I was just noting the other day that with The Tallest Man on Earth’s new single “1904” and Phoenix’s song “1901”, we could easily get a streak going if only a couple more years were filled in.
So let’s list all the song titles we know that consist of a year, and see how long an unbroken streak we can get going. So far I can’t fill in even two years that connect up with each other but I’m confident we can improve upon this.
1901 - Phoenix
1904 - The Tallest Man on Earth
1969 - Boards of Canada
1999 - Prince
2112 - Rush
I’d also like to play with two rules:
song title should be only the year, no other words or numbers.
song title should be specifically referring to the year, so a song title that happens to be a four-digit number but has some other meaning would be exempt.
Paul McCartney and Wings had a song called “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five.”
And *Bowling for Soup *had a totally different song called “1985.”
You can add those to the list.
Edit: there were also two novelty records a few years ago, both called “1955” - both were parodies of the BFS song, one of them based on the plot of “Back to the Future.”
Nope He was 9 at the time so unless Canada has changed significantly since then, I doubt he was working the drive-in in 1969. He said himself it was a song about long teenage/young adulthood summers spent fucking the time away.
Best days of his life. One sympathizes.
I’m conflicted about “2113” by Coheed and Cambria as it is an obvious callout to Rush which is a year. But it doesn’t mention the year and indeed has a line that “and the clock reads 2113”, which is most likely a time. But I’d count it if there were songs for 2111 or 2114
It was my understanding that it was originally about 1975, but the record company convinced him to change it for a broader appeal. I’d say it worked (if true).
He was 9 at the time so unless Canada has changed significantly since then, I doubt he was working the drive-in in 1969. He said himself it was a song about long teenage/young adulthood summers spent fucking the time away.