A Conversation for Name That Tune (deceased)
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Mike A (snowblind) Posted Oct 30, 1999
Congratulations, zb, on getting it absolutley right!
I feel chuffed now, that my lyrics have motivated somebody into listening to a brilliant album. Although I can't get any other gems from Number Of The Beast any more, because Herr zb would be getting them all sorted.
Actually I took that bit from Invaders and wrote it in one of my schoolbooks, and showed it to everybody saying "hey look at this poem I've just written". Everybody believed me, the monkeys! Apart from the class's official Iron Maiden fan, who said "that reminds me of a song...". But he can't tell Aces High(1984) from Man On The Edge(1995). Moron.
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Anonymouse Posted Oct 31, 1999
Horse with no name is indeed correct.
Anytime I read the word spaceship (or something like that) in one of these lyrics and I start humming "Can ya hear me major tom" and my brain shuts down. 
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
Well since this forum seems too quit, why don't we take it over then?
When you can't find the words to say it's hard to
make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry and throw my
hands up to the sky
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Fate Amenable To Change Posted Oct 31, 1999
"Tell me when the spaceship lands cos all this has just got to mean something" Is ..
Pulp - All sorted for e's and whizz
And can noone get mine from earlier??
Here's a bit more...
"Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down
we make a little history baby every time you come around
We talk about it all night long
we find our moral ground
but when I crawl into your arms
Everything comes tumbling down.."
Any takers?
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lucan Posted Oct 31, 1999
can anyone help me with this?
i may be seeing you around
+ i move uptown
so long as my heart is for love
too bad you had to drift away
cos i could use some company
right here on this road
on this road i'm on today
i guess you know i'm on my own
it seems we just got lost somewhere
+ you left me here to face it alone
a boyfriend left it with me when he moved out (due to my ungirlfriendly behaviour), it seems slightly familiar but i've been trying to place it for months + i can't. please save me from this endless mind searching!!
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
Over your head?
Here's some more then...
I close my eyes, and think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain't it funny how it is, you never miss it 'til it's
gone away
And my heart is lying there and will be 'til my
dying day
Or were your referring to the Nick Cave song?
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
Sounds a bit like Bye Bye Baby by Janis Joplin... but I don't know about the uptown bit.
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Mike A (snowblind) Posted Oct 31, 1999
Still in the dark, I'm afriad. 
Maybe you could just name the band and that might make things a bit easier.
Where has everyone else gone?
Watch this space for another Mike A lyric, coming as soon as zb tells us his answer.
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Anonymouse Posted Oct 31, 1999
I just realized I have no contenders left in the running. This -must- be remedied!
It's 4am, sireens in my head Wrapped up in silence, all ciruits are dead
(If I get any easier, I'm gonna have to start of with the chorus. )
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Anonymouse Posted Oct 31, 1999
Egads I hate when that happens! The alarms are going off all over, but the identity of that refuses to surface!
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
If I told you the band, then it would entirely defeat the fact that I have managed to show you up. Search your backcatalog again, and have one last go at telling me the answer... 
zb
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Mike A (snowblind) Posted Oct 31, 1999
Look zb, unless your lyric is Clapton related, then there's no chance of me getting it. Do you want me to list my back-catalogue here & now?
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Frizzychick Posted Oct 31, 1999
I thought Bye Bye Baby was by the Bay City Rollers - slightly different musical influences I guess.
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
Oops. Sorry. I mistook you for Mike A, the Iron Maiden fan. Oh well. I know it isn't really cricket, and I have no intentions of turning this into an Up The Irons forum or anything, so I'll simply tell you tha answer and shut up.
All I really wanted to do was let people know that there's more to them than noise and shouting and songs about death and other sterotypical nonsense.
Answer:
Wasted Years (Adrian Smith) released 6th September 1986, and reached No 18. From the Album Somewhere In Time.
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zb Posted Oct 31, 1999
It is not uncommon for different artists to release different singles with the same title.
Bye Bye Baby (in different guises) has been a hit for Johnny Otis Show (1958); Tony Jackson and the Vibrations (1964); and Symbols (1967) before The Bay City Rollers came along and covered the latter version, making it a smash hit by taking it to No 1 in March 1975.
And also appears on Big Brother and The Holding Company's Album, Live at Winterland '68 (fronted by Janis Joplin)
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Phil Posted Nov 1, 1999
Don't know that one, but how about
"That's a popular misconception, says we haven't seen anything yet"
Phil
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