Episode 016 · (approx.) · 37 tracks
Radio, Radio
37 tracks celebrating the medium that started it all. Songs about radio, by radio people, for radio people -- from the dial to the satellite and everything in between. Long live the airwaves.
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Playlist
- The Kinks Around the Dial
- Elvis Costello Radio, Radio
- Carlene Carter Radio Sweetheart
- Ramones Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
- Warren Zevon Mohammed's Radio
- Frightened Rabbit Old Old Fashioned
- Van Morrison with the Band Caravan
- Rush The Spirit of Radio
- Bruce Springsteen Radio Nowhere
- Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle Listen to the Radio
- Everclear AM Radio
- Steely Dan FM
- The Replacements Left of the Dial
- Joni Mitchell and Neil Young You Turn Me On I'm a Radio
- The Clash This is Radio Clash
- Joe Walsh The Radio Song
- The Smiths Panic
- David Bowie D.J.
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers The Last DJ
- Mark Germino and the Sluggers Rex Bob Lowenstein
- Harry Chapin W.O.L.D.
- Grateful Dead commercial
- Frank Zappa The Central Scrutinizer
- The Doors The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
- ZZ Top Heard it on the X
- The Blasters Border Radio
- Wall of Voodoo Mexican Radio
- Steve Earle Satellite Radio
- Jon Langford Nashville Radio
- R.E.M. Radio Free Europe
- Nude Beach Radio
- Spoon On the Radio
- Joe Jackson On Your Radio
- Jesse Malin (with Bruce Springsteen) Broken Radio '22
- Graham Parker There's Nothing on the Radio
- Songs: Ohia Farewell Transmission
- The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star
Appendix
Movies & Shows
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Play Misty for Me
- Good Morning Vietnam
- Pirate Radio
- Talk Radio
- The Order
- Pump Up the Volume
- Airheads
Books
- The Hours are Long but the Pay is Low – Rob Miller
🍺 Imbibements
- 40th Anniv. BBA Expedition Stout – Bell's (MI)
- Infinite Ghost – Parish (LA)
- Polymorphic DIPA – Spyglass (NH)
- Too Far Outta Sight – The Veil (VA)
- I'm a Grown Ass Cat Imp. Stout – Fat Orange Cat (CT)