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I'm not talking about songs that have a dated sound (there's more than I could ever list). I'm referring to songs with a specific date or year in the lyrics, that are mentioned as the present or future. Like Prince's "1999" (which will not be played as much now that it's date has come and gone). These are songs for which the present or future they refer to, has come and gone. 1999 was the future in 1982, 1999 has now passed.

What I am NOT looking for, are songs like Bowling for Soup's "1985" which are written after the date they are talking about. This song is looking back, or written from the point of view of after the date mentioned.

We also accept lyrics that mention prices that are now dated, such as 10 cent pay phone calls. Lyrics that mention a persons age at the time and that person is now past said age, and lyrics that mentioned events that were current at the time of the song but have now passed are also accepted.

Basically anything that definitively dates a song by any means other than the way it "sounds". Words/phrases/singing styles or instruments that were used commonly in a time period but are no longer used that much today are not accepted.

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The Jefferson Starship (Jefferson Airplane 1970)'s, "Hijack"
The dated Lyrics:
You know - a starship's circling in the sky
It ought to be ready by 1990
They'll be building it up in the air
Ever since 1980
People with a clever plan
Can assume the role of the mighty --
And HIJACK THE STARSHIP!
Why They're dated:
These lyrics are from the album 'Blows Against The Empire', which was a psychedelic-concept-album in 1970 featuring members of The Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash, and The Grateful Dead. It is a dated piece from the Flower-Power-Hippy-Era, about a group of Hippies who hijack a starship to escape The Establishment and live free in outer space. Not only did we NOT have a starship by 1980 or 1990, but NASA recently shelved its plans for a 'space-plane' that was to be the successor to the space-shuttle.
Submitted by: Johnny D

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