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Remembering MTV (1 Viewer)

I used to love the all time video rankings.

I remember when November Rain took over Thriller for the #1 video of all time ranking. IIRC, that was the first video that knocked Thriller off. I think Jeremy was #1 for awhile as well. When Cobain died, Teen Spirit took it over. Then when Biggie died, Hypnotize took over the spot for awhile. Then I think it went back to Thriller.
Whose ranking system was that - I don't recall.
MTV's :shrug:

 
I used to love the all time video rankings.

I remember when November Rain took over Thriller for the #1 video of all time ranking. IIRC, that was the first video that knocked Thriller off. I think Jeremy was #1 for awhile as well. When Cobain died, Teen Spirit took it over. Then when Biggie died, Hypnotize took over the spot for awhile. Then I think it went back to Thriller.
Whose ranking system was that - I don't recall.
MTV's :shrug:
This must be it

 
No MTV list is complete without: Whip-it by Devo. Can't imagine that song getting anywhere without MTV.

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

Honorable mentions:

Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AqNDCub7bqTbJU7Nu7um7ambvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=addicted%20to%20love%20robert%20palmer

She's a Beauty - The Tubes

Absolutely...I mentioned devo earlier...didn't even need to name the song

 
I used to love the all time video rankings.

I remember when November Rain took over Thriller for the #1 video of all time ranking. IIRC, that was the first video that knocked Thriller off. I think Jeremy was #1 for awhile as well. When Cobain died, Teen Spirit took it over. Then when Biggie died, Hypnotize took over the spot for awhile. Then I think it went back to Thriller.
Whose ranking system was that - I don't recall.
MTV's :shrug:
This must be it
yeah, that's one of them. I think they did them a few times a year. You can see the list was top heavy with pretty "recent" videos

 
No MTV list is complete without: Whip-it by Devo. Can't imagine that song getting anywhere without MTV.

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

Honorable mentions:

Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AqNDCub7bqTbJU7Nu7um7ambvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=addicted%20to%20love%20robert%20palmer

She's a Beauty - The Tubes

Did a search for Whip and found nothing. Figured they were a one-hit wonder. Not even sure I heard another.

 
No MTV list is complete without: Whip-it by Devo. Can't imagine that song getting anywhere without MTV.

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

Honorable mentions:

Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AqNDCub7bqTbJU7Nu7um7ambvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=addicted%20to%20love%20robert%20palmer

She's a Beauty - The Tubes

Devo was around long before mtv. Weird music triva...

In 1977 Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway.[9] Released in 1982, the film featured the band as "Nuclear garbagepersons." The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many.[

 
Devo was around long before mtv. Weird music triva...

In 1977 Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway.[9] Released in 1982, the film featured the band as "Nuclear garbagepersons." The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many.[
Ironically, Mothersbaugh was a student at Kent State (as was Chrissie Hynde) at the time of the National Guard shootings in 1970. Neil wrote "Ohio" just a few days after the shootings.

 
Did anybody actually like this guy?

http://avoision.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/headbangersBall.jpg

Of all the MTV VJ's this was clearly the first one I would want to punch in the face.
He's be third in line for me behind Adam Curry and Pauly Shore.
Curry would be 3rd for me.His hair on that show was tremendous though.Never liked Pauly so agree with that choice as well.

Curry was the original Headbangers Ball host if I recall correctly but didn't they have a show on called Heavy Metal Mania or something similar before the Ball got going?I vaguely remember Dee Snider hosting something around that time.

 
Didn't get cable in my house until '82/83, but one of my cousins lived nearby and we used to watch MTV for hours at his house. First video I saw was "Message of Love" by The Pretenders. Loved Remote Control and was glad to see Kari show her boobies on film a couple of years later. Forgot that Adam Sandler was a regular on that show but I'm pretty sure he annoyed the crap out of me back then. Loved watching The Young Ones. I think MTV jumped the shark for me when they hyped the premier of Van Halen's "Jump" on New Year's Eve. I felt like Ralphie Parker when he used his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin for the first time in "A Christmas Story." MTV was still in my rotation of regular channels but by 85 or so it had lost its luster.

 
Devo was around long before mtv. Weird music triva...

In 1977 Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway.[9] Released in 1982, the film featured the band as "Nuclear garbagepersons." The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many.[
Ironically, Mothersbaugh was a student at Kent State (as was Chrissie Hynde) at the time of the National Guard shootings in 1970. Neil wrote "Ohio" just a few days after the shootings.
Again from wiki..

The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society."[5] This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s. Casale and Lewis created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein. At this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band). They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet "Jocko Homo Heavenbound",[6] which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled "D-EVOLUTION" and would later inspire the song "Jocko Homo". However, the "joke" became serious, following theKent State shootings of May 4, 1970. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.

 
I was around 10 or 11 when MTV came out. I wasn't into the music scene at that age, preferring to play outside with friends instead. Each day I would go over to my friend's house to get him to come out and would walk into his living room to wait. There sat his older brother and about 8 of his friends glued to MTV. Back then not everyone had cable so a teenager with MTV access was the neighborhood God.

 
Devo was around long before mtv. Weird music triva...

In 1977 Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway.[9] Released in 1982, the film featured the band as "Nuclear garbagepersons." The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many.[
Ironically, Mothersbaugh was a student at Kent State (as was Chrissie Hynde) at the time of the National Guard shootings in 1970. Neil wrote "Ohio" just a few days after the shootings.
Again from wiki..

The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society."[5] This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s. Casale and Lewis created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein. At this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band). They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet "Jocko Homo Heavenbound",[6] which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled "D-EVOLUTION" and would later inspire the song "Jocko Homo". However, the "joke" became serious, following theKent State shootings of May 4, 1970. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.
One of my married ladies, when i was into that, was a terminal cheerleader type (last saw her 5 yrs ago, when she was almost 70 and she was still quite doable) from Akron who told me a Mothersbaugh story when Devo broke. She had some cred - having dated pop idol Gene Pitney and strang the midwest for Tiger Beat as a teen - so i never took this as apochryphal. She said that, in the 60s, an older Mothersbaugh (brother or cousin) and his band ruled a Holiday Inn lounge out by the interstate as the house band. One of the features was their cover of "Satisfaction" and the band hammered it into the ground, 5-6 times a night. When she saw the video deconstructing the classic, she was sure it to be the result of the youngers having had it pounded it into their heads as kids.

 
When Def Lep and GnR ruled the station in the late 80s into the early 90s, that was the peak of MTV. So much good stuff then.

Link up some Dire Straits please. I wannnnt myyyyyyy

 
Anyone remember that contest they had for viewers to send in their versions of Madonna's "True Blue". I watched that crap all day for some reason.

 
I used to love the all time video rankings.

I remember when November Rain took over Thriller for the #1 video of all time ranking. IIRC, that was the first video that knocked Thriller off. I think Jeremy was #1 for awhile as well. When Cobain died, Teen Spirit took it over. Then when Biggie died, Hypnotize took over the spot for awhile. Then I think it went back to Thriller.
Whose ranking system was that - I don't recall.
MTV's :shrug:
This must be it
I know Jump is the much more popular song, but no freaking way is its video better than Hot for Teacher.

If This Is It - from Huey Lewis

nipslip at 3:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTQAaJWW54
:lmao: Holy crap. I'm sure I've seen that vid dozens of times but never noticed the nip.
Dang, I never noticed that either. I wonder if they always showed it like that or blurred it out.

 

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