History Main / RadioSong

* TheBlasters' "Border Radio" describes a woman who calls up a radio station and requests a song that she and "her man" used to enjoy, in hopes that it'll console her and her child. It's left indeterminate why exactly the father can't be reunited with them.

* "Yesterday Once More" by Music/TheCarpenters, where the singer reminiscences about her favorite song on the radio.

* Joe Walsh has "The Radio Song," about finding a quiet place alone and listening to music on the radio.

* Music/MarenMorris's "My Church" combines this with DrivingSong, describing listening to music on the road as a religious experience.

* Music/{{REM}}'s [[NamesTheSame "Radio Song"]] seemingly blames the radio for destroying society with monotonous low-grade crap, [[AWildRapperAppears featuring]] a rap by Music/{{KRS ONE}}.
-->[=DJs=] communicate to the masses\\
Sex and violent classes\\
Now our children grow up prisoners\\
All their life, radio listeners
* Music/HallAndOates' "Portable Radio" - ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, specifically the boom box.
* "Hearthammer" by Runrig describes growing up in Scotland in TheSixties. The second verse is about [[BuccaneerBroadcaster Radio Caroline]].

Since most of these songs were themselves written to be played on the radio, this is a subtrope of HeavyMeta. However, these can forfeit their own RadioFriendliness if they overlap with {{Protest Song}}s written by [[ArtistDisillusionment Disillusioned Artists]] about how MusicIsPolitics. Compare HymnToMusic, ThisIsASong. Sister-trope to RockStarSong.

--> Radio is a sound salvation
--> Radio is cleaning up the nation
--> They say you better listen to the voice of reason
--> But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason
--> So you had better do as you are told
--> You better listen to the radio ...
--> I wanna bite the hand that feeds me
--> I wanna bite that hand so badly
--> I wanna make them wish they'd never seen me

* Music/JoniMitchell's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio," which she wrote after being asked for a catchy love song [[InspirationNod to play on the radio]].
%%* "Radio" by Music/LanaDelRey

--> Let's hope you never leave, old friend,
--> Like all good things, on you we depend
--> So stick around, 'cause we might miss you
--> When we grow tired of all this visual

--> [=DJs=] communicate to the masses\\

* "Hearthammer" by Runrig describes growing up in Scotland in TheSixties. The second verse is about [[PirateRadio Radio Caroline]].

Since most of these songs were themselves written to be played on the radio, this is a subtrope of HeavyMeta. However, these can forfeit their own RadioFriendliness if they overlap with {{Protest Song}}s written by [[ArtistDisillusionment Disillusioned Artists]] about how MusicIsPolitics. Compare HymnToMusic. Sister-trope to RockStarSong.

* Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Radio" is about evading East Germany's censorship by surreptitiously listening to foreing broadcasts late at night on shortwave radios.

* Music/TheAvalanches' "Radio," [[AmbiguousSituation vaguely]].

* Music/{{Rush}}'s "The Spirit of Radio," a delightfully verbose celebration of the radio medium:
--> Invisible airwaves crackle with life
--> Bright antennae bristle with the energy
--> Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
--> Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

* Music/SmashingPumpkins: "I of the Mourning" is told from the perspective of a man who seeks comfort in his radio and hears voices within that inspire him to start a band.

* Music/{{REM}}'s [[NamesTheSame "Radio Song"]] seemingly blames the radio for destroying society with monotonous low-grade crap.

No [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample ZCEs]], please!

* Music/{{Sloan}}: ''Listen To The Radio'' where the singer listens to the radio but there is just static.

* Music/SteelyDan: ''F.M. (No Static at All)''. A song created as the opening song for the film ''FM''. The song sings the praises of Main/{{Blues}}, Main/{{Reggae}}, Music/ElvisPresley and the lack of static when compared to AM.
* Music/TwentyOnePilots has "Car Radio," about a man whose car radio has been stolen discovering how much he's been using music to block out uncomfortable thoughts.

* Music/{{REM}}'s "[[Main/NamesTheSame Radio Song]]" seemingly blames the radio for destroying society with monotonous low-grade crap.

* "Radio" by Music/LanaDelRey

* "On the Radio by Music/CheapTrick, which Rick Nielsen described as "about being fourteen years old and wishing you had a car, riding out, where your best friend was the guy on the radio."

* Music/{{REM}}'s "Radio Song" seemingly blames the radio for destroying society with monotonous low-grade crap.

* One of Music/ElvisCostello's most beloved songs (and the one that got him [[http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-stunt-that-got-elvis-costello-banned-from-saturday-night-live.html banned from Saturday Night Live]]) is the iconoclastic "Radio Radio."

* Music/{{Joni Mitchell}}'s "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio," which she wrote after being asked for a catchy love song [[InspirationNod to play on the radio]].

* {{Rush}}'s "The Spirit of Radio," a delightfully verbose celebration of the radio medium:

--> DJs communicate to the masses\\

All their life, radio listeners

* "Mexican Radio" by Music/WallOfVoodoo is a tribute to the powerful AM radio stations located near the U.S.-Mexico border known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_blaster "border blasters."]]

A Radio Song is any song about the medium or culture of radio itself, or that incorporates it as a central metaphor.

* "Mexican Radio" by Music/WallOfVoodoo is about the novelty of picking up a Mexican radio station from across the border (and how radio waves, at least, could cross freely).

Since most of these songs were themselves written to be played on the radio, this is a subtrope of HeavyMeta. However, these can forfeit their own RadioFriendliness if they overlap with {{Protest Song}}s written by [[ArtistDisillusionment Disillusioned Artists]] about how MusicIsPolitics. Sister-trope to RockStarSong.