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Remembering MTV (1 Viewer)

Anarchy99

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I had a discussion recently with a bunch of high school and college age kids who had no clue about MTV, none of which remembered them really playing any music videos. So for us old timers, I will try to make a weekly hour of MTV era videos to keep the dwindling flame of 80s era MTV burning.

THE FIRST 30 VIDEOS PLAYED (IN ORDER) TO LAUNCH MTV 1981-08-01:

Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8h5OEivJdA

Pat Benatar - You Better Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvSbQB6-UdY

Rod Stewart - She Won't Dance With Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHKHjtup3Qk

The Who - You Better, You Bet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2rFb_ghn0

Ph.D. - Little Suzi's On The Up

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

(Later covered by Tesla)

Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwL3KyBCXg

Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Hy7uAb_eU

Todd Rundgren - Time Heals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGoDFP-LMg

REO Speedwagon - Take It On The Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKFtyy1FPM

Styx - Rockin' The Paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQLq_X643U

Robin Lane & The Chartbusters - When Things Go Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pTHbZKhjXY

Split Enz - History Never Repeats

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

.38 Special - Hold On Loosely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtf7R_oVaw

April Wine - Just Between You And Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psv7uF7_A8c

Rod Stewart - Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlYMTvaq68

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqb7uhjFTa4

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c

Michael Johnson - Bluer Than Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDSJ2NddyE

Pretenders - Message Of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8Dj5xOjm0

Lee Ritenour - Mr. Briefcase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Wrka1QyTE

The Cars - Double Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YKglZT3BA

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTmnS5p4_Rs

Shoes - Too Late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Opz_drg1O8

Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ

Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs

Rubert Hine - Surface Tension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FYlcMXb9lg

Split Enz - One Step Ahead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NduGJ0F5sdI

Gerry Refferty - Baker Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM

Pat Benatar - I'm Gonna Follow You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUD_Mdd_Y0

 
Part of the initial problem for MTV was that not many artists made promotional videos for their songs at the time (which would quickly change). Thus why bands like REO Speedwagon had 8 different videos and Rod Stewart 10 different videos played the first day. Split Enz had 4 different videos played.

 
Although not the really early days, my fondest memory of MTV will always be taping 120 Minutes and being able to listen to music I liked that I couldn't find on the radio or easily elsewhere.

 
For a boomer, MTV was the perfect extension of the feeling we'd get as kids wondering who would be on Hullabaloo/Shindig or Sullivan/Hollywood Palace each week. Next to latinachubbymature.com and having my fantasy-sport score tabulated by a freakin' website, waiting for the next video that would rock my world was the greatest media thrill of my career as a pod.

 
Juxtatarot said:
Although not the really early days, my fondest memory of MTV will always be taping 120 Minutes and being able to listen to music I liked that I couldn't find on the radio or easily elsewhere.
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Sad world it was pre-internet.

 
MTV was probably good in the 80's, but I don't much remember it. I turned 9 years old in 1990 though; MTV pretty much ran my life (at least the TV watching portion of it) until high school. It was just, cool. The people on it were cool. I even thought Pauly Shore was cool for a little while there. The chicks were hot, music videos were great, and I always wanted to be a VJ. Beavis and Butthead was just a face-melting level of RULES for a 12 year old boy when it debuted.

I remember flashbacks of my dad watching things like Remote Control or Motley Crue videos, but for some reason, the best memory I have of any time in life was about 1991-1997 (before I got to high school and discovered alcohol and boobs instead of television).

It ruled even more in the early to mid 90's for me. Every morning there was random stuff on: rerun's of The Grind, a 30 minute block of metal videos, MTV Jams where it was just "urban" music. After school was "shows", like the Pauly Shore show, but even shows like that actually showed videos. Every day at 5 Oclock was the MTV Most Wanted (or top 10 videos of the day - this is pre-TRL). My brother and I had notebooks and would use them exclusively to list our favorite 10 songs of the day in countdown fashion and exchange them to see each other's list. I think my mother's basement still has dozens of notebooks with nothing but Top 10 song countdowns....oh, and on Saturdays, in the fashion of how MTV did it, we did a Top 20, since that's the way MTV did it (big countdown on the weekend). "Bop Gun" by Ice Cube spent the most consecutive weeks at No 1 in 1993 in the young JB spiral notebook countdown.

Even the reality shows were more reality. Loved the 3rd season of Real World...probably taught me more about life than my pops ever had the time to :lol: . It slowly devolved to a 7 strangers that basically have casting agents nowadays for aspiring actors (see; bartenders from California as their occupation most of the time).

It was home from school, and pop on the MTV almost every day in between riding bikes or playing ball. The best part was the on start of puberty - MTV gave me more boners from 1992-1995 or so than the entire last 20 years combined. Hot VJ's like Daisy Fuentes, every single Aerosmith/Alicia Silverstone video, videos with lots of sex, Spring Break, and The Beach House versions of "The Grind".

