Remembering MTV (1 Viewer)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Duran Duran and Culture Club were both video bands- for them the videos were the key to their success.

OK, true.

 

[icecat4270]

As far as who made the best videos- I would go with The Cars.

First video of the year winner I believe.

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

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Duran Duran Rio just doesn't hold up IMO

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Duran Duran Rio just doesn't hold up IMO

But the hair ...the beautiful hair.

 

[Drunken Poster]

MTV revived and/or elevated a lot of bands, but they also flattened a few careers.

In the late 70's, Christopher Cross was one of the biggest selling acts in the world, but he was told directly by MTV that because he was fat and doughy, the opposite of charismatic, they wouldn't play any of his songs. His career screeched to a halt.

Boston had the biggest selling debut album of all-time, and their second album was hugely successful, but Tom Scholz refused to even acknowledge MTV, and so when their third album debuted in 1986, MTV returned the favor by never even mentioning it.

Jackson Browne did one video (Lawyers In Love), but hated the process so much that he refused to do any others, including for "Somebody's Baby". His career then thudded.

Adult Contemporary took a big hit when MTV first appeared. MTV embraced it again in the late 80s but too late for Cross.

Boston tanked because their new music sucked

Jackson Brown was never that big to begin with

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

The technical term is "Roto-Scoping", but when this video first came out everyone at school referred to it as the video with the "pencil drawings".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

We got MTV just a little less than a year after it came out.

I absolutely remember it. I had heard of MTV but it was not available on the west coast. My city/town was always a great test market for new stuff. The neighborohood I grew up in even more so. Local cable provider sent people door-to-door to get households to subscribe to this new fangled cable TV package...MTV, ESPN, WGN, TBS etc. For some reason my mom pulled the trigger.

The installer started flipping around the channels once it was installed. "Red Barchetta" showed up when she flipped to MTV. I had "Moving Pictures" on vinyl. Hooked.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

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.

Blow me

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

The technical term is "Roto-Scoping", but when this video first came out everyone at school referred to it as the video with the "pencil drawings".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

\Bonus points for rotoscoping

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

We got MTV just a little less than a year after it came out.

I forgot to say: Get bent.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Tanner mentioned this band in some other thread, and it triggered a memory of the video. Great song.

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

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

\Bonus points for rotoscoping

I only knew the term twenty years later.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Tanner mentioned this band in some other thread, and it triggered a memory of the video. Great song.

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

Fun stuff

"Hanging on the Telephone" --Blondie. Not bad.

Original version by The Nerves. Peter Case of The Nerves went on to front the Plimsouls.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Not MTV but should be

"Oldest Story in the World" -- Plimsouls

(yeah...Valley Girl...freaking heartbreaking)

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I have never been to Carnegie Hall, but if I get the chance I want to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To&t=178

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I have never been to Carnegie Hall, but if I get the chance I want to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To&t=178

:like:

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Winner of the 1980s "Butter Voice" or whatever award...Romeo Void

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Arapaho of nothing

Jo Boxers "Just Got Lucky"

 

[Raider Nation]

As far as who made the best videos- I would go with The Cars.

Go away.

https://vid.me/x7kR

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

A thirty-eight year old woman as a college cheerleader was very believable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-Zrg9CB_Q

 

[Raider Nation]

Slightly OT: Best ending to an early-80s movie?

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Double fist-pump: Check

Over Enunciating: Check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92bmlcmyq0&t=242

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Slightly OT: Best ending to an early-80s movie?

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God she was a hoor

Great soundtrack though

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Double fist-pump: Check

Over Enunciating: Check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92bmlcmyq0&t=242

Saw them live, for free, in Vegas a few years ago. Had to convince the wife that, even though it was free, it was not worth standing around for an hour to hear 2 songs.

 

[Tom Skerritt]

My parents wouldn't get cable when I was a kid. I had to settle for Friday Night Videos and watching at friends houses.

 

[comfortably numb]

Hell add Rod Stewart to that list of artists who had their careers extended thanks to video.

It's like he was forever young

 

[TD32]

I miss the celebrity basketball and softball games.

 

[peaces]

MTV revived and/or elevated a lot of bands, but they also flattened a few careers.

