Hard_rock

qas: question: Where was the band Blue Cheer from?
answers: text: San Francisco

question: What classic song did Blue Cheer cover?
answers: text: "Summertime Blues"

question: What was the hit off Steppenwolf's self-titled debut lp?
answers: text: "Born to Be Wild"

question: What movie featured that Steppenwolf single?
answers: text: Easy Rider

question: The lyrics to "Born To Be Wild" contain the first reference to what hard rock style?
answers: text: heavy metal

question: What Blue Cheer classic was duplicated by Eddie Cochran?

question: What song was not included in the 1968 debut album Vincebus Eruptum?

question: What LA based band released a distorted cover of Summertime Blues?

question: When did Vanilla Fudge release Born to be Wild?

question: What song was used in the film Easy Rider in 1965?
context: Groups that emerged from the American psychedelic scene about the same time included Iron Butterfly, MC5, Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge. San Francisco band Blue Cheer released a crude and distorted cover of Eddie Cochran's classic "Summertime Blues", from their 1968 debut album Vincebus Eruptum, that outlined much of the later hard rock and heavy metal sound. The same month, Steppenwolf released its self-titled debut album, including "Born to Be Wild", which contained the first lyrical reference to heavy metal and helped popularise the style when it was used in the film Easy Rider (1969). Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968), with its 17-minute-long title track, using organs and with a lengthy drum solo, also prefigured later elements of the sound.

qas: question: The band Rush is what nationality?
answers: text: Canadian

question: What are the first three Rush albums?
answers: text: Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel

question: What nationality was Thin Lizzy?
answers: text: Irish

question: What was Thin Lizzy's hit single?
answers: text: "The Boys Are Back in Town"

question: The Scorpions hailed from what country?
answers: text: Germany

question: What British band released the album Rush in 1974?

question: What sound did the band Rush move toward in the 1976 album Caress of Steel?

question: When did the American band Lizzy moved to Ireland? 

question: Which song by Lizzy reached number 8 on the US charts in 1976?

question: Who did Iron Maiden work with to re-introduce blues into hard rock music?
context: From outside the United Kingdom and the United States, the Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974–75 (Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel) before moving toward a more progressive sound with the 1976 album 2112. The Irish band Thin Lizzy, which had formed in the late 1960s, made their most substantial commercial breakthrough in 1976 with the hard rock album Jailbreak and their worldwide hit "The Boys Are Back in Town", which reached number 8 in the UK and number 12 in the US. Their style, consisting of two duelling guitarists often playing leads in harmony, proved itself to be a large influence on later bands. They reached their commercial, and arguably their artistic peak with Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979). The arrival of Scorpions from Germany marked the geographical expansion of the subgenre. Australian-formed AC/DC, with a stripped back, riff heavy and abrasive style that also appealed to the punk generation, began to gain international attention from 1976, culminating in the release of their multi-platinum albums Let There Be Rock (1977) and Highway to Hell (1979). Also influenced by a punk ethos were heavy metal bands like Motörhead, while Judas Priest abandoned the remaining elements of the blues in their music, further differentiating the hard rock and heavy metal styles and helping to create the New Wave of British Heavy Metal which was pursued by bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon and Venom.

qas: question: What is the title of Bon Jovi's third lp?
answers: text: Slippery When Wet

question: How many copies did this record sell?
answers: text: 12 million

question: What was the band Europe's international hit?
answers: text: The Final Countdown

question: What was Van Halen's 1986 album called?
answers: text: 5150

question: Who was the new lead singer for Van Halen on 5150?
answers: text: Sammy Hagar

question: What was Bon Jovi's second album?

question: Which Bon Jovi album spent 10 weeks on top of the Billboard 200 charts?

question: What group from England released The Final Countdown in 1986?

question: What album by Europe reached number nine in ten countries besides the US?

question: Which album did Van Halen release in 1986 which was the second album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocal singer?
context: Bon Jovi's third album, Slippery When Wet (1986), mixed hard rock with a pop sensitivity and spent a total of 8 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 12 million copies in the US while becoming the first hard rock album to spawn three top 10 singles — two of which reached number one. The album has been credited with widening the audiences for the genre, particularly by appealing to women as well as the traditional male dominated audience, and opening the door to MTV and commercial success for other bands at the end of the decade. The anthemic The Final Countdown (1986) by Swedish group Europe was an international hit, reaching number eight on the US charts while hitting the top 10 in nine other countries. This era also saw more glam-infused American hard rock bands come to the forefront, with both Poison and Cinderella releasing their multi-platinum début albums in 1986. Van Halen released 5150 (1986), their first album with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, which was number one in the US for three weeks and sold over 6 million copies. By the second half of the decade, hard rock had become the most reliable form of commercial popular music in the United States.

qas: question: What Aerosmith ballad debuted at number one on the charts?
answers: text: "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

question: What was the title of AC/DC's 1995 double lp?
answers: text: Ballbreaker

question: Bon Jovi's 1995 album was called what?
answers: text: These Days

question: What commercially successful sub-genre emerged from the grunge movement?
answers: text: post-grunge

question: When did Aerosmith's album Get A Grip come out?
answers: text: 1993

question: What Aerosmith album did not succeed in 1993? 

