# That 70's song-- Name That Tune for old fogeys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256 "2003-07-09T16:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/101 "2003-07-10T15:35:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*84) Television man is crazy. > Says we’re juvenile delinquent wrecks. \*\* “All the Young Dudes” - written by David Bowie, performed by Mott the Hoople ---
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f6) “I’m no schoolboy, but I know what I like.” “Brown Sugar” - Rolling Stones f7) “I ain’t no monkey, but I know what I like.” “Buckets of Rain” - Bob Dylan ---
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/b]Fish42\*\* - f2) “I got a freaky old lady named Cocaine Katie” Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show mdf2) “In a flat Forty-One with my strat on the door we was goin’ to the country for what we came for.” ---
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f2) “I got a freaky old lady named Cocaine Katie” **Cover of the Rolling Stone** by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show Dang it, I WAS pushing the Submit button. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/105 "2003-07-10T16:06:05Z")
> [@](#): > > 87)There was a group called The Jumper, they were laying it down. I think it’s The Jokers. ---
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The Unnamed Ones 50. There was a band playing in my head 51. Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights 52) It can’t be wrong when it feels so right Friends call me but I just don’t feel like talking to anyone. 14) “Let’s call this song exactly what it is.” 16) “Your black and white power, is gonna be a crumbling tower. And we who stand divided, so god damned undecided.” how far off i sat and wondered" 40) Foot wrapped in an old rag, bottle in a brown bag. 45B) I was 16, he was 21 It wasn’t the one that you gave to me That night down south between the trailers Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights 55) “We didn’t get our 40 acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.C.” By neurotic psychotic pigheaded politicians 61) But I know that he won’t stay 62) One day I met a girl named Sue 64) When the cold wind’s streaming 65) Go sit at the bakery 67) But soon he started in dealing in slaves and something inside of him died 66) call all my reindeer to graze here 68) the bed’s too big the frying pan’s too wide 72) I don’t like what I think I see 69. Somehow I knew it would be you, To change my gray skies to blue 72. I played all my cards, and that’s what you’ve done too 73. Once a story’s told, it can’t help but grow old 74. Or a chinese dentist, or a british queen 79) Magically bored on a quiet street corner. ddg-1. There’s no double-lock defense ddg-2. Mamma had the usual to say, that we should, please be good today ddg-4. We just come from such different sets of circumstance ddg-5. It was the hexagram of the heavens ddg-6. Born already ruined, stone-cold dead as I stepped out of the womb ddg-8. Figured they’d kidnap a rich man’s son, make it in the world of crime ddg-11. The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood ddg-12. What good is spilling blood? It will not grow a thing 88) Like a cat and a mouse I thought of going house to house. 89) Baby what’s these things you’re saying behind my back? 90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in. 91)I turned on the music to start my day. ast2- I had a hole in the place where my heart should have been. ast4- The head nurse, she blew in just like a tornado. ast6- He’ll say, “Excuse me- haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” ast7- Ain’t got much, but what we got’s ours. ast8- Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don’t envy me. ast9- I used to go out to parties and stand around. ast10- The world’s coming to an end. I don’t even care. f1) “We can deal with rockets and dreams/But reality, what does it mean?” f3) “One good thing about music/When it hits, you feel no pain” f4) “He’s got a dream about buying some land/Gonna giveup the booze and the one-night stands.” f5) “Eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/107 "2003-07-10T16:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fish42 \* > \*\* > > f4) “He’s got a dream about buying some land/Gonna giveup the booze and the one-night stands.” > f5) “Eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus” > > \*\* F4- “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty (that one may be the 80s, technically) F5- “Convoy” by C.W. McCall ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/108 "2003-07-10T16:34:25Z")
1. There was a band playing in my head I answered this back near the top of page 2 - isn’t it Neil Young - After the Gold Rush? 1. sounds like Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come mdf3 - “Well we made all the hot spots. My money flowed like wine Then that low down Southern whiskey began to fog my mind” ---
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1. But soon he started in dealing in slaves and something inside of him died I think this one was already answered, but it’s “Tangled Up in BLue” - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/110 "2003-07-10T16:56:12Z")
90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in. The Beatles - Fixing A Hole ---
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> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AllShookDown \* > \*\*90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in. > > The Beatles - Fixing A Hole \*\* Not the song I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/112 "2003-07-10T17:30:41Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Television man is crazy. > Says we’re juvenile delinquent wrecks. > > 91)I turned on the music to start my day. > > f7) “I ain’t no monkey, but I know what I like.” 84 All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople 91 More than a Feeling by Boston f7. Buckets of Rain by Dylan (beautiful song) ---
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That’s me, right on top of things. Please pretend the last post happened an hour and a half ago. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/114 "2003-07-10T17:58:43Z")
90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in. “Evil Woman” - ELO ---
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> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lyllyan \* > \*\*90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in. > > “Evil Woman” - ELO \*\* _That’s_ the song I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/116 "2003-07-10T18:28:10Z")
ddg-5. It was the hexagram of the heavens - Rita Coolidge - Amelia ast8- Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don’t envy me - “Can’t get it out of my head” - ELO ---
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1. Baby, what’s these things you’re saying behind my back? Baby Hold On To Me (?) - Eddie Money ast 10) Earache My Eye - Cheech and Chong 1. Jane? (Jefferson Starship - and possibly another 80’s song) ---
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oh, and mdf1) Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/119 "2003-07-10T18:55:26Z")
mdf3 - “Well we made all the hot spots. My money flowed like wine Then that low down Southern whiskey began to fog my mind” “Dixie Chicken” - Little Feat ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/120 "2003-07-10T19:06:34Z")
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