1.5.15 MALONE'S CAFE - TRIVIA
TEAMS: Happy New Year Trivia teams and welcome back! New teams, new Trivia, new tunes...Life is good! BJ'S RIGHT BOOB (83) didn't need a wardrobe malfunction to give everyone a look-see at their comically humongous IQs. Snarling and smart, THE FIGHTING MONGOOSES (79) managed to set aside their differences on the final round to snag second place from a host of contenders. SIT UBU SIT (74) started 2015 the same as 2014 ended...being wicked smart and, as always, a "good dog."
Newcomers SPARKLY KITTY CATS (71) dazzled in their debut as they easily purred through tonight's contest. JV TEAM (68) started and finished strong, but couldn't wager enough points on their perfect final round after a disastrous fifth round. A splinter faction of BRB and TFM, OTTER POPS (65) froze up on the final round and just missed joining their comrades on the victory stand. CRAZY TEAM (53) is just that.
TRIVIA: Malone's is a "Specials" kind of venue if you know what I mean, but several teams got tripped up searching for which musical genre was started in Jamaica in the late 1950's combining elements of calypso and Caribbean mento with American jazz and early rhythm and blues....SKA! Fans of the genre enjoy ska's walking bassline and easy dance rhythms and know that ska's first wave was the dominant musical force in Jamaica through the 1960's and greatly influenced the development reggae at the end of the decade.
Ska's history can be traced to three distinct "waves". The first wave, featuring ska-lebrities PRINCE BUSTER, JIMMY CLIFF, and DUKE REID, was directly impacted as Jamaicans started to own radios capable of receiving radio broadcasts from the southern United States, particularly New Orleans, and began recreating the jazz and rock sounds while incorporating traditional Jamaican drum beats and rhythms. In Jamaica, first wave ska gave way to reggae and rocksteady as the 60's ended, but the second wave, frequently called English 2 Tone, developed in the UK in the late 1970's fusing ska's early Jamaican sounds with harder punk rock and new wave elements common in Europe. This second wave, which featured legendary ska bands THE SPECIALS, MADNESS, and THE SELECTOR, experienced moderate commercial success in the UK, but it wasn't until ska's third wave in the 80's and 90's that the genre enjoyed mass appeal. Bands such as THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, REEL BIG FISH, NO DOUBT, and SUBLIME carried the new ska torch with a sound rooted in traditional ska, but characterized by stronger guitars and large horn and brass instrument sections.
TUNES: Looking at tonight's playlist, one might think half the questions were about ska and punk! REEL BIG FISH, SWINGIN' UTTERS, GREEN DAY, THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, and GOLDFINGER thrilled the Malone's crowd. SALT-N-PEPA's "Push It" and a double-dip from the TALKING HEADS offered help to those that knew where to look for it.
Dice enjoys trying to accommodate all song requests, today playing a whopping EIGHT 80's TV theme songs for one of the Boobs. Dice dropped the theme songs from 21 JUMP STREET (performed by show actress Holly Robinson), THE FACTS OF LIFE (written and performed by 80's theme-song icon Gloria Loring), MIAMI VICE (composed and performed by synth-guru Jan Hammer), PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, FAME (Irene Cara), GREATEST AMERICAN HERO (Joey Scarbury), THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (Waylon Jennings), and KNIGHT RIDER (composed by Stu Phillips whose other musical credits include songs for Battlestar Gallactica, The Monkees television show, and The Six-Million Dollar Man).
**NO SHOW @ MALONE'S ON 1.12.15 DUE TO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME**
See you all the 19th...Good luck and GO DUCKS!
-Dice
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