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What was the name of Whitney Houston's 1985 debut album that featured tracks like "Saving All My Love for You" and "How Will I Know"?
Radiance
Wedding Belles
Whitney Houston
I'm Next
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What is the name of the 1982 Duran Duran album that featured hits like "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio"?
Did You Hear?
Stolen Moments
Rio
Fantasies Brought to You
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What artist released the 1983 album An Innocent Man that featured such hits as "For the Longest Time," "Tell Her About It," and "Uptown Girl"?
Paul McCartney
Elton John
Paul Simon
Billy Joel
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What folk artist released the 1986 album Graceland that featured songs like "You Can Call Me Al" and "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"?
Jim Croce
Paul Simon
Louis Carpenter
Daryl Hall
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What German band helped to massively popularize techno music with their 1983 album Computer World?
Engels
Kraftwerk
Shreddit
The Lock-Step Boys
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The group N.W.A. became rap legends after the release of their hit album Straight Outta Compton in 1988. Which of the following famous rappers was NOT a member of N.W.A.?
Eazy-E
The Notorious B.I.G.
Ice Cube
Dr. Dre
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What was the name of Madonna's 1983 album that featured hits like "Borderline" and "Lucky Star"?
More to Come
Featurette
Skylight
Madonna
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What British band released their seminal album The Queen Is Dead in 1986 with such hits as "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "I Know It's Over"?
The Smiths
Burden of Proof
Joy Division
Duran Duran
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License to Ill was a hit album that helped put the Beastie Boys on the map. One of the album's most famous tracks, "Fight for Your Right" insists that listeners ought to fight for their right to do which of the following?
Party
Bear arms
Sing along
Vote
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1984's Born in the U.S.A. was one of the highest-selling albums for what famous singer and his E. Street Band?
Bruce Springsteen
Elton John
John Mellencamp
Manfred Mann
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Slayer's aggressive 1986 album Reign in Blood was followed by much controversy because its lead track "Angel of Death" contained references to what infamous Auschwitz scientist?
Werner von Braun
Joseph Mengele
Martin Saxburgh
Rudolph Kessler
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Men at Work became pop icons of the early Eighties with the release in 1981 and 1982 of what album that contained the hits "Who Can It Be Now" and "Down Under"?
Heroes in Eight Songs
Another Scoop, Please
Without Hats
Business as Usual
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What youngest member of the Jackson family saw major success with her 1986 album Control that featured hits like "Nasty" and "When I Think of You"?
Josephine Jackson
Jillien Jackson
Jackie Jackson
Janet Jackson
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Hunting High and Low was an album by A-ha that saw global success thanks to what smash hit track that was famous for its M.T.V.-promoted music video that featured pencil sketch illustrations?
"Don't You"
"Take on Me"
"Relax"
"Blue Monday"
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1984's Diamond Life was the debut album for what singer which contained hits like "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love Is King"?
Kira
Sade
Evangeline
Miss
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What band with members like Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford released a 1983 album that had the same name as their band and featured such hits as "Mama" and "That's All"?
Genesis
Oingo Boingo
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Depeche Mode
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In 1983, David Bowie released his most successful album Let's Dance. One of the most popular tracks on the album. a song called "China Girl," was a collaboration between Bowie and what artist who originally recorded the song in 1971?
Michael Bolton
Jim Morrison
Iggy Pop
Freddie Mercury
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In 1986, Metallica proved themselves continuous pioneers of metal music with the release of what album whose iconic cover featured a line of cross-marked graves?
Master of Puppets
Gravedigger
King Nothing
One
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In 1980, what Swedish pop sensation released the album Super Trouper that featured hits like "Lay All Your Love on Me" and "The Winner Takes It All"?
Sleeping in
Jethro Tull
Abba
The Monkees
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1985 saw Dire Straits release their influential album Brothers in Arms. What majorly successful song from the album featured the repeated line "I want my M.T.V."?
"Burning Down the House"
"I Want It All"
"Free for All"
"Money for Nothing"
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In 1985, the group Tears for Fears released what hugely influential pop album that featured hits like "Shout," "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," and "Head Over Heels"?
Songs from the Big Chair
The New Wave Is Here
I Don't Want to Be Lonely
Moving Pictures
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Zenyatta Mondatta was the name of the prolific 1980 album by what famous pop group that featured hits like "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me"?
Black Sabbath
Def Leppard
The Police
Styx
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What is the name of the 1984 album by Prince and the Revolution that featured hits like "When Doves Cry" and "I Would Die 4 U"?
Purple Days
Purple Cream
Purple Rain
Purple Haze
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In 1987, what rock and roll group released their hit album Hysteria with tracks like "Animal," "Pour Some Sugar on Me," and "Love Bites"?
Black Sabbath
Def Leppard
Stryper
Aerosmith
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What rock and roll band released an album in 1984 that was called 1984 and featured hits like "Panama," "Jump," and "Hot for Teacher"?
Van Halen
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
The Eagles
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What emo-pop band released their 1989 album Disintegration to great acclaim thanks to the success of tracks like "Lovesong," "Plainsong," and "Prayers of Rain"?
Roxette
The Friends
The Cure
Joy Division
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Huey Lewis and the News in 1986 released what smash hit pop-rock album that was headed up by hits like "Hip to Be Square"?
Greenery
Gentlemen's Club
Fore!
Pitcher
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Run D.M.C.'s 1986 album Raising Hell featured a hit in their rendition of "Walk this Way" which was a collaboration/cover between D.M.C. and what famous rock band that originally recorded the song?
Triumph
Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith
The Eagles
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"Don't You Want Me" was the leading hit of what pop group's 1981 album Dare?
The Human League
The Pretenders
The Cranberries
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Michel Jackson proved himself the King of Pop in 1982 when he released what smash hit album that featured tracks like "Beat It" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"?
Burnin'
Thriller
Upside
Dance Hall Days
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