Good morning, all. I'm taking the day off from work, and I'm gonna do my weekly long run this morning. I hope to do about 18 miles today. We'll see how that turns out...<br><br>
Anyway, we haven't had a good 80s music lyrics quiz in a while. I know this is typically <b>T-Rev</b>'s department, but I hope he doesn't mind if I spit one out here. I did do this once before (quite a while ago) and I'm pretty sure <b>T-Rev</b> himself won. (Maybe no surprise there). So, here's another one...<br><br>
There are 20 songs below. I tried to pull from a diverse variety of genres: rock, pop, dance, r&b, rap, glam rock, new wave, country, wussy ballads, etc. If you guys are all in your 30s and were thus alive throughout the 80s, you should know every song, even if you can't immediately recognize these lyrics. All 20 songs were big hits. They all hit the Top Ten on the Billboard charts, and more than half of them hit #1.<br><br>
I think some are harder than others. There's one song below (a #1 hit, actually) where I'd almost be shocked if anyone got it. And I think a couple others might be tough as well. But like I say, they were all big hits. As a further hint, I chose exactly two songs from each year, 1980 thru 1989. Bonus points to anybody that can identify the year of each song...<br><br>
I gave myself a new email address just for this quiz. Anyone who wants to play, send an email to <b>80sMusic at bobmann dot net</b>. Don't post your answers here in this thread so that others can play. I'll check my email periodically throughout the day, and I'll let you know how many you got right. And by the end of the day I'll post the answers and declare a winner.<br><br>
Here we go...<br><br>
1) If You can't feed your baby (yeah yeah)<br>
Then don't have a baby (yeah yeah)<br><br>
2) Out on the road today<br>
I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac<br><br>
3) All the school kids so sick of books<br>
They like the punk and the metal band<br><br>
4) They say I better get a chaperone<br>
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone<br><br>
5) Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love<br>
Sweet dream, saccharin, loosen up<br><br>
6) These people 'round here<br>
With their beat down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces<br>
They're resigned to what their fate is<br><br>
7) We've known each other for so long<br>
Your heart's been aching<br>
but you're too shy to say it<br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Cool"> In the same boat with a lot of your friends<br>
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in<br><br>
9) Lookin for love in all the wrong places<br>
No fine girls just ugly faces<br><br>
10) You make me hot, you make me sigh<br>
You make me laugh, you make me cry<br><br>
11) Tonight the music seemed so loud<br>
I wish that we could lose this crowd<br><br>
12) Act your age, mama, not your shoe size<br>
Maybe we could do the twirl<br><br>
13) From where I stand you are home free, the planets align so rare<br>
There's promise in the air, and I'm guiding you<br><br>
14) So hold on here we go<br>
Hold on to nothin' we know<br>
I feel so lonely way up here<br><br>
15) She gives me hot and cold fever<br>
Then she leaves me in a cool cool sweat<br><br>
16) You know I call you, I call you on the telephone<br>
I'm only hoping that you're home<br><br>
17) I can't get, Any rest,<br>
People say, I'm obsessed<br><br>
1<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Cool"> And others, they know just what I'm going through<br>
And it's so hard to be a lover when you say you're only in it for fun<br><br>
19) Neon lights and the pretty pretty girls<br>
All dressed so scantily<br><br>
20) In the paper today tales of war and of waste<br>
But you turn right over to the T.V. page
