Caught up in the 80s

...and those great songs


I don't know who originated this list, but it came to me through Sib of the 80s Gang.


(The answers are here, but they are all visible. Don't click until you're ready to see them all.)

  1. And she's lovin him with that body I just know it

  2. I'm on the hunt, I'm after you

  3. Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

  4. Let me tell you 'bout the girl I met last night

  5. Well I like takin off, don't like burnin out, every time you turn it on, makes me wanna shout

  6. Buying bread from a man in brussels, he was 6 foot 4 and full a muscles

  7. With every breath I'm deeper into you

  8. Distant eyes, losin ground I'm reachin for you, you, you

  9. Music does the talkin, says the things you wanna hear

  10. And I've never been a loser and I just can't lose tonight

  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

  12. At this moment, you mean everything!

  13. I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed

  14. Making love to you was never second best

  15. I've got to, run away from the pain you drive into the heart of me

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

  17. If you got the money honey we got your disease

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

  19. My baby may not be rich, he's watchin every dime

  20. Take your passion, and make it happen

  21. I think they got the alias, that you been livin under

  22. I had a premonition that he shouldn't have gone alone

  23. And when the night is cold and dark, you can't see, you can't see light

  24. Don't drink, Don't smoke, what do ya do?

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

  26. Somebody's callin after somebody, somebody turns the corner out of sight. Lookin for somebody, somewhere in the night

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

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

  29. Been workin, so hard. I'm punchin, my card

  30. I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry

  31. I was a high school loser never made it with a lady til the boys told me somethin I missed

  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

  33. You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real

  34. Just a look at that girl with the lights comin up in her eyes

  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

  36. And heart to heart you win, if ya survive

  37. Play the guitar on the MTV

  38. So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills, you know the one, Dr. everything be all right

  39. Tin roof......Rusted

  40. You're givin me the chills baby please baby don't

  41. I knew he must a been about seventeen

  42. With the touch of a velvet glove

  43. It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street

  44. Slight of hand and a twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait

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

  46. And your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine

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

  48. Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane

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

  50. You're all the things I've got to remember

  51. I need some company, a guardian angel, to keep me warm when the cold winds blow

  52. Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye

  53. So many times, it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory

  54. Nations go to war over women like you, it's just a form of appreciation

  55. Before I put another notch in my lipstick case You better make sure you put me in my place!

  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.

