Restore MTV's cred with these ideas....

They do play videos! Why, every time I flip over to MTV they're playing "Dilemma"!

comission more leftfield/altermative animation (i loved The Maxx, Downtown etc. - even tho it shouldnt really be in MTV's mandate they were very good at this)

axe Dismissed, Cribs and all that shit and PLAY MORE VIDEOS!

OR

just go as they're going by dividing everything up - i watched MTV 2 and MTV Dance on cable round a friend's recently and enjoyed them enough to the point where i would not need to watch MTV at all

They have a VH1 Classic soul/R&B channel so that's prolly why you don't see any, er, R&B/rap. I just got digital cable too. I saw The Fall's "Victoria" on Saturday night! Radical.

Wow! My cable provider doesn't carry this. :-(

I saw The Fall's "Victoria" on Saturday night! Radical.

I saw that too. I was amazed.

I would completely remove videos from MTV and make it all reality television with a heavy emphasis on The Real World and Road Rules (RIP Michelle).

I would love it if VH1classics would have a dedicated hour of super obscure bad new wave videos. The worst one I ever saw was "Einstein A-Go-Go" by Landscape. I don't mean classic new wave videos, I mean horrible, worst of the worst music videos.

- Have Carson Daily slain and televise it.
YESSSSS!!

- Bring back "120 Minutes" and "Headbanger's Ball"
YYYYYOOOEEEESSSSSSHHHHH!!! And also "Amp", "Yo! MTV Raps!", "Classic MTV" and "International MTV"

- Kill everyone.
Sacrifice them on the pyre of Carson Daly's burning corpse.

...and Alex just described the Jim-Crow MTV from before Thriller.
I have no beef against an MTV that plays rap or R&B, I just wish they would show more of everything...while showing us less TRLJackass(Notso)RealworldRoadRulesUndressed drivel.

LEWIS LARGENT: You guys are really great, how come?
MUMBLY INDIE BAND: I don't know, you know, it's just, like, we did that stuff, and I guess it was cool.
LEWIS LARGENT: That's so cool.

I remember several years back some yob who was hosting 120 Minutes (it wasn't Largent, Pinhead, or anyone else I've ever seen before or since) interviewed Ian Brown around the time that Unfinished Monkey Business came out. It was the most embarressing thing I've ever witnessed because the guy was TOTALLY unprepared.

Interviewer: So, uh, is this anything like the Stone Roses?
Brownie: (Incomprensible yet curt Manc speak about 21st Century music amounting to "no").
Interviewer: (realizing that all his questions are about the Stone Roses) uhhhhhh... ermm...

It was the worst interview I've ever seen! :0

I saw Carson Daly in a bar this summer, but I was too drunk to properly insult him. Let that be a lesson to you (and to me).

Behind the Music has been doing 80s hair bands recently (Motley Crue, Poison); I would so love if they also started doing 80s and 90s college and "alternative" rock.

Think we'll ever finally see the BEHIND THE MUSIC on Van Halen?
I think they already did one. They also did a special on the David Lee Roth/Sammy Hagar tour and the sordid history leading up to it.

I would so love if they also started doing 80s and 90s college and
"alternative" rock.

BTM on MBV! (Hey, that bastard Custos beat me to the punch.) Thing is, Kevin Shields could easily fill up the hour just talking; he's a motormouth.

"Some politicians are so concerned by the song's sexy lyrics that they're considering slapping parental advisory stickers on cartons of ice cream."

I was trying to write things that Carson would say that 14 year olds might find entertaining. As his producer kept telling me, "Carson's all about the music, maaaaaaaaaan. Write about the music." It was ridiculous. I think what did me in (after writing several sample scripts for them which were all used on air without pay or credit, natch) was the ending line I put on every script (I thought it should be Carson's trademark): "See you guys tomorrow. After all, my last name isn't Daly for nothing." The producer kept telling me that Carson wouldn't say that, but I included it in every one I wrote for him. This, apparently, pissed Carson off.

I think there was one, right around the time Joey died. I may have it on tape.

This discussion can't continue without the recognition that M2 is now the music channel, and MTV is the MTV-programming channel. Just stop posting, call your cable company, and ask for it. I get it all night and I don't even have cable.

Bring back Daria you bastards!!

In the first episode we'll bring in John Lydon for an interview. When he tries to take off the hosts toupee,he gets his arm broken.

he just, like, sits on his sofa and chats awkwardly with his producer(who he seems to be friends with) until they come up weith something to talk about and he has a bit of a rant. its the best!

Lord Custos Omega: Here on the American west coast, 120 Minutes is on MTV2 every Sunday at 10 pm.

(Digression: A while back I had an idea to do a blog about 120 Minutes, kind of in the style of Television Without Pity except in more of a blog format, but it proved too time-consuming to write about all 30 videos a week on my own. If anyone watches 120 Minutes regularly and is interested in trying to do a group blog, email me.)

Everyone else: You're all missing the point. MTV is perfect the way it is. It neither needs nor wants "cred". It's making tons of money and, believe it or not, non-music shows like Jackass and Taildaters and Fear and Undressed get mad ratings. It's doing just fine without us weirdos who actually like music.