbruglia are examples. ;-)
This sounds like an anime I saw a few years ago.
RE#98 -- No, that woul dhave been Earth.
I assumed that "AI" stood for Artificial Intelligence... Max Headroom and Jar Jar Binks would be examples. Cartoons on computer. =}
which does point out a vagary in the clue... is it a recurring AI character, like Max Headroom or the ditz in the kid's version of Wheel of Fortune, a computer character from a game (like 7th Hour, Myst, etc.), a computerized single-appearance character (like Jar Jar Binks), or a robotic character in a TV or movie where everybody knows it's a robot (like Bicentennial Man)? =} Personally, I was assuming the first, a recurring AI character, but I wanted to verify.
carla and mike..you mean you wont be my slaves even if i cant get the tickets?
I'll be your slave regardless
Wanna borrow my whip?
Um, no.
Yes, AI stands for artificial intelligence. Sorry for the confusion that caused. And yes carla, I'll still be your slave.
fruedian slip.
Oops. I meant jules.
im not sure if im offended or not... but ill choose not to be since im gettin me a slave....;)
two slaves... *points* *sniff* unless you don't want me
alright, when are you gonna clean my house?
<Say no! It's crusty!> haha.
well dude, if you had slaves wouldnt you make them clean your house?
hells yeah.
"...a man needs a maid..." - Neil Young
So... any guesses to my answer.
Uh, I'm the kinda slave who doesn't do anything but sit around the house watching TV.
OK. I'm going to post my trivia answer again. This actress was the musical talent behind an singer with artificial intelligence.
brighn, sorry, i dont wanna slave who sits around watching t.v.
otaking, I imagine the lack of guesses indicates that we need a clue, since none of us have a hint of an idea
OK. First clue: I'm looking for the name of the voice actress, not the anime character.
Who is Ethel Merman?
Nope.
Who is Tiffany? (FYI: She played the voice of Judy Jetson in the "Jetsons Movie.")
Good guess, but no.
To be an AI chaaracter, I'm assuming it means more than just being an animated character... since Otaking's said it's anime, am I correct in assuming it's a robot or computer character of some sort, or is the anime computer generated?
Yes, the AI character is a computer. There is computer generated animation in the anime as well, but mixed in with regular animation (in other words, it's not like Reboot or Toy Story).
i just cant guess at this kinda stuff. these are not the questions they ask on rock and roll jeopardy!
Um, I think I've seen the anime in question, and given that I can't even remember the name of the character, maybe this question is a bit too obscure?
Well scott, if you can name the anime, then that'll be the next clue.
I think I can describe it... In a slightly futuristic Tokyo, a teenager finds a motorcycle which can morph into a battle robot (mecha). In the process of finding/using it, he also discovers secret passages into a much higher-tech world underneath the "real" world, and it eventually turns out that his "real" world is a big fake being carried inside a huge spaceship. The motorcyle is part of the fighter equipment of the spaceship. There's a very popular idol singer (think Britney Spears type of thing) who turns out to be generated by the supercomputer that runs everything and gives the illusion that they are living in 1990's Tokyo.
No, but I'd like to watch it sometime. Sounds a bit like The Matrix.
who is Gillian Anderson? (on the off chance that that was a slip in the other item =} )
Nope. It's a Japanese actress.
I am so confused.
Oh, is this from "Ghost in the Shell"?
Wo is Atsuko Tanaka? (scott: keep feeding me anima titles, I'll keep looking them up =} ) (*doesn't watch anime*)
i dont know anything about anima. new questions please!
<Dave methodically runs down the extended list of Japanese actresses he's familiar with.> Who is Michihiro Ikemizu?
Nope. Next clue: Macross Plus. (Might as well finish this.)
Who is Myako Hodo (as Sharon Apple)?
Correction: Mako Hyodo
VERY close, but not quite.
Meanwhile, virtual singer Sharon Apple has come to Eden to hold a concert. Mako Hytdt .... Sharon Apple (those t's are really o's with ^s) That's what IMDB says, so if it's wrong, I ain't gonna find the right answer.
Close enough. I was looking for Rica Fukami. She played Myung Fang Lone, the woman who gave Sharon Apple her musical talent. You're up, brighn!
I whine a lot, but I'm also tenacious. The Macross Soundtrack lists two singers, only one of whom is Japanese: Who is Akino Arai? If that's wrong, the other singer is: Who is Gabriela Robin? finally, the composer is: Who is Yoko Kanno? =} There, let's try THOSE>
and gee, those were all wrong, too =} (otaking slipped ahead of me)
all right, since we're on AI... This group had a popular single with the lyrics provided by an AI character. (there may be multiple answers, so if someone gives me one other than the one I have in mind, I'll take it. =}But it has to be correct.)
The Art of Noise. "Paranoimia", I believe.
yeah, that was quick =}
OK. Next answer: This Japanese pop band opened for Nirvana.
Who are Shoen Knife?
You're missing an "n"
tasty brown mushroom song
OK Shonen Knife. They sing some cute punk songs.
i will marry them.
Do I get a prize? :-)
i got yer prize right here
My prize?
Oh boy boy what did I win?
a trip on the midnight train to georgia with the lovely carla
You got it raven. Enjoy your midnight train ride. ^_^
A train trip with a grrrrrl, sign me up. :-) This bassist is probably best known for producing "world music" cds in the early 90s.
Does Peter Gabriel play bass? And, I'm not just a grrl, I'm a riot grrl. Well I can pretend to be one if I'm in the mood anyhow.
Even if he did play bass, Gabriel certainly isn't "best known" for producing World Music CDs.
Not Peter Gabriel. Ok so we'll get Sleater Kinney to play on the train I'm flexible. Should I bring my own riot (B.O.R.)?
sting
Who is Bill Laswell?
Ding the muffins are done. Errr well done that is Orin. Yer up Dan.
Well, at least I've never heard of Bill LAswell. =}
Definitely a situation which should be remedied. I recommend you run out and buy a copy of the fantastic album "Seven Souls", by Laswell's band 'Material'. (However, be aware that the only pressing available in stores at this time has several dubious 'bonus' tracks pasted on to *the beginning* of the album (whose idea was *that*?) Skip past them and start spinning the disc from the album's original first track, "Ineffect.")
The next answer, in the category of "unsubstantiated innuendo," is..... A well-known piece by Handel, alleged to have been inspired by a homosexual affair with its namesake.
All right, I'll do the heresy... What is the Messiah? =}
<falls over>
Oh. My. Goodness. =)
<lol>
Just in case I'm misunderstanding the question, this one was based on a biblical homosexual affair: What is Saul?
What is David and Jonathan?
Ah. I see I've mis-phrased the question. I'm looking for a piece allegedly inspired by an affair Handel had with another man. The piece is named after that other man. I'm not sure how widespread this allegation is. If nobody gets it in a little while, I may just had this one to Paul, for amusement value. Heck, we can start our own rumors....
Certainly none of the websites I went to mentioned anything about a homosexual affair, but then most of them were Handel-is-God and would never go that far. =}
That gives Messiah a new twist. If Handel wrote it in homage to himself then it would certainly explain why it is so inspired... ;)
actually, given the original clue, Handel wrote it as a homoerotic fantasy about the Messiah ;}
or a narcissistic fantasy about the messiah...
