Caught up in the 80s

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  1. And she's lovin him with that body I just know it
    *Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield

  2. I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
    Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran

  3. Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
    What's Love Got to do With It? - Tina Turner

  4. Let me tell you 'bout the girl I met last night
    *I'm High on You - Survivor

  5. Well I like takin off, don't like burnin out, every time you turn it on, makes me wanna shout
    *Cool the Engines - Boston

  6. Buying bread from a man in brussels, he was 6 foot 4 and full a muscles
    Down Under - Men at Work

  7. With every breath I'm deeper into you
    Crazy for You -Madonna

  8. Distant eyes, losin ground I'm reachin for you, you, you
    *Separate Ways - Journey

  9. Music does the talkin, says the things you wanna hear
    *Magic Power - Triumph

  10. And I've never been a loser and I just can't lose tonight
    *Total Eclipse fo the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

  11. I'm gonna buy me a one way ticket, nothin's gonna hold me back. Your love's like a slow train comin and I can feel it comin down the track- whoah
    *When the Goin' Gets Tough - Billy Ocean

  12. At this moment, you mean everything!
    Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

  13. I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed
    Jenny (867-5309) - Tommy Tutone

  14. Making love to you was never second best
    Melt With You - Modern English

  15. I've got to, run away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
    Tainted Love - Soft Cell

  16. So wild, so free, so far from me. You're all I want, my fantasy
    Photograph - Def Leppard

  17. If you got the money honey we got your disease
    *Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses

  18. And mama always told me be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
    Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

  19. My baby may not be rich, he's watchin every dime
    Let's Hear it for the Boy - Deniece Williams

  20. Take your passion, and make it happen
    FlashDance -Irene Cara

  21. I think they got the alias, that you been livin under
    Gloria - *Laura Branningan

  22. I had a premonition that he shouldn't have gone alone
    *Smugglers' Blues - Glenn Frey

  23. And when the night is cold and dark, you can't see, you can't see light
    *Never Surrender - Corey Hart

  24. Don't drink, Don't smoke, what do ya do?
    Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant

  25. I don't wanna be a girl like that, do you wanna see a grown man cry?
    *Naughty, Naughty - John Parr

  26. Somebody's callin after somebody, somebody turns the corner out of sight. Lookin for somebody, somewhere in the night
    *Tender is the Night - Jackson Browne

  27. A week without you, thought I'd forget, two weeks without you and I still haven't gotten over you yet
    Vacation - Go-Go's

  28. Strange voices are saying, ah what did they say? Things I can't understand
    Cruel Summer - Bananarama

  29. Been workin, so hard. I'm punchin, my card
    *Footloose - Kenny Loggins

  30. I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry
    *Making Love out of Nothing at All - Air Supply

  31. I was a high school loser never made it with a lady til the boys told me somethin I missed
    Walk this Way - Aerosmith with Run DMC

  32. I knew right from the beginning, that you would end up winnin, I knew right from the start, you'd put an arrow through my heart
    Round and Round - Ratt

  33. You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
    *Jump - Van Halen

  34. Just a look at that girl with the lights comin up in her eyes
    Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne

  35. It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you, it's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
    Africa - Toto

  36. And heart to heart you win, if ya survive
    *The Warrior - Scandal

  37. Play the guitar on the MTV
    Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

  38. So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills, you know the one, Dr. Everything's-Gonna-Be-All-Right.
    Let's Go Crazy - Prince

  39. Tin roof......Rusted
    Love Shack - B52's

  40. You're givin me the chills baby please baby don't
    Mickey - Toni Basil

  41. I knew he must a been about seventeen
    I Love Rock 'n Roll - Joan Jett

  42. With the touch of a velvet glove
    *Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band

  43. It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
    *We Built this City - Starship

  44. Slight of hand and a twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait
    With or Without You - U2

  45. She's so fine, she's all mine, the girl is all right!
    Legs - ZZ Top

  46. And your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine
    Safety Dance - Men without Hats

  47. Your feet are going to be on the ground, your head is there to move you around
    *Stand - REM

  48. Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane
    *Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

  49. I guess I should a known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last
    Little Red Corvette - Prince

  50. You're all the things I've got to remember
    *Take On Me - A-ha

  51. I need some company, a guardian angel, to keep me warm when the cold winds blow
    *Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money

  52. Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye
    *You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi

  53. So many times, it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory
    *Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

  54. Nations go to war over women like you, it's just a form of appreciation
    *Strut - Sheena Easton

  55. Before I put another notch in my lipstick case You better make sure you put me in my place!
    Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar

  56. You tell me that you want me, you tell me that you need me, you tell me that you love me, and I know that I'm right cause I hear it in the night.
    Talking in your Sleep - Romantics

  57. I got a picture of you- ahh-ha-ahh-ha-ah-ah
    *Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders

  58. I, I was standing, you were there
    *Never Tear Us Apart - INXS

  59. Every claim you stake I'll be watching you
    Every Breath you Take - Police

  60. Shoot me like a rocket into space!
    *Lovin Every Minute of It - Loverboy

  61. This is the world we live in, and these are the hands we're given
    *Land of Confusion - Genesis

  62. Don't wish it away, don't look at it like this forever
    *Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John

