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1. Your alarm clock goes off, waking you to a local station playing classic hits of the 70s and 80s and you hear these lyrics: "If you change your mind, I'm the first in line, honey I'm still free, take a chance on me..." The DJ says up next is another of the band's hits: "Fernando." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
2. You get to work late and your boss scolds you, so you're feeling pretty down. To cheer you up, a co-worker sings: "Don't let yourself go, cause everybody cries, and everybody hurts, sometimes..." Your friend's singing voice reminds you of Andy Kaufman's, to whom the same band payed tribute with the song "Man on the Moon." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
3. At lunch, you and a co-worker eat at a great Jamaican restaurant. A live band covers reggae hits, creating the perfect atmosphere. During a pause in your conversation you hear: "Wise men say, only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you..." You request they play another song by the same band: "Red Red Wine." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
4. On the drive back, your co-worker plugs his iPod in: "I see the bad moon arising, I see trouble on the way, I see earthquakes and lightning, I see bad times today..." This song is too ominous, not befitting your somewhat defiant mood. You ask if he has "Fortunate Son." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
5. After work you return home and start flipping through the television channels. You stop to watch a documentary about the origins of hip-hop and hear these lyrics: "Mama said knock you out, Mama said knock you out..." The narrator also mentions another pioneering song by the artist: "I'm Bad." What is the correct way to expand this artist's acronymic name?
6. Your feeling somewhat punk/alternative rock-y so you turn on one of your favorite bands. You sing along: "And now, it is silver and silent, it is silver and cold, you in somber resplendence I hold..." Next you'll listen to another of their hits: "Love Like Winter." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
7. You head downtown and stop in at a used record store. Digging through the classic rock LPs you find one that brings back memories. You sing to yourself: "Cause I'm TNT, dynamite! TNT, and I'll win the fight!" You see another familiar track, "Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
8. Back at home you rummage through your now deprecated CDs. You stumble across a a rap-metal favorite from the first few years of the 2000s. Pressing play, you hear: "Here in southtown, and you know that kids don't play, put it down in the streets, will I see another day?" It reminds you of another hit: "Youth of a Nation." What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
9. Stepping outside you hear a couple next door arguing over which song by a British rock band is better. One is singing to drown out the other: "Sleight of hand and twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait, and I wait without you. With or without you..." The other keeps yelling a song title: "Where the Streets Have No Name!" What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
10. As the sun sets you take a walk and a car drives by, its speakers blaring: "Scheming on a thing that's a mirage, I'm tryin' to tell you now, its Sabatoge!" You look up and can see a few bright stars. It reminds you of the song "Intergalactic" by the same band. What is the correct way to expand this band's acronymic name?
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