BANDS WITH ELECTRONIC/RADIO ETC NAMES...

[ve6pg]

..hi from tim...i came across an old recording, dating back to 1979-80...the song is titled "i'm tired of waking up tired"...the band was a local band, in the toronto area, called  "THE DIODES"... ok, maybe you see where i'm going with this...can you name other bands who called themselves in a similar manner?...sk..

[kf6pqt]

Not fitting the pattern, but I always thought "Methyl Ethyl and the Ketones" would be a good one...

[AF9J]

That's easy:

Bands:  1. Radiohead
           2. a now defunct regional band called Mike Roe & the Waves (microwaves)
           3.  The Tubes

Albums: 1.  Sammy Hagar - VOA (Voice of America)
            2.  Pat Travers - Radioactive

Songs:  1.  REM -"What's Your Frequency Kenneth?" (I hate that song - it's so dumb)
           2.  Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Radio Radio"
           3.  The Clash - "This is Radio Clash"
           4.  Queen - "Radio Gaga"
           5.  The Tubes - "The TV Song" (I saw them perform it live on the old
                                  Midnight Special, it was weird in a cool sort of way)
           6.  Rage Against The Machine - "Guerilla Radio"

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[WU2D]

Here we go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9FMoElCoU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ry2QikE__Jw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxIA2_BVBM&search=radio%204%20enemies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccawbAgE9WQ

Mike WU2D

[KF1Z]

ELO  (Electric Light Orchestra)

The Electric Prunes

Tesla (not quite... but relevant?)

AC/DC

Electric Banana Band

Electric Vomit

Electric Six

Electric Death

The 3D Electric Blues Band

City Electric

Magnolia Electric Co.


Electric Earl

Electric Frankenstein

Joy Electric






album names....

The Flaming Lips.... .....Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.
Mannyman........................High Radio Frequency Level
The Circus of Dreams Transmits From Slambovia.............Finding the Frequency



My Word, the list goes on and on and on....!!!
I only came up with the first myself.... the rest are "google-ized"

Of course.... most stray away from what Tim's post was asking......

BUT FUN!!

[AF9J]

Ah geez!  How could I forget AC/DC?  I was even in a band, that did "Sin City" by them.  Oh the humanity! 

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[WD8BIL]

On the construction side was; Phil Dirt and the Dozers !

Really "filled" a joint when they played !

[k4kyv]

Radioactivity
.-. .- -.. .. --- .- -.-. - .. ...- .. - -..--
[R A D I O A C T I V I T Y ]

Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me

Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie

Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody

Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me

Morse:
Radioactivity is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity discovered by madame curie
Radioactivity tune in to the ... Kraftwerk

Radio Aktivität
Für dich und mich in All entsteht
(=For you and me in Space comes into being)

Radio Aktivität
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät
(=Sends waves to the receiver)

Radio Aktivität
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht
(=When its about our future)

Morse:
Radioactivity is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity discovered by madame curie
Radioactivity tune in to the ... Kraftwerk

Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me

Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie

Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody

Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me

Radioland
Drehen wir am Radiophon Vernehmen wir den Sendeton

Durch Tastendrück mit Blitzesschnelle... (click-clack)
Erreichen wir die Kürze Welle

Nach Feineinstellung mit der Hand
Lauschen wir dem Morseband
Elektronenklänge aus dem Radioland

Turn the dials with your hand
Till you find the short wave band
Electronic music sounds from Radioland

Translation:
We are turning dials of the Radiophone
We notice the carrier wave

Through the key-spring-counterforce with lightning speed... (click-clack)
We reach the short wave band

After fine tuning by hand
We are listening to the Morse band
Electron-sounds from Radioland

Airwaves

When airwaves swing
Distant voices sing

Wenn Wellen schwingen
Ferne Stimmen singen

News

Hier ist der Westdeutsche Rundfunk mit Nachrichten
Fünfzig Atomkraftwerke sollen in der Bundesrepublik
In den nachsten zehn Jahren errrichtet werden
Jedes Einzelne kann einen Millionenstadt mit Strom versorgen

