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It's interesting and the music is great.
He's gone full Shatner!
Insightful critique on modern society or grumpy old man moaning that there's nothing on telly?
That's dope!
The music's well good 👌
Yep, as above, television, the drug of a nation, which was also quoted in ZOO TV 30 years ago.
Kept expecting Thom Yorke to start wailing - in fact I'd like to hear him cover it
Already identified as the drug of the nation 45 years ago in the German punk scene 🙂
Lyrics in English:
Alone!
The world has forgotten about me
I am hanging around
****ed it up with everyone
no desire to do a thing
I feel old
like my grandma in a swamp
I turn on the box
the Daltons, Waltons, everyone
I stare from East to West, 2, 5, 4
No way I can decide
everything here is so beautifully colourful!
I stare at the TV (she stares at the TV)
I stare at the TV (she stares at the TV)
Wow!
I am so dead!
Was this my life already?
My beautiful imagination!
My sensors are have had it!
I turn on the box
happiness, smooth smooth, fun fun!
I stare from East to West, 2, 5, 4
No way I can decide
everything here is so beautifully colourful!
I stare at the TV (she stares at the TV)
I stare at the TV (she stares at the TV)
Yeah!
I am going nuts
I won't touch another book
Literature? Puke puke!
Makes me sick
And the medical novels I've read with twelve
Boy, i am so well-read! Hey!
And the refreshment waffles have leaked, gag gag
and this ****ing chocolate makes one fatter and fatter
and fatter and fatter and oh dear!
I turn on the box
happiness, smooth smooth, fun fun!
I stare from East to West, 2, 5, 4
No way I can decide
everything here is so beautifully colourful!
I stare at the TV...
TV TV TV TV is a drug
TV is addictive
TV TV TV TV
Disposable Hero’s of Hipoprisy. Classic!!!
Enjoyed that thnks
Then a show called "The Apprentice" came on and pretty soon
An old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon
We stayed tuned in, now here we are
Reality killed by a reality star
Found the original and the real credit must go to Todd Scheider? Tom just spoke it over a cool jam!
Who are the backing band, great sound. Love the drumming.
Well done, love the original too
Here's another one from him:
I really, really, really hope he isn't ill. This feels like what Bowie did when he knew his time was up :/
Anyway, he's still got pipes, no doubt about it.
I really, really, really hope he isn’t ill. This feels like what Bowie did when he knew his time was up :/
Anyway, he’s still got pipes, no doubt about it.
He’s been working towards this sort of music for a while, a bit like Johnny Cash, with The American Recordings series he did with Rick Rubin, rediscovering older, more blues-style songs and recording modern takes on it.
He certainly doesn’t look like he’s on his last legs, he’s got a fire going there!
Both Bowie and Leonard Cohen’s last albums were made with the clear knowledge that they were both dying, neither got to see the albums released, and the lyrics express it, I don’t think the same can be said about TJ!