Wednesday, August 27, 2008

DATES / YEARS IN SONGS


Songs listed chronologically

Good Timin'-JIMMY JONES (1960 / Who in the world would've ever known, what Columbus could do if Queen Isabella hadn't hocked her jewels in fourteen ninety two 1492)
Rock Me Amadeus-FALCO (1985 / Es war um 1780 und es war in Wien )
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-THE BAND (1969), JOAN BAEZ (1971 / in the winter of ’65)
Zombie-THE CRANBERRIES ( 1994 / It's the same old theme since 1916 in your head, in your head they're still fightin' )
Being Boring-PET SHOP BOYS (1990 / in the nineteen-twenties: 1920’s, in the nineteen-seventies 1970’s, in the nineteen-nineties 1990's)
Parisiene Walkways-GARY MOORE(1978 / I remember Paris in ’49)
Video Killed The Radio Star-BUGGLES (1979 / I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two ’52)
Love Potion #9-THE CLOVERS (1959 / I told her that I was a flop with chicks, I'd been this way since 1956)
Summer-NUCLEAR VALDEZ (1989 / in the year 1959 red was more than just a stain )
Girl In A Sports Car-CHRIS REA (1996 / It's the girl in the sports car 1961)
You Keep It All In-THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH (1989 / Just like that murder in '73, Just like that robbery in ’62)
Life In A Northern Town-DREAM ACADEMY (1985 /In winter 1963 it felt like the world would freeze with John F. Kennedy and The Beatles")
Parents Just Don’t Understand-DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE (1988 / my mother buying me clothes from 1963)
Run Baby Run-SHERYL CROW (1993 / She was born in November 1963 the day Aldous Huxley died)
December, 1963 (Oh What A Night) -THE 4 SEASONS (1976)
Hearts Of Fire-ROGER DALTREY (1987 /It was the summer of sixty-four 64, and by seventy-two 72 I was running free)
The Way It Is-BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE (1986 / well they passed a law in ’64, to give those who aint got a little more)
Camouflage-STAN RIDGWAY (1986 / I was a p.f.c. on a search patrol, huntin charlie down it was in the jungle wars of ’65)
My Hometown-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (1984 /In’65 tension was running high at my high school, there was a lot of fights between the black and white there was nothing you could do in)
Running On Empty-JACKSON BROWN (1977 / ’65 I was seventeen And runnin' up one to one, '69 I was tewnty-one and I called the road my own)
19-PAUL HARDCASTLE (1985 / In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war, but it wasn't)
Hey 19-STEELY DAN (1980 / Way back when in sixty-seven ’67)
Geno-DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS (1980 /Back in '68 in a sweaty club Oh, Geno)
Summer Of ‘69-BRYAN ADAMS (1983 / ’69)
The Lebanon-HUMAN LEAGUE (1984 / She dreams of nineteen sixty-nine 1969 Before the soldiers came)
Echoes In The Night-GARY BROOKER (1985 / There's a guy you might remember, He was big in ’69)
Summer Of '71-BOLLAND & BOLLAND (1972)
1973-JAMES BLUNT (2007)
Rock This Town-STRAY CATS (1981 / Well there's a real square cat he looks nineteen seventy four 1974)
74-75-THE CONNELS (1993 & 1995)
1979-SMASHING PUMPKINS (1995)
1980-HERB ALPERT (1979)
Heat Of The Moment-ASIA (1982 / ’82)
Black Stations, White Stations-M+M (1984 / Stand up and face the music, this is 1984)
Happy Ending-JOE JACKSON feat. ELAINE CASWELL (1984 / ’84)
Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)-EURYTHMICS (1984 /1984)
1985-WINGS (1973 / no one left alive in 1985)
All Summer Long-KID ROCK (2007 / It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long)
1999-PRINCE (1982)
Cosmic Girl-JAMIROQUAI (1996 /1999)
Metal Heart-ACCEPT (1985 / It is 1999 The human race has to face it)
Why Me-PLANET P (1983 / the last man to be here was never heard from again he won't be back this way till 2010)

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