Rock and Roll Third Albums Trivia Quiz

Answer: Metallica

Heavy metal wasn't originally considered a commercially viable genre. You did not used to hear heavy metal music on the radio. Heavy metal musicians did what they did in part because they didn't like the music that was getting played on the radio.

However, one heavy metal band earned their way onto the radio. Metallica became a band that was beloved by heavy metal fans, yet they were commercial enough that they got played on the radio. As a result, when they are asked if they sold out (in a bad way, by becoming popular) they reply "Yes, we sell out every night, in every city."

"Master of Puppets" isn't their highest-selling album, but it's the favorite album of many diehard Metallica fans. It is regarded by some people as the greatest heavy metal album of all-time. It has been certified six times platinum in the United States and Canada and gold or platinum in eight other countries.

One notable song on the album is the title song. This song is become Metallica's most-played song at live shows. It is a fan favorite. Singer James Hetfield says that it's a song about drugs. People who become drug addicts become puppets while the "Master" is the drugs. It was the favorite song of bassist Cliff Burton. This was also the last album Burton ever played on, having died in a tragic bus accident shortly after this album came out.

Another notable song on the album is "Battery," a song which opens the album but sometimes closes their concerts. It's a song about alcohol-fueled domestic abuse.

Another notable song is "The Thing That Should Not Be," which also appears on their album "S and M," a live album they recorded with an orchestra. This is a song about H.P. Lovecraft's 1936 book "Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Another notable song is "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)". This is about a man being locked up in a cage. The jailer is doing this because he thinks the narrator is insane. The narrator says that what's driving him insane is being locked up. The song could be a metaphor about how people who didn't start off insane go insane once they are locked up, or people who really were insane get even more insane when they are imprisoned.

Answer: Green Day

1994 was a great year for punk rock bands. A genre that was once considered underground became part of mainstream music in that year. The Offspring broke through with their highly successful album "Smash". Bad Religion released their first hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Infected", as well as one of their most popular music videos ever for "21st Century Digital Boy", that year. Rancid released their first album ever to be certified Gold by RIAA and to ever chart on the US Billboard 200 chart that year, and their singer Tim Armstrong contributed vocals on one of the best songs on Bad Religion's 1994 album "Stranger Than Fiction".

The most successful punk rock album of all of them, however, was "Dookie", Green Day's third album. it has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

One notable song on the album is "Basket Case", which charted at number nine on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Chart and has charted in at least ten different countries. According to singer Billie Joe Armstrong, this song is about his struggle with anxiety.

Another notable song on the album is "Longview", which charted at number 13 on the U.S. Mainstream rock chart and also charted in the UK, Australia, and Scotland. According to Armstrong, it's about boredom.

Another notable song is "Welcome to Paradise", which charted in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. It's a song about moving out of your parents' home and going off to college.

Another notable song is "When I Come Around", which charted at number two on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and also in ten other countries. It's about a man whose girlfriend is thinking about leaving him and is searching for the perfect boyfriend. The man think she should realize it's him, but he won't force her to come to that conclusion: he'll leave it up to her to decide that, and he'll be waiting in his backyard in case she decides to come back to him.

Answer: Alice Cooper

Before Alice Cooper was the name of a man, it was the name of a band. After their first two albums were poorly received, they broke through in a big way with their third album, "Love it to Death". It went on to become one of the most influential albums of all-time. It went onto to inspire bands like KISS, Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Marilyn Manson, and the Foo Fighters.

One notable song on the album is "I'm 18", which charted at number 21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart. This song went on top inspire several other songs. The Sex Pistols' "17", was written as a response to this. The Ramones' "I Don't Care", was written with chords based on the chords to this song. KISS were sued because their 1998 song "Dreamin'" supposedly was a rip off of "I'm 18". Popular thrash metal band Anthrax has covered the song.

Another notable song on the album is "Is it my Body?" a B-Side to "I'm 18" that appears on some of their Greatest Hits albums. It's a song about a man trying to find out why a woman loves him.

Another notable song is "The Ballad of Dwight Fry", a fan favorite. It's a song about a father going insane and a young girl suffering because of it. They regularly played this song live for over 40 years.

Another notable song is "Black Juju". This is a complex song with many dynamic changes. A notable part of the song is the middle part which goes "Bodies need rest. We all need our rest. Sleep an easy sleep, rest" and then the music gets quieter and quieter so as to make you feel restful. Then, out of nowhere, Vincent screams "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" This song is the epitome of what shock rock is supposed to be.

