# Songs about outdated tech or fads **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 3, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388 "2024-03-03T08:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Danger\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/1 "2024-03-03T08:01:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/2 "2024-03-03T09:03:58Z")
Weird Al - It’s all about the Pentiums, baby ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/3 "2024-03-03T09:06:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/4 "2024-03-03T09:23:43Z")
Operator by Jim Croce. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/5 "2024-03-03T10:01:04Z")
Telephone line by ELO Kids today will never understand the struggle. Lol ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/6 "2024-03-03T10:37:47Z")
Kodachrome-Paul Simon ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/7 "2024-03-03T10:41:33Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Weird Al - It’s all about the Pentiums, baby VHF … ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/8 "2024-03-03T10:52:45Z")
Three other telephone related songs: Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry Party Line - The Kinks Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/9 "2024-03-03T11:41:33Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > other telephone related songs Hanging on the Telephone - Jack Lee (later covered by Blondie) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/10 "2024-03-03T11:41:58Z")
Greased Lightning. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/11 "2024-03-03T11:45:25Z")
Mojo Nixon - I Don’t Want No Cybersex ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/12 "2024-03-03T11:54:37Z")
Answering Machine - The Replacements ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/13 "2024-03-03T12:05:04Z")
Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) by Travis Tritt. Most born in this century wouldn’t get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/14 "2024-03-03T12:07:31Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > 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? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/15 "2024-03-03T12:11:26Z")
Lots of songs in the 1960s about traveling by train, at a time when you really couldn’t go many places by train anymore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/16 "2024-03-03T13:33:30Z")
Disco Duck, by Rick Dees. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/17 "2024-03-03T13:53:56Z")
Yellopain, “My Vote Will Count” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/18 "2024-03-03T15:26:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/19 "2024-03-03T15:29:47Z")
Take A Letter, Maria Would someone, say, under 50, break up with their cheating spouse by dictating a letter to their secretary? ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/20 "2024-03-03T15:30:07Z")
Pinball Wizard - The Who [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388.md?page=2)