question: When did AC/DC release their number one hit I don't Want to Miss a Thing?

question: What AC/DC album in 1995 became a muti-platinum seller?

question: Which Bon Jovi 1995 album was a bigger hit in the US than in Europe?

question: Who emulated the attitudes of punk bands?
context: Some established acts continued to enjoy commercial success, such as Aerosmith, with their number one multi-platinum albums: Get a Grip (1993), which produced four Top 40 singles and became the band's best-selling album worldwide (going on to sell over 10 million copies), and Nine Lives (1997). In 1998, Aerosmith released the number one hit "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", which remains the only single by a hard rock band to debut at number one. AC/DC produced the double platinum Ballbreaker (1995). Bon Jovi appealed to their hard rock audience with songs such as "Keep the Faith" (1992), but also achieved success in adult contemporary radio, with the Top 10 ballads "Bed of Roses" (1993) and "Always" (1994). Bon Jovi's 1995 album These Days was a bigger hit in Europe than it was in the United States, spawning four Top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart. Metallica's Load (1996) and ReLoad (1997) each sold in excess of 4 million copies in the US and saw the band develop a more melodic and blues rock sound. As the initial impetus of grunge bands faltered in the middle years of the decade, post-grunge bands emerged. They emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly thick, distorted guitars, but with a more radio-friendly commercially oriented sound that drew more directly on traditional hard rock. Among the most successful acts were the Foo Fighters, Candlebox, Live, Collective Soul, Australia's Silverchair and England's Bush, who all cemented post-grunge as one of the most commercially viable subgenres by the late 1990s. Similarly, some post-Britpop bands that followed in the wake of Oasis, including Feeder and Stereophonics, adopted a hard rock or "pop-metal" sound.

qas: question: What are two examples of glam metal bands?
answers: text: Bon Jovi and Def Leppard

question: What two genres cut into hard rock's popularity at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s?
answers: text: grunge and later Britpop

question: What were some hard rock bands of the 1970s?
answers: text: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Van Halen

question: What style did some hard rock bands embrace in the 1980s?
answers: text: pop rock

question: When did soft rock become a major form of popular music?

question: Which band became popular in the 1960s?

question: When did some bands move from pop rock to hard rock?

question: What band made a come back in the mid-1990s?

question: When did hard rock replace grunge and Britpop?
context: Hard rock developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock, while others began to return to a hard rock sound. Established bands made a comeback in the mid-1980s and it reached a commercial peak in the 1980s, with glam metal bands like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard and the rawer sounds of Guns N' Roses, which followed up with great success in the later part of that decade. Hard rock began losing popularity with the commercial success of grunge and later Britpop in the 1990s.

qas: question: What genre laid the roots for hard rock?
answers: text: electric blues

question: Who recorded "Rumble"?
answers: text: Link Wray

question: When was "Rumble" released?
answers: text: 1958

question: What were two of Dick Dale's better known songs?
answers: text: "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) and "Misirlou" (1962)

question: What city's blues style produced hard rock precursors in electric blues?
answers: text: Memphis

question: What type of music known as the roots of hard rock was started in the 1940s?

question: What is a key element that hard rock used to lay roots for electric blues music?

question: What did the electric blues guitarists avoid using from the hard rock genre? 

question: Who was the Memphis hard rock guitarist known for using power chords?

question: Who wrote "Misirlou" in 1961?
context: The roots of hard rock can be traced back to the 1950s, particularly electric blues, which laid the foundations for key elements such as a rough declamatory vocal style, heavy guitar riffs, string-bending blues-scale guitar solos, strong beat, thick riff-laden texture, and posturing performances. Electric blues guitarists began experimenting with hard rock elements such as driving rhythms, distorted guitar solos and power chords in the 1950s, evident in the work of Memphis blues guitarists such as Joe Hill Louis, Willie Johnson, and particularly Pat Hare, who captured a "grittier, nastier, more ferocious electric guitar sound" on records such as James Cotton's "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954). Other antecedents include Link Wray's instrumental "Rumble" in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) and "Misirlou" (1962).

qas: question: What was the landmark hard rock album recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1972?
answers: text: Exile on Main St.

question: Which Led Zeppelin album featured the hit "Stairway to Heaven"?
answers: text: Led Zeppelin IV

question: What two hard rock songs are featured on Deep Purple's Machine Head album?
answers: text: "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water"

question: Who was Deep Purple's guitarist?
answers: text: Ritchie Blackmore

question: Who was the drummer for The Who?
answers: text: Keith Moon

question: What Rolling Stones album got rave reviews in 1972?

question: Who said of the album Exile on Main St.; it was not the Rolling Stones finest album?

question: What year did Led Zeppelin move to folk music to get away from hard rock?

question: What year was the song Stairway to Heaven by Deep Purple produced?

