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Anything by Led Zeppelin.

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Yeah, especially Carouselambra.

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I think a lot of that heavy metal stuff including Led Zep and Iron Man are great, classic songs, but they are certainly seem like products of their time, rather than sounding fresh and contemporary. I'll grant you some Led Zep stuff like Fool In The Rain or Dyer Maker are pretty timeless, but a lot of it really feels like classic 70s rock. A lot of it sounds kind of dated, but not in a bad way -- more like the greatest work of a previous era in music. Nothing wrong with that. Shakespeare doesn't sound much like Mamet; his plays still hold up.

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Even more so in the coming years.

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You predict a big Rolling Stones comeback, do you?

You guys don't think the reference to the Kennedys dates Sympathy for the Devil?

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Being a huge Pink Floyd fan, I would have to say anything they've done on Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall still sound great even today (their newer stuff doesn't do as well for me although Yet Another Movie, Round And Around, Sorrow, and The Dogs Of War from Delicate Sound Of Thunder sound fantastic to me. I'll even go as far as to say that Echoes and One Of These Days from Meddle still sound really good to me. I may be biased though, Pink Floyd is, after all, my all-time favorite band. -kd5-

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I always thought this song influenced it

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Absolutely not. In fact, I think it makes it even more contemporary -- didn't one just die?

Besides, the JFK assassination was a landmark event that fits right alongside the murder of Czar Nicholas (which is also referenced in the song).

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Ever notice the apocolypse is always "in the coming years" to the religious nuts and then when "the coming years" pass, they never explain why it didn't happen?

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Yes, of natural causes. Doesn't really fit with the lyrics now, does it?

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No more than the references to the hundred years war, Russian revolution or WWII dates it. The whole point of the song is that the year in time makes no difference.

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I think the only song that will never age is "In The Year 2929."

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I think I thought of one that might work, I know it was one of Hendrix's favorites

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Re: Songs that don't age
 

Watch JOHN HAGEE for an answer to that.
But the best way to know about songs that don't age are the oldies they use in commercials and at sports stadiums.

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That's OK I don't watch wack job TV.

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Add to that Tortoise's "Djed" from Millions Now Living Will Never Die.

In hip-hop, many of Wu-Tang's tracks from their classic era (93-97) still sound like they're from another dimension.

And while lyrically the song has aged quickly, Lou Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side" sounds fresh to me, and it sounded brand new to me when I first heard it fifteen years ago.

Re: Songs that don't age
 

Do you mean In The Year 2525? by Zagar and Evans, the #1 hit from 1969? Or is there a different song called In The Year 2929?

Re: Songs that don't age
 

Yes

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It was a joke. :)

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Much of The Velvet Underground.

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The 59th Street Bridge Song by Simon and Garfunkel

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I'd say that just about anything from the past fifteen or twenty years hasn't aged much.

Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but post-Nirvana, it seems like popular music has sort of settled into a comfort zone and doesn't deviate much from where it was in the early 90s. Except for the occasional fad like autotuning vocals so they sound like you're singing into a fan, it's still pretty much the same idiom.

Re: Songs that don't age
 

Disagree.