Analogue Is Not Digital

13 SONGS ABOUT TELEVISION

'13 Songs About Televison' looks back over the era of television from the cultural perspective of pop music. Starting at 1953 with Dinah Washington singing 'tv is the thing this year' and ending with Daft Punk's 'Television Rules The Nation', featuring inbetween the timeline, the dead kennedys, the tubes, magazine, the normal, talking heads, the cramps, blondie, Frank Zappa, the beatnigs, fleetwood mac and the adverts.

01. TV is the Thing This Year - Dinah Washington (1953)
02. I'm The Slime - Frank Zappa (1973)
03. Found a Job - Talking Heads (1978)
04. Fade Away and Radiate - Blondie (1978)
05. Televisions Over - The Adverts (1978)
06. T. V. O. D. - The Normal (1978)
07. TV Baby - Magazine (1978)
08. Prime Time - The Tubes (1979)
09. MTV Get Of The Air - Dead Kennedys (1984)
10. Television Drug of the Nation - Beatnigs (1988)
11. TV Set - The Cramps (1989)
12. Murrow Turning Over In His Grave - Fleetwood Mac (2003)
13. Television Rules the Nation - Daft Punk (2005)

Installation. Whitley Bay Film Festival, September 2012.
Part of 'ANALOGUE IS NOT DIGITAL' curated radio programme- Aired on Basic.Fm - http://basic.fm