rdo wrote: 

This sequence is for the folks who were about to say how the Ramones have no real influence on modern music.....oops!
 

That's two in a row... are we going to get Queen's "Radio gaga" next?
 

Another great mix from Bill! - I'm stealing this one.

Ramones, Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio into this song, works fantastically !

 ziakut wrote: 
Yes needs 'Toni Basil'' to come in on the chorus lol

Normally like Elvis Costello...but I just find this a bit inane and annoying.

 rdo wrote: 
EC does it all, including this, which I consider at a fringe of his output (not necessarily the fringe where I want to be).

Okay, I've changed my mind. It sounds more like someone is squeezing a rat.

Total crap.
 

 Bartho wrote: 
I think It's the background singers whispering "Listen, listen" but I prefer your version.

 msymmes wrote: 
Rama has good acoustics? Srsly?

thank christ,,, music to wake me up and get me moving....... 

I want to bite the hand that feeds me.....I want to bit that hand so badly!
Gotta love that inflatable mattress sound !!! 

I think a bird got stuck in my left speaker!

I love these "radio" sets on RP.

Godlike !!!!!

One of the few tens in my books.

 

Ray-o, ray-o.

 lemmoth wrote: 
Saw EC with the Attractions in the early 80s and, man, that was indeed one tight and polished band. Severely under-rated.

 lemmoth wrote: 

He is brilliant.  I would put him in a very exclusive class with Pete Townshend, David Byrne,  Leonard Cohen.    Who else?  

I'd love a ticket to see him at Casino Rama, here, just north of Toronto shortly.   Not your average Casino venue - this place has fantastic acoustics.  I think he will blow the roof off the place.

 

Possibly his best work ever.  But too much other good stuff followed right up until this day to really proclaim that this, his first anthem, is really  his best.

 

 PA1749 wrote:  And yet to me it sounds like the beginnings of one of the tightest and powerful bands on the planet - EC and the Attractions, and one of the most brilliant lyricist and expressive vocalists of the last 40 years.

Brilliant song that summarizes what horrible crap commercial radio always tried to sell us.  I wish RP was around in '78 - Bill is not a "fool trying to aneasthesize the way that we feel" - that's for sure.

 Bone wrote: 
Sounds like the sound small woodland creatures make when my cats catch one, bring it in the house and "play" with it. And yes, we do our best to repatriate them to the outdoors.

 cc_rider wrote: 

Revered by critics, reviled by unbelievers..

 PA1749 wrote: 
totally agree! This song also sounds as retro in bad meaning of this word.2.

I try to keep an open mind, but I've never been able to connect with Costello. I guess we are just on totally different wavelengths. This just sounds like noise with really bad vocals. 1

EVERY DAMN TIME I've ever been in a band that played this live, the dance floor was

FLOODED with people... 

*Great* song... And what a set here: I Heard Ramona Sing —> Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio —> Radio, Radio... 

Wonder what's next?  Radio Ga Ga?  : )