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Post by woolebull on Sept 27, 2014 8:09:40 GMT -5
Talking about Billy Joel in another thread made me wonder how many songs on AT 40, up to the end of 1991, told the actual date that the song charted. What got me thinking about that was Joel's "Modern Woman" who mentioned the year the song charted in the lyrics of the song: 1986
Real Life does it, albeit not in the lyrics but in the title, with "Send Me An Angel '89". I assume it is the same with "Energy Crisis '74".
Any others?
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2014 8:19:23 GMT -5
Asia mentions '82' in "Heat of the Moment" from the summer of 1982.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Sept 27, 2014 9:28:15 GMT -5
3rd Base's "Pop Goes the Weasel" mentions its year (1991).
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Post by pb on Sept 27, 2014 9:45:08 GMT -5
If decade counts, there is the line "look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970's" in "After The Gold Rush" (1970 Neil Young song that was a 1974 hit by Prelude).
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 27, 2014 10:52:15 GMT -5
Iggy Pop's "Candy" says 1990 at the start of the song, which was its release date. It didn't hit the top 40 until 1991 though.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 27, 2014 10:53:34 GMT -5
There's a line in "Rock Me Amadeus" that goes something like, "In 1985, pop star Falco records 'Rock Me Amadeus'."
At the beginning of "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," he says "...class of 1999."
And less specific in "Wild Wild West," there's the line, "Living in the '80s, heading for the '90s."
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Post by albe on Sept 27, 2014 11:27:57 GMT -5
I guess in the year 2525 Zager & Evans song will be appropriate
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Post by woolebull on Sept 27, 2014 12:46:41 GMT -5
All good ones!
Totally upset with myself for not getting, "Pop Goes The Weasel". I get the Gas Face for that!
As for "Candy", I was always wanting Leila K to hit the Top 40 with "Got To Get" in 1990, so the line, "Fresh for '89", wouldn't seem so fresh at all, lol.
I never realized that 1982 was dropped in "Heat Of the Moment".
One from this era: The 2009 number one song, "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas were "Two Thousand and Late" when mentioning 2008.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 27, 2014 15:08:44 GMT -5
Five years too early for AT40, but Wilson Pickett bragged about buying Sally a "brand new Mustang, 1965".
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 27, 2014 22:20:18 GMT -5
Although Prince’s “1999” originally charted in 1982-83/R&B and Hot 100, it re-charted again briefly in early 1999 just for the occasion in those charts.
And if albums count, Van Halen’s ‘1984’ came out in early 1984; Not to forget Eurythmic’s soundtrack album ‘1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)’, it was released in 1984, but charted just at the beginning of 1985 on the Billboard 200. That soundtrack album produced the single, “Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, which peaked at #81/Hot 100 & #2/Dance at the end of 1984.
Also, I remember a 1978 Top 20 song on the British charts by Boomtown Rats called “She’s So Modern” in which Bob Geldof starts by singing: “She’s so 20th century, She’s so 1970’s…”.
Last, but not least, in one of the biggest ironies of this timestamp subject, “Ready for the 80s” by the Village people spend its last week on the Hot 100 on 12/29/79!!(in the frozen chart).
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Post by mstgator on Sept 27, 2014 22:30:21 GMT -5
One from this era: The 2009 number one song, "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas were "Two Thousand and Late" when mentioning 2008. I thought about that one, but if you listen closely to Fergie the specific year she mentions is 3008... so the song is in fact 999 years ahead of it's time.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 27, 2014 23:12:04 GMT -5
One from this era: The 2009 number one song, "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas were "Two Thousand and Late" when mentioning 2008. I thought about that one, but if you listen closely to Fergie the specific year she mentions is 3008... so the song is in fact 999 years ahead of it's time. Ha! Zager and Evans better have a response!
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Post by Jessica on Sept 27, 2014 23:27:16 GMT -5
Tone Loc's song Funky Cold Medina references the 80s, if that counts lol
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 28, 2014 8:14:41 GMT -5
That Village People song mentioned above was actually one of two songs that came out around the beginning of the 80s mentioning the start of the decade. The other was Styx' "Borrowed Time" which starts out with "Don't look now but here come the 80s!". While it came out at the same time as VP's "Ready for the 80s" in the fall of 1979, it was not released as a single until the spring of 1980 because it was the third single from their 'Cornerstone' Lp. The Lp was released in the fall of 1979 which is why I say the song came out in the fall of 1979. And it's a good to great song IMO that like the VP single, missed the top 40.
Listening to the 1991 AT40 and hearing Jesus Jones' "Real, Real, Real" reminds me that their previous hit "Right Here Right Now" includes the line "I saw the decade in". Refers to the the Berlin Wall coming down as this decade came in...well in November 1989 to be exact.
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Post by pb on Sept 28, 2014 15:37:50 GMT -5
ELO's "Ticket To The Moon" is another early 80's song mentioning the 80's. Not a U.S. hit, but big in other countries from what I've read.
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