  57. I got a picture of you- ahh-ha-ahh-ha-ah-ah

  58. I, I was standing, you were there

  59. Every claim you stake I'll be watching you

  60. Shoot me like a rocket into space!

  61. This is the world we live in, and these are the hands we're given

  62. Don't wish it away, don't look at it like this forever

  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

  64. If you say goodbye to me tonight, there will still be music left to write

  65. Oh yeah I, just wanna watch the girls go by

  66. I'll be alone, dancin, you know it baby

  67. And you may say to yourself, My god, what have I done?

  68. Scratches his head and does his best James Dean

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

  70. Like a knight in shining armor, from a long time ago

  71. Stop walking down my street. Who do you expect to meet?

  72. I've been meaning to tell you, I've got this feeling that won't subside

  73. Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

  74. I had a friend was a big baseball player, back in high school

  75. See yourself, give your freewill a chance, you've got to work to succeed

  76. One likes to believe in the freedom of music

  77. Heirs of the cold war, that's what we've become. Inherited troubles, I'm mentally numb.

  78. Kid can't read at seventeen, the words he knows are all obscene but, it's all right

  79. I sailed away to China, in a little row boat to find ya, you said you had to get your laundry clean

  80. I never believed in things that I couldn't see, I said if I can feel it, how could it be

  81. Don't take money, don't take fame, don't need no credit card to ride this train

  82. The school bell rings, you know it's my cue, I'm gonna meet the boys on floor number two

  83. I never meant to be so bad to you. One thing I said that I would never do

  84. Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today

  85. Just like the one wing dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing

  86. So let's sink another drink, cause it'll give me time to think

  87. I need fifty dollars to make you holler

  88. I said mom this shirt is plaid with a butterfly collar

  89. Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down

  90. I can make it, I know I can. You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man

  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

  92. I've had the blues, the reds and the pinks

  93. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head

  94. I'm lying in the rain, but I never wave bye bye, but I try

  95. Don't want no Captain Crunch don't want no raisin bran

  96. I can see the sun in Win-ter-time

  97. Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath

  98. And then the conversation turned, until the sun went down

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

  100. Come on everybody if you wanna take a chance

  101. I touch you once, I touch you twice

  102. All the cops in the donut shop say way-o way-o

  103. You are so hard to read, you play hide n seek with your true intentions

  104. She stepped off the bus, out into the city street

  105. You put the boom boom into my heart, you set my soul sky high when your lovin starts

  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!

  107. I think of you and let it go...

  108. I'll be back when I found my fears, and I'll see you again in a thousand years

  109. I can wait another day, until I call you

  110. When I'm lost at sea, I hear your voice and it carries me

  111. Another kiss, and you'll be mine, one track mind!

  112. If you wanna taste my kisses in the night then,

  113. I was born to love you, but I will never be free, you'll always be a part of me

  114. There doesn't seem to be anyone around

  115. Speed so fast, felt like I was drunk

  116. They see your every move

  117. No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away

  118. An invisible man sleepin in your bed..

  119. I sold the Renoir and the TV set

  120. Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes

  121. I can't stop messin' with the danger zone

  122. Open up your fruitcage

  123. There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine

  124. In the basement, lock the cellar door

  125. Like a video vamp

  126. You're under the gun, out on the run, tryin' to set the night on fire

  127. Drinkin' beer through straws

  128. Worlds apart, hearts broken in two

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

  130. You say I've got an evil mind

  131. Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer

  132. Is this Kentucky Fried?

  133. You'll never be the boy you always wanted to be

  134. My heart it burns a gem-like flame

  135. Twenty four hours to go

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

  137. I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

  138. They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial

  139. When we got undressed it was a big ol' mess

  140. All the world's a candy store, he's been trick or treatin'

  141. When you flash that fragile smile

  142. I had to run away high so I don't come home low

  143. You never ever worry and you never shed a tear

  144. Girl I think about you every day now

  145. Play upon her darkest fears

  146. When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time

  147. Lookin' like a true survivor, feelin' like a little kid

  148. Sittin' in a window by the river, playin' guitar

  149. Dressed in pink and blue just like a child

  150. I don't care now what you say, I never did believe you much anyway

  151. With a thrill in my head, and a pill on my tongue

  152. They don't play baseball, don't go to restaurants

  153. Waiting for the big boom

  154. Gaze out at the auburn sky

  155. Livin in a river of darkness beneath the neon lights

  156. John F. Kennedy and the Beatles

  157. It's so damn easy makin' love to you

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

  159. All you need is love
    * (keep in mind, this is supposed to be an 80s song.)

  160. It belongs to them, let's give it back

  161. My sister got lucky, married a yuppie

  162. Only time will tell if we stand the test of time

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

  164. The jockeys who were there before me

  165. I wanna live, but you just take more than you give

  166. And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night

  167. Strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom

  168. Who can say where they're blowing

  169. Love come down upon us 'till you flow like water,

  170. I don't know the answer to that question

  171. They masquereded as his bride

  172. A stain on my notebook says nothing to me

  173. There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud.

  174. Is this message understood?

  175. I can lock all my doors

  176. You gotta heartful of complacency too

  177. Ain't no finer boy in town

  178. She would be ready but she'd always make them wait

  179. Open fire on my burning heart

  180. Unaware I'm tearing you asunder

  181. 1773, he writes his first piano concerto

  182. You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three

  183. it's poetry in motion

  184. Cover me, when I breathe

  185. But making mistakes is a part of life's imperfections

  186. Pictures came and broke your heart

  187. Funny how I blind myself

  188. Shoes thrown at me from a mean old man

  189. Modern medicine falls short of your complaints

  190. but I'm frightened of the things I might find

  191. Not under the thumb of the cynical few

  192. Eating barbecued iguana

  193. 4, 3, 2, 1...

  194. I wouldn't spend my life just wishing

  195. Call the police, there's a madman around