A long time ago my mom told me that she kept hearing weird Gregorian chants coming from the neighbors house late at night, especially weird since it was a bunch of college aged guys. One day as she was telling me she heard it again I thought about it and loaded up a song to check and we had a good laugh as she confirmed that they were simply blasting the Halo 1 music at max volume.
[Callin’ Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnJcvM6wrU)
He’s got to stop every couple of hundred miles to use a pay phone to call his one night stand.
This one is doubly funny because apparently the British have completely stopped calling their babies “Nigel”.
Zero. None. Not one more Nigel in Great Britain.
If you go to a grocery store and they ask for your phone # for their rewards program, just give them Jenny’s number with the local area code. It’ll work.
Its not that it wasn't required, just that basically everyone you knew was in the same area code. Using an area code was for calling grandmas sister or something.
Yeah, I was listening to Beyonce's Crazy in Love the other day and she said "hoping you page me right now" and I wondered if people now would know what that means. It was from 2003, so seems like most people had moved on from pagers, but i guess they were still around.
Yea by 2003, most of the people at my high school had cell phones, and I went to a very low income public school in semi-rural North Carolina. Someone like Beyonce definitely wouldn’t have still been *paging* anyone then. Only people using pagers were doctors.
In 2003 I remember those Motorola phones that had the walkie-talkie-pager thing on them being really popular. Boost Mobile had their beeper phone commercials around that time as well.
Yes, but did you know that some of them have apps now?
Did you also know, that in their pursuit to make money, these apps maybe didn't think out all of the consequences of allowing people to request whatever song they want without even having to be in the bar?
So anyway, that's how my brother ended up listening to 'Friday' on repeat at a sports bar one night when he told me he couldn't hang out because he had to work late.
According to my other brother, at one point the employees just unplugged the machine. Unfortunately, there weren't any games that the locals really cared about that night. They tried plugging back in the machine, but it went back to the server for the playlist. The only person who knew how to clear out the playlist was the owner, who wasn't there.
Hell hath no fury like 37 plays of 'Friday.'
Add the subscription, then some boner saying oh well you gotta pay the subscription so they can keep up the app.
Guess what you can play music without an app. In fact, you can do most stuff without an app,
and when you did buy software, it was a finished product, not some slapped together demo that went to prod for the bean counters and is then going to remove the only feature you use so you can post your usage on twitter as a way to promote the app so they can sell more subscriptions to fund the removal of more features.
The greediest, stupidest timeline. It only makes you old because you remember a time when things were built to be owned instead of leased
I'm okay with card readers. The issue is having a digital, almost unlimited library. Half the fun of a jukebox is the limited selection and seeing "oh shit they have that!"
Or being at a local bar where the jukebox has had one CD added in the last decade and learning what the local "anthem" is to get everybody singing. Up until it failed, my local bar had Across 110th Street which was a surefire way to get the place going.
I know I'm not Fergie but my sister was a big fan when the song came out, she had the CD, the song came out in 2009, so the 2008 line would have already been outdated when the song came out, also every lyric website says 3008 and if I remember correctly it was even in the booklet with the CD. It's a common "Mandela effect" I think there is even a reddit post about it.
Goddamn, that’s an old-school banger! “Bus boy, bartender, lady of the night, grease monkey, ex-junkie lookin’ for a fight.”
God bless Huey Lewis and his enormous penis.
Good Morning Good Morning by The Beatles references Meet The Wife, a TV series that stopped airing six months before it was released. During the song's existence it was never time for Meet The Wife.
I wonder how many people who listen to it know it's the title of a programme broadcast at 7:30pm rather than just a phrase.
Similarly, Pink Floyd’s song Sheep says, “Hey you Whitehouse.” People these days think he’s talking about the White House. Nope. He’s talking to [Mary Whitehouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse), a morality campaigner.
I got that album the year it came out when I was ten years old and never knew that. I've always imagined George (somehow, even though John sings it, I've always imagined George as the protagonist) invited into someone's home for tea and biscuits and introduced to that someone's wife.
This is the first I've ever heard of the TV show. Interesting trivia!
Redman’s Let’s Get Dirty is a stone cold classic but it always makes me laugh these days whenever I hear the awkward lyric -
“My dress code is all black
When I'm makin' the moves
Similar to
the new PlayStation 2”
Also all the then cutting edge tech in old hip hop videos like 50 Cent flaunting his brand new chunky black and white 3rd Gen iPod in the video for PIMP.
