better than a MKii Ekos, it's : time to get yours on Pop Quizz, (MK ii).

It's friday, and we need some variety. Let's not get toooooo bogged down in detail (as long as we don't re-write history) and crack some quick-fire questions. Keep it moving! One new question set by supplier of right answer, number questions sequentially please, and use the number with your answer - that'll help us keep track. Here's two 80's questions to start with:

Q1.: Who did the art on the original editions of Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads?

Q2.: Which fabulous blues legend who passed in a helicopter crash, played guitar on much of Bowie's hyper-commercial smash Let's Dance ?

Rico - musichead

Q2 is Stevie Ray Vaughan

Q1 I am less sure about ... was it David Byrne himself (wasn't he an art student ??)

You have Q2 correct, I think, but Q1 wrong. Q1 is, I believe, Robert Rauschenberg. Since you beat me to Q2, and I had to look up Q1 (I did know it wasn't Byrne, and it was a famous pop artist, but couldn't recall who), you get the next Q...

(DB was an art, or maybe design, student, and the original 3 Heads (DB + Chris and Tina) met at art school IIRC, Jerry Harrison joined a little later, don't know if he was an art student or not).

Pete.

Q2 Stevie Ray Vaughn

I know Jonathan got it right first but he didn't set a question so I will.

Q3 What were the chemical brothers originally called and why did they change their name?

Music is the answer.

Well done, Gentlemen!

It was indeed Robert Rauschenberg, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Phew - I thought this thread was going to be chilled/frozen out completely.

Rico - musichead

>> Q3 What were the chemical brothers originally called and why did they change their name? <<

They were called The Dust Brothers and changed their name because there was already another Dust Brothers who took legal action.

Q4: Very cool slow-core maestros Bedhead recently covered which very cheesy multi-million selling worldwide #1?

HINT: IIRC The record in question is a favourite of Mike Hanson's wife.

For a bonus point what was the unsual lead instrument used.

Matthew

Q4 The answer must be they covered Cher's I believe.

Q5 Back to the 80s again. Which then unknown female vocalist sang on The The's Infected (hint: Her first album was called Raw Like Sushi)

Music is the answer

[This message was edited by John Channing on FRIDAY 27 October 2000 at 12:32.]

Q5 is Sinead O’Connor (or if not Nina (sp?)Cherry as I think both were used on the album)

Q6 - What (80's again) 'band' took it's name from a futurist manefesto by Luigi Russolo, and which member of the same band scored a 1990's film?

(sen before clue)

Q5 was Neneh Cherry, Sinead O'Connor featured on Mind Bomb.

Music is the answer.

would be The Art of Noise, member Trevor Horn scoring the movie "Toys".

So we move to Q7: How will the lowly ones study karate, and what will happen when they have?

Pete.

T'was the art of noise (L'arte Dei Rumori) and you are quite right about Trevour Horn - but I had asked a sloppy question because I was thinking of Anne Dudley's score for The Full Monty, which is also right.

If I get another go I'll think harder about the question !

Jonathan

John is correct - Bedhead did indeed cover Cher's "Believe". And quite marvellous it is too.

Matthew

PS The lead riff was played on a touch tone telephone.

Pete

you have me stumped.

Rico - musichead

Pete,
I think that "lowly ones study karate" is part of a song lyric making it a very hard question i.e. it is almost impossible to cheat using the internet. Can you give us a clue or revise the question?
John

Music is the answer.

This has set off huge bells in my head - so much so I can't get them to quiet down enough to remember the answer.

Something about them then beating the c**p out of the not so lowly.

Pink Floyd also keeps cropping up - but I think I'm getting mixed up with some differnt Animals lyrics.

Ahhh ... I know I'm gonna kick myself VERY hard unless I can remember this!

Jonathan

Animals, Pink Floyd... all veeeerrrryyy close to the extent that a look at the relevant documents, or better still a listen, will have the answer in no time now.

Making it internet search proof to some extent was something of a design goal, I'll freely admit, but since Animals lyrics came up in the last pop quiz and the Boys in Pink seem to be quite popular here I figured someone would still probably nab it.

Pete.

Thanks for the tip ...

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT
HE MAKES ME DOWN TO LIE.
THROUGH PASTURES GREEN HE LEADETH ME THE SILENT WATERS BY.
WITH BRIGHT KNIVES HE RELEASETH MY SOUL
HE MAKETH ME TO HANG ON HOOKS IN HIGH PLACES.
HE CONVERTETH ME TO LAMB CUTLETS.
FOR LO, HE HATH GREAT POWER, AND GREAT HUNGER.
WHEN COMETH THE DAY WE LOWLY ONES.
THROUGH QUIET REFLECTION, AND GREAT DEDICATION,
MASTER THE ART OF KARATE.
LO, WE SHALL RISE UP,
AND THEN WE'LL MAKE THE BUGGERS EYES WATER.

Sheep, Animals, Floyd.

Q8 Who is sure that when he called himself up he was always in ? Making a sceene with a magazine ...

I seem to have killed this. This was not my intention. The reference is to a short monologue before a song from an artist know for monologues both inside and outside his songs.

I will try to give some further clues for other similar bits from the same artist:-

1) ..flames all bonfire orange an' chimmeney red..
2) ..even jesus wanted a little more time..
3) ..hung his wild yearson a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead..

Jonathan

I thought I recognised it, sort of, until you gave me further clues. Now I'm sure I've Never Heard This Song Before In My Life!

Pete.

Pete

Three (four) different songs / monologues.
Same artist.
Three / four different albums (ignoring collections)

Jonathan