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[Ky Fried Redleg]

53. This is song immediately transports me back to my youth---late '74 , early '75-- whenever I hear it today. You might think this song was inspired by infidelity. Well, it kinda was, just not the kind that you'd think. The inspiration for the song was not romantic infidelity, but band infidelity. You, see this band was a struggling pub rock band in the UK. In the midst of the band's struggles, the band's bassist secretly began playing gigs with another, more successful, band (Sutherland Brothers and Quiver)behind the backs of his bandmates. Frustrated at the betrayal of his band's bass player, the lead singer penned this song, including one memorable lyric that captured the band's frustration at the betrayal.

The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, but 45 years later , in 2020 , it hit #1 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales Chart, thanks to its inclusion in an Amazon Prime commercial.


Name the song and the band.

[Revering4Blue]

53. This is song immediately transports me back to my youth---late '74 , early '75-- whenever I hear it today. You might think this song was inspired by infidelity. Well, it kinda was, just not the kind that you'd think. The inspiration for the song was not romantic infidelity, but band infidelity. You, see this band was a struggling pub rock band in the UK. In the midst of the band's struggles, the band's bassist secretly began playing gigs with another, more successful, band (Sutherland Brothers and Quiver)behind the backs of his bandmates. Frustrated at the betrayal of his band's bass player, the lead singer penned this song, including one memorable lyric that captured the band's frustration at the betrayal.

The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, but 45 years later , in 2020 , it hit #1 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales Chart, thanks to its inclusion in an Amazon Prime commercial.


Name the song and the band.

How Long - Ace


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[Revering4Blue]

51. This song was inspired by a documentary that the singer/songwriter watched on TV with his bandmates at a hotel stop while on tour in the early 80's. The documentary was about Nostradamus and his predictions about the end of the world. The other musicians found the docmentary and its predictions for doom haunting. The song , which the singer had completed by the following day, contrasted with his bandmates' apocalyptic anxieties, and urged people to chill out and party before the end comes. Billboard Magazine wrote: "Apocalypse never sounded so danceable."

The song charted on Billboard's Hot 100 on four separate occasions over three different decades. It was the singer's second top 40 hit and also his 31st(and final ) top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.



What's the song and who wrote and performed it?

RichRed answered correctly. But one correction: 1999 was actually the third top 40 hit for Prince. He had a Top 40 hit in 1979 that preceded Little Red Corvette and 1999. What was the hit song?


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[Ky Fried Redleg]

How Long - Ace


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[Ky Fried Redleg]

RichRed answered correctly. But one correction: 1999 was actually the third top 40 hit for Prince. He had a Top 40 hit in 1979 that preceded Little Red Corvette and 1999. What was the hit song?


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I know that one !!!!


Is it "I Wanna Be Your Lover ( So Let's Pretend We're Married) " ?

[Roy Tucker]

Band - Steely Dan
Album - Can't Buy a Thrill
Song - Only A Fool Would Say That

A band named after a dildo. :0

[Ky Fried Redleg]

54. "We're in the wrong city. We're in Buffalo." This quote is attributed to whom?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

55. Back in the 70's and 80's it was very rare for an album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. What was the very first album to debut at the very top of the Billboard 200? Hint : Released in 1975 and widely recognized for the great , iconic artwork on the album cover.

[Roy Tucker]

54. "We're in the wrong city. We're in Buffalo." This quote is attributed to whom?

Pete Townsend after the Cincinnati tragedy.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Pete Townsend after the Cincinnati tragedy.

Pete felt like the band made a mistake in heading off to their next gig in Buffalo the next night.


Did you go to that show, Roy?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

56. Who was playing at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland when "some stupid with a flare gun" burned the joint to the ground on December 4, 1971? What band watched the fire blaze from across Lake Geneva and recorded a song about it?

[Revering4Blue]

56. Who was playing at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland when "some stupid with a flare gun" burned the joint to the ground on December 4, 1971? What band watched the fire blaze from across Lake Geneva and recorded a song about it?

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

Deep Purple. The song: Smoke On The Water.


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[Ky Fried Redleg]

57. Yep, more Yacht Rock coming at you. This song was born from a confusing breakup the songwriter was going through at the time(seems like a common theme, doesn't ?) . Anyway, when he was talking to his friend about his breakup with this chick, the friend asked him a question, and that question inspired the title of the song. The song and its "questionable" title climbed up the charts, all the way to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. The band's name sounds rather innocuous and is , in fact, quite Yacht Rockish. But names can be deceiving. Band members have admitted that , yeah, there might might have been a little LSD tripping going on out around Frisco Bay when the band got its name.

What's the song and Band ? Better answer with a question.

[Roy Tucker]

Pete felt like the band made a mistake in heading off to their next gig in Buffalo the next night.


Did you go to that show, Roy?

I did not. I had been to a Led Zeppelin show there a couple years previous and it was a mob scene like The Who concert only nobody died. I was a battle-tested concert goer and could handle myself but it scared the piss out of me. I got caught up in a mosh pit outside the arena and alternately got squashed and pushed in a mass of humanity. And then got crushed trying to get through the doors. It was just out of control. I had friends that asked me if I wanted to go but I had declined. At that time I was more into clubs and punk/new wave.

[Revering4Blue]

57. Yep, more Yacht Rock coming at you. This song was born from a confusing breakup the songwriter was going through at the time(seems like a common theme, doesn't ?) . Anyway, when he was talking to his friend about his breakup with this chick, the friend asked him a question, and that question inspired the title of the song. The song and its "questionable" title climbed up the charts, all the way to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. The band's name sounds rather innocuous and is , in fact, quite Yacht Rockish. But names can be deceiving. Band members have admitted that , yeah, there might might have been a little LSD tripping going on out around Frisco Bay when the band got its name.

What's the song and Band ? Better answer with a question.

Whatcha Gonna Do? - Pablo Cruise. I am also a fan of Yacht Rock, FWIW.


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