― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
How many ".com" albums and songs are there anyway? There's r. kelly's tp-2.com and craig david had a track I think, and trick daddy's thug.com and what else?
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Earliest cell phone song I know of is Roger McGuinn's "Car Phone" from 1991
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
i don't know when though
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
A hit in the fact that it got nearer to the top 40 than any other Denim release.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 March 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
(yes, I'm a sad, sad man)
― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
came across toy-box's ultra-cheesy www.girl today and asked myself this very question. my first thought was, "i bet ilx has a thread on this subject". was not disappointed
― chilli, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
'89https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Og1DuMu3k
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
the first instance i can think of is Mousse T's 'Horny' - the lyrical version from '98 (i think) but surely there was something a lot earlier than that - a hip hop track from '93/'94 perhaps?
I suspect there must be one older than Poe's "Hello" (first released late '95, became a hit on U.S. genre charts in late '96). The web was enough of a thing in 1995 for The Simpsons to make jokes about the internet containing nerds and porn. But that wouldn't transfer well to serious music :)
The unusual thing is that Poe's line, "like a disconnected modem", makes total sense. Most other lyricists seem amiably clueless about the technology or the lingo, e.g.
I tried to call youBut I can't find the telephoneI sent a message through the internetBut it rejected (sic)
Cut Mousse T some slack, it's not his first language. Could there be an equally silly line on a hit in '95 or earlier?
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
1998: http://sistersoleil1.bandcamp.com/track/aol
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
(not a hit, perhaps not, uh, quality, but extant)
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
remember hearing this circa 1998 and finding it hilarious, if only because of the crowbarring of www., but neglecting to finish with a suffix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYxe8S4WWk
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
Related (and funny)
Horrible '90s/'00s/'10s dot-com album covers like 'cher not.com.mercial'
and for non-hits:
Earliest mention of the internet in a song or title
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
I was going to mention that Lung Leg song and christ, it's the first one mentioned in that thread whodathunkit
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
wasn't really a hit but Prince's "Emale.com" came out on Emancipation in 1996.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link