Tom: Here’s a question, Tim. What if you’d never heard “Video Killed The Radio Star”?
Tim: Erm, I don’t know, really. Why do you ask?
Tom: Well, it’s a cultural touchstone. The first record ever played on MTV. Number one in eight countries. Recognisable from its opening riff. But if it had never been a hit, and your brain wasn’t so used to it… what would you think of it?
Tim: I don’t know. I do know that it first came to my attention when it was covered, somewhat sub-optimally, by Presidents of the United States of America, so it was a sort of gradual discovery, but…I don’t know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUzU9sCbyTw
Tom: Well, now you know.
Tim: Huh. I do indeed. And never did I think there’d ever be a song devoted to a recording studio.