David Bowie - TVC15

[astrophonix]

Does anyone know what a TVC15 is?

[astrophonix]

@astrophonix Never mind. "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."

[AftreGlow]

look @ that smacked up pic of BOWIE - best fn BASS RIFFFFFFS

[leonakita]

@butihum3 ahahah @ byrne = bowie.... get real!

[evilpixiedance]

what an amazing songwriter. i cannot think of anyone else who sounds or moves or writes like he does. his music is in a class by itself. genius.

[bigtony10]

He was NOT entirely straight for sure, no matter what he said later in his married life. Doesn't really matter... a true musical genius and the ONLY person that can make an orange mullet and blue eye shadow look cool.

[fourcups123]

@bigtony10 ...i agree , he's so classic its patheticly good !! , usually the best artists who sing these pleading from heart songs in classic swing style , are usually not straight ? ... which is there preference , I still love them ! { sample bowie , jagger , freddie mercury , judas priest , frankie goes to hollywood , dead or alive and pete townsend !

[MiwiTheNerd]

I can't stop listening to this

[blodwynpig1]

Best ever driving song

[Dannyvirk]

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. After his girlfriend crawled into the television and was lost, he desired to crawl in himself to find her.

[arealOpia1991]

@Dannyvirk whose girlfriend bowie's or iggys ??... and WHERE DID YOU HERE THIS ... !!!... I WANT THE FULL STORY!! XDDD

[Dannyvirk]

@arealOpia1991 Heya, i'd love to say i know this beacause i used to hang with bowie and iggy, but i just read it on wikipedia, just search TVC-15, cheers

[heatdeb]

Is there anything better?Or anyone?Just about the greastest song from the worlds greatest artist.

[joexgreen3]

uploading from the viking room @LU

[CasteloserROX101]

I LOVE this song sooo mcuh! haha I even used it in my video.. WHICH YOU SHOULD WATCH

[MCGUIGANTENTOES]

david has and always will appeal to all sexuals as he is a beautiful looking human who appeals to all.music has only accessed such a beautiful looking person to us mortals who can only wish.i have met him twice and he is what you waNT HIM TO BE.NORMAL AND DAFT

[8BlueSkies]

@MCGUIGANTENTOES wow, how did you manage to meet him? After a concert or something?

[DeadKold]

one of the best deep album cuts

[snorlaxx1337911]

david bowie is the male version of mila jovovic xD

thumb this shit up motherfuckerz

[Shiroitora55]

@snorlaxx1337911 No.... No one can EVER come close to being David Bowie.

[91ajb91]

david bowie is gay and i like his music

[gr8skpz]

@91ajb91 u r stoopid and gay 2

[hunkydoryize1]

@91ajb91 bisexual

[pannaSoprano]

@hunkydoryize1 Actually Bowie later himself said he wasnt really bisexual but was more or less influenced by the fashion of that time.

[triflind]

@pannaSoprano Incorrect, he and Iggy used to have a thing.

[backintoyouropenarms]

Pisses me off how young people are saying things like "I'm 17 and I listen to Bowie". Well, fucking well done for you! Do yuo want a medal or something? Don't think you're special just because you listen to music that isn't from your era. Just beacuse you was born in a different generation to the music doesn't mean that you deserve some extra credit. You could be 8 or you could be 88. Does it matter what age you are to listen to a genre of music?No! So just shut the fuck and listen to the music.

[TheQuietOne02]

@backintoyouropenarms I'm 19 and can anyone say mid-life crisis?

[sclapione]

@TheQuietOne02 At 19 ? ;)

[botbagel]

@backintoyouropenarms Wow...chill out man...I agree w/the 'irritability' POV but you're a bit off the charts w/the anger dude! LOL LOL I think they DO think it makes them FEEL cool, and that's okay...I'm just saying...

[sclapione]

"Don't think you're special just because you listen to music that isn't from your era."

Exactly. It's tiresome when you read that shit on music you grew up with, people should be able to enjoy their gens music ???

[metalhead19931]

I am a 17 year old straight male and this is still the sexiest picture my eyes have ever seen.

[MegaFoureyes]

@metalhead19931 - If I were you I'd shoot myself.

[Partycja16]

I HAVE 17 YEARS AND I LISEN DAVID BOWIE!!

[Bool1995]

@Partycja16 did u pass high school??

