FINAL Flashcards
“Spinning Wheel”
Contemporary Jazz-Rock
American group
Late 60s-Early 70s
Blood, Sweat and Tears
“Déjà vu”
Folk Rock
American music
HOF – all four members
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY)
“One of these nights”
“Hotel California”
American Rock Band formed in LA, 1971
Huge in the 70s
The Eagles
“School’s Out” American singer, songwriter, musician, actor “The Godfather of Shock Rock” American Rock From Detroit
Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
“Rock and Roll All Nite”
American hard rock
Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons
Most golden albums of any rock band
KISS
“Mothership Connection”
Black funk band, led by George Clinton
Parliament/Funkadelic
“YMCA”, “Macho Man”
Black disco group from New York City
Active – 70s, 80s, today
The Village People
“Bohemian Rhapsody”, “We Will Rock You”, “We Are The Champions”
British rock group formed in London
70s
Queen
“Space Oddity”
English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
60s-present
David Bowie
“Go Your Own Way”,
British-American rock band, also formed in London (’67)
Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Welch, Lindsey Buckingham
Fleetwood Mac
“Walk This Way”
Steven Tyler
Heavy Metal band
Aerosmith
Paul McCartney
Wings
Donald Fagen
Steeley Dan
Rick Wakeman
Yes
Bob Marley
The Wailers
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd
Phil Collins
Genesis
Hilly Crystal
CBGB
CBGB
Low-class bar in New York’s Bowery became the home to “punk”
“Johnny Hit and Run Paulene”
John Doe
Ray Manzurek – ex-Doors keyboardist, producer for “X”
X
“I’m so bored with the USA”
The most commercially-successful and influential punk group
Joe Strummer
The Clash
Billy Idol
Generation X
“Take a walk on the wild side”
Lou Reed
The Velvet Underground
“The Passenger”
Iggy Pop
The Stooges
“Psycho Killer”
David Byrne
The Talking Heads
Punk singer known for devising the “torn t-shirt” punk look
“Black Generation”
Richard Hell - also part of The Voidoids
“Gloria”
Known for trance-like recitations of avant-garde/punk poetry
Lenny Kaye
The Patti Smith Group
“God Save the Queen”
British punkers known more for stunts/violence than for their music
John Lydon
Managed by Malcolm McLaren (who also managed the New York Dolls)
Sid Vicious – Bassist of Sex Pistols – murdered his girlfriend
The Sex Pistols
“Rockaway Beach”
First group to record and widely disseminate the punk style
The Ramones
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”
Annie Lennox
The Eurythmics
Whip It”
Gerald Casale
Devo
“Sultans of Swing”
Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits
“Every breath you take”
Sting
The Police
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
Boy George
Culture Club
“Born in the USA”
The Boss
Bruce Springsteen
“Pride” (“In the name of love”)
Bono
The Edge – lead guitarist
U2
Deborah Harry
Blondie
Slash
Guns ‘N Roses
Billie Jean”
Quincy Jones – producer for “Thriller” album
Eddie Van Halen – lead guitarist on “Beat It”
Michael Jackson
“We are the world”
Harry Belafonte – Calypso singer who organized “USA for Africa” for Ethiopian famine relief
Bob Geldof – organized the “Band-Aid” and “Live Aid” concerts for African hunger relief
USA for Africa
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
“Refugee”
Madonna
“Like A Virgin”
Quick mix theory – Saddler’s speedy “double-turntable” scratch technique
Grandmaster Flash
“The Breaks”, “The Message”
Joseph Saddler
James Hetfield
Metallica
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Kurt Cobain
Nirvanna
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
Puff Daddy
Sean Combs
The introduced rap to the mainstream on MTV in ‘84
Darryl McDaniels
Run DMC
The most influential “Gangsta Rap” group
“Fight the Power”
Chuck D, Flava Flav
Public Enemy
“Radio Song”
Michael Stipes
R.E.M.
Ice-T
He wrote/performed the controversial song “Cop Killer” in ‘91
Tracy Morrow
Dub
Kool DJ Herc
The most important white rap group
“Sabotage”
The Beastie Boys
“Planet Rock”
Africa Bambaataa
“Let’s Talk About Sex”
Salt ‘N Peppa
“Give It Away”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best selling artist of the 70s-early 80s?
Stevie Wonder
Vince Furnier is the birth name of what famous 70s rock artist?
Alice Cooper
Los Angeles
Major center of the “hardcore movement”
Best selling artist of the 80s?
Michael Jackson
Bob Dylan…
was a member of “The Traveling Wilbury’s”
Paul Simon
fused “World Music” into his albums in the 80s-90s
Robert Pittman
first president of MTV
Jackson Browne
Singer/songwriter who organized the MUSE (anti-nuclear) events
West Coast rapper shot to death in Vegas?
Tupac
Phish
Alternative band with wildly eclectic mix of rock, folk, pop, jazz, bluegrass, etc.
Dub
filtering out a song’s vocals with a mixing board to leave the bass/drums
Grunge
Mixture of hardcore and metal styles popularized in Seattle area in late 80s
First bonafide MC?
Cowboy Keith Wiggins
