Brass Tacks Trivia

L-A-M-E August 20, 2009

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 1. According to legend, Led Zeppelin got their name (and their blimp logo) after what fellow rock ‘n’ roll legend said their band would sink “like a lead balloon”?

 Answer: >Keith Moon of The Who<

 2. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and what other band are widely considered to be the original “big four” of the Seattle grunge movement?

 Answer: >Alice in Chains<

 3. What was the first album to be manufactured on CD in the U.S.? 

 Answer: >Born in the U.S.A.<

Explanations:

 1. Instead of turning in to a sports trivia blog, now it’s turning in to an English rock band trivia blog.  I don’t know what gives Keith Moon the right to criticize other bands.  He was the freakin drummer.  It would be one thing if Roger Daltrey came out against your sound, but unless his criticism was that he didn’t like their drumming, I don’t think I would pay much attention to him.  I’m not really sure if the quoted part is true.  Lead Zepplin was a term John Entwistle, bassist for the Who, used to describe a bad gig.  After appearing as the Yardbirds and then the New Yardbirds and then the artist formerly known as the New Yardbirds, the band dropped the ‘a’ in “lead” so Americans wouldn’t pronounce it “leed,” as in the first zeppelin in the oh-so-effective zeppelin armada.  It can only be thwarted by surface to air ANYTHING.  By the way, thanks for the name, band-who-can-barely-come-up-with-a-name.  The Who was once The Confederates, then The Detours, followed by the High Numbers, and I don’t know, maybe they changed their name again when no one was looking.

 2. Did I say these were the main four?  Because I meant the only four.  Sure I suppose if you are someone really in to showing off that you know more about music than everyone else, or someone just really into Grunge, you could probably rattle off a couple dozen more band names, but no one likes those someones.  Even outside Seattle, the Grunge movement can claim Stone Temple Pilots and…etc.  By the way, did anyone see that shitty Jim Carrey movie 23?  What was up with that?  One of the coincidences was that Kurt Cobain’s birth year (1967) and death year (1994) both add up to 23 (1+9+6+7=1+9+9+4=23).  This is the lamest shit ever.  By that logic, wouldn’t anyone born in 1968 who died in 1995 make the number 24 a miraculous number to drive an otherwise sane person to the brink of making a terrible movie.  Maybe in the sequel we’ll find out that if you add up all the dates in Eddie Vedder’s birthday, you get shut-the-fuck-up-Jim-Carrey.

 3. I’m calling bullshit on my own question.  The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel’s 52nd Street, whatever the hell that is.  The first artist to sell a million albums on CD was the Dire Straights.  The first artist to convert all of his albums to CD was David Bowie.  And the best selling CD of all time was the Beatles 1.  Needless to say, none of these are the right answer I was looking for, because those first ones weren’t manufactured in the U.S.  Someone, somewhere thought it would be hyper-appropriate if the first album CD that was “born in the U.S.A.” was fittingly titled.  Lame.