I can think of three, but there are probably more. The song has to be about the tech itself and not some throwaway line.
Daze - Together Forever (Tamagotchi)
Barcode Brothers - SMS
Bruckner & Garcia - PacMan Fever
I can think of three, but there are probably more. The song has to be about the tech itself and not some throwaway line.
Daze - Together Forever (Tamagotchi)
Barcode Brothers - SMS
Bruckner & Garcia - PacMan Fever
Weird Al - It’s all about the Pentiums, baby
Judy Garland With Georgie Stoll and His Orchestra - “The Trolley Song”
Georgia Gibbs - “The Hula Hoop Song”
The Marvelettes - “Please Mr Postman”
The Beatles - “All My Loving”
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club/The Buggles - “Video killed the Radio Star”
Men With Hats - “Safety Dance”
Basshunter - “Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA”
~Max
Operator by Jim Croce.
Telephone line by ELO
Kids today will never understand the struggle. Lol
Kodachrome-Paul Simon
VHF
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Three other telephone related songs:
Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry
Party Line - The Kinks
Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
Hanging on the Telephone - Jack Lee (later covered by Blondie)
Greased Lightning.
Mojo Nixon - I Don’t Want No Cybersex
Answering Machine - The Replacements
Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) by Travis Tritt. Most born in this century wouldn’t get the reference.
The quarter or the payphone?
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Lots of songs in the 1960s about traveling by train, at a time when you really couldn’t go many places by train anymore.
Disco Duck, by Rick Dees.
Yellopain, “My Vote Will Count”
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America by Simon and Garfunkel. The man in a gaberdine suit? Smoking on a bus trip? Reading an actual magazine? Hitchhiking?
But then, maybe his bowtie being a camera would make sense.
Take A Letter, Maria
Would someone, say, under 50, break up with their cheating spouse by dictating a letter to their secretary?
Pinball Wizard - The Who