Have lyrics, need title... please?

March 3, 2006 1:28 PM

Probably a long shot, but Any one knows this song with lyrics something like: "Band keeps playing..... on the radio....." Sounds like Bryan Ferry or Tom petty. Kinda slow, moody. I remember knowing who did it b4, but for the life of me can't remember anymore. I was at Cosi eating lunch when i heard it.. Thanks a bunch guys...
posted by sprockett to media & arts (18 comments total)

Sounds like Deja Vu by John Fogerty
posted by kdern at 1:29 PM on March 3, 2006

David Bowie's Let's Dance?
posted by Gator at 1:30 PM on March 3, 2006

Nope, it's "Oh yeah" by Bryan Ferry.

There's a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
posted by matthewr at 1:32 PM on March 3, 2006

Roxy Music did a song called On the Radio.
posted by iconomy at 1:32 PM on March 3, 2006

"Probably a long shot"

Shirley you jest!

The song I'm thinking of is called Oh Yeah On The Radio. [/anal]
posted by iconomy at 1:34 PM on March 3, 2006

Yeah, I think the full title is "Oh Yeah (On the Radio)". Full lyrics here.
posted by matthewr at 1:35 PM on March 3, 2006

We have somehow got to stop posting the same thing at the same time, iconomy
posted by matthewr at 1:36 PM on March 3, 2006

Could be Suede's The Wild Ones...

There’s a song playing on the radio
Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show
And there’s a lifeline slipping as the record plays
And as I open the blinds in my mind I’m believing that you could stay...
posted by astruc at 1:46 PM on March 3, 2006

Maybe Static On The Radio by Jim White and Aimee Mann?
Everything I think I know is just static on the radio. Midnight rendezvous with a pretty girl, wearing a torn and tear-stained gown.
posted by patrickje at 3:08 PM on March 3, 2006

That rings bells. Emmylou Harris covered Donna Summer's "On The Radio". No mention of a band, though.

But there's something else on the tip of my tongue... Got it. Mojave 3, Love Songs on the Radio. Again, lyrics don't fit exactly, according to Google. Damn it. This is really irritating, those lyrics sounds really familiar to me.
posted by Leon at 5:50 PM on March 3, 2006

Reminds me of Bowie too. "Let's dance, to the song they're playin' on the radio." (My least-favorite Bowie phase, by the way; I loved "Scary Monsters", especially the title cut).

On "Let's Dance" the vocal delivery is slow and moody, but the music isn't. Bowie gets "witty" like that sometimes.

Or maybe you mean Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio, my own favorite radio-mentioning tune?
posted by davy at 7:51 PM on March 3, 2006

Rod Stewart - Having a Party ?

That popped into my head the moment I read this post.
posted by CrayDrygu at 8:03 PM on March 3, 2006

Minor clarification, but I don't think "Oh Yeah" was ever recorded by Bryan Ferry. Ferry performed it live as a solo artist, but the version you want is probably from the Flesh and Blood album, and was a UK hit for Roxy Music.
posted by mediareport at 8:44 PM on March 3, 2006

I'll go with those saying "Oh Yeah", by Roxy. Marvellous song.
posted by Decani at 5:19 AM on March 4, 2006

Check the sample on Amazon
posted by Decani at 5:22 AM on March 4, 2006

The Load-Out, by Jackson Browne?

Now we got country and western on the bus
R&B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
We've got rural scenes & magazines
We've got truckers on the CB
We've got richard pryor on the video
We got time to think of the ones we love
While the miles roll away
But the only time that seems too short
Is the time that we get to play

Lyrically this is nowhere near a precise match, but thematically it called out to me. Just putting it out there.
posted by thejoshu at 7:16 AM on March 4, 2006

This is the closest part I can find to your lyrics, it's the chorus.

'Cause I really can't take it when they keep on playin' it
It's so unhappy and so close to home
I don't want to hear it but the singer keeps singin' that song

That one's about a thousand years old (OK, 1976) and probably not it, but it does have a soft voice feel to it. That's Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, "The Radio".
posted by unrepentanthippie at 7:58 AM on March 4, 2006

OMG!!!!!!!!!

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

Dont u just hate it when u hear a really nice song that you once knew the title of, and can't get it out of your head?

Yup, it WAS Oh Yeah by Bryan Ferry, but I didnt realize all the other suggestions were right too!!

I had NO idea just a few lyrics could spark off so many possible titles...

Thanks guys, you really really rock..
posted by sprockett at 11:33 PM on March 5, 2006