Murder City Nights - Radio Birdman
2:24
2:24
Radios Appear, 1979
Written by Deniz Tek
I'd never heard of this influential Australian punk band. In this song the narrator is driving around the mean streets of an unidentified city (although he mentions a Woodward). He's looking for some action. He's bored with "the seventies stasis," which probably echoes how the band felt about the state of music at that point. It's got a Springsteen feel, lyrically if not musically. "Hanging on the edge of my self control / Looking in the mirror for the highway patrol."