Lines That Make Songs Sound Dated.

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  1. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

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    More that kids don't really listen to them anymore. :)

    See above for the radio, and for the Kinks one I hadn't even really thought about the cash line, although that actually IS dated now that you point it out. You're probably in the minority there. :) I really was looking at that one from the gas shortage perspective of when it was written.

    Both fair questions though.
     
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  2. DrBeatle

    DrBeatle The Rock and Roll Chemist

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    A big part of her schtick with the 1989 album was about "growing up" in the 1980s...:rolleyes: Reminds me of these memes -->

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  3. tkl7

    tkl7 Agent Provocateur

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    A lot of people used Polaroid well into the 1990s. Digital cameras didn't become dominant until around 2001, as far as I recall. So up until Taylor was 12, it is pretty easy to imagine someone taking Polaroids of her.
     
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  4. YpsiGypsy

    YpsiGypsy Forum Resident

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    From Dr Dre's The Chronic, The Day The Niggaz Took Over


    "Got a VCR
    in the back of my car
    that I ganked from the Slauson Swap Meet
    And motherf**kers better not try to stop me"
     
  5. DrBeatle

    DrBeatle The Rock and Roll Chemist

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    Polaroid cameras, yes, but were the instamatic Polaroids still in use by then? I'm a child of the 80s and I don't remember seeing them after ~1992 or so. I'm geniunely curious. I know they started making them again in the 2000s for millennial hipsters, but I didn't think they made them as legit cameras for general use after the early 1990s?
     
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  6. tkl7

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    They were still around used - I had a land camera that I used frequently. They were kind of a hip thing to have in the mid 90s. If you were into art/photography, you probably had a friend who had one. Remember there was a big 70s retro period from around 1993-1997.
     
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  7. JFS3

    JFS3 Senior Member

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    "England swings like a pendulum do"
     
  8. Grand_Ennui

    Grand_Ennui Forum Resident

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    There's a few songs/lines in this thread that I thought the same thing...
     
  9. Yovra

    Yovra Collector of Beatles Threads

    Songs about clowns are always from about 1965!
     
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  10. carrolls

    carrolls Forum Resident

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    What is dated about that? If you use Wifi or 4G on your phone you still use a modem. It might be only a miniscule chip now built into your iPhone, but its still a modem.
     
  11. Devotional

    Devotional Senior Member

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  12. impalaboy

    impalaboy Forum Resident

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    "Oh, it's cold and lonely here...here in this telephone booth"

    from "Long Way Home" by Don Henley
     
  13. mtvgeneration

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    Bruce again. From "I'm on Fire."

    "Hey little girl is your daddy home?"

    Someone once asked me about that. I thought it was just because the person was from another country, but now that I reflect, I don't think many people were still talking like that in 1984 and the line sounds extremely cringey in 2018.
     
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  14. tmoore

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    They are still around period. A friend of mine still uses one from time to time, in order for the kids he is taking pictures of -- so the kids have instant gratification and have something to take home (these kids are people he and I know, not strangers). He also uses it around water, if there is a chance his good camera would get wet.

    The pictures we get from him are about half the size of what I remember from the 1970s.
     
  15. The Slug Man

    The Slug Man Forum Resident

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    The Escape Club "Wild Wild West"

    "livin' in the 80s, headed for the 90s" and "Ronnie's got a new gun"
     
  16. phillyal1

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    How about "Everybody's ditching carbs, except Mama Cass"
     
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  17. phillyal1

    phillyal1 Forum Resident

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    She (Alicia Keys ) was a judge on the Voice ! More twenty somethings know her than Bob Dylan. Sheesh !
     
  18. tmoore

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    I thought that at the time also, given it was out in 1988. And it's probably correct.

    However, you could also argue they were talking about the 1880s.

    The only reason I say that is because if they were singing about the 1980s, the song was going to be "dated" rather quickly, given it was already 1988.
     
  19. Peace N. Love

    Peace N. Love Forum Resident

    And, sadly, the last part of this post makes it sound dated. :(
     
  20. Peace N. Love

    Peace N. Love Forum Resident

    Don Henley's "Gimme What You Got," from the late '80s, has the following lyric, which was I guess very specific to the development/housing situation at the time and includes absolutely no references that resonate today:

    All these trumped up towers
    They're just golden showers
    Where are people supposed to live?
     
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  21. ToneLa

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    I read the news today, oh boy

    It's all fake now, haven't you heard, John??

    But I just had to look
    Having read the book


    Wtf is a book?

    Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
    And looking up I noticed I was late


    Pfft, these days you'd just be looking down at your smartphone for the time!

    :D
     
  22. Raunchnroll

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    "...and I love her..."
     
  23. vivatones

    vivatones Forum Resident

    From “The Load Out” by Jackson Browne, describing the diversions on the tour bus:
    “...we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo...”
     
  24. ToneLa

    ToneLa Forum Resident

    On a more serious note... the Monks

    Let's go, it's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time now!
    You know we don't like the army
    What army?
    Who cares what army?
    Why do you kill all those kids over there in Vietnam?
    Mad Viet Cong
    My brother died in Vietnam!
    James Bond, who was he?
    Stop it, stop it, I don't like it!
    It's too loud for my ears
    ***** galore's comin' down and we like it
    We don't like the atomic bomb
    Stop it, stop it, I don't like it . . . stop it!



    Yeah it's dated but I totally get the fury of the specific references (and I'm proud that despite being British I've never seen a James Bond film but still get those ones - keep your tired, empire-obsessed boy'sown tales away from me!) and it still tugs at universal themes. And what a way to open an album!
     
  25. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

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    I've grown to dislike that term, "dated". Songs are not obligated to be relevant to the moment you're hearing it.
     
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