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MTV is 25 next week?

Is that a wave of shrugged shoulders?

MTV Europe is 19 on Aug 1st as well but whatever.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Minus that apostrophe in the title, I got the apostrophitis. Where's my Englisher teacher now I wonder..

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

what does Martha Quinn look like these days??? I'm guessing not as cute & perky.....

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.laradio.com/jjfuneralmarthaquinn.GIF

ca. 2004

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

totally hit it, still

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

YA RLY

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Where did I read that MTV won't be doing anything to celebrate this event because, "introspection and reflection isn't our thing and might alienate their audience" or something similar.

They are right in the sense that the company's Logan's Run-esque attitude towards age and long-term memory problems might make some of their young viewers realize that the people who are actually selling them "youth culture" are not too young themselves and are actually unscrupulous old people (for the most part).

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

When they turned 10 Nirvana, Aerosmith and Guns'n'Roses had a big party for them.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

>Where did I read that MTV won't be doing anything to celebrate this event because, "introspection and reflection isn't our thing and might alienate their audience" or something similar. They are right in the sense that the company's Logan's Run-esque attitude towards age and long-term memory problems might make some of their young viewers realize that the people who are actually selling them "youth culture" are not too young themselves and are actually unscrupulous old people (for the most part).

Oh, I bet they'll wheel out Kurt Loder for something or other.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

this is actually a relatively new phenomenon tho! mtv used to almost obsessively catalog and chronicle its past.

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

how else can i have memories of awards shows from years when my family had no cable?

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully they'll have a few more crack-ups:

Mariah needs a break, Carson needs a commercial break

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that's VH1's job now.
x-post

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

this is actually a relatively new phenomenon tho! mtv used to almost obsessively catalog and chronicle its past.

I totally agree with this, david allen grier. Remember "It Came From The '80s"? Oh well, not like MTV is worth a shit these days. You could take MTV off anyone's cable or satellite lineup and it won't impact a damn thing. This was not at all the case even ten years ago. And VH1 and MTV2 are both rapidly heading down that same path.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

MTV is officially too old for its own demographic.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

ahem: Kurt Loder looked like this during the 20th anniversary.

http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000020/images/2002/08/20/kurtLoderBoyG.jpg

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

He's like the Rolling Stones of MTV!

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Who needs MTV when you have youtube?

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

this is actually a relatively new phenomenon tho! mtv used to almost obsessively catalog and chronicle its past.

I'm aware of this. They did a big thing for their 20th anniversary and that probably played a part in this decision (but since when does MTV turn down a chance to throw a big party and bring more attention to itself?). But you have to remember that the people who were around at MTV's inception are becoming less and less importan to them demographically, so the fact they care less and less about catering to their nostalgia shouldn't surprise anybody.

Oh, I bet they'll wheel out Kurt Loder for something or other.

At this point Kurt Loder is like the funny old man Winston tries to get information out of in Nineteen-Eighty-Four. He remembers what life was like before the revolution. He hasn't been eliminated yet and so some of the information he still possesses is quite dangerous to The Party ("There were rock bands before Nirvana and Weezer!" "Black Americans made other kinds of music before rap and neo-soul!"). They make sure he plays the role of "wise old music man" but doesn't undo MTV pop music revisionism too much, at least when a camera is present.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that Mariah thing has really been blown up into something it's not. I'd never seen that before, and sure, she's a little manic and motormouthy but she doesn't really "strip" or flash her boobs like Jewel did or have anywhere near the Courtney Love style meltdown some people made it out to be. Sheesh.

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Lord, Kurt Loder looks like death warmed over. Hee hee hee.

Who needs MTV when you have youtube?

Amen, Ice Cream Electric. Also don't forget VH1 Classic, which has yet to fully make the leap into the land of the lame.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

Loder looks fucking lobotomized there.

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that Mariah thing was a little overblown, but I just find her hilariously weird. Imagine what she'll be like at 55/60? She's the female Michael Jackson in waiting/future Cher. I loved when she did cribs and got on the excercise bike in high heels. "and things of that nature" became a popular saying amongst some people I know after that appearance.
Courtney Love doesn't have melt downs, she is a melt down. Pete Doherty syndrome.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

When they turned 10 Nirvana, Aerosmith and Guns'n'Roses had a big party for them.

