Remembering MTV (1 Viewer)

[John Bender]

Jimmy The Cab Driver commercials

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Compilation of Beavis and Butthead watching music videos (funnier than the actual show was, imo)

B&B is old enough now that a lot of people tend to forget just how good this was. Really nailed some stupid videos.

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

In the early 80's they had a call-in voting show called Friday Night Fights, where they pitted two videos against each other.

For weeks me, my buddy and his older brother must have racked up god knows how much in 976 phone charges to make sure Def Leppard's Photograph stayed champion.

ETA- found a commercial for it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dRSHAP0HNrM

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Question. Some groups including The Carpenters used to put their music to video long before MTV existed. Where the hell would these be seen?

I can remember "American Bandstand" playing what **** Clark called "clips". It's where I saw "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the first time. Videos were first popular in Europe. England had shows in the 70's that played nothing but videos.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Jimmy The Cab Driver commercials

wow - had forgotten about those. That guy was great!

 

[Raider Nation]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

 

[peaces]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_k_VG6Syc

 

[Raider Nation]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw

First thing I think of when I hear that song is Betsy Russell's #### in Private School for Girls.

 

[Raider Nation]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_k_VG6Syc

Phenomenal song.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

My first introduction to her - this song still gives me chills, so good. And she is so hot.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

JINX!

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question. Some groups including The Carpenters used to put their music to video long before MTV existed. Where the hell would these be seen?

BTW, listen to that song if you're not with a room full of buddies watching hoops. [grunt] Her voice was ridiculous.

Semi related

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_k_VG6Syc

What would set off the most alarms in today's culture? A twelve-year old boy at a strip club, or a woman inside of a cage?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

 

[Raider Nation]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

Where is that video you post like clockwork every time the topic of terrible music videos comes up? Bunch of Scandinavian-looking dudes outside playing horrible music IIRC. I can't find it.

 

[comfortably numb]

Also need to give a shout out to The State- barely any video clips out there, especially with the original music intact.

My so called life was actually a very good show with star power futures in Danes and Leto

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Bender's Aerosmith's posts showed how the power of MTV could revive a fledgling band's career. Heart is another one that comes to mind. Paul Simon (Graceland was a great album, but the video for "You Can Call Me Al" elevated it).

Who else?

 

[Raider Nation]

Another fantastic ####### song which was played heavily in the rotation in the early days.

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

Those Eyes - forever burned in my brain.

GB Susanna

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm enjoying this stroll down memory lane. 1981-1984 saw some stellar music.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

Where is that video you post like clockwork every time the topic of terrible music videos comes up? Bunch of Scandinavian-looking dudes outside playing horrible music IIRC. I can't find it.

Which one? Armi and Danny?

Hurra Torpedo? "Total Eclipse"? (which actually rules)

 

[Tiger Fan]

Dot for tomorrow

 

[Christo]

Am I only person who remembers this song/video? It's about as obscure as you get, but the beat remained stuck in my head for 30 years

You might be the only one. Never heard that song and I watched lots of MTV after school back in the day. That song must have been on after 10 or something.

You went to bed at 10 in HS?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Those Eyes - forever burned in my brain.

GB Susanna

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

Hoffs at her hottest IMO

And the band's sound was still cool and retro-ish.

 

[Raider Nation]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

Where is that video you post like clockwork every time the topic of terrible music videos comes up? Bunch of Scandinavian-looking dudes outside playing horrible music IIRC. I can't find it.

Which one? Armi and Danny?

Hurra Torpedo? "Total Eclipse"? (which actually rules)

LOL, it was the Total Eclipse one. Scandinavian, check. Outdoors, not so much.

I can see a bunch of weirdos outdoors in the countryside singing some stupid song. Gonna bug me now.

 

[GoFishTN]

I'll never forget when Joey Lawrence hosted a bikini contest on one of the Spring Break weeks.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

Where is that video you post like clockwork every time the topic of terrible music videos comes up? Bunch of Scandinavian-looking dudes outside playing horrible music IIRC. I can't find it.

Which one? Armi and Danny?

