Lyrics that point out that, even though there are many television stations to choose from, they're all bad

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"I got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from."
-Roger Waters

"57 Channels and nothing on"
-Bruce Springsteen

"2, 7, 5, 4, 8 she watched she said
All added up to zero
And nothing in her head"
-Chuck D

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(this is kinda close)

"Well I hate TV, and there's gotta be somebody other than me."
- Marshall Crenshaw

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching"

-disposable heroes of hiphoprisy

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

500 Channels
500 channels of a day-dream stimulation
helps me to resent my life and raise my expectations.
Locked into re-runs, your memories repeating,
and all your ideals seem so self defeating.
For you and yours, the pepsi generation,
and when you're discontent, you change the T.V. station,
And when you hate your life, no qualtities redeeming,
a million brainwashed zombies will always be heard screaming...

And when there is no hope,
"I'll smoke some crack, I'll shoot some dope!"
When theres no enemies,
"I sit and stare at my T.V.
and in my ignorance,
I'll be a slave and sycophant!"

And in a perfect world devoid of all temptations,
the good leftover crizack could unite the nations.
But now the war machines are mapping our destructions
with poisons over flowing in the chemical seductions.

And when there is no hope,
"I'll smoke some crack, I'll shoot some dope!"
When theres no enemies,
"I sit and stare at my T.V.
and in my ignorance,
I'll be a slave and sycophant!"

With my credit and my bank,
my mind will draw a blank.
I'll block out history,
and stare at my T.V.
For me there is no way.
500 channels waste my life away, away...

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kill Your Television" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Th only variable here is that the later the year of the recording, the more channels are referenced. 13-57-150-500.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The funny thing about songs dissing TV is that they're almost always written by people who feel guilty about watching it so much as opposed to people who just hate it.

― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No mention of "TV Party" yet? And I say this before Alex in NYC? Something's wrong here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

they're almost always written by people who feel guilty about watching it

Naw, not guilty. Frustrated. I pay extra for IFC -- why does every movie star John Turturro?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

No mention of "TV Party" yet?

I was going to say that but I don't remember the lyrics about the bad television.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It is, admittedly, something of a backhanded celebration rather than an open critique.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You're too young to remember "That's Incredible," clearly.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It is, admittedly, something of a backhanded celebration rather than an open critique.

Then why mention it?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Because a backhanded celebration is not a celebration.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads' "Found a Job" is about a couple who decide that since there's nothing good on TV to take things into their own hands, so it almost counts, but not quite.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that song is about a couple so preoccupied with television that when they think of things to do other than watch TV, those things still involve TV. Kinda sad. It's certainly a song about how TV is stupid.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

re "Found a Job", the Cramps' "TV Set" proposes a simpler and more radical solution

― dave q, Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"It's nothing but repeats / the licence fee is daylight robbery / the ads are the only thing worth watching" - local paper correspondent freeform skat.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Doe Maar - Doris Day:

Hé!
Er is geen bal op de tv
Alleen 'n film met Doris Day
En wat dacht je van net twee
Ein Wiener operette

Nee!
Er zit een knop op je TV
Die helpt je zo uit de puree
Druk 'em in en ga maar mee
De bloemen buiten zetten

Sort-of translation:

Hey!
There's not a thing on tv
Just a film with Doris Day
And what about channel two
Ein Wiener operette

No!
There's a button on your tv
It'll get you out of trouble instantly
Press it and come with me
Let's go have some fun

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The next wave: Songs about how there's 30 zillion websites and they're all bad!

― Myonga Von Bontee, Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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