Reality TV

Peter Bauckham

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Reality TV
What does the licence fee pay for? Having acquired a collection of seventies Radio and TV Times magazines, I can confirm that TV then was pretty dire - unless you liked Seaside Special or The Black and White Minstrels.

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Hits: 1070
Comments: 19
Fans: 7
Plays: 230
Downloads: 47
Votes: 7
Uploaded: Apr 18, 2006 - 05:54:58 PM
Last Updated: Sep 24, 2008 - 12:29:00 PM Last Played: Sep 01, 2009 - 02:32:28 PM

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stevel

stevel said 1318 days ago (April 19th, 2006)

Good stuff
This is a cool, fun little pop tune...I can relate to your rant about 'reality
TV' - the scourge of our nation...I too am fed up with all this 'I think I am
a celebrity, pander my ego' type shows.
Nice chiming guitar sounds and affecting vocasl. This reminds me a little
of another Mj'er called Eltopo...check out his 'gentrification' track!
Cheers
Steve

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Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 1318 days ago (April 19th, 2006)
	Good stuff Thanks Steve, glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed recording it (a bit of a departure from my usual gloomy folky acoustic songs). PS. Also love the Go-Betweens (and Grant McLennans solo stuff) - Very much an influence. Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

jie	jie said 1318 days ago (April 19th, 2006)
	memories I too am from the era that can relate to your song, enjoyed the feel of it keep it up, cheery Check out my latest song called Gods Got HisPlans, Ive got mine

caroline	caroline said 1312 days ago (April 25th, 2006)
	judith chalmers and pyjamas!!! victoria wood used that one too! i loved it then and i love it now!! great song - glad i followed the flag!! thank you Check out my latest song called clink that link mjrf

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 1312 days ago (April 25th, 2006)
	judith chalmers and pyjamas!!! Strange you should say that - my wife disovered another song with her in as well. Anyway, I don't mind being in the same company as Victoria Wood (but not Judith Chalmers)! Thanks for listening, Peter Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

eltopo

eltopo said 1285 days ago (May 21st, 2006)

Fab track
TV has certainly got dire - and that's starting from a very low base.

Has anyone seen 'Year of the Sex Olympics'? Made in the 60s - bang up
to date prophetic warning on dumbed down TV.

I was speaking to an American a while back who said how great it was
that we have BBC news to tell us truth.

Funny - whenever I watch BBC News I'm constantly bored by the
onslaught of government corpotate press releases thinly disguised as
news: 'The CBI argued that...', 'Halifax figures suggest...', 'a
government spokesman said...', 'The ONS said inflation slipped back to
0.0003% after carrots came into season...'

I'll pay a tenner licence fee for natural history programs, but beyond
that I couldn't give a stuff.

Fab melody.

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alfalpha	alfalpha said 1270 days ago (June 6th, 2006)
	RIP Grant McLennan... Great song, definately reminds me of the Go-Betweens: ... on a very sad note...Peter, did you know that Grant McLennan passed away about weeks ago? Check out my latest song called Mania- w/DavisAmerica-The 'Sprout' Remix

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 1269 days ago (June 6th, 2006)
	RIP Grant McLennan... Thank you for dropping in and listening, and for your comments. I was very sorry to hear Grant McLennan had died suddenly. Always one of my biggest influences - And just as The Go-Betweens were beginning to receive long overdue success - Very sad news. Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

Monkaton

Monkaton said 1083 days ago (December 9th, 2006)

Bananas as it could be
Good guitars and melody. One suggestion is that you might try to sing with a less melodic, more hardened vocal. It seems that your voice is almost too folk singer style for a bite out of the tv sandwich. Your background vocal "Reality TV" could also be used with a megaphone type voice to enhance the difference between it and lead.

Good production and the song is very good.

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Peter Bauckham

Peter Bauckham said 917 days ago (May 24th, 2007)

Thanks
for listening and for your comments - Glad you like the song. I don't normally to these 'rocky' numbers and you're absolutely right suggesting that my voice is perhaps a little soft for it (although it does make it less predictable). I did record an acoustic version where I sound far more more comfortable. I have re-mastered this since and centralised the 'Reality TV' bits on the chorus which I think sounds better. I will post an update at some point.

Peter

Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

Heightened	Heightened said 714 days ago (December 14th, 2007)
	REALITY TV Infectious rhythm and great lyrics. Really cool song! Check out my latest song called A Journey Through Starburst Galaxy M82

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 714 days ago (December 14th, 2007)
	It's been a long time since this one was posted - glad you found it! It's still one of my favourites and was quite different to the folky stuff I'd been doing. Thanks for listening. Peter Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

lavalamp	lavalamp said 567 days ago (May 8th, 2008)
	Hitting your first Love going back and hitting firsts. This is reality TV, in a way. Good stuff, Peter. Dumbing down IS capitalism. Didn't you learn that in school? LL Check out my latest song called Googolplex Times Zero

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 567 days ago (May 9th, 2008)
	I always like checking out the older stuff too. Thanks for listening to this 'oldie' which is still a favourite of mine - as ever, there are a few things I might change if I were doing it now (not sure if the one up here is the final mix/master) but it's a fun song! Peter Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

woofer3	woofer3 said 533 days ago (June 11th, 2008)
	great song Peter - it's funny but I've written a song very much on this subject called - Celebrity Cats - This song is just what the doctor oredered, it's about time someone gave this form of so called entertainment a poke in the eye. Like your vocals as well, I could have imagined Ian Dury doing this. Nice one, John Check out my latest song called coalhouse blues

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 532 days ago (June 12th, 2008)
	Thank you I have a soft spot for this song - so it's always nice to see it get dusted down! I think I'm even more fed up with the rubbish on TV now than I was when I wrote this. Thanks for checking this one out. Peter Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

Cori Ander	Cori Ander said 126 days ago (July 24th, 2009)
	Good song Good song. I don't even have a tv in my home. A conscientious objector... Check out my latest song called Guitar test — Martin CSN (Gerry Tolman Tribute)

Peter Bauckham	Peter Bauckham said 126 days ago (July 24th, 2009)
	Thanks... I must admit my TV is used mostly for watching old movies. Thanks for listening to this 'oldie' Peter Check out my latest song called All The Same (CBGB) (Last Chance Challenge)

Lennon714	Lennon714 said 86 days ago (September 1st, 2009)
	Reality TV and most other TV is garbage. Rarely is there anything worth watching. great track. Check out my latest song called Times Have Changed

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