custom55 Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 The camera covered in aluminum foil. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) I wonder if they'll talk about this on Sirius/XM's 80s on 8 with the original VJs. Then they can discuss the meaning of the word irony while MTV runs a Jersey Shore marathon. They did! I don't know; they may rerun it more this week. We were on a road trip and listened to what was a 3 hour special, I think. 80s on 8 had the 4 surviving original VJs talking and doing some interviews, and playing the songs from the first 2 hours MTV was on the air. It was fun to listen to. Edited August 2, 2021 by blueschica 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 I always like this song/video 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pressure/Hopenosis Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 I was hooked at the beginning. Simple Minds: Don't you forget about me, Genesis: Land of Confusion, Fabulous Thunderbirds: Tuff Enough, Rockwell: Somebody's Watching Me. Oh, and when they played Rush's GUP concert. Damn I was addicted to music. Still am.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) Edited August 2, 2021 by custom55 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) Head Banger's Ball was the BEST Edited August 2, 2021 by custom55 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) My most vivid memory of mtv is watching a documentary about some band member floating around in a pool on a raft with a bottle of vodka in his hand drunk out of his mind while his mother sat on a chair watching him in tears. Does anyone know who that might have been and if he is stlil alive?Wasn't that the guitar player from WASP? Yes, Chris Holmes and that was in the documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. When they turned the camera toward his mom during that scene, you could see she was very uncomfortable. He's still with us. http://youtu.be/yUxXO3eSHa0 Here he is today.... Edited August 2, 2021 by custom55 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 It was fun while it lasted. I remember enjoying Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson and Elton John. It was fun to watch and see what kind of crazy videos the groups could come up with and all the clothes. Once they started reality shows, it was down the tubes. No music at all, what was the point? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Head Banger's Ball was the BEST :heart: :heart: :heart: We loved to watch Headbanger's Ball! What was it, Friday nights?? or Saturday nights? It was the best way to relax on the weekend! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 The first 15 songs played on MTV- August 1, 1981 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) By the time Video Killed The Radio Star was shown on MTV, The Buggles had already finished their debut album cycle, essentially broken up, joined Yes, then broken up again as one of them took off with Steve Howe to form Asia and the other one started making the Buggles second album mostly on his own, an album which would be released only a few months after MTV's debut. EDIT: Notably Asia's debut album was thick into the recording process on August 1st, 1981, and it would be released toward the start of 82. Edited August 2, 2021 by Entre_Perpetuo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 There are few cultural institutions where the ratio of duration to contribution has been so skewed. MTV was a big deal for . . . what, the first five or six of the last 40 years? It's been running on its own fumes ever since. MTV is the equivalent of a one-album wonder band you can still catch at county fairs. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 There are few cultural institutions where the ratio of duration to contribution has been so skewed. MTV was a big deal for . . . what, the first five or six of the last 40 years? It's been running on its own fumes ever since. MTV is the equivalent of a one-album wonder band you can still catch at county fairs.With only the drummer and bassist from the peak period. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Love the brief appearance of the cult black comedy horror classic, Basket Case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV?No, but you can only expect so much out of your memory when you get to be a certain age. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV?Of course...DURAN DURAN! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV?Of course...DURAN DURAN! Her name was Rio. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV?Of course...DURAN DURAN! Her name was Rio. One of many girls on film. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. Remember when MTV used to play music on TV? M2 which later became MTV2 as well. First video on that channel on August 1, 1996 was Where It's At by Beck. Apparently, they're mostly playing movies and Comedy Central shows on their schedule so they're just as pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 (edited) MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. I don't mind the first couple of seasons. It went to crap with that Puck douche in San Fran. Beavis And Butthead and the underrated comedy skit show, The State, were the best of the non music shows. You tell them, Louie! :lol: Edited August 3, 2021 by invisible airwave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhunter Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I first started watching exactly a year after it debuted, because I remember all the happy birthday commercials. I was 13 and remember some of the songs that I absolutely hated, not realizing that the artist had been in a classic band just a few years earlier. Songs like Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey, Robert Plant's Big Log (I still hate that one), and Frida's There's Something Going On. An early favorite was Feet Don't Fail Me Now, by Utopia. Funny to think now I was just listening through a TV speaker. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 MTV stopped meaning anything to me so long ago that I simply can’t care. The Real World and all that shit is nothing to me. The Buggles still elicit a raising volume response. I don't mind the first couple of seasons. It went to crap with that Puck douche in San Fran. Puck was the original reality TV jackass...the prototype that has been copied endlessly ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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