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🎵 80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 38 ⭐

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 05/11/2022 22:19

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

OP posts:
Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 21:49

g) Those games you play
theyre going to end in more than tears some day
(80s)

h) they do it over there
but we don’t do it here
(80s)

i) She’s so popular!
(80s)

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 21:50

Rogue1001MNer · 29/01/2023 21:49

I know f too

E is night boat to Cairo, madness

Correct Rogue

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 21:52

You’ve got ten minutes to get the rest, then can go for F!

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G - OMD Enola gay

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 21:59

ajumpeduppantryboy · 29/01/2023 21:52

G - OMD Enola gay

Correct Pantry

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 22:03

G Bob Marley - could you be loved

F Kate Bush - Babooshka

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:07

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 22:03

G Bob Marley - could you be loved

F Kate Bush - Babooshka

Correct Shiny for both!
were you sitting there with your answer typed waiting for 10pm?🤣

come on guess the rest, I’m watching an 80s music programme and I’ll have forgotten what they were by tomorrow!

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 22:09

I think they are all very early 80s - but I'm having no inspiration as to what the others are!

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:09

Clues-
i) says “she’s so popular” lots of times at the start..

midgetastic · 29/01/2023 22:11

Disco 2000?

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:17

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 21:13

I can’t guess it!

Some more from me…

a) Poets, Priests and politicians
(80s)

b) Steve walks warily down the street
with his brim pulled way down low
(80s)

c) part of a success that never ends
still I’m thinking about you only
(80s)

d) Ain’t got no money
and I ain’t got no hair
(80s)

Clues for these -
a) group is also a profession starting with the same letter…
b) continues…
ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet
machine guns ready to go
d) further on it goes..
I want an axe to break the ice
wanna come down right now

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:21

midgetastic · 29/01/2023 22:11

Disco 2000?

Nope, much older.
next line-
Hans plays with Lottie
Lottie plays with Jane

midgetastic · 29/01/2023 22:22

Games sans frontiers ?

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:26

midgetastic · 29/01/2023 22:22

Games sans frontiers ?

games oui - but who sang it??

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 22:27

Peter Gabriel ?

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 22:29

From your clues - is (a) the Police ?

Sure I know (d) now - it will come to me in the middle of the night

That 'she's so popular' is a misheard lyric for me - always sounds like 'she's so funky - yeah!'

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:35

a) is the Police, now which one??
It is Peter Gabriel.
You will know (d) it’s a huge song.

VQ1970 · 29/01/2023 22:57

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 22:17

Clues for these -
a) group is also a profession starting with the same letter…
b) continues…
ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet
machine guns ready to go
d) further on it goes..
I want an axe to break the ice
wanna come down right now

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b Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

Honeyroar · 29/01/2023 23:00

VQ1970 · 29/01/2023 22:57

b Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

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Correct✅

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 29/01/2023 23:21

Hi is one Games without frontiers, someone already guessed Peter Gabriel.

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 23:28

I have the tune in my head for the bit about an axe to beak the ice etc but not the rest of the song . It might be The Jam? But I can't place that bit in any of their songs .

Comefromaway · 29/01/2023 23:47

The clue for my one is the name Stephen

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 30/01/2023 07:20

shinynewapple22 · 29/01/2023 23:28

I have the tune in my head for the bit about an axe to beak the ice etc but not the rest of the song . It might be The Jam? But I can't place that bit in any of their songs .

'Axe to break the ice' is Ashes to Ashes, David Bowie

Honeyroar · 30/01/2023 08:09

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 30/01/2023 07:20

'Axe to break the ice' is Ashes to Ashes, David Bowie

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Correct Dex✅

shinynewapple22 · 30/01/2023 08:33

@Comefromaway could you repost your lyrics with your clue so they are all together please ?

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