Telecommunication

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

Central theme

• Distant Antenna
• Hidden Track - "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
• I Wasn't Listening - "The songs on that telephone line"
• Kendra McCormick - The song was recorded as an answering machines message
• Live In Nashville - "They Might Be Giants are going to be playing their songs live over their Dial-A-Song telephone line"
• 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.
• Social Media
• Wake Up Call

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 - Features Lisa Klapp's voice recorded over a telephone, and the song includes a typical telephone ring. Additionally, several telephones are used in the video
• Apophenia - "Middleburgh Police Department how may I direct your call?"
• Bed Bed Bed - Phones ringing in background
• The Bloodmobile - messages delivered by the blood in a telegraphic manner
• Cage & 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"
• The Fellowship Of Hell - "The baby had a baby, got no calls at all"
• For Science - "sirens declare..."
• Got Getting Up So Down - "House key, cell phone"
• 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 - "I'd burn the all the intercoms"
• I'll Sink Manhattan - "I'll find your answering machine"
• I'm Def -"Why don't you leave a message?"
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "To call you on the phone"
• Impossibly New - "The corner phone booth in its youth"
• It's Kickin' In - "Panicked 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"
• Make It The Same - "If I called you on Sunday, would you be there?"
• Mr. Hughes Says - "Tell the wind and tell the phone"
• Mr. Mischief Night - "Hear the ringing phone in my earpiece and from across the lawn"
• Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2 - "Just one call allowed"
• 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 - Telephone operators
• Pencil Rain - Morse code message played
• Protagonist - "My scenes are cut out / I'm just on speakerphone"
• Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the telephone"
• Quit The Circus - "We're as much use, As the rotary phone"
• Seven - "Talking on the telephone"
• 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 - "And she's tappin' the calls"
• So Long, Mockingbird - "Laughing on the telephone line"
• Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "An intercom with just one button" / "That was your sole communication"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Telephone call for Mr. Horrible"
• Spoiler Alert - "While I'm making a phone call"
• Starry Eyes - "We paid for all the phone calls"
• Swing Is A Word - "387-6962" the dial-a-song phone number
• They'll Need A Crane - "Don't call me at work again"
• Turn Around - "Called me up from a phone near my building"
• Underwater Woman - "Holding up a shell like it's a telephone"
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - "I hear the phone ring"
• What Did I Do To You? - "Will they be phoning us at 3 a.m.?"
• The World's Address (Joshua Fried Remix) - "You wanna give me a 10-9 on that, pig-pen?"
• Yeh Yeh - "I call my baby and ask her what we could do"

Ringtone songs

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

Honorable mentions

• Dial-A-Song
• Dialasong.com
• Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
• I Palindrome I (EP): cover art features a photograph of two rotary telephones.

See also

• Dial-A-Song Reference