question: When did David Coverdale form the band Rainbow?
context: In the early 1970s the Rolling Stones developed their hard rock sound with Exile on Main St. (1972). Initially receiving mixed reviews, according to critic Steve Erlewine it is now "generally regarded as the Rolling Stones' finest album". They continued to pursue the riff-heavy sound on albums including It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) and Black and Blue (1976). Led Zeppelin began to mix elements of world and folk music into their hard rock from Led Zeppelin III (1970) and Led Zeppelin IV (1971). The latter included the track "Stairway to Heaven", which would become the most played song in the history of album-oriented radio. Deep Purple continued to define hard rock, particularly with their album Machine Head (1972), which included the tracks "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water". In 1975 guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left, going on to form Rainbow and after the break-up of the band the next year, vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake. 1970 saw The Who release Live at Leeds, often seen as the archetypal hard rock live album, and the following year they released their highly acclaimed album Who's Next, which mixed heavy rock with extensive use of synthesizers. Subsequent albums, including Quadrophenia (1973), built on this sound before Who Are You (1978), their last album before the death of pioneering rock drummer Keith Moon later that year.

qas: question: Who was the original lead singer of AC/DC who died?
answers: text: Bon Scott

question: Who was the Led Zeppelin drummer who passed away?
answers: text: John Bonham

question: What singer replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath?
answers: text: Ronnie James Dio

question: What was Ozzy Osbourne's first solo album?
answers: text: Blizzard of Ozz

question: What are some thrash metal bands?
answers: text: Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer

question: When was Bon Scott born?

question: What band was lead singer John Bonham from?

question: Who quit the band Led Zeppelin to move to another band?

question: What AC/DC album became the fifth highest selling album in the US?

question: What solo album did Randy Rhoads release in 1980?
context: The opening years of the 1980s saw a number of changes in personnel and direction of established hard rock acts, including the deaths of Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC, and John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin. Whereas Zeppelin broke up almost immediately afterwards, AC/DC pressed on, recording the album Back in Black (1980) with their new lead singer, Brian Johnson. It became the fifth-highest-selling album of all time in the US and the second-highest-selling album in the world. Black Sabbath had split with original singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 and replaced him with Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Rainbow, giving the band a new sound and a period of creativity and popularity beginning with Heaven and Hell (1980). Osbourne embarked on a solo career with Blizzard of Ozz (1980), featuring American guitarist Randy Rhoads. Some bands, such as Queen, moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock, while others, including Rush with Moving Pictures (1981), began to return to a hard rock sound. The creation of thrash metal, which mixed heavy metal with elements of hardcore punk from about 1982, particularly by Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer, helped to create extreme metal and further remove the style from hard rock, although a number of these bands or their members would continue to record some songs closer to a hard rock sound. Kiss moved away from their hard rock roots toward pop metal: firstly removing their makeup in 1983 for their Lick It Up album, and then adopting the visual and sound of glam metal for their 1984 release, Animalize, both of which marked a return to commercial success. Pat Benatar was one of the first women to achieve commercial success in hard rock, with three successive Top 5 albums between 1980 and 1982.

qas: question: Guns N Roses released both Use Your Illusion albums in what year?
answers: text: 1991

question: What band's debut was titled Shake Your Money Maker?
answers: text: The Black Crowes

question: What was the title of Def Leppard's 1992 album?
answers: text: Adrenalize

question: Adrenalize followed what 1987 Def Leppard record?
answers: text: Hysteria

question: Adrenalize topped US album charts for how long?
answers: text: five weeks

question: In which decade did hard rock see a decline of dominance in commercial music?

question: What year did Ozzy Osbourne release Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?

question: What was The Black Crowes second album?

question: Which Def Leppard 1987 album held the number one spot in the British charts for five weeks?

question: Which 1990 Def Leppard album sold five million copies in 1990?
context: Hard rock entered the 1990s as one of the dominant forms of commercial music. The multi-platinum releases of AC/DC's The Razors Edge (1990), Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (both in 1991), Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears (1991), and Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991) showcased this popularity. Additionally, The Black Crowes released their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker (1990), which contained a bluesy classic rock sound and sold five million copies. In 1992, Def Leppard followed up 1987's Hysteria with Adrenalize, which went multi-platinum, spawned four Top 40 singles and held the number one spot on the US album chart for five weeks.

qas: question: When did the band The Darkness break up?
answers: text: 2006

question: The Sword, High on Fire, Witchcraft and Wolfmother are all examples of what hard rock sub-genre?
answers: text: retro-metal

question: What is the title of Airbourne's debut lp?
answers: text: Runnin' Wild

question: Glam metal band Steel Panther is from what city?
answers: text: Los Angeles

question: What are some Swedish sleaze metal revivalist bands?
answers: text: Vains of Jenna, Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet

question: What type of hard rock music is based in Texas and California?

question: Which band that debut in 2005 sang songs written by Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin?

question: What album did AC/DC produce in 2007 that displayed their hard riffing tradition?

question: What album from 2003 was described as a simulation of 70s metal and 80s glam?

