1. A song on this album repeats variations of the line “do away with people wasting my precious time” and the line “know I love you baby, yes I do”. Another song on this album includes the lyrics “one begins to read between the pages of a look, the shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked”. Those songs are 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds and Comin’ Back to Me. A rabbi named Marshak quotes a song from this album during a meeting with Danny Gopnik. Three songs from this album are played in that film, A Serious Man. The first song on this album includes the lyrics “your mind's guaranteed, it's all you'll ever need, so what do you want with me?”. A song on this album includes the lyrics “when the men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go”. That song on this album begins with the lyrics “one pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small” and another song begins with the line “when the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies”. For ten points, identify this 1967 album by Jefferson Airplane that includes the lyrics White Rabbit and Somebody to Love.
ANSWER: Surrealistic Pillow
2. This band’s debut album ends with a song that includes the lyrics “I dream of a living jungle, I’m on my way back home, couldn’t find shyer”. A 1996 album by this band begins with the song How The West Was Won and Where It Got Us, which includes the lyrics “the story is a sad one, told many times”.This band’s lead singer planned on collaborating with Kurt Cobain before his death, and wrote the song Let Me In about him. A song by this band includes the lyrics “put it in your hands, take it, take it, there’s no time to cry, happy, happy”. The first track on this band’s album grunge-influenced Monster takes its name from a quote said while a man assaulted Dan Rather. Another song by this band includes the lyrics “and I don’t know if I can do it, all though I’ve said too much, I haven’t said enough” and “that’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spot”. For ten points, identify this alt rock band fronted by Michael Stipe behind albums like Out of Time and Automatic for the People and songs like Shiny Happy People and Losing My Religion.
ANSWER: R.E.M.
3. Songs on this band’s awful EP titled This Is Your band name include Forever and Again and Tiger In My Tank. Performances of a song by this band would end with the repetition of a single chord for an average of 15 minutes, sometimes called the “holocaust section”. That song by this band includes the lyrics “what did you say you'd find, then come, come, come, get the hell inside” and “don't hate me 'cause I don't hate you, insane eyes”. Songs on this band’s 2013 pseudo self-titled album include Only Tomorrow and Wonder 2, which incorporates drum and bass elements. A song by this band includes the almost indecipherable lyrics “sleep like a pillow downward and, where she won't care anywhere”. That song, Only Shallow, is the first song on this band’s 1991 album, the cover of which is a heavily filtered pink picture of a guitar. For ten points, identify this Irish shoegaze band lead by Kevin Shields known for their album Loveless, whose follow-up took 22 years to materialize.
ANSWER: My Bloody Valentine
4. This band experimented with spoken word on an album which features the Salt on a Slug and the unusually long song Armageddon Man. An early song by this band, Nervous Breakdown, includes the lyrics “I’m crazy and I’m hurt, head on my shoulders” and featured the vocals of Keith Morris, who would leave shortly after. Greg Ginn, who reformed this band in 2013 without its most famous member, also runs the SST record label. A song by this band includes the lyrics “we’ve got nothing better to do, than to watch TV and have a couple brews” and lists “Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Fridays”. Another song by this includes the lyrics “I’ve got a six pack and nothing to do, I got a six pack and I don’t need you”. Those songs are on this band’s album Damaged, which begins with a song that includes the lyrics “we are tired of your abuse, try to stop us, it’s no use”. For ten points, identify this hardcore punk band fronted by Henry Rollins behind the songs TV Party and Rise Above.
ANSWER: Black Flag
5. The eponymous fanzine of this movement was founded by Alison Wolfe and several others in Washington D.C. after civil unrest in 1991, which informed its name. Perhaps the first band in this movement was the grunge band L7, whose self-titled album includes the songs Bite the Wax Tadpole and Ms. 45. Other bands in this movement include Heaven to Betsy, Excuse 17, and Bratmobile. A foundational band in this movement recorded the albums Pussy Whipped and Reject All American before disbanding under the duress of negative media attention, A band in this movement recorded the songs Miss World, Doll Parts, and Violet on their album Live Through This. That band, who recorded a song with the lyrics “oh, make me over, I'm all I wanna be, a walking study in demonology” and “hey, so glad you could make it” is lead by Courtney Love. For ten points, identify this feminist punk scene that developed out of the Pacific Northwest in the 90s lead by bands like Bikini Kill and Hole.