What is "Water you doing in women's clothes?" music?
first of all: I'd like to see some sources on this-- i.e., some reputable musicological/music history references. You haven't backed this notion up with a shred of scholarly evidence. Personally, I sincerely doubt this notion, based on very personal knowledge. You'll get it out of me the day you can climb into my head..
..and read my thoughts. At best, I see it as perhaps a secondary intention. Did Handel himself write this idea down? If not, maybe you'd better go ask him..
Okay, maybe this was a bad idea.... In our theory class, the professor was killing time at one point by gossip-mongering about various composers, and he brought up a story about The Harmonious Blacksmith being a tribute to an actual blacksmith who Handel was shtupping at the time. (And "shtupping" is his fault, not mine....). I thought it as amusing, so I remembered it, but I can't back it up, and neither can my professor, in all likelihood. Rather than bog the item down further, I'm just gonna hand it over to Paul for being entertaining.
I think Ori embedded it in enough disclaimers to demonstrate that he wasn't trying to present historical fact, merely gossip. Anyway, this is something of a trick, but maybe it's easy: This Peter Gabriel song includes lyrics in English, French, and German.
What is "Games Without Frontiers?"
I'm gonna need the title of the song that has German, too. therein lies the trick =}
Huh? Now I'm confused. You said song...are there two songs, or like, a second movement to a song..? Was my answer wrong? =)
There is one song, from the standpoint that there is one three-minute-or-so track on an album released by Peter Gabriel that has English, French, and German in it. And your answer is incomplete. That's what makes it a trick question. >=} But yes, I'm thinking of a single song.
What is the version of "Games Without Frontiers" on the german-language release of "Peter Gabriel III"?
Should I be a prick and insist on the title in German? Nah, that's good enough. =} The English phrase in the German version: It's a knock-out. The French phrase in both versions: Jeux sans frontieres. It's McNally's turn, but bonus points for anyone who knows the relevance of those two phrases to each other. ;}
Doesn't it have something to do with French and/or English game shows?
I should probably yield to gypsi, who was on the right track, but since
(for once) I actually have a question ready:
The category is "Original Names":
This surf-rock band weren't "happy together", so they adopted
another name and achieved much greater success recording another
style of music.
Who were The Turtles?
but what was their original name? (I'm curious)
Who are Flo and Eddie?
yeah, Peter Gabriel was referencing a game show called "It's a knockout" in Engliand and "Jeux Sans Frontieres" (= "Games Without Frontiers") in France, the goal of which (I'm told) is to risk life and limb doing stupid stuff for Big Cash Prizes! The implication of the song being something along the lines of, like, you jerks, we're NOT at war in Europe, so you guys are CREATING wars... I'd've given it to Gypsi, myself, but the French part was easy. The point that Peter Gabriel recorded III and "Security" entirely in German is a bit more obscure, and, well, weird. (And if anyone knows where I can get a hold of Security in German, that would be cool... III is actually still kicking around in the Import bins now and then, but the only time I've seen Security was my brother's copy, years ago.)
"The Turtles" are the name under which the band in question achieved success, as was indicated by the "happy together" clue, but the name of the category is "Original Names", so "The Turtles" is not an acceptable answer. Flo & Eddie were members of the Turtles, but that's not the band name I'm looking for. The band in question produced at least one "classic" surf instrumental which is frequently anthologized and probably familiar to devoted fans of the genre, however the track in question is not as widely known as "Wipeout" or "Pipeline".
Ooh ooh ooh! Who are the Safaris?
The ORIGINAL name: (Who are) the Nightriders? Their second name, and perhaps the one mcnally wants: (Who are) the Crossfires? Their third name: (Who are) the Tyrtles? This from CDNow's biography of the Turtles. =}
((Peter Gabriel's 4th album is only called "Security" in America.
Leslie brought back a German-language edition of the 4th album from
Austria in Summer 1999, so it should still be available.
Looks like the German web CD firm www.musicexpress.com lists it.))
ah, so it does. and it's not that expensive... perhaps I'll order it.
Paul gets points for completeness, then loses them for admitting he looked it up.. Nevertheless he has the right "question", and thus wins the dubious honor of posting the next "answer".
hey, ain't no rules against doin' research. =}
oh, you guys want a clue... This folkpop singer made an avant-garde error when he covered a popular heavy metal song that was still getting airplay.
Who is pat Boone? I know he covered some heavy metal song recently (maybe Metallica?)
Boone did "Enter Sandman" in 98, but I'm not sure that would qualify as a song still getting airplay (except on the classic heavy metal stations... I meant to imply "recent")... he actually did a whole album of heavy metal, including "Stairwway to Heaven," "Holy Diver," and "Crazy Train." Besides, I'm not sure I'd call Boone a folkpop singer. Ditto others who have covered heavy metal but are famous for a lighter tone, such as Johnny Cash. Actually, I'm looking for a group, but it's pretty much a one-man show, a guy with a guitar and a studio player backup. As a hint: one of the tracks from Boone's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" album was on the same heavy metal album as the song in question. Another hint: the song in question was from the early 80s (both the original and the cover).
What is Pete Seeger covering AC/DC's 'Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution?
hmmmmm... I can't find any info on Pete Seeger's release date, so that MIGHT satisfy the original clue, but it's contradicted by the later clue (Pat Boone's AC/DC cover wasn't from "Back in Black"; Seeger is more identified as a solo artist than with a band name. So, let's narrow it down again. Both the original and the cover were released in 1984, a date which is relevant for an obvious reason, given the album the original's from. The original was also a mega-hit, and was one of at least two mega-hits in the 80s with this title (different songs). The cover band's name would be usable in the item "A Game for the Poetry Conf" over in Poetry (here on Grex). Both the cover artist and the cover band's names have something to do with pictures. Lotsa clues. =}
What is "Jump" by Aztec Camera?
yay! =} "1984" was the name of Van Halen's album on which "Jump" appeared Aztec Camera is, primarily, Roddy Frame. Apparently my bundle o' hints was useful =}
Aztec Camera is a good one. I'll have to use it the next time I'm making the list in poetry.
question coming up soon, after I have a chance to check my facts..
Don't forget: no fair searching the 'net'.
um, again, why is that unfair? Is there any user here who doesn't have access to the net? If someone were to provide an answer (question) that they got out of a rock'n'roll trivia book, would there be a condemnation? Y'all have a problem with doing research? Honestly. If we're only supposed to know what we already carry in our heads, the universe is in a lot of trouble.
Bmoran is quoting omni in Agora's Jeopardy item.
Well, omni's a twit anyway.
OK, new "answer." Sorry for the delay but I had to check the dates.
I wanted to put together a question that was interesting and not
immediately obvious -- hope I've succeeded.
This prolific musical pioneer's career began by scavenging nearby
neighborhoods for parts to build homemade amplifiers in the 1950s.
His "reign" ended in a fatal shooting in 1989.
Who was Peter Tosh?
nope.. interesting guess, but the Stepping Razor was killed in 1987 and our mystery musician was shot in 1989.
Who is KUrt Cobaine?
