That’s the one! “Damn that television, what a bad picture" "Don't get upset, it's not a major disaster" "There's nothing on tonight," he said, "I don't know what's the matter" "Nothing's ever on," she said, "so I don't know why you bother" We've heard this little scene, we've heard it many times People fighting over little things and wasting precious time They might be better off, I think, the way it seems to me Making up their own shows, which might be better than TV [Chorus] Judy's in the bedroom, inventing situations Bob is on the street today, scouting up locations They've enlisted all their family They've enlisted all their friends It helped save their relationship And made it work again
Possibly the first backlash at TV in a popular song The electrical dust the shine turns to rust Her trapezoid thermometer taste All the red tape is mechanical rape Of the TV program waste Wasted, yeah! Data control and IBM Science is mankind's brother But all I see is drainin' me On my plastic fantastic lover
'Television Screen' by Radiators from Space: I’m gonna smash my Telecaster Through the television screen ‘cause I don’t like what’s going down
The line in "Nobody Home" from The Wall comes to mind: "I've got thirteen channels of s#*t on the TV to choose from" Of course now it's infinite channels
The Tubes did a whole album loosely (and not so loosely) based on television, Remote Control, produced by Todd Rundgren. The back cover is the band on "The Hollywood Squares" set. Telecide has some of the best lead guitar ever..."this one is so juicy, were preempting Lucy".
My favorite one, Joe Jackson, "TV Age" "I think the aliens have to take a physical form on our planet, so why not one with 13 channels?"
