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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 28 🎶

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 24/04/2021 21:42

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Post a few lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s with the decade & we will try to guess the artist

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 20:37

It was honey, my little Sonia fan

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 20:38

@RogueMNerKnowsNoShame

So, to recap, these are still outstanding from me yesterday. More lyrics? Was needtoknow not about yesterday? Some of these I thought she'd get.
  1. What you want from me
    Tell me, maybe I could be there for you

  2. Get the party goin' on the dance floor

  3. You know it's one thing to say you love me
    But another to mean it from the heart
    And if you don't intend to see it through
    Why did we ever start?
    I wanna hear you tell me
    You don't want my love

Honey knew it was Kylie, but not the track.

  1. I think about the implications when alone between the sheets
    When all the huggin' and kissin' is tearin' my heart apart
    All people standin' hand in hand, celebratin' all different colours

  2. Now I tremble
    At your name.
    Nothing in the world will ever
    Be the same.

This is the truly atrocious one. No guesses? It resonates with 11a which got guessed (see next post)

  1. You wrapped me 'round your little-bitty finger

  2. Rags to riches or so they say
    Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame

  3. And I can’t help myself

Shiny, I hope you’re having a lovely weekend away. Just nice to look at some different walls, huh!

These are outstanding without me adding extra lyrics
Honeyroar · 09/05/2021 20:39

@RogueMNerKnowsNoShame

It was honey, my little Sonia fan
You put it in my head.

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 20:39

7 and 11 have been got

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 20:40

Honey and Sonia sitting in a tree
K - i - s - s - i - n - g

Honeyroar · 09/05/2021 20:45

6 is Pump up the jam. Technotrinic. Even crapper than Sonia.

13 is Guns and Roses - Paradise City.

Honeyroar · 09/05/2021 20:46

You be careful. Flea is from the Liverpool area. She might even be Sonia...

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 21:03

@Honeyroar

6 is Pump up the jam. Technotrinic. Even crapper than Sonia.

13 is Guns and Roses - Paradise City.

Yes and Yes. I thought Needtoknow might get both of those plus one other, but she's clearly passed out in a park or something.

And - OI! - I like pump up the jam

It's deffo not worse than Sonia, my little honey-groupie.

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 21:04

@Honeyroar

You be careful. Flea is from the Liverpool area. She might even be Sonia...
Eeeeek!
RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 21:08

@Fleamaker123

Yes Rogue 👍Prince, Paisley Park

Not sure about the Alison Moyet connection... Was it a love resurrection at your meet up yesterday? ☺️
I felt a pang of envy reading your post, I really want to see my old school friends, I think it's gonna be emotional!

Ok. I feel a bit sad and frankly disappointed that no one got this.

When I put up all my lyrics on Saturday, this was at the top of my post:

And here’s a load more to brighten up a dull, dull day…

Mostly eeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeeeeee
(which will obviously be reflected in the points)

All 80s

And then I put up all the lyrics I had for you all, but all the way through I kept thinking of "dull dull day"

Which is part of the first line of Love Resurrection. So I added it in at end of the lyrics. I thought you guys might have picked up on that, but none of you did.

NeedToKnow101 · 09/05/2021 21:13

' I thought Needtoknow might get both of those plus one other, but she's clearly passed out in a park or something.'
Oi! I actually didn't get any from yesterday cuz I'm so bleedin' cool, and I missed everything else today.. been out out.. well new style out out. And yes I might have just woken up from a drunken stupor.

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 21:18

Ok. Outstanding with more lyrics....

  1. What you want from me Tell me, maybe I could be there for you

This song is mostly the chorus, but the words that aren't include:
Show me how decide
What you want from me
Tell me, maybe I could be there for you

chorus repeated 17 million times

I live at the top of the block
No more room for trouble and fuss
Need a change, a positive change
Look, it's me writing on the wall

  1. I think about the implications when alone between the sheets When all the huggin' and kissin' is tearin' my heart apart All people standin' hand in hand, celebratin' all different colours

^ I can't put anything in before or after that, because it's another song that repeats the chorus a lot, but these are the first lines:

Everybody all around the world, stand up all my brothers
Joining our hands, united we're stronger
Fighting for peace, caring about our loved ones
Trusting ourselves, sharing our feeling, believe me

  1. You wrapped me 'round your little-bitty finger

I thought this one was easy-peasy, however, obviously not. So here you go:

I knew it from the start
You would break my heart
But still I had to play this painful part
You wrapped me 'round your little-bitty finger
With your magic smile

You kept me hangin' on a lovers cross a while
You put your spell on me
Took my breath away
But there was nothin' I could do to make you stay

  1. And I can’t help myself

I know this is only 5 words, but I thought you lot would get it. I forget none of you are as ace as me.

