Truepenny is having heinous VH1 flashbacks

[truepenny]

I blame it on tzikeh.

220 song lyrics from the 80s

I identified 50 correctly; recognized 32 more, but either goofed on the identification, could only think of the title, or could hear the song in my head without being able to place it; and there were 14 that when I checked my answers, I felt really stupid for not recognizing, either because I heard the song WAY too often as a teenager or because I still have and listen to the album.

I don't believe the quiz-maker's assertion that the "average person should be at least familiar with almost all of the songs, if he/she owned a radio in the 80's," but I am torn between embarrassment that I fully identified less than a quarter of the list and embarrassment that some of the identifications were so automatic. I had really terrible taste in music in the 80s.

Do you want to know how bad?

I identified without a second's hesitation, because there was a period in my life when I loved each and every one of these songs:

• Bon Jovi, "Wanted Dead or Alive"


• Paula Abdul, "Straight Up"


• Bobby Brown, "Every Little Step"


• Beach Boys, "Kokomo"


• Steve Winwood, "Back in the Highlife Again"


• REO Speedwagon, "Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore"


• Richard Marx, "Don't Mean Nothing"


• Jefferson Starship, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"

Some of you may wish to disown me now.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Your explanation of "You Can Call Me Al" is better than anything I've ever come up with. Except for the obvious (which just occurred to me), which is that it's a midlife crisis song.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

All of Graceland is about mid-life crisis, "looking at ghosts and empty sockets". The album that came after was so much that I can't even bear to think about it.