Forget "Liquid Television" - do you remember MUSIC on MTV?

[Rabrrrrrr]

:grr:

[electron_blue]

1. Yeah. Those were the good ole days

I'm curious - are there any music videos on tv anymore? I mean besides country?

[Roon]

2. I remember having to pay extra to get MTV in stereo eom

[Common Sense Party]

3. What was the turning point? "The Real World"? Nah. I had

already given up on MTV by then.

Remember Headbanger's Ball?

120 Minutes?

[AwakeAtLast]

15. I sooooo miss 120 minutes.

Living in red Midwest, it gave me my sanity!

:hi:

[underpants]

18. The salvation from the 80's hairbands

A friend of mine tells the story of hearing Nirvana the first time on the local ROCK station. He let out a "THANK GOD" as it clearly was the end of the hairbands and back to actual rock n roll.

[Common Sense Party]

22. I miss the hairbands.

They were a lot better than the dreck played today.

[Chiyo-chichi]

19. The turning point?

I'm going to say Remote Control with Ken Ober and Colin Quinn. Wasn't that one of MTV's first non-music programs?

[HughBeaumont]

21. When they realized that a show holds the viewers attention for ads longer than a block of videos.

[Shakespeare]

4. You need to discover TubeTV.

You're welcome.

[meegbear]

12. That is a cool channel ...

:thumbsup:

[kwassa]

17. Tube also has interesting concert footage

I always enjoy the live stuff better.

[Generic Brad]

5. I watched it obsessively it's first six years

I still love watching videos of all genres. Today's incarnation is no longer MTV in my opinion.

[Cobalt-60]

6. Indeed

I seem to recall that in the very beginning it was also sans commercials.

[Maineiac]

7. I remember it in it's infancy, when it was about the music

I'm so turned off to it now, I never watch it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Rabrrrrrr...

I sure do remember music on MTV....

And I loved those videos!

If it hadn't been for that channel, I would never have been exposed to the music of the 80's...

And that would have been a shame, indeed...:hi:

[realisticphish]

9. I remember crappy music

I came to MTV late in the game. But, I remember when MTV2 was awesome, and when MuchMusic kicked both their asses, until we americans fucked it up

[mikeytherat]

10. I remember when it was only on a few hours each day!

Because that was all the material they had. I remember the "set" (the ONLY set) looking like a high-school stage with a few chairs. I remember bands like Journey sitting on those chairs and introducing the few videos MTV had. I remember you had to get a special hook-up from the cableco. to get MTV in stereo through your home stereo. I remember too much about the early '80s.

mikey_the_rat

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. And it had actual good VJs! That African guy, Martha,

and that other woman. It was right about the time that MTV became a shitwater sewage that they fired those VJs and started hiring ignorant assholes.

I remember every weekend they would play a whole concert - and of bands that weren't just Sony's Newest Biggest Bestest Band Ever, either: Adam Ant, Frank Zappa, the Tubes, Rainbow, Genesis...

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. And it tried so hard to go without having commercials, asking for donations!

I never gave them any money - we didn't have MTV at my house until 1984, and I think by then they'd already gone to commercials.

Seems the commercial-free era only lasted like 6 months.

[BarenakedLady]

11. I was just complaining about that the other day

I have to look on line to actually see any videos.

[ForrestGump]

16. No

I remember them playing crap in which the video was more important than the actual song.

And that whole concept got worse from there, as did the music.

I first saw it in 1985.

[HughBeaumont]

20. Now, it's the "Pretty White Princess and Mook Frat Boy" channel.

Followed by metric tons of rappity bullshit.