Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere Video and Lyrics

Radio Nowhere by Bruce Springsteen, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Radio Nowhere” is the first single released from Bruce Springsteen’s 2007 studio album Magic.
The song sounds like the 80’s hit 867-5309, but I think it’s one of the Boss’ best tunes ever !

This is not the official video, sorry guys, it’s a video put together by a fan, and it’s pretty good.

The music video for “Radio Nowhere”, directed by Thom Zimny, was released to Amazon.com on September 4, 2007. It consists mostly of Springsteen and the E Street Band lip-synching the song in a darkened studio, interspersed with filmed Manhattan street scenes and a few shots of a recent promotional photograph of Springsteen being torn. Of the E Streeters, Scialfa, Van Zandt, Weinberg, and Lofgren get the most face time in the video; quasi-member Soozie Tyrell is absent altogether.

Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere Lyrics

I was trying to find my way home

But all I heard was a drone

Bouncing off a satellite

Crushing the last lone American night

(Chorus:)

This is Radio Nowhere

Is there anybody alive out there

This is Radio Nowhere

Is there anybody alive out there

I was sitting around a dead dial

Just another lost number in a file

Dancing down a dark hole (some say it’s �Been in some kind of dark cove�)

Just a-searching for a world with some soul

(Chorus)

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I want a thousand guitars

I want pounding drums

I want a million different voices

Speaking in tongues

(Chorus)

I was driving through the misty rain

Just a-searching for a mystery train

Bopping through the wild blue

Trying to make a connection with you

(Chorus)

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I just wanna hear some rhythm

I just wanna hear your rhythm

I just wanna hear your rhythm

Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere Song Info

Released August 28, 2007
Format Digital Download
Recorded March-April 2007
Genre Rock
Length 3:20
Label Columbia Records
Writer Bruce Springsteen
Producer Brendan O’Brien

The single was released ahead of the album, initially leaking to the Internet on August 22, 2007, to satellite radio the following day and to regular radio the day after that. Scott and Todd played the song twice on the morning of August 24th, 2007 on New York City’s 95.5 WPLJ-FM. After the first airing, a disgruntled Sony representative called in ordering them not to play the song again.

Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere Single Review

Magic opens with the guitar-dense, glossy �Radio Nowhere�, which some believe uses chord progressions from Tommy Tutone’s 1982 smash �867-5309/Jenny�, but Springsteen is guilty only of recycling his own themes and amping up the guitars. More telling is that �Radio Nowhere� would have been a throwaway in the early ’80s. His plea of wanting to hear �a thousand guitars and pounding drums� is exciting and over the top, but the song lacks the focus Springsteen is famous for.

�Radio Nowhere� recalls both �No Surrender� (whose optimistic message was used by Kerry as his campaign theme) and the unreleased �Action in the Streets� (in his cries of �Is anybody alive out there?”), but plays out with less conviction than its precursors in spite of Max Weinberg’s mighty drums and effective multi-tracked vocals. Noble in its failure to truly inspire, when he sings of �trying to make a connection to you� it’s like he is reaching out to a legion of middle aged fans. Luckily there are 11 other reasons to return to the fold.

source popmatters.com

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