Can you name the metal bands from the 1980's?

Song	Band
Sweet Child O' Mine
Cum On Feel the Noize
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Girls, Girls, Girls
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Pour Some Sugar On Me
You Give Love a Bad Name
Hot for Teacher
Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
Round And Round
Nobody's Fool
Cherry Pie

Song	Band
Here I Go Again
Just Got Lucky
You Shook Me All Night Long
Rock Me
Fly to the Angels
Master Of Puppets
Peace Sells
18 and Life
Sister Christian
The Final Countdown
We're Not Gonna Take It
You've Got Another Thing Comin

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80's Metal Bands Quiz

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Published: August 7th, 2008
Category: Music
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Tags: Song Quizzes, Bands Quizzes, 1980, metal, Rock Songs, Metal Bands, Hair Metal

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	foreverfreebird:	Sep 22nd, 2008 at 18:51 GMT	15 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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	Math Chick:	Sep 24th, 2008 at 16:37 GMT	14 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 25th, 2008 at 22:45 GMT	8 points
	Ack! I managed to submit three time. Maybe I do badly on geography quizzes cause I'm an idiot. : )

	springmom:	Oct 7th, 2008 at 03:20 GMT	0 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	6 points
	seriously on the Dokken comment?

	Retnuh:	Oct 13th, 2008 at 06:12 GMT	9 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:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 01:07 GMT	3 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:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 23:36 GMT	27 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:	Oct 20th, 2008 at 19:38 GMT	15 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	3 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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	DerKomissar:	Jan 1st, 2009 at 05:02 GMT	4 points
	Best quiz EVER. Period.

	Kitnaz:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 20:25 GMT	7 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:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 03:47 GMT	5 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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	ndschroede23:	Feb 24th, 2009 at 14:39 GMT	18 points
	Shouldn't it accept AC/DC?

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	Oathbreaker:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	7 points
	No, real true "Metal" started with Black Sabbath. Make a Death Metal Quiz

	brian:	Mar 13th, 2009 at 02:27 GMT	2 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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	lulubelles:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 18:54 GMT	4 points
	thanks for putting europe on there, now im gonna be singing bloody final countdown all night!

	blurr1974:	Mar 25th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	1 point
	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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	Imbetterthanu:	May 10th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	3 points
	Def Leppard is NOT a metal band!

	RushTheater:	May 13th, 2009 at 16:27 GMT	4 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:	May 20th, 2009 at 16:06 GMT	1 point
	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:	May 20th, 2009 at 23:13 GMT	6 points
	slade sings the original of cum on feel the noize

	Spookymilk:	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

	Kitnaz:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT	-2 points
	@Oathbreaker: No, Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult's Manager) invented the phrase Heavy Metal in 1972.

	sophicmuse:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 01:18 GMT	2 points
	If you didn't already, you now have the song "Final Countdown" playing in your head.

	goulet:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 15:44 GMT	11 points
	what the hell? no maiden? also i spent a while figuring out why it wouldn't take AC/DC