Almost nothing makes me sadder about growing up and being an adult than after spending an hour down the youtube rabbit hole watching old MTV videos and segments/shows.

(yes, I watched WAAAAY too much MTV - I'm pretty sure it was about the only channel I ever turned on)

Some videos that are still burned into my head because of how often they were on:

Madonna - Deeper and Deeper

Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love Again

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

Arrested DEvelopment - Tennessee

Salt N Pepa - Whatta Man

Aerosmith - Amazing, Crazy and Crying :wub:

 
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Mtv used to be so awesome. Every saturday night was an event watchin the headbangers ball.

Wtf happened to that channel?? Do todays kids watch that crap??

 
There are a couple of good pages on Facebook dedicated to early MTV that I follow religiously.. Will post later.

 
Christo said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
Mtv used to be so awesome. Every saturday night was an event watchin the headbangers ball.

Wtf happened to that channel?? Do todays kids watch that crap??
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Just about every party I went to had one room with MTV going
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Yep, I remember all the end of the year video countdowns for New Years as well. That was a must watch. In middle school and high school, many friends and I watched basically two channels, MTV and ESPN.
 
I think I caught it around the 5th day or so. The first video I saw was "Talk to You Later" by the Tubes.

But I remember several of the videos on the playlist in the OP. Particularly PHD, haven't thought of them in decades.

 
Ilov80s said:
Christo said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
Mtv used to be so awesome. Every saturday night was an event watchin the headbangers ball.

Wtf happened to that channel?? Do todays kids watch that crap??
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Just about every party I went to had one room with MTV going
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Yep, I remember all the end of the year video countdowns for New Years as well. That was a must watch. In middle school and high school, many friends and I watched basically two channels, MTV and ESPN.
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New Years Eve top 100 videos of the year.

:thumbup:

Started at like 6 PM and ran through til midnight.

Watched every year.

 
KarmaPolice said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
Mtv used to be so awesome. Every saturday night was an event watchin the headbangers ball.

Wtf happened to that channel?? Do todays kids watch that crap??
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I do think we underestimate how much stuff like The Real World, etc was on the the channel back in the day
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Yeah that kind of reality programming changed TV obviously

But I want to see music vidoes still and VH1 classic isnt cutting it

 
wikkidpissah said:
Tom Servo said:
SHIZNITTTT said:
https://cbskool2.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/martha-quinn-then.jpg

Man she is still pretty.
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Martha Quinn >>>>>>>>>> Nina Blackwood
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Yeah, but you could have Nina. Saw both @ Mudd Club BITD - Maaaatha wouldnta lowered her nose for chet. Nina woulda raised her coochie in the alley for GasMoney
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Sure, but I never saw either in a club. I'd rather stroke it to the dream of defiling pretty little Martha than slutty Nina.

 
Christo said:
wikkidpissah said:
Tom Servo said:
SHIZNITTTT said:
https://cbskool2.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/martha-quinn-then.jpg

Man she is still pretty.
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Martha Quinn >>>>>>>>>> Nina Blackwood
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Yeah, but you could have Nina. Saw both @ Mudd Club BITD - Maaaatha wouldnta lowered her nose for chet. Nina woulda raised her coochie in the alley for GasMoney
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Sure, but I never saw either in a club. I'd rather stroke it to the dream of defiling pretty little Martha than slutty Nina.
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nodoubtbrowntrout

 
I had no idea Tesla's "Little Suzy" was a cover. Whoa.

"Real World" was a cool concept, but it really spelled the end to the original incarnation of the channel. Now, it's a total train wreck of bad TV.

 
The first video I ever saw was "Cuts Like A Knife" by Bryan Adams. I hadn't paid much attention to the channel. but then a kid at school said the video was mostly about a girl changing into her bathing suit, and that if you looked closely, you could see a nipple. I did look closely, but did not see any nipple. After that I saw "Back On The Chain Gang" by the Pretenders, and the slow motion falling through the air--and I was hooked.

Two excellent books have come out recently about the early history of the network. Very good reads.

http://www.amazon.com/Want-My-MTV-Uncensored-Revolution/dp/0452298563/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1426966012

http://www.amazon.com/VJ-Unplugged-Adventures-MTVs-First/dp/1451678126/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426966012&sr=1-2&keywords=mtv

 
Christo said:
Sure, but I never saw either in a club. I'd rather stroke it to the dream of defiling pretty little Martha than slutty Nina.
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Their real-life personas were inverted. Blackwood was shy, quiet girl who lived alone with a bunch of cats. Quinn was the one who was out all night, every night at the clubs, in the backseat of limos of famous bands.

 
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