Top 100 Songs of the 1980s (100 - 91)

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1. Song Number 100: "I'd better read between the lines in case I need it when I'm older." The rock band Foreigner were together for nearly ten years with a dozen top 40 hits before they struck gold with this song in 1985. It was a ballad with powerful backing vocals by Jennifer Holliday and the New Jersey Mass Choir that gave them their first number one hit. Can you name this song that "Rolling Stone" magazine chose as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time? I Want to Know What Love Is Feels Like The First Time Can't Fight This Feeling Shaddup You Face

2. Song Number 99: "A full commitment's what I'm thinking of" George Michael. Belinda Carlisle. Michael Jackson. Each of these acts were in the top ten the same week this little man with a big voice hit number one. Do you know the British singer with a soulful sound who bested these chart veterans with his very first song in the spring of 1988? Rick Astley Donny Osmond Terence Trent D'arby Cliff Richard

3. Song Number 98: "Use the body, now you want my soul." This is the first of four songs the duo Daryl Hall and John Oates placed among the 100 top songs of the 1980s. It was their only number one song on both the pop and R&B charts and has since been sampled on over a dozen hip-hop hits. Can you name this influential song? She's Gone Just the Two of Us Theme from "A Summer Place" I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

4. Song Number 97: "She's simply awesome!" ...began this song and the american love affair for Trinidad-born singer Billy Ocean. In November 1984 he held the top spot for two weeks with this lively dance hit. Can you name it? Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) Wishing Well There'll Be Sad Song (To Make You Cry) We Are The World

5. Song Number 96: "Precious people always tell me" ...that this is the song that first introduced Boy George to America. We won't ever be the same. Do you recall Culture Club's first song which spent three weeks at number two in the spring of 1983? Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? The Wild Boys Time (Clock of the Heart) Lola

6. Song Number 95: "We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall" In 1982 Bertie Higgins had a nation falling in love "so desperately", cuddling with a loved one all while watching "the late, late show". What Humphrey Bogart movie shares its title with this early 80's romantic ballad? Casablanca Brokeback Mountain The African Queen Key Largo

7. Song Number 94: "Every cowboy sings his sad, sad song" No, this song doesn't come from an old western or "Brokeback Mountain". It's from a power ballad by the heavy metal group Poison, a song that held the top spot for three weeks in December of 1988. Do you know it? Wanted Dead or Alive Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? Unskinny Bop Every Rose Has Its Thorn

8. Song Number 93: "There's a cold, kinetic heat struggling, stretching for the peak" One hit wonder Michael Sembello took this song all the way to number one in the summer of 1983. It sure didn't hurt the song's success that it was featured in which of these popular movies? Flashdance Footloose Halloween III: Season of the Witch Gandhi

9. Song Number 92: "So many questions still left unanswered" Grammy-nominated for "Song of the Year" in 1990, this record won in the category "Best Pop Performance by a Duo". In the last weekly chart of the 1980's it peaked at number two. Do you know which veteran pop artists covered "Don't Know Much"? Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson Janet Jackson and Justine Timberlake Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond Linda Rondstadt and Aaron Neville

10. Song Number 91: "So slide over here and give me a moment" "Need You Tonight" by INXS was the band's only number one song during the 1980's. The video for the song was a combination of "Need You Tonight" and the short song "Mediate". It won five MTV video awards including "Video of the Year". The "Mediate" segment of the video was an homage to what legend? Bob Dylan Deepak Chopra Marvin Gaye Rocky Marciano