A 1989 shooting would have meant quite a remarkable posthumous career for Cobaine, considering that Nirvana's breakthrough album "Nevermind" was released two years later in 1991.. The gunshot wound in question was not self inflicted, and was fatal.
hey, Joy division enjoyed some of its best album sales only a few years ago... dead people can have hits, too =}
But can they play "live" on MTV Unplugged? Well, yes, probably, but let's not go there..
Bernard Sumner could prop him up and move his hands... heh heh =}
Since not many people seem to be offering answers, I guess the accepted
practice is to prod things along with a few clues.
1) there's an additional clue in the question which has so far
been ignored.
2) the artist in question is not a household name in this country
but was tremendously influential in his own field.
king sunny ade'?
King Sunny Ade' is still with us, I'm pretty sure.
ok. i haven't paid that much attention to his career since the 80's.
Who was Keith Whitley? (He was a country performer.)
king sunny ade is alive, fela died last year i think
Not King Sunny Ade or Keith Whitley. I thought Fela died two or three years ago, but I could be wrong. (It's obviously not Fela, either..)
I would assume that the use of the word "reign" would imply that he had a regal name (King, Prince, etc.)... something void was obviously exploiting.
Heh heh, not only does he have a regal name, but he was mentored by a duke and mentored a king and a prince... >=} And his career was phat, but that's prolly not where he got his own name. (Yes, I found it on *gasp* the Internet.) (Took me all of five minutes, with the info given. >=} ) (Maybe I should get a job doing net research... ?)
brighn obviously knows the name of the artist in question.. and since he has given several additional clues, I'll let the rest of you just work on those for a while..
=} I just hope I'm not too aggravating... I'd hate to be one of THOSE.
I'll phrase it the way I responded when I found the website: Who in Hell is King Tubby? =} Seriously, though, it was neat reading about him. Assuming I'm right, here's an easy one: The logo that both Kid Rock and Eminem have tattooed on their right forearm. (Bonus point for knowing whose is drawn correctly.)
King Tubby is correct. Who the heck is King Tubby? I'm glad you asked.. }-) Born Osbourne Ruddick, Tubby got his start scavenging the neighborhoods of Kingston for broken down electronics he could turn into parts to build his homemade amplifiers. At one point, at least according to what the album notes claim, a pretty astonishing percentage of Jamaican DJs and sound men owned soundsystems hand-built by King Tubby. Eventually Tubby took his electronic wizardry into the studio, where he was one of the foremost pioneers of the Jamaican musical style of Dub, which remixes single tracks in the studio to add sound effects and alter the tempos. Soon Tubby's dub versions were becoming more popular than the original tracks he started with. Before being gunned down outside his home in an apparent robbery attempt, Tubby had a prolific and successful career, as did many of his protegees, several of whom adopted "royal" names themselves (e.g. "Prince Jammy")
Dub sounds like it's similar to some forms of techno... is that an accurate representation?
Some forms of techno definitely incorporate techniques that were pioneered in Dub, but if you were listen to a Tubby dub version the relationship to reggae and other Jamaican music forms would be more readily apparent than the connection to modern techno. One of the signature characteristics of a lot of techno is the extremely sterile mechanical beat. Reggae also has a signature rhythm, but it's at least a little more complicated, and a lot of the cool effects achieved by the best dub masters succeed by messing around with your expectations, kind of throwing you off- balance by a fraction of a beat. It's obviously kind of hard for me to explain but when it's done right it can be really cool..
actually, that makes a good deal of sense, and I can imagine it fairly well. thanks. on with the show. Kid Rock, Eminem, tattoo, hint: this SHOULD be obvious, even if you know little about them except that they're white Detroit rappers... so try a blind guess =}
btw, Kid Rock's right forearm is clearly visible on his "History of Rock" CD (Eminem's is too, but not on the cover, but rather the under-the-CD tray shot on "The Marshall Mathers LP" CD... so you'd have to find an opened copy of it). =}
What is a Nazi swastika?
oh, a swastika would fly well with Dr Dre, I'm sure >=} nope. this has something to do with them being from Detroit, actually.
What is a Chevy logo? What is a Ford logo?
What is one of those evil-Calvin-looking kids urinating on something?
heh heh, nonono, although it IS a logo... not of any car companies, though.
What is the Joe Louis fist?
Drawn correctly? Hmmm...so I would presume it's something that can be drawn backwards by accident, or just off-kilter. That made me think it was the NIN logo, initially. What is the Red Wings logo?
What is a Kiss logo?
gypsi's in the ballpark so we're getting warmer =}
What is the Detroit Tigers "D" symbol?
What is a Lion?
Gypsi's got it this time. =} Eminem's only has one tail/flag to the left of the crossbar. Kid Rock's has two, which (I *think*) is correct.
Yes, it should have two tails to the left. The upcoming movie "Filth and the Fury" details which band's short-lived career?
Hmmm.. They've already made a Spice Girls movie, but this one sounds much more interesting.. }-)
Ugh...rephrase it as "this band's short-lived career." so that it fits Jeopardy format. ;-)
Who are the Sex Pistols?
Who were the Cowsills?
<bows to Dan> You're up. =)
pinzi iz the smiths
what is The Ukrainian's mini EP? Oh wait, it wasn't carla's turn. ;}
The color most artists aren't allowed to use for their CD packaging. Bonus points for what the artists who are allowed have in common.
What is Gold? Million selling CDs?
What is pink?
by "not allowed", do you mean predominant color, or what? I have a pile of CDs here, and every color imaginable is represented somewhere. ;}
What is octarine?
good question, mcnally, what *IS* octarine? ;} although that leads me to ask: what is Mary Kay pink? (getting more specific than bruin ;} )
(it's the fictional eighth color in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. only wizards can see it..)
By "not allowed," I mean that there is a specific piece of packaging which may not be that color, under threat of lawsuit. I should add that I'm not sure how strictly this color has been defended in actual practice.
Is it a situation such as what Mary Kay cosmetics have with cars -- a trademarked color that represents a company or group?
What is Pepesi blue?
I don't know what sort of deal Mary Kay has with cars, but it is a trademarked color.
the deal with Mary Kay and cars is simple (or so I understand): There's a shade of pink that nobody excep Mary Kay may use for various objects, including corporate cars.
Because? (I could be wrong, but I didn't think you could trademark a color. I really, really doubt that you can patent or copyright one, either. So what legal mechanism is it that purportedly allows Mary Kay a monopoly on cars of a certain shade?)
I think Pepesi trademarked it's shade blue, so it is possible, whether any trademarked colors have withstood a legal challange is a different question. Really I think this intellectual property thing is getting out of hand.
perhaps the chemical composition of the pigment used for the particular color they reserve?
In 1995, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a color can be registered as a trademark provided there's evidence that shows the color has become associated with a particular product. The U.S. federal trademark registration statute defines a trademark as "any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof used ... to identify and distinguish goods from those manufactured or sold by others." So, the court asked, "If a shape, a sound, a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/20/pepsi.html None of this is getting us towards answering the Jeopardy clue, though. =}
Interesting. I suppose this means my clue is more complicated than I thought, since apparently Pepsi Blue and Mary Kay Pink could be banned from album art. I'll narrow it down again by saying that this is a color which belongs to a primarily musical entity. (Although I'm tempted to let Raven's answer count, even though it's not what I expected, since it does have a musical context -- I assume he's thinking of the brouhaha over "Dispepsi." I'll let this sit a few more days first, though....)
