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If you’ve been taking all those 80s lyrics quizzes and keep thinking, "Damn, that was too easy," then this is the quiz for you. Here’s the deal: all of the songs are at least fairly well-known, either as hits or as "novelty" songs. No two are by the exact same artist. There may be a few from 1979 that capture the 80s sound.

 

  1. For the price of a dime I can always turn to you
  2. They get so angry like pouty children denied their candy
  3. All my tubes and wires and careful notes and antiquated notions
  4. When I was young I thought of growing old, of what my life would mean to me
  5. You live for the fight when it's all that you've got
  6. Today's another day to find you
  7. You didn't bat an eye when I made you cry
  8. Through the clouds I see love shine, it keeps me warm as life grows colder
  9. I have to go to the orthodontist, I'm getting my braces off, y'know?
  10. You can give it away, but your money don't mean much to me
  11. If it starts comin' on, catch me getting' in the mood
  12. I don't approve of what you did to your own flesh and blood
  13. I feared my heart would beat in secrecy
  14. Then a man called our exchange but didn't want to leave his name
  15. It means so much to me, like a birthday or a pretty view
  16. I can listen to you, it keeps me stable for days
  17. This shattered dream you cannot justify
  18. I bet you someday, baby, someone says the same to you
  19. Out along the edges, always where I burn to be
  20. You were waiting there swimming through apologies
  21. I don't want to lose, no I can't let you go
  22. I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
  23. I've had enough of danger and people on the streets
  24. The smile that used to greet me brightened someone else's day
  25. It's worth the risk of burning to have a second chance
  26. After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray
  27. Every time I get my hopes up they always seem to fall
  28. Two people together but living alone
  29. The smell of your skin can light up all the fires in me
  30. When I want to run away I drive off in my car
  31. Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine
  32. You've got to carry weapons cause you always carry cash
  33. Spineless movement and a wild attack
  34. I buy the product and never use it
  35. Monkey back and ease up on the sweet deadline
  36. Boys with small talk and small minds really don't impress me in bed
  37. I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
  38. She's like no other, and I'm just trying to make you see
  39. Climbing up from down here below where the streets see me lonely for you
  40. I tried to make you give in one night at the drive-in
  41. To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique
  42. The impression that you sell passes in and out like a scent
  43. Nations stand against him he's your brother
  44. They let you dream just to watch 'em shatter
  45. Promises in vain, love that is real but in disguise
  46. The powers that be, that force us to live like we do, bring me to my knees
  47. You're the one thing I can't get enough of
  48. Spinning on that dizzy edge, I kissed her face and kissed her head
  49. We kiss altogether wrong, no intention
  50. You never come home at night because you're out romancin'
  51. When we’re together it’s like hot coals in a fire
  52. White skin in linen, perfume on my wrist
  53. Tearing me apart like a new emotion
  54. Now we meet in an abandoned studio
  55. You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable
  56. Take my tears and that's not nearly all
  57. At my bedside empty pocket, a foot without a sock
  58. Gone, fragile but free, we remain tender together
  59. Everything about you is a mystery
  60. She was hanging on Johnny, he was holding on tight
  61. Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
  62. Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables
  63. You know you've changed and your words they lie
  64. We'd say nothing could come between us two dreamers
  65. Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
  66. I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it
  67. If you lost your love for me, you never let it show
  68. I've learned to feel what I cannot see, but with you I lose that vision
  69. You know life is cruel, life is never kind
  70. If it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a heavenly person today
  71. I'm relying on your common decency / So far it hasn't surfaced
  72. I never think about all the funny things you said
  73. I pour the drinks and crush the flowers
  74. If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower
  75. Makes you wonder how the other half die
  76. First kiss was sweet kiss, second kiss had a twist
  77. The man has got to be insane
  78. All the guys on the corner stand back and let her walk on by
  79. With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
  80. It's like the feeling at the end of the page when you realize you don't know what you just read
  81. Slow change may pull us apart
  82. Last time I asked you I really got a lame excuse
  83. When the hitman comes he knows damn well he has been cheated
  84. She wants to be your bride, are you gonna do it?
  85. Reminds me of childhood memories where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
