Great songs about outdated technology

Here's another "Space Invaders" by Player One - with lots of retro cool sound effects

 

Jackson Browne - The Load Out/Stay
"we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
We've got rural scenes & magazines
We've got truckers on the CB
We've got Richard Pryor on the video"

 

I'm gonna argue against "Pac-Man" being outdated because kids still know it! I assess kids who're mostly between the ages of 7 and 11, and one of the measures I use is a drawing activity. The kids have to copy designs from cards.

One of the designs looks like Pac-Man - and I've had many, many of these kids go "Pac-Man!!!" when they see it.

I used to be shocked these kids still knew about Pac-Man, but it's happened so much that I'm now surprised when they DON'T comment!

 

In other words, this song is not outdated at all.

 

Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out" ("We got disco on 8-track and cassettes in stereo.")
The Raspberries' "Drivin' Around" ("My tape deck is blastin' ".)

 

ONLY if you have copper all the way back to the CO. Many "landlines" are now a pair as far back as the first pedestal and it's fiber from there. Most have a standby battery but that may only give you an hour or two.

And remember, most COs only have 24 hours standby any more because the EPA has made diesel fuel storage much more restrictive.

 

Yes but when they DID break you could fix them.

 

"Wired For Sound" - Cliff Richard ("cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it")

 

Jethro Tull -- Heavy Horses

 

Actually I have been wondering if CBs were still in use. ???

 

"Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits.

 

S'ppose it's all jpegs and stuff nowadays

 

Well, calling it "Pac-Man Fever" may be outdated. If recorded today, it'd be "Pac-Man Ebola"...

 

I live about 2 miles from a "Telegraph Road" - not outdated for me!

 

As of this week, Nick Lowe still sings "I can see her now with her Walkman on..." in"I Knew the Bride".

 

Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer
She sings about playing the ol' Victrola.

 

Cool. You may get churches next. And even schools.

 

NWA - F*** Tha Police

...f"cking with me cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager

 

Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land*


*Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)

 

Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt

later live versions by Morrissey, updated the lyric to give Joan an iPod

 

Yeah, but then we get lawyers and rules - screw that!

BTW, Telegraph Road is a prominent highway in Michigan, so I guess they're outdated, too!

 

"Music! Music! Music!" by Teresa Brewer:

"Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon..."

 

Convoy

Big Ben this is Rubber Duck and we're about to put the hammer down

 

Pinball Wizard

 

Actually, the muscle cars of the 1960s could be pretty tough to work on because you were trying to fit so much engine under the hood. On some engines it took an "according to Hoyle miracle" to reach the two rear spark plugs. And woe betide you if you had to replace the oil pan gasket. I say this as somebody whose infatuation with a 1968 Mustang turned into an extended seminar in self-taught auto repair (and mine was reasonably easy to work on because it had a 302 engine -- other options included monsters like a 390, a 427 and a 428).

But when it was running, a trip to the grocery was transformed into a RIDE.