question: What country was a serious attempt to revive punk rock attempted?
context: The term "retro-metal" has been applied to such bands as Texas based The Sword, California's High on Fire, Sweden's Witchcraft and Australia's Wolfmother. Wolfmother's self-titled 2005 debut album combined elements of the sounds of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Fellow Australians Airbourne's début album Runnin' Wild (2007) followed in the hard riffing tradition of AC/DC. England's The Darkness' Permission to Land (2003), described as an "eerily realistic simulation of '80s metal and '70s glam", topped the UK charts, going quintuple platinum. The follow-up, One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005), reached number 11, before the band broke up in 2006. Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by sending up 80s glam metal. A more serious attempt to revive glam metal was made by bands of the sleaze metal movement in Sweden, including Vains of Jenna, Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet.

qas: question: Who were three Chicago blues players who influenced hard rock?
answers: text: Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf

question: Who recorded "You Really Got Me"?
answers: text: The Kinks

question: "Shapes of Things" was a 1966 single by what band?
answers: text: The Yardbirds

question: What garage rock classic was recorded by The Kingsmen?
answers: text: "Louie Louie"

question: When did the Rolling Stones release "(I Can't Get No" Satisfaction"?
answers: text: 1965

question: When did rock bands began to modify rock by using softer sounds?

question: When did Muddy Waters record the song Louie Louie?

question: When did The Yardbirds record the song You Really Got Me?

question: What song did The Kinks record in 1965?

question: Who was a Chicago blues player who had very little influence on hard rock?
context: In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to modify rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming, and louder vocals, from electric blues. Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the work of Chicago blues musicians Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf, The Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" (1963) which made it a garage rock standard, and the songs of rhythm and blues influenced British Invasion acts, including "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks (1964), "My Generation" by The Who (1965), "Shapes of Things" (1966) by The Yardbirds and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965) by The Rolling Stones. From the late 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft and hard rock. Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from blues rock and was played louder and with more intensity.

qas: question: When did Free break up?
answers: text: 1973

question: What band did Free lead singer Paul Rodgers help form?
answers: text: Bad Company

question: Bad Company's self titled debut album was released in what year?
answers: text: 1974

question: What nationality was the band Nazareth?
answers: text: Scottish

question: What was Queen's massive 1975 hit single called?
answers: text: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

question: What American act released the song All Right Now?

question: Which 1970 song by the band Free received no radio airplay in the US?

question: What 1974 album by Bad Company was an international flop?

question: What American band released Nazareth in 1971?

question: What band had the single Bohemian Rhapsody at number one on the US charts for nine weeks?
context: Emerging British acts included Free, who released their signature song "All Right Now" (1970), which has received extensive radio airplay in both the UK and US. After the breakup of the band in 1973, vocalist Paul Rodgers joined supergroup Bad Company, whose eponymous first album (1974) was an international hit. The mixture of hard rock and progressive rock, evident in the works of Deep Purple, was pursued more directly by bands like Uriah Heep and Argent. Scottish band Nazareth released their self-titled début album in 1971, producing a blend of hard rock and pop that would culminate in their best selling, Hair of the Dog (1975), which contained the proto-power ballad "Love Hurts". Having enjoyed some national success in the early 1970s, Queen, after the release of Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and A Night at the Opera (1975), gained international recognition with a sound that used layered vocals and guitars and mixed hard rock with heavy metal, progressive rock, and even opera. The latter featured the single "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK charts for nine weeks.

qas: question: What sub-genre of hard rock does Def Leppard belong to?
answers: text: the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

question: What was Def Leppard's second album called?
answers: text: High 'n' Dry

question: What were the three Top 40 singles from Def Leppard's Pyromania album?
answers: text: "Photograph", "Rock of Ages" and "Foolin'"

question: What band had the first glam metal album to hit number one on the Billboard charts?
answers: text: Quiet Riot

question: When did Motley Crue's album Shout At The Devil come out?
answers: text: 1983

question: Who is often categorized with the New Wave of American Heavy Metal?

question: What is the first album released by Def Leppard?

question: What Def Leppard album reached number two on the British music charts?

question: When did the band Ratt release their Too Fast for Love album?

question: What was the name of the 1983 Twisted Sister album that reached number one on the Billboard music charts?
context: Often categorised with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, in 1981 Def Leppard released their second album High 'n' Dry, mixing glam-rock with heavy metal, and helping to define the sound of hard rock for the decade. The follow-up Pyromania (1983), reached number two on the American charts and the singles "Photograph", "Rock of Ages" and "Foolin'", helped by the emergence of MTV, all reached the Top 40. It was widely emulated, particularly by the emerging Californian glam metal scene. This was followed by US acts like Mötley Crüe, with their albums Too Fast for Love (1981) and Shout at the Devil (1983) and, as the style grew, the arrival of bands such as Ratt, White Lion, Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot. Quiet Riot's album Metal Health (1983) was the first glam metal album, and arguably the first heavy metal album of any kind, to reach number one in the Billboard music charts and helped open the doors for mainstream success by subsequent bands.

qas: question: What was the title of Nirvana's 1991 album?
answers: text: Nevermind

question: What was the hard rock style that emerged in the early 1990s?
answers: text: grunge

question: What are some grunge bands with a strong 1970s influence?
answers: text: Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden

question: What 1990s hard rock band had a big stadium rock sound?
answers: text: Stone Temple Pilots

question: What element made Oasis unique among 1990s Britpop bands?
answers: text: a hard rock sound

question: Who had success with the soft rock song Nevermind in 1991?