I'm pretty sure the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video didn't even drop until September of 1991. What was MTV doing fucking with them in August?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

The special was late '91/early '92. Michael Jackson did "Black Or White" on it. Aerosmith's big symphonic take on "Dream On." They threw on some Nirvana live footage. As was the style at the time.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

They just showed MTV's first hour on air over on VH1 Classic. I missed the actual beginning (the Buggles video), but putting Rundgren and REO Speedwagon back to back with Nina Blackwood in between makes me wonder how they ever stayed on the air.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.laradio.com/jjfuneralninablackwood.GIF

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

It was called MTV 10. I have a tape of it somewhere in Florida. Bruce Willis dressed up like an arrow-smith, right? And Slash played guitar with MJ.

I SO do not remember Nirvana being on it.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I may be wrong! I woulda sworn they threw in three minutes from some unconnected show. Anyhow, I know REM was there to say thank you. Pretend I said REM.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

The only Nirvana MTV performance I remember from that period was the one "in the MTV studio" where Kurt still had red hair like in the Come As You Are video and they played Drain You, Polly and Territorial Pissings and then Kurt broke the headstock off his guitar. (BTW, is that on youtube?)

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I do remember R.E.M., Zwan.

There were promos for it with MJ, Madonna, Steven Tyler and Michael Stipe as Mount Rushmore!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Now let's talk about how well we remember Alex Winters's The Idiot Box.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Of which there's not a wikipedia entry.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

MJ, Madonna, Steven Tyler and Michael Stipe as Mount Rushmore!

Someone find a pic of this plz.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Or we could talk about that show Pirate TV which was like a sketch comedy show with pirates and sometimes they would settle arguments by letting two rats loose in a circle and whichever rat got out first was the winner and settled the argument forever?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Of which I just checked the imdb.com listing expecting to find that all the cast members went on to be like Vince Vaughn or something, but instead it appears that the entire cast faded into obscurity, though it looks like one of the pirates had uncredited roles in both Goodfellas and Four Brothers

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure no one--not even Miccio--watched more MTV than me between 1988 and 1993.

Suburbia, what!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

I tried, but when my parents were home, I had to put it on VH1.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was a 120 Minutes snob, mostly.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

My parents figured MTV could raise me better than they could, I guess.

It's kind of weird to think as an adult, that pretty much nothing really had more influence on me from age 8 to age 13 than a TV channel.

I guess if MTV knew it would have raised a music writer, they would have taken Jello's advice and went off the air. Happy birthday, guys!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

aerosmith 'dream on' is from something else (i'm guessing mtv awards?) - the clip became a vid tiein promo to the 'pandora's box' boxset they had out that xmas (they had that corny phonesex 'sweet emotion' video for it too). there was an official 10th anniversary thing on abc that had madonna do a monologue i think, george michael did 'freedom' and i think something else 'unplugged', r.e.m. performed 'losing my religion' (they did this in macon - the whole thing was taped clips), i swear there had to have been someone else, someone actually rock but i can't remember who (maybe g'n'f'n'r?). it was on a saturday night in august - decidedly not a huge deal made. at midnight august 11 or whatever the actual bd is mtv showed for a couple of hours exactly what they showed (different ads obv) the first couple of hours on mtv (like 30% of it was rod stewart videos). i do definitely remember aerosmith doing symphonic 'dream on', maybe it was that mtv awards - r.e.m. didn't perform on it, they just won a shitload and stipe changed his t-shirt everytime up - was that the mtv awards paula abdul killed her career too? lotsa stuff blending together.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

horny horns!

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

(to answer your question from the other thread, i came here to talk about music with fellow music-lovers. i neither expected nor wanted to be hated. i appreciate my style might grate with some but the level of opposition i've faced has been in my opinion shocking and unreasonable)

(xpost)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

"You could take MTV off anyone's cable or satellite lineup and it won't impact a damn thing. This was not at all the case even ten years ago."

what does this mean?

― le hague (le hague), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

The ABC thing was MTV10, and I'm pretty sure something Aerosmith was on it (Bruce Willis, remember!), and the Madonnalogue and George Michael (who might have been on the Rushmore instead of Tyler)

I remember how pumped I was for MTV playing the first two hours of MTV again at 12 am on Aug 1, 1991. Especially since they didn't announce it, they just DID it!

http://www.mtv.com/onair/vma/timecapsule/tc_flips/91/images/flip_1.jpg

GAWD SHE'S SO FAT LOL111!!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wish they would show the first 10 years of MTV again, at this point.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Cuz I wanna see some Mario Joyner!

Yeah, everything I've seen online lists that Aerosmith "Dream On" as being for the 10th anniversary.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'd buy a DVD of all those pre-MTV Rod Stewart videos. I probably have most on tape, but still.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the DVD should follow his videography through "Crazy About Her."

