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---Mixtape---A charity pop music tournament organized by Harris Bunker for The Lansing Food BankSummer 2019Packet By: William Golden and Sam Brochin Tossups: 1. Paul Mann played this character in a 1971 film adaptation of a musical; in that film, when this character says he is emigrating to Chicago, another character says they will be neighbors since he is moving to New York. In a misunderstanding, the protagonist believes this character wants to buy a milk cow from him. Rapper Vince Staples voices the title character of an Adult Swim show whose name references this theatrical character. This character makes a toast to his future wife in the song “To Life,” although she ends up marrying (*) Motel instead. The matchmaker Yente first states this wealthy character has proposed marriage to Tzeitel, one of the four daughters of Tevye. For 10 points, name this village butcher in Fiddler on the Roof who sounds like he is a lupine device that produces a beam of light.ANSWER: Lazar Wolf [or Lazar Wolf; or Lazor Wulf; or Lazor Wulf] 2. In 2015, a fake podcast purportedly hosted by the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne duped music blogs into thinking this band released a song titled “Helicopter Dream (I’m Awake).” The hidden track “Wherever You Go” appears after a song by this band that repeats “It’s a strange paradise” titled “Irene.” They share their name with an unrelated series of mixtapes by Ty Dolla $ign. The song “Dark Spring” opens a 2018 album by this band that contains a song asking what happens “when you turn the lights down low” titled (*) “Lemon Glow.” This band sings “I’ll take care of you/If you ask me to” in their song “Take Care,” while another song repeats the phrase “fall back into place.” Alex Scally and vocalist Victoria Legrand comprise this band, whose albums include Teen Dream, Bloom, and Depression Cherry. For 10 points, name this dream pop band whose songs include “Myth” and “Space Song.”ANSWER: Beach House 3. In a review of the album on which this song appears, Lester Bangs described the main part of this song as “some cannibal chorus wailing in the infernal light of a savage fertility rite”. This song was often preceded in live sets by a short instrumental known as “LA Drone”. A cover of this song by Trent Reznor and Karen O plays over the opening credits of David Fincher’s (*) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Jack Black and Richard Linklater used a screaming crowd of 1,000 fans to get approval to use of this song in School of Rock. In a famous recent use of this song, it plays while a man riding a lightning bolt descends in slow motion onto a horde of attackers, in the climax of Thor: Ragnarok. This song features numerous references to Vikings and Norse mythology, such as the line “Valhalla, I am coming”. For 10 points, give this song from Led Zeppelin’s third self-titled album, which begins with the line “We come from the land of the ice and snow”?ANSWER: “Immigrant Song”4. In the Phineas and Ferb song “Set the Record Straight”, Jeremy attempts to inform Candace of this concept, but is repeatedly cut off by hippos, crocodiles, and a Mexican soccer game. In a Trisha Yearwood song, this thing is defined as being “a man who can live without me too”, among other things, and in a Jonas Blue song, this concept is that “you make me bad and I don’t know why”. In the most famous song about this concept, the singer says that it is that (*) “you make me feel alright”, as well as that you “tell me things that I wanna hear”, “keep me warm at night” and “you really know how to dance”. For 10 points, name this five-word concept, which was most famously expounded upon in a song by The Romantics. ANSWER: what I like about you 5. After a reference to Elvis, a line about “makin’ mistakes” precedes a mention of this person in the second verse of the Jonas Brothers song “Heart and Soul” from Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. A song whose title mentions this man has a chorus with a similar melody to “Oh My Darling Clementine” and contains the lyrics “count that money/Get your game on.” On the T.I. song “Swagga Like Us,” Kanye names this guy before the line “Every time I breathe on the track, I asthma attack it.” His name appears in the title of the debut single from (*) Cher Lloyd. In another song named for this artist, the featured artist sings “And if I share my secret/You’re gonna have to keep it.” In the song “Tik Tok,” Kesha claims “We kick ‘em to the curb if they don’t look like” this man. Adam Levine sings “Kiss me ‘til you’re drunk and I’ll show you” his similar dance moves to this artist. For 10 points, name this rock musician whose “moves” are mentioned