  86. Never let another girl like you drag me under
  87. Pain finds me everywhere / Oh, but you don't care
  88. I could be searchin' my world for a love everlasting
  89. I'm yours exclusively, right now we live and breathe each other
  90. In the end you've got to go, look before you leap, and don't you hesitate at all
  91. Our spirits will be climbing to a sky lit up with diamonds
  92. Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
  93. Could I have loved someone like the one I see in you
  94. Gravity won't pull you through
  95. You're gonna like her, 'cause she's got class
  96. I shoulda known we'd never get far
  97. Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town. . .
  98. Chinese food is so risqué
  99. Nobody knew where to find him / No evidence was found
  100. Hit me, hit me, hit me with those laser beams
  101. With a kiss you can strip me defenseless
  102. I will collect you and capture you
  103. Do you really think he thinks about you when he's out
  104. Running double time on that seduction line
  105. I can forget my name while you collect your claim
  106. She's the kind of girl makes you feel nice
  107. No place to hang out our washing
  108. I am the modern man who hides behind a mask
  109. Used to be so good and so bad, sex was something I just had
  110. It's strange to her, some people seem to have everything
  111. All I know is that to me you look like you're lots of fun
  112. Four wheels scare the cockatoos
  113. The night is young and so am I
  114. I feel a love, I feel a love, I feel a love that's really real
  115. I'm in a bedroom waiting for my baby
  116. You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
  117. They can't wait to hang out and be cool
  118. Your temperamental moody side, the one you always try to hide from me
  119. Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
  120. You work all your life for that moment in time, it could come or pass you by
  121. You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use
  122. Don't call me on the phone to tell me you're alone
  123. I'll be the first to bossa nova 10,000 miles above L.A.
  124. It's your heart that you betray
  125. We could blow this existence right out into space and share a sweet isolation
  126. It's all over and I'm standing pretty
  127. Time goes by, no time to cry
  128. Beaten down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces, so resigned to what their fate is
  129. You make me hot, you make me sigh
  130. Watching shadows move across the wall, I feel so frightened
  131. Everybody's goin' off the deep end
  132. Don't be cute, don't be funny now, it's later than you think
  133. There's no need for living in the past
  134. I'll be your non-stop lover, get it while you can
  135. I wouldn't ever wanna see you frown
  136. Er war Superstar, er war populär
  137. There was a place where all you could do was wish on a four-leaf clover
  138. I loved you then but now I intend to open up and love you even more
  139. There's a name for it, there's a phrase that fits
  140. When you say it will, it always means you won't
  141. Somehow I lost my way, looking to see something in your eyes
  142. You're so excited I can feel you getting hotter, oh baby
  143. Look at you - you're a pageant, you're everything that I've imagined
  144. Was love always this good, or could this be just the start?
  145. I knew all the time that she'd go, but that's a choice I made long ago
  146. You could feel it, 'cause it was the month of June
  147. I know I could break you down, but what good would it do
  148. There's no escape without a scrape
  149. I pass a small café where we would dance at night
  150. Something in your eyes is makin' such a fool of me
  151. We used to talk about the weather, making plans together, days would last forever
  152. It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go
  153. He sat on the stony ground and he took a cigarette out
  154. I might like you better if we slept together
  155. Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
  156. The sweat of your body covers me
  157. When I'm with you I fall in love again and again and again, baby
  158. Sitting on a pebble by the river playing guitar
  159. She knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
  160. And love, I'll be a fool for you I'm sure
  161. Just looking for a new direction in an old familiar way
  162. When situations never change, tomorrow looks unsure
  163. You and I can both get jobs and finally see what it means to be living
  164. I heard you say, "Tell him I'm not home"
  165. Crying at the top of my voice, no one listening
  166. They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
  167. Woke up to reality and found the future not so bright
  168. I watch you when you are sleeping
  169. I look in the mirror and all I see is a young old man with only a dream
  170. You took my heart, then you took my pride away
  171. Oh, look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown
  172. Now popping and locking is a new way of talking
  173. Choose my color, find a star
  174. Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
  175. I saw the world thrashing all around your face
  176. Ghosts appear and fade away
  177. I used to think I was tied to a heartache
