# Can you help ID this 80s song (is it "Two Tribes")?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 19, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276 "2001-11-19T21:17:02Z")
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/1 "2001-11-19T21:17:02Z")
Heard it the other day on the radio, during 80s hour.
It doesn’t quite _sound_ like Frankie Goes to Holywood’s Holly Johnson singing, but the song’s content makes me think it might be “Two Tribes” (heard OF the song, never actually heard the song).
The only lyrics I can recall (IIRC, it’s the song’s chorus):
_Dream on, black boy!
Dream on, white girl!_
(The lyric about the “black boy” is verbatim. I think it is repeated again about a “white girl”. The tone of the singing of these lyrics is somewhat contrived and mocking)
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/2 "2001-11-19T21:20:11Z")
**Original Sin** by INXS.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/3 "2001-11-19T21:22:59Z")
The band is INXS, but I can’t remember the song’s title.
I’ll go see if it shows up at [lyrics.com](http://lyrics.com).
🙂
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/4 "2001-11-19T21:24:24Z")
Never mind…Hodge beat me to it by just a few seconds with his/her post.
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/5 "2001-11-19T21:26:19Z")
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> \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \*
> \*\*The band is INXS, but I can’t remember the song’s title.
> I’ll go see if it shows up at [lyrics.com](http://lyrics.com).
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> 🙂 \*\*
Just Googled it myself … it’s on [purelyrics.com](http://purelyrics.com).
Thanks Hodge! Was it a popular song? I remember only one hit single – _The One Thing_ – from INXS before _Kick_ came out, but that was from an earlier album than whatever contains _Original Sin_.
_Original Sin_ just have been a club hit ot something.
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-80s-song-is-it-two-tribes/94276/6 "2001-11-19T21:43:19Z")
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> \*Originally posted by bordelond \*
> **Thanks Hodge! Was it a popular song? I remember only one hit single – _The One Thing_ – from INXS before _Kick_ came out, but that was from an earlier album than whatever contains _Original Sin_.**
It was the first INXS tune I’d ever heard and it prompted me to buy **The Swing** (1984), the album it was on. It was a minor hit that briefly broke into the top 40 here in Canada.