Are you culturally hip or a poser? If you dare Take the Pop Quiz …Eleven easy questions on pop culture…(boob tube, flics, R&R and politics- 1946-1976).
quiz on pop culture:
1) The classic flick from the Golden Age of Monsters (the fifties)? Send us your picks. For a hint check out Puzzling Evidence
2) What song was number one on the Top Forty for seven straight weeks in 1963? A) Surfer Girl B) Puff the Magic Dragon C) I Can’t Get Used to Losing You, or D) (Don’t you know it’s) The End of the World (It ended when I lost you). Hint: JFK assassination…answer- Puzzling Evidence
3) What great American leader, as a naive, young Army major, was in charge of the My Lai massacre cover-up (The uglyest incident of Vietnam and the turning point of public support)? The answer can be found in Greetings
4) What is a Yippie? PE
5) Rock & Roll’s darkest hour? Hint: the retro seventies. PE
6) Exactly when did the Baby Boom begin and end? PE
7) True or false? In 1959 the oldest Baby Boomers became teenagers and witnessed the birth of Barbie, Visa, Mastercard and the Twilight Zone. PE
8) Name four miracles and four disasters from 1969. PE
9) The song The War Is Over was written in 1968 by John Lennon or Phil Ochs? PE
10) Who was the first to record Hound Dog? Elvis or Big Mama Thorton? PE
11) 59,000 of our kids died in Vietnam because: A) Our ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin B) The Domino Therory (Communists will soon invade California) or C) Rice? Greetings
9 to 11 right:You are culturally literate
7 to 8: You’re not as hip as thought you were
5 or 6: Read some Howard Zinn, Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Sanders, and Puzzling Evidence for Christsakes, or you are doomed to relive the past (Android Rock, Teen Idols, Reality TV, Stealth and Green Berets, Fox News, Karl Rove and Tailgunner Joe, Nixon and Dubya.)
Below 5:You’re on the wrong website. Please leave or we’ll have to call security.
My definition of R&R is a song that includes several of these charactistics: angst, defiance of authority, a sense of humor, double-meaning words and phrases that can slip past the censors, and of course, the music must have a good beat and drive parents up a wall. No disco or other Android Rock (w/ drum machines, synths, etc.)… no Teen Idol crap or sappy love song.
Extra credit:
The greatest Rock & Roll song in history?
The best Baby Boomer Movie and TV show?
The most important artist(s) in R&R? Elvis? The Beatles? Chuck Berry? Zappa? Dylan? Your pick?
Magic Sam
HOME
Published by Greg at 08:29 AM on February 22, 2005
Comments
I’m sorry to be cliche, but I gotta do it:
Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven
Pink Floyd, Money
Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit
Hendrix, Hey Joe (best bass line ever)
and related, but maybe not R&R:
Soundgarden, Black Hole Sun
Radiohead, Everything in its Right Place and Myxomatosis
Favorite modern album: The Beta Band, The Three E.P.’s
and older: Darkside of the Moon (of course)
My favorite tv show from the boomer generation was MASH—it’s one of my favorites period.
Posted by: josh on August 3, 2005 08:43 AM
Some great picks, Josh.
Mine are: Best song… Jimi’s National Anthem or Country Joe’s Feel-Like-I’m-Fixing-to-Die Rag from Woodstock.
Best group: the Fugs and MC-5 were the only ones brave enough to play at Chicago’s Democratic Convention in 1968… Best Album of 2004 - The Fugs Final… Part One.
Bright Eyes on Leno (“When the President Talks to God”) comes close… the kids are alright! Check out Rock Against Bush, Vols 1&2.
Best Boomer flic: Dr. Strangelove, Magic Christian or Being There. Thank God for Peter Sellars and Terry Southern.
Best Boomer TV: The Twilight Zone
Posted by: magic sam on August 6, 2005 05:46 PM