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I'm struggling beyond "Radio, Radio" and "Left of the Dial" and "Turn it On" (Flaming Lips) to come up with radio anthems. I've got a community radio show and were in the middle of pledge drive and I thought a radio-song-themed show might be fun. Maybe ranking them would be fun...

― Corporal Bubonic, Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

REM 'Radio Song'
Martine McCutcheon 'On The Radio'
Taffy 'My Radio'
Slade 'Radio Wall Of Sound'
Queen 'Radio Ga-Ga'
Air 'Radio #1'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Radio" by Solvent is awesome for this.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

LL Cool J -- I can't live without my radio
Run DMC -- Radio Station
The Clash-- This is Radio Clash
CHeap Trick -- On the Radio
Ramones -- We Want the Airwaves, Do you remember ROck n' roll radio?
Autograph -Turn up the radio
REm Radio Free Europe

― cw28 (cw28), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jonathan Richman - "Roadrunner"
Van Morrison - "Caravan"
Bo Diddley - "You Can't Judge a Book"
Sam Cooke - "Having a Party"

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wall of Voodoo, "Mexican Radio"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Coughing, "Screenwriter's Blues"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

stars - my radio
jay jay johanson - on the radio

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Best Songs about Radio?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlie Dore, "Pilot of the Airwaves"

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

nichts - radio

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Avalanches - 'Radio'
Jolly Music - 'Radio Jolly'
Nelly Furtado - 'Shit On The Radio'
The Corrs - 'Listen To The Radio'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Costello - Radio Sweetheart

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

human league - WXJL tonight

omd - radio prague
omd - radio waves
omd - introducing radios

ok, ok ... enough OMD

much of radio-activity by kraftwerk (ie the bits that aren't about, umm, radioactivity)

er ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the song which I was just listening to, MOTO - Dance To the Radio. the entire lyrics of this song are: "Who cares about the starving people that you see in the streets each day?/I wanna dance dance dance dance dance to the radio".

also Mass Romantic by the New Pornographers, or at least the mention the radio in it.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

> dance dance dance dance dance to the radio

of course! joy division - transmission

and that's the thread finished AFAIC

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

All these posts without mentioning The Buggles -- Video Killed the Radio Star ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice Cube - Turn Off the Radio
Belle and Sebastian - On the Radio(hidden track, not sure of the actual title)

― tremendoidorangeblazer, Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, having a) read the OP's question again and b) checked out the link to, umm, the disturbingly similar thread from june ... if you're after a tear-jerking song to get the listeners digging deep and supporting your community venture, WXJL Tonight is it:

"Once I couldn't care at all
But I can feel the ratings fall ..."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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