how can you ever really put out a Bowie's greatist hits CD? way to many damn good songs to choose from..... oh my TVC-15 Oh -oh oh my TVC-15 .......Boowie!
The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator's girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her.
After three years I finally decided. That's my favourite Bowie song. It just makes me smile, if I'm crying and I play this song it immediatly gets better .
This was about a drug trip Iggy Pop once had while in David's LA home. Iggy thought that the TV got his girlfriend at the time and sucked her in. This song is about how a holographic TV sucked this guys girlfriend in and how the guy crawled in to get her... Great STuff Man ;)
Certainly wasn't the record sales, not even so much the amount of air play. Bowie not designed to be TOO popular in the masses. But to the avid fans who knew better, it was just knowing that the next time Bowie surfaced, he was going to bring something that would send unfathomable ripples throughout the artistic fabric of space. He was like lightweight subatomic particles that occasionally pass through the earth causing a change in evolution, existing only in motion, elusive in still definition.
Pre-anticipating, influencing, subtley guiding, changing, evolving, challenging, shattering, altering, bending time to the future, the ghost behind the positive changes in the seventies, the catalyst for what followed in the eighties. By his mind's balanced perspective, he inspired so many other artists, often without their conscious knowledge! Even more than his awesome music, we knew his ominous presence existed somewhere on earth's plane as the definition of the cutting edge, the Bowie knife.
@mysterymac38 Wait I thought he only had two children? Also, he never said he was gay, just bisexual, so he could quite possibly have kids. Nonetheless, it was most likely just for publicity.
@Susleigh i understand your sensitivity however when somebody goes out of their wa y to proclaim a different sexuality then i'm free to comment on it he's putting it out there
Ok, I'll listen to it a second time... ok, maybe another... just once more! One more time won't hurt! Replaying it over again is alright! Maybe just onnnnccceee mooorreee...
being a bowie maniac, this is one of my most favourites - if you see the film THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, he is an alien and his tvc15 is his tele vision central with 15 screens (aliens can take in more info than us according to the film). In the film there are many references to his life and career, bowie nuts will spot them immediately. the cover of the album is the space ship he built to take water back to his own planet
Station to Station? I think it is one of the greatest pieces of art ever completed. "Transcendental " would cheapen it. His body of work is a rare chance for 3 dimensional beings like our selves to behold something truly 4th dimensional. Neither now, then, or tomorrow,......only..Bowie.
completely sums up the initially dry but eventually harmonious end of this spectrum. Once I FELT the connection I am not ashamed to admit I wept for some time. Please do not allow your gift of explanation to go wasted!
@saganemc2 Thanks. There is an explanation for that I know that I know what I know. But few are ready for it. I guess it's just a matter of time and faith. Things are always stranger than they seem. You made me smile.
@MrMajorTime oh my cosmos, finally someone else! How beautiful I crossed your path on a Bowie video!!!! The distance between you and I (and anyone else who dares) is 0. What you wrote about "staring your fear down unblinking"- gorgeous, not unlike Mr. Bowie himself! I would follow you into the pit of hell if there were any true distance to traverse ;-) I have found the same inspiration watching the physicist Brian Greene speak. There is an amazing 20 minute video you can watch here that complet
Bowie could write some shit! This was about a concept of connectivity to all things via the constellation Lyra, made up of a parallelogram and a triangle of stars that designated M57 (The Ring Nebula) as the source of video on a cosmically energized plane. The electric eye that is sensitive to surrounding light in the room that has since been a foregone concept of the science of television, but more accurately appropriate to the content coming in from rabbit ears and contents worthy of watching.
I heard this in 6th grade and was a huge Bowie fan already. This song still haunts me as one of my favorites of all time. Get David Live at Philadelphia Tower if you like him live. Listen to the Howard Stern interview with Lady Gaga as she describes Bowie as if she was a star-struck kid. I think she gained another 20,000,000 fans.I am not a Gaga fan- BUT check out her performance on Stern and you will see- REAL music is coming back to all of us.