question: What form of music combined the clean sound of heavy guitar to produce feedback?

question: What kind of bands were consistent with mainstream hard rock?

question: What form of music did Stone Temple Pilots turn into mainstream hard rock?

question: What aesthetics did all grunge bands embrace?
context: While these few hard rock bands managed to maintain success and popularity in the early part of the decade, alternative forms of hard rock achieved mainstream success in the form of grunge in the US and Britpop in the UK. This was particularly evident after the success of Nirvana's Nevermind (1991), which combined elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal into a "dirty" sound that made use of heavy guitar distortion, fuzz and feedback, along with darker lyrical themes than their "hair band" predecessors. Although most grunge bands had a sound that sharply contrasted mainstream hard rock, several, including Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden, were more strongly influenced by 1970s and 1980s rock and metal, while Stone Temple Pilots managed to turn alternative rock into a form of stadium rock. However, all grunge bands shunned the macho, anthemic and fashion-focused aesthetics particularly associated with glam metal. In the UK, Oasis were unusual among the Britpop bands of the mid-1990s in incorporating a hard rock sound.

qas: question: When did the Foo Fighters album In Your Honor come out?
answers: text: 2005

question: Three Days Grace is from what country?
answers: text: Canada

question: The band Jet is from what country?
answers: text: Australia

question: What supergroup featured members of Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin?
answers: text: Them Crooked Vultures

question: What was the title of Buckcherry's 2007 hit single?
answers: text: "Sorry"

question: What 2005 Foo Fighters album reached number one in both the US and UK?

question: What year did post-grunge bands began to become popular?

question: What band had considerable commercial success by producing angst and anger?

question: What Andrew W.K. album went platinum and spawned the single Sorry?

question: What year did Them Crooked Vultures release a self-titled debut album featuring Jet?
context: Although Foo Fighters continued to be one of the most successful rock acts, with albums like In Your Honor (2005) reaching number two in the US and UK, many of the first wave of post-grunge bands began to fade in popularity. Acts like Creed, Staind, Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback took the genre into the 2000s with considerable commercial success, abandoning most of the angst and anger of the original movement for more conventional anthems, narratives and romantic songs. They were followed in this vein by new acts including Shinedown and Seether. Acts with more conventional hard rock sounds included Andrew W.K., Beautiful Creatures and Buckcherry, whose breakthrough album 15 (2006) went platinum and spawned the single "Sorry" (2007), which made the Top 10 of the Billboard 100. These were joined by bands with hard rock leanings that emerged in the mid-2000s from the garage rock or post punk revival, including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Kings of Leon, and Queens of the Stone Age from the US, Three Days Grace from Canada, Jet from Australia and The Datsuns from New Zealand. In 2009 Them Crooked Vultures, a supergroup that brought together Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones attracted attention as a live act and released a self-titled debut album that reached the top 20 in the US and UK and the top ten in several other countries.

qas: question: What instrument is usually at the center of a hard rock sound?
answers: text: The electric guitar

question: Rhythm guitar in hard rock usually plays what?
answers: text: repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity

question: In hard rock, an electric guitar can also be used for what?
answers: text: a solo lead instrument

question: What carries the backbeat in hard rock drumming?
answers: text: snare

question: What instrument works in tandem with the drums to provide hard rock rhythms?
answers: text: The bass guitar

question: What instrument is often used in soft rock music?

question: What is played to keep the music from becoming repetitive?

question: Which bass drum is used to drive rhythms?

question: What instrument is used without the drums for hard rock rhythms?

question: What do the vocals of rock songs try to avoid?
context: Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong bass drum and a backbeat on snare, sometimes using cymbals for emphasis. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, but usually providing a backing for the rhythm and lead guitars. Vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice.

qas: question: Who was the guitarist for the band Cream?
answers: text: Eric Clapton

question: Who was the guitarist in the Kinks?
answers: text: Dave Davies

question: Who played guitar in The Who?
answers: text: Pete Townshend

question: When did The White Album come out?
answers: text: 1968

question: Keith Richards is the guitarist of what band?
answers: text: The Rolling Stones

question: Who was a hard rock act that pioneered the blues sound?

question: When did The Jeff Beck Group record I Feel Free?

question: Which artist combined blues rock and psychedelia leaving out elements of jazz?

question: Who produced a form of psychedelic-influenced blues?

question: What artist avoided the use of distortion and pioneered new guitar effects?
context: Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Jeff Beck Group. Cream, in songs like "I Feel Free" (1966) combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock and roll. From 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group. Dave Davies of The Kinks, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend of The Who, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck all pioneered the use of new guitar effects like phasing, feedback and distortion. The Beatles began producing songs in the new hard rock style beginning with the White Album in 1968 and, with the track "Helter Skelter", attempted to create a greater level of noise than the Who. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic has described the "proto-metal roar" of "Helter Skelter," while Ian MacDonald argued that "their attempts at emulating the heavy style were without exception embarrassing."

