RADAR LOVE
“Radar Love” is a song by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. The single version of “Radar Love” reached #13 in the US. It hit the top 10 in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. (More from Wikipedia)
There are two covers on the Index album: “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (more the Vanilla Fudge version than the Supremes version) and the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” (speaking of great psychedelic songs). If there was ever a song that cried out for a really extended treatment, it was “Eight Miles High”; and I still remember well the first time I heard a long version of “Eight Miles High” at a party while I was in college. The artist turned out to be Golden Earring, a Dutch band that has been around about as long as the Rolling Stones; they went on to have two giant hits – both of which I still love – “Radar Love” and “Twilight Zone”.
(March 2011)
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Golden Earring had an international hit song in 1973 with “Radar Love”, one of the great road songs that I still hear regularly on the radio. In 1982, they had another big hit with “Twilight Zone”; their fabulous, high-concept video intermingled a spy story that featured a topless model, callous treatment of a dead body, and a brutal injection of some sort of drug by a dancing vixen; along with concert footage and several arty shots. The video for their follow-up hit in 1984, “When the Lady Smiles” was just as controversial; it featured a sexual attack on a nun that showed black lingerie under her habit. I probably have a dozen of their albums, and they are all enjoyable.
(January 2013)