in a song by Christina Aguilera and Maroon 5.ANSWER: Mick Jagger [or Sir Michael Philip Jagger]6. A “song” titled for this phrase that contains the lyrics “I tossed and I turned and I couldn’t go to sleep” is by Webb Pierce. This adjective describes a “man” who sings “when my money’s all gone, I’m on the telephone/Hollerin’ hey-ey mama, can your daddy come home” in a song written by Johnny Horton and famously covered by Dwight Yoakam. Kitty Wells became the first female country star after recording a song titled “It Wasn’t God Who Made” this kind of “Angels.” These are the first two words in the title of a 2005 song that asks “Lord have mercy, how’d she get them (*) britches on?” In the 1950s, George Jones and Hank Williams played a style of country music known by this hyphenated phrase which also named the bars many country musicians played in. For 10 points, name this phrase which, in the title of a Trace Adkins song, precedes “Badonkadonk.” ANSWER: honky tonk [or honky-tonk; or “Honkytonk Man”; or “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”; or “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”]7. The seemingly simple syncopated piano melody of the final song of this album is the subject of the first episode of Vox’s video series Earworm. The songs “Bangers + Mash” and “4 Minute Warning” close a collection of B-sides named for “Disk 2” of this album. One song on this album opens with the line “I don’t wanna be your friend/I just wanna be your lover” and contains the command to “forget about” the title structure. Another song on this album ends with the lyric “You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.” Those songs are (*) “House of Cards” and “Nude.” The lyric “I’m in the middle of your picture/Lying in the leaves” appears in the refrain of this album’s song “All I Need.” This album closes with the somber “Videotape,” and it opens with the song “15 Step.” This album was released on the band’s website in a pay-what-you-want model. For 10 points, name this 2007 album by Radiohead. ANSWER: In Rainbows8. In a song strangely produced by X Ambassadors, this artist tells the title ex-boyfriend “Take your ass home/And come back when you’ve grown.” In June 2019, this artist of “Jerome” accused a security guard of tackling her stylist at Summerfest. This artist is featured on the Charli XCX song “Blame it on Your Love.” In the refrain to another song she sings “hair toss, check my nails” before asking (*) “Baby how you feeling?” This classically-trained flautist has a “new man on the Minnesota Vikings” on a song where she earlier states “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch.” This artist sings “it ain’t my fault that I’m out here getting loose” and you should “blame it on” the title drink. For 10 points, name this singer of “Good As Hell,” “Truth Hurts,” and “Juice.” ANSWER: Lizzo [or Melissa Vivane Jefferson] 9. A character on this show pretends to know the scientific names of plants by calling them “Soulja-boy-tell-ems” and “Ludacrises.” A big R.E.M. fan on this show expresses incredulity at the DJ having Monster but not Automatic for the People at an early ‘90s themed birthday party at a roller rink. The fictional band Land Ho! is led by a character on this show played by Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy. On the fake game show Know Your Boo, one character claims the rock star she would most like to sleep with is (*) Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. On this show, the campaign theme song “Catch Your Dream” contains a sax solo by one character’s alter ego, Duke Silver. A song “5,000 times better than ‘Candle in the Wind’ titled “5,000 Candles in the Wind” is played by the band Mouse Rat, fronted by Andy Dwyer, in honor of the miniature horse Lil’ Sebastian. For 10 points, name this NBC sitcom where lots of musical acts appear in Pawnee, Indiana.ANSWER: Parks and Recreation 10. Jussie Smollett recorded the duet “Infamous” alongside this artist for a season 3 episode of Empire, on which this artist also had a guest appearance as Kitty. This artist blamed the poor showing of a film she starred in on its soundtrack’s poorly-timed release date of September 11, 2001. This artist’s film career has included roles in WiseGirls and Precious, as well as the aforementioned flop, (*) Glitter. This singer made extensive use of the whistle register on her song “Emotions”, and another duet by this artist set the all-time record for most weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100: that duet, alongside Boyz II Men, was “One Sweet Day”. In perhaps this singer’s most enduring hit, she sings that “The sound of children’s laughter fills the air” around the titular time, along with