qas: question: Who recorded the album School's Out?
answers: text: Alice Cooper

question: Tres Hombres is the name of an album by what band?
answers: text: ZZ Top

question: Who was the lead singer of Montrose?
answers: text: Sammy Hagar

question: Kiss' double live album Alive! came out in what year?
answers: text: 1975

question: Who had a hit single with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"?
answers: text: Blue Öyster Cult

question: What British born singer achieved success with the album School's Out?

question: Who was the first British rock band to Challenge the American dominance of the hard rock genre?

question: What band did Alice Cooper mimic?

question: What year was Toys in the Attic by Blue Oyster Cult produced?

question: How high on the billboard charts did the song (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Journey reach?
context: In the United States, macabre-rock pioneer Alice Cooper achieved mainstream success with the top ten album School's Out (1972). In the following year blues rockers ZZ Top released their classic album Tres Hombres and Aerosmith produced their eponymous début, as did Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd and proto-punk outfit New York Dolls, demonstrating the diverse directions being pursued in the genre. Montrose, including the instrumental talent of Ronnie Montrose and vocals of Sammy Hagar and arguably the first all American hard rock band to challenge the British dominance of the genre, released their first album in 1973. Kiss built on the theatrics of Alice Cooper and the look of the New York Dolls to produce a unique band persona, achieving their commercial breakthrough with the double live album Alive! in 1975 and helping to take hard rock into the stadium rock era. In the mid-1970s Aerosmith achieved their commercial and artistic breakthrough with Toys in the Attic (1975), which reached number 11 in the American album chart, and Rocks (1976), which peaked at number three. Blue Öyster Cult, formed in the late 60s, picked up on some of the elements introduced by Black Sabbath with their breakthrough live gold album On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975), followed by their first platinum album, Agents of Fortune (1976), containing the hit single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts. Journey released their eponymous debut in 1975 and the next year Boston released their highly successful début album. In the same year, hard rock bands featuring women saw commercial success as Heart released Dreamboat Annie and The Runaways débuted with their self-titled album. While Heart had a more folk-oriented hard rock sound, the Runaways leaned more towards a mix of punk-influenced music and hard rock. The Amboy Dukes, having emerged from the Detroit garage rock scene and most famous for their Top 20 psychedelic hit "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (1968), were dissolved by their guitarist Ted Nugent, who embarked on a solo career that resulted in four successive multi-platinum albums between Ted Nugent (1975) and his best selling Double Live Gonzo (1978).

qas: question: What was the title of Deep Purple's 1980s reunion album?
answers: text: Perfect Strangers

question: What album was Van Halen's commercial high point?
answers: text: 1984

question: In what year did ZZ Top release Eliminator?
answers: text: 1983

question: What band recorded "Keep On Loving You"?
answers: text: REO Speedwagon

question: The hit single "Amanda" was recorded by what band?
answers: text: Boston

question: How many years was Deep Purple performing before producing Perfect Strangers?

question: What Deep Purple album reached number five on the US music charts?

question: What Van Halen album from 1982 had somewhat slower sales?

question: Which Heart album contained 10 number one hits?

question: What was ZZ Tops successful single produced in 1980?
context: Established bands made something of a comeback in the mid-1980s. After an 8-year separation, Deep Purple returned with the classic Machine Head line-up to produce Perfect Strangers (1984), which reached number five in the UK, hit the top five in five other countries, and was a platinum-seller in the US. After somewhat slower sales of its fourth album, Fair Warning, Van Halen rebounded with the Top 3 album Diver Down in 1982, then reached their commercial pinnacle with 1984. It reached number two on the Billboard album chart and provided the track "Jump", which reached number one on the singles chart and remained there for several weeks. Heart, after floundering during the first half of the decade, made a comeback with their eponymous ninth studio album which hit number one and contained four Top 10 singles including their first number one hit. The new medium of video channels was used with considerable success by bands formed in previous decades. Among the first were ZZ Top, who mixed hard blues rock with new wave music to produce a series of highly successful singles, beginning with "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (1983), which helped their albums Eliminator (1983) and Afterburner (1985) achieve diamond and multi-platinum status respectively. Others found renewed success in the singles charts with power ballads, including REO Speedwagon with "Keep on Loving You" (1980) and "Can't Fight This Feeling" (1984), Journey with "Don't Stop Believin'" (1981) and "Open Arms" (1982), Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is", Scorpions' "Still Loving You" (both from 1984), Heart’s "What About Love" (1985) and "These Dreams" (1986), and Boston's "Amanda" (1986).

qas: question: What was Van Halen's last album with Sammy Hagar?
answers: text: Balance

question: Who was the Guns N Roses drummer who was fired by the band?
answers: text: Steven Adler

question: What former member of Extreme briefly served as the lead singer for Van Halen?
answers: text: Gary Cherone

question: Who was the only original member left in Guns N Roses?
answers: text: Axl Rose

question: Slash left Guns N Roses in what year?
answers: text: 1996

question: Which band found their commercial success much greater after they re-united?

question: What album by Van Halen released in 1995 did not include Sammy Hagar on vocals?

question: Who replaced was the replacement for David Lee Roth after he was fired?

