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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 16

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 21/11/2020 21:33

Thread 16 !!!!

Come on over

Post some lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s (may push slightly either way) with the decade & we will try & guess the song & singer

@Honeyroar
@FlouncerInDenial
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2020
@xsquared
@KatherineJaneway
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@ThatLibraryMiss
@CrepuscularCritter
@NeedToKnow101
@ellie1967
@TwigTheWonderKid
@idlevice
@midgebabe
@SimplySteveRedux
@CarnageAtTheGardenCentre
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy
@Torvean32
@everythingisginandroses
@SophieGiroux
@Bluesheep8

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Fleamaker123 · 03/12/2020 08:44

@CoffeeBeansGalore

I do love the fresh smell of the sea. May sound a daft question, but does the sea air affect your car paintwork?
I'm not sure 🤔 my cars are always rusty 😂
FlouncingBabooshka · 03/12/2020 09:48

Well, this is weird.

I wrote quite a long post at about midnight. Where did I post it? Certainly not on this thread...🤔🤔🤔

I’m by the sea too @Fleamaker123!

I haven’t noticed the cars being exceptionally rusty but one was so aggressively bombarded with seagull poo (the week we bought it 😢) that we had to have the bonnet re-sprayed!

Fleamaker123 · 03/12/2020 10:06

@FlouncingBabooshka

Well, this is weird.

I wrote quite a long post at about midnight. Where did I post it? Certainly not on this thread...🤔🤔🤔

I’m by the sea too @Fleamaker123!

I haven’t noticed the cars being exceptionally rusty but one was so aggressively bombarded with seagull poo (the week we bought it 😢) that we had to have the bonnet re-sprayed!

Oh yes the seagull poo, I was hit by seagull poo once walking to work, I was in a right mess, I had to go home to get changed 😂

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shinynewapple2020 · 03/12/2020 11:22

Really envious of all you people living by the sea - I live in the Midlands so a long way from any coast . It's something I've really missed with travel restrictions etc this year .

Yes theme of my post the other day was animals.

Year of the cat
Horse with no name
Tiger feet
Lion sleeps tonight

And the one nobody guessed was Puppy Love .

Also posted and not guessed was Feel like Fred Astaire by James .

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/12/2020 11:33

Today 07:33ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf

I never read your posts with a liverpool accent, flea! I will now.

You were up late, coffee

Busy day, took a while to unwind. On a count down to the 18th now & look forward to some lie ins if the dogs let me! 🐶😁

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Honeyroar · 03/12/2020 14:08

I lived in Brighton for a while and my car rusted from seagull shit (teach me not to wash it!). Luckily I only ever had old bangers, still do!

I come over to the coast by Merseyside a couple of times a year Flea, usually Formby or Ainsdale. I will look out for someone humming 70s tracks now!

Is the don’t wanna pay for it one Jane’s Addiction- Been caught stealing (my old dog’s favourite because of the dogs barking at the start!)

Fleamaker123 · 03/12/2020 14:19

I'll keep an eye out for you Honeyroar 😉

NeedToKnow101 · 03/12/2020 15:34

Wotcha! missed loads!

Just heard this upbeat song for a gloomy day..

See the people walking down the street
Fall in line just watching all their feet
They don't know where they want to go
But they're walking in time
80s

Fleamaker123 · 03/12/2020 18:24

If you come to New York City
You'll never be the wack
When you see us city kids
Spinning on our backs

84

Bluesheep8 · 03/12/2020 19:16

If you come to New York City
You'll never be the wack
When you see us city kids
Spinning on our backs

That's Street dance but who the hell was the artist??!!

NeedToKnow101 · 03/12/2020 19:41

Wasn't the Rock Steady Crew was it?

Honeyroar · 03/12/2020 19:46

I think the Rock steady crew just sang Hey you the rock steady crew. Wasn’t Streetdance by streetdance? They were imaginative back then!🤣

NeedToKnow101 · 03/12/2020 20:14

@Honeyroar

I think the Rock steady crew just sang Hey you the rock steady crew. Wasn’t Streetdance by streetdance? They were imaginative back then!🤣
😂Blush @Honeyroar my first thought was Streetdance, but I thought no can't be. But maybe it can . Ah well at least I get closer to the 'most wrong guesses' award. 
Fleamaker123 · 03/12/2020 20:21

Yes Bluesheep8 for street dance, by Break Machine (I wouldn't have remembered either! It popped up on my suggestions)

Honeyroar · 03/12/2020 21:34

🤣@NeedToKnow101 it wasn’t streetdance, I was wrong too!😘.

FlouncingBabooshka · 03/12/2020 21:52

Right, here’s where I think we’re at with my mega-theme from last night.

There’s might have to be a steward’s enquiry on the awarding of the prize for theme. @CoffeeBeansGalore, you were close with books - I had literature in mind as @ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf said. There are a few plays and a poem in there as well as novels. But of course plays and poems are published as books so 🤔🤔🤔🤔. I don’t know - perhaps you share the points for guessing the theme..?

I think there should be bonus points for getting some of the trickier connections - if you agree @coffeebeansgalore?

@midgebabe - goodness - you did well! 🌟🌟🌟🌟 🏆

Yes to Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings and O Little Town. But how do each of those fit with the theme ? 🤔.

Yes to Romeo and Juliet, Winter’s Tale and Rocket Man.

Yes to The Boo Radleys - the song is actually called Wake Up Boo but, as you pointed out, it’s the group that’s relevant to the theme. Boo Radley is a character in one of my favourite novels. Who can name it?

Midge yes - Rocket Man - anyone get the connection (this is a bit of an obscure one - I stumbled on it by chance)
Midge, you were very close with Steppingwolf but it’s not quite right and, again, it’s the group that is the connection. Anyone know? @CoffeeBeansGalore has correctly named the song - Born to Be Wild.

🌟👏 @clearingspaceonthetrophyshelf, well done for Paperback Writer, Wuthering Heights (of course!), Brave New World and Sensual World. I think a bonus point is in order for knowing the James Joyce connection (though I imagine you’ve awarded that already 😂)

I’ll repost annotated with what’s still up for grabs a little later.

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 03/12/2020 22:22

One of your favourite books is to kill a mockingbird. Gorgeous book.

And coffee can bugger off, no way am I sharing points. I got the theme, coffee didn't

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/12/2020 23:18

Yes to Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings and O Little Town. But how do each of those fit with the theme ? 🤔.
Agatha Christie?

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/12/2020 23:19

I personally think it would be nice to get extra points for hard connections, but happy for it to go through a vote 😊.

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ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 03/12/2020 23:25

Sod the vote! I don't trust this lot.

A shifty looking bunch one and all.

Don't worry, coffee, the spreadsheet has been suitably amended

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/12/2020 23:30

Don't worry, coffee, the spreadsheet has been suitably amended

Maybe we should compare & make sure that both yours & mine tally?

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ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 03/12/2020 23:37

Oh, I'm absolutely sure they won't 🤣

CoffeeBeansGalore · 03/12/2020 23:41

😁

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midgebabe · 04/12/2020 08:21

@FlouncingBabooshka

Criticising my spelling /autocorrect /hearing

The band who did born to be wild is also the title of a book

FlouncingBabooshka · 04/12/2020 09:48

A little unfair @midgebabe - and after I gave you so many gold stars and a lovely trophy too

I’m not criticising anything. Of course you got the main points for giving an almost correct group name (well, half of the points as I think Coffee got Born to Be Wild) but I think, as the name of the book is the connection to the theme, then it has to be correct to earn the super-hard-connection-bonus-points.

As the name still hasn’t been given those points are still up for grabs btw 😉