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Reality TV
What does the licence fee pay for? Having acquired a collection of seventies Radio and TV Times magazines, I can confirm that TV then was pretty dire - unless you liked Seaside Special or The Black and White Minstrels.
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Good stuff &mdash 04/19/06 - 12:15:14 AM
This is a cool, fun little pop tune...I can relate to your rant about 'reality
TV' - the scourge of our nation...I too am fed up with all this 'I think I am
a celebrity, pander my ego' type shows.
Nice chiming guitar sounds and affecting vocasl. This reminds me a little
of another Mj'er called Eltopo...check out his 'gentrification' track!
Cheers
Steve [ Reply to This ]
Good stuff &mdash 04/19/06 - 05:30:05 AM
Thanks Steve, glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed recording it (a bit of a departure from my usual gloomy folky acoustic songs). PS. Also love the Go-Betweens (and Grant McLennans solo stuff) - Very much an influence. [ Reply to This ]
memories &mdash 04/19/06 - 05:21:48 AM
I too am from the era that can relate to your song, enjoyed the feel of it keep it up, cheery [ Reply to This ]
judith chalmers and pyjamas!!! &mdash 04/25/06 - 03:42:40 AM
victoria wood used that one too! i loved it then and i love it now!! great song - glad i followed the flag!! thank you [ Reply to This ]
judith chalmers and pyjamas!!! &mdash 04/25/06 - 07:07:50 AM
Strange you should say that - my wife disovered another song with her in as well. Anyway, I don't mind being in the same company as Victoria Wood (but not Judith Chalmers)! Thanks for listening, Peter [ Reply to This ]
Fab track &mdash 05/21/06 - 11:39:52 AM
TV has certainly got dire - and that's starting from a very low base.
Has anyone seen 'Year of the Sex Olympics'? Made in the 60s - bang up
to date prophetic warning on dumbed down TV.
I was speaking to an American a while back who said how great it was
that we have BBC news to tell us truth.
Funny - whenever I watch BBC News I'm constantly bored by the
onslaught of government corpotate press releases thinly disguised as
news: 'The CBI argued that...', 'Halifax figures suggest...', 'a
government spokesman said...', 'The ONS said inflation slipped back to
0.0003% after carrots came into season...'
I'll pay a tenner licence fee for natural history programs, but beyond
that I couldn't give a stuff.
Fab melody. [ Reply to This ]
RIP Grant McLennan... &mdash 06/06/06 - 08:10:25 AM
Great song, definately reminds me of the Go-Betweens:
... on a very sad note...Peter, did you know that Grant McLennan
passed away about weeks ago? [ Reply to This ]
RIP Grant McLennan... &mdash 06/06/06 - 04:32:11 PM
Thank you for dropping in and listening, and for your comments. I was very sorry to hear Grant McLennan had died suddenly. Always one of my biggest influences - And just as The Go-Betweens were beginning to receive long overdue success - Very sad news. [ Reply to This ]
Bananas as it could be &mdash 12/09/06 - 04:03:17 PM
Good guitars and melody. One suggestion is that you might try to sing with a less melodic, more hardened vocal. It seems that your voice is almost too folk singer style for a bite out of the tv sandwich. Your background vocal "Reality TV" could also be used with a megaphone type voice to enhance the difference between it and lead.
Good production and the song is very good. [ Reply to This ]
Thanks &mdash 05/24/07 - 01:24:42 PM
for listening and for your comments - Glad you like the song. I don't normally to these 'rocky' numbers and you're absolutely right suggesting that my voice is perhaps a little soft for it (although it does make it less predictable). I did record an acoustic version where I sound far more more comfortable. I have re-mastered this since and centralised the 'Reality TV' bits on the chorus which I think sounds better. I will post an update at some point.
Peter [ Reply to This ]
REALITY TV &mdash 12/14/07 - 07:26:14 AM
It's been &mdash 12/14/07 - 09:38:56 AM
a long time since this one was posted - glad you found it! It's still one of my favourites and was quite different to the folky stuff I'd been doing. Thanks for listening.
Peter [ Reply to This ]
Hitting your first &mdash 05/08/08 - 04:11:48 PM
Love going back and hitting firsts. This is reality TV, in a way. Good stuff, Peter.
Dumbing down IS capitalism. Didn't you learn that in school?
LL [ Reply to This ]
I always like &mdash 05/09/08 - 05:20:44 AM
checking out the older stuff too.
Thanks for listening to this 'oldie' which is still a favourite of mine - as ever, there are a few things I might change if I were doing it now (not sure if the one up here is the final mix/master) but it's a fun song!
Peter [ Reply to This ]
great song Peter - &mdash 06/11/08 - 07:19:01 PM
it's funny but I've written a song very much on this subject called - Celebrity Cats -
This song is just what the doctor oredered, it's about time someone gave this form of so called entertainment a poke in the eye.
Like your vocals as well, I could have imagined Ian Dury doing this.
Nice one,
John
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Thank you &mdash 06/12/08 - 06:38:52 PM
I have a soft spot for this song - so it's always nice to see it get dusted down!
I think I'm even more fed up with the rubbish on TV now than I was when I wrote this.
Thanks for checking this one out.
Peter [ Reply to This ]
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TV' - the scourge of our nation...I too am fed up with all this 'I think I am
a celebrity, pander my ego' type shows.
Nice chiming guitar sounds and affecting vocasl. This reminds me a little
of another Mj'er called Eltopo...check out his 'gentrification' track!
Cheers
Steve
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