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David Bowie — TVC 15
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 20:37
 
Rockin' out and dancing ... and dancing and rockin' out!  TRANSMISSION!

(edit a few weeks later)  Some folks are asking about meaning.  It's Bowie, so who knows?  Tripping while watching 15 TVs? Or while watching TV channel 15? Or maybe TVC 15 was printed on the blotter paper/pill.  You want meaning?  Try interpreting this line, and watch the video video link below:  "One of these nights I may just jump down that rainbow way, be with my baby..."  Does that help?  Didn't think so.

SensorJ
(San Pedro, California on a bluff overlooking The Port of L.A.)
Posted: Jan 20, 2013 - 14:51
 
Station To Station is one of the best albums of the seventies.

Bosami
(Deep in the heart of nowhere)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 12:33
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.

 

I remember seeing this - so very great. Now and then.

Thanks for the blast from the past!

Grammarcop
(i've successfully infiltrated the 1% without being detected!)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 08:00
 
 jinxie1266 wrote:
This song is on Station to Station, not Lodger. Just sayin'.
 
Hey, Winnipeg! One Great City! ;-)

jinxie1266
(Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 10:51
 
This song is on Station to Station, not Lodger. Just sayin'.

Grammarcop
(i've successfully infiltrated the 1% without being detected!)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 10:48
 
Haven't heard this one in ages.

kcar
Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 22:54
 
 sans wrote:
TVC15 meaning?
Bowie himself hasn’t been able to shed any light on their meaning beyond a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s 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. 

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 - 09:24
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Album: Lodger? . . . no . . .
  David Bowie - Station To Station (EMI 1999 24 Bit Remaster)
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.


ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 - 08:39
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.
 




That was cool, thanks.



On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 23:34
 
Album: Lodger? . . . no . . .
  David Bowie - Station To Station (EMI 1999 24 Bit Remaster)
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?



ronniegirl
(Middle of New Jersey)
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 18:01
 
someone tap the arm, the needle is stuck.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 13:27
 
Station to Station remastered re-release out in the US on the 28th.

If you don't own it already - it's a must.

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 13:22
 
 Cynaera wrote:
A skin-tight dress with a bulge?  It hurt my brain. Bowie has done a lot better stuff than this.  {#Tongue-out}
  agree!



paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:49
 
 Cynaera wrote:
A skin-tight dress with a bulge?  It hurt my brain. Bowie has done a lot better stuff than this.  {#Tongue-out}
 
You strike me as pretty picky here. And you don't really specify the precise nature of your objection to that lyric, anyway. What's yer beef?


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:44
 
Bill and his song/artist connections.  From Bowie's Queen Bitch

I'm up on the eleventh floor
And I'm watching the cruisers below
He's down on the street
And he's trying hard to pull sister Flo



Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:44
 
A skin-tight dress with a bulge?  It hurt my brain. Bowie has done a lot better stuff than this.  {#Tongue-out}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:40
 
 Peace_tode wrote:


One of my favs as well. From a very good album.
 
From a perfect album.


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:38
 
As we used to have fun singing

Oh my TVC fifteen. 



dkwalika
(Upper Midwest)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 12:38
 
Oh hell yes!

aelfheld
Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 13:07
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.

 
That was an interesting little trip down memory lane.


Alpine
(N39d39mW121d30m)
Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 14:10
 
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.

anabel
Posted: Jun 17, 2010 - 17:22
 

happy now



miahfost
(Gothenburg, Sweden)
Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 04:16
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.
 
Genius.

Slarti
(Maldon, Essex, UK)
Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 04:07
 
 ballyhairs wrote:
Whats with this medicine story every time this song is on?

{#Stupid}
 
Mr Toad after first seeing a car.

Beep beep.    {#Lol}

ballyhairs
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 01:14
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.

 
I wish I didn't click on your provided link, that was disgusting to see {#Headache} bah


cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 14:30
 
 hilsy wrote:
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.


ballyhairs
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 13:02
 
Whats with this medicine story every time this song is on?

{#Stupid}

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 13:00
 
wow, that was neat. it was repeated.

