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Obsolete Songs; Updates?
Topic Started: Jul 16 2011, 12:09 AM (208 Views)
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Cheque Book is a song that has become dated due to changes in technology and business practice. Any other examples of lyrics that have become dated?

Nick Lowe's 'I knew the bride' was already changed from jumping up and down with her headphones on' to 'jumping up and down with her Walkman on' . I guess 'jumping up and down with her ipod on' would be the latest update. Any other song updates?

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From 'What a wonderful world' the old Sam Cooke song. (In some versions)

'I don't know what a sliderule is for'

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I've got a brand new pair of rollerblades
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* How can "Telegram Sam" still be yer "main man" when he's been made obsolete about fifty times over?

* A few weeks ago I'd have said that Costello's line (from "Green Shirt") - "the shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes" - was out of date.
But, according to a recent "WOM", there's a mini-revival in the art of shorthand.
But I wonder if, everyday, Costello's still writing that book with his pen and his electric typewriter.

* "Puppet On A String".
How sweet that, in this sophisticated CGI era, some folks are still enjoying more inncocent pleasures.
Thunderbirds are Go-Go!

* This Sinatra song loses some of its resonance in the updating:

"I'm gonna sit right down and send myself an e-mail
And make believe it came from you..."

Not to mention this wee classic from The Box Tops (featuring Rumbaba's hero, Alex Chilton) -

"Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home
Cause my baby just wrote me a text..."

Doesn't have the same pop poetry, does it?

* "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
The late great Gil Scott-Heron couldn't have been more wrong.
These days revolutions are smart-phoned and You Tubed up to the eyeball.
(A Good Thing, natch.)

* "Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll"
Luckily these sins and afflictions have been cured and/or outlawed.
For those who can't afford a stint at The Priory (a snip at a grand a day) a DIY crash course is readily available:
Cold showers and Coldplay.

* "News Of The World"
That was SO last week, Paul.
Keep up.
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