12/14/2023

[mmerriam]

They say to write what you know, so...let's say I'm planning a story about a DJ in a small-town radio station dealing with the horrors of working the early a.m. shift. What songs about radio should be on my writing playlist? Right now, I have these songs in my listening queue:
Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
Charlie Dore – Pilot of the Airwaves
Dar Williams – Are You Out There
Grampa Jones – Turn your Radio on
Mojo Nixon – Pirate Radio
Oak Ridge Boys – My Radio Sure Sounds Good (to me)
Queen – Radio Ga Ga
R.E. M. – Radio Free Europe
The Ramones – Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio
SLF – You can’t say Crap on the Radio
The Hangdogs – Radio V-I-E-T-N-A-M
The Selector – On my Radio
Tom Petty – The Last DJ
Velvet Underground – Rock and Roll
Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
ZZ Top – Heard it on the X