Remember, Bowie's work fell in his lap as it rolled off the cosmos to his unique balance point in time. The way the song came about, somewhat inspired by Iggy's traumatic trip, in no way diminishes the resulting creation. The casual happenstance of what transpired was only apparently offhand. It was just what was needed at the time, as in other songs, to get this onto paper. Not random, not throw away lyrics at all. Bowie was the vehicle for destined conceptual patents coming down the ether net.
Bowie anticipates the importance of the holographic medium as the ultimate information access device! Not only something to watch, or something that watches you, but a dimension to enter where there are infinite channels. Everything in its place has an equal amount of information as to its position in reference to the remainder. So, in each still photograph can be found an entire movie. In each fractal one can find a rainbow way, a path that leads to whatever imagery you can connect to in space.
I heard this song when I was elementary school in '76 and swore until now it was called "Traaaannnsssmisssion", ha. He performed this with Nomi on SNL too, right?
@carrier3232 as cool as your analyzation sounds, it's regrettably false. It's about Iggy Pop being so incredibly wasted that he thought Bowie's TV was attacking his girlfriend; causing him to assault it. Yes, a television.
Oh them were the days....
Pajhal09 1 week ago
how can you ever really put out a Bowie's greatist hits CD? way to many damn good songs to choose from..... oh my TVC-15 Oh -oh oh my TVC-15 .......Boowie!
truthforme1 1 month ago
I adore this song. it's so danceable!
teleny2 1 month ago
mick ronson-guitar. bowie-guitar and keys. mel collins-sax. david Byrne-percussives and vocals. Brian Eno-b.vocals and percussive
gr8skpz 2 months ago
lsd
gremby 2 months ago
Maybe his television had 15 stations, so his "TV" could "see" fifteen stations "one five".
saganemc2 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@saganemc2 plagiarised from wikipedia:
The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator's girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her.
TheRockNRollFan 2 months ago 2
@TheRockNRollFan Sounds like Videodrome
jrmetmoi 3 weeks ago
Transition
Transmission
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Ohhh Yeah
chester666able 3 months ago
What IS a TVC- 15?
RaeLovesTurtles 3 months ago
After three years I finally decided. That's my favourite Bowie song. It just makes me smile, if I'm crying and I play this song it immediatly gets better .
BulletProofCupid96 3 months ago
@BulletProofCupid96 excess of sorrow laughs. excess of joy weeps.-wm. Blake
gr8skpz 2 months ago
This was about a drug trip Iggy Pop once had while in David's LA home. Iggy thought that the TV got his girlfriend at the time and sucked her in. This song is about how a holographic TV sucked this guys girlfriend in and how the guy crawled in to get her... Great STuff Man ;)
ChameleonLost88 3 months ago
Certainly wasn't the record sales, not even so much the amount of air play. Bowie not designed to be TOO popular in the masses. But to the avid fans who knew better, it was just knowing that the next time Bowie surfaced, he was going to bring something that would send unfathomable ripples throughout the artistic fabric of space. He was like lightweight subatomic particles that occasionally pass through the earth causing a change in evolution, existing only in motion, elusive in still definition.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
One energetic person of this calibre, so cosmically driven, could do the same for today's culture.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
Pre-anticipating, influencing, subtley guiding, changing, evolving, challenging, shattering, altering, bending time to the future, the ghost behind the positive changes in the seventies, the catalyst for what followed in the eighties. By his mind's balanced perspective, he inspired so many other artists, often without their conscious knowledge! Even more than his awesome music, we knew his ominous presence existed somewhere on earth's plane as the definition of the cutting edge, the Bowie knife.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
"Man, I needed TV when I got T. Rex".
Crank up the Ronson, Mott, and Bolan!
Pepelaputr 3 months ago
one of the greatest pieces of art ever created.
saganemc2 4 months ago in playlist saganemc2's favorites
possibly the mosst talented homosexual of all time except for michaelangelo
elvispresley718 4 months ago
@elvispresley718
He has admitted that he only stated that he was gay for publicity reasons. He isn't actually gay. If he was he wouldn't be married with three kids.
mysterymac38 3 months ago
@mysterymac38 Wait I thought he only had two children? Also, he never said he was gay, just bisexual, so he could quite possibly have kids. Nonetheless, it was most likely just for publicity.
