***OFFICIAL MTV When It Was Good Thread*** (1 Viewer)

[zamboni]

Keeping the '80s theme alive from the music draft. Post your favorite videos/clips/promos/etc. from the good old days.

Start with the very beginning: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqqnbf_mtv-first-day-saturday-august-1st-1981-12-01-am-part-1_music (can skip to 14:30 to see the actual rocket launch)

 

[rockaction]

Keeping the '80s theme alive from the music draft. Post your favorite videos/clips/promos/etc. from the good old days.

Start with the very beginning: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqqnbf_mtv-first-day-saturday-august-1st-1981-12-01-am-part-1_music (can skip to 14:30 to see the actual rocket launch)

Chromatic Death has to be in there from Headbanger's Ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOEZ5kBCwd8&feature=kp

 

[zamboni]

Keeping the '80s theme alive from the music draft. Post your favorite videos/clips/promos/etc. from the good old days.

Start with the very beginning: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqqnbf_mtv-first-day-saturday-august-1st-1981-12-01-am-part-1_music (can skip to 14:30 to see the actual rocket launch)

Chromatic Death has to be in there from Headbanger's Ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0kjk6b5aQ#t=m0655s

If you want Headbanger's Ball, here you go - original broadcast. Grainy footage, but the commercials are worth it alone.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqgmi4_mtv-head-bangers-ball-1987-original-broadcast_music

 

[rockaction]

Keeping the '80s theme alive from the music draft. Post your favorite videos/clips/promos/etc. from the good old days.

Start with the very beginning: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqqnbf_mtv-first-day-saturday-august-1st-1981-12-01-am-part-1_music (can skip to 14:30 to see the actual rocket launch)

Chromatic Death has to be in there from Headbanger's Ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0kjk6b5aQ#t=m0655s

If you want Headbanger's Ball, here you go - original broadcast. Grainy footage, but the commercials are worth it alone.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqgmi4_mtv-head-bangers-ball-1987-original-broadcast_music

Will check it out. Wild Side

Social consciousness from MC!

 

[Socrates11]

A shout out to the best show to ever run on MTV...120 Minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAOa7liFzuE

 

[Limp Ditka]

Young Ones

http://youtu.be/nxA0a5G6ccg

 

[zamboni]

Kiss unmasked

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I remember when this video was cutting-edge technology.....they are playing on a bar of soap. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOx510kyOs

 

[zamboni]

I remember when this video was cutting-edge technology.....they are playing on a bar of soap. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOx510kyOs

And they can walk on water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kv6vxZwL8

 

[McGarnicle]

Awesome thread.

When I was 12 I would sit and watch MTV for hours. I loved the weird stuff that I never heard anywhere else.

Wall of Voodoo -- Mexican Radio

The Vapors -- Turning Japanese

Boomtown Rats -- Up All Night

Flock of Seagulls -- I Ran

Gary Numan -- Cars

 

[McGarnicle]

Then at 13-15, watch Dial MTV after school at my girlfriend's house and do bad stuff during commercials.

Motley Crue -- Home Sweet Home

Ratt -- Round and Round

Twisted Sister -- We're Not Gonna Take It

Van Halen -- Panama

Def Leppard -- Rock of Ages

Was a fan of this dude until this video killed his career:

Billy Squier -- Rock me Tonite

 

[zamboni]

I remember when this video was cutting-edge technology.....they are playing on a bar of soap. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOx510kyOs

And they can walk on water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kv6vxZwL8

One more Cars video. Actually my favorite - very avant garde - directed by Andy Warhol (with a cameo).

Hello Again

 

[zamboni]

Was a fan of this dude until this video killed his career:

Billy Squier -- Rock me Tonite

Yup - the video has been discussed in many a thread. Bad career move - was actually a good song.

 

[Fla\/\/ed]

Young Ones

http://youtu.be/nxA0a5G6ccg

Outstanding show!

 

[zamboni]

Everyone knows the "We're Not Gonna Take It" video, but don't often get to see the extended opening with Neidermeyer at his finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk

 

[Plorfu]

And that's a lot of pudding.

 

[kentric]

Two great MTV songs - one with less airplay than the other, but still a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxXzgSGhh98 - Rainbow: All Night Long - sang this in a bar (Kareoke) last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_k_VG6Syc - The Tubes: She's a Beauty

 

[zamboni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxXzgSGhh98 - Rainbow: All Night Long - sang this in a bar (Kareoke) last week.

Nice - Graham Bonnet is often overlooked as a lead singer.

Speaking of Rainbow, I always thought Street Of Dreams (with Joe Lynn Turner) was a pretty cool video.