  63. And even though I wander, I'm keepin you in sight, you're a candle in the wind on a cold dark winters night
    *Can't Fight this Feeling - REO Speedwagon

  64. If you say goodbye to me tonight, there will still be music left to write
    *For the Longest Time - Billy Joel

  65. Oh yeah I, just wanna watch the girls go by
    *Summertime Girls - Y&T

  66. I'll be alone, dancin, you know it baby
    Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

  67. And you may say to yourself, My god, what have I done?
    *Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

  68. Scratches his head and does his best James Dean
    Jack and Diane - John Cougar

  69. Oh thinkin about all our younger years, it was only you and me, we were young and wild and free
    *Heaven - Bryan Adams

  70. Like a knight in shining armor, from a long time ago
    *The Glory of Love - Peter Cetera

  71. Stop walking down my street. Who do you expect to meet?
    *Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

  72. I've been meaning to tell you, I've got this feeling that won't subside
    *Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen

  73. Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
    *The Greatset Love of All - Whitney Houston

  74. I had a friend was a big baseball player, back in high school
    Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen

  75. See yourself, give your freewill a chance, you've got to work to succeed
    *Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

  76. One likes to believe in the freedom of music
    *Spirits of Radio - Rush

  77. Heirs of the cold war, that's what we've become. Inherited troubles, I'm mentally numb.
    *Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

  78. Kid can't read at seventeen, the words he knows are all obscene but, it's all right
    *Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead

  79. I sailed away to China, in a little row boat to find ya, you said you had to get your laundry clean
    Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder

  80. I never believed in things that I couldn't see, I said if I can feel it, how could it be
    *You Can Do Magic - America

  81. Don't take money, don't take fame, don't need no credit card to ride this train
    Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love

  82. The school bell rings, you know it's my cue, I'm gonna meet the boys on floor number two
    Smokin in the Boys' Room - Motley Crue

  83. I never meant to be so bad to you. One thing I said that I would never do
    Heat of the Moment - Asia

  84. Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today
    Centerfield - John Foggerty

  85. Just like the one wing dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing
    On the Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

  86. So let's sink another drink, cause it'll give me time to think
    Dancin' With Myself - Billy Idol

  87. I need fifty dollars to make you holler
    Wild Thing - Tone Loc

  88. I said mom this shirt is plaid with a butterfly collar
    *Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

  89. Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
    *Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

  90. I can make it, I know I can. You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man
    St Elmo's Fire - John Parr

  91. And the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
    Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

  92. I've had the blues, the reds and the pinks
    *Love Stinks - J. Giles Band

  93. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head
    Hearts on Fire - Bruce Springsteen

  94. I'm lying in the rain, but I never wave bye bye, but I try
    Modern Love - David Bowie

  95. Don't want no Captain Crunch don't want no raisin bran
    *Eat It - "Weird Al" Yankovic

  96. I can see the sun in Win-ter-time
    *In a Big Country - Big Country

  97. Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath
    Missing You - John Waite

  98. And then the conversation turned, until the sun went down
    Fascination - Human League

  99. Who's gonna block your ears, when you scream?
    Drive - Cars

  100. Come on everybody if you wanna take a chance
    *Hangin' Tough - New Kids on the Block

  101. I touch you once, I touch you twice
    If You Leave - OMD

  102. All the cops in the donut shop say way-o way-o
    Walk Like Egyptian - Bangles

  103. You are so hard to read, you play hide n seek with your true intentions
    *Strait Up - Paula Abdul

  104. She stepped off the bus, out into the city street
    *Fallen Angel - Poison

  105. You put the boom boom into my heart, you set my soul sky high when your lovin starts
    Wake Me up Before You Go-Go - Wham! UK

  106. You want a piece of my heart, you better start from the start. You wanna be in the show, come on baby lets go!
    Everybody's Working For the Weekend - Loverboy

  107. I think of you and let it go...
    99 Red Balloons - Nena

  108. I'll be back when I found my fears, and I'll see you again in a thousand years
    *Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me - Juice Newton

  109. I can wait another day, until I call you
    *No More Lonely Nights - Paul McCartney

  110. When I'm lost at sea, I hear your voice and it carries me
    *I Get Weak - Belinda Carlisle

  111. Another kiss, and you'll be mine, one track mind!
    *Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

  112. If you wanna taste my kisses in the night then,
    *Jump -Pointer Sisters

  113. I was born to love you, but I will never be free, you'll always be a part of me
    Always Somthing There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes

  114. There doesn't seem to be anyone around
    *I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany

  115. Speed so fast, felt like I was drunk
    Fast Cars - Tracey Chapman

  116. They see your every move
    *Private Eyes - Hall and Oates

  117. No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
    I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder

  118. An invisible man sleepin in your bed..
    *Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.

  119. I sold the Renoir and the TV set
    The Reflex - Duran Duran

  120. Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
    Synchronicity - Police

