Paul and Matthew each wrote a piece (click here and here) on songs about radio. Here are a few more suggestions:
1) Alkaline Trio “Radio“: Not really a song about radio, but it does discuss “radio” as an object in an interesting break-up song.
2) American Hi-Fi “Hi-Fi Killer”
I gotta disappear
Don’t wanna hear that sound on the radio
Yeah, we could all hum along
‘Cause it’s the same old song
3) Anberlin “Cold War Transmissions”
This is Russian radio here
Calling you to come back home
This is Russian radio here
Run while you still can
4) Beyonce “Radio”
I think I’m in love with my radio
Because it never lets me down
And I fall in love with my stereo
Whenever I hear that sound (x3)
5) The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star“: The title pretty much says it all.
6) Chronic Future “Static on the Radio”
What’s this song on the radio
It’s been so long since I’ve heard a song that I want to know
Tune me in just this once (x2)
‘Cause there’s too much
Static on the radio
7) Coheed and Cambria “The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye”
We’ll leave it on the radio
We’re calling all cowards
Now, boy, that you’ve made it
So are you afraid of what you’ve done?
8 ) Incubus “Aqueous Transmission”
I’m building an antenna
Transmissions will be sent when I am through
Maybe we could meet again further down the river
And share what we both discovered…
Then revel in the view
9) Motion City Soundtrack “Boombox Generation”
Struck down the pillar
Short-lived is all you’ll ever be
A once great sensation
Has wiped out the nation
Your message is no longer for sale
And no proclamation
Will return the station
You held on to while the rest of us moved on
As not quite sensations
But mere subatomic particles of the nation
We’re happy if our songs get heard at all
So bring forth donations
For the boombox generation
That’s right
10) Queens of the Stone Age “God Is In the Radio”
I thought I saw him on the video
A trance is keeping him under
I know that God is in the radio
Checkin’ the station
I’m glad it caught from me to you
Just a call in the medium
I know you hear it, I hear it too
It’s everywhere that I go
11) Transplants “DJ, DJ”: Not entirely related, but I thought that I’d add it anyway.
12) Useless ID “Turn Up the Stereo”
Can you hear the pirate radio?
Turn it up, the sound of revolution, come on!
Play it loud, and steal the air while you can
‘Cause we’re going back in time
What are some of your favorite songs about radio?
