# I Can Name That 70's/80's Tune in Ten Words! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049 "2005-04-06T16:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/61 "2005-04-08T15:58:19Z")
More clues from the clueless! BG5: past behind. Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried. BG6: I’d build a big house where we both could live. BG7: picked you out, I shook you up and turned you BG8: picture on the wall. It hides an ugly stain that’s BG9: never see tomorrow. I was never told about the sorrow. BG10: a thrill in my head and a pill on my BG11: wouldn’t have to say you loved me 'cause I’d already BG12: sing my songs and become a bad piano playing man. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/62 "2005-04-08T16:03:50Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > BG6: I’d build a big house where we both could live. “Your Song” - Elton John > [@](#): > > BG7: picked you out, I shook you up and turned you “Don’t You Want Me” - The Human League > [@](#): > > BG8: picture on the wall. It hides an ugly stain that’s “I’m Not in Love” - 10cc > [@](#): > > BG10: a thrill in my head and a pill on my “True” - Spandau Ballet (I hate this song!) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/63 "2005-04-08T16:13:09Z")
I don’t know what number I left off on, but I’ll start it this way: MBS10: up on love and silly rhymes Got my feelings always MBS11: I lose that vision…I don’t know how to dream MBS12: Two or three hours What does it matter now In MBS13: me and take A second to give to me that MBS14: me for a moment with a look that spoke to MBS15: and we’ll get it all done Some day When your ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/64 "2005-04-08T16:17:57Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > More clues from the clueless! > > BG5: past behind. Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried. > BG9: never see tomorrow. I was never told about the sorrow. > BG12: sing my songs and become a bad piano playing man. BG5: “Reason to Believe” Tim Hardin/Rod Stewart BG9: “How Do You Mend a Broken Heart,” The Bee Gees BG12: “Hollywood Swinging,” Kool & the Gang F7: “I understand just a little. No comprende, it’s a riddle” F8: “Talkin’ bout the president, won’t stop air pollution. Cover your…” F9: “He was six foot four and full of muscles. I said…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/65 "2005-04-08T16:20:54Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > F7: “I understand just a little. No comprende, it’s a riddle” “Mexican Radio” - Wall of Voodoo (cool video, too) > [@](#): > > F9: “He was six foot four and full of muscles. I said…” “Down Under” - Men at Work ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/66 "2005-04-08T16:22:23Z")
MBS11: I lose that vision…I don’t know how to dream Waiting for The Stars To Fall by, um, someone who sounds like that Canadian fellow Brian Something or other. MBS15: and we’ll get it all done Some day When your Ooooh Child by the Five Stairsteps. I think it’s the 5 Stairsteps. Damn, I’m bad with the band names. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/67 "2005-04-08T16:24:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > MBS11: I lose that vision…I don’t know how to dream > Waiting for The Stars To Fall by, um, someone who sounds like that Canadian fellow Brian Something or other. It was Boy Meets Girl. A songwriting duo who wrote stuff Whitney Houston amongst others. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/68 "2005-04-08T16:28:22Z")
> [@](#): > > **BG11:** wouldn’t have to say you loved me 'cause I’d already “More Than Words” – Extreme (and thanks soooo much **biggirl** – that one’s gonna be in my head all day now!) My first one is still unanswered (surprisingly, since it’s a well-known song): **LotV1:** “…anger, I know your dreams. I’ve been everything you want…” I guess I’ll go easier for my new one. **LotV2:** “…Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say…” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/69 "2005-04-08T16:35:38Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > **LotV1:** “…anger, I know your dreams. I’ve been everything you want…” Cult of Personality - Living Color **Eng1:** …bluegrass band takes the chill from the air until they… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/70 "2005-04-08T17:56:56Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’m thinking this is Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning,” but it’s not quite the way I remember it. Here’s what I recall: > > _Woke up, it was a Chelsea Morning, and the first thing that I saw > Was the sun through yellow curtains and a rainbow on the wall…"_ You’re right. I misremembered the lyrics. Sorry! Also, I realized too late (after I’d already posted) that one of the lines I posted was from a 60s era song, and this was supposed to be 70s/80s lyrics. (I think “Chelsea Morning” was from 1970, so it’s just under the wire.) So, again, my apologies. So perhaps I should substitute a new lyric in its’ place. I’ll even swap in a lyric from the same band, albiet from the 1970s: “…children on the back roads to salvation. Children of the…” ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/71 "2005-04-08T18:28:04Z")
