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🎶 80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread26 🐇🐣

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 18/03/2021 20:33

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shinynewapple21 · 05/04/2021 20:11

Today is the day - oasis
Is it champagne supernova

Life on Mars
David Bowie

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:11

@RogueMNerKnowsNoShame

So, here you go. I hope there's a few of you about.

These are all super-easy. Soooooo easy that there's no points, except where I've specifically specified.

I haven't numbered them because (a) no one was admiring enough of my roman numerals the other day and (b) it'll add to the chaos!

The theme is songs with distinctive first lines.

Have fun!

Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
60s

Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
90s

It’s a goodawful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair

Wake in the mornin' and tumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition

She came from Greece
She had a thirst for knowledge
90s

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life
80s

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
70s

Let’s go girls
90s

Just a small town girl
Livin’ in a lonely world
00s

You walked into the party like you were
Walking onto a yacht
70s

What you want?
Baby, I got it
60s

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there’s not much left
90s

Bollocks!
70s
You lot won’t get this one. This one is my indulgence. You might guess the band???

There must be some kinda way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
60s

Hello darkness, my old friend
60s

A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
70s

Stranded at the drive in
70s

Hello. Is there anybody in there?
70s or very fabulous cover in the 00s Need both for the points

At first I was afraid, I was petrified
70s

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
70s

Once I had a love and it was a gas
70s

Out on the wiley, windy moors
70s

Street’s like a jungle
So call the police
90s

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
80s

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man
70s

Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
70s

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
80s

Outside gets inside
Through her skin
70s

I am a lineman for the county
60s

It was Christmas Eve, babe
In the drunk tank
80s

Jitterbug
Jitterbug
80s

Get your motor running

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night
60s

No New Year’s Day to celebrate
80s

I may not always love you
But as long as there are stars above you
60s

Birds flying high, you know how I feel

Mi-i-n-e
Give it to me one time now
Well, whoa, well
80s

Don’t start me talking
I could talk all night
70s

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor
60s

There’s a new sensation
A fabulous creation
70s

Why do birds suddenly appear
70s

Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news
80s

I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
80s

I’m so tired
Of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow

Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinkin’ ‘bout the government
60s

It’s Christmas Time
There’s no need to be afraid
80s

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham

I don’t want talk
About the things we’ve gone through
80s (just)

I feel so unsure
80s

And now, the end is near
And I so I face the final curtain
Bonus points if anyone can name the punk artist who covered it, and what was the next line, that doesn’t appear in the original? Treble bonus points for naming it.

All around me are familiar faces
80s

In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the seas
60s

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
70s

Poor old Johnny Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
80s

Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones

Wonderwall,Oasis

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:12

9 x 5 Dolly Parton

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 05/04/2021 20:13

shiny gets points deducted for getting the wrong Oasis track.

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:13

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night
60s

Waterloo Sunset the Kinks

shinynewapple21 · 05/04/2021 20:13

Wake on the morning -
Dolly Parton 9 to 5

Is this real life - Queen bohemian rhapsody

Let's go girls - shania Twain feel like a woman

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:13

Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news
80s

Reward, TeardropExplodes

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 05/04/2021 20:14

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
70s

Boney M - Rasputi

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:14

n the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the seas
60s
Beatles, Yellow Submarine

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
70s
Rasputin Bonney M

CoffeeBeansGalore · 05/04/2021 20:14

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life
80s
Baz Lurhman, SunScreen

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NeedToKnow101 · 05/04/2021 20:14

@FlouncingBabooshka

Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news 80s

Reward, TeardropExplodes

First single I ever bought!!
shinynewapple21 · 05/04/2021 20:14

Just a small town girl - Journey - don't stop believing

You walked into the party - your so vain Carly Simon

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 05/04/2021 20:14

Poor old Johnny Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
80s
Come On Eileen - Dexys midnight runners

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:15

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham

Up the Junction Squeeze

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:15

All around me are familiar faces
80s

mad World Tears for Fears

CoffeeBeansGalore · 05/04/2021 20:15

I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
80s

Lionel Ritchie Hello

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NeedToKnow101 · 05/04/2021 20:16

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Dearly beloved We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life 80s Baz Lurhman, SunScreen
That's Prince!!! Let's go crazy..
FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:16

I don’t want talk
About the things we’ve gone through
80s (just)

The winner takes it all, Abba

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 05/04/2021 20:16

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life
80s
Prince-Let's go crazy

shinynewapple21 · 05/04/2021 20:16

As I walk through the valley - gangsters paradise

There must be some way out - all along the watch tower jimi Hendrix

NeedToKnow101 · 05/04/2021 20:16

Girl from Greece is Pulp, Common People..

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 05/04/2021 20:16

GODDAMMITT!!!

FlouncingBabooshka · 05/04/2021 20:16

I feel so unsure
80s

Careless whisper George Michael

CoffeeBeansGalore · 05/04/2021 20:17

Why do birds suddenly appear
The Capenters, Close to you

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 05/04/2021 20:17

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Dearly beloved We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life 80s Baz Lurhman, SunScreen
This one is wrong.

All other guesses correct.

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