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80s song lyric thread 2

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 00:44

Put up a line or two from an 80s song for people to guess.

Starting you off with...

you feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun

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BubblegumFactory · 31/05/2020 23:19

Ooh is it joe dolce shaddap ya face?

BinkySodPlop · 31/05/2020 23:20

If it is, it kept Vienna off the top spot, I think...

AJumpedUpPantryBoy · 31/05/2020 23:20

Mine was Alvin Stardust and Feel Like Buddy Holly.

Here’s another one

She began going out with Mr Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park
With his coat around her shoulders that I realized

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:21

I can't get any of these Sad

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RuudGullitOnAShed · 31/05/2020 23:22

Iggi’s is Paula Abdul

MarthasGinYard · 31/05/2020 23:22

Iggi

Paula Abdul?

Iggi999 · 31/05/2020 23:23

Yes that's it.
I had to google I feel like Buddy Holly, couldn't get that one at all.

BubblegumFactory · 31/05/2020 23:24

The one of mine which no-one got was The Associates, Those first impressions. I love that song.

Iggi999 · 31/05/2020 23:27

My poem has an intellectual theme
The tenderness with which I adore her
Goes all bouncy in my dreams

(This was a tv theme as well as a single)

MarthasGinYard · 31/05/2020 23:28

'Another day is ended And I still can't sleep Remembering my yesterdays I begin to weep If I could have it over Live my life again I wouldn't change a single day'

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:28

Alvin bloody stardust???? I'm so happy I didn't know it!

The one you've put up. Is the song a narrative. And kind of tuneless? I feel I know it.

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BubblegumFactory · 31/05/2020 23:29

Last one from me before bed

You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know

MarthasGinYard · 31/05/2020 23:29

Iggi

Adrian mole Grin

Was it Ian Dury?

NeedToKnow101 · 31/05/2020 23:29

Cry - Godley and someone?

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:29

Iggi Ian fury?

Theme tune to adrian mole

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:30

Dury. Grrrr

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BinkySodPlop · 31/05/2020 23:30

Oooo, is that a Jonny Hates Jazz one? Can't get the title.... I was going to put one of theirs up! Smile

JimmyGrimble · 31/05/2020 23:31

Bubblegum is it Cry - Godkey and Creme?

Iggi999 · 31/05/2020 23:31

Yes Martha, it was Profoundly in love with Pandora by Ian Dury Smile Loved those books
Cry, by Godley and Cream, the one with all the faces in the video

MarthasGinYard · 31/05/2020 23:31

'Shooting stars in midnight pastures
And hanging out on clouds beneath the moon
Hitching rides on magic carpets
It's a fairy tale to me but you're in tune'

AJumpedUpPantryBoy · 31/05/2020 23:32

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

Alvin bloody stardust???? I'm so happy I didn't know it!

The one you've put up. Is the song a narrative. And kind of tuneless? I feel I know it.

Yes. Tuneless narrative with a famous tune behind it.

Grin I was going for obscure with Alvin.

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:32

Is the JHJ one turn back the clock?

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BinkySodPlop · 31/05/2020 23:33

I weirdly had this as an ear worm recently. Haven't heard it in years!

More precious than life itself
familiarity breeds contempt.

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 31/05/2020 23:33

Billy bragg??? I can't think which one, though. I could tell you 2 or 3 it def isn't

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BubblegumFactory · 31/05/2020 23:34

Yes Cry, still prob one of the best videos ever made.