TVC15 meaning? Bowie himself hasnt been able to shed any light on their meaning beyond a drug-fuelled period at Bowies LA home, hallucinated and believed that the television set was swallowing his girlfriend.
You need more meaning? LMAO. It's about a drug trip. Logic, plot, thematic structure, motifs...they don't really apply.
Iggy Pop was tripping at Bowie's home about his girlfriend and the TV set. Bowie just fleshed the story out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVC_15
David has admitted that there are whole years of life that he can't remember. I think he mostly blames cocaine. I'm impressed that he put such good stuff despite doing that crap.
Album: Lodger? . . . no . . . The cover on the left is as it appeared (in Canada anyway) when the album came out in '76. The CD eventually came out with the wider, colour shot (on the right). Perhaps this was the original British cover?
This came up in the Golden Years discussion thread. According to the Wikipedia article for the Station to Station album, Bowie felt the sky in the colour still from Man Who Fell To Earth looked too artificial, so he had it cropped and printed in black and white for the album cover. When Rykodisc reissued Bowie's catalogue in the early 1990s they used the full sized, colour version of the still.
Album: Lodger? . . . no . . . The cover on the left is as it appeared (in Canada anyway) when the album came out in '76. The CD eventually came out with the wider, colour shot (on the right). Perhaps this was the original British cover?
Sold my Station to Station vinyl record in a garage sale last weekend. Got 50 cents per album. Sold my turntable for $ 10. Glad to get rid of all that shit. Gave away the albums that didn't sell. All MP3 or CD now.
When I was a kid back in the '70s, I stayed up late one Saturday night and Bowie performed this as his second song. I was half falling sleep so the weirdness was magnified for me when he had a little toy dog open its mouth to show a small TV. Anybody else see that performance?
A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.
bhallmark (The Administrative Zone of the District of Columbia)
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 19:03
peter_james_bond wrote:
.....mr_toad......mr_toad...did you forget something?? Your medicine mr_toad, you must take your medicine. Yes Mr Bowie loves the earth and everything and he loves you too. The people of earth are not going anywhere mr_toad....now you have a lie down.
This is also one of my favorite Bowie tunes.
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