Most dated (and obscure) tech reference in song

“Jukebox Hero” by Foreigner should be updated to “TikTok Hero” or “iTunes Hero”

Isn’t a “deuce” just a two-door car? A category which still includes most sports cars.

I didn’t realize that until now. That makes the term deuce coupe redundant, right?

In the song Girl All The Bad Guys Want by Bowling For Soup there are the lines

Her name is Nona, she’s a rocker with a nose ring

She wears a two way but I’m not quite sure-what that means

TCMF-2L

No; it refers to the 2 in 1932:

Not sure I’d call that a “technology”, in any case.

Carmelita by Warren Zevon has a couple

I hear Mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes they glow in the dark

and

Well, I pawned my Smith Corona

Telephone Man by Meri Wilson.

Car Phone. It’s a parody of Convoy, which itself refers to a dated tech reference (C.B. radios).

Quite a few songs were written about Pac Man and Space Invaders in the 1980s.

Virtuality by Rush (1996ish) is about AOL style chat rooms, and the people you meet.

And Deuce coupes are still a thing. Can’t go wrong with a hot rodded 32 Ford. (Though fiberglass has taken over from original tin.) You can still buy everything you need to make one. And I’ve been to car shows with nothing but 32 Fords.

Unless you get T-boned by an SUV. Or rear-ended. Or rear-end one. Or it rains. Or…

Another dated telephone technology, “Party Line” by the Kinks. I don’t think that any party lines still exist.

Two broken Tigers on fire in the night…

Al Stewart, Road To Moscow

Nobody uses Tigers these days!

“Rubbing sticks and stones together make the sparks ignite”

Starland Vocal Band, “Afternoon Delight” :wink:

The band Maroon 5 released a song called “Payphone” in 2012, at which point payphones were already pretty much obsolete.

Apparently that was a deliberate choice on the part of the songwriter, like if you’re calling someone from a payphone in 2012 things must be really bad, you’ve lost your cell phone and are away from home.

Being a vehicle not sure it counts as ‘tech’ rarther than just plain old ‘technology’ [maybe I should be saying it as vee-hickle?]

The epically good Stranglers song Peaches mentions ‘Here comes the charabanc’, which was once a large people-mover horse wagon with bus-style seating, which later got used as one early name for motor buses. Maybe it was still a word in whatever dialect Hugh Cornwall speaks, but otherwise its either a late 19th or early 20th century reference.

Another decade or so and “away from home” will make no difference if you have lost your cellphone.

Nope. 1932 Ford.

I don’t think many women these days notify their boyfriends that it’s all over, using this technology.

Western Union man
Bad news in his hand
Knocking at my door
Selling me the score
Fifteen cents a word to read
A telegram I didn’t need
Says she doesn’t care no more
Think I’ll throw it on the floor

  • “Western Union” by The Five Americans

Blows your mind, it does.

I posted “This Wheel’s On Fire” but deleted it. I also hate that song.

I bow to your superior music-fu. :wink: