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Kroxquo Bonus: Name another song with artist that was released or on the charts in 1983 (two year cushion).

Image Bonus: If you can remember the 80's, you probably didn't live through them....

littlebeast13 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:02 am

The Year in Music Thursdays brings us to my favorite decade of all, the 80's! And how fitting that the year that was randomly selected to be featured is probably my favorite of them all, 1983! I was 8 years old, and this was the year I first really started paying attention to the music on the radio, which at that time was KWK... a classic rock station that still played a lot of regional and lesser known songs, but was beginning the slow morph into the Top 40 station it would be in a few years (by which time, my family had already switched to listening to the area's real Top 40 station, KHTR, ha!) I can still remember where a lot of the songs placed on the former station's 1983 year end countdown, which doesn't come close to representing the true Billboard version unless Jim Capaldi's "Livin' on the Edge" (#15) and Danny Spanos' "Hot Cherie" (#27) somehow just got overlooked...

Anyway..... 1983!!!! Have fun!

1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist...


1. Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
I'll be upon you by the moonlight side
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran

2. 9 AM on the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bell
And she's looking real pretty
She's waiting for her clientele

She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer

3. Now in the street there is violence
And, and a lots of work to be done
No place to hang out our washing
And, and I can't blame all on the sun

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

I was a little worried about getting a year in the early 80s because I was mostly listening to C&W at that time, but this was one I loved at the time rather than a few years later...

4. Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

5. No one looked as I walked by
Just an invitation would have been just fine
Said no to him, again and again
First he took my heart, then he ran

6. I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

Africa - Toto

7. Circumstance beyond our control, oh-oh
The phone, the TV and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh-oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies

8. She's a real nice girl and she's always there for you
But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do

Tell Her About It - Billy Joel

9. Well, the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hit man comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring

I could have sworn this was late 70s, but maybe I'm getting it confused with Radar Love...or Lunatic Fringe which I always think this is when it first comes on

10. It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be

Maniac - Michael Sembello

11. Rise up, gather 'round
Rock this place to the ground
Burn it up let's go for broke
Watch the night go up in smoke

Rock of Ages - Def Leppard

Finally back on solid ground! I was hoping your 80s year would be later in the decade so I could krox Pour Some Sugar on Me and tell my story about how we were at the concert where they filmed the video...

12. This is the end
You made your choice and now my chance is over
I thought I was in
You put me down and say I'm goin' nowhere


Kroxquo Bonus: Name another song with artist that was released or on the charts in 1983 (two year cushion).

Had to go C&W for this specific year. Oh, the memories that Pancho and Lefty album bring back...

Reasons to Quit - Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard

Image Bonus: If you can remember the 80's, you probably didn't live through them....

littlebeast13 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:02 am

The Year in Music Thursdays brings us to my favorite decade of all, the 80's! And how fitting that the year that was randomly selected to be featured is probably my favorite of them all, 1983! I was 8 years old, and this was the year I first really started paying attention to the music on the radio, which at that time was KWK... a classic rock station that still played a lot of regional and lesser known songs, but was beginning the slow morph into the Top 40 station it would be in a few years (by which time, my family had already switched to listening to the area's real Top 40 station, KHTR, ha!) I can still remember where a lot of the songs placed on the former station's 1983 year end countdown, which doesn't come close to representing the true Billboard version unless Jim Capaldi's "Livin' on the Edge" (#15) and Danny Spanos' "Hot Cherie" (#27) somehow just got overlooked...

Anyway..... 1983!!!! Have fun!

1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist...


1. Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
I'll be upon you by the moonlight side

Hungry like the wolf, Duran Duran

2. 9 AM on the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bell
And she's looking real pretty
She's waiting for her clientele

She works hard for the money, Donna Summer

3. Now in the street there is violence
And, and a lots of work to be done
No place to hang out our washing
And, and I can't blame all on the sun

4. Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by

Total Eclipse of the Heart

5. No one looked as I walked by
Just an invitation would have been just fine
Said no to him, again and again
First he took my heart, then he ran

6. I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

I bless the rains down in Afrida, Toto

7. Circumstance beyond our control, oh-oh
The phone, the TV and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh-oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies

Back on the chain gang, Pretenders

8. She's a real nice girl and she's always there for you
But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do

Tell her about it, Billy Joel

9. Well, the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hit man comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated

10. It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be

11. Rise up, gather 'round
Rock this place to the ground
Burn it up let's go for broke
Watch the night go up in smoke

12. This is the end
You made your choice and now my chance is over
I thought I was in
You put me down and say I'm goin' nowhere


Kroxquo Bonus: Name another song with artist that was released or on the charts in 1983 (two year cushion).

Take on me, A-HA

Image Bonus: If you can remember the 80's, you probably didn't live through them....