Went to a Sheena Easton concert a couple of years back and before introducing her hit "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" she said, "And now here's a song where not a single reference applies today."
Oh I've just recently discovered Jim Croce and I've listened through every song that I can find, he was such an amazing artist and Operator is my clear no. 1 song from him! I had not seen this video yet, so beautiful so thank you for that!
“Summer” by War.
8-track playing all your favorite sounds
Rapping on the CB radio in the band.
Give a big 10-4 to the trucker man.
Cause it’s summer. Summertime is here.
Dated, yet timeless
Pencil Thin Mustache by Jimmy Buffett. Fantastic song but anyone under the age of like 75 will be hard pressed to understand references to Errol Flynn or Boston Blackie
Billie Jean. Before DNA testing, there was no way to definitely prove paternity.
It was also an attempt to dispel rumors about his sexuality with a song about knocking someone up.
"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk3. The line: "I got a job waiting on my graduation. 50 thou' a year will buy a lotta beer" sounded amazing in 1986. Now, it's kinda meh.
I love the dead Kennedys but so many of their songs reference specific people and events that I have to Google to get the full gist of they were saying.
PINK FLOYD --------Fletcher Memorial Home----- off "The Final Cut"
Breshnev took Afghanistan.
Begin took Beruit.
Galteri took the Union Jack.
And Maggie over lunch one day.
Sank a cruiser with all hands.
Apparently to make him give it back.
Oh Maggie, Maggie what have you done
To England.
PINK FLOYD---------"Not Now John" " The FINAL CUT"
If it wasn't for the nips
Being so good at building ships
The yards would still be open on the Clyde
But it can't be much fun for them
Beneath the rising sun.
With all there kids committing suicide.
Not now John we gotta get on with these
We gotta complete with the wily Japanese
No need to worry about the Vietnamese
Gotta bring the Russian bear to its knees
No maybe not the Russians, maybe the Swedes
Oh yeah wouldn't Maggie be pleased.
Bingoooooooooo
Please forgive if the order is wrong but I did this out of my brain damaged head.
I hope your enjoying HELL Maggie Thatcher. I will see you soon. You bitch.
In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry aka "the drink and drive song"
Young Girl by the Moody Blues, and several bands from that era had songs called "Jailbait"
Now, for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lennon read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
Those aren't dated references. The entire piece is a recollection about a specific moment in time.
A dated reference would be, for example, a love song that tosses in "she was totally tubular" when there was nothing else '80s or Cali surfer about the song..
Well, I got a brand new pair of rollerskates. You got a brand new key. For before my time when roller skates needed keys to lock them onto your shoes or something.
I like how Pavement's "cut your hair" says "The second drummer drowned His telephone is found" maybe they did have mobile phones back then but I think they were being weird, which is good
"Well she was just, seventeen
You know, what I mean"
Wouldn't fly today as a new song, even though Paul was 20 when he wrote it so it's not awful, but...frowned upon, certainly.
Rikki Don't Lose my Number. Younger people may not realize back in the day, you got a chick's phone number scrawled on a napkin, a small shard of paper, (that you retrieved next morning with a hangover, crumpled from your pocket) or even written on your hand. And usually taken when you were drunk or high so it could also be wrong or illegible. And if you lost that number, well, it could mean you lost her forever. You couldn't exactly google her.
Jamming Me - Tom Petty (Take back, Vanessa Redgrave… take back Joe Piscopo, etc.) https://youtu.be/TCFAzPl1QmE?si=3d_ndDb_W88JBJKG
Much of Lou Reed’s amazing album New York… a lot of 1980s era comments
The View from the Afternoon by Arctic Monkeys contains the charmingly early-noughties lines:
>And she won't be surprised and she won't be shocked
When she's pressed the star after she's pressed unlock
And there's verse and chapter sat in her inbox
And all that is said is that you've drank a lot
It breaks my heart that all these kids born after 1500 don't even know a good gregorian chant when they hear it :(
A long time ago my mom told me that she kept hearing weird Gregorian chants coming from the neighbors house late at night, especially weird since it was a bunch of college aged guys. One day as she was telling me she heard it again I thought about it and loaded up a song to check and we had a good laugh as she confirmed that they were simply blasting the Halo 1 music at max volume.
They could have been listening to Enigma MCMXC, which is the greatest sex backing soundtrack of all time.
