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Can anyone help me remember a song just going off an extremely vague description?

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FieldOfBeans · 21/06/2024 20:09

I want to say the song is probably 80s, but I may be way off with that!

As far as my brain is allowing me to remember it's sort of a similar style to ch-ch-ch-chaaanges (Bowie), and I get around-round-round (Beach Boys). The very vague memory I have seems to have a similar 'repetitive'/stuttered sort of sound if that makes sense.
I also want to say the lyrics include a suitcase... grabbing a suitcase from somewhere and packing? Packing up your bags? Just... packing? Again, may be completely misremembering or merging with another song entirely.
It's mainly the stuttered sound that's my most confident memory of it... particularly the beginning of the song.

Can anyone hazard a guess based on these very cryptic clues? Grin

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NeverDropYourMooncup · 21/06/2024 20:12

Grabbing a suitcase sounds like the song from Only Fools and Horses.

ChangeyTime · 21/06/2024 20:13

NeverDropYourMooncup · 21/06/2024 20:12

Grabbing a suitcase sounds like the song from Only Fools and Horses.

Literally I can now no longer think of anything else.

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 21/06/2024 20:13

Could it be Tempted by Squeeze?

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 21/06/2024 20:13

I have no idea why but the only song springing to my mind is one night in Bangkok by Murray Head and im pretty sure it isn't that 😂

bigbadbarry · 21/06/2024 20:14

I think Tempted by Squeeze? I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face. Pyjamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case …
it’s not stuttery though

Butterbeanbutterbo · 21/06/2024 20:16

Bronski beat small town boy?

Ijoinedforthis · 21/06/2024 20:19

I think it might be Mary of the 4th form by The boomtown rats.

Ijoinedforthis · 21/06/2024 20:21

Or She's so modern again by The boomtown rats

JamSlags · 21/06/2024 20:21

Pop Music by M mentions a suitcase in the first verse and is a bit stuttery?

BigBurrata · 21/06/2024 20:23

70s not 80s, but for some reason I thought of Carole Bayer Sager - You’re moving out today.

CandidFruit · 21/06/2024 20:24

Mel and Kim’s Respectable fits the 80s and stuttery criteria.

TheTecknician · 21/06/2024 20:25

Another Nail In My Heart by Squeeze ?

TiddlyCove · 21/06/2024 20:26

Nathan Jones - Bananarama?

"You packed your bags as I recall and you walked slowly down the hall'

SnakesAndArrows · 21/06/2024 20:26

Psycho Killer by Talking Heads?

NannyGythaOgg · 21/06/2024 20:26

You're Moving out Today
Carole Bayer Sager

Springwatch123 · 21/06/2024 20:30

Leaving on a jet plane?

First verse.

“All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
It's early morn
The taxi's waitin'
He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die”

Monkeytapper · 21/06/2024 20:31

Is it a dance tune?

TheBucktoothedGirlFromLuxembourg · 21/06/2024 20:31

Living in a Box?

DoYouSmokePaul · 21/06/2024 20:32

JamSlags · 21/06/2024 20:21

Pop Music by M mentions a suitcase in the first verse and is a bit stuttery?

Was my first thought!

FieldOfBeans · 21/06/2024 20:48

None of these so far although some are close with sound/style!

My brain actually may be merging the song with the Eliza Doolittle song too because those lyrics are similar to what I was thinking of! Grin
Either the beginning of the song or the beginning of the chorus definitely started with a stuttered lyric though..

Sorry my brain is not playing ball, it's driving me absolutely nuts! I sang it (badly) in a secondary school performance so it definitely didn't have any major expletives or anything if that helps. It's one of those where I'd just know the song if I wasn't actively trying to think of it!

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FearsomeWretchedandWrong · 21/06/2024 20:48

S-s-s-single Bed by Fox? 70s though...

Fraa · 21/06/2024 20:50

N-n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen.

Though doesn't fit any of your other criteria.

IdaPrentice · 21/06/2024 20:52

The Who - talkin' bout my g-g-g-generation? (not really about suitcases etc though)

TiddlyCove · 21/06/2024 20:54

Moving Out - Billy Joel?

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