"Turn On the News" is a song by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü.
It begins with a single piano note repeating while segments of random news stories play.
[6] David Fricke of Rolling Stone remarked that the harsh vocals "often obscure lyric bull's-eyes.
[8] The Chicago Tribune's Joshua Klein highlighted it as a superior album track and one of the "harbingers of Husker Du's melodic maturation.
"[10] In 1993, "Turn On the News" was covered by Big Trouble House on Du Huskers: The Twin Cities Replays Zen Arcade.