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

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🎵 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.

More lyrics.
If you don't get these from this, I'll let you know later/in the morning what the songs were...

From nearer the beginning of the song:
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our streets today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

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.

Mr FlouncingB would get this. Coooee. Hello Mr FlouncingB

You don't have to take this crap etc is Style Council Walls Come Tumbling down

My brains not working today.

Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing, singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing, singing

Waiting for a sign
To turn blood into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth
Turned bitter in its glass

Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins on the stained glass
Like the lifeline in your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes and there were kings

Honey, I'm embarrassed for you

[quote NeedToKnow101]@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.
[/quote]
Oh yeah, I forgot your sneaky cc!

You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know we've always been taught to rely

Upon those in authority
But you never know until you try
How things just might be
If we came together so strongly

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change
Yes and ....
80s

I'm surprised nobody got this one.

I was so tired of being upset
Always wanting something I never could get
Life's an illusion, love is a dream
But I don't know what it is
70s

The next lines are the chorus, and then it just basically repeats this verse and the chorus, so if you don't know it from this, you won't get it. (Needtoknow???)

@MNerGoneRogueAgain

You don't have to take this crap You don't have to sit back and relax You can actually try changing it I know we've always been taught to rely

Upon those in authority
But you never know until you try
How things just might be
If we came together so strongly

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change
Yes and ....
80s

I'm surprised nobody got this one.

We cross posted its style council

Rogue, shiny got it!

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

Like Kemosabe, of course it's me
I'm better known as the Master Gee
A firing squad, sensed the danger
When they're stung by the rapping ranger
Had a little talk with my medicine man
He said, get them squaws, fast as you can
To all you girls, that wanna join my tribe
Just move to my rhythm, and feel my vibe
Put up a fuss, in the end you'll agree
When you come inside, my tee-pee
As I said before, you could sense the danger
When you're stung by the rapping ranger
When Silver and I, take a route
All you suckers better step aside
I sting squaws, then I run away
Hi-yo Silver, is what I say
Hit it, gang
80s

I don't think you lot will get this one. To be fair, I wouldn't either, even though I saw them live. BUT it's one where if you heard it (particularly the riff) you'd get it instantly
Quite early hip hop.

Then I think I'm gonna find myself an old man
Then I think I'm gonna marry myself that old man
An old, an old, an old, an old, a really old man

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

We'll raise 'em on tiger's milk and green bananas
Mangoes and coconuts and watermelon
We're gonna give 'em that watermelon when they starts yellin'
80s

This was something that was considered properly cool when I was a teen. But maybe too niche for you all to be familiar with? I'd expect you all to recognise it if you heard it, though. But perhaps not?

"Oh yeah, I forgot your sneaky cc "
😂😂 how could you forget?! I think it's etched in your brain love 🧠

There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said
Sometimes I'm up so high, sometimes I'm down
I can't remember having my feet on level ground

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

I fill it in the morning and tonight I'll take you to bed
Oh won't somebody cut me down and set me free?
I've spent so long killing time and now it's killing me
80s

I think I said this (maybe not), but a song (can't remember if it was this one or another from the band) by this group made it to Awards Night. But (again) from a contributor who is no longer contributing.

@MNerGoneRogueAgain

Little orphans in the snow With nowhere to call a home Start their singing, singing Waiting through the summertime To thaw your hearts in wintertime That's why they're singing, singing

Waiting for a sign
To turn blood into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth
Turned bitter in its glass

Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins on the stained glass
Like the lifeline in your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes and there were kings

Honey, I'm embarrassed for you

Is is Siouxie?

@MNerGoneRogueAgain

Then I think I'm gonna find myself an old man Then I think I'm gonna marry myself that old man An old, an old, an old, an old, a really old man

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

We'll raise 'em on tiger's milk and green bananas
Mangoes and coconuts and watermelon
We're gonna give 'em that watermelon when they starts yellin'
80s

This was something that was considered properly cool when I was a teen. But maybe too niche for you all to be familiar with? I'd expect you all to recognise it if you heard it, though. But perhaps not?

I can honestly say I have no idea what this is You are obviously way further up the cool scale then me

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

Fuckin with me 'cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin' my car, lookin' for the product
Thinkin' every is sellin' narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen

Than me and Lorenzo rollin' in the Benzo
Beat a police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still getting swole off bread and water
80s

I'm not comfortable posting a lot of these lyrics, because the words are offensive. I didn't write them! And I like the group a lot. But they're not words that it's appropriate for me to use.

Can I interrupt the lyrics fest to ask; has anyone watched Finding Alice? And is it the biggest pile of shite you've ever seen?

One, two, three and I come with the redneck style
'Cause you know I get paid by the Mile, like Avis
I pave this, fast save this, everybody smile and act gracious

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

Yes we bug a lot and my friends is loud and
I'm more freaky than disco 2000
I scream, I yell, I bark, I bite
I'll hit you with an egg on a hot summer night

I never let the cops get wind of me
And I never, ever, ever say die
I never take myself too seriously
'Cause everybody knows fat birds don't fly

I think that last verse if the giveaway. C'mon. Lead singer was HOT!

That's NWA Fuck da Police, I think?

@NeedToKnow101Yes and yes!

And like a fool I persevered with the whole thing in the vain hope it would improve

[quote AJumpedUpPantryBoy]@NeedToKnow101Yes and yes!

And like a fool I persevered with the whole thing in the vain hope it would improve[/quote]
Thank god you've watch it so I don't have to!
I'm only on episode 2 and I'm going to bin it now.
It's the most godawful pile of crap isn't it?! It seems completely pointless.

I started The Drowning last night and I'm not sure if that will be worth pursuing.
Although Jill Halfpenny is wearing a coat so ugly it is almost compelling in itself.

And to put you out of your misery:

I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest
70s
Smash It Up Part 2, by the Damned (you lot could've had a shot at the bloody group. It's not as if I don't bang on about them enough!)

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
etc
This is PIL (Public Image Ltd). The band John Lydon formed/joined after the Sex Pistols. The song is This Is Not A Love Song.

Not of the same ilk but:
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.

This band is Gomez and the album it's from is called Liquid Skin. Well worth checking out. Not punky at all.
The song's called Rhythm and Blues Alibi.

@NeedToKnow101

That's NWA Fuck da Police, I think?

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

Not the other rap..

@AJumpedUpPantryBoy

I started The Drowning last night and I'm not sure if that will be worth pursuing. Although Jill Halfpenny is wearing a coat so ugly it is almost compelling in itself.

😂😂😂 not sure that's a reason to keep watching though...