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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 10

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 20/08/2020 18:21

Ok folks here we go again for Thread 10!!!

Post a few lines of lyrics with the decade & let the rest of us have a go at guessing the song & artist.
Songs from 70s, 80s 90s.

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Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 18:10

@SingingBabooshkaBadly it was Visage.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 02/09/2020 19:37

@shinynewapple2020 - yes you’re right, Tina Charles 👍🏼

@VictoriousSockPuppet - are you going to have another go at the one that isn’t Israel?😉

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 02/09/2020 19:40

@Honeyroar - sorry, just spotted you got the Bananarama one and The Cure 🌟

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 02/09/2020 19:43

@SingingBabooshkaBadly

Now some from the 80s

Did you care, was I right?
Only once did you try
Even then it was hard enough
Just for you to realize or believe there was only one
Strong enough or hard enough to give you away

She asked me to stay and I stole her room
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind

Who would be the fool to maybe trick a kiss in time?
Who am I to say that's crazy?
Love will make you blind

My heart started pumpin', blood pressure jumpin'

Come to cover the lovers (Cover the lovers but don't you wake them up)
Come to sparkle the dark up (Sparkle the dark up with just a touch of make-up)

There’s a bit of a connection between the last three. I reckon there’s a solid 100 bonus points if you get all three and the connection...

Remembering you running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow

We've done no wrong with our blinkers on
It's safe and calm if you sing along
Sing along, sing along, ooh-ooh

One mile in the air that's where she lives
Her body looks so thin and pink and small
Dropping eggs from nervous shaking hands
And swallowing her fingers as they fall

All these still outstanding, other than blood pressure pumping and running soft through the night - Honeyroar got both of those.
nowlook · 02/09/2020 19:53

I know the 3 songs (culture club and Bush) but I'm damned if I can find any connection between them!

Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 20:20

And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
Are you laughing at me now
May I please laugh along
(80s)

Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 20:22

My “has it ever crossed your mind” one from the previous page is still waiting to be guessed..

shinynewapple2020 · 02/09/2020 20:35

Don't think anyone got this posted a couple of days ago

Can't lose this mood gentle
With summer at our ears
Flood the world deep in sunlight
Break into the peaceful wild

1980s

Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 21:01

Ooh I never saw that one. It’s The first picture of you by The Lotus Eaters.

Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 22:07

Where safe you all? I come back to the thread and you all go back to work and get serious!!

Honeyroar · 02/09/2020 22:08

are not safe!

Iggi999 · 02/09/2020 22:19

@Honeyroar

And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine Are you laughing at me now May I please laugh along (80s)
I had to sing it all in my head to get it! Lloyd Cole, Lost weekend
SingingBabooshkaBadly · 02/09/2020 22:31

@nowlook

I know the 3 songs (culture club and Bush) but I'm damned if I can find any connection between them!
Sorry *@nowlook* - I may have confused everyone by a garbled post. The connection is between the last three listed, rather than the last three before I said there’s a connection, if that makes any sense at all...I should have said a connection between the next three, not the last three Confused

So the connection is between these three:

Remembering you running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow

We've done no wrong with our blinkers on
It's safe and calm if you sing along
Sing along, sing along, ooh-ooh

One mile in the air that's where she lives
Her body looks so thin and pink and small
Dropping eggs from nervous shaking hands
And swallowing her fingers as they fall

Anyway, @nowlook, do you want to name the songs you know?

Apologies to all for the confusion 😊

CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/09/2020 22:44

@Honeyroar I've just got Leann Rimes "Need you now" going round my head with those lyrics, so no chance 😄

Sorry folks, shattered. Goodnight 😴

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 02/09/2020 23:40

[quote SingingBabooshkaBadly]@VictoriousSockPuppet sorry to hear your first day back wasn’t too joyful. All the Covid measures must be making school life even more challenging than usual. Hope today is better for you.

Well done on the Sex Pistols and Squeeze.

Hate to tell you this but the other one isn’t Israel...[/quote]
Dammit!!!!

VictoriousSockPuppet · 02/09/2020 23:41

[quote SingingBabooshkaBadly]@shinynewapple2020 - yes you’re right, Tina Charles 👍🏼

@VictoriousSockPuppet - are you going to have another go at the one that isn’t Israel?😉[/quote]
I'm sure it's siouxsie. I can hear her voice clearly in my head.

Happy house?

VictoriousSockPuppet · 02/09/2020 23:44

I know the conversation has moved in, but I've never met or even seen mick hucknell irl.

There needs to be an award for "has met the least famous people and has no stories" category Sad

VictoriousSockPuppet · 02/09/2020 23:44

On not in

shinynewapple2020 · 02/09/2020 23:51

@Honeyroar yes to Lotus Eaters Smile

shinynewapple2020 · 02/09/2020 23:53

@VictoriousSockPuppet

I know the conversation has moved in, but I've never met or even seen mick hucknell irl.

There needs to be an award for "has met the least famous people and has no stories" category Sad

Me neither victorious

Honeyroar · 03/09/2020 07:32

@Iggi999 yes it was Lloyd Cole.

Those of you that haven’t met MH probably had a lucky escape!

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/09/2020 20:24

Still outstanding from yesterday, both 80s

You turned night into day
And showed me how my soul could sing
You took my hurt away
And showed me love conquers anything

There was a time when I knew you
I held my body to you
Made you feel like you never felt before
And now it's all in the distance
Still you keep resisting
I love you like never before

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 03/09/2020 20:59

Neither of those speaking to me, unfortunately, Coffee Sad

Anything else outstanding?

VictoriousSockPuppet · 03/09/2020 21:07

Try these:

Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

70s

But I heard you let that little friend of mine
Take off your party dress.

70s

This magic music grooves me
That dirty rhythm moves me
The devil's gotten to me through this dance

70s

With one foot in the past, now, just how long will it last?
No, no, no, have you no ambition?

80s

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own

80s

Would she go down on you in a theatre?

90s

Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school

90s

I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around

90s

sorry I've not been around much. Busy week. Missed you guys.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/09/2020 21:10

Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

Since you've been gone, not sure of artist

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