In the late 70's, Christopher Cross was one of the biggest selling acts in the world, but he was told directly by MTV that because he was fat and doughy, the opposite of charismatic, they wouldn't play any of his songs. His career screeched to a halt.

Boston had the biggest selling debut album of all-time, and their second album was hugely successful, but Tom Scholz refused to even acknowledge MTV, and so when their third album debuted in 1986, MTV returned the favor by never even mentioning it.

Jackson Browne did one video (Lawyers In Love), but hated the process so much that he refused to do any others, including for "Somebody's Baby". His career then thudded.

And one bad video killed Billy Squire's

 

[Ghost Rider]

Boston tanked because their new music sucked

Amanda went to number 1 on the pop charts and Third Stage spent a month at number 1 on the album charts.

While I don't like that album that much, the success with that record proved that while MTV could give you massive adrenaline shots, you didn't have to have their support to succeed.

 

[Christo]

Slightly OT: Best ending to an early-80s movie?

For the life of me, I can't figure out how Joe Rubbo didn't become a superstar.

 

[RUSF18]

I was all about Summer Sanders and "Sandblast".

 

[culdeus]

For pure simplicity PJ even flow would be my favorite all time video.

 

[peaces]

Early metal videos I remember...

Metal health

For those about to rock...

Live wire

I Love Rock 'n' Roll

Fast as a shark & balls to the wall

Trashed

Burning for you

I wanna be somebody

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Twisted Sister was always one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk

 

[TheAristocrat]

Oh sweet jeebus. Just watched Beavis and Butthead watch Bjork.

"It's not Snoop Doggy Dog but she's got his haircut."

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Oh sweet jeebus. Just watched Beavis and Butthead watch Bjork.

"It's not Snoop Doggy Dog but she's got his haircut."

"Man, this chick is out of her gourd."

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

B&B watch Loverboy

The whole exchange about them playing at the state fair is one of the best things ever.

 

[tom22406]

I think it was the show Club MTV with Julie Brown that had Kelsey Grammer's first wife on as a dancer,she was pretty hot and always wore something nice for the masturbation session that was soon to follow.

Spring Break was money when they did it for the first few years.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

...that was Ned Beety

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

First video I ever saw on MTV: Phil Collins, You Can't Hurry Love

Biggest first impression a video ever made: Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer

 

[Raider Nation]

I think it was the show Club MTV with Julie Brown that had Kelsey Grammer's first wife on as a dancer,she was pretty hot and always wore something nice for the masturbation session that was soon to follow.

That show was upskirt heaven. My VCR wore out.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think it was the show Club MTV with Julie Brown that had Kelsey Grammer's first wife on as a dancer,she was pretty hot and always wore something nice for the masturbation session that was soon to follow.

Spring Break was money when they did it for the first few years.

Lilith?

 

[TheAristocrat]

 

[FairWarning]

Watched MTV on the 1st day on satellite. The first 3-4 years were the golden era for sure. It really changed after 1992 I would say.

A few of the early videos I remember:

Dire Straits - Skateaway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8TAKMWwjA

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss

Gary Numan - Cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YMAvfwTFo

Scandal - Goodbye to You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50-gOeBilc

Missing Persons - Words - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IasCZL072fQ

 

[John Bender]

B&B watch Loverboy

The whole exchange about them playing at the state fair is one of the best things ever.

that is amazing

"the bassist"

One of my favorites

BB on Basket Case by Green Day (

or

"I think that's that dude from Nirvarna"

or

"Eddie Vedder dyed his hair red"

 

[Willie Neslon]

I remember those little news breaks with Kurt Loder and then John Norris(?). In those days before the internet they were little golden nuggets of music information.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I remember those little news breaks with Kurt Loder and then John Norris(?). In those days before the internet they were little golden nuggets of music information.

Where I found out about Yngwie getting arrested & Robert Smith getting married.

 

[John Bender]

I remember those little news breaks with Kurt Loder and then John Norris(?). In those days before the internet they were little golden nuggets of music information.

There's a Beavis and Butthead video for that as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15661QzrUo

 

[John Bender]

And of course B&B on "I Alone"

Funniest ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGQj_17Twc

 

[TheAristocrat]