# What Song Is This?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/267568 "2004-10-04T23:41:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/267568/1 "2004-10-04T23:41:50Z")

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There’s a song that says “Forever young, I want to be forever young…”  
It came out in the 1980’s. And, no, it is not Rod Stewart’s “Forever Young”. Any ideas? As I recall, it had like an “etherial” sound to it…like kinda “echo-y”. Does that help? I beliebe it is a male singer. - Jinx

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/267568/2 "2004-10-04T23:58:04Z")

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> [@Jinx](#):
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> There’s a song that says “Forever young, I want to be forever young…”  
> It came out in the 1980’s. And, no, it is not Rod Stewart’s “Forever Young”. Any ideas? As I recall, it had like an “etherial” sound to it…like kinda “echo-y”. Does that help? I beliebe it is a male singer. - Jinx

[Forever Young](http://www.elyrics.net/go/a/Alphaville%20Lyrics/Forever%20Young%20Lyrics/) by Alphaville.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/267568/3 "2004-10-05T00:17:44Z")

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[http://bobdylan.com/songs/forever.html](http://bobdylan.com/songs/forever.html)

Bob Dylan: Forever Young

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**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/267568/4 "2004-10-05T01:08:05Z")

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> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> [Forever Young](http://www.elyrics.net/go/a/Alphaville%20Lyrics/Forever%20Young%20Lyrics/) by Alphaville.

Featured awesomely in the movie _Napoleon Dynamite_, may I add.