Intros Quiz – 1965 edition
February 1st, 2010
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Here we begin a new five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, starting with 45 years ago: 1965. Next month we’ll skip to 1970, then 1975 and so on.
As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases that year. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. If the pesky number 13 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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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.
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.
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