Alt 90's Quiz. Show me how utterly bored you are.

[slipjig3]

So the other day, lbitw posted a music quiz that was great deals of fun to (try to), and very cleverly compiled. Unfortunately, my lizard-brain invariably takes these sorts of trivia quizzes as a two-part challenge: 1) solve this one, and 2) write another one to annoy my friends with. This, then, is your cue to run like the dickens.

I'd recently reassembled my early-to-mid-'90's alternative playlist that I'd originally thrown together during that weird little obsession I weathered last year, so I thought I'd use that as my focus. I freely admit that I made this a rather difficult slog, but I honestly believe that some of you will blow this thing away, and you know who you are. For now, just immerse your nostalgia-mind in that brief, magical time when the radio didn't bite the wax tadpole, and bands like the Flaming Lips and Butthole Surfers could actually finagle mainstream airplay. Seems so far-off now, doesn't it?

PLEASE NOTE: There are 28 questions in all, too many for one poll, so I split them between two. This means two Submit buttons to be clicked: one after #15, and one at the end. Make sure you catch 'em both.

Without further ado:

The Alt-90's Trivia Hoop-di-doo
[Poll #572055]
[Poll #572056]

Comments

[engagefriction.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I had to sit here and just think back or start singing to myself to do that! I am definitely no Matt Pinfield ;)

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

my hubby helped me a little.

[koyaanisqatsi.livejournal.com]

These are tough. Also, I suck at music trivia.

[antsswarm.livejournal.com]

I can't answer all these questions, I won't try! But this brings back such good, strong memories of high school. God bless the 90's, they were fascinating!

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

I only answered like 5 and likely got 4 wrong. Fun though.

Also, watch the mail. (No, not literally, silly.)

[daev.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I can answer like maybe two of those questions.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm SO pimping this in my LJ.

[jenphalian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I sucked at that (I actually did it in conjunction w/ Jason last night). Apparently I know nothing about mid-90s alt. I defend myself with the fact that I was in jr. and high school then, and no one knows anything about anything in those years. Yeah.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

why was the second part so much easier?

MAN I miss the 90s. but maybe I'm still there.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I defend myself with the fact that I was, umm... 5?

[tablesaw]

I may do one of my own. A write-your-own-trivia-quiz meme is something I can go with. I knew most of these answers, so presumably you'd know lots of mine.

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

When are you going to post the answers? :)

[icarusfallen8.livejournal.com]

You do realize that the Flaming Lips had a song on the radio in the last two years right?

[icarusfallen8.livejournal.com]

I may have accidentally submitted the poll more than once. I'm not sure, as I accidentally opened a different page in that window while taking the poll, paged back to find my answers for 1-15 were in 16-28. Then paged back one, and once forward to find all my answers gone. So I took it again. Sorry for possibly being redundant.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Would that we were. He is far too good at this.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Well, for the record, the two of you seriously kicked some ass on this. Well done!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

You do not. Silly.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I know! It's a major nostalgia wave, one very closely tied in with the music, more so than others. (A wee bit after high school for me, I'm afraid, but much the same idea.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

You did way better than you think you did, actually....

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*surprised*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you! (And really nicely done!)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*sticks out tongue* Whippersnapper.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

NO excuse! So there! (You guys did pretty well, just so you know, so no self-deprication necessary.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Purely random. I wrote it at work, on a stack of little sheets of scrap paper, and shuffled them before typing this up. I tried for better distribution, but, well, dem's da breaks, I guess.

MAN I miss the 90s. but maybe I'm still there.

You, too, huh?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Don't count on it: I basically drew from my own particular sliver of knowledge, which doesn't necessarily translate to other slivers. But please do!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Soon; probably tomorrow. I still need to assemble the results.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

And I just remembered another one while looking at this again, Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories! But it's too wwwate. :D haha

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*nods* Not quite the same, though: "She Don't Use Jelly" was an actual bona fide hit, which is something I don't think they could've expected. (I remember a VJ at the time saying, "All my friends are saying, 'Y'know, I can't believe Flaming Lips have a hit song!'")

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

No worries—LJ only saves the most recent one.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

I think I bought my first CD-featuring-songs-that-are-played-on-the-actual-radio in over five years today. I miss the days when you could turn on the radio, just like a regular station, and hear songs you really, really liked.

My current radio station isn't *bad* on that count, but neither is it good.

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

Ah. I only know a few of them, but I don't want to Google the rest. :)

[daev.livejournal.com]

You have found my blind spot. I didn't like what was happening in the mainstream of alt rock during the '90s (grunge and everything inspired by it) so I completely avoided listening to the radio. I was following lofi indie stuff (Pavement, Liz Phair, Gorky's), power pop (Posies, Material Issue, Matthew Sweet), and every bit of mid-80s Champaign-Urbana music I could find in Berkeley.

I still don't know what's on the radio in the rest of the world, because WPGU here is non-stop Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Mountain Goats, Lorenzo Goetz, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Interpol ... basically they went Weird Indie in a big way. I am really happy with the state of music in my tiny little world now.

But it means you'll lay waste to my soul in any game of '90s rock trivia. Waaaahhh!

[tablesaw]

Well, my point was that, since our slivers seem to be very similar, if I wrote another 90's music quiz, there's a good chance it will contain questions you know.

[jenphalian.livejournal.com]

It was all Jason. He's smart.

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Do I win a prize?

Like maybe a 90s compilation inspired by the questions on the quiz? *bats eyes prettily* Pleeeeeease?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Hold on, hold on, still tallying scores here. But that was the exact prize we were thinking of, so....

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

I am the awesome mind reader! Hah!

It will make an AWESOME cd.

And you know my weakness for a well made mix cd!

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

I miss those days, too.

I moved to North Alabama from Seattle. Seattle's not the rock scene any more, but its still pretty good. And a good handful of the DJs still played good music. Not all stations, or even one station all the time, but enough to make me happy.

We moved here last fall. The "alternative" station here plays a bunch of crap, with that Finger Eleven song One Thing in near constant rotation. Every now and then, I find something good, but not much.