And I can't help myself

I can't get any rest
People say I'm obsessed
Everything you say is lies
But to me there's no surprise
What I had for you was true
Things go wrong, they always do

If you don't get it from this, I'll give you the first line. you'll all get it instantly (or maybe not shrugs resignedly)

And here's a bonus track for all you Sonia fans out there
And if I acted like a fool
Ain't it funny what love can do

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 09/05/2021 21:19

@NeedToKnow101

' I thought Needtoknow might get both of those plus one other, but she's clearly passed out in a park or something.' Oi! I actually didn't get any from yesterday cuz I'm so bleedin' cool, and I missed everything else today.. been out out.. well new style out out. And yes I might have just woken up from a drunken stupor.
passed out in a park wasn't COMPLETELY wrong then, eh love???
Fleamaker123 · 09/05/2021 23:01

Yeah leave our little Sonia alone 😠😂😂

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 10/05/2021 11:14

Oh! 10 is Sydney Youngblood -If only I could. Story of my life at the moment

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 10/05/2021 17:40

Has anyone ever wondered about lyrics in other languages? Like, do they make sense in the language sung? I say this because I'm presently being FORCED to watch K-pop videos, they have the lyrics (in English) running on the screen and half the time they make no sense. And they seem to flit between Korean and English for parts of the song. It's like listening to Welsh.
And.....there's always so bloody many of them, it's hard to say who's prettier - the boys or the girls 😳

midgedude · 10/05/2021 17:43

I know that 99 red balloons is 99 luft balloon not 99 rot luft balloon

WhipperSnapperSteve · 10/05/2021 17:53

Is 4. Soul II Soul's Back To Life?

WhipperSnapperSteve · 10/05/2021 17:56

Think 15 is Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy?

And, Sonia had fans?!

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 10/05/2021 18:46

@midgedude

I know that 99 red balloons is 99 luft balloon not 99 rot luft balloon
I mean, luft balloon is literally 'air balloon' - what other kinds are there??!!! (Been a slow day here chez Dexter)
dexterslockedintheshedagain · 10/05/2021 18:47

Sonia = bubble haired luftkopf

WhipperSnapperSteve · 10/05/2021 18:58

@dexterslockedintheshedagain

Sonia = bubble haired luftkopf
Very much!
RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 10/05/2021 19:08

@Fleamaker123

Yeah leave our little Sonia alone 😠😂😂

Honey! I think you're right. I think she IS Sonia. What should I do???? Do you think she noticed i wrote puke puke puke after her lyrics? Shall I pretend it was brittney auto-clrrecting "pure" or something?

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 10/05/2021 19:12

@dexterslockedintheshedagain

Has anyone ever wondered about lyrics in other languages? Like, do they make sense in the language sung? I say this because I'm presently being FORCED to watch K-pop videos, they have the lyrics (in English) running on the screen and half the time they make no sense. And they seem to flit between Korean and English for parts of the song. It's like listening to Welsh. And.....there's always so bloody many of them, it's hard to say who's prettier - the boys or the girls 😳
Correct for Sydney youngblood. Well done thought that one was hard.

We've had lyrics in other languages before. Falco, Joe le taxi, rapture by blondie and others. But I get what you mean. Why are you watching k-pop?

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 10/05/2021 19:14

@WhipperSnapperSteve

Think 15 is Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy?

And, Sonia had fans?!

Both correct, Steve. I thought you and needtoknow might both know soul II soul, but I didn't do a call out to you cos I know you often have RL stuff to deal with.

And... careful. Turns out honey is an uber Sonia fan and flea IS Sonia.