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

Reality. According to Robbie Williams on the album (produced by Trevor Horn of The Buggles!).

 

"Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970s."

 

This entire song is obsolete.

 

Ronstadt/Harris/Parton changed it to "20th Century" in their Trio version, but even that is terribly out of date now.

 

Jefferson Starship - "Ride the Tiger"

"Look to the summer of '75
All the world is going to come alive!"

 

My kids have no idea what a paperback is.

 

Kids today think this song means something very, very different.

 

I always thought it meant a bathroom wall for some reason. The video gives no clues.

 

That's Old Fashioned - the whole song!

We hold hands in the movie show
So they say that we're old fashioned
Or we stroll beneath the silvery moon
And we carve our initials in the old oak tree.
That's old fashioned.
That's the way love should be.
We enjoy sitting side by side
In the booth at the ice cream parlor
Where we play the nickelodeon
And we dance when we hear our favorite melody.
That's old fashioned.
That's the way love should be.
It's a modern changing world
Everything is moving fast.
But when it comes to love I like
What they did…
It's a modern changing world
Everything is moving fast.
But when it comes to love I like
What they did in the past.
I'm the kind who loves only one
So the boys say I'm old fashioned.
Let them laugh, honey I don't mind.
I've made plans for a wedding day for you and me.

That's old fashioned.
That's the way love should be.

Songwriters: Bernie Baum / Bill Giant / Florence Kaye
That’s Old Fashioned lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

 

Debatable.

I was 19 (around summer '14) when I first started listening to them and had to look it up

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The Who "Now I'm a Farmer"

'That's a whole lot of cornflakes
Near enough to feed New York till 1973'

 

"With my pen and my electric typewriter" -- Elvis Costello from "Everyday I Write the Book," 1983.

The funny things is that by '83, this line was already semi-outdated. A lot of people were using word processors. I remember writing college papers on a program called WordStar around this time, plus we had a Radio Shack TRS-80 that had a word processor in it.

 

“Don't look now, but here come the 80’s!”

 

Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy"

"DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie"

I don't know for sure if lobotomies have been banned but DDT certainly has.

There's also "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" by the Ramones but ECT is still used under certain circumstances I think?

 

More banned substances.

World Domination Enterprises, "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" (what a classic)

 

Operator - can you help me place this call. Jim Croce .

 

Why

 

I said in the OP to try BBC and avoid phone references as there endless but it's all good I guess.

 

...Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key...
- Melanie Safka - “Brand New Key”

 

Why

 

Randy Travis
"1982"

 

Lol

 

Yes! I referred to a local non-network-affiliated TV station (channel 57) as a "UHF station" to a twenty-something coworker and to my surprise they had no idea what I was talking about!

 

The Beatles also could see the future. What visionary word is found in these 4 Beatles songs?

1. I'm Only Sleeping
   
2. It's All Too Much
   
3. Mother Nature's Son
   
4. Tomorrow Never Knows

 

To think that, though, you would have to blow past the line about the dime that comes near the end of the song (I quoted it above).