View Full Version : Bestest Song About Radio
torker
12-05-2006, 05:25 PM
Rock and Roll ~ The Velvet Underground
Captain Rooster
12-05-2006, 05:26 PM
"The Spirit of Radio" --Rush ... that's all ... lock this up.
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 05:27 PM
<p>Donna Summer - On The Radio</p><p>now lock it up!!</p>
<p>"Radio Radio" - Elvis Costello</p><p> </p>
<p>"Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?" - The Ramones</p><p> </p>
Hottub
12-05-2006, 05:29 PM
<p>Satallite Of Love.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ok. We're done.</p>
Captain Rooster
12-05-2006, 05:29 PM
Spirit .... lock it up. Not me. YOU lock it up.
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 05:30 PM
<p>FM - Steeley Dan</p><p>okay lock it up for sure!</p>
<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="3">Gvac beat me to "Radio Radio" so my nomination will have to be </font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="3">"This is Radio Clash"</font></p>
Tall_James
12-05-2006, 05:34 PM
<p>Wavelength - Van Morrison</p><p> </p><p>Lock it up.</p>
jetdog
12-05-2006, 05:35 PM
"Please play this song on the radio" - NOFX<br />
Captain Rooster
12-05-2006, 05:35 PM
<p>ok ... open it up ...</p><p> </p><p>"I Can't Live Without My Radio" LL COOL J </p>
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 05:36 PM
<p><strong><font color="#000080">Mexican Radio - Wall Of Voodoo</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000080">Put a Bullet in the Jukebox - Slickee Boys</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000080">Road Runner - The Modern Lovers</font></strong></p>
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 05:37 PM
<p>Radar Love - Golden Earring</p><p>go funkman, it's your birfday</p>
jetdog
12-05-2006, 05:39 PM
<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br /><p><br /> go funkman, it's your birfday </p> Happy Birfday Buddy! <p> </p>
JustJon
12-05-2006, 05:39 PM
The Late Greats - Wilco
Judge Smails
12-05-2006, 05:41 PM
<p>All we hear is radio ga ga<br />Radio goo goo<br />Radio ga ga<br />All we hear is radio ga ga<br />Radio goo goo<br />Radio ga ga<br />All we hear is radio ga ga<br />Radio blah blah<br />Radio what's new ?<br />Someone still loves you</p><p> </p><p>Lock it up.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(White space here)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Just kidding - that sucks donkey sack.</p>
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 05:48 PM
<p>anything by Radiohead</p><p>go funkman it's your birfday boom shacka lacka boom</p><p> </p>
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 05:52 PM
<p><strong><font color="#000080">Mohammad's Radio - Warren Zevon</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000080">Your Mom's Box - BoboGolem</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://www.oldradio.com/oldradio.gif" border="0" width="200" height="208" /></p>
mikeyboy
12-05-2006, 05:52 PM
<p>Starship - "We Built This City"</p><p><strong><font face="times new roman,times" size="7">LOCK IT UP!</font></strong></p>
furie
12-05-2006, 05:53 PM
Radio Ga-Ga
keithy_19
12-05-2006, 05:54 PM
<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>"Radio Radio" - Elvis Costello</p><p> </p><p>ding ding ding</p>
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 05:59 PM
<p><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Radio Sweatheart - Elvis COSTELLO</font></strong></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">W*O*L*D - Harry CHAPIN</font></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">You Turn Me On (I'm A Radio) - Joni MITCHELL</font></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Video Killed The Radio Star - THE BUGGLES</font></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 12-5-06 @ 10:14 PM</span>
Drunky McBetidont
12-05-2006, 06:00 PM
<p><font size="2"><strong>Guerrilla Radio</strong> lyrics by Rage Against The Machine</font></p><p> </p>
DarkHippie
12-05-2006, 06:00 PM
<p>I was gonna go with "Radio Radio" too but gvac beat me.</p><p>How about "are you out there?" Dar Williams</p>
Fezticle98
12-05-2006, 06:01 PM
<p>RichG wins with "This is Radio Clash"</p><p>Two other decent ones:</p><p>AM Radio - Everclear</p><p>Raised on the Radio - Ravyns</p><p>Was this thread inspired by the Bob Dylan XM Show? What's that song they were playing on this week's promo?</p>
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 06:12 PM
<p><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Radios In Motion - XTC</font></strong></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Turn Your Radio On - Roy Acuff</font></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><img src="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/images/acuff-hb.jpg" border="0" width="368" height="250" /></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><table border="0" id="user_list"><tbody><tr class="treven"><td class="generic_item"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></span></td></tr><tr class="trodd"><td width="10%" align="center" valign="middle"><strong><font color="#000080"> </font></strong><table border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td class="number"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td><td><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td><td class="generic_item"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></span></td></tr><tr class="treven"><td width="10%" align="center" valign="middle"><strong><font color="#000080"> </font></strong><table border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td class="number"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td><td><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></td><td class="generic_item"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"></span></p>
