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This is a thread in which we try to name as many years as possible which occur in the lyrics of pop songs - and according to said songs what is notable about such years. Using this inexact science we should be able to plot the past and future history of the world.

For instance: 1984: We should beware the sound mixture
and in 1963 Johnny came home with a gift for me.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I was surprised/
I was happy for a day in 1975/
I was puzzled by a dream/
It stayed with me all day in 1995

Tweeness will have its way.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

1984, sex crimes Eurythmics
1969, Summer of Bry*n Ad*ms
'72, me and the major, Belle and Sebastian

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry

He remembers all the punks and the hippies too
and he remembers lots of music in '72

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

roxy.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

got a feeling [???] is gunna be a good year

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Like homeless, restless, known to none, like way beyond the line, like it never was in 1959

― a goth (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

2073 - you and me gonna' be gettin down, in our space bed.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

1969 in the sunshine.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

the last time I saw richard was detroit in '68.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Its 1987 and ugly is in
Its 1988 its time to get ugly.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65
beware the savage lure of 1984.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's 1992 and still no one to vote for"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

year 3000 - Busted's 7th album goes platinum, and your great great great grand daughter is sexy.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

2003 - Robert Palmer is still addicted to love.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

1990 is time for the guru.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

(cheating a bit)

If you're not careful, you'll have nothing left and nothing to care for in the nineteen-seventies.

All the people I was kissing, some are here and some are missing, in the nineteen-nineties.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

1989 the number, another summer

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You say: "ere long done do does did "
words which could only be your own
you then produce the text
from whence was ripped
(some dizzy whore, 1804)

― Lara, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Seventy-four, seventy-five

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

We lay down in 1984 (1984 - The Incredible Moses Leroy)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Now it's 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They've come for your uncool niece"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

It’s 4 in the morning July in ’69, me and my sister, we crept down like shadows.

― Lara, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

2000 zero zero party over, oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999

Way back in '67 I was the dandy of Gamma Chi

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

this is how we chill from '93 'til...

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

if you're from the year 2000 put yer hands in the air (yeah!)

Frigid Vinegar - Dogmanaut 2000 (Is there anyone out there?)

― K chu, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

(Jel do you have the Busted album?? BIG RESPECK if so, I nearly bought it yesterday but had already spent quite a bit so thought best not to...)

Ur, according to the Crazy Taxi soundtrack, something happens in tweeeeenty, tweeeeenty TEN(or two) but god knows what. Ja ja ja ja!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it til my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69

― k chu, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah you're pretty good looking for a girl
but your back is so broken
and this feeling's still gonna linger on
until the year 2525 now

----

Lets all meet up in the year 2000. Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown? Be there 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road

----

― k chu, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(ha ha, "bouncing down the road" as my mate rob thought it said)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"They've desecreated summer since 1975, marched into the capital"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

(no I don't have it sarah, but I might have to get it, as they have a song called Dawson's Geek!!! wow!)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

A song called Dawson's Crack would be better.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

No it wouldn't. Jel - I saw them perform it on T4, it's fantastic!!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah! I saw it too, the tall one played a guitar solo, and I thought "they really are 4 Real, the new manics!!"

I dunno what's worse hating on Busted or hating on Dawsons :)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Much as I hate to contribute this:

"It's the same old theme since 1918"

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

(historically useless except that it suggests 1979 was bad)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I got stuck in the 1860s
I've been here for 125 years

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

REAL ACTUAL HISTORY!!

At the age of nineteen, he became the Macedon king,
And swore to free all of Asia Minor,
By the Aegian Sea in 334 BC,
He utterly beat the armies of Persia.

(Iron Maiden - "Alexander The Great")

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

(I missed the chance to quote Maiden! :(...)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

she brings me the sound of the future, which is 1965

she talks with an ancient wisdom, dated 1963

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

in germany, before the war,
there was a man who owned a store,
in nineteen hundred thirty-four,
in dusseldorf.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was in ’83 my father left the family,
But came back three weeks later for a love both firm and stable.
I think it was in ’91 that Lee Remick died……
The sibling rivalry between my sister and me turned into the strongest branch of our family tree.

― k chu, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I was blind in 1979, by '82 I had clues,
By 1986 I was mad as hell.

― k chu, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

but then they buried her alive one day in 1945 (Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland '45)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, what a night! Late December, back in '63. What a very special time for me! Sweet surrender, WHAT A NIGHT!

In 2002, on the other hand, we were representin' the Wu.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sir leads the troops,
Jealous of youth
Same old jokes since 1902...

― Lord Byron Lived Here, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Shake down! Nine-teen-sev-en-tynine!

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

are sonic youth P!O!P!?

hey joni (daydream nation):
...
it's 1963
it's 1964
it's 1957
it's 1962
...

