Kia ora koutou ē hoa mā
Welcome to Friday afternoon and the answers! Hope you’ve all had a tasty and balanced week.
Most recognised song this week was “Vegetables” by the Beach Boys; “Carrot Juice is Murder” by the Arrogant Worms understandably caused the most confusion! Pretty sure next week’s quiz is easier.
1960s: “Vegetables”, The Beach Boys
1990s (Canada): “Carrot Juice is Murder”, The Arrogant Worms
1990s (USA A): “Pea”, Red Hot Chili Peppers
1990s (USA B): “Tonight, Tonight”, The Smashing Pumpkins
2000s (Spain): “The Ketchup Song”, Las Ketchup
2000s (UK): “Pumpkin Soup”, Kate Nash
Your leaderboard this week:
🥇 on 12/12: BSA Team, Team LSP, Team Impoverished, and Kimberley and Ilona
🥈 on 11.5/12: Flying Lizards
🥉 on 11/12: Lore in Order, Vercisca, and Megan and The Chamberlains
Have a great weekend, and see you on Monday for the final quiz of the term.
Kirsti.
1960s: “Vegetables”, The Beach Boys
If you brought a big brown bag of them home
I'd jump up and down and hope you'd toss me a carrot
I'm gonna keep well my vegetables
Cart off and sell my vegetables
I love you most of all
My favorite vege-table
I tried to kick the ball but my tennie flew right off
I'm red as a beet cause I'm so embarassed
Hint: After singing about surfing in the USA, spending time on the Sloop John B and asking wouldn’t it be nice, this Californian surf-rock band decided to sing about…vegetables. Fun fact! Despite not being in this band, Paul McCartney can be heard in the background of this tune chomping on celery. Song title in lyrics quoted.
1990s (Canada): “Carrot Juice is Murder”, The Arrogant Worms
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream scream scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot Juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime)
Greenhouses' prisons for slaves (let my vegetables grow)
It's time to stop all this gardening (it's as dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade...)
Hint: It’s probably the most obscure song I could include, but when I learnt there was a Canadian comedy response to “Meat is Murder” from last week’s quiz the temptation to include it was…strong. So I did. This trio, founded in 1991, are known for parodying many musical genres and when not spoofing a particular style of music, the band’s material pokes fun at various aspects of daily life in Canada with songs like “Canada's Really Big”, “Me Like Hockey”, “We Are the Beaver”, “I Am Not American”, and “Proud to Be Canadian”. Their band name is 2 words: the first means “to have or reveal an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities”; the second is a creeping or burrowing invertebrate animal with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs (also: big monster from Dune). Song title vaguely in lyrics quoted.
1990s (USA A): “Pea”, Red Hot Chili Peppers
I'm a little pea
I love the sky and the trees
I'm a teeny, tiny little ant
Checking out this and that
And I am nothing
Ah, so you have nothing to hide
And I'm a pacifist
So I can f*ck your sh*t up
Oh yeah, I'm small
Oh yeah, I'm small
Hint: This cute little song is from an American funk rock band better known for their songs “Under the Bridge”, “Give It Away”, “Scar Tissue” and “Californication”. Song title in lyrics quoted.
1990s (USA B): “Tonight, Tonight”, The Smashing Pumpkins
The impossible is possible tonight (Tonight)
Believe in me as I believe in you
Hint: Bit of a mawkish, sentimental alternative rock song from the band who brought us “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, “1979”, and “Zero” - all from the same album as this one! Song title in lyrics quoted.
2000s (Spain): “The Ketchup Song”, Las Ketchup
Aserejé ja de je
De jebe tu de jebere sebiunouva
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Hint: This Spanglish song is one of those songs that is burnt into the Millenial conscience as a popular novelty dance routine from the early 2000s, and included in this quiz because according to the US Department of Agriculture, ketchup is a vegetable - and a word related to both the song title and the band name. Song title not in lyrics quoted.
2000s (UK): “Pumpkin Soup”, Kate Nash
This paranoia is distressing
And I spend most of my nights guessing
Are we not, are we together?
Will this make our lives much better?
I'm not in love
I just wanna be touched
I just want your kiss boy (Kiss boy, kiss boy)
I just want your kiss
Hint: This English singer-songwriter and actress first gained recognition with her song “Foundations” in which she dissects a couple’s argument; this song was the third song released from her debut album Made of Bricks. The song title has nothing to do with the lyrics, but rather refers to a thick, generally orange, hot puree consisting of broth or stock and the vegetable linked to Halloween/is in the name of one of the 1990s bands included in this quiz. Song title not in lyrics quoted.