Well, gold was mentioned, so I'll throw out?: What is platinum?
What is U2 logo color? #322 alludes to U2's lawsuit against Negativland. Actyualyy the Pepsi blue thing I read about on the web seperate from Negativland.
u2 has a logo color?
What is Prince's purple?
What is Candy Apple Grey? ;-)
Not platinum, not Prince Purple or Candy Apple Grey (whatever that is). I'm also curious what U2's logo color is, but that's not gonna be it either.
What is 'submarine' yellow?
What is coca cola red?
is it a particular record company's color? if it's not gold or platinum, are we correct in assuming it has nothing to do with the RIAA? does it have to do with the tonys or the oscars?
[Candy Apple Gray is an album title from the band Husker Du. It was my idea of a(n) (apparently overly-obscure) music conference in-joke..]
Never let excessive obscurity stop you from making a joke. Goodness knows I never do.
It is a particular record company's color. It has nothing to do with the RIAA, the tonys, or the oscars, to my knowledge.
Extra hint: The record company in question began by releasing nothing but CDs -- hence the fact that they have only trademarked the use of this color on a jewel box. Since then, they have begun releasing on other media.
What is Ryko records? I knew they had some kewl green jewel boxes...
Dingdingding! Rykodisk it is! Their green jewel box is a registered trademark.
This Bandoneon playe made a loccal form of dance music in Buenos Aires famous throught the world. Give both the musican and the genre of music.
Who is Astor Piazzola and the tango?
Well I guess that was too easy, your up Paul.
the quandary: How to create a trivia question difficult enough not to be answered in a day, but not so difficult it ties up the item for a week or more. *shrug* then again, why does it matter, if we're having fun? Anyway: This performer appears in a wedding dress on the 45 sleeve, but, quite unlike a virgin, genitals are clearly visible through black pantyhose.
Who is Madonna?
the obvious answer is, of course, wrong, but at least we've got it out of the way =}
Who is Billy Idol?
who is marilyn manson?
who is stiv bators? <rip>
Who is Dennis Rodman?
Who is Cyndi Lauper?
Who is Patti Smith?
happyboy is correct... the photo in question is on the 45 for Lords of the New Church's cover of Madonna's "Like a Virgin".
yeah, you can see one of his schnutz. ok: where did don van vliet get his beefheart moniker?
Was he named after his favorite snack food?
Did he misread a bottle of gin?
good answers but that's a NEGATORY!
Was someone in his family a butcher?
not that i know of...
What is the failed movie prject he planned with his friend Frank Zappa?
Frank caught him sacrificing a cow to the gods?
raven, YOU ARE CORRECTAMUNDO!
Raven bows thank no applause neccessary it was all the internet, really. Though I do like Trout Mask Replica a good deal. This German instrumental band features two former students of the classical/noise composer Stockhausen.
foghat?
Kraftwerk?
Einstruzende Neubauten?
I wondered who would be the first to attempt to spell that..
What is Kraftwerk?
Who are the Chemical brothers? oh wait, ori and bruin already said that
Nada to all of the above.
Who is Kriedler?
Who are Tangerine Dream?
nope none of the above.
who are acoustic alchemy?
Nope. Another clue this band started in 1968 and made albums through the late 70s. Thethen regrouped and released two albums in the 90s. This band has been an influence on people like Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, and many other contemporary post punk bands. Sound wise they are somewhat like Brian Eno with a groove.
Who are Can?
ding ding dnd Can it is, you're up Mike.
This versatile artist was once in a band named after a thermodynamics gedankenexperiment.
Hmmm...
hint: the name of the band was used in a recent movie as a pseudonym
for a fictitious performer similar to the artist for whom we're
looking
I'm pretty sure there exists a band by the name of Maxwell's Demon, but web searches for a band of that title inevitably turn up a lot of science pages and no band page.... (Picking a band whose name is a common phrase seems like a good way to keep us from cheating and looking up answers on the web,a ctually. Expect lots of questions about Porno for Pyros and the Barenaked Ladies from now on.)
Heh.. Dan's on the right track -- "Maxwell Demon" is the name of the ban in question. Now we need the famous artist who was involved with that band early in his career.. During the past few years there was a music-oriented movie where one of the fictitious performers in the movie used the name "Maxwell Demon" as a stage persona. You don't have to know the name of the movie but it might help point you towards a musical genre and that might (or might not) help..
It's dead, Jim!
It's alive, Jim! I didn't bother with the Web at first because "Maxwell Demon" did indeed turn up sh**loads on Yahoo. Then I tried "Maxwell Demon" Music ... and got something I recognized: "Velvet Goldmine", the movie in question. Having seen the last half hour of Velvet Goldmine, I recalled that it was a thinly veiled biography of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era. That led me to a search of "Maxwell Demon" Bowie ... which turned up, as the fifth hit or so, a phrase that caught my eye: "... Brian Eno's high-school band ...". Followed the link, and sure enough, I found: It was the name... I forget where it originally came from, but I heard it was the name of Brian Eno's high-school band, Maxwell Demon. Makes sense, since Eno worked with Bowie extensively during and just after that era. Anyway... To rescucitate this item... WHO IS BRIAN ENO?
producer, synth twiddler, songwriter, early member of roxy music
I knew that. This is the Jeopardy item, supposed to answer as a question.
doh! fergot to read the header!
Brian Eno is correct. Good job, brighn..
hmmmmmm... now I need a clue. *ponders* This rocker/ST-writer's first TV appearance was on The Gong Show. (that should be fairly easy...)
ST == Star Trek?
ST = soundtrack
Who is Danny Elfman?
see... toldya it was an easy one. Bruin's up.
BTW, I originally thought that ST meant "Star Trek" too. But enough of that; let me give you the next answer. The mother of this rock star commented on his suicide by saying he had joined "that stupid club."
Who is Kurt Cobain?
Brighn has the correct response. (And I feel like a klutz because I have so many possible clues but draw a blank when my turn comes and spit out a no-brainer.) Back to you brighn.
Same star, much harder question: This German group dedicated an album track to Kurt's daughter Frances, writing in the liner notes: "I liked the music of her father, but to commit suicide is never a solution to any kind of problem."
Was is Rammstein?
Nope. This group was a fairly standard hard-rock band with only one real radio track (at least, that I heard). Contemporary to Cobain's suicide, too.
oh, wait, I almost forgot to put in a bad-pun hint: The track after the one dedicated to Frances Bean Cobain angered me, because they butchered a song by The Police.
Is the question too hard, or have people just lost interest? I'll come up with a new one if people are still interested...
Hmmmm... I'll take that as a lack of interest, but just in case, here's a new clue: This mythological creature graces the covers of albums from Elton John and The Fixx. (Old answer: Who is Fury in the Slaughterhouse, really only known for "Every generation Has ITs Own Disease")
What is a unicorn? And what do you mean mythological?
