Music L-P: 'M' Trivia

1. Rapper Post Malone has sold over 80 million records but what does his mom call him?

From Quiz Post Malone

Answer: Austin

Austin Richard Post was born in Syracuse, New York. Starting off as an independent artist in 2013, Post Malone has become one of the biggest selling artists of the late 2010s. His moniker, Post Malone, was actually chosen using an online rap name generator!

From Quiz The Marvellous Matt Monro

Answer: Terrence Parsons

Monro was born Terrence Parsons in Shoreditch, London, on December 1 1930. His family was far from wealthy and Monro was the youngest of five. Regarded as something of a tearaway in his youth, his daughter, Michele, later said in an interview: "He used to listen to Radio Luxembourg and the music he heard transformed him and took him away from reality."

From Quiz Vaughn Monroe - A Forties Superstar

Answer: Racing With The Moon

It was just one of eight minor hits Vaughn had in 1941. Big Bands were popular at the time and Vaughn performed with his own orchestra.

From Quiz Amahl and the Night Visitors

Answer: In the Middle East

Amahl is a crippled young boy whose father has passed away. He was a shepherd, but his mother has been obliged to sell their sheep to buy food. They live somewhere on the path taken by the magi to Bethlehem.

From Quiz Mahavishnu Orchestra

Answer: English

John McLaughlin was born in Doncaster, England in 1942. He went to New York in the late 1960s and played together with Tony Williams and Khaled Yaseen. He also recorded some albums with Miles Davis who suggested that he was ready to form his own band.

From Quiz Meg Myers: Music Monarch!

Answer: Numb

Meg was signed by Atlantic Records in 2012. With that label, she released two EPs and one full record, "Sorry". "Numb" is about her struggle with Atlantic Records. In the lyrics she says "I can be your next big thing... If you force it won't come, I guess I'm feeling numb." On her website, Meg adds that it's also about her early childhood as well, saying it was easier to shut down and lose all feeling rather than facing the issues surrounding her. In the official music video for "Numb," everyone surrounding Meg constantly gets in her face and smothers her. She runs from them over and over again. The final image is a very angry Meg and yet another person about to start harassing her.

From Quiz The Music of Richard Marx

Answer: Don Henley

The song "Don't Mean Nothing" was recorded for Richard Marx's 1987 self-titled debut album. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Rock Vocal Performance - Solo". Several members of the Eagles performed on the song. Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit provided background vocals while Joe Walsh played guitar. Eagles drummer Don Henley did not perform on the song.

From Quiz The Mayhem Behind Mayhem

Answer: Dead

As a child, Ohlin had a near-death experience after being beaten by bullies at school (although he claimed it was from an ice-skating accident) in which his spleen burst and he was clinically dead for several minutes. As a musician, he was the first in the black metal scene to use "corpse paint", which was simply face paint used to make one look dead. Among other bizarre acts, he would bury his stage clothes before a performance so they could smell of rot.

From Quiz Moonspell Songs

Answer: Fernando Pessoa

"Opium" is featured on the album "Irreligious" (1996). The passage in the end of the song is a stanza from "Opiário", a poem by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. Fernando Ribeiro, the band's front man and singer, states that Edgar Allan Poe is also a big influence in the band's lyrics and overall themes.

From Quiz MC Ren

Answer: Ice Cube

MC Ren and Ice Cube are the youngest N.W.A. members; MC Ren was born June 14th 1969 and Ice Cube a day later on June 15th 1969. Interestingly enough, MC Ren and Ice Cube later would become the main songwriters for N.W.A. together.

From Quiz The Rocker Known as Eddie Money

Answer: Baby Hold On

The song "Baby Hold On" by Eddie Money was the first single released from 1977 self-titled debut album. The song hit the top twenty in Canada, the United States and Australia. The lyrics of the song revolve around the subject trying to keep a romantic relationship alive.

From Quiz Manafest Lyrics

Answer: Breaking Down the Walls

If you buy the Japanese album of "The Chase", "Breaking Down the Walls" will not be on the album. In its place are two different versions of "No Plan B", one featuring Koie Kenta of Crossfaith, and "Avalanche".

From Quiz The Life and Music of Ronnie Milsap

Answer: night things

"Daydreams About Night Things" was the first single off Ronnie's album "Night Things". It reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, knocking Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" out of the top spot on September 20, 1975. It remained number one for two weeks.

From Quiz Mando Diao Lyrics

Answer: Gloria

Mando Diao serenades all of these ladies, but only one left her former boyfriend and her life as a disco girl and was the second single to be released from "Give Me Fire": Gloria.

From Quiz The Late Great Gary Moore

Answer: Belfast

Born on 4th April, 1952.

From Quiz The Maine

Answer: Untangle Me (B-Sides)

"Untangle Me (B-Sides)" is a song from "In Darkness and In Light". The album was released in 2010. The Maine has been associated with the band A Rocket to the Moon.

From Quiz Laura Marling: Her Poetic Lyrics

Answer: Devil's Spoke

"Devil's Spoke" was the opening track off of Marling's 2010 release "I Speak Because I Can". Her prior release, the debut disc "Alas, I Cannot Swim", was released in 2008. Both were nominated for the Mercury Prize, an honor bestowed on the best disc released in the UK in any given year.