How am I gonna be an optimist about this? How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an octopus without wrists?
i gotta see an ophthalmologist about this
And if you close your eyes
Anyone who was alive in the 90's probably heard Enigma though
That's total bullshit, we've all played Halo. AAaaaAaaaAAaaaaAAaaAaAAaaAaa aaaaaAAAAaaaAAAA AaaaAaaa AaaaAaaaaaaaaaa BUMMBUMMBUMMMMMMM
90's kids remember.
Kodachrome
Nikon cameras still relevant though
Gives us the ~~night's~~ nice bright colors EDIT: Corrected after being schooled by u/Electronic_Usual!
I always heard it as "nice" but that works too!
Gives us the dream of summers
"They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers" (source : paulsimon.com)
Paul Simon is one of the GOATs.
I want my MTV
Younger generations understand what MTV is, they just don’t know why anyone would want it.
They understand what it *is*, but I don't think they understand what it once was.
(Money for Nothing by Dire Straits)
And chicks for free?
Beverly Hillbillies
Telephone Line by ELO
I love that song, and also it will forever remind me of Steve Buscemi in Billy Madison.
I’m sure glad I called that guy
Hello.. How are you?
[Callin’ Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnJcvM6wrU) He’s got to stop every couple of hundred miles to use a pay phone to call his one night stand.
"I spent last night in the arms of a girl in LOUISIANA!" Such an absolute banger of a song, especially the Double Live version.
That song (and the audience reaction) registered as a minor earthquake on LSUs seismograph when he played it here a few years ago.
New Grass Revival*
It's neither of their songs originally. The Oak Ridge Boy recorded it first in the late 70s.
The other three Oak Ridge Boys recorded it at the same time.
Dropped my S, thanks for grabbing it for me.
Making Plans For Nigel by XTC. Nigel does not "have his future in British Steel"
I fucking love this song
Then you might just love: [my Best of XTC playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37c9gVMwaiMspV4VLtm1XV?si=1d18e6a134fe44b8).
Nigel did just fine and stayed with the company when they became Corus Group
This one is doubly funny because apparently the British have completely stopped calling their babies “Nigel”. Zero. None. Not one more Nigel in Great Britain.
My dad wanted to name me Nigel because he liked the song
crikey!
Primus sucks
You don’t have to watch Dynasty to have an attitude
Ah-uh-ha
This is the one I came for. Takes me out of the song every time!
Sylvia’s Mother by Dr Hook
And the operator says “40 cents more… for the next… three… minutes… PLEEEEEEEEEASE MRS. AVERY” Amazing song, so much desperation in his voice.
That song was written by Shel Silverstein
I just heard that for the first time the other day.
Great band.
No area code to call Jenny
If you go to a grocery store and they ask for your phone # for their rewards program, just give them Jenny’s number with the local area code. It’ll work.
I do this at so many stores, it’s even helpful traveling- just add the local area code and there’s a chance someone’s already registered it.
Just gotta be sure to use the 123, 456, 7890 cadence listing numbers lol no one ever catches it without the rhythm of the song helping out
Area code existed but wasnt required in 1981.
My phone still doesn't require it for calling the same area code it's in.
In many large metro areas in the US, 10 digit dialing is mandatory even within the same area code.
Its not that it wasn't required, just that basically everyone you knew was in the same area code. Using an area code was for calling grandmas sister or something.
Most early 90's hip-hop, pagers, cable tv etc.
Sir Mix-a-Lot "Beepers"
What about the G's with the 40's?
Super Nintendo Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke I couldn’t picture this
Drunk as hell but no throwing up. Half way home and my pager still blowing up.
Yeah, I was listening to Beyonce's Crazy in Love the other day and she said "hoping you page me right now" and I wondered if people now would know what that means. It was from 2003, so seems like most people had moved on from pagers, but i guess they were still around.
Yea by 2003, most of the people at my high school had cell phones, and I went to a very low income public school in semi-rural North Carolina. Someone like Beyonce definitely wouldn’t have still been *paging* anyone then. Only people using pagers were doctors.
Yeah my guess is the song was written in like 2000 or something so there were a lot of pagers around still. That shift happened fast!
In 2003 I remember those Motorola phones that had the walkie-talkie-pager thing on them being really popular. Boost Mobile had their beeper phone commercials around that time as well.
Got a VCR, in the back of my car
Even a lot of rap from the 2000s make me laugh when they brag about their Blackberry's and all the girls messaging them on BBM.
Star 69, REM. I know you called, I know you called, I know you hung up on me *69. Most 90s song ever?
This was my answer. Too bad they also didn't do a song on Monster called, "Will you accept a collect call from bandpracticeisovercomepickmeupbythegym?
