Chapter 20: Rock in the Nineteen Nineties
The gentle hesitation beat of ska from Jamaica in the fifties and sixties was sped up and energized by British bands of the _____ movement in the late seventies.
2 Tone
Soundgarden's singer, Chris Cornell, imitated the style of _____ of fifteen or twenty years earlier.
British heavy-metal singers
Identify the song from No Doubt's diamond-certified album, Tragic Kingdom (1995), that was the biggest hit from the album and reflected the energy of the older 2 Tone ska style in its choruses.
Don't Speak
Which of the following is recognized as the classic jam band?
Grateful Dead
What effect did Green Day's success and recording contract with Reprise Records have on pop punk?
It brought pop punk into mainstream acceptance.
Which of the following musicians has sometimes been dubbed the Godmother of Alternative Rock due to her many efforts to advance the careers of other women in alternative rock music?
Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth's bass player and singer
Radio stations used to be essential to support the popularity of a rock band, but when the nu metal band _____ was first performing and recording in 1993-1994, they managed to build themselves a large following without radio play.
Korn
Soundgarden was influential on other Seattle grunge bands like _____.
Mudhoney
Identify the grunge band that pulled itself out of the underground when it signed with a major label, Geffen Records, recorded the video "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and hit the pop charts with their Nevermind (1991) album.
Nirvana
Which of the following bands came from Aberdeen, Washington, and was influenced by the nearby Seattle bands, becoming a part of the grunge movement?
Nirvana
Which of the following rock styles includes the powerful fuzztone riffs of most heavy metal, speed metal, and thrash music; rhythms from funk and hip-hop; screamed, shouted, or rap vocals; and the use of synthesizers along with more traditional rock instruments?
Nu metal
One of the more unusual instruments Radiohead uses is the _____, which is an electronic keyboard instrument that has a bank of expression keys that allow the player to affect the tone quality as well as microtonal pitches.
Ondes-Martenot
Of the Seattle-based bands that formed in the nineties, _____ took the grunge guitar-based style and antiestablishment message to the largest audiences yet.
Pearl Jam
Punk music that is more melodic than most other punk is known as .
Pop punk
_____ is an outgrowth of punk music by bands who played hard, aggressive punk rock music, but who also showed their own love of more melodic pop music.
Pop punk
The roots of grunge rock can be found in the music and image of an important and influential band from New York, _____.
Sonic Youth
One of the first Seattle bands to gain a strong following was _____, which recorded its first EP, Screaming Life, in 1987.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden released their most powerful album, _____, in 1994, and it became a hit on the pop charts.
Superunknown
Which of the following albums of Soundgarden won two Grammy awards for Best Hard Rock and Best Metal recordings for the album cuts "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman?"
Superunknown
Why do fans consider the Dave Matthews band a "jam rock" band rather than a jam band? (Check all that apply.)
Their songs are not always drawn out with endless new material. Fans like their performances on recordings as well as their live concerts.
How did fans react to Green Day's recording contract with major label Reprise Records following the success of their second album Kerplunk! (1992)?
They deplored the idea of seeing their band become commercial.
Pearl Jam became known for its refusal to allow _____, and they unsuccessfully sued the agency for unfair business practices.
Ticketmaster to control ticket costs
Radiohead's music brings themes of _____ from Britain to the United States in the nineties.
angst and alienation
Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and its video with high school cheerleaders wearing symbols of anarchy on black outfits captured the _____.
angst and anxiety teenagers around the world felt
Even though Nirvana's later albums sold well, singer Kurt Cobain was torn between the responsibilities those in the limelight have to their fans and the fear that the band's _____ were being overshadowed by popularity.
antiestablishment messages
Green Day's album, American Idiot (2004), was a concept album that brought back fans and won more with its _____ songs, eventually winning a Grammy for Best Rock Album.
antiwar
Sonic Youth's idea of preparing musical instruments by placing screwdrivers, drum sticks, and other items between the strings came from _____.
art music
Korn produced an online TV show called KornTV that allowed people to _____.
