TV Dinners

Album: Eliminator (1983)
Charted: 67
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  • TV dinners, there's nothin' else to eat
    TV dinners, they really can't be beat
    I like 'em frozen but you understand
    I throw 'em in and wave 'em and I'm a brand new man, oh yeah

    TV dinners, they're goin' to my head
    TV dinners my skin is turnin' red
    Twenty year old turkey in a thirty year old tin
    I can't wait until tomorrow and thaw one out again, oh yeah

    TV dinners, I'm feelin' kinda rough
    TV dinners, this one's kinda tough
    I like the enchiladas and the teriyaki too
    I even like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue

    And they're mine, all mine, oh yeah
    And they sure are fine
    Gotta have 'em, gimme somethin' now Writer/s: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Takwene LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Bart Muley from Sweetlips TennBarry, .98 cents in 1953? You sure that’s right? That was like 10 bucks back then.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 10th 1953, Swanson sold its first 'TV dinner'; the cost $0.98 and and 10 million TV dinner were sold the first year...
    Thirty years later in 1983 "TV Dinners" by ZZ Tops reached #38 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart.
  • Dane from Lima,ohio, FlAn underated ZZ Top song.Good groove,nice changes,even tho this is a product of the 80's.The other killer song off Eliminator is "I need you tonight".
  • Ricky from Ohsweken, -In the video did anyone notice the known hazard which involved putting a foil TV dinner in a microwave? As a rule you NEVER put ANYTHING reflective or metallic in a microwave and then run it.
  • Thomas from Somerville, AlI was in my early twenties and living by myself when this song hit the radio. I was eating a lot of TV Dinners. Would you believe that this song made me a little nausous and I learned how to cook?
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