Hurra Torpedo? "Total Eclipse"? (which actually rules)

LOL, it was the Total Eclipse one. Scandinavian, check. Outdoors, not so much.

I can see a bunch of weirdos outdoors in the countryside singing some stupid song. Gonna bug me now.

Jump On It?

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

Ah the 80's - when lead saxophone was still a thing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg

 

[peaces]

Bender's Aerosmith's posts showed how the power of MTV could revive a fledgling band's career. Heart is another one that comes to mind. Paul Simon (Graceland was a great album, but the video for "You Can Call Me Al" elevated it).

Who else?

Devo

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Candles Everywhere

 

[Mario Kart]

Am I only person who remembers this song/video? It's about as obscure as you get, but the beat remained stuck in my head for 30 years

You might be the only one. Never heard that song and I watched lots of MTV after school back in the day. That song must have been on after 10 or something.

You went to bed at 10 in HS?

Song was out in 1982... that is preschool for me.

 

[Raider Nation]

Trak "Dancin". Probably the most 80s video you've never seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

Fartbarf

Where is that video you post like clockwork every time the topic of terrible music videos comes up? Bunch of Scandinavian-looking dudes outside playing horrible music IIRC. I can't find it.

Which one? Armi and Danny?

Hurra Torpedo? "Total Eclipse"? (which actually rules)

LOL, it was the Total Eclipse one. Scandinavian, check. Outdoors, not so much.

I can see a bunch of weirdos outdoors in the countryside singing some stupid song. Gonna bug me now.

Jump On It?

No, but getting much warmer. Nice archive, BTW.

 

[Christo]

Question. Some groups including The Carpenters used to put their music to video long before MTV existed. Where the hell would these be seen?

BTW, listen to that song if you're not with a room full of buddies watching hoops. [grunt] Her voice was ridiculous.

There was a British show called Top of the Pops that started back in the 60s that showed videos. I remember watching it in the 70s. It's the first place I saw Police and U2 videos.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

This is an Early Bird Buffet in here. Look at all the oldsters.

 

[Native]

Safety Dance - This video is years ahead of its time. Weird dance. Midgets. Puppets. And it was on twice an hour for about a year.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Bender's Aerosmith's posts showed how the power of MTV could revive a fledgling band's career. Heart is another one that comes to mind. Paul Simon (Graceland was a great album, but the video for "You Can Call Me Al" elevated it).

Who else?

I'd say Peter Gabriel wouldn't have become what he did without video.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

The Special Effects in this One are Awesome

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Safety Dance - This video is years ahead of its time. Weird dance. Midgets. Puppets. And it was on twice an hour for about a year.

I will always remember the day in 7th grade when the entire playground stopped and made the "S" arm gesture.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I wanted to be the kid in this video so bad

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I wanted to be the kid in this video so bad

Posting 101: read through the thread before posting something that has already been posted.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Back in the 1940s there were "film jukeboxes" called Soundies.

Then Scopitones came out in the late 1950s.

Herb Alpert

Neil Sedaka

Sinatra

 

[Christo]

Bender's Aerosmith's posts showed how the power of MTV could revive a fledgling band's career. Heart is another one that comes to mind. Paul Simon (Graceland was a great album, but the video for "You Can Call Me Al" elevated it).

Who else?

I'd say Peter Gabriel wouldn't have become what he did without video.

Other than the fact he was the founder of ####### Genesis.

 

[icecat4270]

Those Eyes - forever burned in my brain.

GB Susanna

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

Hoffs at her hottest IMO

And the band's sound was still cool and retro-ish.

This is the hottest. Not from MTV but whatever.

 

[peaces]

Adam Ant

flock of seagulls

The human league

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Those Eyes - forever burned in my brain.

GB Susanna

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

Hoffs at her hottest IMO

And the band's sound was still cool and retro-ish.

This is the hottest. Not from MTV but whatever.

I would like to have sex with her.

 

[Christo]

The human league

 

[Christo]

Adam Ant

I lived 2 block from him

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Adam Ant

I lived 2 block from him

What did he do?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Adam Ant

I lived 2 block from him

What did he do?

Stood and delivered?