History AnachronismStew / Music

* The novelty song ''Grandad'' (a 1970/1 UK hit for Clive Dunn) has the titular grandad reminiscing about his memories of growing up in the old days. Judging by the mishmash of references, his childhood lasted from about the 1840s to the 1940s.

* A parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" once hosted by [=AmIRight=], a music fansite for mondegreens and original parodies, stated in the very first verse that the ''VideoGame/GameAndWatch'' series of games from Nintendo was started ''after'' UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and the release of the Macintosh took place. That's not the only thing it gets wrong, either--in the very same verse it's not just assumed that the Apple II and the Macintosh were one and the same (when in fact they were very different product lines offered by Apple), but also that Game & Watch itself was intended to compete with Apple's computers.

* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8txk6EhYZKA ''Glukoza's Schweine'']] is all over the place. The Pig Army (clearly a Nazi parody) is armed with G43's, MP40's, MG34s, Zeppelins, Triplanes, Sd.kfz 250's, and Renault FT's. Meanwhile the Rebel Army Leaders use a G36, a Kalashnikov, an RPG-7, 2 MPL's, a Vickers MG, giant War Elephants, and Pterodactyls. The Rebel Army itself is comprised mainly of Samurai with some Ninjas using swords and pistols respectively.

* Not even Satan is immune to this trope. Music/TheRollingStones' ''Sympathy For The Devil'' from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' includes the BadassBoast "I laid traps for troubadoures/Who get killed before they reach Bombay" presumably in a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]].

* A parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" once hosted by [=AmIRight=], a music fansite for mondegreens and original parodies, stated in the very first verse that the ''VideoGame/GameAndWatch'' series of games from Nintendo was started ''after'' UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and the release of the Macintosh took place. [[CriticalResearchFailure That's not the only thing it gets wrong, either]]--in the very same verse it's not just assumed that the Apple II and the Macintosh were one and the same (when in fact they were very different product lines offered by Apple), but also that Game & Watch itself was intended to compete with Apple's computers.

* 'Hail Caesar'by Music/{{ACDC}}- The lyrics clearly refer to the assassination of Julius Caesar, but apparently the killing ''started in the Colosseum'' despite the fact that the Colosseum wasn't built until more than 100 years later.

* The video for Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4vj_WB5w_k "The Unkillable Soldier"]] consciously leans on RuleOfFunny as a [[BlackComedy deliberately slapsticky]] interpretation of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart's military service. Among other things, Sir Adrian actually lost his eye putting down a native uprising in Somaliland (he used the injury as an excuse to return to Britain so he could be reassigned to the Western Front, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI having broken out shortly after he was sent to Africa), the HospitalHottie's uniform is completely inaccurate to what British Army nurses wore at the time, and the Tommygun wouldn't be introduced until after the war ended.

* The video for ''Music/StandAndDeliver'' by Music/AdamAnt mostly has a 17th or 18th century look, but with several unexplained modern elements.

* Not even Satan is immune to this trope. Music/TheRollingStones' ''Sympathy For The Devil'' from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' includes the BadassBoast "I laid traps for troubadoures/Who get killed before they reach Bombay" [presumably in a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]]].

* In Paint's song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diU70KshcjA After Ever After]], a heavy amount of RealityEnsues in the Disney films, which for the most part take place centuries before said reality ensued. Examples include Ariel's kingdom being affected by the BP Oil Spill, Elsa taking action over the global warming crisis, or even Aladdin got nabbed by the CIA during the War on Terror. The only cases where the anachronism is justified or averted is during Tiana's segment, where she suffers the consequences of Hurricane Katrina (The Princess and the Frog took place in the 1930's, so it wouldn't be any stretch of the imagination for Tiana to go through that in her old age) and Pocahontas, where the FridgeHorror of colonialism is fully realized.

* A parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" once hosted by [=AmIRight=], a music fansite for mondegreens and original parodies, stated in the very first verse that the UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch series of games from Nintendo was started ''after'' UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and the release of the Macintosh took place. [[CriticalResearchFailure That's not the only thing it gets wrong, either]]--in the very same verse it's not just assumed that the Apple II and the Macintosh were one and the same (when in fact they were very different product lines offered by Apple), but also that Game & Watch itself was intended to compete with Apple's computers.

''So to compete with the [[PainfulRhyme Macintosh]]''\\

''But all of this was too [[PrecisionFStrike damn]] much''\\
''So to compete against the [[PainfulRhyme Macintosh]]''\\
''He introduced to us the Game & Watch''

* A parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" once hosted by [=AmIRight=], a music fansite for mondegreens and original parodies, stated in the very first verse that the VideoGame/GameAndWatch series of games from Nintendo was started ''after'' UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and the release of the Macintosh took place. [[CriticalResearchFailure That's not the only thing it gets wrong, either]]--in the very same verse it's not just assumed that the Apple II and the Macintosh were one and the same (when in fact they were very different product lines offered by Apple), but also that Game & Watch itself was intended to compete with Apple's computers.

* In Brazil this trope is better know as "Samba do Crioulo Doido", after a song, roughly translated as "The Crazy Nigger's Samba". It is about a Samba composer that had to learn some Brazilian history because law dictated all Carnival music had to be based on it (TruthInTelevision). When asked to do something about the current politics, he goes insane and writes a Samba whose [[http://letras.terra.com.br/demonios-da-garoa/45443/ lyrics]] mixes several important Brazilian history figures from different centuries in a story where nothing makes sense.

* ''HappyDays'': Most of the time, the series was true to its roots and played 1950s music in the background. Enter Suzi Quattro (Leather Tuscaredo), who – when she performed – always performed in her late 1970s style. This included her ballad "Find Strength in Your Friends," which she sang using a very 1978 music bed in the episode "Richie Almost Dies" (under which clips of Richie played), an episode that was set in 1959.

* Not even Satan is immune to this trope. Music/TheRollingStones' ''Sympathy For The Devil'' includes the boast "I laid traps for troubadoures/Who get killed before they reach Bombay" [presumably in a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]]].

* The video for "Stand and Deliver" by Adam Ant mostly has a 17th or 18th century look, but with several unexplained modern elements.

* P.D.Q. Bach ignores the fact that what we think of today as "classical" music actually happened over several centuries and is divided into distinct stylistic periods. Peter Schickele is quite aware of this, but [[RuleOfFunny ignores it]] in favor of [[AffectionateParody parodying]] as many different things as possible, and {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the eclecticism of PDQ's style many times. Then there are the anachronisms which are more obvious to the layperson, such as "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" or the "Bluegrass Cantata" or "Classical Rap" (though Schickele claimed to have altered the original lyrics of that one).