question: What 2004 Van Halen album caused Van Halen to go on tour?

question: What did the release of Axl Rose's The Spaghetti Incident cause among the band?
context: In the new commercial climate glam metal bands like Europe, Ratt, White Lion and Cinderella broke up, Whitesnake went on hiatus in 1991, and while many of these bands would re-unite again in the late 1990s or early 2000s, they never reached the commercial success they saw in the 1980s or early 1990s. Other bands such as Mötley Crüe and Poison saw personnel changes which impacted those bands' commercial viability during the decade. In 1995 Van Halen released Balance, a multi-platinum seller that would be the band's last with Sammy Hagar on vocals. In 1996 David Lee Roth returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone, was fired soon after the release of the commercially unsuccessful 1998 album Van Halen III and Van Halen would not tour or record again until 2004. Guns N' Roses' original lineup was whittled away throughout the decade. Drummer Steven Adler was fired in 1990, guitarist Izzy Stradlin left in late 1991 after recording Use Your Illusion I and II with the band. Tensions between the other band members and lead singer Axl Rose continued after the release of the 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident? Guitarist Slash left in 1996, followed by bassist Duff McKagan in 1997. Axl Rose, the only original member, worked with a constantly changing lineup in recording an album that would take over fifteen years to complete.

qas: question: By the late 60s, what term was synonymous with hard rock?
answers: text: heavy metal

question: What heavy metal group introduced darker themes to the music?
answers: text: Black Sabbath

question: What genre was an influence on extreme metal in the 1980s?
answers: text: hardcore punk

question: Hard rock is differentiated from heavy metal by containing more of an influence of what genre?
answers: text: bluesy

question: In heavy metal, riffs typically form what element of a song?
answers: text: stand-alone melodies

question: Which term was never used interchangeably with hard rock?

question: What did hard rock music change to keep it's identity?

question: What riffs were combined to create swing?

question: What band had a 1960s break through with an emphasis on darker themes?

question: Which two genres have never considered to have very much in common?
context: In the late 1960s, the term heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock, but gradually began to be used to describe music played with even more volume and intensity. While hard rock maintained a bluesy rock and roll identity, including some swing in the back beat and riffs that tended to outline chord progressions in their hooks, heavy metal's riffs often functioned as stand-alone melodies and had no swing in them. Heavy metal took on "darker" characteristics after Black Sabbath's breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s. In the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, or crossing between, the genres.

qas: question: Led Zeppelin's first two albums both came out in what year?
answers: text: 1969

question: What was the title of Deep Purple's hard rock 1970 album?
answers: text: In Rock

question: Black Sabbath's lyrics contained references to what cultural touchstones?
answers: text: occult and elements of Gothic horror

question: What is the title of Black Sabbath's 1970 album?
answers: text: Paranoid

question: What is one band directly influenced by Black Sabbath?
answers: text: Judas Priest

question: What acid rock album did Led Zeppelin record in 1970?

question: What group moved from hard rock to progressive rock?

question: Which group did not achieve a commercial breakthrough in 1970?

question: Who's lyrics contained elements that warned against the occult?

question: What year did Judas Priest produced the album Paranoid?
context: By the end of the decade a distinct genre of hard rock was emerging with bands like Led Zeppelin, who mixed the music of early rock bands with a more hard-edged form of blues rock and acid rock on their first two albums Led Zeppelin (1969) and Led Zeppelin II (1969), and Deep Purple, who began as a progressive rock group but achieved their commercial breakthrough with their fourth and distinctively heavier album, In Rock (1970). Also significant was Black Sabbath's Paranoid (1970), which combined guitar riffs with dissonance and more explicit references to the occult and elements of Gothic horror. All three of these bands have been seen as pivotal in the development of heavy metal, but where metal further accentuated the intensity of the music, with bands like Judas Priest following Sabbath's lead into territory that was often "darker and more menacing", hard rock tended to continue to remain the more exuberant, good-time music.

qas: question: What two genres made inroads on hard rock in the 1970s?
answers: text: disco in the US and punk rock in the UK

question: What punk band's songs rarely exceeded two minutes in length?
answers: text: The Ramones

question: What were three midwestern hard rock bands?
answers: text: Kansas, REO Speedwagon and Styx

question: What city was Van Halen originally from?
answers: text: Los Angeles

question: Which Van Halen instrumental showcased the guitar mastery of Eddie Van Halen?
answers: text: "Eruption"

question: What did hard rock replace as a mainstream genre?

question: What did the punk band The Ramones embrace as part of their music? 

question: What San Francisco band utilized the skills of guitarist Eddie Van Halen?

question: What album is the showcase song Van Halen from?

