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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 21, 2024 23:17:48 GMT
It's not the same old show on my Mexican radio gaga. So many great songs about radio.
In the same way video allegedly killed the radio star, radio must have influenced the number of homespun, self-taught musicians. This song popped into my mind from out of the blue recently.
Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio - Tom Robinson / Peter Gabriel
Who hasn't been amazed by all the midnight atmospherics after dark?
WQEW from NYC was a favorite. Gorgeous big band music greeting me from hundreds of miles away.
It wasn't until much later I discovered legislation as much as lunar emanations controlled my radio dial in the wee small hours. Is it even safe to loosen the laws for the deviant people up late at night? Very radical and dangerous for those along the border, allowing the likes of Detroit to bleed through the wires.
Most musicians have tales to tell about hiding under their covers taking it all in. John Cale up in his little Welsh village getting signals from the USSR - all night long.
I am pleased to report the gorgeous Electric Cinema in the video is still alive and well and showing films. Not sure what the double feature is showing here though.
Peter Gabriel oozes out of this song. I am co-writer curious and would love to hear his solo take on it.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 26, 2024 3:54:49 GMT
The Sports -- "Who Listens to the Radio" (1978)
As kids, my sister and I listened to KLEO the Big 1480 out of Wichita. But on summer nights when the wind was just right, we got WLS from Chicago. Everybody had Wolfman Jack from the border, right?
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 29, 2024 1:24:24 GMT
I need to get me out of this nunnery and give up the cloistered life because I have NEVER heard that song. Black Slacks I may be excused for missing, but this is ridiculous. It is superb.
Wolfman Jack on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein TV show was a lot of fun. Billy Van was impressive to say the least.
I was pretty proud of myself when I learned all the words to The Magnificent Seven but this one is impossible!
Reunion - Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 29, 2024 19:44:25 GMT
RUSH -- "The Spirit of Radio", Permanent Waves (1980)
Strange but true: I met Geddy Lee when I was in highschool. The band's bus stopped in a tiny Texas town, at a tiny Texas grocery, and a teenage me checked through Geddy's grocery purchases. It was a real....RUSH!
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 29, 2024 19:49:58 GMT
I was pretty proud of myself when I learned all the words to The Magnificent Seven but this one is impossible! |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 30, 2024 0:07:22 GMT
My best Christmas present ever was a red plastic radio with a gold Edsel grill...this was in the late 1950's...which I kept for years and my mother finally reassigned it to the kitchen when I went away to college. I used to keep it under the covers and listen way past bedtime. The music of our youth is probably always exciting to us whenever we grow up; mine was Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and all those guys. One thing I loved was that late at night, depending on weather conditions I guess, I could get (from the Boston area) WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, so I got to hear all that stuff too.
In the late 60's, early 70's FM radio really took over and we got to hear more than 3 minute songs, giving careers to people who didn't conform to that standard.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 4, 2024 18:59:51 GMT
RUSH -- "The Spirit of Radio", Permanent Waves (1980)
Strange but true: I met Geddy Lee when I was in highschool. The band's bus stopped in a tiny Texas town, at a tiny Texas grocery, and a teenage me checked through Geddy's grocery purchases. It was a real....RUSH!
Did you say anything to him and more importantly, what did he buy?
The strange thing about that song was it was an alternative (not rock) song written about our beloved CFNY radio station during the genius David Marsden era.
Referring to its free-form format, the station was called "one of the last truly alternative radio stations in North America"
I know for sure it is where I first heard this gem.
The Selecter - On My Radio (Top of the Pops 1979)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 5, 2024 1:15:32 GMT
RUSH -- "The Spirit of Radio", Permanent Waves (1980)
Strange but true: I met Geddy Lee when I was in highschool. The band's bus stopped in a tiny Texas town, at a tiny Texas grocery, and a teenage me checked through Geddy's grocery purchases. It was a real....RUSH!
Did you say anything to him and more importantly, what did he buy?
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 5, 2024 1:34:19 GMT
"Radioactivity" by Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity (1975; remastered 2009)
Morse code in the song spells "radioactivity." Originally the song was about radio, but in 1991 Kraftwerk changed it up for the album The Mix, in which the theme is anti-nuclear.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 12, 2024 2:05:44 GMT
My best Christmas present ever was a red plastic radio with a gold Edsel grill. In the late 60's, early 70's FM radio really took over and we got to hear more than 3 minute songs I would KILL to have my little cream colour pocket transistor - portability, so freeing while waiting for auto access. My dad saw NO POINT in paying extra for FM in the car so I didn't get to luxuriate as much as some it seems. the MODERN LOVERS "Roadrunner" 1972 |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 12, 2024 21:34:48 GMT
"FM (No Static at All)" -- Steely Dan, 1978. Just. Yes.
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Post by NoShear on Feb 25, 2024 0:45:10 GMT
I need to get me out of this nunnery and give up the cloistered life because I have NEVER heard that song. Black Slacks I may be excused for missing, but this is ridiculous. It is superb. Wolfman Jack on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein TV show was a lot of fun. Billy Van was impressive to say the least. I was pretty proud of myself when I learned all the words to The Magnificent Seven but this one is impossible! Reunion - Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) I'm glad you hadn't, galacticgirrrl, 'cause I chuckled at the line you got off: "I need to get me out of this nunnery and give up the cloistered life because I have NEVER heard that song."!! In a similar vein to your Reunion post: |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 1, 2024 19:19:46 GMT
Stop what you're doing and "Clap for the Wolfman." -- The Guess Who, 1974
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 9, 2024 22:52:07 GMT
"Midnight Radio" -- Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Midnight Radio (1990)
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 10, 2024 12:27:32 GMT
Remember the days when people walked around with radios, lugged them to the beach, etc.? Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon does.
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