Mythological as in not part of the known animal kingdom (possibly including manifestations of Deities in forms not part of the known animal kingdom)... there, that should cover it. And limit it, too. Not a unicorn.
What is .. a sphinx? On the Fixx's Calm Animals, and Elton.. was it on Empty Sky? I forget...
Hey, wow, bonus points for knowing which album covers. =} Yeah, it was Empty Sky (and Calm Animals).
Okay... This artist was the first teenager to write, produce and perform a number one song.
Who is Frankie Lymon?
scratch that, I didn't see "produce" and it's probably not right even without that qualifier.. How about Brian Wilson?
Who is Paul Anka?
who is Janis Ian?
no, no, no, and....... no. One small detail I forgot in the clue, we're talking number one song on the American charts.. not that it probably matters much since all the guesses so far were american artists anyway.
Who is Phil Spector?
BTW, Paul Anka (my incorrect response) is a native of Canada.
ok, here's a couple more clues.. the artist in question is from Long Island NY, and 1n 1989 was the first teenager to have a single at #1 on the billboard top 100 and the #1 album simultaniously, since Little Stevie Wonder did it more than 25 years earlier.
Who is Tiny Tim?
Who is Vanilla Ice?
heheheh.. I don't think Tiny Tim was a teenager in 1969 let alone '89. Ok, since you're all way off in the wrong direction, you'll notice I didn't mention the gender of the person in question.. female. Singer, writer, producer, from new york, several #1 hits in the late 80's.
i was going to guess a female before #415, because of the string of them. I was going to guess Tiffany before I remember her big hit was a cover. Who is Leann Rimes? (Was she from that early?)
Who is Debbie Gibson?
Not Leann Rimes.. she would've been what, 6 or 7 in 89? Tiffany was closer, and Bruin has it right with Debbie Gibson.
Keeping on the theme of the most recent clue: Tiffany's first major hit was Tommy James & the Shondells "I Think We're Alone Now," and at the same time, this singer released a cover of "Mony Mony," also made famous by TJ&S.
Who is Billy Idol?
Other has the correct response. Both the Tiffany and Billy Idol covers were on the charts simultaneously, resulting in a royalty payment twice as large for Tommy James. Your turn, other.
note: "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied both songs, more music royalites to Tommy James or whoever.
I do recall "Weird Al" doing "I Think I'm A Clone Now" (parody of "I Think We're Alone Now"), but what was the name of his "Mony Mony" takeoff?
On the same album as "I Think I'm a Clone Now," Yankovic had a forgettable tune called "Alimony."
We now return you to our regularly scheduled item, where the ball is in other's court.
This dead folkie gave Pat Benatar her start in popular music (her training was operatic).
Who was Woodie Guthrie?
dead folkie.... hmm.. who's dead but young enough to have been involved with Benatar? Hmm... I got two in mind.. I'll try.. Who was Harry Chapin?
sspan has it. How would you have made the connection, and who was the other one you had in mind?
I figured guthrie and such would be too old, only younger dead folkies that came to mind were chapin, drake and croce, ruled out drake and took a guess between the other two. now, since I'm having an awful time getting decent connections today, I shall think of a question and return soon.
ok, I'll be away for a bit, so I'll pass my turn, I guess the first person to post a question can have it. cya's :)
All right, since nobody else said anything... In the museum, Ferris and Sloane cuddled while Cameron angsted to the tune of this merry, nickelodeon-like instrumental version of an aptly-named pop hit.
what is Please please please let me get what I want by The dream academy? geez.. I leave for a couple of weeks and you all fall asleep <grin>
The song's right.. di d Dream Academy do the version for the movie? The riginal is The Smiths. Dunno, you might be right about the movie version.
I know the movie version was a cover -- it was a sought-after track for quite a while after the soundtrack became hard to find. Can't recall for sure who did it, which is why I didn't answer, but Dream Academy sounds about right..
the soundtrack became hard to find pretty quick I think.. as far as I know there was no soundtrack. ooooohhhh yeaaaaaaaa.... (doot doot... digga digga..)
incidentally, IMDB lists Dream Academy as the artist for PPP Let Me Get What I want on the Ferris Bueller ST. Question? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
ok.. guess It's me again.. here goes... She sang at the White House before she was 13. She was born in Texas, and although of mexican-american heritage had to learn the lyrics to spanish language songs phonetically, which worked out well enough to get her a grammy nomination in the latin pop performance category.
who is selena?
Who is Cristina Aguleria? (sorry about the spelling...I don't actually listen to her)
Who is Vikki Carr?
no.. no.. no.. Selena is from texas, and learned to sing in spanish phonetically, but it's not her.. Aguillera (I don't know how to spell it either..) is of venezuelan heritage I believe, vikki carr.. hmm.. all I remember about her is the carol burnette show and something about the lights going out in georgia.. that was her, no? Anyway.. none of the above.. so here's some more hints, she's the first Nashville based singer nominated for a grammy in a latin category, was also nominated for a Latin Grammy, and was a presenter on the Latin Grammys. SHould be too easy now..
Who is Linda Ronstadt? (yeah, it's a long shot, but what the heck)
BTW, it was Vicki Lawrence, and not Vikki Carr, that was a regular on "The Carol Burnett Show."
oh yeah.. vicki lawrence.. don't know how I got those two confused.. Ok.. I'm thinking here I must give really bad clues... Okay, I'll try one more and then give up.. She was on Hollywood Squares a few weeks back and is a very popular Christian artist.
Who is Amy Grant?
ok.. it was Jaci Velasquez... I expected people to guess Selena or Aguillera.. wasn't expecting Vikki Carr or Linda Ronstadt.. you all must be older than I thought <grin> So my questions officially suck.. someone else go..
Okay, here goes! Even though this group is named for a Book in the Bible, their song "Jesus He Knows Me" is very unlikely to be heard on any Christian radio stations.
Who are The Judges?
Who is famed heavy metal band "Leviticus" (umlaut over the 2nd i)?
Not The Judges Not Leviticus
Who is Genesis?
(not the Genesis that Kahn blowed up a nebula reall good).
tpryan has the correct response - What is Genesis? (As in the band which featured Phil Collins on drums & vocals). Do you have a clue for us, tpryan.
This is the piano man's second album released by Columbia records.
What is: "I Married Christie Brinkley And You Didn't"?
What is the Stranger?
no, not The Stranger.
What is Piano Man? (I could just go through the whole list, btw. ;} )
I still remember a friend of mine asking me "You mean, Billy Joel did Piano Man?" When I asked how he didn't know that, his response was "Well, not all of us can be musical goddesses like you!" I laughed at him so stinking hard!!!
It's the second one on the list and was intended as an easy question.
What is "Streetlife Serenade"?
I had Streetlife Serenade as the second one, too, but CDNow has Piano Man as second... CDNow must be messed up. =}
Streelife Serenade is right, and what I was looking for. Go
ahead Mickey.
'The Entertainer' a track on Streetlife Serenade has a line about
getting 'put out back on the discount rack', a fate that and "Turnstiles"
had until "The Stranger" made the mammoth push in Joel's carrerr.
Cool! My first answer: Three of her songs have been recorded by Joan Baez, including the title track from her latest U.S. release.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
No, not Joni Mitchell. Perhaps I should clarify my somewhat ambiguous answer: Three of her songs have been recorded by Joan Baez, including the title track from one of the *latter's* latest U.S. releases.