From Quiz Moving Hearts: The Quiz

Answer: 1981

"Moving Hearts" contained the tracks, "Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette", "Irish Ways and Irish Laws", "McBride's", "Before the Deluge", "Landlord", "Category", "Faithful Departed", "Lake of Shadows" and "No Time for Love".

From Quiz Small Town USA

Answer: prison

Justin Moore grew up in Poyen, Arkansas. He moved to Nashville to pursue a career in country music soon after graduating high school. His debut album was released in 2008 under the music label, Valory Music.

From Quiz Michael Learns to Rock

Answer: Denmark

According to Wikipedia, MLTR is a "Danish soft rock band that performs songs in English. It was formed in 1988 and has sold over 9 million records worldwide." MLTR has become almost as popular as the band Aqua, which is known for hits like "Barbie Girl" and "Doctor Jones"; and Whigfield, with hits like "Saturday Night" and "Sexy Eyes". Both groups are also from Denmark.

From Quiz Mundy

Answer: Edmund Enright

Edmund Enright was once advised to drop the name Mundy as he was told it had become 'tarnished' after he had been dropped from Sony's Epic Records.

From Quiz Mclusky

Answer: Wales

The group formed in Cardiff, Wales. This was in 1996 when singer and guitarist Andrew Falkous met the original drummer Mat Harding. Geraint Bevan later joined on bass and the first incarnation of Mclusky was formed (at this stage they were called "Best").

From Quiz Lata Mangeshkar

Answer: Khemchand Prakash

Lata Mangeshkar made her musical debut at the age of 13 to help her family, after her father died. She first entered the Marathi film industry and in 1946 sang her first Hindi film song 'Aap Ki Seva Main', composed by Datta Davjekar. But it was the 1949 film 'Mahal' which catapulted Lata to fame. The song 'Aayege Aanewala' became a hit and with it Lata began a musical journey which would take her to the pinnacle of fame and greatness. The music director of 'Mahal' was Khemchand Prakash, who also introduced the other great legend Kishore Kumar.

From Quiz Maria Muldaur

Answer: New York

Maria was born in the Greenwich Village section of New York. As a teen in the Village Maria began singing with a number of folk and blues artists who would go on to become major recording artists. In the liner notes from a recent album Maria explains that at the age of 17 she ran away from home and wound up taking care of two young girls in exchange for room and board while a senior in high school. She spent hours exploring the collection of original blues and jazz recordings at the home. She relates "God must have sent me to that family because on those shelves was all the great American music I would end up loving and exploring my whole life!" She also became interested in the girl groups coming onto the sixties scene and formed her own group called The Cashmeres while still in high school.

From Quiz Mastodon's "Leviathan"

Answer: Moby Dick & Moby-Dick

Not only are the lyrics of the album driven by the Herman Melville novel, but the album's artwork depicts the great white whale as well.

From Quiz The Singer from Valhalla - James Morris

Answer: Bass baritone

The basic vocal ranges are soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass. There are other 'labels' which are commonly used for those who don't quite fit the exact definitions of range for the major categories. These include bass baritone (running the bulk of both ranges), basso profundo (lower than bass), and countertenor (a male voice singing in a range higher than tenor). In Renaissance times young boys with excellent voices were sometimes, well, castrated in order to preserve them from the vicissitudes of puberty. These men were known as castrati, and held a high position in society.

From Quiz A Quiz From Under The Floorboards

Answer: Martin Hannett

Martin "Zero" Hannett (1948-1991) produced "Spiral Scratch" EP for The Buzzcocks (1976) which is considered to be the first indie punk release. He co-founded Factory Records and produced Joy Division's albums, "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) and "Closer" (1980), The Durutti Column's debut album (1979), early works by The Stone Roses (1985, collected as "Garage Flower") as well as singles for U2, OMD and New Order. His early acquaintance with Howard Devoto (who was a member of The Buzzcocks at the time "Spiral Scratch" was recorded) led him to produce Magazine's third album, "The Correct Use Of Soap" (1980) from which "A Song From Under The Floorboards" is taken. He also produced their fourth and last album "Magic, Murder and the Weather" (1981).

From Quiz Mae Mania

Answer: The Ocean

If you remembered the next lyric, you should have got it. "Just like the ocean needs the waves." This song is about a guy who is talked about how life is without his girlfriend. When he says "I need you here tonight. Just like the ocean needs the waves," he's saying without her, his life is as dull as a non-moving ocean. Mae's first three full length albums were: "Destination: Beautiful," "Destination: B-Sides," and "The Everglow."

From Quiz A Nantucket Sleighride

Answer: Robin Marie

The band Mountain formed in 1969 with Leslie West, late of The Vagrants, on guitar, Felix Pappalardi on bass, N.D. Smart on drums and Steve Knight on keyboards. "Goodbye, little Robin-Marie, Don't try, followin' me. Don't cry, little Robin-Marie, 'Cause you know, I'm comin' home soon."

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