proclaiming that this winter, “there is just one thing I need”. For 10 points, name this 1990’s pop superstar, best known today for performing “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. ANSWER: Mariah Carey [accept either underlined name] 11. One rock band from this country recorded the song “Candy Gun” for the 2013 album Fetch. Some of this country’s biggest heavy metal bands include Bow Wow, Loudness, and a band whose name is sometimes shortened to X. A concert venue in this home of Melt-Banana is the setting of a 1979 live album by Bob Dylan and a 1978 live album by Cheap Trick. The albums flood and Pink were released by a drone metal band from this country named (*) Boris. This country had a movement similar to glam rock named visual kei. The excruciating song “Woodpecker #1” appears on Pulse Demon, an album by Merzbow, a noise artist from this country. This country’s genre of city pop includes the song “Plastic Love.” For 10 points, name this Asian nation, home to the Nippon Budokan stadium.ANSWER: Japan 12. A 1996 Insane Clown Posse EP with this title includes the tracks “Ninja” and “When I Get Out”, and was the group’s third and final “sideshow” release. A song with this title opens with a theme from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, and later makes reference to the “Spanish City”, an amusement park outside of the singer’s hometown of Newcastle. That eight-minute song includes the lines “And the big wheel keep on turnin’/Neon burnin’ up above”, and is the opening track on the album (*) Making Movies. The title song to an album with this name, which was the follow-up to Born in the U.S.A., describes “a room of shadows that gets so dark, brother/It’s easy for two people to lose each other”, and ends with the singer’s declaration that “You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above/If you wanna ride on down” the title attraction. For 10 points, name this carnival ride, which titles both a 1980 song by Dire Straits and a 1987 album by Bruce Springsteen.ANSWER: Tunnel of Love [prompt on tunnel] 13. A member of Whitehorse with this first name released an album of sound collages detailing horrible crimes involving children called Buyer’s Market. A German artist with this first name led an octet that recorded the 1968 free jazz album Machine Gun. A third artist with this first name recorded the song “Excellent Birds” with Laurie Anderson for a Nam June Paik video installation; that man composed the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Wallace and Gromit’s Nick Park provided (*) stop-motion animation for a video by an artist with this first name that is MTV’s most played video of all time. That man with this first name claimed “I could see the city light” on the song “Solsbury Hill” and sings although “you can ape the ape,” you shouldn’t “Shock the Monkey.” For 10 points, give this first name of the singer of “Sledgehammer” who preceded Phil Collins as lead singer of Genesis. ANSWER: Peter [or Peter Sotos; or Peter Brotzmann; or Peter Gabriel] 14. On this song, the artist references a 1963 hit by the Crystals by singing “your crew run-run” to the tune of “Da Doo Ron Ron.” Julia Stiles dances on a table to this song in the film 10 Things I Hate About You. In the beginning of this song’s music video, the artist and his frequent collaborator are chased by military helicopters while on a boat. The artist raps about handing a “note to the plaintiff” reading “your daughter’s tied up in a (*) Brooklyn basement” on this song. Pamela Long delivers this song’s hook, which interpolates a section of “La Di Da Di” by Slick Rick. In its second verse, its artist claims to have “put hoes in NY onto DKNY,” and he also says he’s been “smooth since the days of Underoos.” This song, which hit #1 after its artist’s 1997 death, has a refrain containing the lines “And I just love your flashy ways/I guess that’s why they’re broke and you’re so paid.” For 10 points, name this song by the Notorious B.I.G.ANSWER: “Hypnotize” 15. Most of this artist’s big hits were arranged by Wrecking Crew member Billy Strange. In a duet, this woman claims the title substance is made from “strawberries, cherries, and an angel’s kiss in spring.” Her lines about “flowers growing on a hill” and “dragonflies and daffodils” are interspersed with the male vocalist describing a woman named Phaedra. This artist sings “This dream is for you, so pay the price” in the theme for the James Bond movie (*) You Only Live Twice. “Summer Wine” and “Some Velvet Morning” are some of this artist’s many duets with Lee Hazlewood. In her most iconic hit, this artist claims “one of these days” the title objects “will walk all over you.” For 10 points, name this singer of “These Boots