O/T Mega Poptastic Pop Quiz (16)

[CAMiller]

One more before it's back to football.

This time it's onto the early 1980s. I can hear the groans now! Some might be tricky but there's plenty of easy pickings for the old codgers amongst you Every one of them was in the top 100 sales for at least one of the years between 1980-84. I'm looking for the title and artist.

REMEMBER - song title and artists needed and limit 5 entries per poster before you need to take a 24 hour break to give others a chance and NO GOOGLING PLEASE (or using your old copies of Words or Disco 45 if you are old school). Pull the answers from the depths of your brain. I know it's tempting when you know 40-50 of these to show your musical chops to the world but please stick to the 5 songs per poster limit and leave some for others.

1. I spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention
2. Remember, remember, remember, remember. Remember, remember, remember, remember.
3. Red, gold, and green, red, gold, and green
4. Why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it Buy time, don't lose it
5. Does anybody know how long to World War III? I wanna know, I wanna book me holidee
6. You're the only one who really knew me at all
7. Showin' how funky and strong is your fight It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
8. My love is stronger than the universe My soul is crying for you, and that cannot be reversed
9. She should've known better than to give her heart
10. You had a dream of a promised land
11. Too much fighting on the dance floor
12. Words are few I have spoken I could waste a thousand years
13. Everybody wants your love I'd just like to make you mine, all mine
14. Talking Italian (talking Italian)
15. A pseudonym To fool him She couldn't have made a worst move
16. You had your time, you had the power You've yet to have your finest hour
17. But there's just one thing (Ah) Just one thing (Hey!) But there's just one thing (Oh, yeah!)
18. How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance By standing on the wall?
19. Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling
20. No, I didn't dig deep (no, I didn't dig deep) I did not want to know (I did not want to know)
21. Could it be another he's found? It's breaking up the happy home
22. Better stop dreaming of the quiet life, 'cause it's the one we'll never know
23. She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son
24. Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no I got to keep on movin'
25. Bang! That's another bomb on another town While the Tsar and Jim have tea
26. I can't understand What makes a man Hate another man Help me understand
27. I'll find a crowded avenue Though it will be empty without you
28. After all is said and done It was right for you to run
29. If you find there the meaning of what happiness is Then a new life will begin
30. We have grown, we have grown
31. I resolved to call her up A thousand times a day
32. Can't stop now Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
33. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
34. Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (she's never satisfied)
35. Change your heart, it will astound you
36. Purge the soul Make love your goal
37. But everybody knows it's hard to be alone at this time of year
38. I bought it in Primrose Hill from a bloke from Brazil
39. They say a man is just as old as the woman he feels
40. I'm happy, hope you're happy too
41. I was standing in the station being pounded by the rain
42. High noon, the moon and stars came out to play
43. B-boys, breakers, electric boogaloo
44. I get up and nothin' gets me down
45. I don't believe that you want to get up and dance
46. When you wanna suck, chew it
47. No April rain, no flowers bloom
48. The beat was goin' strong Playin' my favorite song
49. In this great future, you can't forget your past So dry your tears, I seh
50. Can't you see, it's the chemistry You really must agree
51. Hoorah, hoorah, hoorah, yeah Hoorah, hoorah, hoorah, yeah, yeah
52. Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew
53. This is the sound of my soul This is the sound
54. Bum Bum Bum. Bum Bum Bum. Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum. Win or lose, sink or swim
55. Ivory Madonna dying in the dust
56. If you're lost you can look and you will find me
57. And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
58. I've been looking at you you've been looking at me And I want you to know that I like what I see
59. Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
60. I was sick and tired of everything When I called you last night from Glasgow

[Brin]

2. Wombles- remember you’re a Womble
3. Culture club - karma chameleon
12. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
23. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
57. Lionel Richie - Hello


Jumping in and out of my post and MagyarMiller has posted some of mine so i have amended mine once again.

[MagyarMiller]

For once I seem to be early enough and a decade a bit more up my street.

11. Ghost Town - The Specials
16. Radio Gaga - Queen
19. Girls On Film - Duran Duran
36. The Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
26. People Are People - Depeche Mode

[MagyarMiller]

2. Wombles- remember you’re a Wimbledon
3. Culture club - karma chameleon
11. Specials - ghost town
16’ queen - radio ga ga
36. Frankie goes to Hollywood- power of love

Damn not quick enough LOL
Another couple then

23. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
14. Robert DeNiro's Waiting - Bananarama

[Brin]

Damn not quick enough LOL
Another couple then

23. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
14. Robert DeNiro's Waiting - Bananarama

Noooooo....stick with your origianls i've amended mine so you can have what you chose.

[CAMiller]

2. Wombles- remember you’re a Womble
3. Culture club - karma chameleon
12. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
23. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
57. Lionel Richie - Hello


Jumping in and out of my post and MagyarMiller has posted some of mine so i have amended mine once again.

4/5. #2 is wrong although I can see where you're coming from but Remember You're a Womble was 1974 and it has one less Remember

[CAMiller]

For once I seem to be early enough and a decade a bit more up my street.

11. Ghost Town - The Specials
16. Radio Gaga - Queen
19. Girls On Film - Duran Duran
36. The Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
26. People Are People - Depeche Mode

Damn not quick enough LOL
Another couple then

23. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
14. Robert DeNiro's Waiting - Bananarama

All correct.

[BramleyMiller58]

31. Every little thing she does is magic Police
40 . Ashes to Ashes Bowie
55. Food for Thought UB40

[jakethemiller]

56. Time after time cyndi lauper

[jakethemiller]

53. True Spandau Ballet