Music Appreciation Exam 4

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) initially targeted which genre before shifting focus to rap?

Heavy Metal

Which technology was commonly used in the 1980s to create distorted guitar sounds for heavy metal?

Amplifiers with distortion effects and guitar pedals

The fast, virtuosic guitar playing style in heavy metal, popularized by Eddie Van Halen and others, was known as:

Shredding

AC/DC’s Back in Black was dedicated to which former lead singer?

Bon Scott

Def Leppard’s “metal pop” or “lite metal” style was promoted heavily through which platform in the early 1980s?

MTV

Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast was controversial for its:

Occult themes

MTV’s Headbangers’ Ball premiered in which year?

1986

Which band is considered the best-selling speed/thrash metal group, known for Master of Puppets and Enter Sandman?

Metallica

DJ Kool Herc is credited with pioneering which technique?

Breakbeat music

Which Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five song was the first prominent hip hop track to provide lyrical social commentary?

The Message

“Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang famously used the instrumental track from which disco hit?

Good times by Chic

Which group’s Straight Outta Comptonbecame one of the first multi-platinum gangsta rap albums without radio play

NWA

Which female rapper released Ladies First in 1989 and became known as a pioneer feminist voice in hip hop?

Queen Latifah

Mary J. Blige is often called the:

Queen of Hip Hop Soul

MC Hammer’s hit “U Can’t Touch This” sampled which 1981 funk song?

Super Freak by Rick James

Which two artists helped pave the way for “pop” country in the 1990s?

Garth Brooks and Shania Twain

Mariah Carey is often referred to by which nickname

Songbird Supreme

Which 1994 holiday song by Mariah Carey topped charts in multiple holiday seasons

All I Want for Christmas Is You

Which boy band was named after a teen hangout spot in Orlando

Backstreet Boys

Which *NSYNC album sold 2.42 million copies in its first week, becoming the best-selling album of the decade?

No Strings Attached

The Spice Girls’ debut single “Wannabe” hit #1 in how many countries?

37

Britney Spears is from where in Louisiana?

Kentwood

Which Nirvana album featured “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and brought grunge to the mainstream?

Nevermind

The Foo Fighters were founded by which former Nirvana member?

Dave Grohl

Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” won MTV’s Video of the Year in what year?

1993

R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” was featured in which film?

Space Jam

Which rapper’s backstory included being shot nine times before signing with Eminem and Dr. Dre?

50 Cent

Eminem’s stage name is derived from

His initials (M&M)

Which Eminem song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?

Lose Yourself