From: "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov>
Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
To: "'tv@obbard.com'" <tv@obbard.com>
Subject: RE: [(TV) Tell A Vision ]/Little J J/ ..... Don't Go to My head
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:46:44 -0500
Jeff,
What I was trying to say was that the name "Television" (originally) was
probably not intentionally selected by Richard Hell because of its inherent
play on words/double meaning, i.e., "tell a vision" My guess is that for
Hell, at least, the name fit in with the whole image and persona he had at
the time. The name "Television" may have been an early example of punk
bands deliberately choosing to name themselves after ubiquitous "ordinary"
/"ugly" objects, as another way of separating themselves from an earlier
generation of bands, many of whose names had been chosen with great care or
for marketing purposes.
I am familiar with the lyrics of "Little Johnny Jewel", but as you
know it was written at least a year after the group chose the moniker,
"Television", for themselves. I was also attempting to imply that the
"tell a vision" aspect of the band's songs applied to almost their entire
overve----not just LJJ.
Re: "Put on those headphones" & your question "Now in 'Elevation,' do they
ever really say "Television, don't go to my head"?
According to Ms Secret X, in a posting some time ago, Tom had very
ambivalent feelings about making it to the big time, and this is reflected,
for instance, in the way he enunciates some of the lyrics to 'Elevation':
"...Elevation don't go to my head. Television don't go to my head." It's
subtle but it's there.
By the way, any opinions by anyone on Siouxie and the Banshees' cover of
LJJ? I like their Looking Glass album of covers ("The Passenger", the Roxy
Music cover whose title escapes me at the moment, "Wheels of Fire" by Brian
Auger and the Trinity[??], and others) including LJJ-- but of course it
can't touch the original.
Leo
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Strell [mailto:jeff.strell@usa.net]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 5:45 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: [(TV) Tell A Vision ]
"Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov> wrote:
I don't think it was intentional---but I've always liked the idea that you
can
pronounce Television as "Tell a vision";
Sure it was intentional, or at least recognized -- listen to the lyrics of
Little Johnny Jewel.
Now in "Elevation," do they ever really say "Television, don't go to my
head"?
Put those headphones on...
- Jeff
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