This quiz originally appeared February 3, 1997.
The year for this edition of Phil's Yearly Quiz is 1988. George Bush was elected President in the US, a terrorist attack brought down a PanAm jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Dodgers won the World Series, "Coming to America" and "The Wonder Years" were hits, and this is what we listened to... (22 Hot 100 singles, 3 album tracks)
1. My heart starts aching, my hands keep shaking.
2. Hear the Salvation Army Band.
3. The deepest cuts are healed by faith.
4. I can't wait for the moment to kiss your tender lips.
5. Finally the tables are starting to turn.
6. I don't want you to see me this way.
7. I can do the Twist.
8. Would you care to dance, Grandmother?
9. You got the peaches, I got the cream.
10. We used to talk about the weather, making plans together.
11. I didn't get laid, I got in a fight.
12. If you got your money, honey, we got your disease.
13. Now we're gonna be face-to-face and I lay right down in my favorite place.
14. Feel like I could run away, run away.
15. Where is your past?
16. I think that I've been true to everybody else but me.
17. Do you want him now like you did back then?
18. You were pumping iron as I was pumping irony.
19. Another battle in our dirty little war.
20. I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean.
21. Where on earth is the sun hid away?
22. Sleep comes like a drug.
23. That ain't no way to treat the broken-hearted.
24. You turned my life around, no-one could take your place.
25. If you listen, you can hear them.
Bonus questions:
B1. What links the artists of songs #15 and #24? (2 points)
B2. What links the artists of songs #5, #19 and #20? (3 points)
B3. What links the artists of songs #2, #11 and #13? (5 points)
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