[Music] Pop Lyric Rhyme Picture Quiz

[1066familyman]

No.19 2008

This is actually how I hear it, but the first lyric site I went to to check, misled me.

 

[Pevenseagull]

No. 12 1984

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"Police Officer" Smiley Culture.

Good job I checked before posting as I misremembered it as being by Musical Youth

 

[1066familyman]

"Police Officer" Smiley Culture.

Good job I checked before posting as I misremembered it as being by Musical Youth

Well played!

Cockney Translation was even better!, but it didn't top 40 unfortunately.

 

[1066familyman]

No.4, 1980

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

I remember the artist referring to the car plant in his homage to the trunk road to the sea. Is the Shakespeare reference about another song and leaving an extra pint?

No but nice reference to one of his very first songs. I was thinking about a moniker used for him which he shares with one used for William

 

[Scappa]

Yes you do. Possibly the only line more ill judged than Le Bon's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war."

"Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"
Could be considered problematic...

 

[Stato]

No. 6 big yellow taxi

Spot on:
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees

 

[Stato]

No.4, 1980

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I'm thinking this may be a Squeeze song, that speaks of poodles, but if I'm right, they'd be the other way around.

 

[Stato]

"Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"
Could be considered problematic...

Yes, it's lucky most people only ever knew the chorus.

 

[1066familyman]

I'm thinking this may be a Squeeze song, that speaks of poodles, but if I'm right, they'd be the other way around.

Nope.

 

[1066familyman]

"Police Officer" Smiley Culture.

Good job I checked before posting as I misremembered it as being by Musical Youth

Sorry, I forgot. I think we're meant to update with the lyrics when it's been guessed correctly.

Ca' me a Smiley Culture, used to drive up a Lancia
And me a drive car from me a teenager

 

[1066familyman]

ah ooh ah ooh?

To update this one.

Lena Lovich - Lucky Number

This rearrangement suits me now I must confess
The number one was dull and number two is best

 

[Stato]

No.4, 1980

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Got it. Shelves, not shelf. Racks and shelves.

(and ten thousand reflections of my own sweet self)

 

[kevo]

This is hard! I only got No 1..

 

[Stato]

Okay, let's do some hopefully easier ones:

11) Number 16, 1978

12) Number 1, 1966

13) Number 1, 1976

14) Number 16 in 1987, but original release 1975 failed to chart

 

[Stato]

15) Number 2, 1997

 

[Skaville]

Did anyone ever get number 2?

I’m as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

is 11 Elsie/Chelsea(I went last year but really don’t want to go back either)
and even I get 13 ABBA queen and tambourine

 

[Skaville]

15) Number 2, 1997

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A whisky drink
A vodka drink
Lager drink
Cider drink

Tubthumping by chumbawamba

 

[Stato]

is 11 Elsie/Chelsea(I went last year but really don’t want to go back either)
and even I get 13 ABBA queen and tambourine

Elsie Tanner, the actual Elsie who Costello indicated the girl being called Natasha looked like.

I even used a dancing queen to make it absolutely obvious.