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1. Who topped VH1's 2015 list of the hundred greatest metal acts of the 1980s?
In counting down the greatest hair metal acts of the decade, VH1 called Mötley Crüe "nothing less (and, in fact, a whole lot more) than the biggest, best, most outrageous, most unhinged, most extreme-in-every-sense over-the-top and off-with-their-tops living, rocking, wrecking embodiment of 1980s hair metal itself."
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2. What hair metal rockers went triple platinum with their 1984 debut album, "Out of the Cellar"?
Featuring the No. 12 hit "Round and Round," along with mainstream rock singles "Back for More" and "Wanted Man," "Out of the Cellar" was the 1984 debut LP of the San Diego-based band Ratt.
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3. Whose 1987 album "Hysteria" did Rolling Stone crown as the greatest hair metal album of all time in 2019?
According to guitarist Phil Collen, when Def Leppard and producer Mutt Lange got together to write and record "Hysteria" (1987), they set out to create "a hard-rock version of [Michael Jackson's] 'Thriller' (1982)." He added, "The point was to not just play to the rock audience but rather to play to everybody."
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4. What pejorative term did journalists begin to use in the 1990s to deride 1980s metal bands, which ultimately led to "hair metal"?
Changing audience tastes and the rise of grunge in the 1990s caused the popularity of glam metal to wane. Looking back on the 1980s, writers began to mock the bands whose music dominated the decade, referring to them as "hair farmers," which ultimately led to the term "hair metal."
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5. The band Europe, who broke big in the U.S. with 1986's "The Final Countdown," hail from _____________.
Europe was founded in Upplands Vāsby, Sweden, in 1979.
FUN FACT
The lyrics to Europe's "The Final Countdown" (1986) were inspired by David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (1969).
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