Oh, man.
115.5 (“The 80s are my LIFE.”)
I’m so mortified that I haven’t used the brainspace for more useful things.
I missed some really easy ones, but apparently I made up for it by knowing stuff like the “hurry, boy, it’s waiting there for you” in Toto’s “Africa”.
129!!!
Of course, it could be the years spent listening to '80s cover bands in college bars and the fact that half my mp3s are '80s music…
I sat there kicking myself for missing such easy ones - the Ghostbusters theme…oh, man I’m such a loser!
93.55 My head is full of all sorts of crap.
75 But like LifeOnWry I’d kick butt on 70’s music.
Did anyone else have a much easier time with the songs they hated? I didn’t miss one of those.
118.5
And I made two typing errors, and there’s one song where the first chorus has one lyric and the second chorus has a different one and I picked the one that he didn’t pick.
so, higher. (how much, I don’t know)
and those are braincells are not going to anything useful either…
15 points if it’s both.
60.9
I’d like to think my only exposure to 80’s music is Time/Life commercials and Vice City, but then I remember that I was actually self-aware in the 80’s.
But I never listened to the radio. All I got to hear on road trips was Mom’s Beatles tapes and Dad’s Third Reich marches. Help me.
97.5 - not great considering I was in my teens in the eighties. Like most of us, I had a couple of typos. The test is pretty fair in that there is a reasonable mix of stuff from either side of the pond.
98.5. Considering most of these came out when I was in grade school and I grew up without MTV, I think I did pretty well. I made some stupid mistakes, though - should have gotten 5-10 more, for sure. And I switched ‘broken’ and ‘lonely’ hearts.
I can’t believe I missed an INXS one! I loved, loved them, had all their cassettes. It’s been too long since I listened to them.
There were only one or two that I didn’t know at all when I saw the answers.
I scored 118, thus proving that:
a) I have way too much time to do nothing at work
b) There is way too much useful space in my brain taken up with useless shite and,
c) I was born in 1969
::singing:: Conjunction junction, what’s yer function…::
Way too long, it made my eyes glaze over.
Too bad, I love those kind of quizzes.
I didn’t listen to non-NPR radio much, and I never watched MTV. Pretty amazing I got the few that I did.
Final Score: 93.5
Can’t believe I got the first one wrong. Billie Jean, not Dirty Diana, you bonehead. ::knocking on forehead::
101 - Should have been MUCH lower. Supid college jobs. Being a DJ on the campus station sucked much less than working in the registrar’s office. As a result my knowledge of 80’s music is far, FAR, more extensive than it should be.
Enjoy,
Steven
If I can remember all of these old song lyrics, why the hell can’t I remember my own cell phone number? Geez. Time for a brain flush.
118, mainly because I had some major brain farts. I knew all but one or two of the songs. I’m not worried about the brain thing because I have figured out that about half my brain is devoted to lyrics, and nothing else will fit in there.
And for the record, I am not afraid to admit that I LOVE 80s music. Say it loud, say it proud, people.
Oops, it was actually 118.5.
90.675
Not bad for someone born in the '50s.
Actually, I SHOULD have done better. I was a radio DJ throughout most of the '80s. I’m so ashamed…