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Remembering MTV (1 Viewer)
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SlaX
Footballguy
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I hate Youtube copyright claims. If I can ever find the playlist on Vimeo or Dailymotion, that'd be great. I just had it saved to my Youtube favorites, but there are still quite a few that work.
I was hoping for some cheesy 80s videos, B&B, Daria and Remote Control. Eh, I'll have to check it out to see what they show.
Vanilla Guerrilla
Footballguy
massraider
Footballguy
Pick a decade, decide what was the best stuff, then check the Billboard charts and radio airplay. It's the most watered down version of everything.
I've actually done this, it's a fun exercise. The great music of the 70's really never got traction. It was crappy disco, sappy pop, and bloated arena rock. Same with the 80's and lame synth pop over great New Wave. The best hip hop was never played as much as the lame stuff.
The 80's music was mocked so much during that decade that it's crazy anyone can refer to that as the good old days.
Go to any decade, and 40-plus somethings are telling kids their music sucks, and it was better 20 years ago. It's a natural process, and I feel the same way, but I will say this: There has never been a better time to discover music you like than now. There is great music out there today, and you have unlimited resources to find it, free of commercials.
Just turning on the radio and judging today's music is silly. It's like my uncle watching Vanilla Ice, and telling me hip-hop was lame.
I'll say this to agree with you: it s sure seems like rock is dead. There's no grunge, no Britpop, no hair metal even.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Interesting. Just browsed through the menu for the first couple weeks. For you Google Fiber TV users, it's Channel 367. It's still marked "VH1CL" on the Guide.
Heavy presence of Unplugged. The Nirvana and Alice In Chains episodes get played a lot. I'll be recording the R.E.M. episode, which was done in 1991, just as Out Of Time was released.
A few Behind The Music episodes: Weird Al, TLC, Blondie, Go-Gos, couple others.
120 Minutes is on the schedule. Hard to tell from description if it's old episodes of the series, music videos from artists that were featured on it, or a reboot of the show and is making new episodes.
A few episodes of Daria will air. Curious how that show holds up.
Beavis and Butt-Head is on the schedule. Again, hard to tell if it's just the cartoons, or if the video commentaries are included.
Aeon Flux and Oddities make a couple late-night appearances.
Several concerts that Palladia (now MTV Live) have in heavy rotation, like 80s Rewind festivals and such. A really good Queen one, Queen Rock Montreal, shows up. Also a few episodes of Live From Darryl's House, Darryl Hall's show on MTV Live.
Some Season 1 of Jackass. I'm not made of stone. DVR set.
A couple early Pimp My Rides, and a few early Cribs.
On Saturday they will run all 13 episodes of Season 1 of The Real World, the original one in New York. Laguna Beach and The Hills get marathons the following weekend.
A couple Storytellers episodes: a really good Foo Fighters one, and a Green Day American Idiot one I haven't seen.
An hour block called "Yo! Hip Hop Mix" shows up many times. I'd prefer full episodes of YO! MTV Raps! with Ed Lover and Dr. Dre, but if it's the music videos that show championed, I'm all in. Seem to be several other blocks that hint at old MTV programming but without the hosts: Headbangers, Total Request Remix, etc.
Heavy presence of Unplugged. The Nirvana and Alice In Chains episodes get played a lot. I'll be recording the R.E.M. episode, which was done in 1991, just as Out Of Time was released.
A few Behind The Music episodes: Weird Al, TLC, Blondie, Go-Gos, couple others.
120 Minutes is on the schedule. Hard to tell from description if it's old episodes of the series, music videos from artists that were featured on it, or a reboot of the show and is making new episodes.
A few episodes of Daria will air. Curious how that show holds up.
Beavis and Butt-Head is on the schedule. Again, hard to tell if it's just the cartoons, or if the video commentaries are included.
Aeon Flux and Oddities make a couple late-night appearances.
Several concerts that Palladia (now MTV Live) have in heavy rotation, like 80s Rewind festivals and such. A really good Queen one, Queen Rock Montreal, shows up. Also a few episodes of Live From Darryl's House, Darryl Hall's show on MTV Live.
Some Season 1 of Jackass. I'm not made of stone. DVR set.
A couple early Pimp My Rides, and a few early Cribs.
On Saturday they will run all 13 episodes of Season 1 of The Real World, the original one in New York. Laguna Beach and The Hills get marathons the following weekend.
A couple Storytellers episodes: a really good Foo Fighters one, and a Green Day American Idiot one I haven't seen.
An hour block called "Yo! Hip Hop Mix" shows up many times. I'd prefer full episodes of YO! MTV Raps! with Ed Lover and Dr. Dre, but if it's the music videos that show championed, I'm all in. Seem to be several other blocks that hint at old MTV programming but without the hosts: Headbangers, Total Request Remix, etc.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I hope Kennedy shows up in her early wonder years, her current incarnation as a Fox host is not quite the same.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
met her at Woodstock '94 ... we camped out a few hundred yards from their tower. she came down on Monday morning to interview the stragglers still stumbling around, and I got some air time - she was pretty damn hot, always had a thing for the quirky, skinny chicks -
John Bender
Footballguy
Speculating here, and we'll find out at 11.
But only 2 episodes of Beavis and Butthead during a 30 minute block, that would indicate to me the music videos ARE in the episodes. This would be very awesome. It's MTV, I can't see how they wouldn't have rights to the videos.
Or, they've filled that time with more commercials.
But only 2 episodes of Beavis and Butthead during a 30 minute block, that would indicate to me the music videos ARE in the episodes. This would be very awesome. It's MTV, I can't see how they wouldn't have rights to the videos.
