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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.
- For the price of a dime I can always turn to you
- They get so angry like pouty children denied their candy
- All my tubes and wires and careful notes and antiquated notions
- When I was young I thought of growing old, of what my life would mean to me
- You live for the fight when it's all that you've got
- Today's another day to find you
- You didn't bat an eye when I made you cry
- Through the clouds I see love shine, it keeps me warm as life grows colder
- I have to go to the orthodontist, I'm getting my braces off, y'know?
- You can give it away, but your money don't mean much to me
- If it starts comin' on, catch me getting' in the mood
- I don't approve of what you did to your own flesh and blood
- I feared my heart would beat in secrecy
- Then a man called our exchange but didn't want to leave his name
- It means so much to me, like a birthday or a pretty view
- I can listen to you, it keeps me stable for days
- This shattered dream you cannot justify
- I bet you someday, baby, someone says the same to you
- Out along the edges, always where I burn to be
- You were waiting there swimming through apologies
- I don't want to lose, no I can't let you go
- I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
- I've had enough of danger and people on the streets
- The smile that used to greet me brightened someone else's day
- It's worth the risk of burning to have a second chance
- After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray
- Every time I get my hopes up they always seem to fall
- Two people together but living alone
- The smell of your skin can light up all the fires in me
- When I want to run away I drive off in my car
- Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine
- You've got to carry weapons cause you always carry cash
- Spineless movement and a wild attack
- I buy the product and never use it
- Monkey back and ease up on the sweet deadline
- Boys with small talk and small minds really don't impress me in bed
- I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
- She's like no other, and I'm just trying to make you see
- Climbing up from down here below where the streets see me lonely for you
- I tried to make you give in one night at the drive-in
- To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique
- The impression that you sell passes in and out like a scent
- Nations stand against him he's your brother
- They let you dream just to watch 'em shatter
- Promises in vain, love that is real but in disguise
- The powers that be, that force us to live like we do, bring me to my knees
- You're the one thing I can't get enough of
- Spinning on that dizzy edge, I kissed her face and kissed her head
- We kiss altogether wrong, no intention
- You never come home at night because you're out romancin'
- When we’re together it’s like hot coals in a fire
- White skin in linen, perfume on my wrist
- Tearing me apart like a new emotion
- Now we meet in an abandoned studio
- You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable
- Take my tears and that's not nearly all
- At my bedside empty pocket, a foot without a sock
- Gone, fragile but free, we remain tender together
- Everything about you is a mystery
- She was hanging on Johnny, he was holding on tight
- Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
- Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables
- You know you've changed and your words they lie
- We'd say nothing could come between us two dreamers
- Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
- I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it
- If you lost your love for me, you never let it show
- I've learned to feel what I cannot see, but with you I lose that vision
- You know life is cruel, life is never kind
- If it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a heavenly person today
- I'm relying on your common decency / So far it hasn't surfaced
- I never think about all the funny things you said
- I pour the drinks and crush the flowers
- If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower
- Makes you wonder how the other half die
- First kiss was sweet kiss, second kiss had a twist
- The man has got to be insane
- All the guys on the corner stand back and let her walk on by
- With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
- It's like the feeling at the end of the page when you realize you don't know what you just read
- Slow change may pull us apart
- Last time I asked you I really got a lame excuse
- When the hitman comes he knows damn well he has been cheated
- She wants to be your bride, are you gonna do it?
- Reminds me of childhood memories where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
- Never let another girl like you drag me under
- Pain finds me everywhere / Oh, but you don't care
- I could be searchin' my world for a love everlasting
- I'm yours exclusively, right now we live and breathe each other
- In the end you've got to go, look before you leap, and don't you hesitate at all
- Our spirits will be climbing to a sky lit up with diamonds
- Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
- Could I have loved someone like the one I see in you
- Gravity won't pull you through
- You're gonna like her, 'cause she's got class
- I shoulda known we'd never get far
- Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town. . .
- Chinese food is so risqué
- Nobody knew where to find him / No evidence was found
- Hit me, hit me, hit me with those laser beams
- With a kiss you can strip me defenseless
- I will collect you and capture you
- Do you really think he thinks about you when he's out
- Running double time on that seduction line
- I can forget my name while you collect your claim
- She's the kind of girl makes you feel nice
- No place to hang out our washing
- I am the modern man who hides behind a mask
- Used to be so good and so bad, sex was something I just had
- It's strange to her, some people seem to have everything
- All I know is that to me you look like you're lots of fun
- Four wheels scare the cockatoos
- The night is young and so am I
- I feel a love, I feel a love, I feel a love that's really real
- I'm in a bedroom waiting for my baby
- You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
- They can't wait to hang out and be cool
- Your temperamental moody side, the one you always try to hide from me
- Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
- You work all your life for that moment in time, it could come or pass you by
- You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use
- Don't call me on the phone to tell me you're alone
- I'll be the first to bossa nova 10,000 miles above L.A.
