Quiz #52 - Gun "Don't say it's over"

This quiz expires Tuesday August the 14th.
Leave your answers in the comment form, as always :P

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Gun is a Scottish rock band (from Glasgow) who first came to public attention in 1989 with their striking single "Better Days," a powerful driving rock thrash which stopped just short of the top 30. "Better Days" along with follow up "Money" formed part of their first album "Taking on the World" (No. 44).

Having performed the Cameo classic "Word Up" to positive response live, they released the studio version in July 1994. Their biggest hit to date, it and parent album "Swagger" both made the top 10. The latter voted one of Q Magazines albums of the year.

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Gun "Don't say it's over"
Album "Swagger" - 1994

Quiz #51 - Jane's Addiction "Classic Girl"

Another spooky video of love, blood and death.

Perhaps that's where Angelina got her inspiration with the blood vials. Oh, wait, they are not wearing each-other's blood, they are drinking it...

You have til August the 13th to tell me who :P

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Jane's Addiction were one of the most hotly pursued rock bands when they gained notice in Los Angeles in the mid-'80s, with record companies at their feet. Flamboyant frontman Perry Farrell, formerly of the band Psi Com, had an undeniable charisma and an interest in provocative art (he designed the band's album covers), and Jane's Addiction played a hybrid of rock music: metal with strains of punk, folk, and jazz.

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July - Fourth Week's Chart

1. objectValues = 40 points
2. Cassandra = 30 points

This is how the chart looks for the week 23-28 July.
The remaining 2 days of July are going to be incorporated in the current week, BUT they will be added to July as far as the monthly chart is concerned.

Quiz #50 - Loudness "You shook me"

If you think they don't look like the average Hard Rock band... you're right.

However, it's up to you to provide the details til next Saturday (August the 11th).

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By the time they were introduced to the West by 1985's "Thunder in the East" album, Japan's Loudness had arguably already hit their peak. Their previous effort, "Disillusion", was the fourth chart-topping release in their homeland, not to mention a critical triumph among members of the European press. But when faced with a contingency plan to conquer America, Loudness were gradually forced to alter their sound by unsuitable producers and clueless record company hacks, never coming close to translating their far-East success into Western stardom.

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Loudness "You shook me"
Album "Soldier of Fortune" - 1989

Quiz #49 - Ozzy Osbourne "Perry Mason"

Ready or not, here it comes...

You get 10 points for guessing the artist, 10 points for guessing the song, and the first complete answer gets 10 extra points. You have til August 10 to provide the right answers.

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Though many bands have succeeded in earning the hatred of parents and media worldwide throughout the past few decades, arguably only such acts as Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, and Marilyn Manson have tied the controversial record of Ozzy Osbourne. The former Black Sabbath frontman has been ridiculed over his career, mostly due to rumors denouncing him as a psychopath and Satanist. Despite his outlandish reputation, however, one cannot deny that Osbourne has had an immeasurable effect on heavy metal. While he doesn't possess a great voice (it's thin and doesn't have much range), he makes up for it with his good ear and dramatic flair. As a showman, his instincts are nearly as impeccable; his live shows have been overwrought spectacles of gore and glitz that have endeared him to adolescents around the world. Indeed, Osbourne has managed to establish himself as an international superstar, capable of selling millions of records with each album and packing arenas across the globe, capturing new fans with each record.

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Ozzy Osbourne "Perry Mason"
Album "Ozzmosis" - 1995

Quiz #48 - Therapy? "Diane"

The deadline for this quiz is Thursday - August the 9th.

As always, leave your answers in the comment form.

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By constantly expanding upon a frame of influential references that included the usual suspects (Black Sabbath) and the not-so-usual for a metal band (Killing Joke, Hüsker Dü, Buzzcocks), Therapy? released a number of records that constantly challenged themselves and their fans. The band carried a melodic sensibility that also separated them from their alternative metal peers, and although Andy Cairns' lyrical exorcisms were often clichéd, they were never innocuous. As the bridge between Metallica and Nirvana, they never played it straight or safe.

The band had a fair amount of momentum after the success of "Troublegum", but "Infernal Love" seemed to leave that concept in the dust. Darker chords and slower tempos prevail, and the pop-punk hooks are all but washed away. The sequentially buried, bouncing "Loose" is an anomaly, sounding like a refugee from "Troublegum" that reads like a dystopian "Jack and Diane." Other than that, it's nothing but despair and heartache. What makes "Infernal Love" misunderstood is the musical depth, which is easy to miss from the endless doom. It's not one-dimensional at all, buoyed by mournful strings and stylistic curveballs. "Bad Mother" and "Stories" skank along in staccato rhythm, with the verses of the latter aided by swanky saxophones. "Bowels of Love" sounds like Andy Cairns and the Bad Seeds. If that's not enough of a departure, a cover of Hüsker Dü's "Diane" is nothing but voice and strings. David Holmes stitches everything together masterfully, employing numerous atmospheric effects and random trickery to give the record a cinematic flourish. If this is what Therapy? had in mind, the band hit the bullseye.

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Therapy? "Diane"
Album "Infernal Love" - 1995

Quiz #47 - Sepultura "Inner self"

Everybody knows these guys, I'm sure of it, only here they were so. young.

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From their humble beginnings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Sepultura went on to become the most successful Brazilian heavy metal band in history. Over a ten-year period, the band grew from strength to strength, transforming itself from a primitive death metal ensemble into one of the leading creative trendsetters of the international aggressive music scene. Unfortunately, a bitter internal crisis almost destroyed the band, and Sepultura struggled to recover their previous momentum.

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Sepultura's 1989 release, "Beneath the Remains", marked the band's transition from third-world obscurity to major contenders in the international extreme metal arena. As soon as the deceptively gentle acoustic intro gives way to the title track's thrashing brutality, the listener is propelled at maximum speed and intensity through to the very last crunch of "Primitive Future." In between, Sepultura offer their first bona fide hits with "Inner Self" and the inspired "Stronger Than Hate," featuring lyrics written by Atheist's Kelly Shaefer. It's not over there as they charge ahead with the triple threat of "Mass Hypnosis," "Sarcastic Existence," and "Slaves of Pain," all of which feature mind-blowing solos from guitarist Andreas Kisser, thunderous double-bass work from drummer Igor Cavalera, and the furious howling of singer Max Cavalera. The complete absence of filler here makes this one of the most essential death/thrash metal albums of all time.

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Sepultura "Inner self"
Album "Beneath the Remains" - 1989