Under investigation

The Police is currently questioning Tina Romano on suspicion of severe blog neglect. The suspect has a previous history of closing accounts and fleeing the blogging scene. Friends of the suspect say she's a bold and dedicated writer that just happens to go through a "phase". The officers are afraid the video quiz blog might be in danger and they are looking for more suitable administrators. The public is invited to write with suggestions and possible collaboration ideas.

Other sources revealed it might be all just a publicity stunt, as Tina is known to have a couple of aces up her sleeve at all times. They believe she's probably up to something on rockaholic.tv but the information is still scarce on the subject.

Tina Romano couldn't be reached for an official statement.

Quiz #185 - Iggy Pop "Livin' on the edge of the night"

Brick by Brick refined Iggy's gifts without watering them down, adding a polish that focused his talents rather than blurring them. Working with a mixture of L.A. session heavyweights (Waddy Wachtel, David Lindley) and rock stars paying their respects (Slash and Duff McKagan from Guns n' Roses, Kate Pierson from the B-52's), Brick by Brick leans to tough, guitar-based hard rock, leavened with a few more pop-oriented tunes that still speak of a hard-nosed lyrical approach.

But the triumph here is Iggy's; he's rarely sung better on record, finding a middle ground between precision and abandon that honors both and surrenders to neither, and as a lyricist he reached a new level of maturity that proved he could expand his boundaries without loosing touch with his roots. On Brick by Brick, Iggy's dominant theme is the cultural and moral decay of modern America, and finding the strength to rise above it and reach a place in the world.

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Iggy Pop "Livin' on the edge of the night"
Album "Brick by brick" - 1990

Quiz #184 - The Cure "Jumping someone else's train"

Since I started posting only 3 quizes a week, I thought it would be better if they were posted one day apart.

This one expires next Wednesday.

UPDATED:

While not quite Bob Dylan at his vitriolic, satirical best, a young (teenage) Robert Smith does spew some venom toward lemmings and fashion slaves afraid to stand out and make their own statements: "Don't say what you mean/You might spoil your face/If you walk in the crowd/You won't leave any trace/It's always the same/You're jumping someone else's train." Smith, quoted on the website thecure.net, has said of the 1979 single that he was taking aim "at the mod revival at the time."


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The Cure "Jumping someone else's train"
Album "Boys don't cry" - 1980

Quiz #183 - Guns N'Roses "Garden of Eden"

First of June already? Halfway into the year and I still feel like someone is pulling the carpet out of my feet.

You shouldn't need 7 days to recognize this video :)

UPDATED:

After being delayed for nearly a year, the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released in September 1991. Messy but fascinating, the albums showcased a more ambitious band; while there were still a fair number of full-throttle guitar rockers, there were stabs at Elton John-style balladry, acoustic blues, horn sections, female backup singers, ten-minute art rock epics with several different sections, and a good number of introspective, soul-searching lyrics. In short, they were now making art; amazingly, they were successful at it.


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Guns N'Roses "Garden of Eden"
Use Your Illusions I - 1991

Quiz #182 - Nickelback "Rockstar"

There you go. You have til next Wednesday to provide the answers to this quiz.

UPDATED:

I'm through with standin in line
To clubs I'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the nineth
And I'm never gonna win
This life just hasn't turned out
Quite the way I want it to be

(tell me what you want)

I want a brand new house
On an episode of cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub
Big enough for ten plus me

(so what ya need)

I need a a credit card thats got no limit
And a big black jet with a bedroom in it
Gonna join the mile high club
At thirty-seven thousand feet

(been there done that)

I want a new tour bus full of old guitars
My own star on Hollywood Boulevard
Somewhere between Cher and
James Dean is fine with me

(so how ya gonna do it)

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name

Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
Livin in top houses
Drivin fifteen cars
The girls come easy
And the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny
Cuz we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's
Gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny
With their bleach blond hair

And well...
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

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Nickelback "Rockstar"
Album "All the Right Reasons" - 2005

Quiz #181 - R.E.M. "Strange currencies"

One of those songs that stick with you and make you hum in the street, triggering sympathetic looks from the elderly... "so young, and so crazy... poor girl..."

Anyway, you have til next Tuesday, June 2nd I think, to post the correct answers in the comment form. And if you know the song, enjoy :)

UPDATED:

Monster is indeed R.E.M.'s long-promised "rock" album; it just doesn't rock in the way one might expect. Instead of R.E.M.'s trademark anthemic bashers, Monster offers a set of murky sludge, powered by the heavily distorted and delayed guitar of Peter Buck.

Monster doesn't have the conceptual unity or consistently brilliant songwriting of Automatic for the People, but it does offer a wide range of sonic textures that have never been heard on an R.E.M. album before.

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R.E.M. "Strange currencies"
Album "Monster" - 1994

Quiz #180 - Finntroll "Nedgang"

This quiz is valid til next Monday, June 1st.

UPDATED:

Finnish metal sextet Finntroll describe their music as trollish hoedown metal, which is to say that it combines the extreme elements of death metal with traditional Finnish folk melodies. Apparently the result of alcohol-induced experimentation, Finntroll's bizarre fusion began one night in March of 1997.

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Finntroll "Nedgang"
Album "Ur Jordens Djup" - 2007