🎵 80's (or thereabouts) song thread 23 🎵

[CoffeeBeansGalore]

🎵 Thread 23 🎵

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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
@MNerGoneRogueAgain
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2021
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@NeedToKnow101
@perditaplum
@midgedude
@WhipperSnapperSteve
@CarnageAtTheValentineCardStand
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy
@dexterslockedintheshedagain.

Pantry - I think we discovered VERY early on in these threads (possibly as far back as thread 1, if you were on that one??? ) that you and I share a lot of music in common. I remember us both commenting on it.

Of course, that was a while and a gazillion user names ago.

@Honeyroar

You’re going to have to pace yourself posting lyrics rather than “Rogue’s weekly dump”!!

AHEM!!!!
(a) you are not the boss of MN OR these threads and most CERTAINLY not of me
(b) I ALREADY post them as bloody individual ones because of you, thus needlessly filling up a thread quicker than necessary
and
(c) I can't think of a C at the moment, but I'm sure it'll come to me. But I object to your use of the word "dump", which rather implies I'm shitting on the thread.
Which I would never, never do. Coffee wouldn't approve and it would be murder for Needtoknow to clear up at the end.

Yes Rogue, my best friend that died used to be very into 1/2man1/2biscuit, along with our other flat mate, so it got played a lot. And I think they’ve a lot of humour in their lyrics, they often amused me!

After bugging me for ages I think the Billy Bragg one is Between the wards

Well I’ve got to annoy you at some point. It gives you a change from sucking up to Pantry... And I’ve not doctored your name for a while either. Life has been calm..

Anyway, oh great dumper, what hasn’t been guessed??

So, still outstanding (and let me know if you want more lyrics) we have:

I tell you love, sister
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
60s.

I raised a family
In times of austerity
With sweat at the foundry
80s
We know this is Billy Bragg. But which song?

Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes and there were kings
80s
I thought this one might have been got. The singer/group is quite liked on here. Definitely by Honey, but others too. I can't think who atm, but Honey is not alone in liking this one.

Keep a generation gap
Try wearing a cap
80s
These are the last two lines of the song. When we saw them live, me and my friend were YELLING that last line out loud! Great ending to a song!

You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
80s

Life's an illusion, love is a dream
But I don't know what it is
70s

Well he said he'd show you his bed
And the delights of the chemical smile
So in your broken home he broke all your bones
Now you're taking it time after time
90s

I'm Big Bank, I am the Chief
I got a lot of raps but I'll be real
I never need a horse I like to chill
So I drive up in my new Seville
My tribe went down in the hall of fame
'Cause I'm the one who shot Jesse James
Pound for pound, I will never break down
Big Bank, no sir I don't mess around
80s

We're gonna have a hundred and twenty babies
A hundred and five, ten, fifteen, twenty babies
Uh huh, that's what I said a hundred and twenty babies
80s

Think I'm going up again
Hear the angels fall
Think I'm going up again
Catch me when I fall
80s

opps! Hit post too soon.

Also still not got:

And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't the one
For a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun
To be beatin' on, and thrown in jail
We can go toe-to-toe in the middle of a cell
80s

See I rob banks, I pull pranks,
Sometimes I eat franks and knishes
Best wishes, I'm vicious but here
I am again like CNN, delivery my friend
90s

So, these 3 you're just not going to get, I think.

Shall I tell you?

I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest
70s

I'm going over to the other side
I'm happy to have not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm inside free enterprise

I'm adaptable
I'm adaptable

I'm adaptable and I like my new role
I'm getting better and better
And I have a new goal
I'm changing my ways where money applies
80s.

You shake your body on the TV screen
It seems to me, you'd try anything twice
And swing it out and use it as your aphrodisiac
You can give it to me, to me
Plain to see that I'll give it you back
You let it flow, let it go, there's nothing to it
Anyone can try anything twice, try anything twice
Chasing after stories that have already been told
Could not look old Son House in the eyes
Unaware you carry such a fragile load
But I've got yours, and you've got mine
90s.

One is punk, one is post punk and the 3rd one is just not an album/group that you guys particularly know (although it's a lovely album which I thoroughly recommend).

The show you his bed one is the fantastic Animal Nitrate by Suede.

@AJumpedUpPantryBoy

After bugging me for ages I think the Billy Bragg one is Between the wards

It is. Typo or error? Be honest. Points are at stake....

@Honeyroar

Yes Rogue, my best friend that died used to be very into 1/2man1/2biscuit, along with our other flat mate, so it got played a lot. And I think they’ve a lot of humour in their lyrics, they often amused me!

sorry that your friend died, Honey. Have a (((hug))) (socially distanced, obvs!)

The wearing a cap one is The Specials, Too much too young.

The red and green one is playing in my head, but not clearly enough for me to get it.

Thanks for the hug Rogue (am a bit in shock!). She’s have got all your punk ones, for sure.

@Honeyroar

Well I’ve got to annoy you at some point. It gives you a change from sucking up to Pantry... And I’ve not doctored your name for a while either. Life has been calm..

Anyway, oh great dumper, what hasn’t been guessed??

I do not and have NEVER sucked up to Her Pantriness. Who, once again, looks gorj this evening!

AND do NOT call me 'oh great dumper'. Or I'll complain to Coffee!

@Honeyroar

The show you his bed one is the fantastic Animal Nitrate by Suede.

correct.

Zero points, because - quite frankly - it shouldn't have needed posting twice. For Shame, the rest of you, For Shame!

@Honeyroar

The wearing a cap one is The Specials, Too much too young.

The red and green one is playing in my head, but not clearly enough for me to get it.

Correct with the Specials and Too Much Too Young. Fab song.

Yes, the red and green one you definitely know. It's my favourite song by this singer/group and I've put lyrics up before. I think you might have done too. It's definitely a group/singer you like. Want more? I could give you lyrics from a different part of the song and you'd get them instantly. I know you would. Does that make a sweet taste in your mouth that would turn bitter in its glass?

@Honeyroar

Thanks for the hug Rogue (am a bit in shock!). She’s have got all your punk ones, for sure.

I like the sound of this friend, Honey. x x x

Sorry about your friend Honey ❤️❤️

I would have got a few of these; the Specials, and Katrina and the Waves and one or two others, but I was too late.

Errm... I'm feeling generous Rogue .. I think I'll let you and Honey clear up this time 😘

Yes please to more lyrics from the red and green one.

@NeedToKnow101

Sorry about your friend Honey ❤️❤️

I would have got a few of these; the Specials, and Katrina and the Waves and one or two others, but I was too late.

Errm... I'm feeling generous Rogue .. I think I'll let you and Honey clear up this time 😘

I’ve cleaned up the last two times anyway!

Do you think Brittney will behave better once she’s got away from her dad - and actually spellcheck things??

@Honeyroar

Yes please to more lyrics from the red and green one.

Um. There was quite a mahoosive clue in my last post about it..... #embarressedonyourbehalf

Nope can’t get it!

I do not and have NEVER sucked up to Her Pantriness. Who, once again, looks gorj this evening!

Oh the irony - I'm in first day of the holiday mode. A magnificent combination of exhaustion and unwashed hair coupled with the washed out look of someone who has just watched the Scotland Wales Rugby game with their heart in their mouth.

I'll make an effort to scrub up for tomorrow.

@Honeyroar - I think you'll find I cleared up the time before last.
(Unless I've missed a whole thread?!!!!!!)

Yes maybe Britney can devote a bit more time to us now. No more sloppy errors.

@MNerGoneRogueAgain - I held Billy Bragg's tiny baby.