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---Mixtape---A charity pop music tournament organized by Harris Bunker for The Lansing Food BankSummer 2019Packet By: Seth Ebner, Robert Chu, and Eric BobrowTossups: 1. According to James Corden, this kind of event is often held on Thursday nights in a Chik-Fil-A parking lot. Some members of the Green Bay Packers sang “Bootylicious” during one of these events, losing out on a $42,000 Dave and Buster’s gift card to a German group. Young Sparrow sang an auto-tuned version of “Grenade” during one of these events alongside a performance of “Zombie” by Evermoist. A microphone used by Hoobastank was the prize of another one of these events which was won by the (*) Treblemakers. Original songs are not allowed to be performed at these events, which led to a disqualification for Emily Junk’s performance of “Flashlight.” The first of these events to be shown takes place in a drained swimming pool at Barden University and features Beca Mitchell performing the rap from “No Diggity.” For 10 points, name these singing battles in which the Barden Bellas from the Pitch Perfect series often compete.ANSWER: riff-offs [prompt on “singing competitions”, “a cappella competitions,” or equivalents]2. In comments printed in The Wire, Stockhausen mistakenly referred to this musician’s stage name as the title of a piece and advised this musician to listen to his “Song of the Youth” to help him avoid “post-African repetitions.” One track by this musician opens with a bassline followed by the title line sampled from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with heavy reverb. That track, “We Are the Music Makers,” appears along with (*) “Tha” and “Xtal” on a collection of ambient music by this musician. One song by this musician ends with a spiral in its spectrogram, and the spectrogram also depicts this musician’s smiling face when transformed using “the equation.” For 10 points, identify this composer of electronic music such as Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and “Windowlicker.”ANSWER: Aphex Twin [or Richard David James]3. In “Give Me Novacaine,” this character claims that being “out of body and out of mind” is “better than here,” and the singer asks this character to tell him that he “won’t feel a thing.” The first part of “Homecoming,” which is titled for the death of this character, describes him as “the spark in the night / Bearing gifts and trust / A fixture in the city of lust” and says that “he blew his brains out into the bay.” In “Letterbomb,” this character is called “a (*) figment of your father’s rage and your mother’s love.” In the song named for this character, he describes himself as “the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe” and “the needle in the vein of the establishment.” In a 2010 Broadway production, Billie Joe Armstrong portrayed this “patron saint of the denial” who has an “angel face and a taste for suicidal.” This character’s namesake song ends with him telling the listener to not wear out his name. For 10 points, name this alter ego of the Jesus of Suburbia from Green Day’s American Idiot.ANSWER: St. Jimmy4. In Weezer’s song “King of the World,” the singer tells the addressee that they could take this specific method of transportation “all the way to the Galapagos / And stay for the rest of our lives.” After saying his father “wound up on the wrong end of a gun,” the singer of “Ramblin Man” says that he was born on Highway 41 in the back of one of these vehicles. The narrator of the Simon & Garfunkel song “America” tells a woman named Cathy that (*) “Michigan seems like a dream to me now” as he boards one of these vehicles in Pittsburgh. In a song titled for this specific mode of transportation, Harry Chapin laments that it “won’t be on time.” For 10 points, name this brand of bus that, according to that song, is “a dog of a way to get around.”ANSWER: Greyhound bus [prompt on “bus”]5. Note to moderator: REALLY emphasize the “HEEYYYY”In one parody of this song, the singer claims that “girls say my dick’s so boney”; that work by MC Rage is called “Fuck [this song].” This song consists entirely of repeated loops of three measures of A flat major, then one measure of G flat major. Al Gore opened his speech at the 1996 Democratic National Convention by performing his own version of this song. This song’s direction for its addressee to “give your (*) body joy” by having sex with two military cadets went untranslated in the Bayside Boys’ English-language remix of the original version by Los Del Río, probably since the only lyrics most people care about are “HEEYYYYY” followed by this song’s name. For 10 points, name this mid-90s