Songs with the sound of a radio being tuned to different stations

[Garden Dreamer]

The opening track on the new Iluvatar album has the sound of a radio tuning to different stations, and I know this has been done throughout the years. Off the top of my head, the opening of Be Bop Deluxe's "Modern Music" has a radio being tuned to different stations, all of which play snippets of different BBD songs (in between static). I can't think of any others now but I kinda recall Pink Floyd doing this and maybe a couple of other bands.

[gryphs also]

I first thought of Modern Music (love the whole suite) and then Detroit Rock City by KISS.

[davis]

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Tony Adams

[Progbear]

Thirsty Moon: “Lovers on the Run”

A whole bunch of John Cage pieces (Variations IV, for example) feel like they are comprised entirely of this. Some of them actually are comprised entirely of this!

[ThomasKDye]

Genesis - "Shipwrecked"

It Bites - "Man in the Photograph"

[PeterG]

There's one at the start of The Wall.

[arabicadabra]

Baby Won't You Let Me Rock And Roll You by Ten Years After.....

[mogrooves]

ELO - "Mr. Radio"
(John Cage - "Imaginary Landscapes #4" for twelve radios)

[Garden Dreamer]

There's one at the start of The Wall.

Ah, I knew I remember hearing one somewhere on a PF song.

[-=RTFR666=-]

Wish You Were Here...

[Duncan Glenday]

Pain Of Salvation - "Be".

There's a silly skit with a boyfriend making puerile and inappropriate requests of his girlfriend while - as Daniel Gildenlow described it to me - a radio talk show is playing in the background exploring philosophical issues. (It's the contrast, you see!).

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[Duncan Glenday]

Forgive me if I get this wrong (and I don't have the album with me now, as I'm out-of-state on a business trip) - but doesn't Man On Fire's Habitat feature the sound of a radio being tuned to different stations..?

[Digital_Man]

Wish You Were Here...

First one I thought of.

[klothos]

ELO - "Mr. Radio"

and also Mr. Blue Sky

[soundsweird]

Eno on his 2nd solo LP "Taking Tiger Mountain", I think at the beginning of "China My China"...

[-=RTFR666=-]

First one I thought of.

If I'm not mistaken, the Wall intro prior to In the Flesh is not a radio broadcast contrary to what was posted earlier. It is a loop of audio - solo clarinet plus spoken word - which is continuation from the end of Outside the Wall; the voice is not a radio voice but the second half of Roger asking "Isn't this where we came in at?" The first half of the snippet is the outro at the very end of Outside the Wall. The second half of the snippet is the intro prior to the start of In the Flesh. (and of course all of the remaining audio throughout the Wall are TV broadcasts...)

[Digital_Man]

^ I agree. I didn't think the part from the Wall was from a radio either. It is interesting how it connects the beginning with the end of the album though creating one continuous loop(ie the "isn't this where......we came in)but I'm getting off topic here. Is there radio sounds on Roger Water's radio kaos album? I've only heard the full album once and I don't remember.

[emperorken]

The beginning of the title track from IQ's album "Frequency".

[Halmyre]

Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Burn It Down".

David Bowie's "Station To Station". I know it sounds like a steam train, but I have read an article which says it can be interpreted as a radio tuning between stations.

[happytheman]

If I'm not mistaken, the Wall intro prior to In the Flesh is not a radio broadcast contrary to what was posted earlier. It is a loop of audio - solo clarinet plus spoken word - which is continuation from the end of Outside the Wall; the voice is not a radio voice but the second half of Roger asking "Isn't this where we came in at?" The first half of the snippet is the outro at the very end of Outside the Wall. The second half of the snippet is the intro prior to the start of In the Flesh. (and of course all of the remaining audio throughout the Wall are TV broadcasts...)

Beginning of Final Cut album either has TV news broadcast or Radio not sure which..

[GuitarGeek]

I believe there's radio tuning used in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen, or at least something that sounds like it's supposed to be simulating that. His piece Kurzwellen also makes extensive use of shortwave radios, though I don't know if you actually hear them being tuned during the piece.

[walt]

The Kinks-Around The Dial

[PeterG]

Wish You Were Here...

Ok, maybe it's that I was thinking of and not The Wall.

[walt]

AMM III-Radio Activity(Keith Rowe uses a transistor radio)

[PeterG]

Expanding the thread a little bit, no need really for a new thread. The sound of a person on a telephone (NOT a telephone ringing)

Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line - moaning "oh" on the phone from 0.19 then at 0.33 says "you're not there" then hangs up at 0.36


Marillion - He Knows You Know - at the end you hear a phone ringing, then a woman's voice on the phone and Fish screams "Don't give me your problems!"