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Intros Quiz: 1967 edition

halfhearteddude — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:33:37 +0000

1967 model prepares to drive her Camino to wherever the Summer of Love is happening.

Here we begin another new five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, starting with 45 years ago: 1967 (and what a great year for music that was). Next month we’ll skip to 1972, then 1977 and so on.

1967 was the year the first edition of Rolling Stone was published, so-called “race riots” broke out in cities such as Detroit and Cleveland, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induction into US Army, Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant in Cape Town, Biafra declares independence from Nigeria and a civil war begins, the first ATM is installed in England, The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s and Elvis married Priscilla.

As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. If the pesky number 18 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above for the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – 1986 edition

halfhearteddude — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:29:42 +0000

We continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, revisiting 25 years ago: 1986. It was the year the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, US bombing of Tripoli and the Challenger space shuttle explosion. In South Africa the apartheid regime declared a state of emergency, Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated, Mozambican prrsident Samota Machel died in a plane crash above South Africa, and in the Philippines the tyrant Fernando Marcos was deposed. Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize and the first computer virus, named Brain, starts to spread.

As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday (so please don’t post your answers). If the pesky number 15 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – Drum edition 1

halfhearteddude — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:34:53 +0000

We take a break from our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes (next up will be the Year of Our Lord 1986), and get percussive with 20 songs that start with drums, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some of them start with just a couple of beats or a drum roll, others bang the drum for a bit before the song gets started. Only one of the 5-7 second clips features no instruments or a vocal clue, but that one is instantly recognisable.

The answers will be posted in the comments section by Monday (so please don’t post your answers). If the pesky number 17 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – 1981 edition

halfhearteddude — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:28:55 +0000

We continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, revisiting 30 years ago: 1981. It was the year of failed assassination attempts on Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, and a successful one on Anwar Sadat. The word “Internet” was first used and Microsoft introduced MS-DOS. Prince Charles married Diana Spencer and they lived happily ever after. In Poland, the Solidarity trade union took on the might of the communist state. In Northern Ireland the IRA’s Bobby Sand died while on hunger strike, while in London, Liverpool and Manchester riots broke out. Scientists discovered the AIDS virus. And – here’s one to make those of us who remember 1981 well feel really old – Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were born.

As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year (and if you think #17 sounds more than a lot like the intro to Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark, you are not the only one). The answers will be posted in the comments section by Monday (so please don’t post your answers). If the pesky number 15 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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By the way, seeing as we are having a cover of Smash Hits from July 1981 in this post (yes, Depeche Mode once were young), I must mention the great work Brian McCloskey – a pale skinny Irish transvestite with great hair, apparently – is doing on his Like Punk Never Happened blog. The great man is meticulously scanning every page of successive editions of the great UK music magazine, and publishes them on his blog on the 30th anniversary of publication, so that you and I can go on a nostalgia trip. It’s one of the great things about the Internet (now, if only someone wuld do the same with Germany’s Bravo magazines from the 1970s!)

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Intros Quiz – 1976 edition

halfhearteddude — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:03:46 +0000

We continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, revisiting 35 years ago: 1976 (the year that the youth of South Africa rose up against apartheid; Matsushita introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete with Sony’s Betamax system; an earthquake in Tangshan, China, killed hundreds of thousands people; the Apple Computer Company was formed; Nadia Comăneci earned seven perfect scores at the Olympics in Montreal; the “Son of Sam” began is year-long murder spree in new York; and Bob Marley was shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston). Which means that in the coming months we will skip to 1981, then 1986.

As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. I’m not sure if #7 was a hit, but as one of the few perfect pop songs of 1976, it should have been.

The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday (so please don’t post your answers). If the pesky number 11 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – 1971 edition

halfhearteddude — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:26:12 +0000

After last month’s Valentine’s Day interruption, we continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, revisiting 40 years ago: 1971 (the year that bastion of democracy Switzerland granted women the right to vote, Greenpeace was founded, the first Internet chat room apperared, the pocket calculator and soft contact lenses go on sale, Qatar gained indepedence from Britain, and a tsunami hit Japan, ). Which means that in the coming months we will, God willing, skip to 1976, then 1981, and so on. In between, I might do a couple of TV theme quizzes. Anybody up for TV theme intros quizzes?

Anyway, as always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. Those fans of classic rock who have been following the cricket world cup might have been earwormed with number 8…

The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday (so please don’t post your answers). If the pesky number 18 (and, possible 10) bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – Love edition

halfhearteddude — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:12:46 +0000

It’s Valentine’s Day, so to spice up the romance, here’s an Intros Quiz which the Casanovas/Casanovettes among readers can employ as part of their Valentine’s Day Sex foreplay. And those who won’t get laid tonight, well, here’s something even more fun to do…

So, twenty intros to hit songs that feature the word “love” (as a noun or verb), all 5-7 seconds in length, all hits. The oldest dates from the late 1950s; the most recent from the first decade of the millennium.

The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. If the pesky number 6 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above to request the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here to become one.

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The desperate reader in a last-minute need for a fine mix of lovey-dovey songs for VD may refer to Any Major Love Mix 2009 and Any Major Love Mix 2009 Vol. 2, and two more posts about being in love: here and here. And if the dear reader has no use for music about being in love, there are many songs about love for all circumstances, including getting dumped or cheated on, bouncing back, being in an unrequited or impossible love etc.

Happy Valentine’s Day for those who care, and and a jolly Fuck the Commercialism for the rest…

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Intros Quiz – ABBA edition

halfhearteddude — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:33:02 +0000

To mark absolutely nothing, here is an intros quiz consisting of only ABBA songs. Most of them were hits; all of them were released as singles somewhere in the world, I think.

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 don’t post your answers. If you can’t wait till then to find out what the blasted number 6 is, please feel free to e-mail me or, better still, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, go to www.facebook.com/amdwhah and become one.

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Intros Quiz: 1980 edition

halfhearteddude — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:37:39 +0000

We continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes with one of my favourite years in music: 1980. Ah, the trinity of Dexys’ Geno, the Pretenders Brass In Pocket (which was released in 1979, I know), and New Musik’s Living By Numbers. None of which feature in this quiz, of course. Fans of the era, especially veteran Smash Hits readers, will love this blog, with completely scanned issues from 1979 and1980, ads and everything. The single reviews are particularly fascinating. The cover on the right is borrowed from the Like Punk Never Happened blog.

So, here are 20 intros to hit songs from 1980, of 5-7 seconds in length. All were singles released that year. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. And if the pesky number 12 bugs you, e-mail me at halfhearteddude [at) gmail [dot] com for the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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Intros Quiz – 1970 edition

halfhearteddude — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:13:07 +0000

We continue on our five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, going on to 1970. The advanced mathematicians will therefore have deduced that the April installment will deal with the Year of Our Lord 1975.

As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were singles releases that year, all hits or otherwise very well known. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Friday. And if the pesky number 5 bugs you, e-mail me at halfhearteddude [at) gmail [dot] com for the answers, or better, message me on Facebook. If you’re not my FB friend, click here.

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