Der Norddeutsche Rundfunk sendet Nachrichten
Weltweit sind nun schon 355 Atomreaktoren in Betrieb oder im Bau
Nach dem Planziel sollen es um die Jahrtausendwende bereits mehr als 2000 sein

Die derzeit bekannten Uranvorkommen reichen gerade aus,
die schon im Betrieb oder im Bau befindlichen Reaktoren
für eine Betriebszeit von 40 Jahren zu versorgen

Translation:

Here is the West German Broadcasting Station with the news
Fifty nuclear power stations will be built in the West German Republic
In the next ten years
Each one can supply a city of millions with power

Here is the West German Broadcasting Service with the news
Fifty nuclear power stations will be built in the West German Republic
In the next ten years
Each one can supply a city of millions with power

The North German Broadcasting Service with the news
In the whole world 355 nuclear powerstations are operational or being built
According to plans there will be 2000 at the turn of the century.

The now known supplies of uranium just suffice to operate the
already operational and reactors under construction for a period
of 40 years.

The Voice Of Energy

Hier spricht die Stimme der Energie
Ich bin ein riesiger elektrischer Generator
Ich liefere Ihnen Licht und Kraft
Und ermögliche es Ihnen Sprache, Musik und Bild
Durch den Äther auszusenden und zu empfangen
Ich bin Ihr Diener und Ihr Herr zugleich
Deshalb hütet mich gut
Mich, den Genius der Energie

(=
This is the Voice of Energy
I am a giant electrical generator
I supply you with light and power
And I enable you to receive speech,
Music and image through the ether
I am your servant and lord at the same time
Therefore guard me well
Me, the genius of Energy)

Antenna
I'm the Antenna
Catching vibration
You're the transmitter
Give information!

Wir richten Antennen ins Firmament (=We're aiming antennae to the sky)
Empfängen die Töne die Niemand kennt (=Receiving tones no one knows)

I'm the transmitter
I give information
You're the antenna
Catching vibration

Es Strahlen die Sender Bild, Ton und Wort
Elektromagnetisch an jeden Ort
(=The transmitters send image, sound and speech)
(=Electromagnetically to every town)

I'm the Antenna
Catching vibration
You're the transmitter
Give information!

Radio Sender und Hörer sind wir (=We're radio transmitters and receivers)
Spielen im Äther das Wellenklavier (=Playing the waves-keyboard in the Ether)

I'm the antenna catching vibration
You're the transmitter give information
I'm the transmitter I give information
You're the antenna catching vibration

Radio Stars
Aus des Weltalls Ferne (=From the deeps of space)
Funken Radiosterne (=Radio stars are transmitting)

Pulsare und Quasare (=Pulsars and Quasars)

Uranium
Through constant decay
Uranium creates the radio active ray

Durch stetigen Zerfall
Entstehen radioaktive Strahlen aus dem Urankristall

Ohm Sweet Ohm
Ohm, sweet Ohm

Rick Jansen, rja@euronet.nl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaScyfSHc-Y&mode=related&search=

[Tom WA3KLR]

KF1Z mentioned the group named TESLA.

I spotted a Tesla CD while shopping for a CD one time.  I just dug out the CD; copyright is 1989. 

I didn't know the group at all but had to buy the album after being intrigued by the Tesla name and the name of the album is "The Great Radio Controversy".  When I got it home and played it I found it was hard rock, not my cup of tea.

But the cover illustration is a sepia-toned photo of a boy with headphones on listening to a loose coupler or perhaps a tube set (no tubes visible though).  In the list of credits is "Management: Q Prime, Inc."

Inside at each page binding area is a light gray schematic oriented vertically.  It appears to be an all-American 5 receiver design - 12SK7 r.f., 12SA7 converter, 12SK7 i.f., 12SQ7 det/audio, 35L6 audio output.

On page 6 of the insert is this text:
"In October of 1942, the United States Supreme Court entered into The Great Radio Controversy.  Though the invention of radio had long been attributed to Guglielmo Marconi, the Supreme Court justices were intrigued by patent records and scientific publications which pointed to Nikola Tesla as radio's true creator.