- It's your heart that you betray
- We could blow this existence right out into space and share a sweet isolation
- It's all over and I'm standing pretty
- Time goes by, no time to cry
- Beaten down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces, so resigned to what their fate is
- You make me hot, you make me sigh
- Watching shadows move across the wall, I feel so frightened
- Everybody's goin' off the deep end
- Don't be cute, don't be funny now, it's later than you think
- There's no need for living in the past
- I'll be your non-stop lover, get it while you can
- I wouldn't ever wanna see you frown
- Er war Superstar, er war populär
- There was a place where all you could do was wish on a four-leaf clover
- I loved you then but now I intend to open up and love you even more
- There's a name for it, there's a phrase that fits
- When you say it will, it always means you won't
- Somehow I lost my way, looking to see something in your eyes
- You're so excited I can feel you getting hotter, oh baby
- Look at you - you're a pageant, you're everything that I've imagined
- Was love always this good, or could this be just the start?
- I knew all the time that she'd go, but that's a choice I made long ago
- You could feel it, 'cause it was the month of June
- I know I could break you down, but what good would it do
- There's no escape without a scrape
- I pass a small café where we would dance at night
- Something in your eyes is makin' such a fool of me
- We used to talk about the weather, making plans together, days would last forever
- It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go
- He sat on the stony ground and he took a cigarette out
- I might like you better if we slept together
- Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
- The sweat of your body covers me
- When I'm with you I fall in love again and again and again, baby
- Sitting on a pebble by the river playing guitar
- She knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
- And love, I'll be a fool for you I'm sure
- Just looking for a new direction in an old familiar way
- When situations never change, tomorrow looks unsure
- You and I can both get jobs and finally see what it means to be living
- I heard you say, "Tell him I'm not home"
- Crying at the top of my voice, no one listening
- They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
- Woke up to reality and found the future not so bright
- I watch you when you are sleeping
- I look in the mirror and all I see is a young old man with only a dream
- You took my heart, then you took my pride away
- Oh, look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown
- Now popping and locking is a new way of talking
- Choose my color, find a star
- Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
- I saw the world thrashing all around your face
- Ghosts appear and fade away
- I used to think I was tied to a heartache
- Control is not convinced, but the computer has the evidence
- I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
- Seven years went under the bridge like time was standing still
- I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
- Oh you're so condescending / Your gall is never ending
- I can't go back to livin' without you
- You wanna diva, a deduction, you wanna do what they do
- I've got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key
- The plan was we would share this feeling just between ourselves
- We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy
- She's loving by proxy, all give and no take
- I've been waiting for a feeling that never, ever came
- All I want is to be left alone in my average home
- Do you wanna be free, are you ready for me to feel this way?
- I went out of my way just to hurt you, the one I shouldn't hurt at all
- Give love some soul if I may be quite so bold
- Circus life under the big top world, we all need the clowns to make us smile
- Go on and go free, yeah, maybe you're too close to see
- I'm flat broke but I don't care
- Shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead
- Don't get caught alone, oh no
- I feel my heartbeat when you run your fingers through my hair
- Why is everybody telling everybody what you have done?
- Don't play games with my affection
- They're looking for a little romance given half a chance
- Before the morning comes a story's told
- Don't let the fire rush to your head
- Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the simple fools
- As far as I'm concerned, I'm glad I got the chance to say
- No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
- Oh I had a dream, for a moment I believed it was true
- Could we be much closer if we tried?
- I wouldn't lie to you baby, it's mainly a physical thing
- Funny how I find myself in love with you
- Come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home
- Darling, she might overhear
- I want to tell them all to go to hell
- I'm a peeping tom techie with x-ray eyes
- She could hear the highway breathing and she could see a nearby factory
- Get to sixty and feel no regret
- Cleopatra died for Egypt, what a waste of time
- It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
- I've given up, honey please admit it's over
- No one knows how I feel, what I say unless you read between my lines
- With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
- That hypocrite smokes two packs a day
- Two weeks and you're an all time legend
- I open my mouth and out pops something spiteful
- She's the promise in the year of election
- Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb
- This ain't no never-never land
- I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side
- So you think I got a funny face, I ain't got no worries
- Instead you laid still in the grass all coiled up and hissin'
- Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all her suicides are fake
- There's a car park where the pally used to stand
- It's not automatically a certain guarantee
- She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street
- Well I wonder, does she think she's being clever?
- Out of the doorway the bullets rip to the sound of the beat
- Keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
- It isn't safe to walk the city streets alone
- Sometimes I just forget, say things I might regret
- When you're down and out there seems no hope at all
- I'd fall down on my knees, kiss the ground that you walk on
- There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear
- If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes
- You should know me, I've always been in your mind
- You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people!
- It was such a disgrace, you really shattered my world
- If I can't bridge this distance, stop this heartbreak overload
- Wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?"
- I have to answer that desperate call that I do not understand
- The landlord say your rent is late, he may have to litigate
- You're slowly disappearing from my view
- Something won't let me make love to you
- Please tell me you'll never have to say goodbye
- He ducked back down the alley with some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
- Is it just another game that you and I pretend to play?
- Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees
- Our bodies felt the morning dew that greets the brand new day
- My street understanding was just enough to know what she really meant
- My time is now, I'm coming alive
- It may be a chance we're taking, but it always comes to this
- 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!)
Here’s the quiz with answer links!
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