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 just a little above my level, I have put together an edition which I think is easier.
Stuart’s intros are of different lengths; the possibly easier version takes the usual format of 5-7 seconds each. Both quizzes include 20 songs.
I’ll post the answers in the comments section by Thursday. In the interim, if you really need to know the pesky #5 in Stuart’s quiz or the earwormy #12 in mine, e-mail me or pop me a message on Facebook (if you’re not my FB friend, click here and become one).
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Intros Quiz – Girls Edition (easier version).mp3
Intros Quiz – Girls Edition (expert version).mp3
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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 the charts there too. Those that failed to dent the UK Top 20 (such as number 6 and14) are classics in their own right. Only number 10 failed to chart in the UK. All songs are in chronological order of reaching the top of the US charts.
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).
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, punk-influenced pop. This month’s intros quiz celebrates the post-punk wave, incorporating the years 1978-83.
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 intros of two songs so as to get to their recognisable meat and beat. No act is repeated as billed, but a few make appearances in different guises (as soloists and part of duos; as soloists and in their bands; bands with and without headliner etc).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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