[AlessandroDelNabot]

Ce type est un génie



[MrDevo5]

omg

[lorriutopia]

hot is the word!

[SgtPeppersPeePee]

This goes on an on like a long shit. Not in a bad way, not totally. It just sounds like youre driving through the channel tunnel to France.

[rioblancoman]

so hologramic...

[Flunder]

@zois that is soooooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooooo true!

[bbarrera86]

one word to the picture above: Androgyny

[boardskins]

The Talking Heads could've covered this.

[chrisfortyfive]

Bad Penny Blues Lady Madonna.

[familytunes1]

ohhhhhhhhhh bbbaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbby rock me like you no how mr bowie

[1994bowie]

Bowie 4ever. ♥

[DonFormica]

Station to Station was one of the first record albums I ever owned. You know those big vinyl things you played with a needle. Thanks for the post and memories.

[Annaedification]

God... he's hot. Sooo hot.

[centralparocker]

Great song....

[familytunes1]

bowie you cut the musical threads with your style an shall remain the thin white duke from now until eternity

[rgarcia77]

I'm pretty sure I recently saw him on a Rosetta Stone language learning commercial. Bowie was it back when I was in college. Good ole 70's!

[futuristfood]

that hair can only be had with a blow dryer.. luscious!

[55pogue]

tvc15

[brbgal]

I absolutely LOVE this song!!!!

[shw500]

looks like a badly hungover lily allen there

[zoist80]

To be David Bowie and not be completely overwhelmed by being David Bowie is a testament to human achievement.

[bettycola]

@zoist80 meant to vote up! true words

[botbagel]

@zoist80 BEST COMMENT EVER!!! SERIOUSLY!! And I love him humming the harmony on this track too!! YES OVERWHELMED!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ROMEORAUNCH]

@zoist80 when he was a young david jones he knew what he was and was going to be, the man is a musical genius.

[isa77410]

Just discovered this song by David. Funny how the chorus sounds like the line "I got a better way" in New Killer Star. It's a great source of enjoyment to listen to his less-known songs. His career is so rich it seems it will take me years to get a full grasp of it. How exhilarating...

[DailyBrusher]

@isa77410

Please hear the entire "Station to Station" album - some of it is underwhelming, but the best songs on S2S are as good and anything he's done!

Also make sure to be familiar with the entire "Berlin Trilogy" - Low, Heroes, and Lodger, as well as the related Iggy Pop albums, Lust for Life and The Idiot. These alone will give you many hours of total musical fulfillment!

[whackfoldeediedo]

@DailyBrusher remember and treasure all of it, what great memories....

[QueenReigns1]

@DailyBrusher

When You Rock n Roll With Me...best Bowie song ever!

[TomMinderson]

The drag look was actually his wife's idea. He hit a slow spot in his career and was looking for a new gimmick.

[fredblassie123]

Great Tune....

[ofalltheranters]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU FOUND THIS PICTURE!!! I MUST HAVE IT!

[azgeogeo]

What is tvc15?

[karenelisu]

@azgeogeo His beloved stereo system.

[karenelisu]

@azgeogeo His beloved television system.

[kimmodude]

He is the only person who can make a bright orange mullet look amazing. I mean, he even makes eye injuries sexy. x]  DAVID BOWIE. <3

[zoist80]

Ha! I was just sining this song yesterday to my boss at work. He just kinda looked at me with one eyebrow raised.

[TheDantheman1997]

@zoist80 awkword

[mitocrow]

love Bowie´s music and talent =))

[royalnash]

he sounds like david byrne

[DeKalblu]

@royalnash So the fuck what?!?! I need pussies to get laid, period... & I think he's burnin' hot nevertheless! When it comes to music, the sexual orientation of the performers aint the thing that makes me cum, lol! DB is one of the greatest artists of the past century, you little prick. As a matter of fact, nobody knows for sure what he thinks and what he feels. He escapes definition, he's beyond 'sexual orientation', he fucks with everybody's mind... and he sure fucks with you, pea-brain... lol

[lovelyharajuku]

@royalnash so what does it have to do with his genius music?

[sallyfieldrequired]

@royalnash he also has two kids and has had two wives

[ziggy95]

Really had to be seen live to get the effect of this song, as I was lucky enough to do on the station to station tour

[qoakzm2qoakzm]

love that picture

[ElectricGypsy95]

I wish my hair looked like that.