Who is Carly Simon?
No, not Carly Simon.
Who is Judy Collins?
No, sorry. Not Judy Collins.
Wow. A whole week without any questions. Surely I haven't stumped the font of trivia known as Grex music --- no, it's probably not that. Blame Dirty Linen on the weird answer, because that's where I found it. :-) Shall I post a hint?
What is yes?
Here's the hint, in the form of a question: Her song, "no mermaid" was covered by Joan Baez on one of the latter's recent CD's.
Who is Sinead Lohan?
brighn has the correct question.
Let's keep it easy...
This Michigander played Buddy Holly in the most recent movie about that fatal
plane crash. ("recent" being relative)
Who is Marshall Crenshaw?
Yep. figured it would be easy. (Here's an interesting bit of trivia that WOULD have been my Jeopardy answer had I entered it just now: On the CD for "American Bad Ass", there's one word that's reversed to censor it. Kid Rock says lots of stuff in that song, all of which you can hear: fu**, sh**, suck my di**. So what's the censored word? Heh. But this is just weird trivia, too arcane to be a fair Jeopardy question.)
Do you have a clue for us, mcnally?
Earth to mcnally -- do you have another Jeopardy answer, or should I throw it open to others to give said clue?
OK, I've come up with two questions. Do you want the "easy" one or the "hard" one?
Re #481 It's up to you, mcnally.
Why Don't You Give Us The Easy One , So We Can Get On With This Item .
I'll just throw out both, it occurs to me that neither one is a
particularly classic question and they might be a little obscure.
A correct response for either will be sufficient..
1) This Minneapolis-based band from the late 80's titled their
second album in homage to the breakthrough album of a Seattle-
born superstar.
2) Beatle Ringo Starr shot the photo of the lead singer that
appears on this band's 1972 release.
Is 1) The Experience? If that's true, then to be correct, you must say that the superstar was Renton-born, or from the Seattle area. Sorry, I'm from Washington, so I'm going to be anal about it if this is the case..
1) Who are the Information Society?
re #486: although they were Minneapolis-based, Information Society is
not the band I was looking for, and my research shows that their second
album was "Hack." If you're able to spin a convincing case supporting
your answer I'll award you the question, but simply being from Minneapolis
is not sufficient to satisfy all parts of the "answer"
re #485: the source I checked claims that the well-known musician of whom
I was thinking was born in Seattle, however I am not sure whether this
particular reference would distinguish between Seattle proper and other
parts of the Seattle metropolitan area. Renton is pretty far from downtown
but for the sake of argument let's cover all bets and just say "Western
Washington."
One clarification, one suggestion:
1) In case it's not already incredibly obvious, the two "answers" above
fit different "questions".
2) since I'm going to accept any "question" which satisfies the "answers"
which means I might wind up having to award either one based on info I
wasn't aware of, people who have a solid guess might want to supply
supporting information (e.g. the name of the album and how it fits the
clue.) Of course you're still welcome to make a wild guess and if
you happen to hit the result I had in mind, you still win even if you
don't know why..
Since you suggested one of them was obvious, what the Hell: 2) What is Wings?
Actually, neither of these is obvious, but there's the one that can presumably be figured out without strenuous effort (1) and the one that you'd probably have to know about ahead of time or else do some digging (2).. Anyway, Wings is not the band I had in mind for (2) and according to my reference sources, they didn't release an album in 1972, so it'll be hard to make a case for them..
1) Who is Krypton?
2) Who is Badfinger?
I have no idea who Krypton are, nor do they appear in the All Music Guide, which is the source I've been using to check on things. If you provide me an explanation of why you feel they fit the question and it's fairly plausible, that will be enough to satisfy me.. Despite their Beatles connection, though, I'm going to have to reject Badfinger because, like Wings, they didn't release an album in 1972 (although both bands had releases in 1971 and 1973..)
1) they do fun music and are from Minneapolis
2) SWAG
keep guessing..
#481 of 493: by Mike McNally (mcnally) on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 (05:13): OK, I've come up with two questions. Do you want the "easy" one or the "hard" one? Unless the answer to #1 is somehow related to Prince (and I don't see how), I'm not sure in which universe either of these clues could be defined as "easy."
1) Who is Vanity?
2) Who is George Harrison?
(more swag)
Note the irony-quotes around "easy" and "hard"..
I would like to report: the WWW is bulloxed. I did a search for "seatlle born musician" and got 8 matches. Reread the search phrase, you'll see why I say it's bulloxed.
Here are some Seattle-born musicians, btw... Jimi Hendrix didn't have a "breakthrough" album... his first album (Are You Experienced?) WAS his breakthrough album. All the same, I can see some post-New Wave debauch on that title (after all, Devo -- not from Minnesota, I don't think -- covered the title track, but far from their second album). Judy Collins. Her breakthrough album appears to have been "Wildflowers". Tom Petty also had an album called Wildflowers, but it wasn't his second, he was more of an early-80s thang, and he's not from Minnesota. Forgive those details, there's your answer. ;} some folkie named EArl Hawley, whos musical heydey seems to have predated albums. Bill Reiflin and (bien sur) Mr. Cobain, both of whom are too recent to qualify. But hey, I'm having fun digging. =}
Aha! I found the "hard" one first! Who is T Rex? (Although, according to this website, taht information is wrong: In any case, the new T.Rex album was called the Slider and it was released in July of 1972. The front and back of the album pictured the front and back of Marc wearing the same tall hat he had been seen wearing in the "Born to Boogie" movie. The album sleeve erroneously listed the source of the photographs as Ringo Starr. The real photographer had been Tony Visconti but, apparently, Marc was still trying to establish ties to the other Rock superstars to bolster his own image. http://www.primenet.com/~regenold/marc/trex.html)
Ahhh.. I apologize if my information was bad but in any case you are correct, T Rex was the answer I was looking for. My understanding was that Ringo Starr took the photo in question during the filming of "Born to Boogie" As far as the other clue is concerned, Jimi Hendrix was in fact the "Seattle-born musician" I was thinking of when I wrote the clue and "Are You Experienced" was the album I was thinking of -- I called it his "breakthrough album" rather than his "first album" because (a) properly speaking it wasn't a Jimi Hendrix album but a Jimi Hendrix Experience album, and (b) there are recordings of Hendrix from before "Are You Experienced" although that's definitely the album that first brought him widespread fame. In any case, the (apparently much more obscure than I thought) Minneapolis band I was looking for was Trip Shakespeare, and their album was entitled "Are You Shakespearienced?", which I just always thought was a great title.
Ok, I've debating how tricky or easy to make this clue. I'll settle on tricky-ish. This famous actor plays "himself" in a movie where the (other) main characters think he's a God for his acting work, but his life's goal is really to make a rap musical version of Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar (full text, six hours long).
But William Shatnet is not musical. Come on, you heard him.
Hey, it's a song, dammit. (Methinks somebody else saw the movie inquestion...) Actually, it's the best interpretation of his "style" (speaking with music in the background) I've heard. Certainly better than the Priceline ads. Anyway, TPRyan may generate an answer, unless we want to force him to ask a quesiton first.
