While we wait for Coachella 2013: that 80's song lyric quiz

[TomAz]

I was born in 83 and I still got five. Tom, Gunz, you suck at being adults.

No, actually, this makes sense. Cheesy pop is the dominion of the very young.

[TomAz]

17. Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own.

I'm embarassed I did not get this.

[Miroir Noir]

1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 18, 19, and 20.

#1:

[santasutt]

I'm embarassed I did not get this.

Forgiven. But, drawing from your vast cerebral jukebox, can you come up with another pop song about Alzheimer's disease?

(I cannot, at least not tonight.)

[santasutt]

But, for a whole generation, it wouldn't be Christmas without it.

5, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16

15 definitely qualifies as a torture song:

[santasutt]

1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 18, 19, and 20.

#1:

All of the 80's rock jocks referred to these guys as the first "SUPER-GROUP" of the decade. What was super about them?

Top Coachella SUPER-GROUP?

I vote Them Crooked Vultures.

[santasutt]

Speaking of SUPER-GROUPS, #14 anybody?

Bueller?

[HowToDisappear]

Just remembered 20.

[amyzzz]

19 is U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky."

[santasutt]

19 is U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky."

U2, world-conquerors, recorded live featuring Bono at his bully-pulpit best.

Nobody could touch them and they knew it.

[santasutt]

In honor of the Boston Celtics going back to the Garden for a close-out game 6 Thursday night:

#6

[santasutt]

2. Smiling, having fun. Feeling like a number one.


3. Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength.


4. And when some local kid gets down, they try and drum him out of town.


5. You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lyin'.


9. She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old.


11. You've got to want to succeed.


13. I'm shouting all about love while they treated you like a dog.


14. Maybe somewhere down the road when someone plays Purple Haze.


20. Why can't we give love that one more chance?

These are left. Let's crank these out, aged folk.

[Miroir Noir]

I'll speed this up and take another turn.

#4:



David Lee Roth is a horrible lip syncher.

[santasutt]

I'll speed this up and take another turn.

#4:



David Lee Roth is a horrible lip syncher.

Is that American Bandstand?

I give it a 5 and a half, Dick.

[ZonkerB]

Just read through your list and immediately sang #5:



I had it on a cassette of New Wave songs that I played waaaay too much back in the day.

[CaseSensitive]

20 is Bowie/Queen Under Pressure.

[santasutt]

20 is Bowie/Queen Under Pressure.

Screaming ladies, exploding buildings and other disturbing images.

[LAVeniceDude]

#9 is Steely Dan's Hey 19, from Gaucho. I saw them do this the summer before last...Steely Dan gets old white people dancing.

I'm actually too old for much of this poll, I kinda lost interest in popular music between 1980 and 1990.

[LAVeniceDude]

#3 is Rush's The Spirit of Radio. I have friends that LOVE this band, I'm pretty much meh.

[zircona1]

#11 is "Owner of A Lonely Heart" by Yes

#14 is "End of the Line" by The Traveling Wilburys

(someone plz find the youtubes of these, I'm at work and have no access)

[TomAz]

I was just coming in to note that #14 was the Traveling Wilburys. But I ain't nobody's lacky.

[LAVeniceDude]

Of course, as mentioned above, 11 is Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart. I will be seeing them in August in San Diego, they're like a million years old now.

[HowToDisappear]

I looked up 2 because I had absolutely no clue on that one and no one has it on their list. No way anyone gets it. It's from a band I don't associate with the 80's - HUGE in the mid/late 70's - and I didn't even remember the song existed at all.

Whoever comes up with the answer deserves a prize.

[santasutt]

I looked up 2 because I had absolutely no clue on that one and no one has it on their list. No way anyone gets it. It's from a band I don't associate with the 80's - HUGE in the mid/late 70's - and I didn't even remember the song existed at all.

Whoever comes up with the answer deserves a prize.

Released November 1980.

Paging GayPalmSprings: Won't you come out to play? #2 is waiting for you to claim.

[santasutt]

I was just coming in to note that #14 was the Traveling Wilburys. But I ain't nobody's lacky.

My thread, my burden and I do not mind at all. Great tune. Only 2 and a half members left. If you've seen Dylan play in the last 5 years, you'll know what I mean.

[HowToDisappear]

BTW, santasutt, congrats on your son getting into USC. My kids did it the other way 'round: left CA and went to MA. They only came home at xmas and one summer break. They graduated last year and still live in MA. So be prepared, this may be the last summer your son lives at home. (This xmas was our first without our girls.)

/derail

[santasutt]

My thread, my burden and I do not mind at all. Great tune. Only 2 and a half members left. If you've seen Dylan play in the last 5 years, you'll know what I mean.

Clue:

The artist of #13 is in this video.

[santasutt]

BTW, santasutt, congrats on your son getting into USC. My kids did it the other way 'round: left CA and went to MA. They only came home at xmas and one summer break. They graduated last year and still live in MA. So be prepared, this may be the last summer your son lives at home. (This xmas was our first without our girls.)

/derail

Thanks, we have a lot of stuff planned including a Sox-Orioles road trip down to Camden Yards just before we push him out of the nest.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

The next batch:



21. We kissed altogether wrong.


22. I heard her talkin' with her friend when she thought nobody else was around.


23. Now she can’t be that warm with the wind in her arms.


24. I'm the smiling face of your T.V.


25. Now the party’s over, I’m so tired.


26. I feel I'm on top again, baby.


27. Oh, you know I don't mind.


28. I wish it were Sunday.


29. Oh yeah, the boy can play.


30. Black panties with an angel's face.


31. Don't touch me please


32. There’s so much I need to say to you – so many reasons why.


33. Say your prayers.


34. And I had a feeling that I belonged


35. Believe in me. I’m with the High Command.


36. There's a choice we're making.


37. Success has been so easy for you.


38. I'm very tired, and I'm not feeling right.


39. I hate the food I eat.


40. Some boys try and some boys lie.

[HowToDisappear]

Right off the top of my head: 21, 22, 23, 28, 39. Others may come to me.

[LAVeniceDude]

24 25 34 29