AM Radio -- Everclear

The VCR and the DVD There wasn't none of that crap Back in 1970
We didn't know about A world wide web It was a whole different game being played Back when I was a kid You wanna get down In a cool way?
Just picture yourself on a beautiful day  With the big bell bottoms
And groovy long hair Justa walking in style  With a portable CD player

No...you would listen  To the music on The AM radio
you could hear the music  The AM radio

Flashback to '72 Another summer in the neighborhood  hanging out with nothing to do Sometimes  We'd go driving around In my sister's Pinto
Cruisin' with the windows rolled down We'd listen to the radio station
We were too damn poor To buy the 8 track tapes
There wasn't any good time To want to be inside
My mom would want to watch that TV all night

I'd be in bed with the radio on I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song You'd have to wait
But you could hear it  On the AM radio  you could hear the music
On the AM radio  I can still hear mama say  "Boy...Turn that radio down!"

Things changed back in '75  We were all growing up On the in
And the outside We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted Getting high In the back of my friend's van

I remember 1977  I started going to concerts  And I saw the Led Zeppelin
I got a guitar On a Christmas day  I dreamed that Jimmy Page
Would come to Santa Monica And teach me to play
There isn't any other place that I need to go  There isn't anything that I need
to know  That I did not learn from the radio

Yeah when things get stupid  And I just don't know Where to find my happy
I listen to the music From the AM radio  I like pop and I like soul
I like rock  But I never liked disco
We like pop...We like soul  We like to rock  But we never liked disco
I never liked disco...no I never liked disco

This was inspired by lead singer Art Alexakis' childhood growing up in a black neighborhood. He was exposed to black and white music because the AM stations played it all.    (songfacts)