Seeing that we're doing songs about various topics, here's a fun one:

Songs about TELEVISION!!! :tv:

TV Eye--Iggy Pop

TV Party Tonight--Black Flag

TV Crimes--Black Sabbath
The Sun Always Shines on TV--a-Ha

1970 Somethin'---Mark Wills' (My first love was Daisy Duke and them cut-off jeans)

What was I thinkin' --- Dierks Bentley (Hoodslidin' like Bo Duke)

Niether are about TV just reference to the Dukes.

1. "Bandstand Boogie" (Vocal version) - Barry Manilow
2. "Western Movies" - Olympics
3. "UHF" - Weird Al Yankovic
4. "Cable TV" - Weird Al Yankovic
5. "You Can't Watch This" - Weird Al Yankovic

Plus. . .

57 Channels (And Nothin' On) - Bruce Springsteen

Talking Heads' "Found a Job".

Arnold & Willis & Mr. Drummond - Five Iron Frenzy

The first song that came to my mind when seeing this chat subject is "This Ain't Dallas" by Hank Williams Jr. :) :) :)

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God bless you and him always!!!

Holly

Banned from T.V. - Noreaga

'Christine" --by Randy Stonehill, where the CCM pioneer sings a satirical love song for a female news anchor on late night TV, from 1982.

"MTV Get Off the Air" --by Dead Kennedys.

"Dragula" --by Rob Zombie, in reference to the vehicle seen in the closing credits of 'The Munsters'.

Watching TV by Roger Waters.

Ed.

Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (about watching TV news)
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley (ditto)

Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home":

I've got 15 channels of **** on the TV to choose from.

Weird Al Yankovic's "The Brady Bunch".

I'm The Slime (Oozing Out of Your TV Set) - Frank Zappa
I Saw It On TV - John Fogerty
Video Killed the Radio Star - the Buggles
I Lost On "Jepoardy" - Weird Al Yankovic
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits ("You play your guitar on the MTV. . . .")
I Can't Watch This - Weird Al Yankovic
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
Roller Derby Queen - Jim Croce ("a girl I saw on the barroom TV screen")
Lady Writer - Dire Straits ("Lady writer on the TV")
Sleepin' With The Television On - Billy Joel
I Wanna Be On MTV - Loudon Wainwright III
Good Morning, Good Morning - the Beatles ("It's time for tea and 'Meet The Wife.'")

TV Party- Black Flag

Old Days - Chicago (mentions Howdy Doody)

"Television, the Drug of the Nation," by the Disposable Heroes of Hyphoprisy.
"We'll Be Right Back," by Steinski and the Mass Media.

Was "F.O.X. (Freedom Of Xpression)" by Living Colour about the conservative-leaning (allegedly) network?

"I Wanna Be A Flintstone" - Screaming Blue Messiahs

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