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What band sings "Runaway," "Bad Medicine," and "You give love a bad name
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Bon Jovi
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In 1986, Peter Gabriel had his firt #1 hit with what song?
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Sledgehammer"
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Who did the voice-over for TV show the dukes of hazzard
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Waylon jennings
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What artist's hits include "Whiskey River, " "On the road again," and "Blue Eyes Cryin in the rain?
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Willie Nelson
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In Paul Simon's 50 ways to leave your love, what is the first way mentioned
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slip out the back jack
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Name the famous country music singer who sings smoothly but sutters when he speaks
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Mel Tillis
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What 1975 move musical featured Elton John, Eric Clapton, and Jack Nicholson?
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Tommy
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In what song does Steely Dan sing, "I can't stand her doing what she did before, leaving like a gypsy queen in a fairy tale"?
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My old school
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What punk rock band featured members named Joe Strummer and Mick Jones
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The Clash
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What group had albums entitled Trick of the Tail, Wind & the Wuthering, and And Then There Were Three
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Genesis
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What song was a hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969 and for Ike & Tina Turner in 1971
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Proud Mary
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Who sings "All My Rowdy Friends" at the opening of ABC's Monday Night Football?
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Hank Williams Jr
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Which singer/songwriter's hits included "No Woman, No Cry," Get Up, Stand Up, and Redemption Song?
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Bob Marley
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What Stealers Wheel hit song positions itself between "clowns to the left of me" and "jokers to the right"?
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Stuck in the Middle of You
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What 60's folk duo released their first record as Tom and Jerry?
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Simon and Garfunkel
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What group's hit songs included "The night they drove old dixie down, "The weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek?
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The Band
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What group mourned the "All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see" in their hit "Dust in the wind"?
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Kansas
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What punk rock band featured members named Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious
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The Sex Pistols
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What country artist's hits include "Your Cheatin heart" "I"m so lonesome I could cry" and "Hey good lookin"?
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Hank Williams
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What Bruce Springsteen-penned song was a #1 hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976?
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Blinded by the light
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Who is know as "The King of Country Music"?
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Roy Acuff
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what female name served as the title for hit songs for Then, The Doors, and Laura Braningan?
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"Gloria"
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What did the Five Man electrical Band Claim was "blockin out the scenery, breakin' my mind" in 1971?
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"Signs"
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What was the first song ever played on MTV?
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Video killed the radio star
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Which artist's hits include "And it Soned Me," "Into the Mystic," and Moondance?
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Van Morrison
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Play the funky music, white boy" are infamous R&B lyrics from what group?
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Wild cherry
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What song did an underwear clad tomy cruise dance to in Risky Business?
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"Old Time Rock and Roll"
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What group released albums entitled The Zueen is Dean, Trangeways, Here we come and louder than boms in the 80's
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The Smith's
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What song was a hit for America in 1973 and for Camptain & Tennille in 1976?
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Muskrat Love
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If you like his body, and you think he's sexy, who should you let know?
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Rod Stewart
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Dreamboat Annie, Band Animals, and Magazine are all albums by what Seattle-based rock band?
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Heart
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In this 1974 Wings Smash, Paul McCartney sings, "And the county judge who held a grudge will search forevermore..." for what?
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The Band on the Run
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What band's hits include "You REally Got Me," "Lola," and "Come Dancing"?
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The Kink's
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What kiss song promised "Just a few more hours, and I'll be right home to you" in 1976?
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Beth
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What superstars teamed for the duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" in 1978?
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Barbra streisand and Neil Diamond
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What band's albums include Making Movies, Love Over Gold, and Brothers in Arms?
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Dire Straits
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What Eagles song featured the lyrics, "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave?"
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Hotel California
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What country super group featured Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings?
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The Highwaymen
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Billy Breathes, A Picture of Nectar and Hoist were all albums by what Vermont based band?
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Phish
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"Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird," sing Cheap Trick in their first hit song. What do they suggest they do?
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Surrender
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Who writs the songs that make the young girls cry?
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Barry Manilow
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Blind Man's Zoo, In My Tribe, and Our Time in Eden were all albums by which New York-based folk/rock band of the 80's and 90's?
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10,000 Maniacs
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"She's lump, she's lump, she's lump, she ight be dead," sang this Seattle rock band with the lengthy name. Who were they?
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The Presidents of the United States of America
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According to Paul Simon, how many ways are there to leave your lover?
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50
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"Every little thing she does is Magic" "Sprits in the material World," and "Invisible Sun" are songs from this Police album.
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Ghost in the machine
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In what iconic hit song by the Australian band Men at Work does the singer give a man a "Begemite sandwhich"?
