Songs that predicted the future, either intentional or not

Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over

 

Roger Waters - "Home" from Radio Kaos

 

Jan Berry predicted his own future with Deadman's Curve.

 

At the time it was released in 1968, the first line of this tune was inaccurate. It became fact 28 years later on Memorial day of 1996:



Of course, it was merely predicting the inevitable.

 

According to the song's narrative, the race took place heading westward on Sunset Blvd, and two years later, Jan was heading the other direction when he met his unfortunate fate, but it's still close enough to be creepy.

 

That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

I like how you didnt use the led zeppelin word....

 

still holds true today

 

Maybe even more so... i dont wanna start a climate change debate, but if it is true, then it's our sons and daughters that will be living (or trying to) on this planet

 

nomeansno - the tower
"from a burning building a man leaps to his death"

 

In The Year 2525... my favorite...

 

I have always felt this song (2000)



predicted the movie "Her" - Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with an Alexa type thing... I almost could hear "Samantha" (the AI from the movie) say the line from the song above "come lie.. next to me"



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Hotel California - several lines seem accurate representations of cell phone zombies and the targets of click-bait.

'we are all just prisoners here, of our own device'

'We are programmed to receive'

 

Cohen's The Future (an update of Yeats THE SECOND COMING) is interesting.

Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here,
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder…

 

And the Fugs, There's a madman at the wheel

 

Bob Dylan. 'Ballad Of A Thin Man' - live in 1966.

'You should be made to be carrying at all times a telephone'...

@ 6:26



Original 1965 lyrics for that line were:

You should be made
To wear earphones

 

'I said "be careful, his bow-tie is really a camera"'

America - Paul Simon

 

The concept of 'media-manipulation' (from pranks to 'fake news') was not only ATTEMPTED by Negativland, but then they decided to make an album about how a news station was 'duped' by them!
It's a long piece that says (to me) that we almost enjoy the chaos that comes from fear!
For the uninitiated, it all started when a band member wrote a press release that stated a young man had killed his family while listening to one of Negativland's songs! While it was written for college radio-stations only, a real newspaper picked it up as fact! This led to a SF local news team doing a story about it. Negativland had been very vague about the truth, and while the album they made includes the news broad-cast, they never admit to the hoax..and yet, they do......
It's this 'uncertainty' of facts that foretells the world we're living in today!

 

Come out from under that chair Luke. I'm shakin' it boss.

 

Not just a 'Like' from me Slash but a Thankful Like.

 

Hahahahahahahaha
Man, you just made my day! I owe you a cold drink !

 

I'm pretty sure "Last Christmas" didn't predict George's 12/25 death!

 

Just heard that for the first time last night, on a music DVD of a 1969 TV program. Thought it was very good.

 

Neil Young on Rockin’ in The Free World (1989) before the first Gulf War...

“There’s a warning sign on the road ahead/there’s a lotta people saying we’d be better off dead/don’t feel like Satan but I am to them/So I try to forget it anyway I can....”

 

The entire Computerwelt album by Kraftwerk.