Saturday 28 May 2011

The top 40 songs about televison

Gil Scott Heron died today; writer of the greatest song about TV ever. So here is my list of the top 40 songs about TV. Ironically I actually started assembling this a couple of weeks before Gil Scott died and had already chosen his "The Revolution will not be televised as number one. Cue Twilight Zone theme (the Ventures version of course). BTW theme songs don't count, neither do covers of TV theme songs;
(I couldn't find videos for all of them)

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1. The revolution will not be televised ~ Gil Scott Heron;



2. She watch channel zero ~ Public Enemy;



3. Turn it on again ~ Genesis;



4. Action Time Vison ~ Alternative Television;



5. Where's Captain Kirk ~ Spizz Energi;



6. Money for nothing ~ Dire Straits;



7. T.V. Mama ~ Big Joe Turner (the side long version w/Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge & Harry Sweets Edison, but the version with Elmore James is cool too);



8. T.V. is the thing this year ~ Dinah Washington;



9. Along came Jones ~ The Coasters;



10. Plastic Fantastic Lover ~ Jefferson Airplane;



11. T.V. Casualties ~ The Misfits;



12. T.V. Eye ~ The Stooges;



13. T.V. Set ~ The Cramps;



14.Ready Steady Go ~ Generation X;



15. I wanna be a Flintstone ~ The Screamin' Blue Messiahs;



16. Katrina and The Waves ~ Spiderman


17. Channel Z ~ The B52's;




18. I am a TV savage ~ Bow Wow Wow;



19. Video killed the radio star ~ The Buggles;



20. Top of the pops ~ The Revillos;



21. Dirty Laundry ~ Don Henley;



22.This Bud's for you ~ Neil Young;



23. T.V. dinners ~ ZZ Top;



24. Static Age ~ The Misfits

25. Television's Over ~ The Adverts

26. T.V. Party tonight ~ Black Flag;



27. MTV Get Off The Air ~ Dead Kennedys;



28. The Kursaal Flyers ~ Television Generation;



29. I Saw It On TV ~ John Fogerty;



30. 57 Channels and Nothing On ~ Bruce Springsteen;



31. Soap Commercial ~ Psychedelic Furs;



32. Sluggin for Jesus ~ Cabaret Voltaire (part 1);



33. I hate the TV ~ Violent Femmes;



34. Television Man ~ Talking Heads (also covered by Man or Astroman);



35. Kicking Television ~ Wilco;



36. Turned Off TV Blues ~ Ten Years After;



37. Johnny Carson ~ The Beach Boys;



38. The Anemics ~ Elwy Yost

39. The Replacements ~ Saw your video

40. Boob Tube ~ Eva Everything;