Intros Quiz – Girls edition

This month, two quizzes on the subject of girls names for the price of one. The expert edition was compiled by my friend Stuart in Australia. I knew five. I am, of course, rubbish at taking these quizzes (that is why I make them), so for those whose level of intros quiz taking is only [...]

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Intros Quiz – US #1s edition

A simple concept this month: US #1s between 1960 and 1987, not all of them classics but, by dint of having been chart-toppers well known enough. We shall turn to the British #1s in December. But British music fans need not despair: most of these songs were hits across the Atlantic too, a few topped [...]

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Intros Quiz – Glam edition

This month’s quiz was compiled by my friend Duncan G, a scholar and a gentleman, on the theme of ’70s Glam Rock (employing a fairly loose interpretation of the term).
The usual format applies: twenty song intros of about five seconds in length. I must confess, I did poorly, scoring 12 1/2 (and then kicked myself [...]

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Intros Quiz – Post-Punk Edition

Punk opened the door to whole new brands of popular music. While that genre was short-lived and ill-defined to include all manner of music that wasn’t in any way punk, it helped open doors to (sometimes brief) stardom for a new wave of artists who were dabbling in synth sounds, ska, pub rock and, indeed, [...]

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Intros Quiz – Motown 50 Edition

Motown celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. So it is a good time to have another Motown intros quiz. The last one was random; this one has a theme: one song from each year from 1962-82 (skipping the fallow year of 1974), in chronological order. Before the purists accuse me, I have cut the looong [...]

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Intros Quiz – 1989 edition

Continuing our five-year cycle, this month’s intros quiz covers the year 1989: all songs were single releases in that year, though some were hits only in 1990, certainly in South Africa.
As always, each of the 20 intros is 5-7 seconds in length. I will post the answers in the comments section by Thursday, so please [...]

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Intros Quiz- 1984 edition

Continuing our five-year cycle, this month’s intros quiz covers the year 1984: all songs were single releases in that year.
As always, each of the 20 intros is 5-7 seconds in length (an easy one is actually just four seconds long, cutting off just as the singer begins to croon). I will post the answers in [...]

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Intros Quiz – 1979 edition

At this point in our series of 5-year cycle intros quizzes we enter the era by when I had become a serious consumer of records. Of the 20 songs featured in this quiz — all released as singles in 1979 (though some may have been hits in early 1980 or appeared on LPs in 1978) [...]

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Intros Quiz – 1974 edition

Continuing of five-year cycle, this month’s intros quiz covers the year 1974: all songs were single releases in that year (which means they may have been on LPs released in 1973 or hits in 1975).
As always, each of the 20 intros is 5-7 seconds in length. I will post the answers in the comments by [...]

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Intros Quiz – 1969 edition

Continuing of five-year cycle, this month’s intros quiz covers the year 1969: all songs were single releases in that year (which means they may have been on LPs released in 1968 or hits in 1970).  All were big hits. One is a recurring track in the TV series Lost.
As always, each of the 20 intros [...]

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