On Radio [Single, Import]

Regina Spektor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 10, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B000G2YC1U
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,836 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. On The Radio

2. Dusseldorf

Editorial Reviews

First CD single taken from her highly anticipated 2006 album, Begin To Hope. Features 'On The Radio' coupled with 'Düsseldorf'. WB.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is how it works, November 2, 2006

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E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Radio (Audio CD)

"Begin to Hope" is Regina Spektor's most radio-friendly album so far, with perkier melodies and some decidedly catchy little songs alongside the piano anti-folk. One of the most infectious songs of that album is "On the Radio," a catchy little pop song, which is paired here with a very different song.

"This is how it works/It feels a little worse/Than when we drove our hearse/Right through that screaming crowd," Spektor croons, over a quirky piano tune laced with shimmering synth, and the jazzy drums and handclaps. This is one of the Spektor's poppiest tunes to date, but it's a memorable pop -- its rippling music and offbeat melody make it stick in your head. This is not MTV music.

She sings of sleeping DJs, attacks from "ancient bees," and songs that run over and over. Then halfway through, she switches topics to love and life in general: "You laugh until you cry/You cry until you laugh/And everyone must breathe/Until their dying breath," and then about love and relationships in particular: "You peer inside yourself/You take the things you like/And try to love the things you took/And then you take that love/you made/And stick it into some/Someone else's heart/Pumping someone else's blood..."

Having enchanted listeners with her "pop" song, Spektor then veers the other way -- "Dusseldorf," a stripped-down little antifolk song with a bit of studio polish. It trips lightly over the piano melodies, with Spektor singing about counting cookies and drunk driving in Berlin.

One of Spektor's best points has always been her quirky voice -- it's flexible enough that she can sing all sorts of songs, but it never sounds like anyone else's. There are little creaks, warbles and flat notes in her voice, which give an unpolished charm to whatever she sings. And it's nice to see that pop melodies don't detract from her oddball lyrics.

Spektor is one of the few artists to successfully "go pop" without losing her unique sound, and these two songs shows all her strong points -- she can do pop, and then turn around and do something quirky.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great song!, January 29, 2008

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Q. Le (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On The Radio (MP3 Download)

Great song! My favorite verse is This is how it works...you live until you die...

Great insights

3 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rip-off, June 7, 2007

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reader (Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Radio (Audio CD)

There are only two songs on the CD and for the price it is a total rip-off. This is the first time I have ever been disappointed with a product that I ordered through Amazon!!