Answer: The Offspring

1994 was a great year for punk rock music, with bands like Bad Religion and Rancid experiencing a small increase in their popularity and bands like Green Day and the Offspring experiencing an explosion in their popularity. The Offspring began their career working on an independent label. After having modest success with their first two albums, "Smash" became a smash. It has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, making it the highest-selling independent release of all time.

One notable song on the album is "Self Esteem", which charted at number seven on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and has charted in the top ten in ten different countries. It's a song about a man whose girlfriend abuses him, but he likes it because he'd rather be abused than be lonely, and he doesn't have the self esteem to stand up for himself.

Another notable song is "Come Out and Play", which charted at number ten on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and charted in eight different countries. It's a song about children in gangs. The music is catchy and upbeat, but the lyrics are sad.

Another notable song is "Gotta Get Away", which charted at number 15 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and also charted in ten other countries. It's about paranoia.

Another notable song on the album is "Bad Habit", a fan favorite. It's about road rage and murdering people with your car. This song has an a capella part that, at live shows, possibly due to the vulgarity of it, singer Dexter Holland asks the audience to sing, which they do.

Answer: Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi recorded their first album in 1984. The song "Runaway" got them attention on the radio, but more importantly, they opened for KISS on their "Animalize" tour. Then, KISS singer Paul Stanley introduced Bon Jovi to Desmond Child, a songwriter who had co-written many hit songs in the past for KISS and other bands, and would go on to co-write some major songs for Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi would likely not be as successful as they became if they didn't have Desmond Child. Their third album, "Slippery When Wet", has been certified 12 times platinum in the United States and has been certified at least platinum in ten different countries.

One notable song on the album is "Livin' on a Prayer", which charted at number on on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, also number one in Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, and it charted in the top five in at least ten different countries. In 2006, online voters in VH1 polls voted this song as the greatest song of the 1980s. This song proved the importance of Desmond Child and guitarist Richie Sambora, who left the band in 2012. Child co-wrote the song. Sambora convinced Jon that the song was good when Jon was skeptical of it.

Another notable song is "You Give Love a Bad Name", which charted at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and it charted in the top five in six other countries and it charted in the top 40 in at least ten different countries overall. VH1 ranked the song as the 20th best hard rock song of all time.

Another notable song is "Wanted Dead or Alive", which charted at number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and charted in eight other countries too. Jon Bon Jovi actually wrote this song about himself, and his life as a travelling lead singer of a rock band. He compares his life to the life of an outlaw in the old west. According to Jon, it was inspired by Bob Seger's "Turn the Page".

Another notable song is "Never Say Goodbye" which charted at number four in Ireland and has charted on a chart in seven different countries. It's a power ballad.

Answer: Shinedown

Shinedown had released platinum albums before, but "The Sound of Madness" was their first multi-platinum album.

One notable song on the album is "Second Chance", which charted at number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and also charted in eight other countries. The single has been certified triple platinum in the U.S. This song is about the day you come of age where you move out of your parents' home to live your own life the way you want to. The narrator still loves his parents, but he also wants them to understand that he won't live with them forever and that he has to live his own life.

Another notable song on the album is "Sound of Madness", which charted at number one on the U.S. Mainstream rock chart. The single has been certified platinum. It's an anti-suicide song, telling bully victims that they need to fight for themselves. "I created the sound of madness, wrote the book on pain, somehow I'm still here to explain" is singer Brent Smith saying that he was bullied a lot too and he managed to survive and overcome it.

Another notable song is "If You Only Knew" which charted at number two on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart. The single has been certified platinum. Smith wrote this song for his then-girlfriend when she was pregnant with their first child.

Another notable song is "The Crow and the Butterfly" which charted at number one on the U.S. Mainstream rock chart. According to Smith, it's about a mother dealing with the death of her child.

Answer: Aerosmith

"Toys in the Attic" was the breakthrough album for the band that would go on to become arguably the most successful American rock band of all time. After not much immediate success with the first two albums, "Toys in the Attic" went eight times platinum, the first of many multi-platinum Aerosmith albums.

One notable song on the album is "Walk This Way", which charted at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. This song has arguably the most iconic rock guitar riff of all-time. This song also became a hit twice in two different decades. The original version was a hit. Then, in 1986, rap group Run DMC covered the song. They made it a even bigger hit. Their version charted at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and unlike the original version, this version charted in more than ten different countries. The Run DMC single was certified platinum in the U.S.

Another notable song is "Sweet Emotion", Aerosmith's first top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. This song is famous for a recurring guitar motif that can be heard several times throughout the song, including right at the end. The song was featured in the movie "Starsky and Hutch".