LaceyBellissimo 3 months ago
@LaceyBellissimo His first child directed the movie "MOON". He has two daughters with Iman.
slurm33 2 months ago
@LaceyBellissimo Lots of gay people of both genders have children. always have.
prinzonyx1 2 months ago
@elvispresley718 Maybe you should have just left the word homosexual out and just written 'people' in its place.
Susleigh 3 months ago
@Susleigh i understand your sensitivity however when somebody goes out of their wa y to proclaim a different sexuality then i'm free to comment on it he's putting it out there
elvispresley718 3 months ago
@elvispresley718 who cares. good musick
gr8skpz 2 months ago
@elvispresley718 People man. One of the most talented people...
Susleigh 3 months ago
This song never gets played on the radio nowadays unfortunately
AndrewNewZealand 4 months ago
I love Bowie!
TobeyStarburst 4 months ago
Ok, I'll listen to it a second time... ok, maybe another... just once more! One more time won't hurt! Replaying it over again is alright! Maybe just onnnnccceee mooorreee...
FlyingTurtletastic 4 months ago 2
oh oh oh oh oh. i love that
kjsh987 5 months ago
being a bowie maniac, this is one of my most favourites - if you see the film THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, he is an alien and his tvc15 is his tele vision central with 15 screens (aliens can take in more info than us according to the film). In the film there are many references to his life and career, bowie nuts will spot them immediately. the cover of the album is the space ship he built to take water back to his own planet
ukguy1958 5 months ago
im home alone got this up nice and loud, singing at the top of my voice! thank you David Bowie!!
Eggs4Eva 5 months ago
My fukin license plate is and will always be TVC 15. Its on a 650 hp biturbo Lambo and I rock that sucker
MsIlovemusic5678 5 months ago 4
Station to Station? I think it is one of the greatest pieces of art ever completed. "Transcendental " would cheapen it. His body of work is a rare chance for 3 dimensional beings like our selves to behold something truly 4th dimensional. Neither now, then, or tomorrow,......only..Bowie.
saganemc2 5 months ago 2
@canopener505 betcha' can't! study up.
saganemc2 5 months ago
greatest album ever recorded, and i've heard em' all.
saganemc2 5 months ago
no le entiendo a esta rolla pfff
Monsterkaps17 5 months ago
This song is just cool because it's cool. A device for a device to offer a new way of looking into, walking into the box.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
This song should be in the next Iron Man trailer.
DBowie125 6 months ago
I'm sure I can guess at the inspiration for this song, but it is definitely uniquely Bowie.
canopener505 6 months ago
that song, to this day gives me CHILLS!
xMOD3RNRANG3Rx 6 months ago
I just can't get over the fact that David Bowie made this song when he saw Iggy Pop attack his television because he thought it was alive.
DBowie125 6 months ago
@DBowie125
That's hilarious! I didn't know that. Thanks!
SweetenThekitty96 6 months ago
@SweetenThekitty96 They say you learn something new every day.
DBowie125 5 months ago
completely sums up the initially dry but eventually harmonious end of this spectrum. Once I FELT the connection I am not ashamed to admit I wept for some time. Please do not allow your gift of explanation to go wasted!
saganemc2 6 months ago
@saganemc2 Thanks. There is an explanation for that I know that I know what I know. But few are ready for it. I guess it's just a matter of time and faith. Things are always stranger than they seem. You made me smile.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime oh my cosmos, finally someone else! How beautiful I crossed your path on a Bowie video!!!! The distance between you and I (and anyone else who dares) is 0. What you wrote about "staring your fear down unblinking"- gorgeous, not unlike Mr. Bowie himself! I would follow you into the pit of hell if there were any true distance to traverse ;-) I have found the same inspiration watching the physicist Brian Greene speak. There is an amazing 20 minute video you can watch here that complet
saganemc2 6 months ago
Bowie could write some shit! This was about a concept of connectivity to all things via the constellation Lyra, made up of a parallelogram and a triangle of stars that designated M57 (The Ring Nebula) as the source of video on a cosmically energized plane. The electric eye that is sensitive to surrounding light in the room that has since been a foregone concept of the science of television, but more accurately appropriate to the content coming in from rabbit ears and contents worthy of watching.