question: Who was highly influential in creating the popularity of punk and disco music?
context: With the rise of disco in the US and punk rock in the UK, hard rock's mainstream dominance was rivalled toward the later part of the decade. Disco appealed to a more diverse group of people and punk seemed to take over the rebellious role that hard rock once held. Early punk bands like The Ramones explicitly rebelled against the drum solos and extended guitar solos that characterised stadium rock, with almost all of their songs clocking in around two minutes with no guitar solos. However, new rock acts continued to emerge and record sales remained high into the 1980s. 1977 saw the début and rise to stardom of Foreigner, who went on to release several platinum albums through to the mid-1980s. Midwestern groups like Kansas, REO Speedwagon and Styx helped further cement heavy rock in the Midwest as a form of stadium rock. In 1978, Van Halen emerged from the Los Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen. He popularised a guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping, showcased on the song "Eruption" from the album Van Halen, which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while also redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar.

qas: question: How many copies did Whitesnake's 1987 self title album sell?
answers: text: 17 million

question: What was the title of Aerosmith's 1987 comeback album?
answers: text: Permanent Vacation

question: Def Leppard's album Hysteria churned out how many hit singles?
answers: text: seven

question: What Guns N Roses album was the second best selling debut of all time?
answers: text: Appetite for Destruction

question: What Guns N Roses song became a number one single?
answers: text: "Sweet Child O' Mine"

question: What was benefited by the established acts?

question: By how many albums did Deep Purple outsell Witesnake's self-titled album?

question: What did Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato call the performance of Deep Purples' song Here I Go Again?

question: With what song did Motley Crue reach their commercial peak?

question: What was number one on the Billboard 200 album charts for 20 consecutive weeks in 1988?
context: Established acts benefited from the new commercial climate, with Whitesnake's self-titled album (1987) selling over 17 million copies, outperforming anything in Coverdale's or Deep Purple's catalogue before or since. It featured the rock anthem "Here I Go Again '87" as one of 4 UK top 20 singles. The follow-up Slip of the Tongue (1989) went platinum, but according to critics Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato, "it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake". Aerosmith's comeback album Permanent Vacation (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. Crazy Nights (1987) by Kiss was the band's highest charting release in the US since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with Hysteria (1987) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing seven hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, Appetite for Destruction (1987). With a "grittier" and "rawer" sound than most glam metal, it produced three top 10 hits, including the number one "Sweet Child O' Mine". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums Pride (1987) and Long Cold Winter (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching a series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were New Jersey (1988) by Bon Jovi, OU812 (1988) by Van Halen, Open Up and Say... Ahh! (1988) by Poison, Pump (1989) by Aerosmith, and Mötley Crüe's most commercially successful album Dr. Feelgood (1989). New Jersey spawned five Top 10 singles, a record for a hard rock act. In 1988 from 25 June to 5 November, the number one spot on the Billboard 200 album chart was held by a hard rock album for 18 out of 20 consecutive weeks; the albums were OU812, Hysteria, Appetite for Destruction, and New Jersey. A final wave of glam rock bands arrived in the late 1980s, and experienced success with multi-platinum albums and hit singles from 1989 until the early 1990s, among them Extreme, Warrant Slaughter and FireHouse. Skid Row also released their eponymous début (1989), reaching number six on the Billboard 200, but they were to be one of the last major bands that emerged in the glam rock era.

qas: question: What hard rock supergroup contained members of Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine?
answers: text: Audioslave

question: What was the title of Bon Jovi's 2000 hit single?
answers: text: "It's My Life"

question: What band released an album called Stiff Upper Lip in 2000?
answers: text: AC/DC

question: Who was the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots?
answers: text: Scott Weiland

question: What was Guns N Roses long delayed 2008 album called?
answers: text: Chinese Democracy

question: Which band beside Bon Jovi were two rock bands that had very little commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s?

question: What year did Bon Jovi release their album Stiff Upper Lip?

question: What top 10 album by Heart was released in the early 90s?

question: What bassist for The Who died in 2006?

question: What Guns N' Roses album that was released in 2008 was there most successful album to date?
context: A few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Bon Jovi were still able to achieve a commercial hit with "It's My Life" from their double platinum-certified album Crush (2000). and AC/DC released the platinum-certified Stiff Upper Lip (2000) Aerosmith released a number two platinum album, Just Push Play (2001), which saw the band foray further into pop with the Top 10 hit "Jaded", and a blues cover album, Honkin' on Bobo, which reached number five in 2004. Heart achieved their first Top 10 album since the early 90s with Red Velvet Car in 2010, becoming the first female-led hard rock band to earn Top 10 albums spanning five decades. There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen (with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007), The Who (delayed in 2002 by the death of bassist John Entwistle until 2006) and Black Sabbath (with Osbourne 1997–2006 and Dio 2006–2010) and even a one off performance by Led Zeppelin (2007), renewing the interest in previous eras. Additionally, hard rock supergroups, such as Audioslave (with former members of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden) and Velvet Revolver (with former members of Guns N' Roses, punk band Wasted Youth and Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland), emerged and experienced some success. However, these bands were short-lived, ending in 2007 and 2008, respectively. The long awaited Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material. More successfully, AC/DC released the double platinum-certified Black Ice (2008). Bon Jovi continued to enjoy success, branching into country music with "Who Says You Can't Go Home", which reached number one on the Hot Country Singles chart in 2006, and the rock/country album Lost Highway, which reached number one in 2007. In 2009, Bon Jovi released another number one album, The Circle, which marked a return to their hard rock sound.