Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere

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  General Comment:I think the major portion of this song is just talking about how hard it is to find music that 'speaks'. Most of it lacks meaning and feeling, especially with regards to instruments. Music should make you feel emotion, rather than be a meaningless drone on the edge of your hearing. I find that a lot of music fades into the background and only some of it manages to engage me.

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  General Comment:Gotta love how it starts with "Is there anybody alive out there?"....love how he includes that because if you've EVER been lucky enough to see him live, he always tosses that line out to the audience...has been doing it for 30 years at least. Sense of humor...yep.

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  General Comment:Its definitely about the state of radio nowadays. Bruce was a mainstay on AOR radio back in the day. (Album Oriented Rock) Independent radio stations that played a "mish-mash" of styles of rock. Very experimental. It was the 70's and 80's alternative to mindless pop radio. Disc jockeys were even given leeway to play stuff from their own collections. It wasnt corporate based radio.
  
  Anyway Bruce is saying we have the technolgy to receive radio from a satelite now, but there is still nothing worth listening to. Satelite radio is mostly genre based, so it is probably a statement against that too.

  Flag DaphneMon November 27, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:The song is definitely catchy, but the hook is the same as the opening lick of 8675309 (with a lot more distortion).

  Flag anacson October 06, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:At first i thought this was part of his old stuff. OMG i didnt realize he still had it.
  Another Great Song From The Boss!

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  General Comment:I think this song tells us about those moments you are alone, stuck, and you are nowhere. With that in mind, it's about having contact with people, actual contact and not speaking through radio waves. It's about wanting to hear that rhythem, those drums pounding, that feeling! It's about finding that feeling, it's right before that, that feeling of anxiety, and of loneliness when you just want to feel whatever you can. You want to feel it because sometimes our culture is stuck in a radio, stuck in that broadcast, that constant nowhere. We just want to feel that rhythem...Common human feeling

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  General Comment:I think this song tells us about those moments you are alone, stuck, and you are nowhere. With that in mind, it's about having contact with people, actual contact and not speaking through radio waves. It's about wanting to hear that rhythem, those drums pounding, that feeling! It's about finding that feeling, it's right before that, that feeling of anxiety, and of loneliness when you just want to feel whatever you can. You want to feel it because sometimes our culture is stuck in a radio, stuck in that broadcast, that constant nowhere. We just want to feel that rhythem...Common human feeling

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  General Comment:He's lamenting the spoiled products and sour prospects of postmodern America's pursuit of "liberty".

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  General Comment:Springsteen (from Rolling Stone magazine, November 1, 2007): "It's an end-of-the-world scenario - he's seeing the apocalypse. All communications are down. That's my business, that's what it's all about - trying to connect to you. It comes down to trying to make people happy, feel less lonely, but also being a conduit for a dialogue about the events of the day, the issues that impact people's lives, personal and social and political and religious. That's how I always saw the job of our band."

  Flag lolazon February 12, 2008   Link

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    Yes, this sounds like a kind of "hell on earth" in the end:
    
    I was spinning round a dirt dive
    Just another lost number in a file
    Dancing down a dark hole
    Just searching for a world with some soul
    
    I was driving through the misty rain
    Just searching for a mystery train
    Bopping through the wild gloom
    Trying to make a connection with you
    
    
    sounds very dark, they're a lost number in a file, destruction of your life, depressing, lonely and they hear nothing...Radio Nowhere and they want to hear something...anything.
    

    Flag soulfreedomon August 28, 2010  
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  General Comment:I think this song is about the state of the world! How careless we have all become! We only care about ourselves!

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