This is damn hard: How well do you know 80s music - fill in the blank

[LynneSin]

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



I got a 41.4, pretty sad knowing that I grew up in the 80's. It's hard when you can't hear the song in your head even though I knew most of that music!

[Lerkfish]

1. wish it was shorter...

I got a fourth of the way through and then scrolled and said "gah! I have better things to do"

at about a fourth of the way I had gotten roughly 90% . I bookmarked it for sometime when Im not at work

[Modem Butterfly]

2. I got 93

I would have scored higher if I'd just checked my spelling.

[NaturalHigh]

3. 95%

I loved the eighties.

[Doctor_J]

4. Hmmm

the ones I recognize, are mostly from Beavis & Butthead. Sorry, in the 80's I was listening to Tom Chapin, Raffi, Lois & Bram.

[MissMillie]

5. 79.5

of course when you get the answers to each of the ones you get wrong, you end up saying "oh yeah! that's right!"

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Got An 80.9

Some of those were hard. A few i could sing the whole line in my head, but still couldn't come up with the words. (Like the line from Addicted To Love.)

The Professor

[ahem]

7. 81.5

Probably would have made it in the 90s if the test wasn't so dang long. I skipped a couple just to make it stop :)

[rooboy]

8. 104. n/t

[ixion]

9. I got a 90... too many pop music references...

I made a concerted effort to avoid 80's pop (pop in general). Still do. Too vacuous.

Nevertheless, I seem to recall many lyrics from many bad songs. :evilgrin:

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. Final Score: 117.5

Can you tell I worked in a record store in the 80s? Bow before me!

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Consider Me Bowed!

I probably should have done better than i did, but i'm not good at quizzes anymore. No patience.
The Professor

[MrScorpio]

11. I'm a Pop Junkie

85.5

[asthmaticeog]

12. 109.5

Bummer that I lost points for misspelling "Jessie" :grr:

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. He he....

That's where my extra 8 points came from ....

:P

[redqueen]

34. I spelled it right first, then changed it.

Most boys spell it JESSE.. grrr!

Stupid test, counting off for spelling. Who spells lyrics?

[wideopen]

13. 74.85%

Not to bad. Some of them I knew the artist and song, just couldn't think of the words. Damn that was long.

[lizzieforkerry]

15. 41 too! I am so ashamed!!!

[Brewman_Jax]

16. 47

but I lost major points (-30%) for being too old. My score would have been worse if I hadn't been a DJ. :P

[jus_the_facts]

17. Final Score: 46.65

.....coulda done better...the phone kept ringin'..so I was half payin' attention. x(

[northzax]

19. bow down before me, and worship your new god - 153.5

153.5

mistakes: 64, 70, 78, 93, 95, 97, bonus 1. damn my wasted youth. and I certainly tailed off when I got bored nearer the end.

[redqueen]

35. Wow!

*bows down before you*

[peace frog]

20. 102... and dang, I'm old LOL

[JimmyJazz]

21. Thank you for the entire collection of '80s earworms

:crazy: And, I'm not finished the test....I had to rest my brain for a minute.

[Pepper32]

22. 42.5 ..... lol (eom)

[khashka]

23. 34.4 I suck

But I got mega points for knowing Human League lyrics.

Khash.

[Glenda]

38. That's about what I got too... SOmewhere in the 30s n/t

[bridgit]

24. Final Score: 59.5 ~

:shrug:

[last_texas_dem]

25. 110.6!

>>You're a little young to remember all this. 10% bonus.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!

Final Score: 110.6 >>


Oh yeah... I'm kinda proud of this score 'cause I wasn't born until '83 so I don't remember hearing any eighties stuff new off the radio until around '88. But I'm a total pop music junkie which I think helps.

I think I could've figured out a couple more if I could have heard the tune of the songs the lyrics went to, but that might have been a little too easy.

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. Wow...that IS good

for such a youngin! I was 13 when they started and 23 when they ended, so hats off to you, Young Padwah.

Congrats!
FSC

[last_texas_dem]

50. Thanks!

And I must say, you did pretty awesome on this quiz yourself!

:hi:

[Lumily]

26. Pop Junkie

85.5

Not horrible for a someone with no memory. :)

[Strawman]

27. 97.5

I lost 15 points for not saying how old I was. Didn't notice that.

