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23 November 2009

Monday lyrics challenge Good Monday all. Please find herein lyrics from 10 songs, all from the 80s (one from 1990). Levels of cheesiness are varied. Have at it!→[More:]

1. After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray
2. Most folks don't because they're too busy to bitch
3. Turn like a wheel inside a wheel
4. Straddle the line in discord and time
5. I like you in that like I like you to scream
6. I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
7. A boy tries hard to be a man
8. Walk her every day into a shady place
9. Castaways and lovers meet
10. Look at you, you're a pageant

post by: gaspode at: 11:40 | 29 comments

1. Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper

posted by Specklet 23 November | 11:51

7. I Will Follow, U2

posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 November | 11:55

4. Hungry Like The Wolf, Duran Duran

posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 November | 11:55

good stuff, folks.

posted by gaspode 23 November | 11:56

I am proud to say that I know that #10 is Split Enz - I Got You, and ashamed to admit that I know that #6 is Debarge's "Rhythm of the Night"

posted by richat 23 November | 12:10

OMG, Split Enz, one of the best bands EVER!

posted by essexjan 23 November | 12:13

3. I think is Talking Heads but I can't remember which song.

posted by essexjan 23 November | 12:14

9. is Wham! Club Tropicana.

*loves Wham!*

posted by essexjan 23 November | 12:15

Awesome.
Yep 3. is talking heads.

posted by gaspode 23 November | 12:19

~~1. After my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray~~
2. Most folks don't because they're too busy to bitch
3. Turn like a wheel inside a wheel
~~4. Straddle the line in discord and time~~
5. I like you in that like I like you to scream
~~6. I know a place where we can dance the whole night away~~
~~7. A boy tries hard to be a man~~
8. Walk her every day into a shady place
~~9. Castaways and lovers meet~~
~~10. Look at you, you're a pageant~~

posted by gaspode 23 November | 12:20

Gosh I don't know any of these. . .I guess I am at the speed of:

And you know that can't be bad. . .

or. . .

Remember what the Doormouse said. . .

Stuff like that. . .

Alright, carry on!

posted by danf 23 November | 12:21

3. Talking Heads - Slippery People

posted by Thorzdad 23 November | 12:29

yup!

posted by gaspode 23 November | 12:39

5. The Cure - Fascination Street

posted by rainbaby 23 November | 12:59

Warrant's 'Cherry Pie' contains the close-but-no-cigar line "Most folks don't because they're too busy bitchin'" (some teenagers at one of my library Guitar Hero programs played 'Cherry Pie,' like, five times in a row last week).

posted by box 23 November | 13:39

Oooh then I just wrote it wrong, for I meant Cherry Pie.

*consults notes*

Oh my memory was right - I had it written down correctly. I am just crap at transcribing.

posted by gaspode 23 November | 13:46

So that leaves this one:

8. Walk her every day into a shady place

posted by gaspode 23 November | 13:47

'Gigantic,' by The Pixies.

posted by box 23 November | 13:51

ding ding ding!

So ends the Monday '80s lyrics challenge. I'll see y'all next week :)

posted by gaspode 23 November | 13:56

Cherry Pie is a fine song for its genre but I am delighted to find that none of my brain cells are being wasted remembering any lyrics to it.

posted by Wolfdog 23 November | 14:20

Bonus Eighties round for shitzengiggles:

1. I am feeding off you, I will rearrange your scales.

2. I might like you better if we slept together.

3. Three miles to go, at the end of the road, there's blood I'm sure.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 November | 15:41

1 is REM but I can't remember the song.

posted by gaspode 23 November | 15:47

2 is Romero Void.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 23 November | 15:48

Um, Romeo Void. Romero Void was my short lived 80's cover band where we all dressed like Cesar Romero.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 23 November | 15:50

Gaspode has it right, but only half. Who can name that song?

Romeo Void is correct. Romero Void is NEVER correct.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 November | 17:27

Radio Free Europe?

posted by richat 23 November | 18:30

No, that's not it. In fact, I do recall the lyrics were indecipherable to me...I thought it started with "I'm not beating off, you..."

posted by richat 23 November | 18:32

I must excuse myself from further guessing, as the mix-up caused such madness that I HAD to google the answer. Even then it was more difficult than I expected!

posted by richat 23 November | 18:35

These Days?

Romero Void is an awesome name for an (undead) band! BRAAAAINS!

I always thought the Duran Duran lyric was "discord and rhyme" but who knows what the hell Le Bon was on about most of the time.

posted by goshling 23 November | 20:33

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