Songs About Media (TV, Radio, Publications, Internet) and Media Personalities

[MaVolta]

So, here's a new topic to try out . . . songs about the media, such as tv, radio, publications, the internet, and any media personalities you can think of. It can be song titles or part of the lyrics.

I'll start off with - - - 

Cover of the Rollin' Stone - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

[MaVolta]

Lady Madonna -  The Beatles

Wednesday morning papers didn't come

[1968Hoya46]

Saturday Night At The Movies: Drifters

[BeatleloverKT]

Travelin' band by CCR

"Listen to the radio

talkin' 'bout the last show

Someone got excited

Had to call the state militia

I wanna move"......

[DMAFl]

I Lost on Jeopardy by Weird Al. This guy has been so entertaining for so many decades, he probably deserves his own thread here!

[BeatleloverKT]

Turn up the radio by Madonna

[DMAFl]

Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers.   "Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, now don't tell me I got nothing to do."

[DMAFl]

Back on the Chain Gang - Morrissey; I prefer the original by The Pretenders (yay Chrissie!).    "Circumstances beyond our control, the phone, the TV, and the news of the world, got in our house like a pigeon from hell, threw sand in our eyes" etc.etc.

[1968Hoya46]

I'm Not Your Steppin Stone: Monkees (now you're walking around like you're front page news).

[BeatleloverKT]

This is radio Clash by the Clash

"This is radio clash from pirate satellite

Orbiting your living room

Cashing in the bill of rights

Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights

This is radio clash on pirate satellite"......

[MarybethG691589]

I don't know if this song was mentioned.                                        Give the People What they Want  The Kinks 

[BeatleloverKT]

Wild wild life by the Talking Heads (one of my most fav videos of all time)

"Here on this mountaintop oh oh oh

I got some wild, wild life

I got some news to tell ya oh oh

About some wild, wild life"......

[1968Hoya46]

W O L 😧 Harry Chapin

[BeatleloverKT]

DJ got us fallin' in love by Usher

[1968Hoya46]

All American Boy: Bill Parsons (Bobby Bare) (I'm gonna make you a star, put you on Bandstand, buy ya a Cadillac).

[BeatleloverKT]

That's why God made the radio by the Beach Boys 

"That's why God made the radio

So tune right in, everywhere you go

He waved his hand, gave us rock 'n roll

The soundtrack of falling in love

That's why God made the radio"......

[1968Hoya46]

Alley Oop: Hollywood Argyles (there's a man in the funny papers we all know).

[BeatleloverKT]

Top of the Pops by the Kinks

"I've just come in at number 25

I'm so happy, so glad to be alive

And everybody says it's going to get to the top

Life is so easy when your record's hot"......

[DMAFl]

One of the best songs on this very long thread along with it's companion piece The Money Go Round. The Kinks/the Davies imo are incomparable and in a league all their own 

[BeatleloverKT]

The last DJ by Tom Petty

"And there goes the last DJ

Who plays what he wants to play

And says what he wants to say

Hey hey hey

And there goes your freedom of choice

There goes the last human voice

And there goes the last DJ"......

[MaVolta]

I Saw Your Picture in the Paper - The Statler Brothers

[BeatleloverKT]

New friend request by Gym Class Heroes

"Click approve! Gimme some kind of sign to let me know it's time to make my move 

Click approve! Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose"......

[MaVolta]

You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover - Bo Diddly

[BeatleloverKT]

Jools and Jim by Pete Townsend

"Typewriter tappers

You're all just crappers

You listen to love with your intellect

A4 pushers

You're all just cushions

Morality ain't measured in a room"......

[BeatleloverKT]

21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion

"Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy

I don't know how to live but I got a lot of toys

My daddy's lazy middle class intellectual 

My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual

Ain't life a mystery, yeah?"......

[1968Hoya46]

Hurricane: Dylan (And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride).

[BeatleloverKT]

Ebay by Weird Al Yankovic. I know it's not a rock song, but it's a perfect choice for this post. The video is hysterical and it's set to "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys. Please watch for a good laugh 😂

[MaVolta]

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@BeatleloverKT wrote:

Ebay by Weird Al Yankovic. I know it's not a rock song, but it's a perfect choice for this post. The video is hysterical and it's set to "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys. Please watch for a good laugh 😂

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Love it!! That's a good one, for sure! 

(doesn't have to be rock, all genres, etc, okay w/me)

[BeatleloverKT]

Get over it by the Eagles

"I turn on the tube and what do I see

A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"

They point their crooked little fingers at everybody else

Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves

Victim of this, victim of that

Your momma's too thin, your daddy's too fat

Get over it, get over it"......

[MaVolta]

Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine - S&G

We can end your daily strife
At a reasonable price
You've seen it advertised in Life
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine

[BeatleloverKT]

selfie#theinternetisforever by Brad Paisley

"You oughta be ashamed, of your selfie

Now why you gotta go and tweet it?

When you really oughta just delete it

Now we all wanna unsee it but we can't 

You oughta be ashamed (but you're not)"......