Staring at a VDU

A VDU is, of course, a video display unit. A song about one of the things the Web has made: Millions of people who sit all day long staring at a screen.

LYRICS:
Don't make me join the workforce mob
Little boxes filled with little jobs
And everyone with a monitor in view
Everyone's connected to the Internet
Filling out spread sheets with loss and get
Every single one staring at a VDU

I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want to spend my life
Staring at a VDU

I can't look at the Web no more
Is this what it was invented for
Is this what we were meant to do
Hours coding forms in HTML
To track what we buy and what we sell
And every single one of us staring at a VDU

I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want to spend my life
Staring at a VDU

Is this what the Web was meant to mean:
A cash register and copy machine?
Is this how we were meant to use it too?
Who told us that we should live like this
What do we gain what do we miss with
Every single one staring at a VDU

I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want a job like that no no no
I don't want to spend my life
Staring at a VDU

(Get Flash to see the track player.)
posted by Astro Zombie (5 comments total)

This is awesome! But you forgot the VU challenge tag!
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 11:07 PM on July 12

...huh? This isn't a challenge track.
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 10:35 AM on July 13

Unless I accidentally rewrote a VU song (which is possible), no.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:59 AM on July 13

Sorry, bad joke. I just felt like a lot of us are currently staring at a VDU, listening to VU... maybe there's something in there, maybe not. Like maybe Astro Zombie was subliminally influenced by the acronym. How did you decide on the phrase VDU for this song, AZ?
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 5:19 PM on July 13

It rhymed better than anything else I tried, and was unusual. No apologies necessary; I'm borrowing heavily from Lour Reed, et al.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:16 PM on July 13