80's Lyrics Quiz, Answers

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Thanks to Homiedawgs, who corrected me as to question 80, I incorrectly stated it was Madonna's "Angel", it wasn't.
  1. And she's lovin him with that body, I just know it
    "Jessie'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
    "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
    "Seprate 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
    "Winning It All," The Outfield
  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 Going Gets Tough," Billy Ocean
  12. At this moment, you mean everything!
    "Come On Eileen," Dexys Midnight Runners
  13. Tried my imagination, but I was disturbed
    "867-5309/Jenny," 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
    "What A Feeling," Irene Cara
  21. I think they got the alias, that you been livin under
    "Gloria," Laura Branigan
  22. Had a premonition that he shouldn't of 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. Don't wanna be a girl like that, do you wanna see a grown man cry?
    "Naughty, Naughty," John Parr
  26. Somebodies callin after somebody, somebody turns the corner out of sight. Lookin for somebody, somewhere in the night
    "Tender Is the Night," by Jackson Browne
  27. A week without you, but I forget, two weeks without you and I still haven't gotten over you yet
    "Vacation," The 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
    "Makin' 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," Run-D.M.C. w/ Aerosmith
  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," by 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 w/ Patty Smyth
  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 be all right
    "Let's Go Crazy," by Prince
  39. Tin roof...... Rusted
    "Love Shack," The B-52'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
  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," R.E.M.
  48. Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane
    "Right Here Waiting For You," Richard Marx
  49. 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," The Romantics
  57. I got a picture of you- ahh-ha-ahh-ha-ah-ah woh-oh-woh-oh
    "Back on the Chain Gang," The 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," The 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 were given
    "Land of Confusion," Genesis
  62. Don't wish it away, don't look at it like this forever
    "I Guess That's 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
    "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 Mellencamp
  69. Oh thikin' 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
    "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 and 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
    "Greatest 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
    "Spirit of Radio," Rush
  77. Heirs of the cold war, tbat'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. Sailed away to China, in a little row boat to find ya, you said you had to get your laundry done
    "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
    "Power Of Love," Huey Lewis and the News
  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," by Mötley Crüe
  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 Fogerty
  85. Just like the white wing dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing
    "Edge of 17," Stevie Nicks
  86. So let's sink another drink, cause it'll give me time to think
    "Dancing With Myself," Billy Idol
  87. I need fifty dollars to make you holler
    "Wild Thing," by Tone-Loc
  88. I said mom this shirt is plaid with a butterfly collar
    "Parents Just Don't Understand," by D.J. 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. Can make it, I know I can. You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man
    "Man in Motion (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. Geils Band
  93. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head
    "I'm 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
    "Keep Feelin' Fascination," Human League
  99. Who's gonna block your ears, when you scream?
    "Drive," The Cars
  100. Listen up 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," Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  102. All the cops in the donut Shop say way-o way-o
    "Walk Like An Egyptian," The Bangles
  103. You are so hard to read, you play hide n seek with your true intentions
    "Straight Up," Paula Abdul
  104. She stepped off the bus, out into the city street
    "Fallen Angel," Poison
  105. You do the boom boom into lay heart, You set my soul sky high when your lovin starts
    "Wake Me Up, Before You Go Go," Wham!
  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!
    "Working For The Weekend," Loverboy
  107. I think of you and let it go
    "99 Luftballoons," 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
    "Heaven is a Place On Earth," Belinda Carlisle
  111. Another kiss, and you'll be mine, one track mind!
    "Addicted to Love," Robert Palmer
  112. If you won't take my kisses in the night then,
    "Jump," The Pointer Sisters
  113. I was born to love you, but I will never be free, you'll always be a part of me
    "Always Something There To Remind Me," Naked Eyes (originally by Dusty Springfield)
  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 Car," Tracy 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," by Stevie Wonder
  118. An invisible man sleepin' in your bed...
    "Ghostbusters," by Ray Parker Jr.
  119. The moon. Beautiful. The sun. Even more beautiful
    "Oh Yeah," Yello
  120. It's poetry in motion when she turned her eyes to me
    "She Blinded Me With Science," Thomas Dolby
  121. Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream
    "Karma Chameleon," Culture Club
  122. The phone rings in the middle of the night, my father yells, 'what you gonna do with your life?'
    "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Cyndi Lauper
  123. Some of the want to use you. Some of them want to get used by you.
    "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This," Eurythmics
  124. By order of the prophet, we ban that boogie sound.
    "Rock The Casbah," The Clash
  125. I know a guy who's tough but sweet. He's so fine, he can't be beat.
    "I Want Candy," Bow Wow Wow
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