The 80s Lyric Quiz...

[blank]

I got 91.1

http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html

[Revs]

Damn, I only got a 54.4, but that's not bad considering I was born in '84.

[Borborygmi]

blank smoked my 59.25, too. If I understand correctly, I appear to have been dinged pretty badly for being born right before Woodstock.

[HongKongFooey]

Aw man, 79.

[SoylentPopTart]

60.3

I knew a few more would have came to me if I had stuck with it. I have to pull the Alzheimer's card on this one.

[Euryphaessa]

76.something (I just accidentally closed the window). It was oddly impressed with me for getting

Africa by Toto, Don't You Want Me by whoever (I only know the Reel Big Fish version), and "colitas".

I'm with Soylent, there were a few I totally should have gotten but I rushed it. Still, not bad for being born in '89.

[WednesdayAddams]

86. I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

blank smoked my 59.25, too. If I understand correctly, I appear to have been dinged pretty badly for being born right before Woodstock.

I was born right after Woodstock. Three days after.

89.5! Suck it, bitches!!

Except Blank, he can give it a nice pat and call it cute.

[Bonkers]

48.5..

[Salambo]

I missed two. 98. And the two I missed, upon reveal, were major moments.

No, I didn't cheat. But I do work retail, and the radio is usually set to a station that plays A LOT of 80s stuff. So things I didn't already know growing up (which was more than a fair amount) easily had the gaps filled in by the rarely rotating playlist of drudgery for the past four years of my life.

Final score: 165.5


I'm a sad music geek.

[Bonkers]

Originally Posted by Salambo

I'm a sad music geek.

With an appropriate title..

Well done.

[Turing Complete]

I got 83, but I'm unhappy with the scoring. Billie Jean, Jessie's girl? Had them but lost on the spelling. I was close on a lot of others too without being right on.

BTW, what song is the lyric, "Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand" from?

[Revs]

Originally Posted by Turing Complete

I got 83, but I'm unhappy with the scoring. Billie Jean, Jessie's girl? Had them but lost on the spelling. I was close on a lot of others too without being right on.

BTW, what song is the lyric, "Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand" from?

Rio by Duran Duran.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Turing Complete

I got 83, but I'm unhappy with the scoring. Billie Jean, Jessie's girl? Had them but lost on the spelling. I was close on a lot of others too without being right on.

BTW, what song is the lyric, "Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand" from?

I see what you did, there.


Revs,

[jali]

40.075 born before the Twist.

Jesse. I want that point.

This was fun.

[Lungfish]

70.

Apparently the line in Bryan Adams 'Summer of 69' is not:

I got my first real sex - dream, Bought it at the five-and-dime.

as I thought, but actually:

I got my first real six - string, Bought it at the five-and-dime.

Huh.

[SweetPea]

Old thread, I know. I've been busy and I'm catching up on some threads. Sue me.

I'm not sure if I'm proud of my 123 or not...there were an awful lot of really cheesy songs on there...

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by jali

40.075 born before the Twist.

Jesse. I want that point.

This was fun.

Yeah, I misspelled Jesse too!

It gave me a score of 123, but by my count I earned only 103.

I missed 32, but got 2/3 bonus questions correct. Many questions I got the two blanks reversed, or correctly guessed one of two.

Notables: 10 pts for #83!* 5 pts for #19, 4 pts for #44, 55, 86. A couple threesies and a whole lot of twosies.

*Not even an 80s song!

[srzss05]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

*Not even an 80s song!

There are a few that aren't really "eighties" songs, as they were simply remakes of older ones. And I missed "Jessie" as well (and "billie", and for that matter a few others due to actual misspellings).

[Rebo]

38.25.

Give me one from the 70's!!!

[srzss05]

Originally Posted by Dolores Reborn

Give me one from the 70's!!!

I probably could do better from the 70s as well, or even the 90s. I didn't listen to the radio much in the 80s.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by srzss05

There are a few that aren't really "eighties" songs, as they were simply remakes of older ones. And I missed "Jessie" as well (and "billie", and for that matter a few others due to actual misspellings).

"California Girls" and "Venus" were remakes, yes, but done by 80s bands*. No one's remade a popular version of "Hotel California" yet.


*Yes, I consider DLR a one-man band. His ego is larger than the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Lo-Slung Denim]

52.5.

I was born in '82, but have an appalling memory and have never been hugely interested in music. I started the '90s quiz but got distracted.

However, I did get

Grandmaster Flash - The Message.

If it was a quiz about that song, I'd win. I know all the lyrics(somehow sank through the bad memory layers!). All four verses, not just the abridged two-verse version.

[Taur]

103.5 and I guess I lost a bonus for not telling him how I found the quiz. D'ya think it's apparent I was managing a retail record store in the 80s?

[AuntiePam]

9.5

So what! That's my kids' music. I'm surprised I got any of them.

[Taber]

I like how it commended me for

getting colitas from reading straight dope

but I still screwed up

rio, by duran duran

[OutStandingInTheField]

I got a measly 50.4, and the 80s was my decade! However, this quiz is skewed towards what was presumably popular in North America, which is not the music I was listening to (not being in North America at the time). I remember listening to re-broadcasts of Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" on the radio and laughing at the weird shit you guys listened to.

[Seeker of Truth & Beauty]

I only got 45.25. I lost 30 fecking percent because I'm old! Life ain't fair, I tell ya.

I got colitas and Rio and misspelled Jessie.

[St. Urho]

Final Score: 145.5

Born in 1980