Lines That Make Songs Sound Dated.

The New Colony Six.."Treat her groovy, take her to a movie "

 

"If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow".....

 

How's what he's saying dated? It's actually completely relevant today.

 

I know, right? Who goes to the movies anymore??

 

But he's talking about phone booths in the past tense... which they pretty much were by 2012....

 

Nick Lowe - 'I Knew The Bride'

"Well, I can see her now with her Walkman on...
jumping up and down to her favourite song."

(Which was an attempt at updating the lyric in 1985... Dave Edmunds said "headphones" in 1977.)

 

The entire song Kodachrome.

 

Jackson Browne: "The Load Out"

We got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
We've got truckers on the CB

 

This Jackson Browne song has several:

Now we got country and western on the bus
R and B, we got disco in 8-tracks and cassettes in stereo
We've got rural scenes & magazines
We've got truckers on the C.B.
We've got Richard Pryor on the video

 

"Let's all meet up in the year two-thousand"

 

"The movie wasn't so hot...
We fell asleep, our goose is cooked
Our reputation is shot"


Everly Brothers "Wake Up Little Susie"

 

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer
And he pushed three buttons and the thing began to whirr

- "The Last Time I Saw Richard" by Joni Mitchell

 

I Won't Dance:

When you dance you're charming and you're gentle
'Specially when you do the Continental
But this feeling isn't purely mental
For Heaven rest us
I'm not asbestos...

 

If you would be just sweet and only meet your fate, dear
'Twould be the great event of 1928, dear!

 

Heat of The Moment - Asia

And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot-spots hold no charm for you
You can't concern yourself with bigger things
You catch the pearl and ride the dragon's wings

 

I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked The Beatles, I asked Timothy Leary but he couldn't help me either, they call me the seeker

The Who-The Seeker

 

But Young Americans mentions Nixon in the past tense, so it isn't dated.

 

Mr Wilson/Mr Heath.

 

Let's twist again, like we did last summer, let's twist again like we did before.

Every time I hear that song I can't help but think the lyrics should have been let's twist again like 'cause I want more money, let's twist again I could use the cash.

 

"tin soldiers and nixon coming"...but who cares. Some of these songs defined an era and helped shape hearts and minds.

 

"Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys"

Dion "Runaround Sue"

 

Chattanooga Choo Choo...

Pardon me, boy!
Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?
Track twenty-nine
Boy, you can gimme a shine.

 

Big Yellow Taxi

In the original people had to pay a dollar and a half to see the tree museum.

When Amy Grant recorded the tune in the early 90's, she knew even then that $1.50 was dated (20+ years ago now!). So she changed the line to: "25 bucks just to see 'em".

 

"Black Eyed Peas they comin' full range and
NOFX they comin' full range and
Roni Size he comin' full range"

311 - Come Original

 

Pink Floyd 'Final Cut' about Thatcher, Brezhnev, Reagan, the Falklands War etc.