Listen Up Early 90s UK Chart Top Tens Quiz

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All answers were in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart at some time between 01/01/1990 to 31/12/1993. None made it to number one. Some answers are covers so the correct answer is the version that charted in the stated time period. Bonus points are available for useless trivia and posting answers in the format:

1. Song Title (Artist Name)

Two correct answers per day maximum, if you get one wrong you can have another go.

1. Be happy when you hear no sounds - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) :Y
2. A place in Jamaica - Kingston Town (UB40) :Y
3. No need for anyone to get changed or wear fancy dress for the gathering - Come As You Are (Nirvana) :Y
4. Long live the sin city - Viva Las Vegas (ZZ Top) :Y
5. The finest bits about living cost nothing - The Best Things In Life Are Free (Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson) :Y
6. Greetings and congratulations on choosing the least expensive area in the stadium - Welcome to the Cheap Seats (The Wonder Stuff) :Y
7. Will you be taking the same route as me? - Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz) :Y
8. A torch or night light may assist this phobia - Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden) :Y
9. A grass - Informer (Snow) :Y
10. 1-0 to the Arsenal? - Go West (Pet Shop Boys) :Y

11. Travelling on foot over a path of smashed bottles - Walking On Broken Glass (Annie Lennox) :Y
12. Mr. Trump you appear to have forgotten to dress your lower half - Donald Where's Your Troosers? (Andy Stewart) :Y
13. Awaken! (the sun will soon rise) - Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over) (Technotronic & Ya Kid K) :Y
14. What a dalek says - Exterminate (Snap!) :Y
15. Like two magnets that don't repel each other - Opposites Attract (Paula Abdul) :Y
16. Filthy coins and notes - Dirty Cash (The Adventures of Stevie V) :Y
17. An American style restaurant owned by Mr. Jones - Tom's Diner DNA remix (Suzanne Vega) :Y
18. Unable to see Gateshead from Newcastle because of this weather hanging over the water - Fog on the Tyne (Gazza & Lindisfarne) :Y
19. Have a word with the man upstairs - Pray (MC Hammer) :Y
20. Shake that behind! - Wiggle It (2 in a Room) :Y

21. One of the first commands you train a dog to do - Stay (Eternal) :Y
22. SOS I require saving - Rescue Me (Madonna) :Y
23. Glossy skinned persons with smiley faces - Shiny Happy People (R.E.M.) :Y
24. Summer versions of this are currently in doubt - Holiday (Madonna) :Y
25. The section between verses - Chorus (Erasure) :Y
26. Don't open this or all mankind will be be cursed - Pandora's Box (O.M.D.) :Y
27. First inline to the throne - Charly (The Prodigy) :Y
28. The stiff breeze alters everything in its path - Wind of Change (Scorpions) :Y
29. He may be my offspring but I've disowned him - No Son of Mine (Genesis) :Y
30. How a letter to outlaw Mr. James might begin - Dear Jessie (Madonna) :Y
 
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2. A place in Jamaica - Kingston Town. UB40

28. The stiff breeze alters everything in its path - Wind of Change. The Scorpions
 

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2. A place in Jamaica - Kingston Town. UB40

28. The stiff breeze alters everything in its path - Wind of Change. The Scorpions
2. :Y
28. :Y
 

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4. Long live the sin city _ Viva Las Vegas ( ZZ Top )
 

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12 Donald, where's your troosers? - Andy Stewart (re release for the 90's after being plugged by Simon Mayo?)

18 Fog On The Tyne - Paul Gascoigne (originally an album title track for Lindisfarne in 1972)
 

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12 Donald, where's your troosers? - Andy Stewart (re release for the 90's after being plugged by Simon Mayo?)

18 Fog On The Tyne - Paul Gascoigne (originally an album title track for Lindisfarne in 1972)
12. :Y
18. :Y
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16 Dirty Cash the adventures of stevie v
17 Toms Diner dna/suzanne vega
 

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Im totally out my depth once we reach the 90s - I havent heard of half the groups! :(

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14 Exterminate - Snap
8 Fear Of The dark - Iron Maiden
 

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Im totally out my depth once we reach the 90s - I havent heard of half the groups! :(

However I'll have a bash

14 Exterminate - Snap
8 Fear Of The dark - Iron Maiden
14. :Y
8. :Y

There's quite a few answers left by bands/singers that were around in the 80s.. which hopefully means there's still a chance of some random trivia appearing :lol:
 

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1 Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
3 Come As You Are (Nirvana)

Good to see my format for answers is now de rigueur.
 

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1 Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
3 Come As You Are (Nirvana)

Good to see my format for answers is now de rigueur.
1. :Y
3. :Y
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Yes I think it's better having the brackets rather than two dashes, especially when the clue only relates to the song title :cool:
 

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I could take rough guesses for most of these, well, here's my take on one
5. The finest bits about living cost nothing The best things in life are free - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson
 

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5. The finest bits about living cost nothing The best things in life are free - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson
5. :Y
 

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7. Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way?
 

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23 Shiny Happy People (R.E.M.)

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21. Stay (Shakespeare's sister)

26. Pandora's Box (O.M.D)
 

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