songs which mention now obsolete technology

[isvicthere?]

Do people send telegrams any more? Sure they probably do.

Still, "Telegram Sam", T Rex.[/QUOTE

That was the first record I ever bought. 43 "new" pence in Boots in Southampton.

 

[middle C]

radio ga ga

 

[Sabu]

Fuckin with me cuz I'm a teenager with a little bit of gold and a pager - NWA

 

[Maggot]

"And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw"

Bowie, Drive in Saturday - particularly good because when he wrote it in 1973 videos sounded futuristic and Jagger didn't sound that nostalgic

It was also the first song to mention videos.

 

[Maggot]

"C30, C60, C90, Go!" - Bow Wow Wow

Also Your cassette Pet

 

[Vamos666]

"The Telex machine is kept so clean
and it types to a waiting... wo-o-orld"

'I don't like mondays'

 

[isvicthere?]

"The Telex machine is kept so clean
and it types to a waiting... wo-o-orld"

'I don't like mondays'

Someone didn't read the OP.

 

[FoxyMKII]

Binatone Spectrum, Pacman, Commodore
ZX-81, donkey kong, fucking high score
Push it to the limit, couldn't push it any more
Wanna be a fucking robot after smoking loads of draw

 

[miss minnie]

Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love they fall in love
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love they fall in love

 

[Maggot]

radio ga ga

Radios aren't obsolete.

 

[boskysquelch]

erm...

that's why they are called "turbines" not "mills"?


"....hurdy gurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy, gurdy, gurdy, gurdy, gurdy...."

 

[cybertect]

Joni Mitchell - A Case of You

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue tv screen light
I drew a map of canada

Black and white TV is different.

 

[cybertect]

Extending the theme - cue the Inspiral Carpets...

Saturn V, you really were the greatest sight
Stretching out on a summer's day
Houston, it's calling me back to her
An Eagle lands, and a planet full of people raises its hands
All hail the men who will walk up in heaven today

Monochrome TV, all the things you ever represented to me
Take me once more, take me to heaven again

 

[isvicthere?]

Extending the theme - cue the Inspiral Carpets...

Saturn V, you really were the greatest sight
Stretching out on a summer's day
Houston, it's calling me back to her
An Eagle lands, and a planet full of people raises its hands
All hail the men who will walk up in heaven today

Monochrome TV, all the things you ever represented to me
Take me once more, take me to heaven again

Fact: a mate of mine had a monochrome TV licence for about 20 years, even though he had a colour TV the whole time. He figured he wouldn't be as high a priority for a spin by the licensing crew as if he had no licence at all. It worked.

 

[isvicthere?]

Talking about this at work today.

Sam Cooke, "Wonderful world" - "Don't know what a slide rule is for"

Boomtown Rats, "I don't like Mondays" - "The telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world"

Any others?

The Kinks' "Shangri-la": "got a TV set and a radio/for seven shillings a week".

(If money counts as technology).

 

[isvicthere?]

There was that OMD track that used a Speak 'n' Spell...

Does "Space oddity" count for its prominent use of the stylophone?

 

[isvicthere?]

Just thought of another one. The first line of "Drivin' sister" by Mott the Hoople (1973) goes thus:-

"Eight track machine playing half moon bay/Drivin' in my Volks up on Hampstead way"

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Dim all the lights sweet darling
Cause tonight it's all the way
Turn up the old victrola
Gonna dance the night away


Donna Summer: Dim All The Lights

 

[WouldBe]

Not a lyric but Telstar must be obsolete by now.

 

[billy_bob]

Adam Ant - Xerox Machine

 

[tommers]

Colour me badd - I wanna fax you up.

 

[isvicthere?]

Colour me badd - I wanna fax you up.

I fax my timesheet every week. How is that obsolete?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Adam Ant - Xerox Machine

Xerox are still around though, aren't they? Still making copiers and printers I think.

 

[WouldBe]

"I am the one and only"

Definitely obsolete.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Idris2002]

Gordon Lightfoot, 'Old Dan's Records':

"We'll dance all night to the '78s".

 

[Enviro]

The Offspring - Walla Walla

 

[mr steev]

 

[Sirena]

I still get my milk delivered by a milkman in a milk cart...

 

[mr steev]

I still get my milk delivered by a milkman in a milk cart...

Blimey. There's not that many left surely?