Or, they've filled that time with more commercials.
John Bender
Footballguy
oh
Alice in Chains Unplugged starts right now
Unplugged block is nice. Starting to remind me less of when ESPN unleashed ESPN Classic that was nothing but old PBA Bowling and Bull Riding.
Alice in Chains Unplugged starts right now
Unplugged block is nice. Starting to remind me less of when ESPN unleashed ESPN Classic that was nothing but old PBA Bowling and Bull Riding.
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
First 3 videos I ever saw (not sure what the exact order was) were actually on this cable outfit called "The Z Channel", back when you ordered from one cable provider and you got their set top box that handled just their channel. They just inserted music videos randomly between movies throughout the day.
Those 1st 3 videos were:
I Will Follow (U2)
Talk To Ya Later (The Tubes)
Girls On Film (Duran Duran)
Good tunes all, got lucky with the draw. And the Duran Duran video left the newly pubescent me
. Actually it kinda still does - imagine what the band did with the talent on that one when the cameras weren't rolling. Which was just an embarrassment of riches for those guys as they were well on their way towards their panty dropping apex already.
Anyway, I guess this makes it some time in 1981 that I first saw music videos.
Pretty much lost touch with MTV when I went to college. It was a run.
Those 1st 3 videos were:
I Will Follow (U2)
Talk To Ya Later (The Tubes)
Girls On Film (Duran Duran)
Good tunes all, got lucky with the draw. And the Duran Duran video left the newly pubescent me
. Actually it kinda still does - imagine what the band did with the talent on that one when the cameras weren't rolling. Which was just an embarrassment of riches for those guys as they were well on their way towards their panty dropping apex already.Anyway, I guess this makes it some time in 1981 that I first saw music videos.
Pretty much lost touch with MTV when I went to college. It was a run.
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bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Rock is not dead. It just gets no love. Check out rival sons. Royal blood. Crobot. Tyler bryant n the shakedown. The temperance movement. Red fang. Mastodon. Scorpion child. The sword. Hell even twenty one pilots is interesting. And recent releases from foo fighters. Clutch. Alice in chains. Anything by jack white and the black keys. And i kind of like it that it doesnt get played to death right now.
Not sure why the young kids arent into rock. But the music industry is heavily slanted to hip hop. Country and pop right now. Oh well
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PIK95
Footballguy
I agree. Early MTV had all kinds of crazy stuff going on. They would play Bowie, aha, then Flock of Seagulls, some Ozzy, don't forget Rod Stewart disco, and then they would finally get to what we were all waiting for Thril......WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!
Watched some Daria, good times. Beavis and Butthead are replays of the newer episodes from a few years ago. Better than nothing, but still disappointing.
Scrolled through the next few days and there is some okay variety, a little bit of something for almost every MTV generation. Some of the better animated stuff, some good unplugged. Unfortunately from what I saw, the 80's and early to mid-90s are woefully under represented. If you want classic videos, be prepared to stay up late or set your dvr, there are blocks of them, but mostly in the dead zone of air time.
IMO, far too much TRL and crap reality shows scheduled during the day and primetime.
Scrolled through the next few days and there is some okay variety, a little bit of something for almost every MTV generation. Some of the better animated stuff, some good unplugged. Unfortunately from what I saw, the 80's and early to mid-90s are woefully under represented. If you want classic videos, be prepared to stay up late or set your dvr, there are blocks of them, but mostly in the dead zone of air time.
IMO, far too much TRL and crap reality shows scheduled during the day and primetime.
In The Zone
Footballguy
All I know is that back in my college days I would have loved to go downtown with Downtown Julie Brown. That accent got me.
There is a season 1 Marathon of Real World right now and it makes you feel like the ultimate "get off my lawn" moment. I mean this episode featuring Julie talking with a homeless girl, the crew going to a Pro-Choice rally in DC, and talk about Jerry Brown as a presidential candidate (yeah that actually happened). Now you watch the show and the ####ers on the show are too lazy to work at bars and too concerned about how not getting pregnant in their drunken slutty mess.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
massraider
Footballguy
Okay I probably only seen about 2 or 3 hours in the couple years but I doubt those shows were a departure from every other show that season.
Like I said, it is definitely a "get off my lawn" thing because I am sure today generations loves watching 30 minutes of stereotypes making a drunken mess out of themselves
massraider
Footballguy
No doubt.
I remember one year they tried to make whole house work at a radio station or something, and they all just mailed it in.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
The first few seasons of real world were definitely good. Especially NY and SF. Puck was amazing tv. Not sure when Seattle was (maybe 6?), but that one seemed pretty interesting. I checked out around Hawaii. At some point, it became "tv" and not like real people being filmed. I n the beginning, it definitely felt more authentic.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
dude was awesome, especially when needling that little ####### pvssy Judd
he pretty much was the harbinger of all reality TV 'villains' that followed in his wake, and remains the gold standard, IMO.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
The Hawaii season was when the cast figured out they could become famous simply for being on TV, and not for demonstrating specific skills or expertise in anything. By then, Real World and Road Rules alumni were getting agents and booking gigs at colleges and clubs after being on the show, so simply being a reality TV participant was now a path to a "job".
Before RW Hawaii, cast members were representing a specific background or cause. But the Hawaii season was when the cast shifted to creating their personal brands instead of representing something greater.
(And I say all of this as someone who contributes to the problem. I've seen every single episode of Real World/Road Rules Challenge and have seeked out and met several of the Challengers.)