**Art Vandelay** —That wasn’t Joni Mitchell’s _Woodstock_, was it? I got a few: CtG1. “And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention. You…” CtG2. “It’s hard to keep serious when the joker is laughing,” CtG3. “Exit wounds in a foreign nation, showing the home of…” CtG4. “It will excite, it will delight, it will give a…” CtG5. “…a great big hand for everybody who will understand that…” CtG6. “…beaches, hand in hand. ‘Twelfth of Never’ in the sand…” CtG7. “That girl’s lost someone. Who is that someone? She’s leaving.” CtG8. “And the lady, like, goes, ‘Oh, my God, your toenails…’” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/72 "2005-04-08T18:40:46Z")
> [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > I got a few: > > CtG1. “And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention. You…” > CtG3. “Exit wounds in a foreign nation, showing the home of…” CtG1: Talking Heads - Nothing but Flowers CtG3: They Might be Giants - Ana Ng **Eng2** …the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t… **Eng3** …away at first light of each day the simpleton… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/73 "2005-04-08T18:44:12Z")
> [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > **Art Vandelay** —That wasn’t Joni Mitchell’s _Woodstock_, was it? > > I got a few: > > CtG1. “And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention. You…” > CtG2. “It’s hard to keep serious when the joker is laughing,” > CtG3. “Exit wounds in a foreign nation, showing the home of…” > CtG4. “It will excite, it will delight, it will give a…” > CtG5. “…a great big hand for everybody who will understand that…” > CtG6. “…beaches, hand in hand. ‘Twelfth of Never’ in the sand…” > CtG7. “That girl’s lost someone. Who is that someone? She’s leaving.” > CtG8. “And the lady, like, goes, ‘Oh, my God, your toenails…’” No, it wasn’t “Woodstock.” BTW, CtG2 is “Fast Buck Freddie” by Jefferson Starship. Here’s some more: “…we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.I’m hearing opera…” “…I have run through the fields only to be with…” “…you knockin’ at my cellar door. I love you, baby…” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/74 "2005-04-08T18:57:04Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > “…I have run through the fields only to be with…” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2 > [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > CtG8. “And the lady, like, goes, ‘Oh, my God, your toenails…’” “Valley Girl,” Frank and Moon Unit Zappa F10: “…fine romance. The record company gave me a big advance.” F11: “…never once gave it away. Everyone had to pay and pay.” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/75 "2005-04-08T19:02:40Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > F10: “…fine romance. The record company gave me a big advance.” > > F11: “…never once gave it away. Everyone had to pay and pay.” F10: “Born to Run” - Bruce Springsteen f11: “Walk On The Wild Side” - Lou Reed New one: “…She’s been a bad girl. She’s like a chemical. Though…” ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/76 "2005-04-08T19:06:24Z")
I got some UK artists here, though you merkins will have heard of them 🙂 FG1: I stumble out of bed stretching and yawning another day FG2: good heavens Miss Sakamoto you’re beautiful I don’t believe it FG3: see I met your children what did you tell them FG4: my soul up there there’s a dead salmon frozen in FG5: I can see that it makes no sense at all FG6: slow change may pull us apart when the light gets FG7: I’ve been feeding the rhythm I’ve been feeding the rhythm FG8: it rains you’re here in my head like the sun FG9: with auburn hair and tawny eyes the kind of eyes FG10: don’t know you don’t even know how to say goodbye ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/77 "2005-04-08T19:09:07Z")
Since I keep getting lost in the crowd, I’ll repost my old ones, this time adding the spiffy new number system to them, since I didn’t do that before :smack: : > [@Anastasaeon](#): > > My new clues: > > **AN2:** “with next-door’s school every term, that is the rule” > > **AN3:** “seem to get from me but just like a child” > > **AN4:** “I only know what to discuss of for anything but” ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/78 "2005-04-08T19:13:43Z")
AN2: “with next-door’s school every term, that is the rule” Ahh! Back of the 'ed with a plastic cup! Baggy Trousers - Madness. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/79 "2005-04-08T19:20:02Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > AN2: “with next-door’s school every term, that is the rule” > > Ahh! Back of the 'ed with a plastic cup! Baggy Trousers - Madness. _Oh what fun we had_! - Baggy Trousers is correct. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-name-that-70s-80s-tune-in-ten-words/298049/80 "2005-04-08T19:25:57Z")
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