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Starry Wisdom
The blaggers' here's Johnny about John major who sadly survived the ira's mortaring of Downing street
Songs with dated references
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Starry Wisdom
The rolling stones' you can't always get what you want, with I went down to the Chelsea drugstore to get my prescription filled. Which you haven't been able to do for more than 30 years
mx wcfc
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Brings to mind TRBs “wish I had a grey Cortina, whiplash aerial, racing trim”
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I feel like people around that time loved singing about Ford Cortinas, see also The Mekons line about "drink, fags, fun at night, dirty books and a Ford Cortina":
That one's probably full of dated references, come to think of it.
Anyway, not really the direction I was planning on this light-hearted thread going in, but I think Pickman's is right about George Formby, if you introduced Formby to, for instance, Kanye, or Odd Future-era Tyler and Sweatshirt*, I'm sure there would be a great deal of mutual incomprehension, but I don't think the newer artists would be saying "your sexism is so unacceptable these days, you can't play inappropriate behaviour towards women for laughs anymore".
On the other hand, I think posting 1959 by the Sisters of Mercy was outside of the spirit of this thread, I don't think there's much about the song 1959 that would instantly tip you off to when the song was written and recorded.
*admittedly, Tyler and Sweatshirt have grown up a bit since then, but I think that's more a change in them as people rather than a change in what's culturally acceptable, although it could be both.
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We'll have to differ, hm
mojo pixy
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I think anything so definitively 'of its time' as eg George Formby was, is bound eventually to sound dated. And in fairness it's more than the stalking and voyeurism in his oeuvre that dates it, there are the army songs, the racist songs and the songs about Blackpool rock. It was another age he was singing about, that's both charming and embarrassing but one way or another most of his songs wouldn't see the light of day now, wouldn't even get written.
mx wcfc
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The Clash's "Janie Jones" has the line "He's got a Ford Cortina that just won't run without fuel".
Maybe we need a "Songs that feature Ford Cortinas" thread......
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
Subhumans - Apathy: "Drink, Sex, Cigarettes, Ford Cortina, household pets...".
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Friend of my parents was a semi professional left wing singer, protest songs mostly.
About 1992/3 he was doing a song calling for the release of a number of South African political prisoners. After the gig a nice old bloke came up to him, complemented him on the song and said ‘ you can drop the second verse, they let me out and I’m here…’
About 1992/3 he was doing a song calling for the release of a number of South African political prisoners. After the gig a nice old bloke came up to him, complemented him on the song and said ‘ you can drop the second verse, they let me out and I’m here…’
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No, valid: I still wish I had a grey cortina with whiplash aerial and racing trim. Specifically a Mk4 Ghia.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Free Nelson Mandela
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Sadly it wasn’t him!
Voley
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"Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned-up hyena
Could not have been more obscener"
Ian Dury
hitmouse
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A look at wikipedia informs me that John Cooper Clarke was at it as well:
Apparently the Arctic Monkeys covered that one, although they must be as unfamiliar with Ford Cortinas as I am.
The first song I thought of. Is Jerry Dammers still a Brixtonite?
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Crass have a song that references Farah Fawcett, maybe a reference to Charlie's Angels, which ran from 1976 to 1980.
You could just as easily look for dated TV references.
You could just as easily look for dated TV references.
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My old man's a dustman,
Well, for a start he'd be a waste management and recycling interface associate for Serco. Secondly he'd have to wear approved lower body garments that complied with British Standard BS EN 471 for high visibility/conspicuity rather than gor blimey trousers, and finally its unlikely great big hob nail boots would meet the safety footware requirements. The last two items being good things as far as workplace safety are concerned.
Well, for a start he'd be a waste management and recycling interface associate for Serco. Secondly he'd have to wear approved lower body garments that complied with British Standard BS EN 471 for high visibility/conspicuity rather than gor blimey trousers, and finally its unlikely great big hob nail boots would meet the safety footware requirements. The last two items being good things as far as workplace safety are concerned.
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Like the Sweeny are no longer doing 90 cos got they got the word to go, because the Ray Winston / Plan B film was so shit the villains in the shed up at Heathrow would just laugh.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Trains don't 'set the night on fire' anymore either.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
FTFY
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Taking Youngest Q back to Uni sometime last year was listening to some tunez in the car and it played this one :-
Youngest Q: "If you listen to the lyrics, this song is really creepy isn't it? Some guy takes a picture of a woman he doesn't know in the park and spends the next year obsessing over her"
hitmouse
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Mobb Deep mention watching the film Friday, and to be fair people often watch old films, but the fact that they specify watching it on VCR does date it a bit.
Would a dustman's hat fit contemporary safety regulations? Probably a good chance that said council flat is now in private ownership as well.
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The hat would probably be ok, unless he had a requirement for working in confined spaces where a bump cap complying with British Standard EN 812:2012 would be required.
Housing association for the flat probably. But he might have purchased it under Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme.
