So, here's another of my monthly intros quiz thingies, moving in the 5-year intervals to 1993.

As usual, there are 5-7 second intros of 20 songs from that year. I must confess to having cheated a little bit: all were single releases in 1993, as far as I know, except one (number 12), which appeared on an album released in September that year, but didn't come out as a single until 1994. And even then it was not a big hit. The rest, however, were hits in either the US or UK or both. Number 7 reached only #32 in Britain, but should be well known to anybody who remembers rock music in the '90s; #17 was a Top 30 hit in Britain, but is also very well known (certainly to people who listened to the rock station on Grand Theft Auto).

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Intros Quiz - 1993

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God, what a bloody awful year. I know about 6 for sure and there are another 5 or so that I'm going to groan when I see the titles for. Thing is, there's no more than a couple whose titles I could type without having to go and wash my hands straight after, so I'll leave it.

That was a hopeless adventure -

Go Spin Doctors!

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12/20, which I think is my worst score yet. All those strummy acoustic intros sound the same to me.

But of the eight you didn't know, four weren't strummy guitar intros...

Anyway, full answers PMed to Rhino and CTT.

1993 was a really shitty year for music. The next quiz must, by my own decree, be on hits from 1998. The hits might not be better, but I have a feeling they will be easier to recognise.

I don't know if I'm up to do 2003 in September. Maybe I'll do a different theme then. Showtunes, perhaps? Novelty hits from the '50s? Soviet propaganda music?

I was 18 in 1998.

Bring it on!

PM sent. Looking forward to 1998 too.

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Aunty Beryl bosses 1993. 17/20.

Mea culpa.

I'm trying to get onto this(NSFW)

1. Snow - Informer
2. Four Non Blondes - What's Up
3. Stereo MCs - Connected
4. Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
5. Wrecks N Effex - Rump Shaker
6. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
7. Nirvana - Rape Me
8. Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
9. Arrested Development - Mr Wendal
10. Sting - Fields Of Gold
11. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
12. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
13. Robin S - Show Me Love
14. Pet Shop Boys - Go West
15. Crowded House - Distant Sun
16. Take That - Relight My Fire
17. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of
18. Sheryl Crow - Leaving Las Vegas
19. Shaggy - O Carolina
20. James - Laid

I can explain owning Sting music. I won't, but suffice it to say that I did not acquire it voluntarily. Whereas I'm standing by Dreamlover. Very good pop.

I didn't have time to do this properly but would have only got seven anyway.