Tricky one, as I don't often listen to the radio. Radio to me means background noise, music I haven't chosen to listen to or which just appears as collateral in the surroundings. Perhaps it could mean music which is often stuck in my head.
I find that often I get snippets of songs, maybe just a line of lyrics or a quick riff, lodged on repeat until I figure out what it is. One lyric which invades my brain quite a lot is "Is it heavier than air? Tell us, is the black box lying?" Which is from:
Those familiar with this exceptional album may well have experienced the same brain takeover, if not with this particular phrase (followed, of course, by that twinkly, chaotic breakdown) then with one of the many other choice expressions. Relationship of Command is a magnificent album musically, but the lyrics are very poetic in an abstract sort of way, often utilising vocabulary you don't expect to find in melodic songs. It's less mental than The Mars Volta, mind.
If you're going to hold me to the on-the-radio bit rather than this loose interpretation, it's true I do sometimes listen to Mark Lamarr's shows (God's Jukebox, or one of the three genre-specific series he does - all of which I cannot recommend highly enough). Just because I feel like pointing out another amazing band you might not be that familiar with, here's a track which he introduced me to a little while ago:
Fecking top.
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