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Bend it like Repka wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:19 pmNumber 2 is not my cup of tea, but if you watched The Young Ones, it's part of their most infamous episode
So it is. Well done, Bendy.
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I had to google 3. Very hard, wouldn't ever have got that, not one of their most well known or played tracks....
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I've now got the image of Viv eating the pie and sticking 2 figures up at the shopkeeper stuck in my head..... :rofl:
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Three more for you today. I've got #2, but struggling on the others.


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First time I've known none of them!
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I know number 3 but only because I'm a huge fan. It's difficult, a lesser known album track off their debut. Early 80s art school synthpop.
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Number 2, what a classic! :lol:
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#2 I'm sure of...(won't ruin the fun)

#1 is irritating me, because it's on the tip of me tongue, but #3 I aint got a scoobes.
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I loved #1 when I was a wee'un. Haven't heard it in ages.

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All Stood Still was the only one I knew.

Great single from a great album.

Not a Scooby on the other two.
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Number 3 is a duo
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A duo that were once “Down in the Subway” ?
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Only one out of three again today. #1 I've got, bit of a classic, stumped by #2 and #3.


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#3 is Wham 'Bad Boys' (title?)
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I only know no. 3, a tale of teenage rebellion.
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No.1 is Alexander O`neil, Criticize I think
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Have #2, stuck on the others today.


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Got 1 and 2 but not a clue with 3

I’m embarrassed that I know 2

Edit. Of course it is proph, my favourite track of theirs
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It's interesting, actually, because my brain either remembers them as I read them again for the first time (as in #3 above), or I simply have no idea at all.
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