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.
 
Dude, you are famous - Bill just read your post on the air!

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 18:54
 
bowie iggy claus venture brothers

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 18:53
 
I usually like Bowie, and this song is no exception. {#Good-vibes}

AdyMiles
(Wolverhampton, UK)
Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:17
 
i usually like bowie, but this sucks

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 - 13:02
 
I made TVC 15 the sail number on my dinghy in 1979, and nobody knew what it was about.  I was way cool back then, eh?  Not so much anymore, according to my grown kids.

Alpine
(N39d39mW121d30m)
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 17:55
 
YEAH!  This brings back lots of memories. of my twentys.  We used to call my friend's 72 Cadillac El Dorado TVC15.


bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 17:54
 
 hilsy wrote:
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?

 
YES!   I think it was on SNL!  As I recall, Brian Eno, or someone that looked like Brian Eno was with him - and both looking pretty wierd.  That was the night I decided that I liked Bowie.


Smoove_D
(Milwaukee)
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 17:51
 
It sounds like a song that got cut from Rocky Horror in the first round of cuts.

BKardon
(Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison)
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 17:49
 
My favorite Bowie tune!  Sweeeeeet!!!

WayUpNorth
(Down on the Farm)
Posted: Aug 06, 2009 - 05:22
 
I remember this as the highlight of a Bowie concert I saw "back a few years" — there was a wall of tall, thin lights behind the stage — like 20' high — and to accent the song, especially on the "oh ohs," they would flash on and off.  Ok, so it loses something in the translation but it was just an incredible spectacle.  Not to mention the guy can sing, and this is one of my personal faves. 

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Jun 03, 2009 - 18:29
 
 mr_toad wrote:
david bowie loves earth and everything on it,,,, I could be wrong?????? maybe he should tell us!!!!!!!  maybe he already has!!!!! but it sounds so nice so nice mmmmmmmmmmm  people of earth are you ready to blast off????  are u ready ???? are u ready ??? really ready????
 
.....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.

mr_toad
Posted: May 03, 2009 - 00:42
 
david bowie loves earth and everything on it,,,, I could be wrong?????? maybe he should tell us!!!!!!!  maybe he already has!!!!! but it sounds so nice so nice mmmmmmmmmmm  people of earth are you ready to blast off????  are u ready ???? are u ready ??? really ready????

copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 11:49
 
 Ja300Mes wrote:
I always liked this song - one of those that survived the overplaying on commercial radio and still comes out sounding good.
 
What world did you live in that overplayed this song on commercial radio?! I'd like to move there.


wycado
(Smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge)
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 11:47
 
I dated a TVC13. It was indeed unlucky for me to date that older model.

Peace_tode
(Atlanta)
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 09:04
 
 Panama_Floyd wrote:
Thanks, Bill. My favorite Bowie tune, and no one around here had ever heard of it. I was beginning to think I dreamed the whole thing....
 

One of my favs as well. From a very good album.

middleagedhipster
(chilliwack, bc)
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 09:04
 
I always thought it was a love song to Dave's transvestite robot he was dating at the time.

Teryt wrote:
TVC15 seemd like a referrence to the "Man who fell to Earth." In it, he watched a wall of 15 color TVs at once.




bobcat1963
(the netherlands)
Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 04:00
 
wow, boys keep swingin'!

Teryt
Posted: Jul 05, 2008 - 12:32
 
TVC15 seemd like a referrence to the "Man who fell to Earth." In it, he watched a wall of 15 color TVs at once.
Panama_Floyd
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: May 20, 2008 - 19:15
 
Thanks, Bill. My favorite Bowie tune, and no one around here had ever heard of it. I was beginning to think I dreamed the whole thing....
hilsy
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Mar 18, 2008 - 19:26
 
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?

Bizzarefall
(SoCal)
Posted: Feb 16, 2008 - 07:44
 
Oh ohhh
(former member)
(The People's Republic of Casiotone)
Posted: Jan 15, 2008 - 20:15
 
One of these nights I may just
Jump down that rainbow way, be with my baby...