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
great record
Great great great!!!
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'”
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.
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?
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 ….
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.
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
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
ok i couldn’t help it, had to do an acoustic cover
http://www.radiofreesrini.com/televisionaddict.mp3
-s
Love the drumming on that song!
does anyone know the chords
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—–
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.
And that second 7″ can be found here:
https://kbdrecords.com/2006/10/11/the-victims-no-thanks-to-the-human-turd-ep-7/
Incredible song, but I already knew it. What surprised me was how good & fast “Flipped Out Over You” is. Great song, great single!
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.
And James Baker was drummer in both The Victims and The Scientists. He has also played in my band, Potato Stars, but that’s a hole other story…
This record is so fucking great!! I seriously doubt if there are many records as great as this one. Television Addict is a perfect song.
Sing to the tune of The Addams Family.
Your sister is your mother
Your uncle is your brother
You all fuck one another
Jay Thurstons family
DA DA DA DA
BUM BUM…..Fag.
Buttcheese=HOMO.
Yes Jay I am one of the stately queers of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I am Not a girly, I am Clem from up North ‘O’ Watford Gap and also Noah from the UK. I am a wanker. it’s true and for once I find myself agreeing with you. This record is indeed great. You are indeed a punk kind of guy as you are impervious to my vilest insults. I salute you sir, 3 cheers for Jay everyone! HIP HIP…HOORAY, HIP HIP….HOORAY, HIP HIP….HOORAY!!!!! God bless, Love and Kisses from everyone’s favorite HOMO, BUTTCHEESE……….
You crack me up!! Hahahahaha…I think I have finally met someone with the same sense of humor I have! Mr. Buttcheese, thank you!!! You should look me up on Facebook…you are hilarious!!
I love the victims.
http://www.perthisacultureshock.blogspot.com
And what do you think about the Victims?
one just went for $200
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Television-Addict-The-Victims-7-inch-single-Punk_W0QQitemZ290375475466QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Records?hash=item439bba210a
Kind of high for a copy without sleeve?
yeah, it only has a plain white one sleeve.
look at the ones on popsike: http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=victims+television+addict&x=0&y=0
Peter, I agree with you on the drumming, absolutely great in that typical Vibrators/staccato/sloppy way (I love how the snare rolls start one hit early, Vibrators-style!). If you wanna hear more, check out the Scientists’s early (1979-81) stuff; been listening to that a lot last week and thought the drumming sounded familiar… Well, turns out it’s the guy from the Victims!
Yeah the early Scientist is kinda neat. Some killer tracks in my book: It’s for real and Bet ya lyin’ but too many times they’re a bit too much “rock n roll”.
I like the Scientists but hate the profession. Forgive the old lefty slogan: “Science cut down the tree of knowledge and turned it into a truncheon.”
Losing my train of thought (I am old), Television Addict is awesome in that it is quaint (and roars) and captures better times. Now everyone is addicted to Fagbook and those double anal iPud devices.
Listening to Television Addict on repeat right now…
We are old and have been playing this a bit. Found you guys looking for lyrics. If anyone is still alive hit us up. Love your work here???
anyone remember another great aussie band,XL CAPRIS.had a great 7″.
I had the XC Capris-My city of Sidney 7″ but sold it. Wasn’t that good IMHO.
Its decent..the rest of their releases are more “nu-wavey”
one of the best ever….im looking for a copy of this or the no thanks to the human turd 7″ if anyone has one…originals only and will pay top dollar!
What would these be likely to fetch these days?
thanks again for this!
“Television Addict” is also on the “Do The Pop! vol1” compilation.
THE VICTIMS ARE PLAYING:
https://www.facebook.com/hoodoogurus/photos/a.213984969228.111804.162204769228/10152279077969229/?type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story