Fun Irrelevant Band Quiz

[KYYX4ever]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway):
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not:
Best Year(s):
Best Album:
Best Song:
Song by Them You Included Most on Compilation Tapes for Friends:
Obligatory Nuclear War Song Lyric (seeing as how it was the Reagan 80's and all):
MTV Factor:
Lamest Album:
Lamest Song:
Fluffiest Song:
Most "Experimental" Song:
Fave "Rediscovered" Song by Them, 20+ Years Later:
Best B-Side:
Best Driving Song:
Best Make-Out/ Sexy (or Having Sex To) Song:
# of Times Seen in Concert by You:
Off-Shoots:
Forays Into Acting:
Define in 3 Words:


Clip and paste the above, and let's see some of your answers just for fun! You can add categories if you want. C'mon, I'll start us off:


Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): Duran Duran
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: Pretty High, altho there are detractors.
Best Year(s): 1981-84
Best Album: 1st S/T
Best Song: "Friends of Mine"
Song by Them You Included Most on Compilation Tapes for Friends: "Planet Earth"
Obligatory Nuclear War Song Lyric (seeing as how it was the Reagan 80's and all): Is There Something I Should Know--"you're about as easy as a nuclear war"
MTV factor: Extremely High
Lamest Album: after Seven & Ragged Tiger, I confess I stopped listening, and thought most all their 90's output was limp...
Lamest Song: "All She Wants Is" & "The Reflex"
Fluffiest Song: "Violence of Summer"
Most "Experimental" Song: "Tiger Tiger" & "Tel Aviv"
Fave "Rediscovered" Song by Them, 20+ Years Later: "Friends of Mine"
Best B-Side: "Late Bar" (b-side PLanet Earth)
Best Driving Song: "Careless Memories"
Best Make-Out/ Sexy (or Having Sex To) Song: uhhh...
# of Times Seen in Concert by You: 2x....Feb. 1984 & Nov. 2003 !
Off-Shoots: the Devils, Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, Arcadia, Power Station...John Taylor has been busy in several bands lately.
Forays Into Acting: John Taylor: Sugartown, Las Vegas
Define in 3 Words: fedoras dance WAVE

[dead_irony@yahoo.com]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): U2
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: probably not at all
Best Year(s): 1985-1992
Best Album: Joshua Tree
Best Song: oh God, this is tough. There is no way I can pick one.
Song by Them You In

[skinnytie]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): The Boomtown Rats
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: The lyric "pus and grime ooze from their scab-crusted sores" (from "Rat Trap") was enough for me, plus their keyboardist always wore pajamas.

[Dave]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): U2
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: I love new wave and I love U2... that's all
Best Year(s): 80 - 87
Best Album: Joshua Tree, War, Boy, October, All That You Can't Leave Behind,...
Best So

[Frau_Blucher]

Great thread! Great in-depth answers. Makes me wanna do this a couple of times...

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): The Smiths
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave: 50/50
Best Year(s): 84-86
Best Album: 1st
Best Song: There is a ligh

[scramjet]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): The Cars
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: Definitely. Spacy synths, quirky lyrics, skinny ties, great pop sensibility. Who cares if the AOR crowd liked 'em too?
Best Year(s): '78-'79
Best

[romanticide]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): Flowers / Icehouse
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: in the beginning ...
Best Year(s): 1981-2
Best Album: Icehouse
Best Song: We Can Get Together
Song by Them You Included Most on Compilati

[Ollie Stench]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): today it's KRAFTWERK
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: ummm... proto-Wave? They were one of the main inspirations
Best Year(s): 78-81
Best Album: Computerwelt (German version of Computer Worl

[positivepoppicker]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): China Crisis
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not:Time (1980's)& Place (Liverpool)
Best Year(s): 1982 - 85
Best Album: What Price Paradise?
Best Song: No More Blue Horizons
Song by Them You Incl

[cubby]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): Siouxsie and the Banshees
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: One of the original Britsh punk bands, formed in 1976. Siouxsie godmother of goth. Nuff said!!
Best Year(s):1982-1985
Best Alb

[cubby]

Oops!! How could I forget the other Banshee spin-off, The Glove.

[wallofboingo]

Fave Band (or one of 'em anyway): Devo
Arguability Factor As To Whether They Were New Wave or Not: They definitely were!
Best Year(s): 1976-1982
Best Album: Duty Now For the Future
Best Song: Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Song by Them You Included Most on Com