MrMajorTime 7 months ago in playlist Bowie
uh uh uh uh ho!
tomeeeee1 7 months ago
Just stare back unblinking at anything troubling you. You'll feel better and the problem will not scare you any the more.
MrMajorTime 7 months ago in playlist Bowie
oh my tvc15 OHoh!!! SOOO GOOD!!!!
MiGrandeCazzo 7 months ago
I heard this in 6th grade and was a huge Bowie fan already. This song still haunts me as one of my favorites of all time. Get David Live at Philadelphia Tower if you like him live. Listen to the Howard Stern interview with Lady Gaga as she describes Bowie as if she was a star-struck kid. I think she gained another 20,000,000 fans.I am not a Gaga fan- BUT check out her performance on Stern and you will see- REAL music is coming back to all of us.
soxrock2007 7 months ago 2
Remember, Bowie's work fell in his lap as it rolled off the cosmos to his unique balance point in time. The way the song came about, somewhat inspired by Iggy's traumatic trip, in no way diminishes the resulting creation. The casual happenstance of what transpired was only apparently offhand. It was just what was needed at the time, as in other songs, to get this onto paper. Not random, not throw away lyrics at all. Bowie was the vehicle for destined conceptual patents coming down the ether net.
MrMajorTime 8 months ago
Bowie anticipates the importance of the holographic medium as the ultimate information access device! Not only something to watch, or something that watches you, but a dimension to enter where there are infinite channels. Everything in its place has an equal amount of information as to its position in reference to the remainder. So, in each still photograph can be found an entire movie. In each fractal one can find a rainbow way, a path that leads to whatever imagery you can connect to in space.
MrMajorTime 8 months ago
such a jolly song and yet the chorus musically is so dark and edgy - amazing stuff.
mbranch99 8 months ago
Oh my T V C one five, oh oh, T V C one five,
Oh my T V C one five, oh oh, T V C one five,
Oh my T V C one five, oh oh, T V C one five
daniva 9 months ago
I heard this song when I was elementary school in '76 and swore until now it was called "Traaaannnsssmisssion", ha. He performed this with Nomi on SNL too, right?
Pirate7X 10 months ago
Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm
have a drink on me tamerswan lol
Elijah2x 10 months ago
STS is my fav Bowie LP because it captures his past work but shows him the future path: Low, Heroes etc
Another point always overlooked: Bowie had one of the best rhythm sections in music back then, and this song captures it perfectly
Elijah2x 10 months ago 3
This song has everything.: Funk, Punk, Rock, German beer music, surrealism...
Elijah2x 10 months ago
nice sound
MrHooLee 1 year ago
Bowie is obviously from the future......
navet1953 1 year ago 5
O my TVC15. T-V-C- one five
gd44 1 year ago
a prophetic image of the blurr between reality and fantasy of the mass media age!
carrier3232 1 year ago
@carrier3232 as cool as your analyzation sounds, it's regrettably false. It's about Iggy Pop being so incredibly wasted that he thought Bowie's TV was attacking his girlfriend; causing him to assault it. Yes, a television.
Velcherr 1 year ago
@Velcherr are you serious??? lol. oh Iggy, how I love you....
RyZombie619 1 year ago
@Velcherr So how is what he is saying false Velchy? Sounds like Iggy WAS the blurr beetween reality and fantasy alright.
LOL
Thejbirdy 1 year ago
One of my favorites from this album! I tell you, I have to hear it at least once a week! I just love it!
naumnn 1 year ago 18
This is my favorite Bowie song. The chorus Kills me every time - Amazing!
syr1811 2 years ago 31
@syr1811
That chorus is pretty killer.
evilashxero 10 months ago
@syr1811 His best song and best record IMHO
House38500 2 months ago