I'm an 80s kid. I can usually identify an '80s song within the first five bars (I'm not as good with the early '80s... my religious parents didn't approve of "secular" music, so there was very limited opportunity for me to hear it until I was old enough to be sneaky about it). There are a lot more '80s stations in the U.S., and I listened to them all the way down the coast when I drove down to San Francisco and back in 2000, sharpening this underrated skill for '80s music recognition. Here I am, listening to Netscape Radio (formerly Spinner.com) while I'm working, and they're playing Taco's 1982 hit (wasn't it his only hit?) Puttin' On the Ritz, a cover of Irving Berlin's original song from the early part of the century...
To get some "where are they now?" info on Taco, I came across a fairly well-maintained 80's site, which has stuff other than lyrics, eg. 80's arcade games like Pacman, Frogger, Tetris, and Simon... you don't even need to download anything to play:
