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

[DarcyFarrow]

Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo)

[BeatleloverKT]

Mr. Jones    Counting Crows:

Mentions Bob Dylan and Picasso

[DarcyFarrow]

Television Rules the Nation (Daft Punk)

[DarcyFarrow]

57 Channels (And Nothin' On) (Springsteen)

[DarcyFarrow]

Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream) (John Prine)

[DarcyFarrow]

Radio Free Moscow (Jethro Tull)

[DarcyFarrow]

No Particular Place to Go (Chuck Berry)

Crusin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go

[1968Hoya46]

My True Confession: Brook Benton (magazine).

[DarcyFarrow]

Late Night Radio (David Gray)--not to be confused with the John Denver song

"She don't mind the late night radio"

[EricC227821]

She Frickin' Blocked Me - Bob Ricci

[DarcyFarrow]

Hey Mr. DJ (Zhane)

[DarcyFarrow]

Algorhythm (Childish Gambino)

[DarcyFarrow]

Dream TV (Bjork)

[DarcyFarrow]

TV (Tubes)

[DarcyFarrow]

Telecide (Tubes)

[DarcyFarrow]

TV is King (Tubes)

[DarcyFarrow]

Angie Baby (Helen Reddy)

"You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio"

[1968Hoya46]

Front Page Story: Neil Diamond

[DarcyFarrow]

7 O'clock News (Simon & Garfunkel)

[1968Hoya46]

All The Young Dudes: Mott The Hoople (Television man is crazy saying we’re juvenile delinquent wrecks).

[DarcyFarrow]

The Sun Always Shines on TV (A-ha)

[DarcyFarrow]

Found a Job (Talking Heads):  

"D--- that television what a bad picture"!
"Don't get upset, it's not a major disaster".
"There's nothing on tonight", he said, "I don't know what's the matter"!
"Nothing's ever on", she said, "so I don't know why you bother."

[1968Hoya46]

Along Came Jones: Coasters

[DarcyFarrow]

TV Savage (Bow Wow Wow)

[1968Hoya46]

Please Me. Disc Jockey: The Sensations (She wrote him a letter and telephoned him, with no reply. Now she asks the radio DJ to send him a dedication on her behalf)(the magical days before social media).

[JohnD131536]

No There Ain't No News Today - the Penguins

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Talk Shows On Mute"  {1984}* Incubus

Big Brother is watching you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAY4xG0ZIbs&ab_channel=RichardWong

[DarcyFarrow]

Downhill from Everywhere (Jackson Browne):

"Downhill from the news
Downhill from the sponsors and the camera crews
Downhill from the pain to lose"

[JohnD131536]

Along Came Jones - the Coasters