Infinite MonkeysWell, H.L. has called me out. My last quiz wasn't "nearly snobby enough." Fine, then. It's still all rock and roll, but I'll throw some snobby at you:
1. Best ZTT and/or Trevor Horn-produced album.
2. Best album by a band with a former Bauhaus member.
3. Best all-covers album by a single band.
4. Best album by a group local to the town you were born/raised.
5. Best album from the Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven family.
6. Best album featuring Robert Fripp where Fripp was not a part of the band.
7. Best album featuring former member(s) of King Crimson.
8. Best Smiths 12" Single.
9. Best cover version of a Smiths song.
10. Best album featuring Johnny Marr OTHER than a Smiths album.
Monkey RobbL's answers:
1. Propaganda - A Secret Wish [runner up: (Who's Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise]
2. Tones On Tail - "Pop"
3. Trip Shakespeare - Volt [runner up: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through The Looking Glass]
4. Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
5. Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie [runner up: Monks of Doom - Meridian]
6. David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
7. Bruford - Feels Good To Me
8. Panic (b/w "Vicar In A Tutu" and "The Draize Train")
9. The Dream Academy - "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" [runners-up: Bobby Bare, Jr. - "What Difference Does It Make" and Mikael Erentxun - "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagara (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out)"]
10. Kirsty MacColl - Kite
1. Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? (my wife would lobby for The Lexicon of Love)
2. Burning From the Inside
3. completely at a loss
4. Dj Z-Trip "Shifting Gears" (only full album, though I'd like to list a "mixtape" live Christmas performance of his featuring Radar) [props to Meat Puppets II}
5. Honestly only really know Key Lime Pie. Not too snobby.
6. David Sylvian "Gone to Earth" About this there can be no debate.
7. Peter Gabriel's "So" - Tony Levin [The Bears (Adrian Belew)]
8. Never Had No Smiths 12" Singles Ever
9. Never Had No One Ever - Billy Bragg
10. The The - Mind Bomb
I've been answering the quizzes without seeing anyone's answers beforehand. Funny the overlaps, particularly when I've felt that my answers disqualified me for "snobbiness." Wish I'd thought of Siouxsie's "Through the Looking Glass."
Posted by: Monkey Brad at July 30, 2006 08:32 PM1. Seal/Seal
2. Tones on Tail/Tones on Tail
3. Yo La Tengo/Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics
4. Telephone Free Landslide Victory
5. Telephone Free... hey, lookit that!
6. Peter Gabriel I
7. Yes/The Yes Album -- yeah, Bill Bruford hadn't been in King Crimson yet, so sue me
8. Ask (b/w Cemetry Gates and Golden Lights)
9. Ha. I will not respond to questions that have no answers.
10. What, ho! Again with your trickery? Begone, varlet!
I haven't heard Billy Bragg's "Never Had No One Ever" - I'll have to track that down. He does a great cover of "Back To The Old House" as well.
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at July 31, 2006 02:08 PMTones on Tail was tough. I didn't want to wuss out and pick the "Everything!" disc, and I love "Burning Skies" more than you know, but I had to go with Pop! over the first album.
Yo La Tengo has another good covers album called "Fakebook" - and I've never heard "...Murdering the Classics" because it's not on eMusic, but I love this description, which certainly cements your snob-cred.
Lucky you growing up in Santa Cruz!
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at July 31, 2006 02:20 PMYeah, Tones on Tail was a bit of cheat. I could either go with "Pop!" or one of the half-dozen compilations, and I decided to wuss out and go with a comp (for the record, I was referring to the 1990 CD release of "Tones on Tail" with nearly all of "Pop!" tacked onto it.) If you were to press me, I'd probably pick "Pop!" as well. Wherever "Real Life" goes, I go.
"...Murdering the Classics" is hilarious, but you will only feel compelled to listen to it once. Which is once more than I feel compelled to listen to most covers albums.
Oh, and the Camper van Beethoven/hometown link was a cheat, too; the band was never based in Redlands, CA, as far as I know, but David Lowery is from there. There just weren't a lot of other options hailing from the heart of the Inland Empire.
Posted by: Poochucker at July 31, 2006 07:08 PM