  121. I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
    *She-Bop - Cyndi Lauper

  122. Open up your fruitcage
    Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

  123. There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine
    It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - Billy Joel

  124. In the basement, lock the cellar door
    *Talk Dirty To Me - Poison

  125. Like a video vamp
    *Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard

  126. You're under the gun, out on the run, tryin' to set the night on fire
    *Raise Your Hands - Bon Jovi

  127. Drinkin' beer through straws
    Gigolo - *Buffalo Stance

  128. Worlds apart, hearts broken in two
    Separate Ways - Journey

  129. I'm comin' down like a monkey, and it's all right
    Tonight Tonight Tonight - Genesis

  130. You say I've got an evil mind
    Cum On Feel the Noize - Quiot Riot

  131. Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer
    Future's so Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

  132. Is this Kentucky Fried?
    *You Be Illin' - Run-DMC

  133. You'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
    Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

  134. My heart it burns a gem-like flame
    *Kyrie Elaison - Mr. Mister

  135. Twenty four hours to go
    I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones

  136. The muezzin was a-standing on the radiator grill
    Rock the Casbah - Clash

  137. I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
    One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

  138. They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
    Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row

  139. When we got undressed it was a big ol' mess
    *In Your Room - Bangles

  140. All the world's a candy store, he's been trick or treatin'
    *Cold-Hearted Snake - Paula Abdul

  141. When you flash that fragile smile
    You Might Think - The Cars

  142. I had to run away high so I don't come home low
    *Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue

  143. You never ever worry and you never shed a tear
    Say, Say, Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

  144. Girl I think about you every day now
    *Patience - GNR

  145. Play upon her darkest fears
    *Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung

  146. When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time
    *Mr. Telephone Man - New Edition

  147. Lookin' like a true survivor, feelin' like a little kid
    I'm Still Standin' - Elton John

  148. Sittin' on a pebble by the river, playin' guitar
    Valotte - Julian Lennon

  149. Dressed in pink and blue just like a child
    Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson

  150. I don't care now what you say, I never did believe you much anyway
    I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins

  151. With a thrill in my head, and a pill on my tongue
    True - Spandau Ballet

  152. They don't play baseball, don't go to restaurants
    *Fish Heads - Barnes and Barnes

  153. Waiting for the big boom
    Wild Wild West - The Escape Club

  154. Gaze out at the auburn sky
    The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

  155. Livin in a river of darkness beneath the neon lights
    *You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey

  156. John F. Kennedy and the Beatles
    Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy

  157. It's so damn easy makin' love to you
    *Run To You - Bryan Adams

  158. Midnight angel, won't you say you will
    *

  159. All you need is love
    *

  160. It belongs to them, let's give it back
    Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

  161. My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
    Yer So Bad - Tom Petty

  162. Only time will tell if we stand the test of time
    Why Can't This Be Love? - Van Halen

  163. Tomorrow's so far away, there's something I just have to say
    Amanda - Boston

  164. The jockeys who were there before me
    Little Red Corvette - Prince

  165. I wanna live, but you just take more than you give
    *What About Me - Moving Pictures

  166. And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
    The Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

  167. Strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom
    Bela Legosi's Dead - Bauhaus

  168. Who can say where they're blowing
    More Than This - Roxy Music

  169. Love come down upon us 'till you flow like water,
    Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) - Icicle Works

  170. I don't know the answer to that question
    Look of Love - ABC

  171. They masquereded as his bride
    Never Say Never - Romeo Void

  172. A stain on my notebook says nothing to me
    Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze

  173. There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud.
    Our house - Madness

  174. Is this message understood?
    Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex

  175. I can lock all my doors
    Cars - Gary Numan

  176. You gotta heartful of complacency too
    Perfect Way - Scritti Politti

  177. Ain't no finer boy in town
    I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

  178. She would be ready but she'd always make them wait
    Come Dancing - The Kinks

  179. Open fire on my burning heart
    Send me an Angel - Real Life

  180. Unaware I'm tearing you asunder
    Running up that Hill - Kate Bush

  181. 1773, he writes his first piano concerto
    Rock Me Amadeus - Falco

  182. You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
    Everyday I write the book - Elvis Costello

  183. it's poetry in motion
    She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby

  184. Cover me, when I breathe
    Shock the monkey - Peter Gabriel

  185. But making mistakes is a part of life's imperfections
    Something About You - Level 42

  186. Pictures came and broke your heart
    Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles

  187. Funny how I blind myself
    It's My Life - Talk Talk

  188. Shoes thrown at me from a mean old man
    Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats

  189. Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
    Too Shy - Kajagoogoo

  190. but I'm frightened of the things I might find
    Voices Carry - 'til tuesday

  191. Not under the thumb of the cynical few
    New Song - Howard Jones

  192. Eating barbecued iguana
    Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo

  193. 4, 3, 2, 1...
    Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling

  194. I wouldn't spend my life just wishing
    Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You) - A Flock of Seagulls

  195. Call the police, there's a madman around
    West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys