Name that Tune

[Raf]

Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure
Learn science technology?
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea?
Where can you learn to fly, play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography?
Sign off for the big band or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet?

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Sounds like a college alma mater.  

George

[Human without the bean]

Stuck (here) in the Middle With You (Raf)

Edited July 13, 2021 by Human without the bean

[WordWolf]

Any chance this is the Village People's "In The Navy?" 

I'd recognize the chorus, I think, but not the rest of the song.

[Human without the bean]

On 7/12/2021 at 10:59 PM, Human without the bean said:

Stuck (here) in the Middle With You (Raf)

 

[GeorgeStGeorge]

On 7/13/2021 at 3:25 AM, WordWolf said:

Any chance this is the Village People's "In The Navy?" 

I'd recognize the chorus, I think, but not the rest of the song.

I just googled "In the Navy."  You are correct.

George

[Human without the bean]

5 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

I just googled "In the Navy."  You are correct.

George

Yaaaahh!

[WordWolf]

Next song.

 

"Cold late night so long ago when I was not so strong you know, a pretty man came to me, never seen eyes so blue.  You know, I could not run away.   It seemed we'd seen each other in a dream.   It seemed like he knew me. He looked right through me, yeah."

[Human without the bean]

Where did my post go this morning?  I named the song with the artist but I'm not seeing it now.  Again, Magic Man by ~Heart~ and I may have thought this was the song FOL thread.  Anyway, I'm going go,

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale
And it's about to set sail
I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on

 

 

 

[WordWolf]

I had posted the song in the wrong thread. By the time I'd re-posted it and deleted it from the wrong thread, you'd already replied.  I left a note about it on the other thread.   

 

Meanwhile, I'm all set- I've brought my jukebox money!

[Human without the bean]

I looked for your post WordWolf but I didn't find anything, anyway, yes, you got it  Love Shack by ~The B-52's~.  You're up here on Name that Tune. 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Human without the bean

[WordWolf]

"Cosmic Thing"s 2 big hits got a LOT of airtime when that album came out.   (3 hits?  "Roam", "Love Shack", "Deadbeat Club" is 3 hits if that's all 1 album.)

[WordWolf]

Next song, if this will save tonight....

 

"It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can easily hide.  I don't have much money, but boy if I did,  I'd buy a big house where we both could live."

[Human without the bean]

It sounds like Elton John's 'Your Song' because it is.

Next tune:

Well, you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs
Just don't understand anymore

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Need more lines.

George

[Human without the bean]

Well, you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs
Just don't understand anymore

 

 

Well some folks say they're gonna hang him so high
'Cause you just can't do what he did
There are some things you just can't put in the minds of those kids

As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Vaguely familiar...

George

[Human without the bean]

The song with the same name as the album was released in 2002 and reached #22 on Billboards Top 200 list.  Here's some more lines.  The album reached # 9 so it was a hit.

Well you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs just don't understand anymore
Well the top brass don't like him talking so much,
And he won't play what they say to play
And he don't want to change what don't need to change

Well some folks say they're gonna hang him so high
'Cause you just can't do what he did
There are some things you just can't put in the minds of those kids

As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

 

Well he got him a station down in Mexico
And sometimes it'll kind of come in
And I'll bust a move and remember how it was back then

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by Human without the bean

[Human without the bean]

*Look it up.  New one:

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

[Human without the bean]

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

 

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Not getting this one, either.  (I did look up your previous selection.  Not known to me.)

George

[Human without the bean]

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when

 

Can we climb this mountain?
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now, watch it go

 

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning

 

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

 

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes

 

[Human without the bean]

I bet either Raf or WordWolf know this one. 

[WordWolf]

On 8/12/2021 at 2:19 PM, Human without the bean said:

I bet either Raf or WordWolf know this one. 

There's a few bands I've heard of, but I can't name even one song of theirs to save my life.  This is one of those bands.

[Human without the bean]

Well then, I will go ahead with another one.  I thought Gen X people (whoever they are 41-55yr old) would pick up on this and obviously you have WordWolf heard of it but not everyone has the same taste as I do.  I like ~The Killers~ despite them not really doing anything I like since the album "Day's of Age" and maybe now that they have a new album out just a few days ago (Pressure Machine)  I hope that it will be worthwhile to listen to.