The Victims - Television Addict 7″
September 17th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Some records can be spinned 10 times in a row then you get somewhat tired of them. Then there are some rare ones that can be on repeat like forever. This is one of them.
It’s been posted elsewhere I know but here you get it once again. Who knows it may slipped between the chairs for some punk rockers. Everything about this record is perfect! From the handstamped sleeve to the primtive raw production and of course the excellent song writing.
Country: Australia
Year: 1977
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Television Addict.mp3
Flipped Out Over You.mp3
September 18th, 2006 at 12:13 am
great record
September 18th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Great great great!!!
September 18th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Great single!
I thought that the singer sounded familiar and yes, he was.
It was Mr Hoodoo Guru-Dave Faulkner’s first band (together with James Baker from the same band) Which by the way was a fave band of mine.
“If it ain’t rockin’, don’t bother knockin’”
September 18th, 2006 at 8:43 am
I got a re-release of this one and it’s great stuff. Hellacopters also did a version of Television addict but this one is better.
September 18th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I concur; I think Television Addict is a classic. They have another album or single I’ve never heard, which I think is entitled “Perth Is Culture Shock.” Have you heard it and, if so, is it any good?
September 18th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
In the late 80s, a compilation with all VICTIMS recordings ever done (well) was released, it’s called “Not so quiet on the western front”. It’s a nice red vinyl LP and maybe somebody should rip this ….
September 21st, 2006 at 5:20 am
So classic! But they’re on every Australian punk history comp I own that it gets my kinda down. “Flipped Out Over You” will be stuck in my ehad forever.
October 24th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
television addict is one of the most important punk records in my life - back in like 1985 i was a kid in poughkeepsie new york and a DJ played it on college radio (WVKR, vassar college). i happened to tape it, and i played it so much that when the tape broke i hounded them to find the record and play it again. sadly it was nowhere to be found, even when i went down to the station - probably was owned by the DJ, not the station. so years later i finally got the song off the “Murder Punk” compilation, this was maybe in 1998, and it’s been a mixtape staple ever since. this is the first time i’m going to be hearing the b-side as well as the other victims record. thank you killed by death !!!!!!!!!!!!!
-srini
October 24th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
no i am serious, listening to this song again, this is the PERFECT punk rock song, it cannot be topped, it’s almost like religiously great. i just finished the book “infinite jest”, and the film in this book is hypnotic and renders its viewers paralyzed and they will cut their own fingers off in order to see it again. the lyrics of this song are like marshall mcluhan on crank. WE’RE NOT DUMB !!! !!! !!! !!!
-srini
http://www.unamerican.com
November 13th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
ok i couldn’t help it, had to do an acoustic cover
http://www.radiofreesrini.com/televisionaddict.mp3
-s
November 14th, 2006 at 2:18 am
Love the drumming on that song!
January 13th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
does anyone know the chords
January 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 am
great band
great song
this was the first band/track i posted
here
it’s fun to listen to, and even more fun to play
here you go Timmy (and everyone) - all of the chords and lyrics to Television Addict
now go and make some fuckin noise!!
Television Addict
[play all D's on 5th fret]
[Intro]
D G F [Riff 1] (four times)
D G F [Riff 1]
I read the news the other day
D G F [Riff 1]
About a boy they threw away
D G F [Riff 1]
He went out and shot someone
D G F [Riff 1]
Like some Kojak teleplay
He claimed he was confused
Between fact and fantasy
It seems he spent all of his time
In front of the TV screen
[Chorus]
(He was a)
D G F G [play G on 10th fret and F on 8th]
Television addict (four times)
The lawyers said this boy is sick
Blamed the ratings for his crime
They said too much sex and too much violence
On the idiot box spoiled his idiot mind
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
D G F G (four times)
D
F G (six times)
[Chorus]
You and me spend all of our time
In front of this window on the world
Just because I watch Dinah Shore
Doesn’t mean I need a facelift
Doesn’t mean my mind has flipped
Doesn’t mean anything
(Adlib for a bit)
[Chorus]
[Riff 1]
G
A ——-3–
E -3–5—–
February 6th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
This record is so insanely great. But I reckon their 5 song EP that came out the year after is EVEN BETTER if you can believe it.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:15 am
And that second 7″ can be found here:
http://www.kbdrecords.com/2006/10/11/the-victims-no-thanks-to-the-human-turd-ep-7/
December 15th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Incredible song, but I already knew it. What surprised me was how good & fast “Flipped Out Over You” is. Great song, great single!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Great record - geeez, this is real deep basement Aussie stuff! - the cover looks like it was hand-made on the drummer’s kitchen table! As good as Australis’s The Babeez or The Scientists I’d say -and that’s high praise indeed.