Sinister: Music Quiz Round 1 : Doomsday has arrived

Wed Jan 21 17:24:14 GMT 1998

Hello all you pop quizzers!
I have been sent the answers! 
And NOW I know why no-one could get number 14....... daft! and 1. makes
no sense to me at all! Oh no, it does now. Sorry.

I think I have progressed onto the next round two.....LOOK OUT FOR POP
QUIZ#2!

1.  Complete the sequence...
        8, 3, 7, ?  (4)
THIS IS 4 FOR THE SIMPLE (PAH!) REASON THAT THESE ARE THE SINGLES FROM THE
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS' ALBUM 'RADIATOR' IN THE ORDER OF TRACK LISTING FROM THAT
ALBUM:
 8 - Hermann Loves Pauline
 3 - International Language of Screaming
 7 - Play It Cool
 4 - DEMONS
SIMPLE, YES? ;-P
2.  Complete the sequence...
        43, N/A, ?, 22, 38   (5)  
WELL YOU'RE ALL OBVIOSULY IDIOTS NOT TO GET THIS ONE - IT'S KENICKIE'S SINGLES
(PUNKA ONWARDS) CHART POSITIONS!  OBVIOUSLY!
 43 - Punka
 N/A - Millionaire Sweeper
 27 - IN YOUR CAR
 22 - Nightlife
 38 -  Punka Re-release
3.  Si tu etais un ange...  Comes from which current single?  And what does it
mean?  (2)
IT'S FROM RIALTO'S WONDERFUL 'UNTOUCHABLE' AND IT MEANS - 'IF YOU WERE AN
ANGEL' - THE FIRST LINE OF THE SONG (IN ENGLISH) AND APPEARING ON THE FRONT OF
THE SINGLE IN FRENCH.
4.  What was the UK's best-selling single of 97, and what was Europe's? (2)
 UK - ELTON JOHN 'CANDLE IN THE WIND 97' - QUELLE SURPRISE!
 EUROPE - SWEDISH FUNSTERS AQUA'S 'BARBIE GIRL' 
5.  Lauren Laverne is currently seeing which journalist?  (1)
MELODY MAKER'S TAYLOR PARKES FOR THE MOMENT BUT SHE KNOWS WHERE I AM SHOULD
SHE CHANGE HER MIND.
6.  Who released an album last year named 'Ice Cream'?  (1)
SALAD
7.  Name the band/track from this lyric "Idiot - Slow Down"  (1)
RADIOHEAD 'THE TOURIST'
8.  Name the band/track from this lyric "Too much Montechristo No 4 - Pass The
Ventolin, I need some more"  (1)
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS 'HERMANN LOVES PAULINE'
9.  Name 5 Welsh bands who have had top 40 hits in the last year.  (5)
5 FROM SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, STEREOPHONICS, MANIC ST PREACHERS, GORKY'S ZYGOTIC
MYNCI, CATATONIA, AND I THINK 60FT DOLLS IF THEY'RE WELSH.  I'M SURE SOMEONE
WILL LET ME KNOW.
10.  A Brimful Of Asha on the WHAT?  (1)
45 - AND IT'S RE=RELEASED IN THE UK ON 16TH FEB WITH NEW MIXES SO YOU'D BETTER
BUY IT.
11.  Name Embrace's debut single and record label it appeared on.  (2)
NOT FIREWORKS EP BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY 'ALL YOU GOOD GOOD PEOPLE' WHICH
ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON FIERCE PANDA BEFORE IT'S BIG SUCCESS ON THE HUT LABEL.
12.  Name any three singles which have been re-released under different mixes.
(3)
ANY YOU LIKE REALLY.  HURRICANE #1, KENICKIE, ELTON JOHN, HOT CHOCOLATE,
MIDGET, STING (TWICE) AND LOADS MORE REALLY.
13.  Who, if we take everything he says literally, does Thom Yorke want to be?
(1)
JIM MORISSON - IN THE SONG 'ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR'
14.  Complete the sequence...
        I?CP?WSHIWMB?MSRSCPNP?CCO?NINCAMGIFC   (10)
THIS IS, OF COURSE, THE TRACK LISTING FROM KENICKIE'S LP 'AT THE CLUB' WITH
JUST THE INITIALS OF EACH TRACK!  SO THE MISSING LETTERS ARE:
in *Y*our car, people *W*e want, spies, how i was made, brother *J*ohn,
millionaire sweeper, robot song, classy, punka, nightlife, p*V*c, come out
*2*nite, i never complain, acetone, montrose gimps it up for charity.
15.  Name the only duo to have two top 40 mid-price LPs in 1997.   (2)
OF COURSE IT WAS MARK RADCLIFFE AND THE HAPLESS BOY LARD WHO HAD MID-PRICE
HITS WITH THE SHIREHORSES' LP AND THE BEST BITS FROM THE EVENING SHOW.  SNEAKY
BUT TRUE.
16.  "That worm-pie you made me, you made me eat from the butchers" : By whom,
and what is it?   (2)
THE *EXCELLENT* SILVER SUN WITH 'LAVA' - TOP TUNE INDEED.
17.  "I stole his shoes and ran away trying jolly hard to see if we could
catch him round the bend" : Again - artist and track please.   (2)
MORE PEOPLE GOT THIS THAN I THOUGHT - STAND UP IF YOU CAN UNASHAMEDLY NAME
MENSWE at R'S 'I'LL MANAGE SOMEHOW'.  YOU SAD PEOPLE.  BUT I WAS THE ONE WHO PUT
IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.  DAMN ME.
18.  Gene's debut single only half appears on the debut album.  How and what
is it?   (2)
IT IS 'FOR THE DEAD' AND WAS ONLY ON AN AMERICAN IMPORT OF THE LP 'OLYMPIAN'.
HOWEVER IT ALSO APPEARED ON A B-SIDES COMPILATION  'TO SEE THE LIGHTS' IN
*TWO* TRACKS, ONE OF THEM THE SECRET TRACK AT THE END AND SO THIS WOULD GET
YOU THE MARK TOO.
19.  What year was Babies by Pulp released?   (2)
ORIGINALLY 1992 AS A SINGLE, THEN RE-RELEASED IN 1994 AS A-SIDE ON THE
'SISTERS EP' AND THEN AGAIN IN 1997, AGAIN ON THE 'SISTERS EP' WHEN THE OLD
VINTAGE PULP WAS RE-RELEASED.
20.  So Make Sure That she's old enough, before.... What?   (1)
"YOU BLOW YOUR MIND" WOULD GET YOU THE MARK.  U16 GIRLS BY TRAVIS.  EXCELLENT!

I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!!
Sarah 

"It's not unusual to be loooved by anyone.."
                --Tom Jones, the MAN!
blowing his sexual bugle in the orchestra of luuurve!
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