In June of 1943, the Court decided that Nikola Tesla had, in fact, invented modern radio technology.  Ruling that Marconi's patents were invalid and had been "anticipated".  Tesla was vindicated - though far from victorious.  Some 5 months earlier, alone and destitute in a New York hotel room, the great inventor had died.  His papers and notes were seized by the United States Alien Property Office, and are now housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia."

Some radio album huh?

[AF9J]

Yeah, I remember Tesla. I even bought that album (it was their first one), when I graduated college in 1987.  I saw them live once.  Kind of a boring group.  Generic hard rock/metal.  If I remember right, the album liner notes even mentioned the controversy over whether or not Nikola Tesla invented radio.

73,
Ellen

[Ed KB1HVS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVzoDM4rzb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1RTAft_B8


 Thomas Dolby. The Golden age of Wireless

[KB2WIG]

Hallicrafters (USA)

Hallicrafters (2000)

Ambient minimalism with hints of Tangerine Dream and Philip Glass from the duo of Brian Locklin and Wes French (Texas, USA).

[W1GFH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVzoDM4rzb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1RTAft_B8


 Thomas Dolby. The Golden age of Wireless

Thomas Dolby's "Radio Silence" music video: seeing him sing into a D 104 was worth it...

[KF1Z]

Yeah, I remember Tesla. I even bought that album (it was their first one), when I graduated college in 1987.  I saw them live once.  Kind of a boring group.  Generic hard rock/metal.  If I remember right, the album liner notes even mentioned the controversy over whether or not Nikola Tesla invented radio.

73,
Ellen

Their First album was "Mechanical Resonance".....
Yes they named themselves after Nicola Tesla....

YES, they were average, at best...

As were most bands in the 80's

[W1RKW]

I was going to suggest a fitting band for this boatanchor AM website would have been "The Tubes" but Ellen beat me to it.

Wall of Voo Doo - Mexican Radio

Technical Difficulty - one of my former bands.

[Avery W3AVE]

The Nixies, a group in California. I've got three of their T-shirts--three different colors with silkscreened Nixie tubes on the front. I passed along an old freq counter to a mutual friend to give to them. He said they were going to put it on stage when they perform. Best use for that crappy counter I could think of.

[K3ZS]

The Ramones - "Rock and Roll Radio"

[AF9J]

Hallicrafters (USA)

Hallicrafters (2000)

Ambient minimalism with hints of Tangerine Dream and Philip Glass from the duo of Brian Locklin and Wes French (Texas, USA).

Funkee!!!  A band named after the company that made my SX-96.  Cool.

Oh, speaking of Electric Frankenstein and the Tubes.  There is a convergence of sorts between those two groups.  I have an EP by Electric Frankenstein.  On it there's a cool cover of an old Tubes song called "I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk".

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[KB2WIG]

as many as u want

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Radio Flyer

[Rob K2CU]

There was this British detective/mystery show, aptly named "Morse" about one Inspector Morse. Few ever noticed that the basic music line in the theme song (instrumental) spelled out M O R S E in Morse code.

Ellen, you forgot Donna Summer's "On the Radio"

[AF9J]

You're right about that!  Silly me!  One of her few decent songs too!

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

I saw a music video once about 10 years ago. It was by some country music group, but I don't recall the name. Anyway, the video's story line was that the group took over a radio station (a very old buzzardly Deco-ish styled one) out in the middle of nowhere and were playing live in the studio. The FCC was moving in on them. The last scene was the band going out the back door, while the FCC was coming through the front. Anyone else ever seen this video?

[Glenn NY4NC]

"Mister Radio"  (Linda Ronstadt)

[WD8BIL]

The 5 Americans did Western Union Man with the recognizable
Da dida dida   Da dida dida .......
 T    A    A  -  T    A     A

Course the song's about him getting a western union from his .....
immediatly future EX girl friend.

Taa Taa dude !!