Songs mentioning specific years

[JimW]

Dao Lang had a massive hit in China with a song called First Snow of 2002:

第35集；刀郎《2002年的第一场雪》完整版，永远的经典！

音乐视频：第35集；刀郎《2002年的第一场雪》完整版，永远的经典！

m.tv.sohu.com

 

[mojo pixy]

In the beginning, about 1955
Man didn't know about a rock n roll show and all that jive...

 

[Silas Loom]

I’d only encountered that song through the Fields of the Nephilim cover, which I liked enormously, but those geography teachers cannot be surpassed.

 

[hitmouse]

You haven't felt this way since 1998:

 

[hitmouse]

I was born a bitter old man
Who got his heart broken in Catalonia, 1936
Things haven’t felt right since

 

[mojo pixy]

Not just a song, but a whole band...

 

[Mattym]

Fresh for '88, you suckas!

1,2,3,
The crew is called BDP,
& if you want to go to the tip-top,
stop the violence in hip-hop Y-O.

 

[krtek a houby]

Nobody's mentioned 'In the Year 2525' yet? I'm disappointed.

Post #10

Meanwhile, Winter 1963 gets a mention in this one from the Dream Academy

 

[surreybrowncap]

10 years in Stiff Little Fingers 78 R.P.M...
69 it was fine you say
71 rang the knell
72 we went through hell
73 and 74 only gave us more
75 the same old jive
76 no kick you bet
It got better in 77
78 revolutions a minute
But by 79 it's gonna be mine I say...

 

[Griff]

 

[Knotted]

Leadbelly - Mr Hitler

Hitler started out in 1932 (should be 1933 of course)

 

[skyscraper101]

Slayer's Dittohead references 1994

Here in 1994, things are different than before
Violence is what we adore

 

[hitmouse]

Not just a song, but a whole band...

Never actually listened to them, but sometimes I'll look at the time when it's about ten to two and think "oh, it's the black metal time."

 

[rubbershoes]

There's a lyric in my head that I can't work out where's it from

"89, the year of the soul"

I think it's something from the early 90s. Maybe by Gangstarr one of the Rebirth of Cool albums.

Any ideas?

 

[hash tag]

In the beginning, about 1955
Man didn't know about a rock n roll show and all that jive...

Listening to this c/o the transistor right now

 

[hitmouse]

Now I'm wondering: that song fits on both this thread and the time one, and there are loads that give a full date including the year, such as December 8, 1980, Sept 15 1983 and April 29th 1992 for starters, but are there any that qualify for all three threads? Has anyone ever written a song going "It was 16:53 on December 20th 2022" or something along those lines?

Just found another one:

5:25, August 5th, 1962

 

[Pickman's model]

rifles of the ira - 1916, 1921

 

[Pickman's model]

joe mcdonnell - 1981

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Pickman's model]

who fears to speak of (17)98

 

[savoloysam]

 

[PR1Berske]

Manic Street Preachers,"1985"

"In 1985, Orwell was proved right
Torville and Dean's bolero
Redundant as a sad welsh chapel
In 1985"

 

[hash tag]

Bee Gees, yes, the Bee Gees and the New York Mining Disaster 1941 .

 

[hitmouse]

You might think that 1998 by Rancid would mention 1998, and it does. But it also mentions 1974 and 1976 as well:


Also, in case I don't post enough Protomartyr songs:
I recall seeing the pope
Pontiac 1987


Outside of Darlington, 1963
On certain mornings a specter appeared
In a well-appointed back garden

 

[Spandex]

More '90s...

Annie - Forever '92


2raumwohnung - 1993


Molly Nilsson - 1995

 

[surreybrowncap]

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[PTK]

This mentions the twentieth century and the 1970s.