Henry Mancini – The Music From "Peter Gunn" Label: Analogue Productions – CAPP 1956 SA Format: SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered Country: US Released: 2016 Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen Style: Theme, Score, Big Band
From "The Wire", Assume The Position Lafayette Gilchrist – The Music According To Lafayette Gilchrist Label: Hyena Records – HYN 9322 Format: CD, Compilation, Stereo Country: US Released: 2004 Genre: Jazz Assume The Position 6:32
That was Kathy Asheton. “TV Eye” was my term. It was girl stuff. My girlfriends and I developed a code. It was a way for us to communicate with each other if we thought some guy was staring at us. It meant “Twat Vibe Eye.” Like, “He's got a TV Eye on you.” And if we had it, then of course we'd use, “I have . . . .”
The Tube by Art Bears Lines flicker, pictures vanish On the street a window opens wide The horns says come out The street is silent The horn says It is only a matter of time The world is watching
A couple: 1. David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels (Tin Machine), 'I Can't Read' (1989/1997), from the soundtrack to The Ice Storm:
When's the last TV produced that had a "dial"? It would be really funny if someone produced a modern TV with a bunch of dials/knobs.
My gran told me that if I listened to too many songs about television my ears would go square. However, I really loved Television, the drug of the nation, by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy.
3-D's 1980 classic "All Night Television," which the band performed on SNL in the Spring of that year.
But it's a bit like moderns cars. There's no reason to have a steering wheel as there is no direct rack-and-pinion mechanical coupling between the steering wheel and the actual front wheels. It's all done electrically with actuators. They might as well use a sony game console controller to steer the car.
Perhaps not specifically television, as it mentions the radio... Husker Du- "Turn on the News" I also like Ned's Atomic Dustbin- "Kill Your Television", The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy- "Television, the Drug of the Nation", Black Flag- "TV Party", The Damned- "Plan 9 Channel 7 (if it's about television-it's about an actress) and there may be others that I've forgotten or I don't even know are about television.
Couple of bangers from Houston 80s new wavers THE JUDYS: TV (starts at the 6:22 mark...stupid copy didn't take)
The Statler Brothers: Flowers On The Wall Countin' flowers on the wall That don't bother me at all Playin' solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of 51 Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do
In addition to originally appearing in the 1985 episode of "Muppet Babies" (S02E07), "TV Maniacs" was also featured on the Muppet Babies LP entitled "Music Is Everywhere [Columbia - PC 40773] released and distributed by Columbia Records in 1987, produced by Hank Saroyan, engineered by Terry Jennings & mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering..
