Radio Mix

Turn off the radio!
Turn off that bullshit!
(Radio programming ain't a figure of speech)

There are enough people on 8tracks now to enable a quick mix of other people's tunage. Here's my first one--a work in progress that should grow as people comment. Radio Songs!




I had to hack the embed code to use the old player. The new player has album art but no skip track button. I like the old one.

"Stick a funky tape in it!"

Initial Playlist

1. Radio Freq / Dead Prez
2. My Radio / Solvent*
3. On My Radio / The Selecter
4. Rock and Roll / The Velvet Underground
5. Roadrunner / The Modern Lovers
6. Video Killed The Radio Star / The Buggles
7. Radio Free Europe / REM
8. This Is Radio Clash / The Clash
   
9. Radio Silence / Thomas Dolby
10. On The Radio / The Concretes*
    
11. Radio, Radio / Elvis Costello and the Attractions
12. Caravan / Van Morrison
13. Radios In Motion / XTC*
14. Radio Interrupt / Wired For Mono*
    
15. Turn Off That Radio / Ice Cube*
    

* uploaded to 8tracks by G-Fab

Thoughts on Radio as a Symbol in Pop Music

I think there are many uses of radio as a metaphor in popular song. Here you'll find a mix of the two major types: radio as oppression, and radio as liberation. More about this when I can give a shit. For the time being, let Elvis, XTC and Dead Prez explain the dark side of the airwaves; JoJo, The Velvets, and Van Morrison will show you the light.

NOTE: I love the Jerry Harrison organ part on "Roadrunner." I think that Stereolab got most of their sound from what Jerry is doing here. Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner" is runner up for G-Fab's best rock and roll song of all time. (What's #1? Why "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly, of course!).

Crank up 'yo speakers!
'Yo woofas and 'yo tweeters!
Turn up 'yo receivers!
We bangin' off the meter!