OPERA
MENTALLY ILL MUSIC
ROCK OF THE 2010S
ALBUMS OF 2020
OLD SCHOOL COUNTRY
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This Mozart opera was declared the most famous opera of all time by my mother and is well-known for the phrase "Figaro, Figaro, Fiiiiiigaaaaaarooooo"

What is The Marriage of Figaro?

100

Many famous musicians have reported suffering from this condition, including Kurt Cobain and Billie Eilish

What is Depression?

100

This posthumous David Bowie album is the highest rated rock album of the 2010s on Rate Your Music and won three Grammy

What is Blackstar?

100

Singer/rapper Mac Miller's estate released this posthumous album on January 17th

What is Circles?

100

This Arizona-born singer has sold over 90 million records and is best known for singles such as Ring of Fire, I Walk The Line, and his cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt

Who is Johnny Cash?

200

This Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini is based on Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème

What is La bohème?

200

Over 70% of musicians have reported suffering from either depression or this mental illness

What is anxiety?

200

In 2019 critically acclaimed progressive metal band Tool released this album, their first in 13 years

What is Fear Inoculum?

200

This critically acclaimed indie rock band released The New Abnormal on April 10, their first in 7 years 

Who are The Strokes?

200

This Alabama-born country singer is regarded as one of the most significant country singers of all time and has two generations of country musicians with his same name after him

Who is Hank Williams?

300

This Rossini opera, adapted from a Friedrich Schiller drama, is most famous for its overture

What is William Tell?

300

This musician reported suffering from PTSD after a bombing at one of her concerts that left more than 20 dead

Who is Ariana Grande?

300

This world famous art rock band released their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool to critical acclaim and two Grammy nominations

What is Radiohead?

300

This pop singer, who released her fifth album, How I'm Feeling Now, on May 15, initially gained widespread attention for featuring on tracks such as Iggy Azalea's Fancy and Icona Pop's I Don't Care before a shift in style starting on her 2016 EP Vroom Vroom

Who is Charli XCX?

300

This country singer was born in California during the Great Depression and had a last name which means looking exhausted and unwell

Who is Merle Haggard?

400

This Richard Wagner opera, more commonly known as the Ring Cycle is loosely based on Norse mythology and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied and sports famous characters such as Wotan, Siegfried, and Brünnhilde 

What is Der Ring des Nibelungen?


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Two of the most famous figures of outsider music, Daniel Johnston and Wesley Willis, are known to have suffered from this mental illness

What is Schizophrenia?

400

This Rhode Island noise rock band released their first album in a decade, You Won't Get What You Want, to widespread critical acclaim, receiving an 87 on Metacritic indicating universal acclaim, and being one of five albums to receive a 10/10 from music critic Anthony Fantano 

What is Daughters?

400

This singer-songwriter who initially received recognition for her debut album Tidal, released her album Fetch The Bolt Cutters on April 17 to critical acclaim, receiving a 10/10 from Pitchfork and currently sitting at the top of Rate Your Music's 2020 albums charts with a rating of 3.84

Who is Fiona Apple?

400

This country singer & NASCAR driver has become well-known by the newer generation for his work in the Cowboy genre, with songs such as Big Iron, and El Paso, the latter of which was used in Breaking Bad

Who is Marty Robbins?

500

This Alban Berg opera is based on an unfinished play by German playwright Georg Büchner  

What is Wozzeck?

500

Two famous musicians, one from the 80s and one from the 00s, Adam Ant and Fall Out Boy frontman Pete Wentz have opened up about their struggles with this mental illness

What is bipolar disorder?

500

This highly influential experimental rock band released a five albums in the 2010s, three of them formed a trilogy of 2 hour long post-rock albums to critical acclaim, The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man, the second of which was one of five recipients of the coveted 10/10 from YouTube music critic Anthony Fantano 

What is Swans?

500

On March 26 industrial rock duo Nine Inch Nails released two ambient albums for free on their website, named after a four disc album they had released in 2008

What are Ghosts 5 & 6?

500

This country supergroup was formed by four legends of Outlaw Country, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson

Who are The Highwaymen?