Best Anti-Radio Programming Song - Or Songs About Radio (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

You all know the genre. It's the perpetual gripe about the radio and their refusal to play your band or other worthy bands. 

What's the best song from this genre? 

I'll start: Your New Aesthetic - Jimmy Eat World 

eta* Edited to also ask for songs about radio in general

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

TIL people still listen to radio

 

[rockaction]

TIL people still listen to radio

They still watch network news, too.  

 

[saintfool]

Elvis Costello. 

 

[Eephus]

Ramones - We Want the Airwaves

X - The Unheard Music

The Raspberries - Overnight Sensation

Songs about radio in general

• Joy Division - Transmission
  
• Modern Lovers - Road Runner
  
• The Blasters - Border Radio
  

 

[rockaction]

Ramones - We Want the Airwaves

X - The Unheard Music

The Raspberries - Overnight Sensation

Songs about radio in general

• Joy Division - Transmission
  
• Modern Lovers - Road Runner
  
• The Blasters - Border Radio
  

Ramones hit my top three. Love the shift. Road Runner is one of my favorites. 

 

[timschochet]

Elvis Costello. 

Of course. This the only correct answer. Even today, nearly 40 years after it was written, that song still resonates in all of its snarling and cynical glory. 

 

[Plorfu]

Jon Lajoie - Pop Song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1osEso3urcY

Jon Lajoie  - Radio Friendly Artist

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Gs4xGw1Eg

 

[otb_lifer]

The Clash - Capital Radio

 

[Plorfu]

Sad Songs and Waltzes

Cake's cover version

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

More a general radio themed tune

Joe Jackson - On Your Radio

 

[Northern Voice]

 

[trogg78]

the Weirdos-Destroy all music

 

[guncrib]

 

[saintfool]

Wall of voodoo - mexican radio

zz top - heard it on the x

velvet underground - rock and roll





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really good pick even if it's mostly a celebration of the medium.

 

[guncrib]

really good pick even if it's mostly a celebration of the medium.

I was going for the second request. Songs about radio.

Its also the most covered song in this thread

really good pick even if it's mostly a celebration of the medium.

 

[guncrib]

And the one that launched MTV

 

[guncrib]

one for our Canadian footballguyers.

 

[Joe Summer]

Tom Petty's album "The Last DJ" is all about the radio business.

 

[rockaction]

Radio Blast - Screeching Weasel.