Chapter 19: Alienated and Back to the Roots Rock

One of the most effective of the Gothic bands was the British band _____, formed in 1978.

Bauhaus

The deep and dramatic vocal timbre of _____ was copied by many of the male singers in the Gothic movement, except the Gothic singers deepened the effect by singing at lower pitch levels.

David Bowie

The underlying theme of _____ was portrayed by images of ancient powers that humans could not control, so the music tended to stress low voices, bass instruments, and fairly slow tempos.

Gothic rock

_____ looked beyond the government and monarchy as reasons for rebellion and saw intrusive controls on every aspect of their lives, feeling that even the art world lacked freedom of expression because of too much concern for form.

Industrial rock bands

Which of the following are well-known California-based bands that followed Motörhead's fast and loud lead in the speed metal genre? (Check all that apply.)

Megadeth Metallica Slayer

By the early eighties, the industrial rock movement had made its way to the United States, and bands such as Chicago's _____ formed to vent their anger at the modern world.

Ministry

One of the most important and influential of the death-metal bands was _____, formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1982.

Slayer

Identify the postpunk bands of the eighties centered in Minneapolis that were influenced by the Sex Pistols, achieving a national following without crossing over into mainstream success. (Check all that apply.)

The Replacements Hüsker Dü

In comparison to prepunk times, how was the music of speed-metal and thrash-metal bands different?

The anger was more intense in this music than it was in prepunk times.

movement began in England in the late seventies and was against what the movement's originators saw as the decay of urban life and its dependency on work in factory and industrial jobs.

The industrial rock

Identify the music styles based on which Bruce Springsteen developed his music. (Check all that apply.)

The wall-of-sound pop style of Phil Spector The rockabilly and rhythm and blues styles of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry

Which of the following shared many of the characteristics of speed metal, but was angrier and stressed the demonic themes of earlier British heavy metal?

Thrash metal

Two of the most important early industrial rock bands were _____.

Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire

What were instruments used by industrial rock bands like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire chosen primarily for? (Check all that apply.)

Whether an instrument's noise would sound thick and muddy in the background or stand out over the background The amount of noise they could produce

The lyrics of original songs by speed-metal or thrash-metal bands were generally directed at an audience of _____.

angry and aggressive young people who felt a great sense of alienation from society

The title track of Bruce Springsteen's double album The River (1980) served as a particularly good example of Springsteen's _____, for which he became known.

compassion for the underprivileged

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and other heavy-metal bands from the past painted images of death and the power of the devil or other demons, but to some metal fans in the eighties and nineties those bands stopped short of _____.

creating an image that could really horrify

The song "Angel of Death" from Slayer's Reign in Blood album is sometimes cited as an important example of death metal because of its horrible and graphic portrayal of _____.

death at Auschwitz during the holocaust

When Gothic rock bands used organs, real or electronic, they were made to sound like those in large, stone medieval cathedrals through the use of _____.

electronic reverberation

Fugazi and Embrace were punk bands that were both influential on the development of the later emotional hardcore movement called _____.

emo

The instruments chosen by industrial rock bands like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire that were employed to stand out were _____, while _____ provided much of the background sound.

horns and electric guitars; synthesizers

Bruce Springsteen continues to use his music and reputation to support _____.

human rights organizations

Various forms of sadomasochism became part of the stage performances of many _____, and group members and fans would pierce themselves with pins or other ornaments.

industrial rock groups

In the music played by Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer, an important element was _____.

raw power

Just as the Sex Pistols' fans had done a decade or more earlier, audiences at concerts of thrash-metal bands like New York's Anthrax often _____.

slam-danced their way through the concerts

The former distinctions between British and American styles of rock music, for the most part, dissolved with the development of _____.

speed metal and thrash metal

A very political punk movement that began in Washington D.C. in the early eighties was called the _____ movement after a song by Minor Threat, a band formed in 1980 by Ian MacKaye.

straight edge

The political punk movement that was begun in the early eighties and was against drugs, tobacco, alcohol, hedonism, and irresponsible sex was known as the _____ movement.

straight edge

Bruce Springsteen has used his work to support many of the causes expressed in his songs, including efforts to _____.

support union workers on strike

Like the music of folk singers and singer/songwriters of the sixties and seventies, the lyrics of Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer sometimes portrayed death and destruction as _____.

the evils of drug use and war

A development out of the negative view of society expressed in the punk movement, Gothic bands went back to _____, which also used drones and powerful thumps on a bass drum in place of standard rock drumbeats.

the protopunk music of the Velvet Underground

Bands like New York's Anthrax played _____, a style rooted in both punk and earlier heavy metal.

thrash metal

Trent Reznor's songs recorded under the name Nine Inch Nails had themes that were _____.

tortured, angry, and alienated

True or false: After I'm the Man (1987), Anthrax never included rap vocals in their songs again.

False

The Gothic band Bauhaus is best known for their recording of "_____."

Bela Lugosi's Dead

1. The replacements 2. Husker Du

1. Choice, Formed by guitarist/songwriter Paul Westerberg, this band moved away from their angry punk roots to some rather sensitive expressions of loneliness and insecurity as can be heard in "Answering Machine," as well as hard-rocking songs such as "I.O.U." Formed by guitarist/songwriter Paul Westerberg, this band moved away from their angry punk roots to some rather sensitive expressions of loneliness and insecurity as can be heard in "Answering Machine," as well as hard-rocking songs such as "I.O.U." 2. This band created a Sex Pistols-influenced sound of their own characterized by thick, high-volume buzzsaw guitar timbres, driving bass lines, a pounding beat, and Bob Mould's sometimes-shouted monotone vocals.

The first metal band to add rap vocals to their sound was _____ with the EP I'm the Man (1987).

Anthrax

Which of the following began as an underground movement in which albums by bands such as Death Possessed and Morbid Angel first circulated among small circles of teens who had met at concerts or through underground newspapers?

Death metal

Minor Threat broke up in 1983 and Ian MacKaye followed it by forming other punk bands including _____.

Fugazi and Embrace

Identify a true statement about the music of Bruce Springsteen.

His music developed out of youthful experimentation with almost every rock style imaginable.

Industrial rock bands' views on control were influenced by the sadistic desires to dominate all aspects of life and expression described by William Burroughs in his novel _____.

Naked Lunch (1959)

_____ combined heavy-metal vocals and fuzztone guitar timbres with the intense, throbbing beat of punk, and its music often included instrumental solos played at breakneck speed.

Speed metal

Identify the influences on the musical style of the British band Motörhead. (Check all that apply.)

The flashy guitar solos of the American "Madman of Motor City," Ted Nugent The early punk style played by the MC5 and the Ramones

Identify a true statement about the musical style of the British band Motörhead.

Their sound was fast, tight, and loud, and their image was the leather-jacketed biker.

How did Metallica's albums Metallica (1991) and St. Anger (2003) perform commercially?

They both debuted at the top of the Billboard charts.

Metallica added political themes to their album . . . And Justice for All (1988), and despite very little airplay on radio or video stations it _____.

charted in the top ten

The _____ for which industrial rock is known can be heard in Ministry's song "Stigmata."

layers of noise

Through the title song of his album Born in the U.S.A. (1984), Bruce Springsteen attacked the lack of support, both from the government and in the job market, given to _____.

veterans of the Vietnam War

Industrial rock of the late eighties had spread to the United States and gained a new voice in Cleveland when _____ overdubbed his synthesizer-produced sounds and recorded his debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), under the name Nine Inch Nails.

vocalist Trent Reznor