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Can you name the metal bands from the 1980s?
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Sweet Child O' Mine
Metal Health/bang your head
Rock You Like A Hurricane
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'80s Metal Bands Quiz
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foreverfreebird
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Sep 22nd, 2008 at 18:51 GMT
20 points
Is it sad that, even though this stuff is twenty years old now, I have more than half of these on itunes? :)
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Sep 22nd, 2008 at 18:51 GMT
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Sep 22nd, 2008 at 18:53 GMT
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Math Chick:
Sep 24th, 2008 at 16:37 GMT
18 points
Now I know why I can't do the geography quizzes-- my brain is full of hair metal bands. Fun, and slightly embarrassing trip down memory lane.
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Math Chick:
Sep 24th, 2008 at 16:37 GMT
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Math Chick:
Sep 25th, 2008 at 22:45 GMT
9 points
Ack! I managed to submit three time. Maybe I do badly on geography quizzes cause I'm an idiot. : )
springmom
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Oct 7th, 2008 at 03:20 GMT
6 points
Dokken was at best, a minor act. I don't understand why Iron Maiden isn't on this quiz. They weren't "hair" metal, but along with Priest, they were the forerunners of the genre.
jen:
Oct 8th, 2008 at 01:19 GMT
7 points
seriously on the Dokken comment?
Retnuh
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Oct 13th, 2008 at 06:12 GMT
13 points
Great quiz. Even though I was born in '89, I love 80's music. Hair Metal is probably my favorite genre, and I love nearly all of these songs. How about a 90's bands quiz?
springmom
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Oct 17th, 2008 at 01:07 GMT
2 points
Dokken never made it really big...most of my more serious metal head friends hated Dokken. I actually like them, but they just couldn't compete with the other really big bands of the day.
Llarry
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Oct 19th, 2008 at 23:36 GMT
36 points
According to an article at the Onion, after 20+ years, the members of Twisted Sister have allowed that they would now be open to the idea of "taking it"...
loose_cannon
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Oct 20th, 2008 at 19:38 GMT
18 points
What, no Winger? =)
zack:
Dec 6th, 2008 at 04:19 GMT
2 points
i got them all but night ranger and dokken really got me ... took me 1:00 to get motley crue spelling right lol =)
garyba:
Dec 10th, 2008 at 02:20 GMT
9 points
Sister Christian...give me a break. That was about as metal as Ave Maria. Night Ranger was in no way, shape or form a metal band. They played crap and couldn't figure out their identity. They had one long-haired guy who thought he was a rock god, one guy who looked like he should be playing be-bop jazz in a smoky club, a preppie-looking guy, a guy who looked like he belonged in a corporate office somewhere and a few other people so un-metal they were totally void of any features worth remembering. Anyone think different?
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jesus
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Dec 19th, 2008 at 15:30 GMT
-33 points
I think this quizes other name should be 'A collection of awful bands'.
DerKomissar
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Jan 1st, 2009 at 05:02 GMT
3 points
Best quiz EVER. Period.
Kitnaz
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Jan 27th, 2009 at 20:25 GMT
11 points
make another :) Blue Osyter Cult, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, Black Sabbath :) and since when has Europe been metal? they are pop, glam rock at best.
Etheridge2
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Jan 31st, 2009 at 03:47 GMT
7 points
I love my hair bands what about damn yankees, trixter, extreme, danzig, danger danger, scatterbrain, ugly kid joe, winger, jackyl, kiss, mr. big, tesla, tuff, etc...
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awesomness
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Feb 12th, 2009 at 00:04 GMT
-11 points
@garyba u suck
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Kitnaz
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Feb 14th, 2009 at 16:22 GMT
-11 points
Blue Oyster Cult were the first band to officialy be called a "metal" band, yet they are not on here?
ndschroede23
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Feb 24th, 2009 at 14:39 GMT
19 points
Shouldn't it accept AC/DC?
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vaporfiend
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Mar 5th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT
-8 points
easy peezy yup & easy! 24/24 in 1:14!
Oathbreaker:
Mar 8th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT
11 points
No, real true "Metal" started with Black Sabbath. Make a Death Metal Quiz
brian:
Mar 13th, 2009 at 02:27 GMT
4 points
Great quiz I only missed one oh and by the way black sabbath was the first band to be described in a review as sounding as heavy as metal which is where the music being described as "heavy metal" came from whole lotta sporcle.
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Dancinganimal256
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Mar 19th, 2009 at 19:59 GMT
-15 points
Almost missed Motley Crue because I got tricked up by the song. I find it would be more helpful to use a more popular song like Dr. Feelgood instead, but that is just me.
lulubelles
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Mar 20th, 2009 at 18:54 GMT
5 points
thanks for putting europe on there, now im gonna be singing bloody final countdown all night!
blurr1974
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Mar 25th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT
-2 points
not to nit pick, but "from" seems to denote these bands first started in the 80s. Aerosmith, Van Halen, Judas Priest, AC/DC all began in the 70's... good fun though. Thanks!
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The_Snakes
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May 1st, 2009 at 06:15 GMT
-8 points
The 80s rocked, it's a shame that pussy Cobain had to come along and ruin it all.
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valenciaACE
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May 9th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT
-16 points
Kurt Cobain? Ruin music? Pussy? Jesus, you can't say more wrong things in the same sentence! Do yourself a favor, and buy one of their CDs. Nirvana >>>> anyone else
Imbetterthanu
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May 10th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT
3 points
Def Leppard is NOT a metal band!
RushTheater
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May 13th, 2009 at 16:27 GMT
5 points
They should've included a Sabbath 80s song in here just to see how many people actually followed them after the Dio years.
Kitnaz
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May 20th, 2009 at 16:06 GMT
3 points
Kurt Cobain was AMAZING! He wasn't as good as classics like 'DC GNR or the like, but Nirvana was an amazing band! @dakota: Many bands here are not "metal" - AC/DC for example are Hard Rock, although Angus calls them Rock N' Roll :)
POTEAT
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May 20th, 2009 at 23:13 GMT
7 points
slade sings the original of cum on feel the noize
Spookymilk
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May 23rd, 2009 at 21:16 GMT
1 point
I got about fifteen of these before looking at any song titles. The '80s weren't exactly about variety.
flyers39:
May 30th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT
4 points
half of these are not even metal
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Kitnaz
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Jun 6th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT
-5 points
@Oathbreaker: No, Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult's Manager) invented the phrase Heavy Metal in 1972.
sophicmuse
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Jun 14th, 2009 at 01:18 GMT
3 points
If you didn't already, you now have the song "Final Countdown" playing in your head.
goulet
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Jun 16th, 2009 at 15:44 GMT
14 points
what the hell? no maiden? also i spent a while figuring out why it wouldn't take AC/DC
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