Let’s get Quizzical and test your knowledge of 1970s and 1980s music using minimal prompts

No nostalgia blog would be complete without the occasional quiz challenge, and Time Chair readers are much smarter than the average bear. So Let’s get Quizzical and test your knowledge of 1970s and 1980s music using minimal prompts.

Name the song from a single screenshot

Using only the image provided from a 1970s or 1980s music video, name the song. If you’re a super-geek, award yourself extra points for naming the artist(s) as well as the year the song was released (3-points in total). Answers are at the bottom of this post.

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Name the song from the selected lyrics

It was more than 20 years after its release before I discovered that Michael Stipe in REM’s song, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, wasn’t singing, “Come and eat your bacon up, come and eat yer bacon…” but was in fact singing, “Call me when you try to wake her up, Call me when you try to wake her”.

Let's see how many songs you can identify from selected lyrics only. This time, give yourself an extra point for the artist(s). The year is already provided as a clue.

1. People say I'm crazy Doin' what I'm doin'

   Well, they give me all kinds of warnings

   To save me from ruin (1981)
   

2. You are all I want to know

   You hold my heart so don't let go

   You are all I need to live

   My love to you I'll give (1979)

   
   

3. And if dreams were wings, you know

   I would have flown to you (1988)

   
   

4. I thought I was being cool

   Yeah, I thought I was being strong

   But it's always the same old story

   you never know what you've got 'til it's gone (1986)

   
   

5. But this has never yet prevented me

   Wanting far too much for far too long (1984)

   
   

6. If I trust in you (Doo-doo, doo-doo)

   Would you let me down? (Doo-doo, doo-doo)

   Would you laugh at me (Doo-doo, doo-doo)

   If I said I care for you? (Ah-ah) (1977)

   
   

7. Moonbeams dancin' in the afternoon

   Shadows blowin' as the roses bloom

   Lookin' down on a wonderland (1982)

   
   

8. Even in front of all my friends

   You just wanna hurt me (Hurt me)

   But I'll never give up hoping

   'Till I make you mine, ohoho (1988)

   
   

9. Give us this day

   All that you showed me

   The power and the glory

   'Til my kingdom comes (1982)

   
   

10.    Show no fear

For she may fade away

In your hand

The birth of a new day (1984)

Answers

Name the song from a single screenshot

1. Birdhouse in your Soul, They Might be Giants (1989)

2. I Just Called to Say I Love You, Stevie Wonder (1984)

3. Rio, Duran Duran (1982)

4. Keeping the Dream Alive, Munchener Freiheit (1988)

5. Video Killed the Radio Star, The Buggles (1979)

6. The Look of Love, ABC (1982)

7. Breakthru, Queen (1989)

8. Mr. Blue Sky, ELO (1978)

9. Head Over Heels, Tears for Fears (1985)

10. Waiting for a Star to Fall, Boy Meets Girl (1988)

Name the song from the selected lyric

1. Watching the Wheels, John Lennon (1981)

2. Sarah, Thin Lizzy (1979)

3. Especially for You, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (1988)

4. All I Need is a Miracle, Mike and the Mechanics (1986)

5. I Know Him so Well, Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson (1984)

6. The Name of the Game, ABBA (1977)

7. Zoom, Fat Larry’s Band (1982)

8. The Harder I Try, Brother Beyond (1988)

9. Hymn, Ultravox (1982)

10. Never Ending Story, Limahl (1984)