80s MUSIC JOKES

Remember Cheap Trick? Big in the early 80s, had a couple of big hits like Surrender and The Flame. I always picture the black and white checkered outfit and guitar when I think of that band. 80s fashion was weird.

Cheap Trick just seems a little weird

Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird...

The Flame burns Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick's Flame was hot, not to be confused with Cyndi's Eternal Flame with was not.

Thinking of the early 80s, remember REO SPEEDWAGON? What a name. And, looking back, what a hairdo! I think the videographer of the video for I can't fight this feeling tried 'mood' lighting to hide the hair.

I can't fight this feeling

The Clash was big around that time too. Remember they called London, or something like that. Funny, they seemed really wild and punky at the time, but their music was not really all that hard. Not like the heavy metal to come later in the decade, or the punk scene in the nineties.

The Clash rocking the casbah

WHAM! I think that was early slang that meant I'd HIT that.

WHAM I'd hit dat

You'd want to make sure you are alone when you do that. Just like Tiffany said half a decade later.

Tiffany Home Alone meme

Speaking of Love and stuff of that nature, how about that song by Def Lep - LOVE BITES! What was that supposed to mean? I took it literally.

Def Lep song Love Bites is inappropriate when taken literally

Tom Petty had a bunch of love inspired songs. I'm assuming Don't Do Me Like That is in reference to a nasty break up at the gates of hell...or am I meshing two songs together. I do that with Tom's songs.

Tom Petty asks us to not do him like that

Tom Petty tells us that we don't know how if feels

For awhile I misheard the lyrics and thought Tom was talking about meat. Like a pro-vegetarian song.

Misheard 80s lyrics - Tom Petty

Lyrics sometimes confused me, because I took them too literal. Like Phil Collins. Why would he want it to rain on him? And how could Billy possibly lose his phone number. And even if Billy did, there was a thing called a phone book!

Why Did Phil Collins want it to rain down on him?

Phil if Billy loses your number check the phonebook

And Culture Club. The only club I really understood was civic clubs like the LIONS or Oddfellows, or something like a bookclub.

Culture Club like a bookclub?

And often in clubs you had to wear a specific outfit, like a boy scout outfit or possibly a red hat. Maybe a raspberry beret. Be part of the Prince, TAFKAP fan club?