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

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MBS15: and we’ll get it all done Some day When your
Ooh, Child - Originally by The Five Stairsteps

F9: “He was six foot four and full of muscles. I said…”
Down Under - Men at Work

CC2: …since you went away I’ve been hanging around I’ve been…
What Have I Done to Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield

TL1: moment goes on forever and we’re leavin’ broken hearts behind
TL2: chalk hearts melting on a playground wall do you remember
TL3: feel the way you wanted to feel are you happy

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I hope this is the top of the next page and I hope I didn’t miss any answers or clues. Please forgive me if I did.

BG1. lost the key. So little left for you and me.
BG3. to me you’re worth what you have within. I don’t

BG4. .Just one touch. Just one look. A dangerous dance. One

WB5. Bacon and cigarettes, a lousy dinner

MBS6. tonight, a little wine, a little candlelight, just for you

MBS7. Things that they say, Just don’t make it right, If

MBS8. not get another chance, You know the night is fallin’
JB10: …His Son Is In High School, There’s Nothing He’s Learning…
AD11. He said “little girl, you can chop off my legs…”
F6: “I didn’t know you wrote such bloody awful poetry.”
MBS10: up on love and silly rhymes Got my feelings always
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

FG11: nothing but blues and Elvis and somebody else’s favorite song
F8: “Talkin’ bout the president, won’t stop air pollution. Cover your…”
LotV2: “…Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say…”

Eng1: …bluegrass band takes the chill from the air until they…
CtG5. “…a great big hand for everybody who will understand that…”
CtG7. “That girl’s lost someone. Who is that someone? She’s leaving.”
Eng2 …the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t…

Eng3 …away at first light of each day the simpleton…

AVA1: “…we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.I’m hearing opera…”
AVA3 “…you knockin’ at my cellar door. I love you, baby…”

FG1: I stumble out of bed stretching and yawning another day
FG5: I can see that it makes no sense at all
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
AN3: “seem to get from me but just like a child”

AN4: “I only know what to discuss of for anything but”

CC2: …since you went away I’ve been hanging around I’ve been…
F12: “I used to let you wear all of my clothes”

LotV2: “…Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say…”

LotV3: “…It’s just looking back, things are never what they seem…”

JB3: “If Your Dick Is Big Or Your Dick Is Tiny”

LNJ1: “…the way that you look at me now makes me…”

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FG7: I’ve been feeding the rhythm I’ve been feeding the rhythm

Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer”

BtES3: “A vapor trail in the empty air, across the clouds”

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Pet Shop Boys “What Have I Done To Deserve This”**

Stuck In The Middle With You by, um, Steeler’s Wheel? Man, I’d rule if only I could remember band names.

This one is driving me insane! I feel I should know it. I can hear a faint tune. . . aaarrrrrgggh!

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Marillion, “Kayleigh”

BtES4: “I saw her in the Strasse, and in the Rue”

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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

En4: …night now. She pulls those shades down…

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En4 - “Wonderful Tonight” - Eric Clapton

SCL1 - …“out of control, straight through the heart and down to…”

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TL1: moment goes on forever and we’re leavin’ broken hearts behind

Mystify, INXS (hey, LOVED this song…loved everything up to X)

BG4. .Just one touch. Just one look. A dangerous dance. One

I’ve Been In Love Before, Cutting Crew

Another set:
CC3: …I thought I heard his spirit later that same year…
CC4: …I tell you I’m fine, but sometimes it’s just pretend…

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AVA1: “…we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.I’m hearing opera…”
“Verdi Cries” by 10,000 Maniacs

JB3: “If Your Dick Is Big Or Your Dick Is Tiny”
“Soul City” by Southern Culture on the Skids

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The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics.

LotV4: …four or five paragraphs. All your compliments and your cutting…

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Elvis Costello, “Every Day I Write the Book”

BtES5: “…dresses up in cowboy taste. They punish then they think…”

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No one knows?

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Google does.

Primus’ The Pressman

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Since not many are getting these, I will add a few more lines to each of the above:

AN3: (from “child”): “…you make me smile when you care for me, and you know…”

AN4: (from “anything but”): “…light, wise men fighting over you It’s not me you see”

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Nope…

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Oops…

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My turn, my turn!

She Talks to Angels – Black Crowes

(Didn’t get that at first, because I thought it was a 90s song.)
New:
LotV5: …final message: “Give my wife my love”, then nothing more…

Still available:
LotV2: “…Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say…”
LotV3: “…It’s just looking back, things are never what they seem…”

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LotV5: …final message: “Give my wife my love”, then nothing more…

Major Tom not by David Bowie. A completely different song from the Bowie song done by some other group who is not David Bowie.

Google’s telling me it’s Peter Schilling. I cheated.

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For those who were curious (or not):

MBS6. tonight, a little wine, a little candlelight, just for you

“The Full Cleveland” - Starbuck

MBS7. Things that they say, Just don’t make it right, If

“Games People Play” - The Alan Parsons Project

MBS8. not get another chance, You know the night is fallin’

“Swingtown” - The Steve Miller Band

MBS10: up on love and silly rhymes Got my feelings always

“Just Got Lucky” - The JoBoxers

MBS12: Two or three hours What does it matter now In

“Let’s Work Together” - Canned Heat

MBS13: me and take A second to give to me that

“Always and Forever” - Heatwave

MBS14: me for a moment with a look that spoke to

“Joanne” - Michael Nesmith and the First National Band

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If we’re giving up the answers:

BtES4: “I saw her in the Strasse, and in the Rue”

The Stranglers, “European Female”

BtES5: “…dresses up in cowboy taste. They punish then they think…”

Joan Armatrading, “I Love It When You Call Me Names”