Kia ora koutou ē hoa mā
Friday got away from me, and since I have a firm “no emails at the weekend” policy (which even applies to fun emails like lyrics quiz answers), I’m just marking the quiz now.
Two songs were correctly identified by everyone who submitted an answer last week: “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” from Meat Loaf and “Take Me to Church” from Hozier; The Smiths’ “Meat is Murder” caused the most confusion.
1960s: “Food, Glorious Food”, Oliver!
1970s: “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2”, Pink Floyd
1980s: “Meat is Murder”, The Smiths
1990s: “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, Meat Loaf
2010s (A): “Take Me to Church”, Hozier
2010s (B): “MOOO!”, Doja Cat
Your leaderboard this week:
🥇 on 12/12: Lore in Order, Megan and The Chamberlains, Vercisca, Kimberley and Ilona ft. Hayden, Team LSP, Team Impoverished, The Bögan Crüe, BSA Team, and WDPTBTI
🥈 on 11.5/12: All The World's A Song, and Siobhan M
🥉 on 11/12: Bex K
This week’s quiz shall be out in a second!
Kirsti.
1960s: “Food, Glorious Food”, Oliver!
Just picture a great big steak
Fried, roasted or stewed
Oh, food
Wonderful food
Marvellous food
Glorious food
Hint: This song is from a musical based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It’s the most famous song from this musical. I had to sing it at school several years in a row. I hate this song. Song title in lyrics quoted.
1970s: “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2”, Pink Floyd
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
Wrong, do it again!
Wrong, do it again!
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
(Wrong, do it again!)
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Hint: I love this song. As I explained to one of my friends the other day, sometimes you just want to listen to a rock opera from the 70s about a jaded rock star creating a wall of social isolation and going insane. You probably know this band from that song about shining on, you crazy diamond. Song title (mostly) in lyrics quoted.
1980s: “Meat is Murder”, The Smiths
It's not natural, normal or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour of murder
Hint: This song is a pro-vegetarian song from the band that brought us “How Soon is Now?” and “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” that took vegetarianism to a new height in popular media. At the time when this song was recorded, animal welfare wasn’t as mainstream of an issue as it is now, and the frontman on this band forbade the rest of the band from being photographed eating meat. Song title not in lyrics quoted, but is a very famous vegetarian/vegan/animal rights slogan.
1990s: “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, Meat Loaf
After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on
I won't do that
I won't do that
I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
Sooner or later you'll be screwin' around
I won't do that
No, I won't do that
Anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
Hint: As the original album version of this song is 12:01 minutes of over-the-top power ballad rock, it gets cut down to 5:13 minutes for the radio version - which usually takes out the stuff that he won’t do, which I have kindly included for you. You’re welcome. You may know this bat out of hell (a favourite of mine, who I’ve seen twice in concert) from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Dead Ringer” (with Cher!), and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. Song title in lyrics quoted.
2010s (A): “Take Me to Church”, Hozier
If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
Drain the whole sea, get somethin' shiny
Somethin' meaty for the main course
That's a fine lookin' high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starvin' faithful
That looks tasty, that looks plenty
This is hungry work
Hint: This is the debut single by an Irish recording artist who had a big hit this year with his song “Too Sweet”. Despite its widespread and international success, this artist was a struggling musician when he recorded the song. And in fact, it wasn’t until the music video — a critique of Russia’s anti-LGBT+ policy, which some audiences have found controversial — went viral that the song attracted attention. It turns up in a LOT of media; one of my favourite videos using it is an interpretive dance video featuring British Royal Ballet veteran Sergei Polunin performing choreography by Jade Hale-Christofi. Song title not in lyrics quoted; refers to a place many people often go to on a Sunday.
2010s (B): “MOOO!”, Doja Cat
(Moo, moo, moo, moo, moo, moo moo moo)
Tryna make moves, tryna make moves
Got milk, b*tch? Got beef? (Got beef?)
Got steak, ho? Got cheese? (Got it)
Grade A, ho, not lean (Not lean)
Got me A1, sauce, please
These heifers got nothin' on me
Hint: I used this fun tongue-in-cheek rap song about cows last year in a zodiac-themed quiz. This song became a viral hit within a matter of days of it’s release and features many cow-related references and puns. The artist, born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, took her stage name partially from her favourite strand of weed and partially from the type of pet she had. Other songs of hers you may know are “Kiss Me More” ft. SZA, “Get Into It (Yuh)”, “Need to Know” and “Say So” - I particularly like her song “Boss B*tch” from the Birds of Prey soundtrack. Song title in lyrics quoted.
