AM Radio (song)

AM Radio (song)

Infobox Single
Name = AM Radio


Released = February 13, 2001
Artist = Everclear
from Album =
Radio Release =
Single Release =
Format = CD
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:50
Label = Capitol
Writer =
Producer =
[ Reviews = ] *
Chart position =
Last single = Wonderful
(2000)
This single = AM Radio
(2001)
Next single = When It All Goes Wrong Again
(2001)

"AM Radio" is a rock song by the band Everclear. This song samples Jean Knight's song "Mr. Big Stuff". This song was recorded circa 2000. The song was used in a television commercial for General Motors in early 2006.

The song's lyrics deal with Art Alexakis' reminiscences of growing up during the 1970s - specifically mentioning the years 1970, '72, '75, and '77 - while listening to his favorite music on AM radio, which Alexakis describes in the outro chant as: "We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco." The song begins with a 1970s vintage jingle from Los Angeles radio station KHJ.

"AM Radio" is the second single from Everclear's album '. It includes AM Radio and some older Everclear hits. The "AM Radio" single was mistaken by many to be the first single from Everclear's fifth album, ', due to the fact that the song was released so soon before Everclear's fifth album.

Music video

The music video starts off with a radio announcer reading the recorded programming disclaimer from the KHJ sample, without the jingle. It then shows the band, along with some extra brass players, performing in front of a giant screen. At first, the screen shows a bunch of smileys. As the first verse begins, the screen starts showing TV programs (i.e., "The Brady Bunch", "Kojak", "Hawaii Five-O", "H.R. Pufnstuf", "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters", "Adam-12", "Land of the Lost") with Art Alexakis' face edited onto some of the characters to make them sing with the song, or other well-known people, events and styles from the seventies (i.e., Richard Nixon resigning, Jimmy Page, platform shoes.) A few scenes actually have members of Everclear doing 1970s things (i.e., posing in leisure suits, getting high in a Volkswagen Type 2.)

Track listing

#AM Radio (Radio Remix)
#I'm On Your Time
#Santa Monica

Charts


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