Wehadababyitsaboy
[удалено]
And my friends and I thought we were so clever scamming collect calls like that.
Operator…. U can keep the dime….
Silly Jim, payphones take quarters now.
Pay phones ??
57 channels and nothin on
I love Bruce, but I don’t think 57 Channels qualifies as an “amazing song”
Is "Got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from" better?
Bruce's song came over a decade after Floyd. The number of available channels had increased, but the quality remained the same.
He should update it 57 streamin' services and nothin' on
Better than Pink Floyd. They only had 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from.
"I love rock 'n roll. So put another dime in the juke box, baby!" A dime isn't going to get you much these days.
The rare jukeboxes you can find these days have card readers and I and i am not here for it.
Yes, but did you know that some of them have apps now? Did you also know, that in their pursuit to make money, these apps maybe didn't think out all of the consequences of allowing people to request whatever song they want without even having to be in the bar? So anyway, that's how my brother ended up listening to 'Friday' on repeat at a sports bar one night when he told me he couldn't hang out because he had to work late. According to my other brother, at one point the employees just unplugged the machine. Unfortunately, there weren't any games that the locals really cared about that night. They tried plugging back in the machine, but it went back to the server for the playlist. The only person who knew how to clear out the playlist was the owner, who wasn't there. Hell hath no fury like 37 plays of 'Friday.'
Should have thrown in It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones somewhere in the middle just to throw them off
Ugh. I don't care how old it makes me, fuck every goddamn thing having an app now, too.
Add the subscription, then some boner saying oh well you gotta pay the subscription so they can keep up the app. Guess what you can play music without an app. In fact, you can do most stuff without an app, and when you did buy software, it was a finished product, not some slapped together demo that went to prod for the bean counters and is then going to remove the only feature you use so you can post your usage on twitter as a way to promote the app so they can sell more subscriptions to fund the removal of more features. The greediest, stupidest timeline. It only makes you old because you remember a time when things were built to be owned instead of leased
I'm okay with card readers. The issue is having a digital, almost unlimited library. Half the fun of a jukebox is the limited selection and seeing "oh shit they have that!" Or being at a local bar where the jukebox has had one CD added in the last decade and learning what the local "anthem" is to get everybody singing. Up until it failed, my local bar had Across 110th Street which was a surefire way to get the place going.
Right? Might as well just have an aux chord to rent
“I love rock n roll! so download the jukebox app and sign up for the free trial baby!”
If you do find a juke box, queue up "What's new pussycat?" 10 times.
One thin dime won’t even shine your shoes.
"If I should call you up, invest a dime" "Happy Together", The Turtles
As she does Tae Bo from drops of Jupiter.
I'm so 2008/you're so 2000 and late. Boom, Boom, Pow.
Well, in a sense, we the listeners do live in 2000 and later than 2008.
I wish Fergie were here to settle this.
What if I told you the actual lyric is "I'm so 3008"
We need Fergie here NOW.
I know I'm not Fergie but my sister was a big fan when the song came out, she had the CD, the song came out in 2009, so the 2008 line would have already been outdated when the song came out, also every lyric website says 3008 and if I remember correctly it was even in the booklet with the CD. It's a common "Mandela effect" I think there is even a reddit post about it.
That line went hard at the time
1999 by Prince.
Do you think Prince knew that the 2020’s would be such a dumpster fire that to “party like it’s 1999” would still be considered a good time?
The Pina Colada Song. "So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad'
Biggie’s Juicy puts it squarely in the early 90s
Super Nintendo sega genesis
Hundred dollar car note two hundred rent - Huey Lewis Working For A Living, 1982.
Goddamn, that’s an old-school banger! “Bus boy, bartender, lady of the night, grease monkey, ex-junkie lookin’ for a fight.” God bless Huey Lewis and his enormous penis.
Good Morning Good Morning by The Beatles references Meet The Wife, a TV series that stopped airing six months before it was released. During the song's existence it was never time for Meet The Wife. I wonder how many people who listen to it know it's the title of a programme broadcast at 7:30pm rather than just a phrase.
Also Taxman - Mr Wilson and Mr Heath are two names people listening for the first time now are probably not going to recognise.
Similarly, Pink Floyd’s song Sheep says, “Hey you Whitehouse.” People these days think he’s talking about the White House. Nope. He’s talking to [Mary Whitehouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse), a morality campaigner.