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

ok maybe that 'dream on' was for the mtv10, i don't know why it seemed later, it would fill the 'actual rock group' slot though. this - I wish they would show the first 10 years of MTV again, at this point.

-- Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwolo...), July 30th, 2006 9:27 PM. (marmotwolof) (later) - totally otm! i bemoan the 'corrupting' of mtv2 ALOT more than mtv at this point - mtv's been pretty upfront about the 'm' meaning about as much as the 'e' in espn for around 10 years now, i remember watching mtv when it was insanely awesome (when it was m2 i guess) at work and then it our local cable added it and like within two years they were showing tom green reruns or whatever. for like a month vh1 classicks was showing reruns of club mtv, yo! mtv raps, and some other stuff (probably headbangers ball right), they stopped though unfortunately.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

what with teh interwebs and more specifically Youtube and its kind, MTV is surely becoming a complete irrelevance?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

I see you're adapting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

:-D Cheers!

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Correction -- "were adapting"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

ned i just got a pt library job - INCREDIBLY SKATE OMG - i sincerely still can't fathom just how easy this job. anyhow, vaguely thread related, i watched pavement vids on youtube for like two hours straight at work last wednesday.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

:( That was a sincere 'Cheers'! No sarcasm in sight! C'mon...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

ned i just got a pt library job - INCREDIBLY SKATE OMG - i sincerely still can't fathom just how easy this job.

It's a coast, isn't it? Are you public service or behind the scenes, or both?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

o it's purely pt bs - i was going to be in the library anyhow 'studying/doing homework' and i had a hunch that this job entailed absolutely no work. i checkin books, answer inane questions for patrons (usually w/ 'hmm, google it maybe'), various other stuff. such a prime flirt perch. i probably spent nearly as much time reading this month's men's health as i did 'working' last week and lemme tell you i did ALOT of dicking around/personal stuff/'studying/homework' before i got around to skimming men's health (they've got some good workout tips in there btw). i'd feel almost bad (well not really) except everytime i go into my superior's office she's playing solitaire. there's a websense filter on the computer on 'games' i haven't figured out how to get around but besides that i can't imagine a complaint i could have of this job.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'd feel almost bad (well not really) except everytime i go into my superior's office she's playing solitaire.

There ya go. Also, it's summer -- MAJOR slowdown in access/reference work in my experience, for kinda obvious reasons. (Less so with technical services.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

what with teh interwebs and more specifically Youtube and its kind, MTV is surely becoming a complete irrelevance?

Because YouTube videos look so good! It's just like watching TV!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

i can't tell you how many indie rock videos i've watched online and not known whether it looked like shit cuz i was watching it online or it looked like shit cuz it was an indie rock video.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, VH1C is playing the entire first DAY of MTV this Tuesday.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

MTV2 turns 10 tomorrow, I think...

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, VH1C is playing the entire first DAY of MTV this Tuesday.

Awesome!!! I wish they'd play the old commercials too!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's just the videos. I watched part of that first hour (not nearly as interesting as I thought it would be, though that Buggles video is still awesome) and it was just the videos with some VH1C VJ talking in between, and scant few unrelated clips of original MTV VJs. Boo. I want it AS IT WAS, but I guess that would be too awesome for them to realise it's what they should do.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

(replace that first awesome with "fantastic" or something, gah, not awake yet)

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure if they didn't have VH1 VJs, people would feel like they had stepped back in time and got confused.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

The only people who saw the first MTV broadcast were in North Jersey I read so I guess it would be pretty pointless to show that as it was, nobody saw it.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's the perfect reason to show it!

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what evil it is that they're covering up.

Maybe they don't even own the archival footage or something, could have sold it. Is MTV a Viacom company?

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I saw it.

btw, North Jersey is so dense, it has like, the population of all of america, minus NYC.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's possible they didn't keep all that shit and just have lists of the videos they played, but they keep showing clips of that one dude going "MTV is going to be to television what FM is to radio" or some shit so I'd say they still have some of it.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I took a greyhound down and up I-95 once, that's north jersey right? I covered my eyes, garden state my hole.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Vengeance from the grave,
kills the people he once saved"

Ironman = J.J. Jackson?

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost,

maybe you should have gotten off I-95?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

is I-95 the NY-DC route? I wasn't going to the place.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/entertainment_enl_1154359383/img/1.jpg

U2 frontman Bono has topped a survey of the most influential pop stars of the last 25 years, commissioned to mark music channel MTV's quarter-centenary.