[peekaloo]

29. 142.5

someone called me their mom.

:o

[Spider Jerusalem]

30. 87...

[LynneSin]

31. Oh god, I think I had that shirt in Turquoise

:scared:

[redqueen]

32. Final Score: 95

:headbang:

Thanks LynneSin, that was great! :D

[WeRQ4U]

33. 87

I actually would have scored higher but for my spelling. (Jessie, dancED instead of dance)

I got Thunderdome and Toto though.

That was fun. Thanks.

[southlandshari]

36. 95%

Of course, I had to break out my leg warmers and bandanas to help me think on some of the questions!

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[JimmyJazz]

40. You're wearing acid wash jeans right now, aren't you?

:o

[southlandshari]

48. How'd you know?

:blush:

[crispini]

37. 85, not bad!

Wow. +10 for the getting the Hotel California line right.

[NewJeffCT]

39. ack - only a 50.5

so many songs I knew, but just not the exact lyrics.

[ballabosh]

41. I can't believe I did this well

118.5

[nickinSTL]

42. 70.5

not bad considering I spent most of the '80s in Germany with no TV, and didn't know what a music video was until 1988 or so.

[Arkansas Granny]

43. 55.5 - missed 2 on spelling.

But, alas, I had to remember what my kids were listening to in the 80's for most of them.

[Tikki]

44. 92.5...not too bad.

Even though I was in my 30's during most of the 80's...I consider 1977~1985 my "Music Era".


Tikki

[4_Legs_Good]

45. 49.45

But I was doing speed round!

Thought I did better, though.

david

[supernova]

46. I rocked!

[njdemocrat106]

47. 90.5

I got the the 10 points for Hotel California, but I typed in porno magazine for porno mag for Fight for Your Right to Party. No penalty or bonus for growing up to this (I selected Just Say No from that drop-down list.)

[hfojvt]

49. well I got 89.15 or something

then lost 30% or thirty points? for being a yuppie? I got his yuppie right here. I thought it was fairly easy too.

[yellowdogintexas]

51. 48.4 but I missed two that were actually typo errors

my bad keyboarding cost me two points
but I did get one 4 pointer and all the bonus questions,

[hallc]

52. 50.65...

pretty good for being born in '83...i got all the rock ones right :)

and this surprised me...

8. video killed the radio star.
Been watching MTV I see... 2 points. Most people miss this one.

Most people miss that one? i thought it was easy!

[Left Is Write]

53. I got 113.5 - I would have scored higher, but it didn't take

some of my correct answers that didn't get entered right (the quiz was very slow to take, and I was ten questions ahead of where my answers were showing up).

Anyway, here's my little picture:

[Chichiri]

54. Yikes, that's long.

[alarcojon]

55. 61.7

30% off for "being a yuppie"? :wtf:

[RevolutionaryActs]

56. Final Score: 61.1.

I'd say that's pretty good for someone born in '86. :D

[Jamastiene]

57. 94.5 They included some 90's music as well.

The 80's. Reagan. Focker didn't die. Hinkley faile. I obviously haven't been successful at blocking out that decade as much as I have tried. Honestly, I hated the 80's except for the "alternative" music and the harder metal bands (not so much the hair bands). I don't miss the 80's however. I do miss the 90's. Clinton, where are you?

[hallc]

58. i didn't realize

"Head like a Hole" was released in '89 - i thought for sure it was a '90's song

[Jamastiene]

60. Me too. I still consider it a 90's song even so.

It was popular in the 90's and not really in the 80's oddly enough.

[NMMNG]

59. Final Score: 71.85

:shrug: I grew up in the 80's too...

[In_The_Wind]

61. it was so low *sigh* I didn't have the heart to post the numbers

what the hell was I doing in the 80's ... anyway

[Parrcrow]

62. 32.something

and damn proud of it. The 80's are pretty hazy to me.

[Not_Giving_Up]

63. 70

I could have done better, but it's really, really late.

[Blue_Tires]

64. wow...only 46

i'm soon to be 29, so i came of age in the 80s...It is VERY hard to fill in random blanks without some kind of music to jog the memory...when i checked the answers, i knew most of the songs, but a lot of them i never heard of (i gravitated away from pop towards rap/r&b towards the mid-late 80s, so hopefully i would score really high on a quiz like that)