DarkHippie
12-05-2006, 06:17 PM
"Turn me on, I'm a radio" Joni Mitchell
ThePointer
12-05-2006, 06:18 PM
<font size="2">One of the best not yet mentioned "Around the Dial " The Kinks </font>
KC2OSO
12-05-2006, 06:18 PM
<p>Agree with the Rooster the Rush - Spirit of Radio is musically and lyrically one of the best/tighest but this one comes to mind also - </p><p>Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)<br />By: Reunion</p><p>Actually I like all of the suggestions and got few to d/l & listen to. Tks.</p>
JustJon
12-05-2006, 06:20 PM
Turn up the radio - Autograph
Fezticle98
12-05-2006, 06:23 PM
<p>Taking Retards to the Zoo - Dead Milkmen</p><p>http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/6619/cubaradioty0.jpg</p>
mikeyboy
12-05-2006, 06:24 PM
<p>Okay, I have a real one this time...</p><p>The Replacements - "Left of the Dial"</p>
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 06:25 PM
<p><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">FM (No Static At All) - STEELY DAN</font></strong></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Border Radio - THE BLASTERS</font></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><strong><font color="#000080">Caravan - Van MORRISON (GREAT FUCKIN SONG!!!)</font></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><span class="generic_title"><img src="http://991.com/newgallery/Van-Morrison-Moondance-264541.jpg" border="0" width="450" height="471" /></span></span></span></p>
"W.A.S.P. (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) - The Doors<div><br /></div><div>"Video Killed The Radio Star" - The Buggles</div>
reillyluck
12-05-2006, 06:28 PM
<p>come one!! you cant beat</p><p><font size="2">"I Can't Live Without My Radio" by LL Cool J!</font></p><p>http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l29/marcus_w/llcoolj-OBEY.jpg</p><p><font size="6">word!</font></p>
MadMatt
12-05-2006, 06:29 PM
<p><font size="2">Bobo has taken all of the songs I was going to say - You, Sir, most definitely rock!</font></p><p><font size="2">How about <strong>"H.A.P.P.Y. Radio"</strong> by <strong><em>Edwin Starr</em></strong>.</font></p><p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GW2YQFlILFo" target="_blank">Now with linky goodness...</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by MadMatt on 12-5-06 @ 10:36 PM</span>
"I of the Mourning" by The Smashing Pumpkins
bobrobot
12-05-2006, 06:40 PM
<p><img src="http://ebayftp2.ifrance.com/Divers/C0287.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="542" /></p><p> </p>
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 06:45 PM
<p>how about that Genesis song " Coming In The Air Tonight "</p><p>what's that about?</p>
PapaBear
12-05-2006, 06:46 PM
<p>I'd like to make a long distance request for my good budday, Fez...</p><p>Radio Free Europe-R.E.M.</p>
johnniewalker
12-05-2006, 06:47 PM
Nice call on Caravan Bobo that's one of my favorite songs.
torker
12-05-2006, 06:49 PM
<p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>PapaBear wrote:</strong></p><p>I'd like to make a long distance request for my good budday, Fez...</p><p>Radio Free Europe-R.E.M.</p><p>This is almost negated by <em>Radio Song </em>featuring KRS1.</p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by torker on 12-5-06 @ 10:51 PM</span>
FUNKMAN
12-05-2006, 06:54 PM
CW McCall - Convoy
Hottub
12-05-2006, 06:56 PM
<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br />Turn up the radio - Autograph <p>Thank you, sir.</p><p>now we can lock it up.</p>
johnniewalker
12-05-2006, 06:56 PM
Edit: Already taken
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by johnniewalker on 12-5-06 @ 10:57 PM</span>
tele7
12-05-2006, 07:07 PM
Joe Jackson- <em>On Your Radio</em>
Hottub
12-05-2006, 07:18 PM
<p>"Summer Nights" - Van Halen.</p><p>Lock her up, boys!</p>
KC2OSO
12-05-2006, 07:25 PM
<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />CW McCall - Convoy<p>Burt Reynolds and Sally Field thank you sir.</p><p> </p>
<p>how many times do i have to tell you people, it's : <strong>heard it on the 'x' </strong>by zz top</p><p>and <u>everything</u> wilco has done is always 100% about radio</p><p>although velvet's rock and roll is probably #1, but i didn't think of it first so it doesn't count</p>
Left of the Dial - The Replacements
Earlshog
12-06-2006, 06:10 AM
<p>"Patches" Brother Joe</p><p> </p>
<p>"Beast of Burden", The Rolling Stones</p>
Servo
12-06-2006, 06:51 AM
Queens of the Stone Age - the entire "Songs for the Deaf" album. Granted, most of the songs themselves aren't about radio, but it's an underlying theme throughout the whole disc.
