On the way to Johnstown, PA parked along the highway there are three trailers (tractor-trailer varieties). On the side of one is spray painted in huge red letters: “TRAILORS (sic) FOR SALE OR RENT”.
Once when I drove by there was a guy working on the rigs. I pulled off and told him I got his joke. But it was unintended. I eventually sang a verse of the song, but he claimed to have never heard it.
Wait a minute, that’s not the way I remember those items in parenthesis. Some online sites report, “Ha ha, Mr Wilson”. To me, it sure sounds like they’re saying, “Taxman, Mr. Wilson” and “Taxman, Mr. Heath”
“Got me hoping you page me right now” - “Crazy in Love” by Beyonce and Jay-Z. Even at the time that this song came out, pagers were pretty much all gone.
I bought a new black and white TV in the UK in 1983. Come to think, I also bought, and later that year resold, a black and white one in the USA in 1984. That one was secondhand when I got it, though. Neither of them were meaningfully portable, certainly not the American bought one.
Well, I got that of a lyrics site, and they are not always entirely accurate, though probably better than most individual’s memories. Actually, I think it might really have been “Ta-ta” (meaning goodbye).
The more interesting anachronism, I think, rather than the names of long-gone politicians, is the 95% top income tax rate.
ETA:
Yes, that was my point.
I think that is about nuclear war, not Vietnam, and although it is no longer fashionable to be worried about nuclear armageddon, it could totally still happen.
Wilco, Box Full of Letters:
“I got a box full of letters think you might like to read
Some things you might like to see but they’re all addressed to me”
and the next verse
“I got a lot of your records in a separate stack
Some things I might like to hear but I guess I’ll give them back”
Old 97s, Big Brown Eyes:
“A box of red, and a pill or three
And I’m calling Time and Temperature just for some company”
I meet so few people who have heard of this. It’s one of my favorite Tim Curry performances. “Well, it’s stimulating!”
From Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Auld Lang Syne”:
*Went to have ourselves a drink or two
But couldn’t find an open bar
We bought a six-pack at the liquor store
And we drank it in her car
*
Imagine trying to do that nowadays.
The Buggles actually say “VTR,” which make the lyric even more dated.
[on the cb]
Ah, breaker one-nine, this heres the rubber duck. you gotta copy on me, pig pen, cmon?
ah, yeah, 10-4, pig pen, fer shure, fer shure. by golly, its clean clear to flag town, cmon.
yeah, that Big 10-4 there, pig pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy…
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
And a Kenworth pullin’ logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We’s headin’ for bear on Eye-one-O
'bout a mile outta Shakeytown
I says “Pigpen, this here’s Rubber Duck”
“And I’m about to put the hammer down”
I went to a John Mellencamp show ages ago, and he did Small Town, but he had to change the lyrics. Instead of “married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town” he sang “my wife was 15 years old when I wrote this song.”
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Love maketh lean the fat man’s tumour,
So doth tobacco.
Well, there’s always the Dead Kennedy’s “We’ve Got A Bigger Problem Now”…
“Welcome to 1984
Are you ready for the third world war?”
Course, that was sort of a “Reagan” sequel to their “California Uber Alles”…which became a bit less relevant just a few years ago:
“I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president”
Speaking of the late 1970s/early 80s, don’t forget some of the 70s ending songs like
Yaz(oo)'s “Goodbye 70s”
“To your credit to the thirty faces you created
To your headache to the shape of the 1980’s
…
Goodbye Seventies”
The Ramones “Do You Remember Rock and Roll”
It’s the end, the end of the 70’s. It’s the end, the end of the century." - both now out of date for another 60 years
And Killing Joke’s “Eighties”
“I’m living in the eighties
Eighties, I have to push, I have to struggle”
I forgot Don Data and The Rez-Tones’s - Silicon Valley Guy; start with the opening “Hey, anybody seen my beeper?” and take it from there…
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by the Beach Boys
We could be married
And then we’d be happy
Written in a time when divorce was not the norm, and when you were expected to be married before living together.
Ice-Cube, “Today was a Good Day”
I got a beep from Kim, and she can f&ck all night.
also
The Lakers beat the Supersonics. (The Sonics are no longer a team).
“Dont Hang Up” – The Orlons
Don’t hang up (No, no)
Oh, don’t you do it, now
Don’t hang up (Oh, no)
Don’t hang up like you always do
We still speak of hanging up metaphorically (and dialing, for that matter). But we haven’t done a lot of either in recent years.
Come to think of it, is anything made out of Orlon any more? I remember my stepdad being big on Banlon shirts.
Ninja’d in post #7.
I’ve long wished that someone would update Billy Joel’s, We Didn’t Start the Fire.
The song runs through news headlines and features pop culture references chronologically from 1949 to 1989.
Despite the song’s fast tempo, I always found it rather melancholy, because it is a stark reminder how time grinds everything to dust without mercy.
The most important events of the today, are destined to be mere blips of memories, and then one day, nothing.
Have a nice day! 
You need to join the National Procrastination Week thread. 
I need to call my old times.
Still… that Duane Allman guitar solo may never go out of style.