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"Down Under"
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What popular synth-rock group has a name that literally translated means fashion dispatch?
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Depeche Mode
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Midnite Vultures, Sea Change, and Odelay! are all albums by which genre-gending pop star?
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Beck
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Which rapper turned "It's a hard knock life" from the Broadway musical "Annie" into a hip-hop hit?
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Jay Z
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Which rock star supplied backing vocals on the Dire Straits hit "Money for nothing"?
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Sting
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Which Beattle founded Dark Horse Records, Handmade Films, and The Traveling Wilburys?
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George Harrison
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This duo's song of the same title complains tht "Your Mama Don't Dance and Your Daddy Don't Rock N Roll?
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Loggins and Messina
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Who is the lead singer of the pretenders
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Chrissie Hynde
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What artist had hits with the following titles: Country Road, "You've got a friend", "Fire and rain"?
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James Taylor
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In the song "come Monday" what artist says, "I've got my Hush Puppies on. Iguess I never was meant for glitter rock and roll"?
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Jimmy Buffett
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What country singer was played by Sissy Spacek in coak Miner's Daughter
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Loretta Lynn
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Electric, Sonic Temple and Ceremony were all Top 40 albums for which British hard-rock band of the 80's and 90's?
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the Cult
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In Jim Core's 1973 smash, who was is it that "learned a lesson/ 'Bout messin with the wife of a jealous man"?
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Bad Bad Leroy Brown
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What shock rocker and his band use stage names that combine the names of sex goddesses and serial killers?
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Marily Manson
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El, Chico, and Randy were among the brothers in this musial family
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The Debarges
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In Sheryl Crow's song, "All I wanna Do," she wants to have fun until the sun goes down on what famous Southern California thoroughfare?
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Santa Monica boulevard
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What icelandic vocalist started out in the 80's with a band called the Sugarcubes?
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Bjork
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A girl like You, Blood & Roses, and Yesterday Girl, were all hits by what New Jersey rock band of the late 80's?
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The Smithereens
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What group thanked the world of high technology singing "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto"?
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Styx
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What skinny band let us know that the boys were back in town?
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Thin Lizzy
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What U2 album featured the hits "With or Without You," "Where the streets have no name," and "I still haven't found what I'm looking for"?
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The Joshua tree
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What Simon and Garfunkel song asks the musical question,"Where have gone, Joe DiMaggio?
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Mrs. Robinson
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What singer married acress Julia Roberts in 1993?
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Lyle Lovett
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Belinda CArlisle, Jane Wiedlin, and Gina Schock were all emmbers of what all-female So Cal new-wave band?
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The Go-go's
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What hip-hop duo encourages ladies to "shake it like a poloroid picture?"
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Outkast
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Ooh Baby, this guys loves your way....
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Peter Frampton
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What group's 1974 self-titled debut album featured the songs "Can't get enough", Ready for love, and Movin On?
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Bad Company
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What group was "Takin' Care of Business in 1974?
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Bachman Turner Overdrive
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Who handled keyboards and backing vocals for Wings when Paul McCartney forned the band in 1971?
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Linda McCartney
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Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and Pras Micel were the members of what mid-90s New Jersey-based hip-hop?
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The Fugees
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Which Bon-Jovi hit song contains the lyrics, "We've got to hold on to what we've got/'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not"?
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Living on a Prayer
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What lead singer of the Black Crowes married acress Kate Hudson in 2000?
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Chris Robinson
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"Hold my hand", Let her cry, and Only wanna be with you were all hits from Hootie and the Blowfish's major label debut. Name the album.
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Cracked Rear View
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The Backstreet Boys sing "Idon't care who you are/Where you're from/What you did," on one condition. What is it?
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As long as you love me
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What musician is nicknamed the boss?
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Bruce Springsteen
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This introspective 1992 R.E.M. album includes the songs "Drive," Everybody Hurts, and Man on the Moon.
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One
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What jazz musician was nicknamed "Bird"?
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Charle Parker
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"Hungry like the wolf", Save a prayer", and the title track are songs from this Duran Duran album
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Rio
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John Cougar mellencamp wrote it, and Pat Benatar had a hit with it. Both of them needed a lover who wouldnt do what?
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Drive them crazy
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Who was Ziggy Stardust?
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DAvid Bowie
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What singer-songwriter has been a member of Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Golden Smog?
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Jeff Tweedy
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What Fleetwood Mac song is about a woman who is "like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness"?
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Rhiannon
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What is the name of Elvis Costello's original backing band?
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The attractions
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Which rock group's albums include Escape, Frontiers, and Infinity?
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Journey
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The sample that fueled MC Hammer's biggest hit, "You can't touch this," came from what R&B hit?
