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test your 80's music knowledge

Well I couldn't answer many of those....

I got a 48. I should have just guessed more, because I had others right but left them blank because I wasn't sure...I was drunk through most of the 80's anyway! But I did have fun from what I remember... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

I will have a go this 'saffy when i get home from work. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

I measly 28. And that's with five bonus points for saying where I found the test.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> hey im happy with my 9 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

hey i forgot my bonus points.....thats really a 14 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ya booo...thought i would have done better...
You grew up to this. No Bonus. No penalty.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!

Final Score: 50

i got 66.05.

i shoulda done better.

I was drunk most of the 80´s too. But I was getting drunk listening to music at the same time. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> So here are my results

You grew up to this. No Bonus. No penalty.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!

Final Score: 101


I was so glad that I saw so many fav. songs in the list :

Men without Hats - Safety Dance (If someone has this record I buy it at once)
Simple Minds - Don´t you (Forget about me) from the great movie "The Breakfast Club"
Toto - Africa
Men at work - Down Under (Australians Rock)
Tears for Fears - Shout (I was in love with the singer)
Duran - Duran - Rio(Oh boy what a thrill)
B52´s - Love Shack (I like those hair)
Depeche Mode - People are People (The begining of Electro)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (recently made up again by M. Manson he is a dear)
Pet shop Boys - Westend girls (they were great back then)
U2 - Pride, Still haven´t found what I am looking for, Sunday bloody Sunday (when Bono knew what he was singing for...)
..... etc. So many memories <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I am sorry that there were no Bronsky Beat in there. Small Town Boy was a hit. And Why was too. And Howard Jones and Nick Kershaw are missing...

faile thnx so much!! I loved that test. (You always put up great tests. Like the one with the pirates <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />)

Ah, the 80s ! Alan Parsons ... Mike Oldfield ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

before my time......and the link didn't work on me.........

oh dear me it looks like someone forgot to mention Outfield-Your Love. simply the greatest song ever. if you havent heard it download it from somewhere or you will regret it.

yupo Your Love by Outfield is fantastic, but...

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, now that's a GOOD song!

Well, it is time for old long haired punk to come out from a dark corner and say a couple of words.
All of you are writing about pop music, - right word is - disco of eighties.

What about good old rock?

Nobody mentioned Doors, Pink Floyd, King Crimson (a bit of punk of course - Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Pixies), Coal Chamber. Ohh. how could I forget - Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley even.

I have never liked Ozzy Ozbourne, especially after he started his show on MTV <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/down.gif" alt="" /> He always looked like overpainted doll.

I was into the Rude boy scene, Two Tone records and the like, The Specials A.K.A.,The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, The beat and some early Madness.
But the Specials were my favourite band... The Specials. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Sorry egin but The Doors, Pink Floyd, King Crimson are not from the eighties but from the sixties.
Jim Morrison, the singer of the Doors died in Paris at the beginning of the seventies.
His grave is still in the cementary "Le Père Lachaise" in Paris.

BTW i like them too.
The Doors : Riders on the storm,
Pink Floyd : Astronomy Domine
King Crimson : In the court of the Crimson King.

Barta

Your generation stuck mine with a motherload of cultural horrors (bradys! disco! plaid! roller skating!). -30% for being a yuppie.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!

Final Score: 18.65

Without the -30%, 24.25

I knew bing part of generation 'X' would count against me some how.

egin- talking about punk bands and you forgot minor threat!! and the replacements. tsk. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

and zeppelin and the sex pistols is the 70's too. and didn't bob marley die in the early 80's?

and for 80's disco- how about the beegees?

Ahh, Barta, I see truth in your words <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I really wasn't paying very close attention to when exactly those artists created those albums. I was listening to that music somewhere in eighties/early nineties. I really couldn't do that in sixties due to my age <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

But, still Morisson died somewhere in 1973.
"In the court of crimson king" was the first album of Crimson King and was written in 1969. Fripp is still writing music, but my favourite are his early albums, like "In the Court of the Crimson King", "Starless and the Bible Black"-my most favourite and "Larks Tongues in Aspec".

As for the soft music one I can remember and recommend as thue hit of that time song - "Hotel California" from Eagles (hope it is created in eighties).