Weekly Rock n Roll Trivia

[The Gipper]

Maybe next week I will tailor a trivia quiz around the music you whippersnappers listen to. What era/genre would you like me to come up with some stuff?

I mean, how much of Right Said Fred, Ace of Base and Hanson can I come up with?

[Westside Steve]

Very good and sucks balls are subjective descriptors.

I recently heard a couple radio personalities yammering about rock music stating one of them believed that Green Day was one of the greatest 5 American groups of all time.

My personal opinion is that no group comes close to the Beatles for influence and impact in the United States and worldwide. And it is unlikely with the explosion of media that there will ever be another in that category.

WSS

[The Gipper]

@the-gipper said:

I have been doing this on Facebook for a while now. Here is a set of 5 R&R Trivia questions that I posted today.

Here is your weekly Rock n Roll Trivia Quiz: 5 questions:

1. What was the name of Ted Nugents band?

2. What popular TV Theme song did Janis Joplin record as a birthday present for John Lennon?

3. What does the BJ stand for in BJ Thomas? (Raindrops singer)

4. What colleges did Kris Kristofferson attend?

5. What 2 rock icons died in the same apartment 4 years apart?

I will give the answers since you all have seem to forgotten what this thread is supposed to be about:

1. The Amboy Dukes

2. Happy Trails, Roy Rogers show song

3. Billie Joe

4. Pomona College and Oxford

5. Mama Cass Elliot and Keith Moon.

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

http://www.rockandrollgps.com/the-apartment-where-keith-moon-and-mama-cass-elliot-died/

[Westside Steve]

@the-gipper said:

I will give the answers since you all have seem to forgotten what this thread is supposed to be about:

1. The Amboy Dukes

2. Happy Trails, Roy Rogers show song

3. Billie Joe

4. Pomona College and Oxford

5. Mama Cass Elliot and Keith Moon.

I would guess Billy Joe would be spelled with a Y and not an IE.

WSS

[The Gipper]

@westside-steve said:

I would guess Billy Joe would be spelled with a Y and not an IE.

WSS

Not if I am doing an Ode to him.

[Westside Steve]

@the-gipper said:

Not if I am doing an Ode to him.

Then I stand corrected. I was under the foolish impression that you were talking about his actual name.

WSS

[The Cysko Kid]

@westside-steve said:

I would guess Billy Joe would be spelled with a Y and not an IE.

WSS

I'm pretty sure Billie joe Armstrong from green day at least is spelled like that

[The Cysko Kid]

I'm not going to respond further to Gipper's "get off my lawn you damn kids" posts. If you're not going to give music that's not in your generation it's due that's fine but you can't stop it from earning it's place in the zeitgeist.

[Westside Steve]

@the-cysko-kid said:

I'm pretty sure Billie joe Armstrong from green day at least is spelled like that

So we are actually talking about the old song and Green Day rather than BJ Thomas' name?

Thanks for the update.

WSS

[gftChris]

@the-gipper said:

Maybe next week I will tailor a trivia quiz around the music you whippersnappers listen to. What era/genre would you like me to come up with some stuff?

I mean, how much of Right Said Fred, Ace of Base and Hanson can I come up with?

You seem to have the impression that most modern music was originated by one hit wonders, whereas I have a slightly opposite feeling. It's just the era we grew up in that dictates our core tastes, then we hear bits and piece from elsewhere. Bands like Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, Blink, Green Day, Offspring - these guys were/have been around for decades.

On the other hand, the music scene these days is less 'out of control' - at least relative to the rest of society - that the things they do seem trivial (if you'll excuse the pun) in comparison to the who, the stones etc.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Only in here could you have people getting pissed about music time periods. Who gives a fuck what someone else thinks? Its what you like that matters.

[Westside Steve]

I think you are correct Chris.

Still there's a big difference between a band having longevity over 50 years then 30.

And a huge amount of hit music today as well as 50 years ago is recorded by one or two hit wonders.

WSS

[gftChris]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Only in here could you have people getting pissed about music time periods. Who gives a fuck what someone else thinks? Its what you like that matters.

I'm not sure anybody's getting pissed about it, just having discussions.

[The Gipper]

@the-cysko-kid said:

I'm not going to respond further to Gipper's "get off my lawn you damn kids" posts. If you're not going to give music that's not in your generation it's due that's fine but you can't stop it from earning it's place in the zeitgeist.

Here is what you can do: your own set of music. I put up stuff that I know, because I know it. I just don't know much about newer stuff because I don't follow it.

Me doing 2000s music would be like me trying to do European soccer trivia. I just don't know anything about it, and honestly....do you think there would be equal interest in "newer music trivia" than in "older music trivia? You tell me.

Maybe what I will do is to try to come up with something this week for newer music. Though I don't know much about it myself, I can do some research.

[The Cysko Kid]

@gftchris said:

You seem to have the impression that most modern music was originated by one hit wonders, whereas I have a slightly opposite feeling. It's just the era we grew up in that dictates our core tastes, then we hear bits and piece from elsewhere. Bands like Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, Blink, Green Day, Offspring - these guys were/have been around for decades.

On the other hand, the music scene these days is less 'out of control' - at least relative to the rest of society - that the things they do seem trivial (if you'll excuse the pun) in comparison to the who, the stones etc.

Some other music that's joined the ranks of classic rock from "my generation" nirvana, pearl jam, guns and roses, foo fighters, Metallica, Stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins, soundgarden. The white stripes maybe. The black keys maybe. Give them a few more years. Oasis and blur have more or less faded away over here but Coldplay is still going strong.

Some of those bands notably Metallica and Nirvana will be seen as being as noteworthy as almost everyone that's gone before (excepting only elvis and the beatles)