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Non-Stop Classic Rock Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Eynowd: After thinking about this one for a long time, I've decided that the hide wasn't up to scratch, so I've decided to retrieve the cache (in a hailstorm and all) and archive the listing.

Thanks to all those who found it and I hope you enjoyed it.

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Hidden : 12/3/2006
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


My teenage years were in the 1980s, so I've always been a fan of 80s music. So, here's a challenge for you to test your knowledge of 80s music and see how well you can solve puzzles at the same time.

Below is a list of lines from songs from the 1980s. To find the cache, you'll need to identify the song and what year of the 80s it was a hit in (it may have been released in an earlier year, but ignore that). Only the last digit of the year counts. If there are two lines grouped together, assume it forms a single two digit number, in the order the lines are presented.

In order to make sure we're all singing from the same songbook (pun intended), here's what I used as a reference.

Solve the puzzle and you'll have the coordinates for the cache.

1
  • She'll expose you, when she snows you
2
  • Where can I find a woman like that?
3
  • Just like the old man in that book by Nabakov
  • No dark sarcasm in the classroom
4
  • Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
  • I had it made, like a mountain range
5
  • Years go by I'm lookin' through a girly magazine
  • You catch the pearl and ride the dragons wings
6
  • There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health
  • Uh well dance all night and whirl your hair
7
  • Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
  • Alone in a cold day dawning, are you still free? Can you be?
8
  • We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
  • Living under the fear till nothing else remains
9
  • Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
  • You could have a bumper car, bumping
10
  • We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
  • Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note
11
  • I get up, and nothing gets me down
  • The book of love will open up and let us in
12
  • She makes me nervous, she makes me scared
  • Mother's tired she needs a rest
13
  • Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
  • You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
14
  • I'll be where the eagle's flying higher and higher
  • I wasn't there that morning, when my father passed away
15
  • But she crawls under your skin, you're never quite the same
  • Don't get caught alone, oh no
16
  • That funny feeling again, winding me up inside
  • I have spoke with the tongue of angels


Please ensure that the cache is well hidden again when you leave.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)