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6. Bowie - TVC15

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 03:22 AM

Jun 2012

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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVC_15

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Post some songs about TV [View all] Initech Jun 2012 OP

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