What's your favorite song written about television?

Frank Zappa "I'm the slime" from "Overnight Sensation". Written nearly 50 years ago, and even more accurate now than it was then.

 

Sleeping With The Television On - Billy Joel

 

TV Party - Black Flag

 

I can't think of any.

 

Maybe Channel Z by B-52s. First good one that came to mind, after immediately dismissing TV Talking Song by Dylan.

 

Bowie- TVC 15

 

Elektric Music-TV 2, 1993 (Karl Bartos)

 

Amused to Death- Roger Waters (entire album and title song )

57 Channels and Nothing On- Bruce

 

Television by Japan or Prime Time by The Tubes

 

Wasn't that about some other gizmo?

 

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - "Kill Your Television."

 

Just a couple of lines from Dramarama's "Last Cigarette":

"Check the sports and weather and the living and the dead.
You don't have to hear the headlines, you can hear what Johnny Carson said."

 

First heard this by Manhattan Transfer, on the same album which has their "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" single.
In their version, it's about overdosing on the idiot box.


Kingston Trio did the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgdOwQ_s1Q

Otherwise, I'd have to agree with the OP on "I'm The Slime". Indeed, when I saw Zappa on SNL do this with Don Pardo himself, I was in school, studying...television.

 

By far, this one is my favorite.

 

"Spanish Pipedream" John Prine

Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own

 

Blur - Coffee and TV

 

Green Shirt - Costello

 

On the TV - The Slow Readers Club

 

Television Man - Talking Heads

 

For me a toss up between this (Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy- Television The Drug Of A Nation) and Zappa I'm The Slime as referenced by the OP

 

Don Henley -- Dirty Laundry

 

Talking Heads - Television Man

 

The Airplane: "Plastic Fantastic Lover"
On Sweeping Up The Spotlight," it's introduced as "This is a song about your television set."

 

Dire Straits -- Lady Writer