# Songs which date themselves by mentioning the current year. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677 "2008-10-26T20:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/61 "2008-10-28T06:48:09Z")
No, I have to say “Little Egypt” isn’t what I was looking for. It was released in 1961. I was looking for songs which mention the same year as the year they were released. I specifically excluded songs written years after the date mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/62 "2008-10-28T10:11:41Z")
Celtas Cortos have a song called “20 de Abril del 90” - April 20th, (19)90. It’s a letter to an ex-gf and I don’t think you can get any more dated 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/63 "2008-10-28T10:41:22Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > How about songs that mention a future year? (E.g., Prince’s “1999”) You can still party like it’s 1999. > [@](#): > > Philip J. Fry: C’mon guys, tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999… again. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/64 "2008-10-28T11:21:07Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Nah, it just makes the singer more pathetic as time goes on. Actually, this sort of thing may merit a thread in and of itself, and since it could potentially hijack this one, [I went ahead and started one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10368977#post10368977) ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/65 "2008-10-28T13:14:54Z")
“Happy New Year” by Abba: _It’s the end of a decade In another ten years’ time Who’s to say what we’ll find What lies waiting down the line In the end of '89_ Also, Pat Benatar’s “My Clone Sleeps Alone” (recorded in 1979, I believe) has the line, “No naughty clone ladies allowed in the eighties.” ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/66 "2008-10-28T17:24:42Z")
Well, I already gave my two ‘stuck in the past’ songs, so I’ll add that Billy Joel sang there’s only 9 years till the Bronx gets blow away in “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)” - well, actually even that’s not true, as the singer of the song is in fact reminiscing about the destruction of NYC from the year 2017, and since ‘there are not many who remember’ (the lights of Broadway in the 1970s - heh), the destruction must have happened well before our current year of 2008… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/67 "2008-10-28T17:38:11Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Actually, this sort of thing may merit a thread in and of itself, and since it could potentially hijack this one, [I went ahead and started one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10368977#post10368977) - sniff My first thread to get a spin-off. They grow up so fast. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/68 "2008-10-28T19:19:34Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > “American Pie” dates itself, though it never mentions the year explicitly. Not really, the song states that it happened a long, long time ago. As the years pass, it just gets even longer ago. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/69 "2008-10-29T03:27:30Z")
Not exactly a year but: _Eve of Destruction_ mentions a lot of current events that make it very dated for today’s listening. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/70 "2008-10-29T16:46:04Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > “Black Stations/White Stations” by **Martha & the Muffins** : > > _Black stations, White stations break down the doors > stand up and face the music, this is 1984 > Black stations, White stations feet on the floor > dance on the ceiling with us, this is 1984, Ha!_ This post made me go :eek: ! I don’t know anyone else, besides my brother, that knows that song. I had to look at your location and, sure enough, you’re Canadian. I’ve got it on my MP3 player right now. Anyway, all of the ones that came to mind have been mentioned. Carry on… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/71 "2008-10-29T17:02:27Z")
> [@The\_Shroud](#): > > “1990, [Chubb Rock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubb_rock)jumps upon the scene with a lean and a pocket full of green…” Memories…and Mike E. refers to 1992 in his rap in Glory to God on Handel’s Messiah: A Soulful Celebration. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677/72 "2008-10-31T21:15:47Z")
The Kinks’s _Living On A Thin Line_ just popped up on the iPod. _ **Now another century nearly gone** , What are we gonna leave for the young?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-date-themselves-by-mentioning-the-current-year/469677.md?page=3)