Spanish-language dance craze.ANSWER: “Macarena”6. The title track of a rap album named for a person with this last name opens with the line, “Hey, I need you to proofread this for me” and appears on an album whose cover shows the artist with duct tape over his mouth in front of a green chalkboard full of equations. That 2007 album and a 2017 release are two albums by Greydon Square titled for a scientist with this last name. A place of this name lends its name to the rap group led by MC Eiht and Tha Chill that released tracks like (*) “Hood Took Me Under”; that group is named for that place’s “Most Wanted.” A song titled for a place with this name opens with the line, “You are now about the witness the strength of street knowledge.” That song appears on an album titled in part for this place name along with a song protesting law enforcement tactics, “Fuck Tha Police.” For 10 points, give this name of an area of Los Angeles whence N.W.A came “straight outta.”ANSWER: Compton [accept Arthur (Holly) Compton]7. The last verse of a song titled for this phenomenon is played backwards, making it the first pop song to feature reversed sounds. That song titled for this phenomenon was the B-side to “Paperback Writer” and lends its name to the longest-running Beatles tribute act. The singer of a song on (*) Cosmo’s Factory titled for this phenomenon experienced it “as long as I remember” and mentions “five year plans and new deals / wrapped in golden chains” and wonders “who’ll stop” this phenomenon. “Hey Tonight” from the album Pendulum is paired with a song describing this phenomenon “comin’ down on a sunny day.” For 10 points, John Fogerty from Creedence Clearwater Revival wants to know if you have ever seen what weather phenomenon?ANSWER: the rain <Your Choice 2>8. Sandy Denny is featured on one song on this album, which is the only track its band ever recorded with a guest vocalist. That song has a prominent mandolin part and states, “The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath.” This album ends with an adaptation of a blues song by Memphis Minnie for which the echoing drum part was recorded in the lobby of Headley Grange. This album is officially (*) untitled, and instead features symbols chosen by the band, including one that appears to spell “ZoSo.” A song on this album opens, “Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move / Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.” “The Battle of Evermore,” “When the Levee Breaks,” and “Black Dog” appear on this album whose longest track advises, “Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run / There’s still time to change the road you’re on” and describes “a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold.” For 10 points, “Stairway to Heaven” appears on what album?ANSWER: Led Zeppelin IV [accept Untitled or ZoSo before mentioned; accept anything indicating that this is the fourth album by Led Zeppelin]9. One character in this musical tells another character, “There’s a very small percentile / Who enjoys a dancing gentile,” which is why “You just won’t succeed on Broadway / If you don’t have any Jews!” In a self-referential number in this show, one character sings that “It starts off soft and low / And ends up with a kiss”; that song is “The Song that Goes Like This.” Hank Azaria’s first Broadway role was in this musical, which was housed at the (*) Shubert Theatre from 2005 to 2009. The choreography for this musical’s first song involves a group of Scandinavians twirling around and slapping each other with fish, before they are interrupted by a historian who says he was discussing England not Finland. An ill character named Fred is hit in the head with a shovel twice during a song in which he and a cart full of people sing that “he is not dead yet.” In this show’s original Broadway production, Tim Curry played King Arthur, who is sent on a quest for a missing cup. For 10 points, name this musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.ANSWER: Spamalot10. In a mostly instrumental two-part track on this album, the singer asks, “Oh, when did we start the end?” Another song on this album was featured in the viral video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recreating the dance scene from The Breakfast Club. The opening track of Birdy’s debut album is a cover of one of this album’s songs, which pairs 1855 with the title year and claims that there are “twenty seconds ‘til the last call.” “Love Like a Sunset” appears on this album, another track on which opens with the contradictory statement, “So (*) sentimental, not sentimental no,” and repeats “It’s show time” in the bridge. That song’s title phenomenon “comes and goes” and grows “like a riot.” “1901” and “Lisztomania” appear on this album whose cover depicts black, red, and blue blimps against a pink sky. For 10 points, name this 2009 album named for a French band and a classical composer.ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix11. Jazz Is My Native Language is about a pianist from this country who led a big band with her husband Lew Tabackin. The “Slowboat” jazz club was owned by a pianist from this country whose album My Favorite Tune resurfaced in 2017. The live album Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion by Sun Ra was recorded at this country’s Pit Inn jazz club. A live album by Thelonious Monk recorded in 1963 is titled for the capital of this non-European country, a (*) “folk song” from which opens side two of Straight, No Chaser. The Dave Brubeck standard “Koto Song” is from an album titled Jazz Impressions of [this country]. For 10 points, name this country home to Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ryo Fukui, and Masayuki Takayanagi.ANSWER: Japan12. This band performed “Drunk In Love” with Sia and Ed Sheeran on an episode of VH1’s SoundClash. In one of this band’s music videos, a magician’s flubbed trick teleports the band to places like “the heaviest metal party in Uganda.” In that song, this band admits to doing such crazy things as “[drinking] a bottle of vinegar” and “stay[ing] up really late,” and the singer notes in the chorus that he is a “natural disaster.” That song, “Shark Attack,” appears on (*) Spreading Rumours. On the first track of this band’s debut album, the singer “scratch[es] on a Thermostat” in addition to doing the title action, “Itchin’ on a Photograph.” In another song on that album, the singer asks, “So mistress mistress, have you been up to the roof?” because someone shot himself “‘cause he couldn’t face the truth.” That song appears on Never Trust a Happy Song, along with a song that asks the listener to “take me to your best friend’s house.” For 10 points, name this band that released the singles “Colours” and “Tongue Tied.”ANSWER: Grouplove13. In a song by Queen, “Big mama Lulu Belle … had a nervous breakdown” because this character “took her honey child away.” In the last verse of that song, the singer says this character “gone and got himself elected President,” to which the background vocals respond “we want [this character] for President.” The song introducing this character was inspired by the singer’s army friend who went AWOL and was arrested when he returned to base to collect his paycheck. In that song, this character owns a custom (*) Continental and an El Dorado, and he carries a “thirty two gun in his pocket for fun.” After losing a fight over a woman named Doris, this character “looked like a jigsaw puzzle / With a couple of pieces gone.” This resident of the South side of Chicago is described as “badder than old King Kong / And meaner than a junkyard dog.” For 10 points, name this person who is the “baddest man in the whole damned town” according to a song by Jim Croce (KROH-chee).ANSWER: Leroy Brown [accept either underlined portion; accept “Bring Back that Leroy Brown” or “Bad Bad Leroy Brown”]14. An epilepsy warning is the only text in the YouTube video description of a version of this song which modified the vocals to a staticky whisper and replaced the first part of its title with “dry.” Another remix of this song by the same artist samples the theme song from Full House and is the only track on Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Silence whose title does not contain (*) vowels. In the music video for this song, a man reading a newspaper sits at the end of a row of chairs, and another person sings part of the chorus through a bull horn into the ear of the person sitting next to him. The only colors in this song’s music video come from orange, green, and blue acoustic guitars as well as the blue hat of a clown. The intro and verses of this song on (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? repeat the chords E-minor, G, D, A. Anyway here’s, for 10 points, what song by Oasis?ANSWER: “Wonderwall”15. In a song by this artist, she requests that the addressee call her before going to sleep because “I know you have me lingering in your mind.” G-Eazy features on “Blank Marquee,” the second single from this artist’s album Rouge. The music video of the lead single of her 2016 album Chapters was filmed in slow-motion and black-and-white on the crowded steps of a historic building. The addressee of that song by this artist of (*) “Best Love” arrives in a “jet black Mercedes, built in the 70s” which is “classic like you and me.” In that song, which opens “You call me on a lazy afternoon,'' this artist “feel[s] a little rush” because of the title romantic feeling. For 10 points, name this Malaysian R&B singer who featured Usher on her single “Crush.”ANSWER: Yuna [or Yunalis binti Mat Zara'ai]16. The Wallows song “1980s Horror Film” opens by describing someone with this trait, and then asking why certain people in songs “always” have this trait. A song titled for this trait was written following the death of John Lennon and the songwriter’s uncle Jonathan, and takes its title from a discussion the songwriter had with Tom Petty’s wife. Alessia Cara’s debut album Know-It-All (*) opens with a song titled for this trait, in which she recalls motherly advice such as “don’t forget where you came from, where you’ve been” and wishes she could “freeze the time.” A song titled for this trait mentions music that is “hauntingly familiar” and a “white winged dove” that sings “who who who” and is by Stevie Nicks. According to ABBA, the “Dancing Queen” is “young and sweet” and also has this trait. For 10 points, name this age of adolescents who are almost legal adults.ANSWER: being seventeen years old [accept “Seventeen”; accept “Edge of Seventeen”; prompt on “being a teenager”]17. The singer of this song wants to be Bob Dylan, while the title character “wishes he was someone just a little more funky.” This song’s singer says his favorite color is gray, which leads him to say that “if [he] knew Picasso, [he] would buy [himself] a gray guitar and play.” In the bridge, the singer says he “want[s] to be a lion” and “everybody wants to pass as (*) cats.” The father of this song’s title character plays guitar at a bar called the New Amsterdam, which is where the title character talks with a “black-haired flamenco dancer.” Activities that the singer and this song’s title character do together include stumbling through the barrio, telling each other fairy tales, and looking into the future. For 10 points, name this Counting Crows song titled for a man with a generic last name.ANSWER: “Mr. Jones”18. A cover of a song from this LP features Kurt Hugo Schneider and Kevin Olusola playing it using soda bottles as part of Coca-Cola’s “The Sounds of AHH” campaign. This album includes the secret track “Sinking Man” following eight minutes of silence after its last track, “Yellow Light.” The music video for this album’s lead single shows band members riding in a flying ship before fighting a kraken. This album, whose name comes from the second line of the song (*) “Dirty Paws,” is most famous for a song about a conversation between a widow and her husband’s ghost in which he tells her “Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear” before they both sing that “this ship will carry our bodies safe to shore.” “Little Talks” is the lead single from, for 10 points, what debut album of the Icelandic group Of Monsters and Men? ANSWER: My Head Is an Animal19. One piece for this instrument opens with new voices entering every eight notes with decreasing pulse durations corresponding to the harmonic series. That piece by James Tenney is “The Spectral Canon” for another composer for this instrument. One piece for this instrument includes four parts simultaneously playing runs of descending 11-tuplets to transition back to the main theme and requires playing more than 15 notes at once. A piece for this instrument subtitled “Transcendental” is a canon in (*) e/pi time, and this instrument performs Marc-Andre Hamelin’s “Circus Galop.” For 10 points, identify this keyboard instrument used for several studies by Conlon Nancarrow that can reproduce music recorded on rolls.ANSWER: player piano [or pianola]20. Joseph Gordon-Levitt performed “Tiny Dancer” and this song in a Lip Sync Battle against Stephen Merchant and Jimmy Fallon. In the music video for this song, the singer’s hair is split into pink and blonde halves, and she delivers the first verse in front of a melting ice sculpture of a motorcycle. The addressee of one verse in this track is praised for being “in touch with [his] (*) feminine side,” and in that same verse the singer says she has “really got a thing for American guys.” One person referenced in this song is “pelican fly” and is “always in the air” but “never fl[ies] coach.” In the refrain of this song, the singer claims to “mack them dudes up, back coupes up, and chuck the deuce up.” In the chorus, the singer asks if the listener can hear the “Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom” of her heart. For 10 points, name this Nicki Minaj song about a certain je ne sais quoi of attractive men.ANSWER: “Super Bass” ................
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