Another notable song is "Big Ten Inch Record" which is featured on "Oh Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits", a two-disc collection of Aerosmith biggest hits from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The title actually refers to an album, but some people think it's a double entendre and that there's something else that's ten inches long...

Another notable song is "Adam's Apple" which is featured on the compilation album "Gems", an album that's not a Greatest Hits album but rather a compilation of non-hit singles from Aerosmith's 1970s albums that they are proud of. This is a song about Eve eating the forbidden apple and ruining mankind, or so the Bible says.

Answer: Def Leppard

Def Leppard are considered by many people to be the first "Hair metal" band, a genre in which rock musicians wore a lot of hair spray and made rock songs that were simple and catchy as well as slow ballads. The first major album to be termed this is "Pyromania". This album was certified diamond in the U.S., which is odd because it didn't do nearly that well in Def Leppard's home country of the UK.

One notable song is "Photograph", which charted at number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was usually Def Leppard's concert-closer, and singer Joe Elliot would often ask the audience to sing along.

Another notable song is "Rock of Ages". A famous part of the song is the beginning, in which producer Mutt Lange counts off with German gibberish. The Offspring later bought the right to this and used it at the beginning of their huge single "Pretty Fly For a White Guy".

Another notable song is "Foolin'", which, despite not being a hit in Def Leppard's home country, charted at number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song is memorable for its use of stuttering in the chorus: "F-f-f-foolin'."

Another notable song is "Rock Rock 'Til You Drop" which was released as a single in Mexico. It's a hard rock song similar to AC/DC's music. In their early days, Def Leppard were an AC/DC-ish hard rock band, before they commercialized their sound and became more popular.

Answer: The Clash

The Clash were one of the first major punk rock bands ever, alongside the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. However, with "London Calling" they pushed the boundaries of what punk rock bands were believed to be capable of doing by incorporating other styles of music such as jazz, R and B, reggae and rockabilly. This album was certified platinum in the U.S. and UK. "Rolling Stone Magazine" ranked it as the eight-best album of all time.

One notable song is the title song, which charted in the top 20 in the UK. The title refers to how the BBC identified themselves during World War two. The BBC often said "This is London calling." This song encourages young people in London to take a stand against the government, which had just declared war according to the song. It also calls out police brutality ("We ain't got no swing / Except for the ring of that truncheon thing"). It also calls out drug addiction ("We ain't got no high except for that one with the yellowy eye"). The song also calls out a "Nuclear error" that occurred at Three Mile Island in 1979. Also in the song, the Clash are concerned about themselves. "London is drowning and I live by the river" refers to concerns that if the Thames river had flooded, most of London would be flooded and the Clash really did live by that river at the time. After the album came out, the Thames Barrier was built to remove that concern.

Another notable song is "Train in Vain", which charted at number 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It is a hidden track on the album. It's a song about a man whose girlfriend left him despite promising that she wouldn't, and he's mad because he thinks she lied to him. The title never appears in the lyrics: according to the song's singer and songwriter Mick Jones, the title is because the song's music sounds like a train. According to his then-girlfriend, it's because he used to take the train to his house but she wouldn't let him in.

Another notable song is "The Guns of Brixton", one of the few songs written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon. It's about riots that took place in the city where Simonon was born and raised. Arcade Fire covered this song.

Another notable song is "Clampdown", which has lead vocals from both Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. The clampdown is the government, or it can also be a major company that you work for. They are trying to clamp you down and keep you under control. The song encourages young people to not let authority figures clamp them down, to rise up and fight against them.

Answer: Iron Maiden

"The Number of the Beast" was the first album to feature legendary singer Bruce Dickinson and the last album to feature former drummer, the now-dead Clive Burr. Dickinson described Burr as "The best drummer the band ever had." "The Number of the Beast" charted in the top 40 in the U.S. and the UK and has been certified platinum in both countries. It is considered to be one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all-time.

One notable song on the album is "Run to the Hills" which charted in the top ten in the UK. It is one of Iron Maiden's most popular songs. It's a song about when people emigrated from England to what is now the United States and killed the natives of what is now the United States. The song is sung from the point of view of one of the surviving Native Americans.

Another notable song is the title song, which charted at number 20 in the UK. It's a song about how the world will end according to the Bible. It opens with someone reading actual verses that appear in "Revelation", the final book of the Bible.

Another notable song is "Hallowed Be Thy Name", a fan favorite. Despite not being a single, this song was played at the majority of live shows in the band's history. It's a song about a convicted criminal who has been sentenced to death by hanging.

Another notable song is "Children of the Damned", which is regarded as one of the greatest power ballads ever made by a heavy metal band. It's about the 1964 movie of the same name.