Guess the One-Second Intro's!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Because I am bored, I've compiled a montage of ten song introductions. Each song is of the alt-90's format. The intro's are really quick, so listen closely.

Two links to follow. Pick one or the other:

YOUSENDIT link

Geocities link

The MP3 file is about seven seconds long.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

OK, I got the first three and Pets right away .. but it gets more difficult...

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Keep in mind that these songs come from a commercial radio station, so don't worry about having to decipher some Guided By Voices B-side from Australia.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

i am equally bored.

smashing pumpkins - 1979
meat puppets - backwater
breeders - cannonball
depeche mode - policy of truth
screaming trees - nearly lost you
prodigy - breathe
porno for pyros - pets
blind melon - no rain
?
weezer - undone

― rajeev (rajeev), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

is the next to last one "tremor christ" by pearl jam? i dunno, it's tough.

― rajeev (rajeev), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Nice, rajeev. All songs listed are correct.

(#9 isn't Pearl Jam, tho'.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i'm hearing Pumpkins, Blind Melon, Depeche Mode, Prodigy(I don't know what order), and is the last one Foo Fighters?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

ok peeking back I was correct on all the ones I've heard except FF, haven't heard the rest of them anyway.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Local H?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

smashing pumpkins - 1979
?
breeders - cannonball
depeche mode - i forgot the name of the song
?
prodigy - breathe
porno for pyros - i forgot the name of the song
blind melon - no rain
?
weezer - sweater song

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Also, I used to play this game with my roommate in college, except on Winamp.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

On Winamp in the same room, that is. Gah.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

hmmm, local H might be right for that next to last one. that "keep it copacetic" song ... i can't remember the name, it's been years.

― rajeev (rajeev), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

(Is that your final answer?)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

sure. google says i'm thinking of "bound for the floor."

― rajeev (rajeev), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

dING!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

(Well, that was two and a half hours passed.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

so what do i win?

― rajeev (rajeev), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Um ... more song snippets?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Rajeev got nine out of ten yesterday first. If I had something more than a packet of lemon juice on my desk, I'd send him something because HE WAS THE BIG WINNER though Vinnie helped fill the last hole.

I was bored again today. Here are ten more song intro's, edited into an eight second MP3 file:

You Send It location

Geocities Link

Remember, these are alternative 90's songs that did/do get play on commercial radio. Hope you can have some fun guessing them.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

i dunno if this is something to be proud of, but here goes:

rage against the machine - killing in the name of
pearl jam - even flow
green day - basket case
soundgarden - outshined
oasis - wonderwall
sublime - santeria
?
nada surf - popular
stone temple pilots - creep
foo fighters - i'll stick around

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Damn, rajeev.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Seriously! The only one I was sure of was Pearl Jam

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, duh. And Green Day.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

the early/mid-90's alternative explosion was when i cut my teeth on being obsessed with music. i never really listen to the stuff now, but you never forget yr roots.

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazed, just because they go by so fast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

if only they'd revive 'name that tune' on TV.

"i can name that tune in ONE NOTE."

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I'd watch if a coked-up Whitney Houston was the singing girl.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

One more to go, raj.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

whitney? i'm not sure i could work under those conditions.

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, that last one is tough. a hint?

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha and yet again I can fill in the last one. Rancid - Time Bomb, right?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Ka BAM!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Vinnie and Rajeev need to become bridge partners.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

(obv I am the Colin Moulding to rajeev's Andy Partridge)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

that is too funny.

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

One more for the weekend. Again, there are ten (10) song intro's arranged into this seven-second montage. They're still your standard alt-rock fare with one exception: All of today's snippets came to us FROM THE EIGHTIES!

You Send It! link

Geocities link

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

4. "How Soon is Now"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Smiths - How Soon is Now
B-Boys - Brass Monkey
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

?
I'll be you
I'm alive
how soonis now
gone daddy gone
dear god
beds are burning
love will tear it
the one I love

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

10. "The One I Love"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

xpost

hmmm, these are tough. i need to listen to em a little more but here are some guesses:

?
?
INXS - suicide blonde, or what you need (?)
the smiths - how soon is now
violent femmes - gone daddy gone
XTC - dear god (?)
beastie boys - brass monkey
midnight oil - beds are burning
joy division - love will tear us apart
rem - the one i love

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

The Cult - Fire Woman
The Replacements - I'll Be You
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
XTC - Dear God
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
?
REM - The One I Love

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

she drives me crazy - totally. nice one.

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

? = either Joy Division or New Order

x-post

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

"So Alive" and "She Drives Me Crazy" are both very good guesses for #3 -- I had just been trying to find a clip of "So Alive" myself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you know what? I think geyser got #3 right. The more I hear it, the more I think it's "So Alive" by L&R.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

(is that your final answer?)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

My list & Brass MOnkey & The Cult, I guess.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Okay, another one just because it's Jingoistic Weekend in the upper two-thirds of North America.

You've got a small eight-second mp3 file here with ten song intros to identify. Today's catch? IT'S EIGHTIES METAL! \\M//

Well, metal that you would've heard on an active rock station fifteen, twenty years ago. Sorry, Diamondhead fans.

Choose one of the following:

1.) The You Send It link

2.) The Geocities link

Good luck, have fun, AND ROCK ON.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I've never done this to a thread, but bump?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

please return to alt-90s format.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I was really bored last Friday.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

no, the boredom is good. I'm just not too up on my 80s metal.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Geez, that's so fast I'm not even sure where the delineations are. So my numbers might be off, but my best guesses are:

1. Looks That Kill, Motley Crue
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. Bringing on the Heartbreak, Def Leppard
6. ?
7. Rock You Like a Hurricane, Scorpions
8. Cum On Feel the Noize, Quiet Riot
9. ?
10. ?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

You got 33.3% right.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

i definitely enjoy these but i'm out of my league on 80's metal...

― rajeev (rajeev), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.