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Campag Velocet - TV Eye (Post Rock, The Stooges Cover)

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From '' Sauntry Sly Chic ''
Label: Rabid Badger – NANG 03 CD
Format: CD, Single
Country: UK
Released: Apr 6, 1998

Tracklist
1. Sauntry Sly Chic
2. Gakstackers
3. TV Eye
Written-By – The Stooges

Lyrics By – Pete Voss
Music By – Barnaby Slater, Ian Cater

Vocals – Pete Voss
Guitar, Programmed By – Ian Cater
Drums – Lascelles
Bass – Barnaby Slater

Engineer – Sarah Bedingham

Producer, Mixed By – Campag Velocet

Made By – PMDC, UK

👥 [BAND INFO]

Campag Velocet were an indie-electronic-punk-rock band that took heavy inspiration from things such as cycling, fencing and most notably the film / novel "A Clockwork Orange".

Formed in the 1990s, the lineup found Pete Voss on vocals, Ian Cater on guitars, keyboards and programming, Barnaby Slater on bass, and Lascelles Gordon on drums, percussion and sampling.

The group only ever released two albums, the first being "Bon Chic, Bon Genre", which was released on PIAS Records in 1999 — the album performed incredibly well with extra hype from NME (they called them "The Best New Band In Britain") and the band even landed themselves on various shows with two slots on "Later: With Jools Holland".
The band's second album, "It's Beyond Our Control", released on Pointy Records in 2004, received mixed reviews from critics and also achieved mediocre sales, due to the long hiatus and a low-profile record label.
The band broke up in 2005.

🎵 [SONG INFO]

T.V. Eye is a song by The Stooges, released in their album ' Fun House '

Fun House is the second album by the American protopunk rock band The Stooges.

It was recorded in May 1970 and released in July of the same year.
Like its predecessor, The Stooges (1969), Fun House did not sell well.
In subsequent years, however, it has been cited as very influential on later musicians, notably in punk rock.
In 2007, the album was voted Loudest Album Ever by Q Magazine.

Influence

Sydney band Radio Birdman chose their name based on mishearing the line "radio burnin' up above" in the song "1970".
They also named their Oxford Street performance venue The Oxford Funhouse and covered "TV Eye" on their 1977 album Radios Appear.

Spacemen 3 adapted "T.V. Eye" into the near-cover "OD Catastrophe" on their debut album Sound of Confusion.

In 1977, The Damned's debut album, Damned Damned Damned, had a cover of "1970" on it, entitled "I Feel Alright".

In 1989 indie rock band Blake Babies covered "Loose" for their album Earwig. They sampled Iggy's voice into the song.

Numerous other musical artists have cited Fun House as their favorite album, including Joey Ramone, Mark E. Smith, Jack White, Nick Cave, Henry Rollins (along with The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat), Buzz Osborne from the Melvins,J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Maciej Cieślak from the Polish band Ścianka and musician/engineer Steve Albini. The Birthday Party covered "Loose" on their 1982 live album Drunk on the Pope's Blood.

During the 2006 No Reservations episode in Sweden, host Anthony Bourdain proclaimed that Fun House was his all-time favorite album (his "desert island disc").

In 1999 Rhino Records released a limited edition box set, 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, featuring every take of every song from every day of the recording sessions, plus the single versions of "Down On The Street" and "1970".
On August 16, 2005, the album was reissued by Elektra and Rhino as a two-CD set featuring a newly remastered version of the album on disc one and a variety of outtakes (essentially highlights from the Complete Fun House Sessions box set) on disc two. Jack White contributed a quote to Iggy biographer Paul Trynka's liner notes to the reissue, in which White dubbed Fun House "by proxy the definitive rock album of America."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 191 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

In 1998, the Paris-based music magazine Rock & Folk placed Fun House in the top position of its "discothèque idéale."

Rage Against The Machine recorded a cover of "Down On The Street" on their 2000 covers-album Renegades

In 2005 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.

"Down on the Street" was used in the 2006 film Smokin' Aces and included on the soundtrack.

In 2010 "Fun House" ranked No. 25 in Gibson's Top 50 Guitar Albums.
The last track on side one "Dirt" is ranked No. 46 on Gibson's Top 50 Guitar Solo's.

🎤 [LYRICS]

See that cat
yeah I do mean you,
See that cat
yeah I do mean you.

She got a TV eye on me,
She got a TV eye.
She got a TV eye on me, oh.

See that cat
down on her back.
See that cat
down on her back.

She got a TV eye on me,
She got a TV eye.
She got a TV eye on me, oh.

See that cat
Yeah I love her so.
See that cat
Yeah I love her so.

She got a TV eye on me,
she got a TV eye.
She got a TV eye on me, oh.

🔗 [LINKS]

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