Titles or lines in songs that aren't applicable if at all today. Phones not included

Not including telephone lyrics because it would be never ending about the operator or change for a phone etc.

I'm going with Extra Extra as in The Who Extra Extra Read All About It or Streisand Extra Extra I'm In Love from The Main Event

 

“Take A Letter Maria”
R.B. Greaves

“The Letter”
The Box Tops

 

There are still printed papers and letters on a daily basis. However Human League's "Almost Medieval" offers plenty of scope:

"Jump off the tarmac there's no stagecoach speed limit
Outside the office hangs the man on the gibbet"

 

John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful from 'Darlin' Be Home Soon':
"And now a quarter of my life is almost passed"
That line got a pretty good laugh from the audience (and a smile from John) when I saw him perform back in 1985 - so imagine now.
- Then again maybe it's not quite so funny at this point

 

Joni Mitchell - "Coyote"

"You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail
While the sun is ascending
And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel"

I know most people on here still love or even own reel to reels (me included), but to the general public they're an absolute relic.

 

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Atari Baby

 

How about Elvis in "Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do"
"And it's telling you to pitch a little woo with me"
Does anyone today have a clue what that means?

 

"Waiting on the station all day just to catch a glimpse of the morning train, just to see the wheels turning around, blowing off steam, see what I mean?"

"Train" by Leo Sayer

 

Here's an old song with the title and a link for the definition of courting or seeking affection.
pitch woo

 

Lou Reed - "My Red Joystick"
Kraftwerk - "Pocket Calculator"

 

"we can stay and be slaves to our beepers and phones, or we can roll down the window and drive" The Floating Men

 

John Fogerty - "Centerfield"

 

“Pocket Calculator” by Kraftwerk.

 

Warren Zevon song Suzie Lightning -

"She only sleeps on planes
She's tired of going nowhere
She's in Yugoslavia
Working on a miniseries"

 

Abacus by Genesis.

 

They still publish porn mags don't they?

 

Billy Bragg - The Milkman Of Human Kindness (although I think some people do still get milk delivered).

 

"Let's pretend that people are free in East Berlin" - "Let's Pretend" by The Northern Pikes

 

Weird Al - "UHF"

 

Space Invaders by the Pretenders

 

I want my MTV

 

Already an anachronism when he issued it. Being a nerd I had to investigate and found out that Leo's song appeared some 6 years after mainline steam locomotives ceased operating in UK.

 

Apparently made a bit of a comeback during lockdown though.

(edit - I mean Ernie, not Billy)

 

"From Bombay to Santa Fe, Over hills and far away"

Ian would need to find rhymes for Mumbai now. And Inuit for that matter.

 

"Court, make love to, flatter, as in They sat on the porch swing, pitching woo, or He's an excellent salesman, adept at pitching woo. This idiom, which may be obsolescent, uses pitch in the sense of “talk.” [Slang; early 1800s]"

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