Who is William Shatner?
I am thinking of two Michigan folk musicians that play both
guitar and banjo. They also teach music. They don't usually play
together. I got their Christmas CDs last year. These are those
two.
i might have one... who is enzo garcia? joel mabus?
I was thinking of Joel Mabus and Neil Woodward. I might have
to hear this enzo garcia sometime soon.
You go Barry.
another *two parter* this musician with a strangely sexual name, has a daughter in this band. hints?
Leon Redbone?
nope...but that was good!
Hehheh... Cockburn...
hahaha! nope...need a hint?
How about the legendary Ima Catfuqqer? >=} Seriously, I always like hints.
judy.
judy, judy, judy... but Cary Grant doesn't have a sexual name...
think *virginity*
<gets bored and goes out on the back porch for a frosty one> ouch! <looks at the horses fly by...>
Who isJudy Hyman of Horse Flies?
almost there, read the original statement.
(Hey, isn't that Misty Hymen's sister? *g*)
heh, i donut thin szo.
Hint: The guy's first name is Dick. The guy's last name is Hymen.
yer up!
I didn't ask a question! I was giving hints! Oh, fine. Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson have both released songs written by this post-punk synth groundbreaker.
Gary Numan?
I gotta get harder panic questions. =} Yer up.
ACK!!! I actually won??? <does a little victory dance> Okay, off the top of my head: This band gets a tattoo everytime one of their albums goes platnum...who are they, and bonus if you know what it is of.
The relevant songs being "Metal" on the NIN remix album for the Fragile and "Down in the Park" off MM's Lunchbox EP. Who are Blink 182?
Nope...and I aget the feeling that they just preffer to have SOMETHING on while they're naked <laughs> Next guess?
Who is Red Hot Chili Peppers
nope...
Then I will go for my orginal first guess, which was Sublime.
I'll go with Rollins Band myself. Looking for tattooed people. =} This may take a while...
Heh...nope...you're way off base...wrong genre of music too....
Who are *NSYNC?
Who is Zamfir?
534 ROTFL and 535 OMG ROTFL
Okay ... since you laugh at my answers, I'll assume I'm wrong. ;) This question is driving me mad, because I *know* that I've heard this bit of trivia before, somewhere. Who are Barenaked Ladies?
No, and I'm sorry, mickey, but that was damn funny. Here is a hint. The band has more than one album out. Has charted on more than one bilboard chart. And they have 3 members. <zips her lip>
Who are the remaining Beatles? :)
dixie chicks?
Eric got it. Do you know what they have?
Wide Open Spaces. *Carson the Magnificent opens the envelope* What do you find between Britny Spears' ears and Madonna's legs? oh sorry, wandered into my own bad bit =}
Actually, I didn't even know what the answer was, but the last clue seemed to lead to the question I asked. Prior to the latest round of renovations at Carnegie Hall (in 1986, I think), these people insisted that they knew why the sound quality had degraded since the last round, and Carnegie's management said they would only do the work to fix it if these folks would agree to pay the costs if their guess was wrong. (They claimed that the wooden stage floor had had concrete laid in under it, dampening the famed resonance of the Carnegie Hall stage.)
(Didn't it in fact have concrete under it?)
(Yes, one to five inches, unevenly laid, and uncured before the subfloor was laid in over it, causing said subfloor to rot, resulting in the stage floor warping immensely. This resulted in the 1986 renovation at which time all of this was discovered/confirmed.)
(BTW, good guessing, Mr. Other Man. And on their ankles/feet they get a tattoo of a chicken foot imprint. :))
When I saw Maria McKee a while back she mentioned the Dixie Chicks' tattoos, and since she got some pretty good royalties from one of her songs they recorded she suggested we all pray they get a few more of tattoos.
What is the New York Philharmonic?
Nope.
Ok, clue time. The people in question are not professional musicians. In other words, they're not folks who would have experienced the acoustical degradation from onstage.
Milli Vanilli? ;)
Bad guess. No banana! ;)
Oh! Backstreet Boys!
Who are Dolby Laboratories?
The people in question are only associated with each other by virtue of a common profession, but were not employed by the same company.
Who are the local music critics?
Who are the Sopranos?
Scott has it. (Did the last clue give it away?)
I'd vaguely heard the story before, but the clue helped. Umm...... uhhh...... OK, an easy one: This the failure of this Who project resulted in a nervous breakdown for Pete Townshend.
quadrophenia what it is?
Nope, not Quadrophenia. What the heck are you smoking? That's one of their best albums and it was a movie as well.
What is that _Lighthouse_ thing that Scott's been babbling about lately? :)
Actually, it's called Lifehouse. But I say give it to Ori, since I only know that from scamming it off CDNow's biography. ;}
Orinoco is close enough. "Lifehouse" is correct. I figured somebody would put the rather obvious pieces together.
That's all right, I only know my bit from scamming it off Scott's recent conversation.... :) Ah well. I'll have an answer later this evening for y'all.
yeah, but yours indicates you're paying attention. Mine just indicates I'm showing off.
Um, this one's a little hard to phrase as an answer, but here goes.... This band is only one degree of separation away from both Jessica Rabbit and Marilyn Manson.
Who is Jessica Rabbit?
As in, the female lead in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Hint: The band in question has collaborated with Marilyn Manson, and has recorded a version of Ms Rabbit's signature song.
Nine Inch Nails?
Who is Rasputina? (The song being "Why Don't You do Right?")
Thank you Paul! (although I would _love_ to hear the esteemed Mr. Reznor do the same song...)
There's a NIN link there, too, not surprisingly: Chris Vrenna did drums on their second full-length album. Why do I always come across interesting factoids when it's not my turn to ask, and forget them when it is? Bother. I had a really cool one, but I've forgotten it. Anyway... here's a complex 80s cult question: The group mentioned in Camper van Beethoven's "Where the Hell is Bill?" play a lounge act in a cult classic movie executive produced by this son of an office supplies magnate. (Name the son, and for full credit, name the lounge act and the movie.)
Wild guess:
lounge act -- Circle Jerks
director -- Alex Cox
cult movie -- Repo Man
I'm looking for the executive producer. I remembered that other question I was gonna ask, but it's a decent clue for this one: He was the missing link on the judges' panel in the Brady Bunch movie. (One of the many suggestions for "where the hell is Bill?": "Maybe he went to see the Circle Jerks...")
Ahhh.. Misread your question, I guess.. You were looking for Mike Nesmith?
yeah... the "son of a business supplies magnate" was intended to confuse.
re #573 Good question you mention my favorite movie and one of the best IMO bands of the 80s in one question.
OK.. Can't think of a decent question, so here's the giveaway..
This navigation feature, present on many (most?) original generation
CD players, has all but totally disappeared from today's players.
Intro (play the first few seconds of every song)?
Intro play, track scan, whatever the manufacturer calls it, is still an available option on many players. The feature I'm thinking of probably isn't found on any device produced in the past five years.
What is index search?
