Entertainment For Lively Minds
I'm Going To Sit Right Down And Write Myself An E-mail ...where are the songs about mobile phones?
Posted by Tony Donaghey on 11 December 2008 - 9:50am.
As the Dear Santa letters and Christmas Cards are being written it got me wondering if there are any songs about mobile phones, e-mail and myspace. I'm sure there's some scope for drama in a song about modern communication but does instant messaging have the same ring as Hanging On The Telephone or Please Mr. Postman do you have a letter in your bag for me or I read a blog today oh boy. Has Telegram Sam become Mobile Mick or Carphone Carl.
Tony
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A Song of Social Networking
Gym Class Heroes - New Friend Request
I'll have to check out more of these guys...
..found the video very funny.
there's this one
Just shows a clever songwriter...
...can turn anything to his lyrical advantage. Finally got a couple of Rufus CD's this weekend (Want One and Two - £2 each secondhand) just had a quicke listen in the car but liking them so far.
Roger McGuinn's
'Carphone' from "Back From Rio" is the only one I can think of off hand. From the early days of mobile communications, it features a cameo from the ditzy receptionist from the Twin Peaks Sherrif's office, which does date it slightly.
Had A Look On You Tube..
...and couldn't find it - found this though and it just broke so many rules its definately of another time.
Not actually about mobile phones, but...
To my knowledge, Goin' Mobile by The Who has never been used in an advert for mobiles, yet it's the kind of song you'd think an advertising agency would leap on. Maybe Townsend won't permit it.
Lancashire Hotpots
Met A Girl On Myspace
They also do songs about Ebay, mobile phones, firewalls and sat nav. Typical subjects for simple 21st century Lancashire folk.
Super Furry Animals
Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home) from their Guerilla album is amazing; manic and completely bonkers.
Search it out if you can.
I love the way they uses that 'nokia tune' in it
The little classical guitar part that nokia use as ad jingles and ringtones appears right through the song, with typically great super furry squelchy noises.
Willie Nile
Cell Phones Ringing (In the Pockets Of The Dead)
From Streets of New York. Which is rather good.
Virgin Killer
All that fuss about Virgin Killer - a song about an aggravating lack of network coverage.
Mr Bailey is entertaining on the matter......