Play Name that Tune with me again--- 1980's Edition.

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I like playing name the song from the lyrics game, but I’m a dinosaur and am still living in the past. I wanna play Name That Tune with songs I have a possibility of actually naming.

So think back to the time of New Wave, post punk and funkadelica. Give me the artist, the title or more lyrics. Play with me!

Here’s my list 'o lyrics: [ol]
[li]I got my cat moves[/li]That so upsets them
Zippers and buttons
Fun to frustrate them

[li]Yo, pretty ladies around the world[/li]Got a weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls
Tell your brother, your sister and your mama too
'Cause we’re about to go down and you know just what to do.

[li]Industry don’t pay a price that’s fair[/li]All the common people breathing filthy air
Roof caved in on all the simple dreams
And to get ahead your heart starts pumping schemes.

Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks
Religion is a light in the fog
I’m not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, oo yeah.

[li]I’ll play along with the charade[/li]There doesn’t seem to be a reason to change
Y’know I feel so dirty when they start talkin’ cute
I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is prob’ly moot

[li] [/li]The situations never change
Tomorrow looks unsure
Don’t leave your destinated trains
What are you waiting for?[/ol]

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#4 is Edie Brickell and New Bohemians. I don’t remember the song title.

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#5 Jesse’s Girl, Rick Springfield

#3 Jump, Pointer Sisters

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Morgainelf has scored two points! Yay. But she didn’t leave any lyrics. Boo.

Homebrew gets 1/2 a point. Yay! But he didn’t leave any lyrics. Boo.

The score:
Morgain— 1
Homebrew-- -1/2.

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  1. Word Up, Cameo. Love this whole album. My car jammin’ tape!

  2. What I Am, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians

  3. Jesse’s Girl, Rick Springfield

Now guess mine!

  1. Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
    Whose every move’s among the purest
    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

  2. The Mississippi Delta was shining
    Like a National guitar
    I am following the river
    Down the highway
    Through the cradle of the Civil War.

  3. Here’s a scene
    You’re in the back seat laying down
    The windows wrap around
    To sound of the travel and the engine

  4. Those soft fuzzy sweaters
    Too magical to touch.
    To see her in that negligee was really just too much.

No Googling!

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#1 is “I Know What Boys Like” by the Waitresses

The title of #4 is “What I Am”

New Ones:
6) “I wish I was in Tiajuana/Eating barbecued iguana”

  1. “Who do you want me to be/To make you sleep with me”
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  1. Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
    Whose every move’s among the purest
    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head, from the musical CHESS.

  1. “Who do you want me to be/To make you sleep with me”

Don’t You Want Me Baby, Human League.

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Ellen Cherry’s number 3 is You Are The Everything by REM.

(C1) "I heard a girl one day - she had these long tight legs /
She said “I get it every night, and he calls me everyday”

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  1. Mexican Radio Wall of Vodoo. This number scheme works okay.

  2. We don’t follow fashion
    That would be a joke
    You know we’re gonna set them
    So everyone can take note.

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Eeek! My apologies for goofing up the numbering.

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2.) Graceland - Paul Simon
9.) - In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatan, ev’ry woman, ev’ry man

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oops…
Ellen Cherry’s 2.) Graceland - Paul Simon

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“Graceland,” by Paul Simon.

“Angel is the Centerfold”, by J. Geils Band

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Goody Two Shoes, by Adam Ant

10 - I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record/
Oh yeah well don’t get so distressed/
Did I happen to mention that I’m impressed

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“Obsession” by Animotion
“All I know is that, to me, you look like a lot of fun.”

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#9: “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Sitck” by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
11) “He starts to shake, he starts to cough/Just like the old man in that famous book by Nabakov”

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Biggirl’s #2:

“Yo, pretty ladies around the world
Got a weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls
Tell your brother, your sister and your mama too
'Cause we’re about to go down and you know just what to do.”

… is from Cameo’s “Word Up”

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Fish42’s #11 is a cinch – The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”

Forgot to leave lyrics …
#12 -
Baby, Baby
What’s your claim to fame?
Got me outta bed
When you call my name
What’s this crazy place
Wanna take me to?
Tell me what’s the price
If I go with you …

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Bordelond beat me to it on preview… but I don’t know his. :frowning:

“We had some good machines
But they don’t work no more
I loved you once
Don’t love you anymore”

“If you want to find a cop
They’re all hanging out by the donut shop”

“Not to put too fine a point on it
But if there’s a bee in your bonnet”

“We can go where we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Then they’re no friends of mine”

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bordelond:

“Misled” (or possibly “Miss Led”?) by…was it Kool & the Gang?

Here’s mine:

  1. Yes, he discovered/we are truly lovers/magic from the very start
    For true love can be proven, every time we’re movin’, even though we danced apart