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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 the comments section by Thursday. If you can”t wait till then to find out what the blasted number 4 is, please feel free to e-mail me or, better, message me on Facebook. If you”re not my FB friend, click here and become one.
Intros Quiz – 1984 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) “” I had half on 7” singles, two more on LP and almost all of the others on tape “” but not number 12, which I despised at the time.
As always, each of the 20 intros is 5-7 seconds in length. I will post the answers in the comments section by Monday. If that pesky number 4 bothers you too much to wait, e-mail me or message me on Facebook (to become my friend, click here), and I’ll send you the answers..
Intros Quiz – 1979 edition
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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 Thursday. If you can”t wait till then to find out what the blasted number 7 is, please feel free to e-mail me or, better, message me on Facebook. If you”re not my FB friend, click here and become one.
Intros Quiz – 1974 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 is 5-7 seconds in length. I will post the answers in the comments by Thursday. If you can’t wait till then to find out what the blasted number 11 is, please feel free to e-mail me or, better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.
Intros Quiz – 1969 edition
In this year’s monthly intros quizzes, we’ll continue the five-year cycle, starting in 1964 (next month will cover 1969 and so on). As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All where single releases that yeay, except the well-known first intro, and all were hits that year.
The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. As always, if the pesky number 17 bugs you, e-mail me at halfhearteddude [at) gmail [dot] com for the answers.
Intros Quiz – 1964 edition.mp3
The cover of Germany’s Bravo magazine, incidentally, comes from Cover Browser, an absolute treasure trove.
This lot is the collated history of the Intros Quizzes I’ve banged together from October 2007 to December 2008, minus the quizzes of TV themes and the year 1978, which have been lost.
The collated file comes in response to Stefan from Sweden who, well, asked for it because many of the older quizzes couldn’t be downloaded any longer (ZShare being crocked, and DivShare having deleted a few folders of mine).
A couple of people have asked me to repost the first two volumes of the Any Major Funk mix. I’m afraid that, unlike the quizzes, I’ve not backed up the zipped files. So I’ll have to collate the files again from wherever they are sitting in my collection. I’m a bit snowed under (in sunny South Africa, ho ho ho) at the moment, but I’ll make that task a blog priority as soon as I can.
Anyway, the intros quizzes are posted in the first week of every month, usually on a particular theme. Much of 2009 will revisit the charts in five-year increments, from 1969-2004. Or should I start with 1964? What do you think?
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In move-related news, I’ve had more hits today than I used to get in the old joint on Saturdays. I find that very encouraging indeed. So, thank you, the 667 of you, for dropping in.
Oh, and I think I’ve managed to create a WordPress avatar. Be assured I look nothing like the avatar (see, it’s an image of The Dude). Actually, it looks a bit like John Doran of The Quietus…
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Here is the last intros quiz of the year, this time on the theme of classic rock, covering the period from the late 1960s to 1979. It’s pretty easy, I think. In fact, some are so easy, they are bound to insult somebody’s intelligence. But the easy ones will make Uncle Fred very happy when you run the intros quiz by him when he comes visiting on Boxing Day. One thing I learned in my brief career as a pub quiz master is to mix up the reasonably challenging questions with really tough ones (give the experts something to chew over) and a few very easy questions, so that the casual participant will also know an answer or three.
So, as always, 20 song intros of 5-7 seconds in length. I’ll post the answers in the comments section on the weekend. If you really need to set your mind at ease with that blasted #12, drop me an e-mail (or drop me an e-mail anyway), and I’ll let you have the answers sooner.
Intros Quiz – Classic Rock editon
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A friend asked me to put together a quiz aimed at a more youthful audience, covering roughly hits from the past five years. I may as well share it here: if the regular visitors don’t their MTV from their VH-1, perhaps their kids might like to have a crack at an intros quiz. Family friendly, I am. (The illustration on the right? A Rolling Stone cover from July 2005, more or less the midpoint of the time period covered by this quiz. That Ms Alba… she isn’t very ugly at all.)
Answers in the Comments section soon.
Intros Quiz 2003-08
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The November intros quiz: 20 songs released on Motown (or subsidiaries like Tamla) from the ’60s to early ’80s. Each intro is 5-7 seconds long. Many of them are fairly obvious, with a few tougher ones thrown in to make it interesting. But nothing obscure.
I will post the answers in the comments section over the weekend. In the meantime, if that pesky number 14 is driving you insane, feel free to e-mail me.
Intros Quiz – Motown Edition
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This month we’ll have two intro quizzes for the price of one. Each quiz features 20 intros to Beatles songs, 5-7 seconds in length. To make it fun for everybody, the general quiz is pretty easy (with a couple tough ones sneaked in), and the expert quiz is just that ““ quite difficult.
I tested the quizzes on Any Minor Dude, who at almost 14 years of age is a great Beatles fan. He scored 18/20 on the first, and 10/20 on the second (both at only one listen). Which is better than how I would’ve done. I’d be interested to know how readers of this blog scored. The correct answers will go up by Friday in the comments section.
Intros Quiz – Beatles edition (general).mp3
Intros Quiz – Beatles edition (expert).mp3
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