# What song(s) did you think came out in a different decade than the one they actually came out in?

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**Created:** [July 23, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-did-you-think-came-out-in-a-different-decade-than-the-one-they-actually-came-out-in/1021229 "2025-07-23T17:04:40Z")\
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The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” sounds like the most 80s song of the 80s. It was even the first video shown on MTV. It was released in 1979.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W8r-tXRLazs/maxresdefault.jpg "The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs)

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“There She Goes” by The La’s has a very 70’s feel. It was released in 1988 and then covered in the mid 1990s by Sixpence None the Richer.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CZXLLMbJdZ4/maxresdefault.jpg "The La's - There She Goes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXLLMbJdZ4)

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-did-you-think-came-out-in-a-different-decade-than-the-one-they-actually-came-out-in/1021229/23 "2025-07-25T00:19:40Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> 10 Years After’s

> [@Alessan](#):
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> 10 years after

🙂

When the wispy “Tattoo You” album came out on the early 80s, I listened to “Waiting on a Friend” and thought this had a real 60’s-ish thing going on. Apparently recorded without singing/lyrics in '72.

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-did-you-think-came-out-in-a-different-decade-than-the-one-they-actually-came-out-in/1021229/24 "2025-07-25T01:04:44Z")

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A lot of Black Keys songs sound to me like they belong in the seventies.

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