Despite having gone to see them live I couldn’t recognise the name of Billy Talent’s lead singer or any album name that didn’t include “Billy Talent”!
Questions
11 Mar 23
Produced by David Crosby and containing the name of a bird in its four-word title, what was Joni Mitchell’s first album, being released in 1968?
SONG TO A SEAGULL
Which 1974 Joni Mitchell album with a three-word title featured the songs “Help me” and “Free man in Paris”, becoming her highest charting album in North America, reaching number 1 in Canada and number 2 in the US.
COURT AND SPARK
Her most recent and first album of new material since 1998’s “Taming the Tiger”, what is the one-word title of Joni Mitchell’s 2007 album, featuring songs based on the Tennessee Williams play “The Night of the Iguana” and Rudyard Kipling poem “If”, as well as a new version of “Big Yellow Taxi”?
SHINE
From which 1970 third studio album with a four-word title was Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”, the title referring to a mountainous neighbourhood in Los Angeles where Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe lived?
LADIES OF THE CANYON (The neighbourhood is Laurel Canyon)
Of Polish descent and born in Montreal, what is the name of the vocalist of Canadian rock band Billy Talent, who got their name from the 1996 Canadian mockumentary “Hard Core Logo”?
BENJAMIN KOWALEWICZ
Breaking with the tradition of their first three albums by not calling it “Billy Talent IV”, what fourth album by Canadian rock band Billy Talent contained the singles “Viking Death March” and “Surprise Surprise”, neither being reflective of the album’s title?
DEAD SILENCE
The first album recorded by Billy Talent without drummer Aaron Solowoniuk who had suffered a multiple sclerosis relapse, what were the Canadian rock band afraid of in the title of their fifth album and its lead single, with perhaps the strangest song title on the record being “Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats”?
AFRAID OF HEIGHTS
Which sixth studio album by Billy Talent suggests they have lost some confidence, which may explain why they teamed up with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo for the track “End of Me”?
CRISIS OF FAITH
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