Genius Meanings
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The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
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“Video Killed the Radio Star” was inspired from the J.G. Ballard short “The Sound-Sweep.” It was written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, and was the first track
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Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club – Video Killed the Radio Star
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The original version of the song that would later become a hit by the Buggles, this version of “Video Killed the Radio Star” was recorded by songwriter Bruce Woolley along with his
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Joyce Manor – Video Killed the Radio Star
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[Verse 1] / I heard you on the wireless back in '52 / Lying awake intent on tuning in on you / If I was young it didn't stop you coming through ohoh / [Verse 2] / They took the
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Erasure – Video Killed the Radio Star
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I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two / Lying awake intent at tuning in on you / If I was young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh / They took the credit for your
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Custard – Video Killed the Radio Star
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[Verse 1: David McCormack] / I heard you on the wireless back in '52 / Lying awake, intently tuning in on you / Though I was young, it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh-a
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Billy Cobb – Video Killed The Radio Star
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[Spoken] / This cover will save the world and get rid of every single problem that exists / [Verse 1] / I heard you on the wireless back in '52 / Lying awake, intently tuning in on
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Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club – Video Killed the Radio Star Samples
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See all of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Morgan Harper-Jones – Video Killed the Radio Star
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I heard you on the wireless back in '52 / Lying awake, intently tuning in on you / If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh-a / They took the credit for your
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Ben Folds Five – Video Killed the Radio Star
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I heard you on my wireless back in fifty two / Lying awake intently tuning in on you / If I were young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh / They took the credit for your
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Asia – Video Killed the Radio Star (Live)
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I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two / Laying awake intent on tuning in on you / If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through / Oh, ah, oh / They took your credit for
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The Limousines – Internet Killed the Video Star
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This song is a 2010 electronic dance music revision of the song “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles, the first music video on MTV that foretold the end of the radio era
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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (Ft. Cunio) – Video Killed the Radio Star
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A spiritual successor to the movie Singin' in the Rain, which was about how the rise of what were known as “talking pictures” wrecked the careers of those talented silent film
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Johnny Yukon – Video Killed The Radio Star
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[Intro] / Oh-a, oh-a / Oh-a, oh-a, oh-ah / Oh-a, oh-a, oh-ah / [Verse 1] / I heard you on my wireless back in '52 / Lying awake, intently tuning in on you / If I was young, it didn
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The Buggles – Clean, Clean
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Pogo Johnny kicked me in the head / Aimin' for the floorboards, but they picked me up instead / Through the ringing of the night before / Said
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Ariel Pink – Time to Live
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A song about the need to live in the now and be prepared for death. The verses borrow the melody to Buggles' “Video Killed The Radio Star”.
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Drop Dead, Gorgeous – (The) Internet Killed the Video Star
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The title is a clear play on words on The Buggles' superhit Video Killed the Radio Star (1979).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Flash forward 30 years, now technology
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Amber Pacific – Video Killed the Radio Star
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I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two / Lying awake intent at tuning it on you / If I was young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh / They took the credit for your
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Jimmy Fallon – Hammertime
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[Spoken Intro] / But I realized that you could sing, you could sing any 80's song / Over "U Can't Touch This". Uh, listen: / ["You Can't Touch This" playing in background] / Don't
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Ken Laszlo – Video Killed The Radio Star
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I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two / Lying awake intent at tuning in on you / If I was young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh / They took the credit for your
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Regurgitator – Black Bugs
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[Verse 1] / I got killed by black bugs on my video game / Then I go to myself "it doesn't mean too much" / I keep dying and dying over and over again / But I feel I'm alive, so I'
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The Buggles – Elstree
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The fourth and last single from the Buggle’s The Age of Plastic album, “Elstree” is a tribute to the film studio of the same name, following a current BBC staff member remembering
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Parvati Khan – Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
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Jimmy Aaja Aaja Aaja Jimmy Aaja Aaja Aaja / Aaja re mere saath / Yeh jaage jaage raat / Pukare tujhe sun / Suna de wohi dhun / Jimmy Aaja Aaja Aaja Jimmy Aaja Aaja Aaja / Aaja re
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The Feeling – Video Killed The Radio Star
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I heard you on the wireless back in '52 / I'd lie awake intent in tuning in on you / If I was young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh, oh / They took the credit for your
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