Index search is, indeed, the feature I was looking for.. Has anyone seen either a CD player with the index feature or a CD with indexes produced in the last five years? (for those who don't even remember it, track indexes were subdivisions of a track. I think the original idea was that you might have, perhaps, a classical CD of several sonatas with each sonata in a single track, sub- indexed so you could access the beginning of separate movements within the track.. indexes never became popular, though, and disc makers just made everything separate tracks, causing the index feature to disappear from CD players. in my collection of more than a thousand CDs I only know of two that have tracks subdivided by index.)
I saw a Charlie Mingus cd at the library on two of whose tracks the index changed at each edit (I only know this because the liner notes said so... I don't have a CD player which does this.) Which would be more of an informational feature than a navigation, similar in purpose to including bonus tracks on reissue CDs. I think the same may be true of my copy of "Bitches Brew" but I'm not sure (and too lazy to go and look ;-)
I have a Rollins Band Cd that's a single track. It would interesting to see if it has indexes. *ponders*
Yay, me. ;) I knew the answer to this question because the first CD player I bought back in '87 was a Sony with this feature. I actually had a CD with index markings, a recording of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." I haven't seen one is a long time though, and I'm fairly impressed that I still remembered what the feature (ahem.) was called. I'm thinking of the next answer, but haven't settled on one, yet.
REM's _New Adventures in Hi-Fi_ from 1996 has index marks on at least one track. The quiet intro to "Leave" and the song itself are on the same track, at two different indexes.
Alright, it's probably too easy, but I'll ask it anyway: This keyboardist is credited under the pseudonym of Booker T. Boffin on Def Leppard's "Pyromania" album.
Thomas Dolby :) :) :)
Very nice, ashke. :) Your turn to give an answer.
Okay. This one I have wanted to do for a while: This Singer/Songwriter/Thespian was cast in the Movie version of "Fame" the musical. He/She/It was hired for the role in part because He/She/It wrote a song for the movie. Name the Person. Extra Noogie Bonus Points if you can name the song, and what they're doing now.
Who is Paul McCrane (author of "Is It Okay If I Call You Mine?")?
<pouts> Yes. You know what he's doing now?
<shrugs> It's the only instrument-playing scene in the movie where the actor looks like he's actually _playing_ the instrument. (what is he up to now?) <ahem> This popular musician, criticized a few years ago for performing a graphic song about lynching, gets airplay mostly on "adult contemporary" and other "light"-format radio stations.
(he's acting. He has been in episodes of Law and Order, some movies, but now he's Dr. Romano on ER...the nasty surgeon who is good at his job, but loves to give others a hard time :) )
Who is Richard Marx?
Oh wow....ER? Interesting.
Oh yeah, his mop of read hair gone bye bye. He's a bit bald now ;)
Any more clues?
Thanks for the reminder, raven. I'd forgotten I entered this. In case you've forgotten, the clue was: This popular musician, criticized a few years ago for performing a graphic song about lynching, gets airplay mostly on "adult contemporary" and other "light"-format radio stations. Extra clues: The song is a cover, not an original. "Popular musician" may have been a bad phrase to use. The artist in question is a real genre-bender, and is closer to other genres than to pop.
Who is Richard Marx?
I already responded with that answer a couple of moonths ago!!!!
Hmm. Okay. Richard Marx isn't who I had in mind. (In fact, I haven't the faintest idea who Richard Marx _is_.) If you can point me to the song of his that you're thinking of, though, I'll let that be the right answer.
Who is Groucho Marx? (just to be silly)
There is a song by Richard Marx called "Hazard", that's about being put in jail because they think he killed some chick named Mary. (He used to walk with her down by the river, and one day they found her body in the river, and everybody knows that he was the last person to seee here...etc. On the other hand, if that's not what you are thinking of, how about a hint?
Ah. Not quite what I had in mind. The lynching in this song isn't 'just' a murder. It's a lynching in the full historical sense of the word: racial violence, presumably at the hands of an angry mob, hung by the neck until dead, the whole nine yards. Also, this isn't the first time this song has caused controversy (although the first time it was also performed by someone who is widely considered a 'polite' and classy musician).
The song must be strange fruit of which I know the Billy Holiday version. No idea who would have sung the recent version though other than that annoying guy (who I can't remeber his name) who covers Bing & Frank tunes.
Would you mean Harry Conick Jr.?
re #608 yeah that guy.
The song is indeed Strange Fruit, but I can't find any evidence that Harry Connick's done a version of it.
Hey, raven would the other annoying guy be Buster Poindexter?
Who is Cassandra Wilson?
Ding!
Widely believed to be a folk song, this song actually came from Tin Pan Alley.
What is "The Old Folks at home" by Steven Foster?
What is "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan?
While it wasn't what I was thinking of, I'll accept tpryan's answer of "Old Folks At Home". (I was thinking of Red River Valley, although now that I think about it that's debatable. It originated as a Tin Pan Alley song but the lyrics got modified later, which arguably makes it into a folk song.)
It's in the lyrics:
The work of *this* artist is refferenced by Camille West
in her song "Viagra In the Waters".
Another month long stump of the search engines. -Tim
Well, I'll try the closest thing I could find: Who is Scott Wodicka?
Not what I was looking for, try again.
Here's another to try. Question either one. He's the guy with the blue fiddle.
No idea, but I do know who "The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar" is..
I'm getting tired of finding this item in a sea of items that should only be in oldmusic, so I'll dumb it down. Question any of the three answers, including this one. They are John, Paul, George and Ringo. (it was a real question on Jeopardy once, most difficult in it's catagory).
Who were The Beatles?
Hey, you got it right, go on, der bear. Btw, it Camile West of Four Bitchin' Babes who sing of "30,000 pounds of Viagara" (in the water), an homage to Harry Chapin's "30,000 pounds of Bannanas.
BTW, Doug Cameron is the guy with the blue fiddle. He has been hear a lot on The Weather Channel, as 'the music to read the weather forcast by'.
Okay, here goes! The answer is... A Dallas TX radio station recently fired two of its DJ's for instigating false rumors that this teen pop performer had been killed in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Oops, I guess I should not guess right again.
Who is Britney Smears?
other has intended to give the last question in his response, and now has the choice of giving the next answer or passing this honor to somebody else.
Subject: Lyrics "... [fill in the missing word] in Ann Arbor. Ask the judges why."
aw no fair, how can thos eof us that no live in a2 anymore repond?! <pokes eric>
Hmm. Since this one has sat for a while, I'll give the hint that the artists achieved massive popularity in the 60's and 70's.
Who are The Doors?
Hint 2: The song is about something that happened in Texas.
Well, shit. There goes my search for a song about John Sinclair with those words in it.
What is "anarchy"?
Dan?
Got it! I suppose it's marginally about John Sinclair. "Kids in Texas, smoking grass, ten year sentence, comes to pass. Misdemeanor in Ann Arbor. Ask the judges why."
It's about time! I've known it for a while, but I'm lazy and didn't want to think up the next answer. CSNY, right?
Hey, no fair, I'm lazy too! :)
Yup. John Sinclair. Ten for two. CSNY.
I'd tracked down the title of the song, figuring it was about John Sinclair, but then the comment about Texas threw me off. Did Sinclair have some connection to Texas? I'm gonna throw open the floor, but I might take it back if I come up with a decent question.
You have several choices: