Songs that Fit the Band's Name Quiz

Answer: Black Sabbath

The song "Black Sabbath" was written by bassist Geezer Butler. It was inspired by a 1963 horror movie of the same name. It was also inspired by a time Geezer thought he saw a black figure sitting at the edge of his bed. The song had a very dark sound and dark lyrics. The band liked it, so they continued making this kind of dark music and they changed their name, which previously was Earth, to Black Sabbath.

Black Sabbath are often credited for creating the entire genre of heavy metal music. While this claim is often disputed, it is true that many different metal bands, whether they were heavy metal, goth metal, grunge metal, or nu metal, cite Black Sabbath as a major influence.

Answer: Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are a heavy metal band. An iron maiden is an ancient torture device. The song compares the band to the torture device and explain how the band got its name. "Iron Maiden can't be fought." An actual iron maiden can't be fought since it's a machine that will kill you, and the band is saying that like the torture device, you can't fight the band because they are the best.

Many people do not dispute that. Iron Maiden are regarded by many people as the greatest band ever in their genre (heavy metal). Also "Iron Maiden wants you for dead." An iron maiden can be used to kill people and the band has many songs about death or that mention death.

Answer: Green Day

The band was originally called "Sweet Children," but then they decided to change the name because there was another band called "Sweet Baby." They wrote a song called "Green Day," and they really liked it so they made that their new name. "Green Day" is a song about drugs. The band would write many other songs about drugs including "Brain Stew," "Give Me Novacaine," "Geek Stink Breath," and "Jaded."

Green Day have sold over 85 million albums worldwide and have won at least five Grammy awards. They are regarded as one of the best punk band of the 1990s.

Answer: Kiss

In that line "Kiss" could be used as a double entendre, in that the woman needs to be smooched, and she needs it to come from the long-tongued most famous member of KISS. Another song that KISS did with their name in it was "Kissin' Time," a song that was essentially written by Bobby Rydell, but KISS rearranged it and added some lyrics, including Paul Stanley introducing the song with "Come on Charlotte! Wake up San Diego! Milwaukee! Miami! Put your two lips together and kiss!" KISS have many other songs that, even if they don't mention that word, are songs about love and sex, in which kissing could implicitly be happening. Such songs include "Makin' Love," "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em," "Love Her All I Can," and "Room Service."

KISS have sold more than 80 million albums worldwide, but are even better known for their live show, for which they wear make-up and extravagant outfits and have explosions onstage along with fire-breathing, blood-spitting, and other things.

Answer: The Killers

The killers have a trilogy of songs known as "The Murder Trilogy." These songs are "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf," "Midnight Show," and "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine." They tell the story of a nameless man and a woman sometimes called Jenny and sometimes called Jennifer. They were a couple, but then Jenny broke up with him. In "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf," the protagonist sees Jennifer with a new man. This makes him very unhappy so he gets drunk to cope with it, then he plots his revenge. He promises to take her to a "Midnight Show." She thinks he's taking her to a concert or something like that, so she goes along with this. He takes her to the beach. There, he strangles her to death, throws her body in the ocean, and watches as her lifeless body floats away in the ocean. In "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine," he has been arrested and he lies to the police. These songs never tell us whether or not he is found guilty. This trilogy of songs is believed to be based on a real crime that happened in the 1980s, in which Robert Chambers, known as the Preppie Killer because he attended several Prep Schools, killed his girlfriend Jennifer Levin. Chambers was convicted for this.

The Killers are one of the most popular rock bands of the 2000s and 2010s, playing live concerts in stadiums around the world.

Answer: Bad Religion

Bad Religion were a punk rock band that wrote songs about a wide variety of social issues, political issues, religious issues, etc. One could say that a good religion is a religion that leads you in the direction of heaven, happiness, nirvana, zen, whatever you want to call it. Bad Religion have made a point that they are not superior to anyone and they don't want to lead anyone to anything (which is what religion is supposed to do).

In their title song, Greg Gaffin admits he's "nobody except genetic runaround." He is saying that he does not want people to just go along with his beliefs, and later in the song he mocks people who do try to lead people to "The Answer." This point is mentioned in a few songs such as "No Direction" and "The Answer." The former song ends with the band saying "No Bad Religion song can make your life complete. Prepare for rejection you'll get no direction from me." "The Answer" warns people not to be so sure that they have the answer to life; the song tells cautionary stories of people who were so sure that the had the answer and they got people to follow them, and that only led to disaster.

Bad Religion are widely regarded as one of the greatest punk bands of all time.

Answer: Journey

"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is about a boy and a girl who both go on an emotional journey. They both start off as average people from small cities. Then they both "take the midnight train going anywhere" and find each other and spend a night together trying to find happiness. This song is for people who spend their whole lives on a journey and the journey is just to feel some kind of emotion. This song has a message for those people and the message is the title of the song.

Journey have sold over 80 million albums worldwide and had many hits. "Don't Stop Believin'" is considered to be their magnum opus. Some people think it's the best song ever written.

Answer: Social Distortion

Social Distortion were a punk rock band from California. The name gives you an idea of their sound and what a lot of their songs are about. Many of their songs are about sadness, anger, and despair caused by not having many friends, losing the friends you have, and not being in line with what people want. They formed in 1978. Singer Mike Ness said that it used to be dangerous to like punk rock music. He said that he and his friends loved punk rock music and they often got in physical fights with other people because of it. Ness said he lost a lot of friends because some of them ended up in prison and some of them ended up dead and he realized that either of those things could have happened to him. That is what the songs "Prison Bound" and "It Could've Been Me" are about." In "Down on the World Again," Ness sings "This ain't the way it's supposed to be, there's a dark cloud following me I'm DISTORTED and I'm down on the world again," mentioning part of his band's name, albeit as a past participle and not a noun. Some of their most popular songs that have a similar idea are "I Was Wrong," "Ball and Chain," and "Story of my Life."

Social Distortion are one of the most popular punk bands of all time.

Answer: Disturbed

A lot of songs by Disturbed certainly sound like they were written by someone who is feeling disturbed. Their signature song "Down With the Sickness" is about child abuse. "Stupify" is a song against racial discrimination. The video for this song shows a boy who is haunted by ghosts. One could say that boy is disturbed. "Prayer" is a song written as a response to how priests responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Instead of comforting their followers, priests often chastised their followers and blamed their followers for this event. Singer/songwriter David Draiman found this ridiculous, and he wrote this song in response to that. Those priests certainly must have been disturbed. Disturbed have many other angry metal songs that live up to their name.

Disturbed had five consecutive albums debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 200 chart. They are regarded as one of the best metal bands of the 21st century.

Answer: Bad Company

Bad Company were a 70s rock band. They took their name from their hit song, which is about gangs. Their first three album were top five albums on the U.S. and U.K. charts. Paul Rodgers left the group and would later become Queen's lead singer.