Songs mentioning specific years

[mojo pixy]

I don't expect there are as many as times or dates, I just wanted to complete the set.

One that springs to mind is in the REM song 'Ignoreland', Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two...

Jimi Hendrix, who should have come to be a merman in 1983, doesn't actually sing that in the song .. and Bryan Adams has been known to point out that 'Summer of 69' isn't about the year 1969.

Still, Prince was gonna party like it's 1999.

There must be a few more, anyway.

 

[Elpenor]

Anne Marie - 2002

Perfect bit of pop

 

[Bus Honeygun]

The major remembers Roxy Music in '72.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

"It's 1963
It's 1964
It's 1957
It's 1962"

A few years mentioned here...

 

[Yossarian]

 

[platinumsage]

1649

 

[Lazy Llama]

 

[chilango]

1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
In the Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Year 3000 - Busted

 

[platinumsage]

There’s four years in Ice Cube’s What Can I Do

Today, how you like me now, I'm in the mix?
It's 1986 and I got the fix with the chicken and a quota
Got the baking soda, let the water boil, workers all loyal…
…
'89s the number, another summer
Police ain't get no dumber
Streets dried up, used to think it would last
But being a king pin is a thing of the past
….
I never picked up a book
But my arms are 16 inches, niggas look
Can't wait for '92 so I can get with my crew
And see, what can I do
….
Messed up in the pen, now it's 94
Back in L.A., and I'm bailin' in the dough
Everybody, now I gotta start from scratch
So where to work at, and homies smirk at….

 

[planetgeli]

 

[May Kasahara]

Fresh for '88, you suckas!

 

[Yossarian]

"1989 the number..."

 

[deeyo]

it was the time of the preacher
in the year of '01
now the preaching is over
and the lesson's begun...

 

[May Kasahara]

Also...fresh for '86, you suckas



I <3 KRS One.

 

[UrbaneFox]

John Shuttleworth - My Wife Died in 1970



My wife died in 1970
Peacefully in her sleep
Though she's just a distant memory
Occasional tears I weep

In memory of Margaret
Daughter, wife and niece
Sorely missed by everyone
Winnie, Jack and husband John
Sleep in heavenly peace

 

[May Kasahara]

 

[DotCommunist]

in 'Doggystyle' snoop dog has the line 'how many hoes in '94 will I be banging' but lets move swiftly on from that.

 

[zahir]

I was on a bus coming back to us from Atlanta in '53

 

[mx wcfc]

The Clash - 1977 (b side of the White Riot single)

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[mx wcfc]

and once again, Eastfield - Mick Murphy's Dirty Bar

"The stock dates back to 1979"

Have a live version this time.

 

[zahir]

Daddy had a 1941 Ford when I was just about ten years old

 

[mx wcfc]

TRB - Winter of 79

 

[UrbaneFox]

December 63, Frankie Valli and Four Seasons

 

[danny la rouge]

‘57.

 

[danny la rouge]

1649.

 

[Plumdaff]

 

[zahir]

1962

 

[hitmouse]

SLLLEEEEEEWWWWW DEEEEMMMM 09!

 

[hitmouse]

bugger beaten to it