1985 (song)
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| Single by Bowling for Soup from the album A Hangover You Don't Deserve |
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| Released | 2004 (Worldwide) | ||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single, Airplay | ||||
| Recorded | Red Ruby Productions Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Genre | Pop punk | ||||
| Length | 3.13 | ||||
| Label | FFroe, Jive, Zomba | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jaret Reddick, Mitch Allan, John Allen | ||||
| Producer | Butch Walker | ||||
| Certification | Platinum (RIAA) | ||||
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"1985" is a song best known for its performance in 2004 by the pop punk band Bowling for Soup which reached #11 on the Hot 100. Featured in their album A Hangover You Don't Deserve, as well as the American popular music compilation Now That's What I Call Music! 17, and Barbie Hit Mix, Vol. 2, "1985" was originally written and recorded by the band SR-71, led by Mitch Allan, who co-wrote the song with Jaret Reddick.
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[edit] Origins
According to SR-71's website, Bowling for Soup's Jaret Reddick (a friend of SR-71) heard the song (from their album Here We Go Again) and asked for and received permission to record a cover version. However, according to Bowling for Soup's website, it was Allan that called Reddick to suggest the possible cover. Either way, it was Bowling for Soup's version, with slightly reworked lyrics from the original, that has become familiar to most United States radio listeners and topped the charts.
[edit] References to the culture of 1985
- Whitesnake
- Bruce Springsteen
- Madonna
- A time prior to Nirvana
- U2
- Blondie
- When MTV primarily showed music videos.
- The Breakfast Club
- Pretty in Pink
- St. Elmo's Fire
- Wham! and Duran Duran being better than Limp Bizkit
- Asking where miniskirts made of real snakeskin are
- Asking why Sammy Hagar is singing in Van Halen
- Questioning why Mötley Crüe has become classic rock.
- A time when sitcoms and game shows were popular and reality shows were nonexistant
- Ozzy Osbourne before he was an actor
[edit] Parodies
- Matt Hodgson "That One Guy" has released a parody, "1955," based on Back to the Future. The song became a hit on the Dr. Demento Radio Show.
- Johnny Crass has released another parody, "Being a Fag Jedi," based on Star Wars. This version relates the plot of Revenge of the Sith, and compares the prequel trilogy unfavorably to the classic trilogy.
- The Bob Ricci band parodied the song as "Beach Boy Soup", using the lyrics of the Beach Boys song, "Kokomo".
- Christian Rock Parody band ApologetiX released a parody of this song titled "None Too Ladylike" on their 2006 studio album, Wordplay.
- Dino-Mike wrote a song to this called Another "1985" Parody making light of the fact that so many had parodied the original song.
- Musical comedian Odd Austin Aeschliman wrote a parody to 1985 called "That '70s Song" about the popular show about the 1970s on Fox.
[edit] Cover versions
The song has been covered, most famously by Bowling For Soup, but also by Richard Thompson on the live album 1000 Years of Popular Music.
[edit] Other songs
- Gym Class Heroes had a song on their self-released 2001 album, ...For the Kids, titled "Eighty-Five", which they still play a portion of today at their live concerts.
- There is a 1970s song by Paul McCartney called "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five".
- "1985" is a song on the Manic Street Preachers' 2004 album Lifeblood.
- Another song by the same name still is by Roper on their album Brace Yourself for the Mediocre.
- There is a song by The French Kicks entitled 1985 on their album One Time Bells.
- Japanese punk rockers The Blue Hearts wrote and performed a song entitled "1985" during the year itself. In the song, the year is pronounced in the English manner, "nineteen eighty five", instead of in Japanese.
- In 2004, Patrik Isaksson recorded a song in Swedish named "1985", which reached the Swedish hitlist Svensktoppen .
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