― koogs, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

In 1995 I told 1,000 lies
Let me tell you about the agony of love

- Luna, '1995'

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day (in the year 0)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

1066 the queen lost her knicks
She licked her bum
And said yum yum
It tastes like Weetabix

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen, you just made that up! Did you get my email btw?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

1992 - Don't believe the hype
Take a good look at the small print
Ignore the bold type

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(never thought i'd see the day, beaten to a carter lyric. pete hang your head.)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't make it up, we used to sing it at school. It is by Anon. I don't check this email account very often - will do so now.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – in 1959!

― katie (katie), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born in the town of Paisley in early 1960
And placed in the care of an old eternal bachelor

- Momus, 'Bishonen'

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

and he's taking you back to the nineteen sixties/thirty five years away from me

Baxendale (mwah ha ha)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

1989 (the number) another summer, sound of the funky drummer (get down)
music hittin' your heart ‘coz I know you got soul

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

So I called up the Captain
Please bring me my wine
He said
We haven't had that spirit here since 1969

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

am i just not reading closely or has no one said either of these gems...

it's 1969, ok? got a war across the usa...

1987, all i want to do is get stoned, all i want for you to do is take my body home...

(stooges and spacemen respectively)

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Running to the station, my obligation
When I'm in effect, I shake the foundation
Stories I tell intellectually well
Fresh for '89 rocking bells

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

when some clown jumps up to get beat down
broken down to his very last compound
see how it sounds? a little unrational
a lot of mc's like to use the word DRAMATICAL!
Fresh for '88, you suckas...

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I got some skeletons in my closet
And I dont know if no one knows it
So before they throw me inside my coffin and close it
I'm a expose it, I'll take you back to '73
Before I ever had a multi-platinum selling CD
I was a baby maybe I was just a couple of months
My faggot father must've had his panties up in a bunch

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Got a feeling '51 is gonna be a good year.

― ann-margret (rosemary), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Did I dream that there was once a pro-EU Irish Eurovision entry once called '1992 (Barriers Come Down)'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Well my body sank below the ground, it became as black as night.
overhead the sound of horses hooves, people fighting for their lives
Some joker in a headband was still getting chicks for free
And Big Brother was still watching you back in the days of '83

Well by 1985 I was as cold as cold can be,
But no-one was underground to dig me out and set me free.
87 socialism gave way to socialising,
So put your hands up in the air - once more the north is rising!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasting time at nowhere very special
Seems almost a part of it these days
I know every crack along the pavement
I remember what you said in '88

You said: 'It's time to leave this town
The world keeps turning 'round
The only thing that keeps me here is you'

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

1969 = annee erotique

― jane b (rosemary), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

then one day in 73 / I looked in the mirror and it terrified me
what I saw was quite out of place / bumfluff and acne all over my face
I tried to speak / but when I spoke / all that came out was a croak

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Its 1997. What the fucks going on?

In 1649
To St George's Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Came to show the people' s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the laws
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs

Then in 1915 my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop rambling, there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they marched me away to the war.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG: wow - thanks to you, that stuff almost makes *sense* to me now.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

plz explain why there's a thousand years between God guessing it's time for a Judgement Day and a Judgement being passed?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still cross he didn't type the next line from The Last Time I Saw Richard

REAL ACTUAL HISTORY!!

Tom exposed as a history rockist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

and he told me all romantics meet the same fate, someday:
cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"it was so cool to be cynical/so square to try & believe/back in '72" - bob seger (approximation from memory)

― dz (hellbaby), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Shakedown 1979 / Cool kids never have the time

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

did anyone already say "no elvis beatles or the rolling stones/in 1977"?

― d.z, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

(answ. : yes the Clash did, it was in one of their songs)

― d.z, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Curses, "Circa 1762" doesn't feature the title year in its lyrics. Uh... "we get to feeling like a fixture set in 1966", then.

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Africa must be free,
by the year 1983

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 08:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
Some dizzy whore, eighteen hundred and four."

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in 1799
And the day he died it was a birthday
And I noticed it was mine

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Town
2061

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I see by your gravestone
you was only 19
when you joined the great fallen
of 1916

(folk is great for years)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, the last bus I missed to Maudlin Street
So he drove me home in the Van
Complaining, "Women only like me for my mind..."
Don't leave your torch behind
A powercut ahead; 1972, you know

― Lara, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"i wish it could be 1965 again" by the barracudas is a pretty good song

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

so's "ready for the '80s" by the village people

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

also "saturday gigs" by mott the hoople which has lines for every year from 1969 thru to '75 altho i can't remember any of em right now

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Thursday, 12 December 2002 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

In the year of eighteen and one
Peg and Awl
In the year of eighteen and one
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and one
Peggin' shoes is all I done
Hand me done my pegs, my pegs, my pegs, my awl.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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