Lines That Make Songs Sound Dated.

Tom Petty has always been pretty good at writing lyrics that don't show their age, but this one is pretty dated...

Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Give 'em all some place to go

You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over

Take back your Iranian torture
And the apple in young Steve's eye
Yeah take back your losing streak
Check your front wheel drive

 

What can you expect from a band that name checks Mr Mister?

 

How do you say i'm sorry, to an answering machine?

People don't have those anymore... and I don't even like it when people leave voicemails... just text me, bruh

 

A few lines that sounds a bit , dated : Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A real mother for ya at 4:27.
"Let me stop here at this gas station. Give me 3 gallons of low lead, can't afford nuthin' else...I better stop and get me two hot dogs and a strawberry soda."

 

"I'm gonna party all the way to Y2K! " Hagar/Hart Project

 

Net boy, net girl
Send your signal 'round the world
Let your fingers walk and talk
And set you free
Net boy, net girl
Send your impulse 'round the world
Put your message in a modem
And throw it in the Cyber Sea

 

Yeah but its Johnny Guitar. Let him yell ya.

 

"I want my MTV"

 

We care a lot,
About the Garbage Pale Kids,
They never lie
-Faith No More.

 

Well she was just seventeen you know what I mean....

 

You're forgetting where you are.... I doubt 99% of the forum members even know the song you were referencing.

 

I always attributed those lyrics to the song's co-writer Bob Dylan, but I could be wrong.

 

My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation.

Long as she got a dime, the music will never stop.

 

Not too sure about this. There is a Park near my house where the Uber Drivers congregate when they take a break between fares. The smell of weed is wafting around those guys more often than not. It's so bad I have to close my windows, to keep out the constant penetrating aroma of skunk weed. Livery car drivers still use weed to fight the boredom, that much hasn't changed.

 

"I went looking for Gaddafi aboard Air Force One"... Neil Young & Crazy Horse, "Mideast Vacation" -- from Life (1987)

 

I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles. (Al Jolson)

 

Nixon was already out of office when Young Americans came out.

 

"And after we get good and greasy
Baby we can come back home
Put the cowhorns back on the cadillac
And change the message on the cord-a-phone."
~John Hiatt, "Memphis In The Meantime"

 

yes, and most people will say "Ronnie WHO?" (John changes the name every year now, I think.)

 

"Turn Up the Radio..."

Autograph - 'Turn Up the Radio'

"THERE'S NO MORE LEFT TO BUY OR SELL
THERE'S NO MORE OIL LEFT IN THE WELL
A GALLON OF GAS CAN'T BE PURCHASED ANYWHERE
FOR ANY AMOUNT OF CASH"

The Kinks - 'Gallon of Gas'

 

Sorry if I missed mention of Queen singing I don't like Jaws and Star Wars.

 

What about the "hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots"?

 

I wasn't even thinking about the Ronnie Milsap reference, but that works, too. Kinda like when Jimmy Buffett sings "I hope Anita Bryant never ever does one of my songs" in "Manana." Nobody under 50 knows who she is or why he doesn't want her singing his songs.

 

No radios?

 

I don't get why these two are dated; we still have radios and gas . . . and I, for one, still use cash.