 

[BlueDredSo]

You have to mention the Unplugged series, of course. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, KISS

 

[McGarnicle]

Remote Control

 

[Ghost Rider]

Early great ones:

Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (blocked on YT...wtf)

Go-Go's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M

Men At Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

 

[Limp Ditka]

Remote Control

Kari Wuhrer was so ### ####ed hot.

 

[Ghost Rider]

One of the greatest songs ever is The Boys of Summer by Don Henley, and the video is terrific, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4nVj8g4hg

 

[kentric]

MTV made Devo. Whip it is probably one of the most iconic MTV songs ever. It is sacred.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEVqFB4WUo

 

[kentric]

And speaking of MTV making an artist, I present to you Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE

This video has one of the most beautiful women in the world in it. See 0.56 seconds. Many a fantasy of mine included this woman.

 

[McGarnicle]

I used to love this video.

Tom Petty -- You Got Lucky

 

[Guest]

Reefer Madness.

 

[El Floppo]

Liquid TV- first season had one of my best friend's shows on it... Winter Steel. Also had Aeon Flux and IIRC, the first Beavis and Butthead.

But yeah- 120 Minutes was some great stuff. Also liked Yo MTV Raps.

 

[zamboni]

Remote Control

Kari Wuhrer was so ### ####ed hot.

As far as the show goes, the Red Hot Chili Peppers had a funny guest appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX7eiomel80

 

[McGarnicle]

Loved this video at the time, hot metal chicks in tight jeans. Unbelievably cheesy now.

Ozzy -- Shot in the Dark

 

[zamboni]

I always thought this was perhaps the best example of a video's atmosphere meeting the song's atmosphere:

Robert Plant - Big Log

 

[zamboni]

I used to love this video.

Tom Petty -- You Got Lucky

Agreed - always thought of the tune when I used to hit play on my boom box.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21keOzB_6Mo

Comcast on demand has a bunch of clips from this 1983 concert on right now.

 

[zamboni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21keOzB_6Mo

Comcast on demand has a bunch of clips from this 1983 concert on right now.

VH1 plays them from time to time as well. That was an awesome set of shows - so wanted to go, but couldn't get a ride.

 

[zamboni]

Early Radiohead

 

[Parrothead]

I always thought this was perhaps the best example of a video's atmosphere meeting the song's atmosphere:

Robert Plant - Big Log

 

[zamboni]

Cheesy MTV contests:

Bon Jovi in Hedonism - posted this in the '80s draft

John Cougar Mellencamp - paint the mutha pink

 

[McGarnicle]

My first exposure to U2 and still a favorite.

Gloria

 

[Ghost Rider]

I always thought this was perhaps the best example of a video's atmosphere meeting the song's atmosphere:

Robert Plant - Big Log

One of my favorites.

 

[zamboni]

My first exposure to U2 and still a favorite.

Gloria

Same here - love the dark atmosphere.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Pretty sure Phil Collins "You Can't Hurry Love" was the first video I saw.

And they ran an entire Flock of Seagulls concert live in 1983 or 1984. It's hard to believe now, but you almost never saw live concerts, or even multi-song sets, on TV back then. Was amazing to see a whole show.

The first video I remember thinking "holy ####" to was Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". Was getting ready to leave the house and just stood there mesmerized.

 

[Parrothead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFOLFtw2Ic

Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung.. cheesy but still brings back memories- was one of my all time favorite videos

 

[zamboni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFOLFtw2Ic

Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung.. cheesy but still brings back memories- was one of my all time favorite videos

Was totally thinking of that video - lol at the Boomer Esiason lookalike.

 

[Parrothead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFOLFtw2Ic

Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung.. cheesy but still brings back memories- was one of my all time favorite videos

Was totally thinking of that video - lol at the Boomer Esiason lookalike.

yeah! This video hit on all themes-- old friends, old hometown, old car, lost love..

 

[zamboni]

Collection of "I Want My MTV" promos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaq0vwI4oc

 

[McGarnicle]

Collection of "I Want My MTV" promos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaq0vwI4oc

Ha, cool. TV in stereo back then was a new concept. Didn't MTV offer some cable or device to hook up your TV to your stereo? I swear I can remember commercials for that.

 

[zamboni]

Collection of "I Want My MTV" promos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaq0vwI4oc

Ha, cool. TV in stereo back then was a new concept. Didn't MTV offer some cable or device to hook up your TV to your stereo? I swear I can remember commercials for that.

Best I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoHlSicFR4s

Didn't know Blue Oyster Cult was their spokesmen.

 

[Quint]

first video i ever saw on MTV:

"Queen of the Ryche"

 

[zamboni]

first video i ever saw on MTV:

"Queen of the Ryche"

Remember it well. Overproduction + backstory =

 

[zamboni]

First video I ever saw: Change