Rolling Stones All-Time 500 Albums Numbers 31-40 Quiz

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1. Number 31: The album is entitled "Bringing It All Back Home". You may get the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" while listening to this album on "Maggie's Farm". Which folk legend turned rock musician on this album?

Answer: Bob Dylan

This was Dylan's fifth studio album, and it was released in March 1965. The album reached number one on the UK Album Charts and peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200.

Music critic Clinton Heylin wrote that the album was possibly "the most influential album of its era. Almost everything to come in contemporary popular song can be found therein".

An interesting side note: the album that knocked it off the top of the UK charts was the soundtrack from "The Sound of Music". Julie Andrews rocks!

2. Number 32: The album is entitled "Let It Bleed". Mick and the boys really rocked on this album, including the hit "Gimme Shelter". Which London group performed this album?

Answer: The Rolling Stones

The album was released in December 1969, and at one point, temporarily knocked out the Beatles' "Abbey Road" from number one in the UK. It peaked at number three in the US on the Billboard album chart. "Gimme Shelter" was originally spelled "Gimmie Shelter" on the album.

An interesting note on the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want": the backing vocals were done by Merry Clayton, Madeline Bell, and the London Bach Choir.

In Don Heckman's review of the album for "The New York Times", he classified the album as " heavy, black-tinged, passionately erotic hard/rock blues".

3. Number 33: The album and group have the same name. In fact, all the band members have the same stage surname. When I hear this album I say "Let's Dance" and do the "Blitzkrieg Bop". What is the name of the group and album?

Answer: Ramones

The album was released in April 1976. The album's photo was taken by "Punk" magazine's Roberta Bayley. Besides influencing other album covers, their torn jeans look also influenced punk bands and young people's look up until this day.

The album included the original drummer for the recording band, Tommy Ramone (also known as Thomas Erdelyi), who replaced DeeDee Ramone who was having trouble drumming and singing lead to the speedy tempo of the Ramones' songs.

This album is considered to be the real start of punk rock, the catalyst that fueled punk music in both the USA and the UK. To list those in punk and other genres who consider this album an influence, well I don't think I would have the space.

Last note: all the above bands gained notoriety at the legendary CBGB club in New York in the 1970s, as did the Ramones.

4. Number 34: This album from the group The Band has a colorful title. The album's most noted song is called "The Weight". What's the album called?

Answer: Music From Big Pink

The Band backed up Bob Dylan on his tours in the mid-1960s as the Hawks. The album was released in 1968. It was a critical success, though initially it didn't see much commercial success.

The "Big Pink" was actually a pink house in West Saguerties, New York, USA. Band member Rick Danko found it as a rental where they wrote most of the albums' songs, and even Bob Dylan wrote songs there. Dylan actually wrote or co-wrote three songs on the album and did the cover illustration for the album.

"The White Album" (AKA: "The Beatles") is by the Beatles, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is from Elton John, and "Blue" is a Joni Mitchell album.

5. Number 35: The long title of this album is "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars". A well known song from the album is "Suffragette City", "wham bam" and a "thank you, Ma'am" in this one! Who was the artist, who used the alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, that wrote and composed almost all songs on the number 35 album?

Answer: David Bowie

David Bowie was one of the pioneers of "glam" rock, especially with his androgynous character Ziggy Stardust. The album, released in 1972, didn't have much initial commercial success in the USA, only peaking at number 75 on the Billboard album chart. It did much better in the UK, peaking at number five on the album chart.

The song "Suffragette City" initially caused a bit of controversy with the line "wham, bam, thank you ma'am", which some felt was a poorly veiled sexual reference. Funny, nowadays, it seems like a bit of 1970s nostalgia.

6. Number 36: This album was a huge hit for Carole King. When listening to this album, you may "feel the earth move", even if "you're so far away". What is the title of this huge 1970s hit?

Answer: Tapestry

This album, released in 1971, is one of the biggest selling albums of all-time. As of the writing of this quiz, it has sold about 25 million copies worldwide. It was produced by Lou Adler, who also produced some Eagles' albums as well.

Carole King was a highly successful songwriter in the 1960s with her first husband, Gerry Goffin, including songs "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" and "The Loco-Motion" for Little Eva, their babysitter! They also wrote "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" for Aretha Franklin.

"Rumours" is from Fleetwood Mac, "Thriller" is from Michael Jackson, and "Jagged Little Pill" is from Alanis Morissette.

7. Number 37: You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave this Eagles' album. If you're "The New Kid in Town", you may find that "Life in the Fast Lane" is "Wasted Time". What Eagles' album is this?

Answer: Hotel California

The album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. This late 1976 album was number one for eight non-consecutive weeks on the US Billboard album chart in 1977. The title song won the Grammy for "Song of the Year" in 1978.

The other albums were all released by the Eagles earlier than "Hotel California". "Desperado" was released in 1973 and included the title track and "Tequila Sunrise".

"On the Border" was released in 1974 and included the hits "Best of My Love" and "Already Gone".

"One of These Nights" was released in 1975, and besides the title song, included "Lyin' Eyes".

8. Number 38: This album is called "The Anthology: 1947-1972". Some songs are "Gypsy Woman", "Hoochie Coochie Man", and "Rollin' Stone". The Mississippi bluesman, who recorded this album, is often called the "father" of Chicago blues. He got his nickname from his grandmother, because of his fondness for playing in a pond near his home. Who is this artist?

Answer: Muddy Waters

This double compilation album was released in August 2001. His real name was McKinley Morganfield and was likely born in 1913 in Mississippi, USA. There is some minor debate over his birth year, but not the US state.

Waters' influence is felt far and wide through blues, rock, and other music genres. Both the group the Rolling Stones and "Rolling Stone" magazine named themselves after his song "Rollin' Stone". "Rollin' and Tumblin'" was covered by supergroup Cream on their first album "Fresh Cream". Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", The Allman Brothers' "Hoochie Coochie Man", and ACDC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" were all influenced by Muddy Waters' songs. Even a line from the Beatles' song "Come Together" gives a nod to the artist: "He roller coaster/he got Muddy Waters".

Muddy Waters' comeback album "Hard Again", released in 1977, won a Grammy for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording". He passed away on April 30, 1983 of heart failure at his home in Westmont, Illinois.

9. Number 39: The album's title is "Please Please Me". "Love Me Do" and "Twist and Shout" are on this record. Who recorded this 1963 album?

Answer: The Beatles

The Beatles' debut was released in the UK on Parlaphone records in March 1963. In the USA, most of the songs were released on the album "Introducing...The Beatles" in 1964, and subsequently on Capitol Records "Early Beatles" in 1965. The album spent an amazing 30 weeks at number one on the UK album charts.

Eight of the fourteen songs on the album were written by Lennon and McCartney. Among the others, "Twist and Shout" was written by Phil Medley and Bert ("Hang on Sloopy") Russell, while "Chains" was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

10. Number 40: This album is called "Forever Changes". This album came out during "The Summer of Love" in 1967. Some of the song titles are humorous, such as "Bummer in the Summer" and "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This". The name of the band certainly fit the 1960s' Hippie movement. What is the band's name at number 40?

Answer: Love

This was Love's third album released in 1967. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. While a critical success, the album didn't do well commercially, spending only ten weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at number 154.

Frontman Arthur Lee left an influential legacy. Some of the artists that cite him as an influence are Yo La Tengo, MGMT, and Apollo Heights. Robyn Hitchcock's 1993 song "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee" is a tribute to him.

Source: Author Alepcot

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These are numbers 31-40 from Rolling Stones All-Time album's list. Name either the artist(s) or the album.

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