What's your favorite song written about television?

Procol Harum - TV Caesar

 

Zappa and Talking Heads already taken so I'll go:
Motorhead - Talking Head.

 

Skyhooks - Horror Movie


Watched a horror movie, right there on my TV
Horror movie, right there on my TV
Horror movie, right there on my TV
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Shockin' me right out of my brain
It's bound to get you in
Get you under your skin
Hit you right on the chin, oh yeah
It's bound to be a thriller
It's bound to be a chiller
It's bound to be a killer, oh yeah
The planes are a-crashin'
The cars are a-smashin'
The cops are a-bashin', oh yeah
The kids are a-fightin'
The fires are a-lightin'
The dogs are a-bitin', oh yeah
The planes are a-crashin'
The cars are a-smashin'
The cops are a-bashin', oh yeah
The kids are a-fightin'
The fires are a-lightin'
The dogs are a-bitin', oh yeah
You think it's just a movie on a silver screen
And they're all actors and fake old scenes
Maybe you don't care who's gonna lose or win
Listen to this and I'll tell you somethin'
It's a horror movie, right there on my TV
Horror movie, right there on my TV
Horror movie, and it's blown a fuse
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news
The public's waitin'
For the killin' and the hatin'
Switch on the station, oh yeah
They do a lotta sellin'
Between the firin' and the yellin'
And you believe in what they're tellin', oh yeah
It's a horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie and it's blown a fuse
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news
And it's shockin' me right outta my brain

 

Absolutely. Love that album. "Turn Me On", "TV Is King", "Prime Time" and "Telecide" are outstanding.

 

" I was sitting at home alone one night/ in L.A. watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news..."

 

Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)

 

Though an alternate recording/version was listed on the first page, this is my favourite : TV by Elektric Music. (Karl Bartos, of Kraftwerk) . It was written whilst he was in Kraftwerk, and an early demo of it was mixed by Fritz Hilpert (Wolfgang's replacement in Kraftwerk) which caused a slight upset in the Kraftwerk camp in 1989.

 

Todd Snider- Talkin' Reality Television Blues

 

Stan Freberg-"Tele-Vee-Shun"

 

Eeeeeeezeeeeee…

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” - Gil Scott-Heron.

 

From the days when television was the next big thing. At least, I think she's singing about her set ... or maybe not ...

Dinah Washington - T.V. Is the Thing (This Year) (1953)

 

Robyn Hitchcock - Television

 

Idiot Box-The Aquabats!

 

The first one I thought of!

 

The Replacements song about MTV, "Seen Your Video". Love it!

 

Oh my God, yes! How did I forget about this??

 

Watching TV - Roger Waters
I Hate the TV - Violent Femmes

 

TV Party

 

Mirage Nothing on TV Tonight (from A Secret Place, 2001)

 

Correct. ✔️

 

In good company with Lenny's "It seems so long ago/ Nancy was alone / Looking at the late, late show through a semi-precious stone..."