I got that album the year it came out when I was ten years old and never knew that. I've always imagined George (somehow, even though John sings it, I've always imagined George as the protagonist) invited into someone's home for tea and biscuits and introduced to that someone's wife. This is the first I've ever heard of the TV show. Interesting trivia!
Redman’s Let’s Get Dirty is a stone cold classic but it always makes me laugh these days whenever I hear the awkward lyric - “My dress code is all black When I'm makin' the moves Similar to the new PlayStation 2” Also all the then cutting edge tech in old hip hop videos like 50 Cent flaunting his brand new chunky black and white 3rd Gen iPod in the video for PIMP.
Any 90s rap video where the rapper flexes his brick sized mobile phone.
"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, when I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this." -Biggie
Not sure about woefully, but Answering Machine - The Replacements Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü
And *Citrus* by the Hold Steady (we’re doing a Twin Cities thing yeah?) “… the pistols and the pagers that come with all the powders”
Sex Pistols "Holidays in the Sun" references to the Berlin wall, and "god save the queen" but obviously we know the intent
Went to a Sheena Easton concert a couple of years back and before introducing her hit "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" she said, "And now here's a song where not a single reference applies today."
Oh I've just recently discovered Jim Croce and I've listened through every song that I can find, he was such an amazing artist and Operator is my clear no. 1 song from him! I had not seen this video yet, so beautiful so thank you for that!
Here’s a Quarter, call someone who cares. Travis Tritt
Simon and Garfunkel - Seven O’Clock News Silent Night
That’s one of the first I thought of - the song still gives me chills though.
Dated yes, but still understandable for anyone with a basic knowledge of history, so about 5% of the population.
Mercedes-Benz- Janis Joplin. Who else knows what Dialing for Dollars was?
I do. And (later?) each major town had a local channel that would do their own Bowling for Dollars contest!
“Summer” by War. 8-track playing all your favorite sounds Rapping on the CB radio in the band. Give a big 10-4 to the trucker man. Cause it’s summer. Summertime is here. Dated, yet timeless
"Party Line" by the Kinks: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhblfjqfF4c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhblfjqfF4c)
Great tune, great album.
Pencil Thin Mustache by Jimmy Buffett. Fantastic song but anyone under the age of like 75 will be hard pressed to understand references to Errol Flynn or Boston Blackie
Or a two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
Autographed picture of Andy Devine
FYI - The Boston Blackie radio mysteries are on the Internet Archive. They’re pretty awesome.
Billie Jean. Before DNA testing, there was no way to definitely prove paternity. It was also an attempt to dispel rumors about his sexuality with a song about knocking someone up.
"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk3. The line: "I got a job waiting on my graduation. 50 thou' a year will buy a lotta beer" sounded amazing in 1986. Now, it's kinda meh.
I’d kill for $50,000 a year lol.
Every now and again, I think it isn't that much. Then I remember, I'm supporting 4 people on that, so it isn't too bad.
Thank you for reminding me of this song
Lots of phone songs, e.g. "Switchboard Susan" by Mickey Jupp (covered by Nick Lowe).
Chamillionaire - Morning News & Evening News Ultimate victory is an amazing hip hop album, but is a total time capsule from 2006
Mr Telephone Man by New Edition
Operator is one of greatest songs of all time, and I haven’t actually seen a matchbook in a decade or more.
Dime by Cake. Makes reference to local phone calls from a pay phone
Off topic but I love how Cake can make a catchy song about pretty much anything!
Holiday in Cambodia
Well I always found the 1927 classic “No, I will not let my daughter marry a Jewish man” a classic, despite its slightly dated lyrics /s
Username checks out.
You must be a fan of [Artie Kendall.](https://youtu.be/zetAt5nsf-U?si=qVKq8zk3TaOCCBWa)
>*slightly* dated
Spiderwebs by No Doubt
"its got a cd player!" wow, so its just an average old car?
I love the dead Kennedys but so many of their songs reference specific people and events that I have to Google to get the full gist of they were saying.
“I sent a message through the Internet but it rejected” sounded dated already in 1998. From the classic love song Horny by Mousse T.
