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Post by pgfromwp on Dec 28, 2012 11:50:02 GMT -5
Posted by doomsdaymachine on Today at 1:12am Come to think of it, didn't War's "Summer" contain a reference to 8-track tapes? You're correct, along with a reference to a "C.B. radio in your van".
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Post by woolebull on Dec 28, 2012 13:24:09 GMT -5
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Post by JMW on Dec 28, 2012 16:26:34 GMT -5
Another one: Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina (mentions Spuds MacKenzie, Alex from Stroh's and Love Connection).
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Post by mkarns on Dec 28, 2012 16:40:59 GMT -5
One song title that makes little to no sense today...."Kodachrome." Just last year Pitbull had a #1 hit with "Give Me Everything" with the line "capture that with a Kodak". Apparently nobody told him how difficult/impossible it is getting to do so, at least with a new camera, as Kodak exits the consumer photography business.
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Post by woolebull on Dec 28, 2012 17:53:17 GMT -5
Being only 9 when "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" came out, I had no clue what I.G.Y. was. Now that I do know, I'm pretty sure the majority of the people in 1982 didn't know either. However, the song would still make total sense because it can still be seen as a futuristic world where science leads to universal peace. So, the title to the song: people would have no clue. The song: people could still get behind it even 30 years later...unless you understand Donald Faygan and the concept album, "Nightfly". (Had to misspell Donald's name because it was edited...I guess I didn't respect the seven second delay they use...inside joke for Faygan fans) ;D
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Post by skuncle on Dec 28, 2012 19:59:34 GMT -5
Any song that mentions "45's" i.e. Barry Manilow's "The Old Songs" or Billy Joel's "Keeping The Faith". Not too long ago I mentioned 45's to a co-worker who is 27 and he had no clue what I was talking about. He thought I meant a gun!!
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Post by SFGuy on Dec 28, 2012 20:36:31 GMT -5
What about "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" where the lyrics go "why do birds sing so....."? That word has a different meaning than it did when Frankie Lymon sang it in 1956.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 28, 2012 21:41:05 GMT -5
Any song that mentions "45's" i.e. Barry Manilow's "The Old Songs" or Billy Joel's "Keeping The Faith". Not too long ago I mentioned 45's to a co-worker who is 27 and he had no clue what I was talking about. He thought I meant a gun!! Going back even further in recorded technology, I thought of "Rock 'n' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" by Mac Davis, in which he sings (but didn't write): "I bought all the old Chuck Berrys, 78s and all". 78s were becoming increasingly a distant memory when Mac had a hit with that in 1974-75, let alone today, and in fact were well on their way out when Chuck Berry started having hits in the mid-1950s.
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Post by vto66 on Dec 29, 2012 0:34:46 GMT -5
Donna Summer's "Dim All The Lights" with the lyric "turn up the old Victrola."
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Post by tarobe on Dec 31, 2012 9:23:49 GMT -5
Jackson Browne's 1983 hit "Lawyers in Love" mentions Happy Days and the U.S.S.R. While Happy Days is in reruns and on DVD, Fonzie and the gang are no longer part of the American conscience, and the Soviet Union is dead.
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Post by vto66 on Dec 31, 2012 14:41:58 GMT -5
Everybody Wang Chung tonight. NO EXCEPTIONS. (Oh: The Watergate Comedy Hour is finally up on YouTube ...) That line didn't make any sense to me even when that song was originally on the charts!!! :S
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Post by Michael on Dec 31, 2012 17:29:45 GMT -5
Jackson Browne's 1983 hit "Lawyers in Love" mentions Happy Days and the U.S.S.R. While Happy Days is in reruns and on DVD, Fonzie and the gang are no longer part of the American conscience, and the Soviet Union is dead. The Beatles had "Back In The USSR" which also covered by Billy Joel.
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Post by Michael on Dec 31, 2012 17:36:23 GMT -5
Any song that mentions "45's" i.e. Barry Manilow's "The Old Songs" or Billy Joel's "Keeping The Faith". Not too long ago I mentioned 45's to a co-worker who is 27 and he had no clue what I was talking about. He thought I meant a gun!! "Keeping The Faith" also mentions a pack of Sen-Sen. Which I had no idea what that was didn't know they were mints and according to wikipedia their stil making them.
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Post by mga707 on Dec 31, 2012 19:47:00 GMT -5
"Keeping The Faith" also mentions a pack of Sen-Sen. Which I had no idea what that was didn't know they were mints and according to wikipedia their stil making them. The same verse also mentions Trojans. They still make those, too! ;D
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 14, 2013 12:53:02 GMT -5
Hall & Oates; So Close
"Drops a coin in the jukebox, not the phone on the wall."
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