[SolidusSnacks]

He's so freaking beautiful... with a funky voice to match!

The ONLY man allowed to sparkle and wear a bright red-orange mullet!

He even makes eye injuries look good.

[79redangus]

I love this song...it feels so sloppy then starts marching.

[czech698]

Wednesday is the actor's Day of Atonement. Perhaps it's spring and the sap rising in the limbs of trees, as well as in those somewhat passive members of my own, that yearly stirs in me an ambition to become athletic, to find some enjoyable form of sport in which the enjoyment is not purely on the side of those who watch me

[jizzsuker1200onass]

this song cracks me up

[unisexist]

oh my tvc one five! <3

[Louislane20042000]

LOVE THIS SONG! Takes me back to my high school days! *dances like a dork

[grinsect]

You mean eye.

[BiscuitDegaro]

Love his eyes.

[Gen2far]

Congrats You all know the genesis of the song. Bunch bunches me thinks.

[Dehzee]

Tvc 15 projects a holographic picture, girlfriend gets to close to it, gets swallowed. He contemplates going in to look for her.

[helenajesstarzak]

David Bowie rocks!

[DreamPark9]

Such a talented fellow. He could reinvent himself 100 times over & still look good...* Perhaps the song deals with gender juggling. But What Do I Know Anyway. Station to station is an excellent album. Godspeed David...*

[TheHexeract]

@DreamPark9 the song is written about an LSD experience when bowie thought his girlfriend get sucked into his TV.

[polistyrenejassband]

iggys girlfreind

[banez]

i thought it was Iggys girlfriend

[helden1951]

The song is about a dream Iggy Pop had when saw his girl friend coming out of his TV.

[soulchosen]

I heard somewhere that TVC15 was a radio station that he heard in the US.

[markandgina7]

awesome, awesome, song writer and performer.

[typ044]

bowie himself said he was so high when recording station to station he doesnt even remember recording it.

[yhn1inc]

This record is from 1976 and David was heavy on the coke. The photo is from the Ziggy days...

[LittleGodOfThunder]

Not on coke?

Well, check this out:

"David Bowie Dick Cavett interview 1974"

[ZephyChanges]

In a sense, the Station to Station album is like cocaine. That is to say, rather addictive.

[Blenders06]

course he was on coke! he was on coke for the whole of station to station!!

[BIGROCKER620]

Bowie...The Master of the ecclectic... There will never be another...

[podingtonbear]

Bowie is a babe :)

[barakobama]

Bowie is Bowie....

I personally thank the fates that he did what he did to be who he became.

Bowie...yes...Bowie....

[BdALpye]

well he did try coke during his ziggy days. as well as several other drugs...

[Sylikat1895]

I just made the tactical error of absent-mindedly switching to this window while drinking water; almost spit it all over my keyboard cause he looks so hot

[TravelScooterLondon]

@Sylikat1895 That's not what the average (computer) keyboard smells like it's been spilt on !

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[lorriutopia]

@Sylikat1895 you ain't kidding. That man is HOT

[Peachypea23]

oooooooooooh he is so hot!!!!

[BdALpye]

picture=win!

[metyyra]

Best song of David

[botbagel]

One of my favs too!! Bad, Bad TVC15!!!

[Lengsel7]

He's chewing on his tongue.

[andymouse123]

hahahhahahahahahah

[botbagel]

andymouse123, I've got your number(s)..better know I am gonna get your little 'fluffy pup" and I don't mean sooner

...hehehehe....I just LOVE this...hehe...Look behind your shoulder..hehehe,,,man or mouse..hehehe...'You're Gonna Get It, Kid, You're Really Gonna Get It...love ya dude

[andymouse123]

bot

scary hehehehe hahahah

luv mousey X

[McInsquash7]

You will never know the true meaning of the song unless you meet the person who wrote it.

