Music Quiz Trivia

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:49 pm

Thanks.

I've been listening to the new They Might Be Giants album this past week and there's a lyric on the track Memo To Human Resources which is lifted from not one, but two Monkees songs (yes, another Monkees question).

What's the line, what are the songs?

To make it "easy", here are the TMBG lyrics...

Memo To Human Resources

I'll be in the back, and I don't need the help
I'm good here in the back
I'm good all by myself
I'm busy taking stock of all the things that I've forgot (5 4 3 2)
And making mental notes of just exactly where I lost the plot (2 2 2 2)

I stuck around too long feeling sorry for myself
A disinvited guest rifles through the bathroom shelf
I'm searching for some disbelief that I can still suspend (5 4 3 2)
But never mind the furthermore-the plea is self-defense again (2 2 2 2)

Then the people came to talk me down
And I got some advice
Then the people came to talk me down
But I don't need advice-I'm down

Later in my car I considered what you said
I'm good here in my car
I'm good with what you said
And I'd be shouting out to you but I was mighty hoarse
Talk you through the finer points and issues much too small to force

Then the people came to talk me down
And I got some advice
Then the people came to talk me down
But I don't need advice-I'm down

DrJ

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:56 pm

You people don't know your Monkees. The line "never mind the furthermore-the plea is self-defense" appears in two tracks on their Pieces, Capricorn, Aquarius and Jones Ltd.: "Peter percival patterson's pet pig porky" and "No Time"

More trivia: Del Tha' Funkee Homosapien's big hit "Mistadobalina" from 1991 derived its title from a sample off "Peter percival patterson's pet pig porky"

New question:

Which famous person died on the day I was born?

I feel I could antagonise everyone by not adding clues:
- Female Singer
- 29th July, '74

DrJ

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:01 pm

Mama Cass?

(I'm off to bake some bread, live a little, laugh a little etc. so if I happen to be right, you'll have to wait a few hours for me to return with a new question. Patience, Fred.)

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:39 am

Correct.

Myth: Choked on a sandwich
Fact: Heart Attack

DrJ

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:06 am

..and that heart attack could have something to do with her comment that
"Pop music is just long hours, hard work and lots of drugs."

Gee, my first question!

What British pop singer hired an exorcist to get rid of the ghost in his swimming pool in the late seventies?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:42 am

Gary Glitter?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:53 am

Bowie?

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:03 am

Yeah, I'd have though Bowie, didn't he hire an exorcist when he moved to Switzerland after living in Berlin..?

DrJ

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:22 pm

Bowie it is.

Your call, laughingcrow.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:07 pm

Who performed the 'handclaps' on 'Sugar, Sugar' by The Archies?

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:10 pm

Jonathan "removed for legal reasons" King

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:33 am

Not him no

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:42 am

Neil Young?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:08 am

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:37 am

Phil Spector?
Billy Joel?
Ozzy?
Don Kirshner?
Rick Wakeman?
Al Jolson?
Richard Nixon?
Bill Grundy?

DrJ

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:54 am

tommy boyce and bobby hart!!??

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:56 pm

Ray Stevens?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:12 pm

Well, Im gonna give it to you Gilli...Ive got a wee musical trivia book which says it was Ray Charles!!!! But, Ive just googled it and can't find a single reference to that, but I can to R Stevens....so maybe the book (not me!!!

) wiz wrong!
I hope it was Ray

Charles tho...

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:24 am

Would someone like to post a question?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:26 am

Whats the connection between The Byrds and a Bournemouth concert by The Beatles?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:23 am

Rickenbacker guitars?

George was ill that day, so Roger McGuinn guested?

They performed eight miles high in a balloon?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:53 pm

I daresay Rickenbackers are common to both - but it's not the answer I'm looking for.

Hint - a sound effect on a Byrds recording.

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:59 pm

recording of Beatles audience noise used on Byrds album?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:12 pm

G'day mate. On behalf of my sleeping brother, you're getting close. A little more detail, please.

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:57 pm

I don't think I can elaborate as that was a complete guess (the sound of thousands of screamimg teens/pre-teens?)... if someone can come up with a more complete answer, let them take the cudos