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Superfreak
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Chris Martin is the lead singer for which band?
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Coldplay
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What guitarist was a member of the bands The Yardbirds, Cream, and Derek and the Dominos?
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Eric Clapton
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What Michael Jackson song featured the claim, "The kid is not my son"?
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Billie Jean
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What city is known as the "country music capital of the world"?
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Nashville
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What soul singer's hits included "Can I get a witnss," "I heard it through the grapevine, and "Let's get it on"?
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Marvin Gaye
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What Rolling Stones song features the lyrics, "You make a grown man cry"?
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Start me up
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In what city was Motown Records originally based?
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Detroit
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What band's albums include Master of Puppets, St. Anger, and Garage Days Revisited?
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Metallica
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Name the band whose mid 90s hard-rock hit "Bullet with Butterfuly wings, features the lines, Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."
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Smashing Pumpkins
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What controversial 1991 Madonna video made its television debut on ABC's Nightline?
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Justify My Love
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What 50s legend's hits included "Maybellene," "Johnny B. Googde," and "Too Much Monkey Business"?
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Chuck Berry
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What talking heads song featured the lyrics, "This is not my beautiful house.... This is not my beautiful wife"?
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Once in a Lifetime
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What was Elvis Presley's middle Name?
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Aron
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What band's hits include "Under the Bridge" "Soul to Squeeze," and "Take It Away?"
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Pass the tnning butter! shouts Fred Schneider of the B-52's in which new wave dance classic?
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Rock Lobster
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Which superstar supplied backing vocals on Rockwell's Somebody's watching me"
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Michael Jackson
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What band's albums, include Diver Down, 5150, OU812?
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Van Halen
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You're whisperin' in my ear/Tell me all the things that I wanna hear," sing The Romantics in which timeless new wave party hit?
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What I like about you
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Name the Beastie Boys video that parodied 70s cop shows and was directed by Spike Jonze
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Sabotage
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What band's albums include The Bends, Kid A, and Hail to the Thief?
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Radiohead
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In which 1978 Foreigner hit does the band sing, "Check it and see/I've got a fever of a hundred and three"?
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Hot Blooded
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Which hit from Fleedwood Mac's rumours was Bill Clinton's theme song during the 1993 US presidential campaign?
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Don't Stop
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What Beach Boys album featured the songs "God Only Knows" "Wouldn't it be Nice," and "Sloop John B'"?
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Pet Sounds
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What Police hit featured Sting's repeated warning, "I'll be watching you"
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Every Breath you take
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Who wrote the lyrics to elton John's string of '70s chart toppers?
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Bernie Taupin
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"Dreams," "Linger," and "Zombie" were all hits in the mid-90s for which Irish pop/rock band?
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The Cranberries
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"She had the body of a Venus/Lord, imagine my surprise," sings Steven Tyler in one of Aerosmith's comeback hits from the 1980s. The title of the song explains what's so surprising. What is it?
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The dude looks like a lady
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Duran Duran performed the title song for what 1985 James Bond Film?
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A View To A Kill
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"Many Rivers to Cross," "Sitting in Limbo," and "Shanty Town" are classic reggae songs from the 1973 soundtrack album that largely introduced the sound to the world. Name the album.
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A Harder They Came
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The destruction of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communim in Russia and Eastern Europe inspired which 1989 hit by British dance-rockers Jesus Jones?
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"Right here, right now"
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Which rock star supplied backing vocals on the Carly Simon smash "You're So Vain"?
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Mick Jagger
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What '50s legends hits included "That'll Be the Day," "Oh Boy," and "Peggy Sue"?
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"Dancing in the Dark"
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Who was "a little bit country" and who was "a little bit rock and roll"?
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Marie and Donny Osmond
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Which group's hits included "The Eternal Flame," "Hazy Shade of Winter," and "Manic Money"?
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The Bangles
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The funky sample that drove Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's 1988 rap hit "It Takes Two" came from a recording by what R&B legend?
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James Brown
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What rock band had all four of its members release solo albums on the same day in 1978?
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Kiss
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What '50s legend's hits included "Tutti Frutti," "Lucille," and "Long Tall Sally"?
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Little Richard
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What Pink Floyd song featured the declaration, "We don't need no thought control"?
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Another brick in the wall, part2
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What three pop stars were killed in a plane crsh on Feb 3rd, 1959 (a.k.a. The Day the Music Died)?
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Richie Valen, Buddy Holly, The big bopper
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What Australian beauty's hits included "I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow," and "Physical"?
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Olivia Newton John
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What Bonnie Rait hit featured the line, "I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves"
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Thing called love
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What '80s New Wave Favorites featured lead singer Deborah Harry?
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Blondie
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