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David Bowie - TVC 15

Sometimes I feel like I monitor my Tumbltape just so I’ll know when it’s appropriate to post another Bowie track.

Edit: oh, Wikipedia, do you ever disappoint?

The song was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed that the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Beyond oblique mentions to absorption via television, the lyrics are largely nonsensical. Bowie himself hasn’t been able to shed any light on their meaning beyond the Pop anecdote, having very limited recollection of the Station to Station sessions, due to his own heavy drug use at the time.