Original song by: Billy Joel
Release date: 1980

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"Still Radio to Me"

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What's the matter with the rig I'm running?
Can't you tell your signal's too wide?
Maybe I should buy an HX-50?
Welcome back to the age of jive.
Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You're just a slop-bucket till you spend a lot of money.
Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new modes
Funny, but it's still radio to me.

What's the matter with the mic I'm using?
Can't you tell you sound like a schlub?
Should I get a set of new quartz crystals?
Are you gonna join the Century Club?
Nowadays you can't be too experimental
The best discoveries are still accidental.
Relays clunk, cyberpunk, even if it's old junk
It's still radio to me.

CHORUS:
Oh, it doesn't matter what they say on the web, be-
Cause the webheads never got our scene.
There's a new band on 60
But you can't get the specs from a story in a magazine...
Aimed at an unlicenced teen.

How about a set of three matched Yagis
With the main lobe aimed at France?
You could really be a Tim-tron, baby
If you just give it half a chance.
Don't waste your money on a new pair of sneakers,
You get more mileage from a cheap set of speakers.
Matched phase, half wave, tubes blaze, anyways
It's still radio to me.

(SAX INTERLUDE, THEN:) OOOOOOOooooooo!

What's the matter with the net I'm joining?
Don't you know that they're out of touch?
Should I try to be the channel master?
If you were then you'd talk too much.
Aint you gonna build a new station honey?
All you need is skill and a whole lotta money.
It's a matched phase, half wave, tubes ablaze, anyways
It's still radio to me.

OUTRO:
Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new modes
Funny, but it's still radio to me.