Answers: Phil's Yearly Quiz #1


Class of 1988

Note: the number after the answer denotes the highest position reached on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

1. My heart starts aching, my hands keep shaking.
Ans : Rick Astley - It Would Take A Strong Strong Man - 10

2. Hear the Salvation Army Band.
Ans : The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 2

3. The deepest cuts are healed by faith.
Ans : Pat Benatar - All Fired Up - 19

4. I can't wait for the moment to kiss your tender lips.
Ans : Bobby Brown - Take It Slow - Track from "Don't Be Cruel"

5. Finally the tables are starting to turn.
Ans : Tracy Chapman - Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution - 75

6. I don't want you to see me this way.
Ans : Chicago - Look Away - 1

7. I can do the Twist.
Ans : Contours - Do You Love Me - 11

8. Would you care to dance, Grandmother?
Ans : Terence Trent D'Arby - Dance Little Sister (Part One) - 30

9. You got the peaches, I got the cream.
Ans : Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me - 2

10. We used to talk about the weather, making plans together.
Ans : Erasure - Chains Of Love - 12

11. I didn't get laid, I got in a fight.
Ans : Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly - 12

12. If you got your money, honey, we got your disease.
Ans : Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle - 7

13. Now we're gonna be face-to-face and I lay right down in my favorite place.
Ans : Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Wanna Be Your Dog - Track from "Up Your Alley"

14. Feel like I could run away, run away.
Ans : Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams - 2

15. Where is your past?
Ans : Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers - Tomorrow People - 39

16. I think that I've been true to everybody else but me.
Ans : Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights - 1

17. Do you want him now like you did back then?
Ans : George Michael - Monkey - 1

18. You were pumping iron as I was pumping irony.
Ans : Robert Plant - Heaven Knows - Track from "Now And Zen"

19. Another battle in our dirty little war.
Ans : Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up - 13

20. I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean.
Ans : Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart - 15

21. Where on earth is the sun hid away?
Ans : 10,000 Maniacs - Like The Weather - 68

22. Sleep comes like a drug.
Ans : U2 - In God's Country - 44

23. That ain't no way to treat the broken-hearted.
Ans : Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started - 13

24. You turned my life around, no-one could take your place.
Ans : Kim Wilde - You Came - 41

25. If you listen, you can hear them.
Ans : Steve Winwood - Talking Back To The Night - 57

Bonus questions:

B1. What links the artists of songs #15 and #24? (2 points)
Ans : Children of famous musicians. Ziggy Marley and his siblings who make up the Melody Makers are children of Bob Marley. Kim Wilde is the daughter of Marty Wilde.

B2. What links the artists of songs #5, #19 and #20? (3 points)
Ans : Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen and Sting headlined the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! tour.

B3. What links the artists of songs #2, #11 and #13? (5 points)
Ans : Michael Steele of the Bangles, Lita Ford and Joan Jett were all at one time or another members of the all-girl rock group the Runaways.

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