The whisper from Canberra is...

Originally Posted by cfsmtb

The rest of it? Give me 24 hours, several javas & pray that the SBS TdF coverage doesn't stuff up again this evening (bit scary at approx 11.30pm wasn't it viewers?)

Originally Posted by Fred Nieman

cfsmtb wrote:
> BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?
*** 80s Videos ***
1. Where were the outside shots of the vid for "Let's Dance" done? (10
points)
2. Was the video for "I hear Motion" in black and white or colour? (5
points)
3. What was the dancing animal in the "I hear Motion" vid? (15 points)
4. What was the instrument first heard used by an Australian band in "I
hear Motion" (15 points)
5. What band were James Freud and Sean Kelly in together before The
Models? (15 points)
*** Getting a little bit 90s 80s questions ***
6. In the inside back page of the May 1993 edition of The Face (the
paragon of 80s magazines) , there was an interview with Frank Black. He
said, "We stole the whole flannellette shirt thing from Big Country".
True or false, roughly?
7. Just below the interview was written, "An 80s revival - you heard it
here first." True or false, roughly?
(20 points each. Warning: trick questions)
8. Black Francis and Kim Deal wrote Pixies songs about, respectively,
female and male ... ummm... [blushes deeply] erm... genitalia. Name
them (the songs, not the [ears go bright pink], ahem, girl- and
boy-bits). (20 points each)
*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.
10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)
11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)
12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)
*** Japan was big in the 80s questions ***
OK, OK, David Sylvian wasn't annoying, except for his vocals on
"Forbidden Colours".
13. Name
- the movie it was used in (15 points)
- who guy wrote the music for movie (15 points)
- the band the guy who wrote the music for movie was in (in the opinion
of many Rawk Journalists, the people who, along with Yello and
Kraftwerk, invented Techno, btw) (15 points)
- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)
Bonus points if you can say what "forbidden colours" is in Japanese (20
points), and what the double meaning "forbidden colours" in Japanese is
(30 points).
Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)
15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)
*** 80s short people questions ***
16. Nick Kershaw proved that pleated, high-waisted narrow-cuffed pants
definitely need to come back into fashion immediately. True or False?
(for short males: 0 points; for anyone else: 10 points)
17. Multiple choice: Jon Moss briefly played drums for which punk band?
a) Buzzcocks
b) The Slits
c) The Clash
d) The Damned
(20 points)
18. Jon and George tangent: what was written on the mugs the Clubbers
sipped their cocoa at the end of the video for "Time (Clock of the
Heart)"? (5 points for each mug)
*** Extreme 80s U2 Trivia question ***
19. At the end of the vinyl version (not the CD, unfortunately) of
"Boy", The Edge plays the guitar riff of which song that would later
appear on "October"? (1 point for people whose 17 year old (since you
got your "P"s at 17 in Tasmania) brother subjected them to all the then
4 U2 albums every morning for months on end as he drove them to school;
50 points for everyone else)
*** Special Tasmanian Section: ***
20. "Outside Coles on a Saturday night/"
- Song Title (5 points)
- Artiste (5 points)
- Suburb (10 points)
- 10 bonus points for any more lyrics; 10 x points for any non-Tasmanian
answers.