Hi-dee ho! Jay from MLCotW, here.

Since I’ve been a major flake when it comes to guest posting for Amy, I thought I’d try to make up for it a little by posting two things that she seems to like in one post: meme’s & music.

I was perusing the MLCotW archives & found this little game from many a year ago. The object is simple: I give you song lyrics & you (before you go & Google them, preferably) give me the song title & artist.

Simple, no?

Extra points if you can name the record it originally came from – greatest hits collections don’t count unless the song was released for the first time on that particular record.

Shameless Plug Alert: You’ll have to stop by MLCotW next week to get the answers. See? I warned you it was shameless.

Alrighty, then - here we go. These are all songs from the 80’s. Some, you’ll probably recognize right off the bat; others, you may have to think about. They cover a variety of genres.

1. Is it wrong not to always be glad?/No it’s not wrong, but I must add/How can someone so young sing words so sad?
2. The king called out his jet fighters/He said “You better earn your pay/Drop your bombs between the minarets/down the Casbah way”
3. I’m hanging on/You’re all that’s left to hold on to/I’m still waiting
4. I got wasted, she got mad/Called me names, then she called her dad/He got crazy & I did too/Wondered what I did to you
5. Get me to the airport/get me on a plane/Hurry, hurry, hurry/before I go insane
6. I count the falling tears/that fall before my eyes/Seems like a thousand years/since we broke the ties
7. She was pretty as a picture/She was sharper than a photograph/She was everything I needed/with her smile & the way she laughed
8. But it’s superficial & it’s only skin deep/Because the voices in your head keep shouting in your sleep/”Get back!”
9. You don’t have to watch “Dynasty”/to have an attitude/You just leave it all up to me/My love will be your food
10. I’m in love/At least every minute or two/Until the next little girl walks by/I think I love her, too
11. She’s dressed in yellow/She says “Hello,/come sit next to me, you fine fellow”
12. Some friends of mine just the other night/went to hear this cool cat blow/they said he sang so good that the roof fell in/& they didn’t even stop the show
13. The hero is exposed when/his crimes are brought to the light of day/Won’t be feeling sorry, sorry, sorry on the judgment day
14. Out all night/time to get started/Saving all week/for a bang boom party
15. I had to wait forever/But better late than never
16. Got the bubbleheaded bleach blonde/comes on at 5/She can tell you about the plane crash/with a gleam in her eye
17. Chapter 1, I didn’t really get too far/Chapter 2, that’s when I fell in love with you/You said you’d stand by me in the middle of Chapter 3/But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters 4, 5 & 6
18. I told you/that we could fly/’cause we all have wings/But some of us don’t know why
19. Had a few beers, getting high/Sitting, watching the crowd go by, uh huh/It ain’t no big thing
20. Blinded by passion/ you foolishly let someone in/All the warnings went off in your head,/still you had to give in