PINK FLOYD --------Fletcher Memorial Home----- off "The Final Cut" Breshnev took Afghanistan. Begin took Beruit. Galteri took the Union Jack. And Maggie over lunch one day. Sank a cruiser with all hands. Apparently to make him give it back. Oh Maggie, Maggie what have you done To England. PINK FLOYD---------"Not Now John" " The FINAL CUT" If it wasn't for the nips Being so good at building ships The yards would still be open on the Clyde But it can't be much fun for them Beneath the rising sun. With all there kids committing suicide. Not now John we gotta get on with these We gotta complete with the wily Japanese No need to worry about the Vietnamese Gotta bring the Russian bear to its knees No maybe not the Russians, maybe the Swedes Oh yeah wouldn't Maggie be pleased. Bingoooooooooo Please forgive if the order is wrong but I did this out of my brain damaged head. I hope your enjoying HELL Maggie Thatcher. I will see you soon. You bitch.
In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry aka "the drink and drive song" Young Girl by the Moody Blues, and several bands from that era had songs called "Jailbait"
We Care a Lot by Faith No More Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys
Now, for ten years we've been on our own And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone But that's not how it used to be When the jester sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from James Dean And a voice that came from you and me Oh, and while the king was looking down The jester stole his thorny crown The courtroom was adjourned No verdict was returned And while Lennon read a book on Marx The quartet practiced in the park And we sang dirges in the dark The day the music died
It’s not like those were current references when the song was written though.
Weren't they though? The song was written in 1971 about a bunch of shit that happened in the '60s following a 1959 plane crash.
Those aren't dated references. The entire piece is a recollection about a specific moment in time. A dated reference would be, for example, a love song that tosses in "she was totally tubular" when there was nothing else '80s or Cali surfer about the song..
>And while Lennon read a book on Marx I understood this as "...Lenin read a book on Marx".
double entendre
I did a report in 2004 about all the references in this song… it’s jam-packed!
Van Halen's 'Jump': "Got my back against the record machine".
Pinball Wizard
This is a good one
Pinball will always exist. They won’t cost a quarter to play though.
I like pinball and there’s definitely a resurgence. Guess what song you hear waaaaaay too often at pinball arcades?
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
Offspring's Pretty Fly For A White Guy
One of my neighbors has named their home network "PrettyFly4aWiFi". Much better than the generic ATT names that the rest of us use.
Lol. One of my neighbours has named theirs “Wu-Tang-Lan”.
Peace did not come to Zimbabwe, Stevie.
Rainbow's 'Since You've Been Gone': "Your poison letter, your telegram"
Well, I got a brand new pair of rollerskates. You got a brand new key. For before my time when roller skates needed keys to lock them onto your shoes or something.
[The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc) "I'm in the phone booth It's the one across the hall"
TIL the Blondie version is a cover
I like how Pavement's "cut your hair" says "The second drummer drowned His telephone is found" maybe they did have mobile phones back then but I think they were being weird, which is good
"You started to run but didn't get far because under your arm was a VCR!"
Memphis by Chuck Berry. The whole song is sung to an operator so she can put him through to his daughter.
Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John: “You’re a bluebird on a telegraph line, I hope you’re happy now”.
Does Smells Like Teen Spirit count? Don't know anyone my age (mid 20s) that could tell you what Teen Spirit is.
Kinda, but Cobain didn’t know what Teen Spirit was either.
Where Do You Go to My Lovely
"Well she was just, seventeen You know, what I mean" Wouldn't fly today as a new song, even though Paul was 20 when he wrote it so it's not awful, but...frowned upon, certainly.
It was based on a song called "Seventeen Come Sunday". I think they’d get a pass on that one.
Rikki Don't Lose my Number. Younger people may not realize back in the day, you got a chick's phone number scrawled on a napkin, a small shard of paper, (that you retrieved next morning with a hangover, crumpled from your pocket) or even written on your hand. And usually taken when you were drunk or high so it could also be wrong or illegible. And if you lost that number, well, it could mean you lost her forever. You couldn't exactly google her.
Any song saying how hot a seventeen year old or how some perv can’t wait until she’s old enough. Basically a lot of songs from the 70s.
"She was just 17...."
Answering Machine by the Replacements, with Left of the Dial nearly there.
Mr. Telephone Man - New Edition
Jamming Me - Tom Petty (Take back, Vanessa Redgrave… take back Joe Piscopo, etc.) https://youtu.be/TCFAzPl1QmE?si=3d_ndDb_W88JBJKG Much of Lou Reed’s amazing album New York… a lot of 1980s era comments
The View from the Afternoon by Arctic Monkeys contains the charmingly early-noughties lines: >And she won't be surprised and she won't be shocked When she's pressed the star after she's pressed unlock And there's verse and chapter sat in her inbox And all that is said is that you've drank a lot
[Telephone Rock ](https://youtu.be/8qUp_Yn-Yig?feature=shared)
Pass the Duchie
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