[sagizanne]

have you not seen the film the man who fell to earth, when he is able to absorb info from 15 tv stations at one time. as well how we will become oversaturated with information. tell me do you not find yourself with the tv, radis, and pc on all at one

[5walker5]

i love the picture he has there

[cheVCFjoydivision]

thats awesome  and weird

[cheVCFjoydivision]

wt is this song about - any underlieing meaning or anything atleast? i just lvoe it such a great pop  song - so different to anything ive heard - got that kinda blues scale thng going on but isnt blues at all and the lyrics are loveable - wt is it about tho :S 15 channel tv? - lol i dno its just fabulous - "she saw my tvc 15 oh baby shes gone:"

[kralj7337]

the story goes that Bowie and Iggy Pop were so coked up one night that they thought that Iggy's girlfriend was being eaten by a TV, so that whats its about

[polistyrenejassband]

i heard it was iggy and his girlfriend on lsd

[SyriusFerreal]

I have heard/read the same story except not coke but heroin

[txeire]

to think he did this album in a complete cocaine blizzard...and still came out with pure genius. most cokers think they're so brilliant and theyre nothing but gibberish...transition!...grea­t great album

[vespesian]

uh...it's the coke that made it good.

[txeire]

its the coke that makes it good

[thefortysixand2]

Actually, I heard that David Bowie made this album good.

[edchuckndoug]

ha ha ha ha lmfao

[jukatanforsixten]

Supeer písnička..:)

[lesterclaypool1]

Whilst on cocaine.

[siebze]

BOWIE ROCKS!!!!!!

[SummertimesBlues]

Yeh!!!Alright!So Cool,Song!Awesome Vid.!!!Thx for Posting!Ta.

[quillber]

i love how demented this track is. its kind of desperate and fun at the same time.

[JRebG]

Love the picture you used of him. The iconic red mullet :D Total genius this man. Incredibly intelligent guy. Enough said :)♥

[elenaacuto]

nice picture!!

[pennytomei3]

i was so in love with Bowie during this time..i was in high school...my license plate# was tvc 15..remember Bowie on Snl. in a nice knee length...skirt...with Nomi as back ground singer....rockin'..ahead of their time....

[Harlequin1998]

somebody help me

[fackystn]

whatever!!!

[botbagel]

B - - Brilliant

O - - Original

W - - Whimsical

I - - Intellegent

E - - Entertainer

[lazer59882]

@botbagel fucking cheesy as hell

[botbagel]

@lazer59882  Ooooookay.....

[treesareterrific]

@botbagel do you think that makes common sense?

[botbagel]

@treesareterrific Since nothing is 'common' about Bowie, yes I do!

[yiotispan]

Fantastic. A joyous composition. Rather festive. Makes you want to party.

[hellothisismeth]

why'd you edit the song?

[Droyd21]

I think there are multiple versions of it. On my bowie hits cd it is a shorter version as well.

[jacktheripped]

Bowie is a master composer, wish I was half as good :P

[dirtyratmiller]

Hey! Who the Hell keeps censoring me! Somebody has some latent content goin' on!!

[insaneforstuff254]

Wow, man. That cuts....that cuts real deep. I don't think I've ever been more offended in my life.

...

ANYWAY, about the VIDEO.

Hilarious picture!

I love this song.

It's great to power walk to. <-(totally random)

[rockyfist]

and who are you? God? fuck off.

[nosis1939]

It's not the side effects of the cocaine

[789pequignot]

happy birthday david bowie

[Capricorngirl000]

Darn dont i love this track :D

It my myspace profile song.

[alluurpo]

x))

[insaneforstuff254]

Yeah, rockyfist, and yours was a well of sophistication and intelligence.

If you don't want to be insulted, don't go around posting infantile and offensive comments.

[alluurpo]

you still look like one without a red hair

[alluurpo]

I mean rockyfist looks like faggot, not Bowie. ofc :D

[keefek]

One of the best from Bowie's glam period. This song never gets much play on classic rock radio, but it fine just the same.

[Flunder]

I can listen to this bass line and not get bored. great. :)

[perfectdrug39]

awesome song. his hairs pretty sweet here too like :)

[appletonnorth]

jonesy rules.

[keithis1337]

bowie man!!!!!

[theduderwiggysan]

Great track.

[Flunder]

Im re discovering this guy.its great.

[Flunder]

God I need this. thanks. :)

[ForTheHerd]

This song is about Iggy Pop hallucinating the TV was eating his girlfriend, didja know that?

[schroener]

best Bowie song...

[sobaguest]

Can't stop going through all his work now,,, all classics and so far ahead,,, nobody can ever argue this guy is one of the greatest performers songwriters we've ever had,,,

Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour again,,, still more go in him than most !!

[bacon2tasty]

when i first heard this song, i didnt realize that it was sung by david bowie

[dlfunky]

love this track it just gets better every time you hear it and of course its on one bowie's all time classic albums station to station.