Are Made For Walking,” the daughter of crooner Frank. ANSWER: Nancy Sinatra [or Nancy Sandra Sinatra]16. This artist worked as a music critic for Creem Magazine before getting fired after asking what Eric Clapton what his favorite colors were. This artist sang about her experience working in a baby buggy assembly line in “Piss Factory” and commands “voices, voices, mesmerize” on the song “Pissing in a River,” the latter of which appears on her album Radio Ethiopia. Bruce Springsteen co-wrote wrote her biggest chart success, later covered by 10,000 Maniacs, titled (*) “Because the Night.” This artist sang “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not mine” in a cover of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” that opens a 1975 album. That album’s cover features an androgynous, black-and-white picture of this artist taken by her longtime partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. For 10 points, name this early punk pioneer who recorded the album Horses.ANSWER: Patti Smith [or Patricia Lee Smith] 17. In a song titled after this word by The Mamas & the Papas, it is described as “all I hoped it would be”, before later saying that because of it “you can find me cryin' all of the time”. Another song with this word in its title was written under the pseudonym “Christopher”, and was originally intended for Apollonia 6. In that song, written by Prince, the singer “can’t be late, ‘cause then I guess I won’t get paid”, and wishes it were still “my fun day”. A quote by Brenda Spencer that included this word inspired the biggest hit for the (*) Boomtown Rats: that song, about Spencer’s reasoning for a school shooting, was titled “I Don’t Like” this word. Peter Saville designed the cover of a massively successful 12-inch single with this word in its title, which begins with the words “How does it feel/To treat me like you do”. For ten points, name this day of the week, which The Bangles called “Manic”, and New Order described as “Blue”?ANSWER: Monday [or “Monday, Monday”, “I Don’t Like Mondays”, or “Manic Monday”, or “Blue Monday” 18. The opening track of this album samples Sonic Youth’s remix of the Can song “Spoon” and contains the lyrics “I’m gone and I’m finished/And I ain’t seen my friends in a minute.” In another track from this album, the artist laments never having a pet and says “the loudest in the room/Is prolly the loneliest one in the room.” On a song from this album containing the refrain “Take me back to November,” the line “All my day ones turn to three, fours ‘cause of track seven” refers to the song (*) “Garden Shed.” “Foreword” and “Boredom” are songs on this album that feature Rex Orange County. In another track from this album, Kali Uchis asks “Can I get a kiss? And can you make it last forever?” Although he was banned from the U.K. for homophobic lyrics, this album’s songs “I Ain’t Got Time” and “See You Again” reference the artist’s homosexuality. IGOR is the recent follow-up to, for 10 points, what 2017 album by Tyler, the Creator?ANSWER: Flower Boy [or Scum Fuck Flower Boy] 19. The Stephen Colbert-voiced president attempts to communicate with an alien by playing this song in the film Monsters vs. Aliens. One cover of this song, paired with “Keep Pushin’” on its release, was by the British band Clock. This is the most famous composition of Harold Faltermeyer. In the music video to one version of this song, a $50,000 reward for “the most (*) annoying thing in the world” prompts a bounty hunter to chase after the artist with missiles. Named for the main character of Beverly Hills Cop, helpfully transcribes the lyrics of one version of this song as “ring ding ding ding bem bem bem” and “Dum dum dumda dum dum dum.” For 10 points, name this ‘80s synthpop hit later covered by Crazy Frog. ANSWER: “Axel F” 20. The tracks “Horse Sings From Cloud” and “Rattlesnake Mountain” comprise an album named for this instrument and Voice by Pauline Oliveros. Regine Chassagne plays this instrument before the first verse of “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” by Arcade Fire. “Daddy never sleeps at night” because Mama plays one of these instruments in a song by The Who. The lyric “Livin’ off borrowed time, the clock tick faster” opens a song named for this instrument on the album (*) Madvillainy. This instrument is played at the beginning of Paul Simon’s song “The Boy in the Bubble.” Tango music uses a version of this instrument known as the bandoneon. This instrument is played by “Weird Al” Yankovic in his polka medleys. For 10 points, name this instrument suggestively nicknamed the “squeeze box.” ANSWER: accordion [accept squeeze box until mentioned] ................
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