I Can Name That 70's/80's Tune in Ten Words!

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.

“Your Song” - Elton John

“Don’t You Want Me” - The Human League

“I’m Not in Love” - 10cc

“True” - Spandau Ballet (I hate this song!)

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

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…”

“Mexican Radio” - Wall of Voodoo (cool video, too)

“Down Under” - Men at Work

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.

It was Boy Meets Girl. A songwriting duo who wrote stuff Whitney Houston amongst others.

“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…”

Cult of Personality - Living Color

Eng1: …bluegrass band takes the chill from the air until they…

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…”

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…’”

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…

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…”

“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2

“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.”

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…”

I got some UK artists here, though you merkins will have heard of them :slight_smile:

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

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: :

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. :slight_smile:

FG2: Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me with Science
FG3: The Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star
FG5: Is this Hüsker Dü’s Makes No Sense?