Good afternoon friends
A convenient day to be a goth who always dresses in black anyway, and that’s all I’ll say about that.
I feel this was a good level of quiz - there were some who absolutely blitzed it (as usual), and there were a few headscratchers. So I hope you enjoyed it.
Our quiz next week is going to be super sweet - because it’s being written by a guest quizmaster, thereby sparing me the need to write the hints or actually use my brain at all this weekend. An excellent outcome.
This week, everyone who sent answers in correctly identified Train’s “Drops of Jupiter”, with Taylor Swift’s “I Bet You Think About Me” causing the most confusion.
This week’s leaderboard:
🥇 on 12/12: Megan and The Chamberlains, All the world’s a song, Statistically Unsound, DC Lyfers, Team BSA, and The Weevils
🥈 on 11/12: Kathleen Turner Overdrive, Vercisca, Team Impoverished, and The Bögan Crüe
🥉 on 10/12: R&E team, Team Collins Plumbing and Gas, and Siobhan M
Have an excellent weekend.
Kirsti.
1960s: “I Only Want To Be With You”, Dusty Springfield
It doesn't matter where you go or what you do
I want to spend each moment of the day with you
Oh, look what has happened with just one kiss
I never knew that I could be in love like this
It's crazy but it's true
I only want to be with you
Hint: I know her best from her song about loving the son of a preacher man, but this English singer’s career spanned over five decades. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a significant singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her image – marked by a peroxide blonde bouffant/beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and eye shadow) and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances – made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties. Her family name is the link to this week’s theme, and her name as a whole could be thought of as what happens when the Simpson’s home hasn’t been cleaned in a while.
1970s (band): “Stairway to Heaven”, Led Zeppelin
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Hint: One of the greatest guitar solos of all time. That’s it, that’s the hint.
1970s (solo): “Jolene”, Dolly Parton
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you
Hint: Perhaps the biggest hit from this American country music superstar who personally donated $1 million towards research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing her legacy as being just…super awesome (it takes a lot of money to look this cheap). She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has twice turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and has a species of lichen found growing in the southern Appalachians named after her in honour of her music and her efforts to bring national and global attention to that region. According to this artist, the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband, Carl Dean, at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married, though the name and appearance of the woman this song is sung about are based on a young fan who came on stage for an autograph.
2000s (US): “Drops of Jupiter”, Train
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change, hey
Since the return of her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey
Hint: Along with “Hey, Soul Sister”, this is one of the biggest hits from an American pop band named after a form of transport once nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’.
2000s (NZ): “All On Our Own”, Midnight Youth
Silver spoons and crimson moons
Are all I have here to show
But breezing
Through my Spanish spring time
The keys to freedom
They're faulting me
They're making me believe
Hint: This band came together while at Rangitoto College in Auckland's North Shore with three members of the band playing together in Rockquest, with the last two members joining in mid-2006. This song was the most-played song on NZ radio for 2009, and it’s title vaguely means “by ourselves”. The band name is two words: one a time of day/the name of an espresso joint on Wellington’s Cuba Street, and the other “the period between childhood and adult age”.
2020s: “I Bet You Think About Me”, Taylor Swift
But you know what they say, you can't help who you fall for
And you and I fell like an early spring snow
But reality crept in, you said we're too different
You laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokes
Hint: When she re-recorded her fourth studio album Red to regain control of the masters, this lyrics quiz staple included a number of new songs “From the Vault”, including this tongue-in-cheek country ballad poking fun at an ex-lover's luxurious and pretentious lifestyle.
