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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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CoffeeBeansGalore · 04/09/2020 19:17

Awww, thank you @shinynewapple2020.

I will add the category of poster of easiest lyrics.

Posters may nominate themselves for any category (as previously demonstrated by Sock 😁)

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 19:24

I think there also needs to be a category of "most sneakily getting in and getting a lyric unfairly first" and I would like to nominate bloody honey and bloody pantry as joint winners.

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 19:29

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/4014459-Help-needed-make-me-gorgeous

See you there, suckers!

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 04/09/2020 19:32

@VictoriousSockPuppet I think that can be Fastest finger first!

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 19:35

I'll give them the finger, coffee, if they keep zipping in before I do

Honeyroar · 04/09/2020 19:59

I think Sock will have hyperventilated and passed out by tomorrow night anyway!

I think there should be a category for always coming second and having a strop.

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 04/09/2020 20:05

@Honeyroar we have pipped at the post 🤣

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:06

Back to usual business...
I don't think anyone got these from a couple of days ago, so I've added some more to them...

I made a fire and watching it burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past, now, just how long will it last?
No, no, no, have you no ambition?
My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean in air
And dreaming I'm a doctor
It's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand
Oh, I feel so

80s. It's a band that usually gets guessed pretty quickly by you lot.

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
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your Dad he could stop it all, yeah

90s. I PROMISE you all know this song really, really well. But possibly NOT this verse. But I think if I put up a lyric from anywhere else in the song, you'd all get it instantly.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 04/09/2020 20:09

Didn’t I get that already? Common People.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 04/09/2020 20:12

yes, just checked. I got it last night just after 10.00pm.

I think that deserves a flounce.

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:13

in honour of the awards night:

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years

80s

The gods may throw a dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear

80s, I think

Ooh, yeah, you're amazing!
We think you're incredible

70s

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:14

Opps. Sorry Babooshka
secretly thinks Babooshka's overplaying her hand in order to clinch the award

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 04/09/2020 20:15

@VictoriousSockPuppet

I do announce my intent now to rugby tackle anyone awarded a trophy that I think belongs rightfully to me on their way to the podium to collect it.

I think it was Babooshka who said earlier that she fully expected to have any award she was given stolen out from under her nose by someone zipping in.

A comment which is still making me smile now

Would be particularly amusing (for everyone else) if that happened to my having won most pipped.
midgebabe · 04/09/2020 20:16

@VictoriousSockPuppet

in honour of the awards night:

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years

80s

The gods may throw a dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear

80s, I think

Ooh, yeah, you're amazing!
We think you're incredible

70s

The second is ABBA winner takes it all
VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:17

To steal a line from Frasier,
Isn't that what [we] Brits call "irony"?

midgebabe · 04/09/2020 20:17

@VictoriousSockPuppet

Back to usual business... I don't think anyone got these from a couple of days ago, so I've added some more to them...

I made a fire and watching it burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past, now, just how long will it last?
No, no, no, have you no ambition?
My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean in air
And dreaming I'm a doctor
It's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand
Oh, I feel so

80s. It's a band that usually gets guessed pretty quickly by you lot.

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
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your Dad he could stop it all, yeah

90s. I PROMISE you all know this song really, really well. But possibly NOT this verse. But I think if I put up a lyric from anywhere else in the song, you'd all get it instantly.

The second one is pulp common people
Honeyroar · 04/09/2020 20:18

1 Celebration- Cool and the gang

  1. The Winner takes it all (but not the sock) - ABBA
VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:19

Yes, midge, although I was actually thinking of the slightly lesser known VictoriousSockPuppet cover from 2020.

So, The Winner Takes It All - VictoriousSockPuppet

midgebabe · 04/09/2020 20:19

@VictoriousSockPuppet

in honour of the awards night:

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years

80s

The gods may throw a dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear

80s, I think

Ooh, yeah, you're amazing!
We think you're incredible

70s

The first one is bugging me because I can only remember the version done at our local panto
Honeyroar · 04/09/2020 20:21

Ooh and the other is Kate Bush! Wow.

xsquared · 04/09/2020 20:21

@VictoriousSockPuppet
@midgebabe

First one is Celebration by Kool and the Gang.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 04/09/2020 20:24

@VictoriousSockPuppet

Opps. Sorry Babooshka secretly thinks Babooshka's overplaying her hand in order to clinch the award
To be fair I only started flouncing pretty late on in the threads.

Do we need to clarify our famous people - I have quite a few more that I haven’t mentioned (yes, I’m shameless. I’m still smarting from having been shortlisted for, but never having actually won, a few industry awards so I’m desperate not to be robbed of my chance). Do they all have to be in the music business or just generally famous?

Why is no one guessing my lyrics?

(too much? too obvious? Thought so...)

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:35

List 'em all Babooshka - there's awards riding on this!

And sorry about your song lyrics. I got distracted by coffee's announcement.

The first one is scary monsters and super creeps - David Bowie.

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:38

Sorry. Not the first one. The second one

VictoriousSockPuppet · 04/09/2020 20:40

And my 3 celebration ones, all guessed. Well done