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...that's all it is...

These are from all over the place, all over the decade, and all pathetically easy! The collective brains here shouldn't have much trouble with this...so, limit 4...

25 selections of good, bad and extremely bad..!
I'll let you decide which is which..!


1. Wider than the desert and the Utah sky


2. I came running every time you cried


3. I gave it all so easily to you my love


4. Leave the sinking ship behind


5. They have their houses and their lawns


6. I'm strictly out of bounds


7. Just a nowhere man without a girl


8. Will I smile or will I be blue


9. I've paid my dues to make it


10. They need their protein just like you do


11. I just can't keep living on dreams no more


12. I can take you to the nearest star


13. It's coming from my heart and not my head


14. She walks through the door with her head held high


15. Lacking in the social graces


16. They left a trail of crime across the USA


17. I always thought that I could make it on my own


18. I love the ground she walks on, the very air she breathes


19. It may be factual, it may be cruel


20. Here am I with such a lot to say


21. And he's walking with his head down to the ground


22. And he wears a baseball shirt with a number 17 on


23. You can spend your life reading signs


24. Will you help him change the world


25. When it's foggy on the common


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16)Take the money and run-Steve Miller

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15.At Seventeen-Janis Ian
19.Everybody Plays The Fool-The Main Ingredient
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Right for 2, Mordor - both great tunes...

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Hi Paul!

#14 is "Living Next Door To Alice" by Smokie.  :D

#17 is "Lost Without Your Love" by Bread (one of their last).  :D




There are a few others which look familiar but I just can't place.  :-/
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Both correct CF!

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12. Vehicle - Ides of March
24. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
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No probs with them, Meriadoc...good stuff!

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5. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be...Carly Simon...good

13. I Honestly Love You...Olivia Newton John...extremely bad

15. Seventeen...Janis Ian...bad oops
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Cough! Splutter! Janis Ian...bad? Livvy...extremely bad??
People have been maimed for less, gamblefish!
But absolutely right, nonetheless...

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6. Get down-Gilbert O'Sullivan
23. It only takes a minute-Tavares
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Heh! Heh! - the fabulous Gilbert...whatever happened to him?

Absolutely right on both counts, DJ Dave...

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9. Easy-The Commodores
10. This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both of Us-Sparks

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Sparks - criminally under-rated duo...
Both correct, Indy...

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4.  Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend
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No probs at all there, Kenny...

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#20 - "Babe, What Would You Say?" - Hurricane Smith
#7- "My Baby loves Love" - The White Plains
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Ever-so-slightly out with the titles, Sioux Denim - but I'm not gonna split hairs - correct for both...

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16)Take the money and run-Steve Miller
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Sadly Billy, not the right answer - but I can see where you're coming from...
In actual fact, the act I'm looking for was several million miles away from Stevie (in style and content terms!)

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Hi Paul

#21 Every Day Hurts - Das Cafe
#25 Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles

the latter being, embarrasingly, the first record I ever bought, although I also bought "Teenage Rampage" by The Sweet on the same day.

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You think you got problems, maddog? One Christmas I actually got a 3 (yes, 3) LP box set of the Wombles, complete with colouring book, felt pens, badges, etc.

I was 28 at the time...

I take it that out of sheer excitement you mis-typed Sad Cafe - never mind, good enough for me...correct for both...

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22.  "Johnny Reggae" by Jonathan King.

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...on the actual record label it's by the Piglets, Gambo - but this was one of many guises as used by the UK's favourite jailbird...correct, whichever way you look at it...

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#16 "Ma Baker" ---Boney M    (haven't heard that one in a while.)
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Neither have I, ggtesco - not sure whether I should chance it or not!
Correct, by the way...well done...

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2. Evil woman-ELO
3. If I can't have you-Yvonne Elliman
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Two more correct 'uns from DJ Dave...well done...

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#11  Emma - Hot Chocolate
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A record that contained one of the most anguished yells in popular music! Absolutely right, jaytee...

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Yipee - think I got another two - the clues of course were a big help

#8    My Coo-Ca-Choo   Alvin Stardust
#18  Too Good to be Forgotten  The Chi-Lites

:)


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jaytee - spot on there with them two - glad the clues were a help...!

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1. (Virtually unheard of in the US)
There's a whole lot of loving-Guys & Dolls
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Extremely well done, DJ Dave - most impressive...