80s Hits - Extensive quiz for fans!

Name the artist that performed each of these 80s hits!
Quiz by Jonathan
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Last updated: November 24, 2014
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First submittedOctober 22, 2012
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Song
Artist
Mad World
Tears For Fears
Hungry Like The Wolf
Duran Duran
Gold
Spandau Ballet
Tainted Love
Soft Cell
Vienna
Ultravox
Fade To Grey
Visage
Ghosts
Japan
Karma Chameleon
Culture Club
Prince Charming
Adam And The Ants
I Want Candy
Bow Wow Wow
The Look Of Love
ABC
Call Me
Blondie
Road To Nowhere
Talking Heads
Drive
The Cars
Don't Stand So Close to Me
The Police
Take On Me
a-ha
Blue Monday
New Order
Hold Me Now
Thompson Twins
People Are People
Depeche Mode
Don't You Want Me
The Human League
Alive And Kicking
Simple Minds
Too Shy
Kajagoogoo
Don't Go
Yazoo
Song
Artist
The Killing Moon
Echo And The Bunnymen
Pretty In Pink
The Psychedelic Furs
Cars
Gary Numan
Somewhere In My Heart
Aztec Camera
Cruel Summer
Bananarama
Turning Japanese
The Vapors
White Wedding
Billy Idol
It Must Be Love
Madness
The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
Forever Young
Alphaville
Cool For Cats
Squeeze
Love Plus One
Haircut 100
Enola Gay
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Dance Hall Days
Wang Chung
Beat The Clock
Sparks
It's A Sin
Pet Shop Boys
Avalon
Roxy Music
Walking In L.A.
Missing Persons
Reward
The Teardrop Explodes
Dear Prudence
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Promise
When In Rome
Lullaby
The Cure
Song
Artist
Wishful Thinking
China Crisis
Shout To The Top!
The Style Council
Living On The Ceiling
Blancmange
Wouldn't It Be Good
Nik Kershaw
New Song
Howard Jones
Shattered Dreams
Johnny Hates Jazz
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Wham!
Kids In America
Kim Wilde
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
A Little Respect
Erasure
Whip It
Devo
Swords Of A Thousand Men
Tenpole Tudor
Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners
Promises, Promises
Naked Eyes
I Got You
Split Enz
Feels Like Heaven
Fiction Factory
You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties
Jona Lewie
Relax
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Temptation
Heaven 17
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Prefab Sprout
Love Shack
The B-52's
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Level 48
Oct 14, 2012
Nice to do a quiz that isn't based on the U.S. charts, but only 4 minutes? I'm not the fastest typist and was nowhere near finishing. (got 43 though) :^)
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Level 41
Nov 18, 2012
I loved this quiz! Thanks.
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Level 38
Apr 30, 2014
Loved this quiz! (Finished 100% w/7:09 left--yeah, you kind of tickled my sweet spot here.)

You might want to allow Yaz for Yazoo, as they were known as Yaz here in the US.

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Level 28
May 24, 2014
Thx for the feedback, pg13, i'll fix that up right away
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Level 59
Nov 28, 2014
Can you accept Peter Cetera for Feels Like Heaven?
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Level 28
Nov 28, 2014
You must be thinking of a different song I'm afraid :-(
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Level 59
Nov 29, 2014
Different song but same title....I think should count for something, haha

http://youtu.be/il8O8NGf8CM

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Level 28
Nov 29, 2014
I take your point but that song was released in 1992, it would be invalid for this quiz anyway :)
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Level 60
Jan 24, 2015
"Cars" is actually from 1979.
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Level 28
Jan 24, 2015
Fair point but it remained in the charts into 1980 and a re-recorded version was a UK hit in 1987. It is generally linked with the 80s, just happened to be recorded 4 months before.
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Level 28
Oct 21, 2015
Excellent. Did my nut in in a couple of places. Mainly my insistence that Wishful thinking was Go West
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Level 28
Feb 11, 2016
understandable mistake, Go West made 'King Of Wishful Thinking' of course!! Glad you enjoyed.
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Level 69
Jun 6, 2016
Could you accept Arcadia for "The Promise" released in 1986?

Great quiz!

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Level 28
Dec 1, 2016
sure thing - that's a new one to me
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Level 43
Mar 14, 2017
This is actually a fairly decent playlist
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Level 55
Apr 1, 2018
Pseudo Echo also had a hit single with Don't Go...
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Level 78
Apr 24, 2019
I love these types of quizzes. Nice job. As an American, its nice to learn about groups popular over in the UK but not here. The Style Council?
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Level 37
Dec 20, 2020
please accept "cure" (the cure) and "dexy's" (dexys)... be a bit more forgiving on spellings
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Level 69
May 15, 2023
Love Prefab Sprout! Thanks for a fun quiz.