lintpit
12-06-2006, 04:40 PM
<p><em><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">My turn, My turn...Rage Against the Machine"Guerilla Radio"</font></em></p><p><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> Neo"Why can't I turn off the radio"</font></em></p><p><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> Rancid"Radio"</font></em></p><p><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> System Of A Down"Radio Video"</font></em></p><p><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> Brian Setzer Orch."Ghost Radio"</font></em></p><p><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">I believe the proper term is...................<strong>Lock It Up!!</strong></font></em></p>
FezPaul
12-06-2006, 04:46 PM
<strong><font color="#0000ff" style="background-color: #ffffff">I can't believe Bobo missed "The Radio Is Broken" by Frank Zappa.</font></strong>
bobrobot
12-06-2006, 05:04 PM
<strong>FezPaul</strong> wrote:<br /><strong><font color="#0000ff" style="background-color: #ffffff">I can't believe Bobo missed "The Radio Is Broken" by Frank Zappa.</font></strong> <p><strong><font color="#000080">But I DID know that I was forgetting something, now i know what it was... DAMMIT!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://www.levykauppax.fi/cover/normal/9/95/9587.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="200" /></p>
Marc with a c
12-06-2006, 07:41 PM
elvis costello is on letterman tonight.
Mike Teacher
12-06-2006, 07:53 PM
<p>I sometimes feel I'm the only soul who listens to the very early Peter Gabriel.</p><p>=</p><p>'On The Air' -PG, from his second solo album: 'Peter Gabriel' as opposed to his first and third solo albums, titled 'Peter Gabriel' and 'Peter Gabriel', respectively...</p><p>Built in the belly of junk by the river my cabin stands<br />Made from the trash I dug out 'the heap, with my own fair hands<br />Every night, I'm back at the shack and I'm sure no one is there<br />I'm putting the aerial up, so I can go out on the air<br />On the air<br />On the air<br />On the air<br />Every morning I'm out at dawn with the dwarfs and the tramp <br />For a silent communion lit from above by the sodium lamps<br />Everyone I meet on the street acts as if I wasn't there<br />But they're all going to know who I am 'cos I can go out on the air<br />On the air<br />On the air<br />On the air<br />Leaving the car down leafy lane<br />Turning out Tarzan for my Jungle Jane<br />anyone at all<br />From Captain Zero and his brand of superhero<br />standing by a call<br />Oh it's not easy<br />No it's not easy<br />Making real friends<br />Don't give me your steak-reared milkboys, milkboys<br />Half alive on empty white noise, white noise<br />I got power, I'm proud to be loud; my signal goes out clear<br />I want everybody to know that Mozo is here<br />On the air<br />On the air<br />On the air</p>
KC2OSO
11-12-2010, 07:21 PM
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KnoxHarrington
11-12-2010, 07:44 PM
"Roadrunner" by the Modern Lovers.
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RADIO ON!
Now lock this shit up!
realmenhatelife
11-12-2010, 08:27 PM
Back in the day any song that had the word 'radio' in it was a song about the radio apparently.
And I agree, it's Road Runner.
zildjian361
11-13-2010, 09:41 AM
<p>"Radio Radio" - Elvis Costello</p><p> </p>
definetly:smoke::drunk:
paulisded
11-13-2010, 10:08 AM
definetly:smoke::drunk:
My thoughts exactly.
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hanso
11-13-2010, 01:38 PM
The radio plays that forgotten song. Brenda Lee's coming on strong. The news man sang his same song ...
hanso
11-17-2010, 02:56 AM
M - Pop Muzik
Triumph - Magic Power
torker
11-17-2010, 05:05 PM
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KnoxHarrington
11-17-2010, 05:33 PM
From one of Epo's faves (the second song on this)
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fezident
11-18-2010, 03:13 AM
Mikeyboy beat me to that little nugget by Starship so, I had to dig deeper into the cheese to find THIS tasty slice:
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