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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread20 🎶

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 16/01/2021 21:55

Thread 20🥂

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
@MNerGoneRogue
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2021
@xsquared
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@ThatLibraryMiss
@CrepuscularCritter
@NeedToKnow101
@perditaplum
@TwigTheWonderKid
@idlevice
@midgebabe
@WhipperSnapperSteve
@CarnageAtTheJanuarySales
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy
@zaphodbeeble
@everythingisginandroses
@FortunesFave
@Bluesheep8

Apologies if I have missed anyone. Let me know if you spot any omissions.

OP posts:
MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:00

feck!

Acidentally hit "post" before I'd finished going through it. So the answers are there for some of the later ones, and I haven't bolded them.

Feck! Feck! FECK!

It's the 3rd from the last and the 2nd from the last I trashed. FlouncingB had already got the last one. bugger!

I don't think any of you recognised the Velvet Underground anyway. My friends and I loved that album as teens. Particularly those 3 songs. I'll be your mirror is gorgous.

Was surprised FlouncingB didn't get all the Roxy Music because she's a fan, but I've given the answers now

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:02

@Honeyroar

Well! I should beat the top of that ladder, I should! I’m made for those ginormous knickers...
Climb a few rungs, HoneyPie. If you keep us stocked with bacon butties and baked goods cooked to Coffee's recipe, we'll all shunt you up higher.
MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:04

@Fleamaker123

I'm not on the ladder either, not even got any points either! Rogue won't give me any 😝
It's not that I won't Flea. It's that you intimated early doors you're not bothered/motivated by points. So I just... borrowed them.

Do you want some points?

And you can hop onto the coolness ladder any time you like.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Music
midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:07

It's a little help from my friends

midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:10

And thanks for the reprisal. Only the dregs left . Hum.

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:11

Correct midge. Care to name the album????

midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:12

Oh oh oh just heard it in my head ...

It's just a shot away is the Rolling Stones, give me shelter

So now I might actually know the other ones there too....

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:14

@midgebabe

And thanks for the reprisal. Only the dregs left . Hum.
Get stuffed! Each album was big and pretty well-known. And one of them is in my top 5 of all time. dregs indeed.
midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:14

Ah that's was before the stones

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:14

@midgebabe

Oh oh oh just heard it in my head ...

It's just a shot away is the Rolling Stones, give me shelter

So now I might actually know the other ones there too....

Gimmie. It's gimmie

Only half a point

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:16

@midgebabe

Ah that's was before the stones
Yes x-post
midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:19

Currently having complete blank.... have a feeling I will be kicking myself very soon...is it cheating to go and get my phone and play the album ?

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 21:30

OBVIOUSLY yes

Album name?????

Do you want more lyrics? If you know the album, can't you just sing your way through???

FlouncingBabooshka · 17/01/2021 21:31

War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

She said, my breasts, they will always be open
Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me

And I went down to the Chelsea Drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
Yeah man, did he look pretty ill

60s
Album and band? This is probably my favourite album of all time. A LOT of points available to this, and potential points wiping for anyone who doesn't know it.

Gimme Shelter and You Don’t Always Get What You Want from Let It Bleed. Don’t know the middle one. Tried to post this earlier but MN went wonky and wouldn’t let me post.

Completely missed the Roxy Music post 😤

Thought NeedtoKnow had got the Beatles album - It’s Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club band.

FlouncingBabooshka · 17/01/2021 21:33

Argh! Forgot to refresh the page!

midgebabe · 17/01/2021 21:34

No because it comes from DH side of the collection and so I have learnt the songs in a very pick and mix fashion played on shuffle ( dh was outbof work a while and put all the thousand or so albums onto the music player but then I listened a lot on shuffle till I learned to drive it better....clear evidence that I am not a geek

Exile on main street i guessed by dh says no
So clearly to grab the music now would be cheating

FlouncingBabooshka · 17/01/2021 21:36

Wuthering Heights guessed by Babooshka, although she wrote Withering, which is unacceptable for a KB fan, and loses her the bonus

To be fair, it’s unacceptable for anyone who can read.
‘Twas just a typo though...

stands sadly in corner wearing dunce’s hat

NeedToKnow101 · 17/01/2021 21:51

Whatever you do .... don't go up the ladder....!!!!!!

"Prince guessed by Needtoknow, but she didn’t name the album, so only 4 points. And then she did. But she called it Sign of the Times, when it’s CLEARLY Sign o’ the Times. Only 4 points, no bonus."

You are such a murderer meanie @MNerGoneRogue .. I had already guessed Sign o the times, the song. Not my fault my phone is ignorant.

NeedToKnow101 · 17/01/2021 21:52

Withering Heights sounds like something I might have once felt at the top of the ladder, when I realised I didn't have any pants on.

Honeyroar · 17/01/2021 22:08

Wobbling Heights is the name of our ladder.

NeedToKnow101 · 17/01/2021 22:15

Ooh I feel a mini-theme coming on...

I'm in love with Massachusetts
And the neon when it's cold outside
And the highway when it's late at night
70s

Well here's one of it ^^

Original poster
CoffeeBeansGalore · 17/01/2021 22:27

Honeyroar

Wobbling Heights is the name of our ladder.

🤣🤣🤣

OP posts:
MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 22:39

@FlouncingBabooshka

War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away

She said, my breasts, they will always be open
Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me

And I went down to the Chelsea Drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
Yeah man, did he look pretty ill

60s
Album and band? This is probably my favourite album of all time. A LOT of points available to this, and potential points wiping for anyone who doesn't know it.

Gimme Shelter and You Don’t Always Get What You Want from Let It Bleed. Don’t know the middle one. Tried to post this earlier but MN went wonky and wouldn’t let me post.

Completely missed the Roxy Music post 😤

Thought NeedtoKnow had got the Beatles album - It’s Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club band.

A gazillion points to our FlouncingB.

trust me if you know》the name of the album the song title is (without giving too much away) within your grasp

Correct for sgt pepper. It was obvious, but noone said it as far as I could see

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 22:43

@midgebabe

No because it comes from DH side of the collection and so I have learnt the songs in a very pick and mix fashion played on shuffle ( dh was outbof work a while and put all the thousand or so albums onto the music player but then I listened a lot on shuffle till I learned to drive it better....clear evidence that I am not a geek

Exile on main street i guessed by dh says no
So clearly to grab the music now would be cheating

IT IS CHEATING TO ADK YOUR DH!!!

luckily, midge didn't have too far to fall, what with the whole geek/need thing

MNerGoneRogue · 17/01/2021 22:45

@NeedToKnow101

Whatever you do .... don't go up the ladder....!!!!!!

"Prince guessed by Needtoknow, but she didn’t name the album, so only 4 points. And then she did. But she called it Sign of the Times, when it’s CLEARLY Sign o’ the Times. Only 4 points, no bonus."

You are such a murderer meanie @MNerGoneRogue .. I had already guessed Sign o the times, the song. Not my fault my phone is ignorant.

Your phone clearly lacks the coolness factor, needtoknow. Sad, visible it loses you valuable points.

But themselves the breaks