ANSWER: Riot grrrl
6. A song by this band includes the lyrics “yesterday I got so scared, I shivered like a child, yesterday away from you, it froze me deep inside” and another song by this band includes the lyrics “pleasure fills up my dream. Those songs, Inbetween Days and The Baby Screamsare on this band’s album Head in the Door. Tracks on this band’s album Disintegration include Plainsong, Lullaby, and Fascination Street. A song by this band includes the lyrics “I would say I’m sorry, if I thought that would change your mind” and “I tried to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies”. Another song by this band includes the lyrics “Sunday comes, Monday you can fall apart, Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart, Thursday doesn't even start”. For ten points, identify this gothic rock band known for the songs Boys Don’t Cry and Friday I’m In Love.
ANSWER: The Cure
7. This artist along with keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule sang on songs like Hoochie Coochie Woman and Gambler, Gambler in the band Elf. On one song, this artist sang “beware of a place, a smile of a bright shining face, I’ll never return, how do you know?”. On another song, this artist sang “in the heat and the rain, with whips and chains, just to see him fly, so many died” and “I see a rainbow rising, up there, on the horizon”. Those songs, Tarot Woman and Stargazer, appear on the 1976 album Rising by Rainbow. In a band named after him, this artist sang “got shiny diamonds, like the eyes of a cat in the black and blue” on the song Holy Diver. After Ozzy Osbourne’s drug problems came to a head, this artist replaced him as the frontman of Black Sabbath. For ten points, name this metal singer known for his soaring high voice and love for medieval fantasy lyrics who passed away in 2010.
ANSWER: Ronnie James Dio
8. A song by this artist includes the lyrics “that fits me like a quarter door, that hits me like a sound, it's like you shut on me, or shouldn't be around”. That song, A Winner Needs A Wand, is on this artist’s debut album A Sun Came along with songs like Dumb I Sound and The Oracle Said Wonder. The first track on this artist’s 2010 album includes the lyrics “but you are life I needed all along, I think of you as my brother, although that sounds dumb”. An album by this artist includes tracks like Romulus, Tahquamenon Falls, and Crooked River, Alanson about places in his home state. A song by this artist asks “should I tear my eyes out now, everything I see returns to you somehow”. Another song by this artist describes “my black shroud, holding down my feelings” and repeats the line “oh, be my rest, be my fantasy”. For ten points, identify this twee artist behind the songs The Only Thing and Should Have Known Better on his album Carrie & Lowell.
ANSWER: Sufjan Stevens (accept any exaggeratedly bad pronunciation of Sufjan)
9. A song on this album includes the lyrics “the savage soldier sticks his head in sand, and then complains, unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf, but still remains”. Another song on this album repeats the lines “I wish I was on some Australian mountain range” and “ain’t gonna hang no picture”. Those songs, Gates of Eden and Outlaw Blues are the ninth and tenth tracks on this album. Another song on this album notably covered by the Byrds repeatedly asks the title character to “play a song for me, I’m not sleepy and there’s no place I’m going to”. This album begins with the lyrics “Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine, I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the government” in a song that tells of a “man in the coon-skip cap in the pig pen” who “wants 11 dollar bills and you only got ten”. For ten points, identify this 1965 Bob Dylan album with an electric side and acoustic side, released before Highway 61 Revisited, that features Subterranean Homesick Blues and Mr. Tambourine Man.
ANSWER: Bringing It All Back Home
10. This band’s largely ignored debut album, This Might Just Be… The Truth, includes songs like Pump the Brakes, Trickbag, and Our Silence. A 2015 song by this band about colonial exploitation of Africa repeats the chant “exterminate the brutes, exterminate all the brutes”. That song, Francafrique, appears on this band’s latest album alongside the songs Useless Europeans and Elektra. The album cover for this band’s most famous album claims it is a “chimerical bombination in 12 bursts”. The title track of that album includes the lyrics “we’re all dressed up we got nowhere to go” and “we’ve all been bitten, we’ve all been shut down”, and another song repeats the line “we want the airwaves back”. Another song by this band, New Noise, repeats the lines “we dance to all the wrongs songs, we enjoy all the wrong moves”. A song on that album is simply titled this band Are Fucking Dead, which titled a letter they published after going on hiatus for 11 years. For ten points, identify this Swedish punk band best known for the album Shape of Punk to Come.
