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scott
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response 48 of 141:
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Nov 30 00:55 UTC 1999 |
Anybody got any *real* computer songs yet?
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gnat
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response 49 of 141:
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Nov 30 01:52 UTC 1999 |
There's a Momus song about a girl and her iMac (told from the point of
view of the iMac).
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orinoco
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response 50 of 141:
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Nov 30 02:25 UTC 1999 |
(Momus is sounding more and more intriguing the more song summaries I hear)
There are plenty of evil-computer prog rock songs, notably bits of Rush's 2112
and ELP's Karn Evil Nine. Of course, you can argue that those aren't *real*
computers, so it's not a *real* computer song.
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goose
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response 51 of 141:
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Nov 30 17:28 UTC 1999 |
It's all about the Pentiums
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gnat
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response 52 of 141:
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Nov 30 23:13 UTC 1999 |
re. #50, I can't really endorse Momus - he's clever but very smirky
and irritating. Proceed at your own risk... :)
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keesan
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response 53 of 141:
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Dec 1 18:07 UTC 1999 |
Songs about watching TV? Listening to radio?
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gnat
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response 54 of 141:
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Dec 1 22:25 UTC 1999 |
"Radio, Radio," by Elvis Costello! That's the only radio song
you need. :)
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mcnally
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response 55 of 141:
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Dec 1 22:48 UTC 1999 |
"the radio is in the hands
of such a lot of fools trying to
anaesthetize the way that you feel.."
Man, I miss the days when Elvis was bitter, as opposed to just cranky..
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orinoco
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response 56 of 141:
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Dec 1 23:26 UTC 1999 |
"Video Killed the Radio Star" gives you radio and TV in one fell swoop. Joni
Mitchell did one called "You Turn Me On: I'm A Radio". Simon and Garfunkel
did a version of "Silent Night" with radio news coverage of a murder (I think)
playing in the background.
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tpryan
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response 57 of 141:
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Dec 1 23:31 UTC 1999 |
Michael Mesmith did "Eldorodo to the Moon" also.
Frank's 27 foot TV.
Almost any song with 'radio' in it seems to get played by
radio stations and become popular.
Before Cindi gets to it, I can find two tunes about King Tut
and a couple about Black Holes.
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mcnally
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response 58 of 141:
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Dec 2 00:22 UTC 1999 |
re #56: Simon and Garfunkel's "7 O'Clock News / Silent Night"
(on their "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme" album) features a
newscast reporting on the war in Viet Nam and announcing the
death of Lenny Bruce..
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bruin
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response 59 of 141:
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Dec 2 00:48 UTC 1999 |
RE #57 I do remember the Steve Martin song "King Tut," but I'm unaware of what
the second King Tut song was.
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gnat
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response 60 of 141:
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Dec 2 04:31 UTC 1999 |
There's a band called the Music Tapes whose main guy is obsessed with
the notion that televisions are actually aliens who are watching us
(as opposed to the other way around). The band does several songs
about televisions and their live show apparently features a TV named
Static who is a fully-fledged member of the band and somehow "sings"
some of the songs.
Sounds intriguing, doesn't it? Unfortunately, as is often the case
with "high-concept" bands, the music kinda sucks.
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mcnally
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response 61 of 141:
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Dec 2 06:46 UTC 1999 |
It may just be that I've seen too many such bands but that doesn't
even sound particularly intriguing..
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otaking
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response 62 of 141:
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Dec 2 13:41 UTC 1999 |
"I Bought A Mexican Radio" is another radio song. I can't remember the band's
name though.
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bruin
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response 63 of 141:
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Dec 2 14:33 UTC 1999 |
RE #62 "Mexican Radio" was recorded by Wall of Voodoo. It was their only hit.
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bmoran
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response 64 of 141:
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Dec 2 15:06 UTC 1999 |
Yea, but it kicked ass.
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dbratman
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response 65 of 141:
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Dec 2 22:49 UTC 1999 |
Mild surprise that C.Keesan's mention in #39 of hot-air balloons didn't
produce an earlier reference to a dreadful, but memorable (dreadfully
memorable? memorably dreadful?) bubblegum pop song of circa 1970 that
began "Would you like a ride in my beautiful balloon?"
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mcnally
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response 66 of 141:
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Dec 2 23:26 UTC 1999 |
(Perhaps you're thinking of "Up, Up and Away"? If memory serves
I think that was by Marilyn McKoo and the Fifth Dimension, but as
I've tried to expunge all memory of it, I could easily be wrong..)
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bruin
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response 67 of 141:
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Dec 3 03:21 UTC 1999 |
The song about the "beautiful balloon" was indeed "Up Up And Away" by
the Fifth Dimension. The song came out in 1967.
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carson
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response 68 of 141:
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Dec 3 03:56 UTC 1999 |
("Radio Song" by R.E.M. & KRS-One.)
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orinoco
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response 69 of 141:
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Dec 3 04:54 UTC 1999 |
That sounds like an interesting collaboration....where does the song appear?
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mcnally
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response 70 of 141:
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Dec 3 05:32 UTC 1999 |
"Radio Song" is a good track. it's on the "Out of Time" album.
["Out of Time" was the last R.E.M. album I enjoyed.
"Monster" was the last one I bought,
and I don't think I'll even bother to check future ones
out of the library after "Up" ]
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scott
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response 71 of 141:
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Dec 3 12:33 UTC 1999 |
Public Enemy has a tune called "How to Kill a Radio Consultant".
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tpryan
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response 72 of 141:
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Dec 3 23:18 UTC 1999 |
Soon after the initial opening up Kit Tut's tomb in ?1922?,
the media was wild with Tut fever. A pair of fellows, known as
"The Happiness Boys" had a song out within weeks after the discovery
of all of Tut's loot. Steve Martin was about 50 years later, again
playing on Tut fever, as the treasures where touring America.
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