call and talk to band members
Rage Against the Machine performed outside the Democratic National Convention in August 2000 to demonstrate their anger about the amount of control that _____ had on U.S. politics.
donations of corporate money
Eddie Vedder's _____ effectively expressed the message behind the lyrics of Pearl Jam's songs, many of which deal with issues such as child abuse, loneliness, and problems the band had with the media.
dramatic and passionate vocals
Just as many avant-garde classical composers had done, many progressive rock bands used _____.
electronic instruments for special effects
The influence of earlier musicians and bands such as Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, and even the Stooges can be heard in Pearl Jam's _____.
guitar riffs and complex textures
The term grunge represented the loud crunch of Soundgarden's typical _____.
guitar sound
Soundgarden's heavy-metal connection was evident in their use of _____.
guitar/bass riffs and distortion
Both Kurt Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, guitarist and singer with Hole, _____ as a result of taking heroin.
had a series of overdoses
Sonic Youth formed in 1981 and not only influenced the guitar-based sound of several of Seattle's grunge bands but also helped to promote the Seattle sound by _____.
having these bands open for them at Sonic Youth concerts
The accenting of the second and fourth beats in each four-beat bar, called the _____ in both ska and reggae music, was central to the 2 Tone ska rhythm.
hesitation beat
Green Day's album, Warning (2000), disappointed hard-core fans because _____.
it was more pop than punk
The musical term___ refers to musicians getting together and just playing, trying out new musical ideas, and enjoying the experience whether those new ideas worked out or not.
jam
One of the ways the Dead broke away from mainstream rock was in their _____.
lack of restrictions on the distribution of content they produced
Pearl Jam continues to limit its _____, but each new album is awaited by thousands of fans.
live concert appearances
Since their formation in 1993, the Dave Matthews band has played many concerts that involve _____ similar to the ones by other jam bands.
long improvisations
Punk brought rock music back to its roots in small clubs with _____.
lots of communication between the performers and the listeners
Sonic Youth was an influential band that played progressive-influenced punk rock known as _____.
no wave
Unlike the many rock bands that were best known for their recordings and whose tours were made up of performances of exactly the music on those recordings, the Dead never _____.
played anything exactly the same way more than once
Sonic Youth experimented with unusual guitar tunings and sound effects created by _____.
prepared instruments
The song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana and its accompanying video won many awards, but their greatest importance is that they _____.
provided an identity for many young people
In the mid-nineties, _____ were coming back into the drug culture, a fact that increased the popularity of concerts of bands like Phish as big jam sessions.
psychedelic drugs
Like the Grateful Dead, Phish played free-form concerts that combined folk, jazz, country, bluegrass, and pop styles of music into long, wandering improvisations that recaptured the _____ of the sixties.
psychedelic era
The 2 Tone movement was followed by a large-scale growth in popularity of its faster version of ska, and by the nineties, a new combination of ska and _____ was becoming popular through the music of bands such as No Doubt.
punk
Like other grunge bands, Mudhoney combined late sixties and early seventies metal guitar riffs and distortion effects with _____.
punk's intensity and noise level
By the nineties, _____ had become so popular that groups outside the hip-hop culture used them as well.
rap vocals
Pearl Jam has become one of the most important and popular bands within the alternative market without _____.
selling out its message or its music
Most nu metal bands want to add the depth of extra-low sounds to their music, and to get that they play _____.
seven-string guitars
Nu metal electric bass guitarists often play instruments with an added lower string for depth, and they sometimes _____ to create a funk-influenced rhythmic sound.
slap the strings as they play
Radiohead layers sounds from three guitars, careful use of feedback from the amplifiers, electric piano, bass, and drums to create a thick timbre influenced by _____.
such earlier bands as Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and U2
The music of Rage Against the Machine expressed anger against what they perceived as _____.
the oppressive
From Los Angeles, the Red Hot Chili Peppers formed in 1983 as an alternative funk-metal-rock group and were among the first bands to add _____ to their music.
the patter-talk vocals of rap
One of the most important results of the punk movement during the sixties and seventies was that it _____.
took rock out of the control of big marketing executives
