If It's Too Loud....You're Too Old! Quiz

Answer: Loud

KISS are certainly loud and also enduring. Remarkably, in an interview in 2010 Paul Stanley alluded to the possibility that KISS might continue to perform even after he and Gene Simmons had retired!

Answer: Enough to destroy a planet

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" was the sequel to the comic masterpiece that is "The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy". By the time Douglas Adams died at the relatively young age of 49, he had written three further sequels, namely "Life, The Universe and Everything", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless".

Answer: England

Loud were formed by Chris McLaughlin and released their debut album "D Generation" in 1990. They followed this up several years later with "Psyche 21" which was another solid and melodic effort but that was pretty much the end of Loud. Also worth noting is that there is an American Band called D Generation which can cause confusion when rifling through my CD collection!

Answer: Rock and Roll

Motörhead are a very loud live band. The occasional covers that Motörhead have recorded certainly support Lemmy's assertion that Motörhead are simply a "rock and roll" band. Examples of these covers include "Leaving Here", "Louie Louie" and "Please Don't Touch". "Please Don't Touch" was recorded with "Girlschool" and released on the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" EP.

Answer: BulletBoys

The Bulletboys drew a number of Van Halen comparisons when they emerged into the frenzy of hair metal bands in the late 1980s - everything from Marq Torien's appearance and stage moves, the use of Ted Templeton to produce their debut album and the fact they were on Warner Brothers may have caused this comparison.

Answer: Scum

Napalm Death were pioneers of a style which became known as grindcore. "Scum" include the track "You Suffer" which at just over a second long made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest song!

Answer: The Who

The Who were unique in the way they melded together four "lead" players into a cohesive whole. By rights, the sound of a drummer who didn't follow the beat when he was supposed to be laying it down, a bassist that was playing in a style more like a rhythm guitarist and a guitarist who hit the strings with such percussive force that his fingers bled, should have degenerated into a disjointed mess.

Instead The Who in full flow were a magnificent, bestial rock and roll explosion.

Answer: Japan

Loudness enjoyed some success in the USA when their fifth and sixth albums ("Thunder in the East" and "Lightning Strikes") dented the lower reaches of the Billboard Top 100 Albums charts. After this success the band's management tried to take them to the next level by recruiting a singer with English as his first language (Mike Vescara, ex-Obsession) but they made no further inroads into the North American market, while the sacking of their previous lead singer (Minoru Niihara) did them no favours with their fans back in Japan.

Answer: Overdose

AC/DC is not an easy band to cover well but Exodus did a pretty good job on "Overdose". "Overdose" is one of AC/DC's heavier tracks and Exodus added some extra crunch which combined with Steve Souza's Bon Scott-esque voice created a creditable cover.

Answer: Ten

It was Spinal Tap (or more specifically Nigel, the guitarist) that liked to go all the way to "Eleven" - Manowar were happy to stick to "Ten". The irony here is that Manowar is probably the most Spinal Tap like band ever to inhabit the "Realm of Heavy Metal Warriors". The only time I saw Manowar live I was offered some cotton wool to bung in my ears by the kind bloke standing next to me - I politely refused only to go grovelling back to him after I had been aurally assaulted by Manowar's first three songs!