Michael Jackson and Madonna come second and third in the poll, celebrated in an artwork that places the top 15 stars on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

More than 4,000 people took part in the Rock Royalty survey.

MTV celebrates its 25th anniversary on 1 August with a day of special events and commemorative programming.

The 12 other celebrities featured in the MTV artwork are as follows: Kurt Cobain, Prince, Eminem, Kylie Minogue, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, Sir Elton John, Beyonce Knowles, Robbie Williams, Pete Doherty, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.

Humorous

Jackson is featured near the centre of the image dangling a baby over the balcony - a reference to the time he dangled a baby from a Berlin hotel window in November 2002.

Sir Elton is shown wearing one of his flamboyant party wigs, while Bono is depicted making a peace sign.

Gwen Stefani, Adam Ant, Pink and the Spice Girls made the top 25 but are not featured in the humorous collage.

Launched on 1 August 1981, MTV currently broadcasts to 1.3 billion people in 179 countries via 78 different channels.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5232572.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

MTV Day 1 has started on VH1C.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, they really started with 15 minutes of shuttle launch footage?

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha awesome

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, they've still got this Lynn Hoffman lame-o blabbing between songs. Boo.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

yknow i've argued it before and it seems esp true now - if vh1 classicks is gonna have to have vj's it would've been so much more fun/cooler to just get martha quinn, mark goodman, alan hunter, whoever old school they could get.

xpost - yeah no verisimilitude

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

I remember that - when they use to have the astronaut stuff on for long periods of time.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.laradio.com/jjfuneralgoodman.GIF http://www.laradio.com/jjfuneralgevinsonhunter.GIF

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

These pics I've been posting are all from JJ Jackson's funeral:
http://www.laradio.com/jjmemories.htm

http://www.laradio.com/jjfuneralbrownjulie.GIF

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

From the dupe thread:
From The Buggles to Pimp My Ride.. Happy 25th MTV!
-- ZionTrain (ziontrain200...), Today 9:06 PM. (ZionTrain) (later) (link)
___________________________________________
The Buggles aren't the worst thing they could've started with!

-- So Ho La (tabenomon...), Today 9:29 PM. (So Ho La) (later) (link)

The Buggles were the absolute best thing to start with. Shame about all these other videos. (Well, I like Pretenders)

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

What was the video they showed just before Split Enz? It wasn't labeled.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's easy for young jerks to larf at these videos for all their dated effects and whatnot. But it's a TIMELESSLY bad decision for Todd Rundgren to point at a clock whenever he sings "Time"

Also, the Split Enz video has some great art direction, smooshed between lots of hideous AOR rock bands totally oblivious to the fact that this new technology will ruin them within two years.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

What's up with all the Rod Stewart?

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Iron Maiden! That's more like it.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

What's up with all the Rod Stewart?

He happened to make a lot of new videos at just the time MTV needed a lot of new videos. Same question applies to Devo soon.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

I can't take much more of this. I think I might mute it and put on my Wipers box set.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

This surely must have been the ultimate Todd Rundgren video from early MTV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDEMzGbMv4&search=feet%20don%27t%20fail%20me%20now

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, every time I'm about to do that they play someone I REALLY like (The Cars, this time). Now I remember, this is how it always was. 5 shit videos, one really, really good one. Rinse. Repeat.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i remember that utopia video as great fun, my friends dug that and we had zero todd/utopia knowledge at that time. it's like a lot of the early years vids - marginal pop (chartwise) from the late 70s/early 80s that got lost circa 84. of course, the plus of lots o' quirk was more than offset by the lack of BLACK!

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

the list of the first 62 vids:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_62_Videos_aired_on_MTV

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

I can't take much more of this. I think I might mute it and put on my Wipers box set.

-- Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwolo...), August 1st, 2006.

fuckin' a \m/

― de latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

And as soon as "D'ya Think I'm Sexy" started, I did just that. RETURN OF THE RAT!!!

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Either that list is wrong or VH1C is fudging their history a bit.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

the list of the first 62 vids:

Four REO Speedwagon vids?

I don't know about you guys, but there are loads of songs on that list that I've never heard of.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Little Sister" by Rockestra

'Twas Rockpile, actually (Dave Edmonds, Robert Plant, etc.). "Lucille" was Rockestra with Paul McCartney on lead vocals (back when he was cool). Both were from the Rock for the People of Kampuchea charity concert.

"Too Late" by The Shoes...wow, that's going back...

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

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