Name That Tune

• by GeekMan • In Experiments •   6

The 80’s strike back.

Write the song title and artist name in the comments before you do the inevitable Google search for the correct answers. Then, after you’ve finished searching for the songs and going “Holy crap! I remember that one!” tell the world how many of these songs you used to love/still love and make excuses as to why you didn’t guess them in the first place. If someone can actually guess all of these songs correctly I might even buy them something from the Geek Shop. I just have no idea how someone could possibly prove that they didn’t cheat.

Oh well, here’s the lyrics. Have fun!

  1. I just freeze everytime you see through me
  2. Baby, baby, when I lay wit’ you there’s no place I’d rather be
  3. Don’t wait so long to offer assistance and don’t give up on your existence
  4. I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side
  5. Your sweet nature darling was too hard to swallow
  6. Ever since you’ve been far away I’ve been wanting to fly
  7. Because the way you move was so self-assured you knew I would surrender
  8. Flaccid ego in your hand
  9. What’s your reputation? Ecstasy!
  10. I feed you, I drink you, my day and my night
  11. Will you turn me away or touch me deep inside
  12. It’s like trying to touch the sky but overlook the sun
  13. Empty dreams can only disappoint in a room behind your smile
  14. So you say I got a funny face I got no worries
  15. I see a ship in the harbor I can and shall obey
  16. There’s a room where the light won’t find you
  17. We bite and scratch and scream all night
  18. End up lying on my face going ringy dingy ding dong
  19. They say hey little boy you can’t go where the others go
  20. Mental wounds not healing, life’s a bitter shame
  21. While the stinky food’s steamin’, your mind starts to dreamin’
  22. What good is a love affair when you can’t see eye to eye
  23. You know she likes the lights at nights on the neon Broadway signs
  24. There’s nothin’ left to talk about unless it’s horizontally
  25. And I can make you every promise that has ever been made
  26. I bought a ticket to the world, but now I’ve come back again
  27. I socialize with X-ray eyes, and ladies think it’s sweet
  28. We fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until dawn
  29. The night I needed you the most my cries fell on deaf ears
  30. I look at your pants and I need I need a kiss

Correct answers will be posted when I return on Wednesday.

6 Comments

  1. I can honestly say that I’m glad I could only identify a couple of them.

    6. “Too Late for Goodbye” by Julian Lennon
    26. “True” by Spandau Ballet
    28. “Hold Me Now” by The Thompson Twins

  3. 1. Electric Blue – by Icehouse
    2. I Feel For You – Chaka Kahn
    4. Rosana – Toto
    7. Crush On You – The Jets
    11. Love is A Battelfield – Pat Benatar
    13. Send Me An Angel – ???
    14. Come On Feel the Noise – Quiet Riot
    16. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears For Fears
    19. The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby and the Range
    21. Rapper’s Delight – Sugarhill Gang
    22. If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Simply Red
    24. Physical – Olivia Newton John

    Wow. There are some toughies here. Most of the stuff I got was pretty easy… all big Top 40 stuff. I also got 26 and 28 mentioned above, but now I’m off to google the rest of these. Damn you, Geekman, and your 80s trivia!

  4. OK, the above i got except “physical”/#5 Dead or Alive, Brand New Lover/#19 is Bruce Hornsby, That’s Just The Way It Is/ #22 Is Phil Collins, Separate Lives, and then number 30: Why Can’t I Get Just One Kiss….Violent Femmes (?)

  5. #9 is “Be Near Me” by ABC, and #22 is Simply Red’s remake of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.

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