Board 8 > What are some songs that you thought were older than they actually are?

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I've seen topics before about songs that you thought were more recent, but I haven't seen any of those Mandela effect "Hey, I definitely heard that song years before it came out!" type topics.

Sting - "Brand New Day" Came out in 1999 and I really feel like I heard that in the early 90s.

Cascada - "Everytime We Touch" is from 2005. I was already a sophomore in high school and I swear I heard it in middle school or even late elementary.

Coldplay - "Viva La Vida" is from 2008. I was already out of high school and that doesn't make sense. I thought I was hearing this around the same time "Clocks" was out.

So I mean, there's nothing there like "I thought this was 20 years older than it actually is" but still kinda messes with me a bit.

Used to feel this way about 1985.

The one time I felt this, it turned out the song was as old as I thought.

The song Blue Monday, a cover came out around 1999, but I was like "this is an 80's song"

Turns out it was a cover of a New Order song and I couldn't find the original in my Joel Witburn book of hits because a. non appearing title and b. only a hit in Europe.

When I was younger I thought Rhapsody in Blue was written in the 1800s and was just way ahead of its time

Cascada is the same way for me, the first time I heard it (I can actually remember where I was) was around the time it came out, but even then it felt like an older song to me

I guess at some point I discovered Friday Im In Love is in an early 90s song and was surprised because The Cure is such an 80s band

thats the only example I can think of

I just found out in the past year that this song is NOT from the 70's/60's like I always assumed, and is actually from the late 80's and only became popular during the Gulf War.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS-INaPNJw

I used to think the B-52s were a band from the 50s and 60s

I thought Cage the Elephant's Ain't No Rest for the Wicked was a cover of a song from the 70's for some reason if that counts.

Probably a pretty random example but when I first heard the song Bartender by Rehab, I thought for sure it was a 90s song and then I looked it up - 2008?!

I used to think Frank Sinatra's song "I Did It My Way" came out in 1968. Turned out it was 1969. I was so embarrassed.

Somebody that I used to know. It mentions records, dammit. That tricked me big time.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

I thought Cage the Elephant's Ain't No Rest for the Wicked was a cover of a song from the 70's for some reason if that counts.

Along this line, I thought for years that "All I Want for Christmas is You" was an older song and that the Mariah Carey version was just the most popular one.

Everytime we touch defo felt like it was around a few years earlier than it came out.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

I guess at some point I discovered Friday Im In Love is in an early 90s song and was surprised because The Cure is such an 80s band

thats the only example I can think of

yeah this can be part of it in some cases, our brains think in a weird way as if on December 31 1989 every band from that decade was executed and no longer exists

MoogleKupo141 posted...

I guess at some point I discovered Friday Im In Love is in an early 90s song and was surprised because The Cure is such an 80s band

thats the only example I can think of

Oh yeah, I recently discovered this was a 90s song too and was surprised. Although it's different because there's no way I could misremember hearing it in the 80s.

For the longest time I thought that "All I Want" by Toad The Wet Sprocket was an 80s song, but it's from 1991.