  178. Control is not convinced, but the computer has the evidence
  179. I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
  180. Seven years went under the bridge like time was standing still
  181. I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
  182. Oh you're so condescending / Your gall is never ending
  183. I can't go back to livin' without you
  184. You wanna diva, a deduction, you wanna do what they do
  185. I've got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key
  186. The plan was we would share this feeling just between ourselves
  187. We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy
  188. She's loving by proxy, all give and no take
  189. I've been waiting for a feeling that never, ever came
  190. All I want is to be left alone in my average home
  191. Do you wanna be free, are you ready for me to feel this way?
  192. I went out of my way just to hurt you, the one I shouldn't hurt at all
  193. Give love some soul if I may be quite so bold
  194. Circus life under the big top world, we all need the clowns to make us smile
  195. Go on and go free, yeah, maybe you're too close to see
  196. I'm flat broke but I don't care
  197. Shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead
  198. Don't get caught alone, oh no
  199. I feel my heartbeat when you run your fingers through my hair
  200. Why is everybody telling everybody what you have done?
  201. Don't play games with my affection
  202. They're looking for a little romance given half a chance
  203. Before the morning comes a story's told
  204. Don't let the fire rush to your head
  205. Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the simple fools
  206. As far as I'm concerned, I'm glad I got the chance to say
  207. No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
  208. Oh I had a dream, for a moment I believed it was true
  209. Could we be much closer if we tried?
  210. I wouldn't lie to you baby, it's mainly a physical thing
  211. Funny how I find myself in love with you
  212. Come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home
  213. Darling, she might overhear
  214. I want to tell them all to go to hell
  215. I'm a peeping tom techie with x-ray eyes
  216. She could hear the highway breathing and she could see a nearby factory
  217. Get to sixty and feel no regret
  218. Cleopatra died for Egypt, what a waste of time
  219. It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
  220. I've given up, honey please admit it's over
  221. No one knows how I feel, what I say unless you read between my lines
  222. With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
  223. That hypocrite smokes two packs a day
  224. Two weeks and you're an all time legend
  225. I open my mouth and out pops something spiteful
  226. She's the promise in the year of election
  227. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb
  228. This ain't no never-never land
  229. I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side
  230. So you think I got a funny face, I ain't got no worries
  231. Instead you laid still in the grass all coiled up and hissin'
  232. Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all her suicides are fake
  233. There's a car park where the pally used to stand
  234. It's not automatically a certain guarantee
  235. She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street
  236. Well I wonder, does she think she's being clever?
  237. Out of the doorway the bullets rip to the sound of the beat
  238. Keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
  239. It isn't safe to walk the city streets alone
  240. Sometimes I just forget, say things I might regret
  241. When you're down and out there seems no hope at all
  242. I'd fall down on my knees, kiss the ground that you walk on
  243. There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear
  244. If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes
  245. You should know me, I've always been in your mind
  246. You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people!
  247. It was such a disgrace, you really shattered my world
  248. If I can't bridge this distance, stop this heartbreak overload
  249. Wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?"
  250. I have to answer that desperate call that I do not understand
  251. The landlord say your rent is late, he may have to litigate
  252. You're slowly disappearing from my view
  253. Something won't let me make love to you
  254. Please tell me you'll never have to say goodbye
  255. He ducked back down the alley with some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
  256. Is it just another game that you and I pretend to play?
  257. Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees
  258. Our bodies felt the morning dew that greets the brand new day
  259. My street understanding was just enough to know what she really meant
  260. My time is now, I'm coming alive
  261. It may be a chance we're taking, but it always comes to this
  262. You're turning me around, destroying me

 

BONUS QUESTIONS (more to come):

1. What is the connection between #241 and #243?

2. What is the connection between #10 and #31?

3. What is the connection between #141 and #147?

4. What is the connection between #181 and #229? (This is remote!)

 

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