ANSWER: Refused
11. A song on this album includes the lyrics “promise me baby you won't let them find us, hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us”. The last song on this album includes the lyrics “words were passed, then a shotgun blast, troubled times had come to my hometown” before repeating “this is your hometown”. A song on this album describes the title time period with the lyrics “well, they’ll pass you by” and “in the wink of a young girl’s eye”. The cover of this album is a picture of the artist’s back, who is wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, in front of a U.S. flag. A song on this album includes the lyrics “you can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark”. The title song of this album, chronically misunderstood by Republican politicians, begins with the lyrics “born down in a dead man’s town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground”. For ten points, identify this 1984 album by Bruce Springsteen that also includes the songs Dancing in the Dark and Glory Days.
ANSWER: Born in the U.S.A.
12. In a book titled this artist: Lost and Found, producer Jim Dickinson explained that he removed the seventh from his boogie rhythms and repeated the fifth and sixth because of his musical upbringing in church music. This artist’s 39th album Last Man Standing, released in 2006, is a collection of duets with other rock legends that is surprisingly his best-selling album. In one song, this artist sings “well, I'm just out of school, I'm real real cool, I got the jump, got the jive, got the message, I'm alive”. This artist recorded a successful version of a song that includes the lyrics “I said come on over baby, baby you can't go wrong, we ain't fakin', whole lotta shakin' goin' on”. Another song by this artist begins with the lyrics “you shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane, you broke my will but what a thrill”. This artist’s career was greatly damaged from the revelation that he had married his 13-year-old first cousin. For ten points, identify this ‘murican rocker behind the song Great Balls of Fire.
ANSWER: Jerry Lee Lewis
13. A progressive band named for one of these beings released the albums Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends, and Octopus in the early 70s. A band named for one of these beings recorded a song with the lyrics “I know politics bore you, but I feel like a hypocrite talking to you, and your racist friend”. Another song by that band includes the lyrics “make a hole with a gun perpendicular, to the name of this town in a desktop globe” and repeats the line “Ana Ng and I are getting old”. That band is better known for a theme song that claims “and you’re not so big” and “my life is unfair”, and a cover of a novelty song by the Four Lads that includes the lyrics “even old New York was once New Amsterdam” and “that’s nobody’s business but the Turks”. For ten points, identify these beings that title a band that recorded the songs Istanbul (not Constantinople) and Boss of Me, the theme song of Malcom in the Middle.
ANSWER: Giants
14. A song by this band concludes with the lyrics “to think is a sin, to think is a sin, long may his world never begin”. A song by this band was performed as Black Hole Man before becoming the title track of one their albums and includes a section where every line begins with the words “Joseph is”. The current line-up of this band includes the dulcimer and percussion of Thor Harris. A song by this band pauses before the declaration “I’ll steal all the oxygen”. An album by this band includes the song Avatar that includes the lyrics “your light is in my hand” and “your eye is in my eye”; the title song of that album repeats the lyrics “I see it all, I see it all, I see it all”. Another song by this band includes the screaming of “Toussaint L'overture! Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!” on the track Bring the Sun. For ten points, identify this eccentric rock band fronted by Michael Gira behind albums like The Glowing Man, To Be Kind, and The Seer.
ANSWER: Swans
15. This band has formed a supergroup with the band Sparks and have recorded the songs Call Girl and Johnnyg Delusional. A song by this band includes the lyrics “did I see you in a limousine, flinging out the fish and the unleavened, turn the rich into wine”. That song, The Fallen, is the first track on this band’s album You Could Have It So Much Better. A song by this band includes the lyrics “when I woke up tonight I said I’m, going to make somebody love me” before asking “do you, do you want go, want to go where I’d never let you before”. Another song by this band begins with the lyrics “so if you're lonely, you know I'm here waiting for you, I'm just a cross-hair, I'm just a shot away from you” before the chorus that repeats the line “I say, don’t you know, you say you don’t know, I say” before the title phrase. For ten points, identify this Scottish band named for a slain historical figure known for songs like Do You Want To and Take Me Out.
ANSWER: Franz Ferdinand
16. A song on this album describes a woman with a castle “and I just couldn't believe my eyes, she had so many devices, everything that money could buy”. That song, Darling Nikki, is the fifth track on this album after The Beautiful Ones and Computer Blue. A song on this album begins with the spoken lines “dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called life” over the sound of a church organ. The film with the same name as this album is about “The Kid”, the frontman of the band the Revolution,who is played by the artist behind the music. A song on this album includes the lyrics “maybe I'm just like my father: too bold, maybe you're just like my mother, she's never satisfied, why do we scream at each other?”. The title track includes the line “I only wanted to see you bathing in the” title weather phenomenon. For ten points, identify this 1984 album by Prince that includes the songs Let’s Get Crazy and When Doves Cry.