Music Trivia Thread

[Steel Dragon]

well it is getting increasingly harder to pose more quizzical trivia questions...

 

[Black Kitty]

yes it is... but I'm sure you'll come up with something

 

[Steel Dragon]

Well either way - its your turn now Kittster....

 

[Black Kitty]

So it is! :-k

From where (geographically speaking) did the Smashing Pumpkins originate?
and in what year was this?

 

[Steel Dragon]

Chicago 1988.

Wrong question to be asking me...

They performed their first two show at the Metro club in Chicago, with Billy, James, D'arcy and a drum machine. THe club owner said they could do a third on the condition the replaced the machine with a human. They recruited Jimmy on the suggestion of a friend.

Who did they open for at the metro, on their third ever gig?

 

[Black Kitty]

Ok, I'm not the hugest of Smashing Pumpkin fans...
but I'm quite sure it was Jane's Addiction.

 

[Steel Dragon]

Sure was.

Your turn BK

 

[Black Kitty]

Vanilla Ninja represented which country in the Eurovision song contest?
what year did they participate?

 

[newtownbluebags]

(c) Switzerland , (y) 2005 ?

 

[Black Kitty]

NBB has it!

 

[newtownbluebags]

been a while, I'll skip this round though :lol:

 

[Black Kitty]

saw a new post and thought someone had revived the thread!
guess not

shouldn't get a girls hopes up like that... it's not nice!

 

[Tom Shines]

Well come on then, we need a question!

Who wrote the break-out hit for The Weather Girls (and Geri Halliwell :lol, "It's Raining Men"?

 

[Azkatro]

Paul Schaeffer.

Who wrote Don't Cha for the Pussycat Dolls?

 

[Tom Shines]

By the way, that is the Paul Shaffer that everyone is thinking of — the one of CBS Orchestra fame.

Back to PCD, isn't it ripped off from some 80s song? So I imagine whoever weote whatever song that was is responsible.

 

[Azkatro]

Might well have been, but AFAIK it is credited to this person. As a hint he had an unlikely hit as a part of a duo at around the same time.

 

[Tom Shines]

What, late 80's or 2006?

 

[Tom Shines]

I remember. The song I'm thinking of is Swass by Sir Mix-a-lot.
So I'll say Don't Cha was written by him.

 

[Azkatro]

Not who I was thinking of, but credit where it's due .. I didn't know that's where it came from originally. It was "rehashed" by Cee-lo of Gnarls Barkley fame. Next q!

 

[Pistol]

Which song by John Denver was written as a tribute to the space shuttle Challenger crew who died in 1986? (features a 73 second guitar instrumental at the end to commemorate the mission's duration)