Songs that predicted the future, either intentional or not

I always thought it was more Lennon's fixation on transcendence after death myself but, yeah, I agree. There's bittersweet irony in each of the songs.

 

I'll get your coat for you.

 

Leonard Nimoy - The Sun Will Rise

Sings about the sun rising tomorrow. Damn he was right, a clear case of supernatural prophetic powers.
Man is a hierophant.





(Before you accuse me of being autistic, this is an attack against superstition and pseudoscience. This is how Nostradamus "foresaw" things.

 

I think Warren did a fine job of prediction on his whole Transverse City LP back in 1989:

Networking, I'm user friendly
Networking, I install with ease
Data processed, truly basic
I will upload you, you can download me

 

This is immediately where my head went. Very eerie.

...”sky scrapers are scraping together, your voice is smoking”

 

"Hard Times," by The Game, ft. Lil' Wayne, in 2007:
I’m feeling like a black democrat
Barack Obama, the only n***a that can catch Osama...

"Jesus Etc." by Wilco, 2001 (recorded before 9/11):
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Voices whine,
Skyscrapers are scraping together,
your voice is smoking.

Edit: I'm late with "Jesus Etc."

 

i dunno... does anyone really feel fine about it?

 

The global warming, in Jimi Hendrix's Up From The Skies (1967):

I have lived here before, the days of ice
And of course this is why I'm so concerned
And I come back to find the stars misplaced
And the smell of a world that has burned
The smell of a world that has burned
Well, maybe, maybe it's just a change of climate

 

Indeed. He must have had some friends in Silicon Valley.

 

Maybe he was behind 9-11?

 

Neil Finn - Turn and Run (9/11)

Everything's so out of control tonight
In a plane that’s flying past
At a speed that makes me cry
Have you left me now
To trouble that won’t let me lie
I’m awake all the time
You know where I stand
Holding my plastic gun
Turn and run
You cold killers of innocence
Against us there’s no defense
Your flash and your wickedness
You can’t break our love

 

Isn't it supposed to make you feel better while you're in bed?

 

Frank Zappa - "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"
"There will come a time when you won't even be ashamed if you are fat"

Seems very timely due to the fat acceptance movement in recent years.

Captain Beefheart - "Myhumangetmeblues"
"Dress you the way he wants cause he never had a doll, cause everybody made him a boy, and god didn't think to ask his preference"

Very similar to the modern trans movement and/or potential similar to the feminist movement where people suggest god could've been female.

 

Nick Drake predicted his own posthumous fame in Fruit Tree.

 

The Who - The Relay

A song about the internet, released in 1972.

 

The Clash 1981 (Silicone On Sapphire)]

"Modem connecting
In sync
Buffer
Handshaking"

 

Way back 20/21 years ago & new to the internet/web I discovered a probably long gone Kate Bush fan encyclopedia website (I remember being v. impressed by it's use of hypertext/hyperlinks being able to click on words in points of the articles and visit other pages in random orders) that archived university emails (prob from a newsgroup) from @freaking 1989 discussing soon after it came out, how Kate was talking about the internet/modems on Deeper Understanding. That 3was a massive / jaw drop at the time but in a cool way .

 

On a very sad note, Frightened Rabbits' Scott Hutchinson predicted his own suicide in the song Floating in the Forth 10 years before it happened:

"I was vacuum packed
Shrink-wrapped out of air
And the spine collapsed
And the eyes rolled back
To stare at my starving brain
And fully clothed, I float away
Down the Forth, into the sea
I think I'll save suicide for another day"

He disappeared on 9 May 2018, and his body was found the following day on the banks of the Firth of Forth.

 

Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction



The eastern world, it is explodin',
Violence flarin', bullets loadin',
You're old enough to kill but not for votin',
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
And can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
Handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
And marches alone can't bring integration,
When human respect is disintegratin',
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
But when your return, it's the same old place,
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace,
And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
No, no, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

 

I think Neil Young's Sample and Hold accurately portrays the shallowness of online dating sites.

Gotta love 2000 Man by The Rolling Stones from 1968 for portraying addiction to online porn:

You know, my wife still respects me
Even though I really misuse her
I am having an affair
With a random computer
A-don't you know, I'm a 2000 man
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all

 

Idol with the Golden Head - The Coasters

 

Everything someday will be gone except silence
Earth will be quiet again
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence
Left as the memory of men
There will be no survivor my friend
Suddenly everyone will look surprised
Stars spinning wheels in the skies
Sun is scrambled in their eyes
While the moon circles like a vulture
Someone stood at a window & cried
Washed a tear
I thought that should stop the war
But someone is killing me
that's the last hour to think anymore
Jelly & juice & bubbles - bubbles on the floor
Castles on the cliffs vanish
Cliffs like heaps of rubbish
Seen from the stars hour by hour
As splintered scraps & black powder
From here to heaven is a scar
Dead center - deep as death
All the idiots have gone

House at Pooneil Corners-Jefferson Airplane

coming to a world near you

 

I remember being startled and impressed by the prescience of The Clash when Brixton erupted into rioting a year and a half after "The Guns Of Brixton." They called it, right on the money.

 

In The year 2525

 

love this song...still freaky I listed it before I read your posting! LO(L...