Play along at home with the lyrics:

[Introduction]
I like small speakers
I like tall speakers
If they've music they're wired for sound

[Verse 1]
Walking about with a head full of music
Cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it
Stereo
Out on the street, you know

Ohohohohohohoho, oho

[Verse 2]
Into the car, go to work and I'm cruising
I never think that I'll blow all my fuses
Traffic flows
Into the breakfast show

Ohohohohohohoho, oho
Oh, oh, oh

[pre-Chorus]
Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
And I'm wired for sound

I was small boy who don't like his toys
I could not wait to get wired for sound

[Verse 3]
I met a girl and she told me she loved me
I said: "You love me, then love means
You must like what I like
My music is dynamite"

Ohohohohohohoho, oho

She said: "I'm not a girl you can put on at a standby
I am a girl who demands that her love is amplified
Switching to overdrive"

Ohohohohohohoho, oho
Oh, oh, oh

[Chorus]
Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
And I'm wired for sound

Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
'Cause I'm wired for sound

I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound

I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound

I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound

[spoken]
I like small speakers
I like tall speakers
Wall speakers
Most of all I like
Loud speakers

Jump to section:

(00:12 ) Very short introduction with relaxed vibes

(01:39 ) Song title, writers' details, background info from Rik of The Young Ones, lavatories, Take On Me, Mike and the Mechaincs

(03:26 ) To the lyrics - immediately misheard. Dune?

(05:17 ) Love and misunderstood audio technology.

(08:13 ) More mishearing. Inclusivity, and more misunderstood audio tech.

(12:12 ) Cliff knows the future of audio tech (but still unsure of the present). AM talk radio

(16:46 ) Religion or drugs?

(18:00 ) Cliff fights his past and the criminal underworld

(21:30 ) Crammed lyrics and grammar

(22:33 ) Cliff's cautionary road safety messages

(32:55 ) Infantile understanding of love

(37:30 ) Overdrive

(40:37 ) Sunglasses and mental health. The music video: Skating ability what does Avril Lavine tell us? Is it a crime-fighting TV pilot? or perhaps a post-apocalyptic cult?

(56:32 ) Other theories from the internet

(59:19 ) Misheard lyrics from the internet

(01:02:50 ) Saving lives

(01:05:02 ) Farewells

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