Telephony, Telegraphy

Songs about or referencing telephones, telegraphs, or similar communication methods.

Contents 1 Central theme 2 Briefly mentioned 3 Ringtone songs 4 Honorable mentions 5 See also

[edit] Central theme

• Hidden Track (Mono Puff) - "Your call is very very very very important to us. Please hold, and your call will be answered by the next available operator. This message will not be repeated."
• I Can Hear You - wireless phones, intercoms
• Kendra McCormick - the song is recorded as an answering machines message
• Phone Cord
• Rabid Child - "Rabid Child stays at home, talks on a C.B."
• She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - Flansburgh impersonates an interactive voice response system throughout the extended drum solo.
• Wake Up Call

[edit] Briefly mentioned

• Absolutely Bill's Mood - "He calls when I'm alone and he calls when I'm not home," plus the phoned-in guitar solo
• Ana Ng - A woman's voice sounds like she's on the phone, and several phones are used in the video
• Bed Bed Bed - Phones ringing in background
• The Bloodmobile - messages delivered by the blood, telegraphy musical theme
• Cage And Aquarium - "Then you hear a moment too late this sound coming over the phone"
• Complete Paranoia - "The phone rang..." and "We've traced the phone call..."
• Damn Good Times - "She makes a lot of calls" (are these telephone calls, or curtain calls?)
• Destination Moon - "Don't bother to call this room; there's nobody here who can pick up"
• Don't Let's Start - "You are the phone"
• The Famous Polka - "But when the phone inside her rib cage rings, it's not for me"
• Feast Of Lights - "You never call"
• For Science - "sirens declare..."
• The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - "The lion's on the phone", telephone used in video
• Hot Cha - "Then the phone rang off the hook"
• I Need Some Lovin' - "To call my phone machine and hang me up at night"
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - "I should have a call-in show"
• If I Wasn't Shy - intercom
• I'll Sink Manhattan - telephone ringing, references to answering machine
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now - leaving telephone messages
• It's Kickin' In - "Panic call to her best friend on the phone"
• I've Got A Match - "Put down the phone"
• Love Is Eternity - "And Lisa, when you're surrounded by debt...Trapped on a cellphone"
• My Man - theme of communication between body parts, music theme representing telegraph
• New York City - "You called me last night on the telephone"
• Operators Are Standing By - Operators
• Pencil Rain - telegraphic music theme (perhaps there's even a hidden message?)
• Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the telephone"
• Seven - "Talking on the telephone, inviting over more sevens"
• The Shadow Government - "I picked up my broken phone"
• She's An Angel - "The secretary says he's on another line, can I hold for a long, long time?"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "shes tapping the calls"
• So Long, Mockingbird - "Laughing on the telephone line"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Telephone call for Mr. Horrible!"
• Swing Is A Word - "387-6962" - AKA dial-a-song phone number
• They'll Need A Crane - "Don't call me at work again"
• Turn Around - the guy he killed calls him and he sings to him
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - "I hear the phone ring"
• The World's Address (Joshua Fried Remix) - "Call the men of science", "You wanna give me a 10-9 on that, pig-pen?"
• Yeh Yeh - "I call my baby and ask her 'what should we do'

[edit] Ringtone songs

• Call Connected Thru The NSA
• Phone Phone Phone
• Ring Ring
• Friend Or Foe
• My Other Phone Is A Boom Car

[edit] Honorable mentions

• Dial-A-Song
• Dialasong.com
• Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants

[edit] See also

• Dial-A-Song Reference

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